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I am a fully committed anger-eater. Or boredom. But never stress.

It's like there was a siren call pulling me to the board. I'm not a huge drinker. Like food, I find the better the booze, the less I need to feel satisfied. I can go days/weeks without a drink. Definitely a beer kind of guy, too. Craft lagers. And I agree with Charlie that the 'flight' approach is an excellent way to taste…

I'm not sure they ever agreed with me, but in the last few years I've become progressively less interested in putting up with the disagreement. Hence, fritters have pretty much done by the wayside.

Yeah. I do all that. Except...I stopped beating myself up over it. It's a bit counterintuitive, but I have learned that being kind to myself about it slows the cycle perpetuation. If only kindness stopped the process.

Whatever you do, do not get in a jacuzzi with two obese women while eating a kilo of grapes.

Yeah, I've considered the great buttwipe shift as well. But TP started disappearing a couple of weeks before the stay at home orders. And, at least where I live, it was the first sign of the hysteria phase. Well, that and bottled water.

Not sure where to go with that. I'm having difficulty understanding the TP issue, though. I mean, what the hell were people doing before Coronavirus?

Must. Have. Coffee. That is all.

The working from home has been okay for me, and most of our office staff can manage that. I have one person who works in the office- she is pretty much the only person there so she is, by default, socially distancing. My patients seem to like the telemedicine option, so far for anything I've been able to resolve through…

I'm certain the comments would have been a lot smarter if they had been coming from that dog!

I'm living in a house with three other adults. It's not a small house until nobody can leave it. Our threshold for 'acceptable' walking temperature has decreased dramatically. And our time spent walking has increased dramatically. Sadly, we had to put down our pup (seen in my profile pic) in February at age 13. We had…

Thanks for the welcome back 'shout outs'. Sadly, fritters and I have parted ways. I got to the point where I could no longer overlook the gastrointestinal discord that accompanied them. However, if I were to resume eating them, I can assure you there would never be a Brussels Sprout in them. My big find this week has been…

The biggest change for us is that with two 20-somethings in the house and all of us home for all meals whereas previously I ate breakfast and lunch at work and my kids, when they were home, ate lunch and probably half of their dinners out. So we're preparing about 4 times as many servings of food at home. So, we're…

Hello, all. Long time, no chat. I was having what I thought was a pretty crazy time which seemed to be settling down nicely until, well, Coronavirus. Which makes most of my prior crazy time seem unremarkable. We are also hunkered down with two adult-ish children living under our roof. As steve-0 says, current family life…

I remember Mrs Fungusballs referring to it as being more like a Death March and thinking how cynical that seemed. The longer I'm at it, the less cynical it seems.

Hi Michael. There are a couple of us old-old timer GOADies still posting here. Welcome.

Michael, Welcome back. Sounds like you've been on quite an adventure. I remember you from the original days of GOAD. There are a few of us oldtimers left here, but not many.

EAT. LESS. Seriously. Whatever you're doing in terms of weighing, measuring, tracking, too many calories are entering your body. Yes, it is possible that you have an anomalous metabolism that doesn't hew to the MFP calculations. And perhaps if you see a doctor, they'll find a medical condition that causes metabolic…

This is why it's important to figure out both the reasons you want to lose weight and the reasons you don't want to lose weight or make the changes necessary to lose weight. I had a friend who used to say you can't stop stuffing your face until you start facing your stuff.

Hospital food services are very interesting. I’m amazed when I see patients on low sodium diets with bacon, pickles and chips on their tray (often at the same meal). My hospital posts NI in the cafeteria. I’m amazed when the vegetable NI indicates there is no fat but the veggies are obviously coated in oil. I once asked…

I always said the reason I could lose weight on Atkins was because without things to put that ‘unlimited’ butter on, there was no point in eating the butter. True story: my wife was somewhat repulsed by my having discovered that I could use corn Chex much like little mini-crackers which I would then butter and eat. A few…

I don't understand. I mean, I get that MFP was down and you overate. What I don't get is whether not having MFP was something that rendered you incapable of knowing what and how much to eat or not having MFP caused you to go without the 'anchor' and made you feel like you weren't in control? They're two different issues…

So do I understand that you ate sixty (60) full sized candy bars in one day? Because if that's correct, I think your problem goes well beyond knowing the food is in the house.

There's this, too. It's not a way of life if you're not living it. And you're not living it if you're doing it off and on. That's what one does when one goes on a diet. There is nothing contradictory about somebody living this 'way of life' who eats pizza on Friday night. But if you're living this way of life, you take the…

I guess I’d ask a different question of the OP. Which is, why does it matter? If it’s more difficult, that is? Because you can’t control your age. Or your genetics. Or your gender. So, to the extent that any of these plays a role in relative ease of weight loss, you have no ability to do anything about them. The one thing…

They’re two different, but overlapping, toolsets to aide people in achieving the one change they need to make in order to lose weight. Which is consume fewer calories than your body needs. I have lost weight using both. Some people find success using MFP when they haven’t been successful with WW. Some people find success…

Hang in there. It’s not surprising, given what you’ve posted, that you have family members who would discourage you from doing things (like attending Al-Anon or AA) that might help you find your exit strategy from the current situation. I have a friend who used to say that learning to stop ‘stuffing her face’ meant first…

You can certainly change what you see. You can lose the second chin and other signs of overweight. You can tone up and see a leaner, more muscular body as well. The reality, though, is that you’ll still look in the mirror and see plenty to tell you you’re no longer in your 20’s. So the only route to feeling better about…

It’s interesting that the biggest nutritional problem in the United States associated with food affordability is obesity/overweight. Fruit, vegetables, quality proteins all tend to be more expensive than a lot of the junk that is readily available. So yours is a rare problem. I don’t know what your food budget is, but…

In the remote past I did this. It works for about two days before I go over the edge and the rebound is never pretty. OTOH, there are days where I’m sufficiently distracted that I don’t eat nearly what “I’m entitled to”. Interestingly, it turns out the ‘what’ of my eating on those days is often not nearly as good a choice.…