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Therein lies the problem. You are almost certainly taking in more calories than you believe.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2014/04/calorie-intake-and-us-obesity-epidemic.html

We are eating more overall than we used to. If most of the additional calories come from carbs, that doesn't point to carbs as being particularly evil. We'd see the same results if they came from fats or protein instead.

A "smart scale" attempts to estimate body composition from a body impedance measurement. This is fraught with issues, not least is that this measurement is as affected by the water content in your body as anything else. It can even be thrown off if your feet are sweaty.

Why rely on personal anecdotes when there's good data that answers the question? We eat more. Period. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/12/13/whats-on-your-table-how-americas-diet-has-changed-over-the-decades/

So eat junk. I'm losing a little bit for the summer right now, but to hit the calories I'm aiming for I eat 2 servings of ice cream most nights. There's nothing wrong with eating food you enjoy. You just have to eat less of it. If you eat those goldfish crackers, weigh a serving into a small bowl, then PUT THE REST AWAY…

The trick isn't to limit carbs, it's to limit intake overall. There may still be reasons for you personally to keep away from them. Some people find certain types of foods to be "triggers", meaning that once they start in on them they find it extraordinarily difficult to stop. If most carb-heavy foods are like that for…

Preworkout is just caffeine and a few supplements of more or less dubious efficacy. Nothing wrong with drinking it just to wake up. Except, of course, that it probably costs about 5-10x what black coffee does. And, as you say, you'll end up going through the stuff a lot faster.

Weight loss isn't linear. Some weeks we'll lose more, some we'll lose less or not at all. Some weeks we'll even appear to gain. None of that matters. It's short-term. The goal is weight loss over the long term. If you're eating a calorie deficit that should result in a 2 lb/week loss, that will be your average rate of loss…

This may have been what YOU did, but it's not what I did. I cut out absolutely nothing. I just ate less of it. "Eat less, exercise more" is the absolutely accurate description of how I lost weight. And no one has ever shown the slightest interest in the details. I should note that's not actually what you did either. Sodium…

Not only is this an absurdly restrictive diet that provides very little protein to speak of, but it contradicts the "avoid all possible food allergens" in your previous post. Any food is potentially allergenic.

Once I answered "Ate less and exercised", and the guy who asked insisted that this couldn't possibly ever work.

I had mine out almost 20 years ago, and I've never heard of this.

If you're training for a half marathon, of course you're going to get "rungry" on only 2000 calories. You need to fuel those runs, and your hunger is your body telling you so.

Most folks who complain of hypothyroidism have Hashimoto's. It's the most common cause. I have it myself. It's surprising you've only now discovered this. Have you never seen a doctor for regular checkups? A test for thyroid function is part of a normal metabolic panel most doctors routinely order. They actually check for…

Most mornings for breakfast I have an egg, bacon, and cheese sandwich from my usual coffeehouse. They call it a "fried egg" but it's really a baked egg that they can make in their little convection oven. They break an egg into each cup of a nonstick muffin tin and just put it in the oven. Seems to me it would work just as…

Happens to everyone from time to time. It's not the end of the world. Just log it and move on. Depending on how big a deficit you have set -- which depends on the rate of weight loss you set in your profile -- you might not even have been in a surplus from that. In other words, you lost no real ground. You just paused for…

OK, that's entirely different. You were doing well enough before when then impression was you'd started logging in July, but if you started later and in fact are still losing you're doing very well indeed. Remember that weight loss is not linear.

I have never once been asked this question by anyone who proved to be sincerely interested in the details of my regimen. They're looking for some trick or a magic bullet. It does no one any favors to pretend there's any other road to weight loss than CICO.

I do see a few things in your diary (such as blueberries, strawberries, yogurt) where you measure in cups or units like "1 berry" or "1 serving" when you'd be better off weighing them. But that's pretty minor. Some entries seem tailored for hitting one serving exactly. That's actually hard to do, and I wonder if you're…

First, congratulations on your progress so far! You may not be quite where you want to be yet, but 35 lbs ain't nothin'. If you lost that weight from July to March, that's an average loss of right around 1 lb/week. That's just about right. There are many reasons why we might plateau though. One is that, as we lose the…

Population data is absolutely clear, yes. We can't trust our memories with things like this, because we judge things like sizes in a relative way, not absolutely. While there certainly were obese people back then, there were nowhere near as many as we have now. https://stateofobesity.org/obesity-rates-trends-overview/

Nope.

I'm assuming you meant Masala chai, the spiced black tea blend originating in India, and not some kind of brew made from the seeds of salvia hispanica. I have never seen real chai made with a teabag. It's usually brewed from loose leaves. The local coffeehouses in my area all serve the real thing, not made from a sweetened…

Why ever not? When I get through with a run, I'm starving. Hell yeah I want to eat those calories back.

It's true that you have to be much tighter with your logging once you're down to the last 10, but if it were me I'd make room for the mango. They sound wonderful!

Well, 200g of mango is only about 120-150 cal, depending on which database you believe, so it can't be all that bad. Just leave some extra room for it in the rest of your diet. There are far, far worse things you could be overindulging in. Although I have to say, that sounds like a large overestimate. 200g is around the…

So did I, although for different reasons. So now I'm focusing on losing again before summer starts.

If you draw abs on your belly with a Sharpie, it helps you visualize the fat loss from that area and it comes off faster. This is science.

I would hope she means that, of her weight lost, 73% of it was fat and 27% of it was lean, not that these are her current numbers. If so, this actually sounds pretty typical -- or, at least, it's a widely-cited rule that 1/4 of weight loss is lean mass according to this paper that reviews some of the data.…