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I put "a little 1% milk" in my coffee. Turns out its about 3 oz. 3/8 of a cup. 40 calories. Its the same for 2 TBSP of half and half, which has the same effect. So, 3 cups per day, 120 calories there, 30 days....that's either a pound gained or a pound not lost. IF you're not tracking it. Track and enter EVERYTHING!

age 14. my Grandfather was in hospital a lot and died that summer. Me, tagging along, hung out in lounge and snacked on the "nutritious" but super high calorie snacks available. Plus a lack of enough exercise. And a family that thought my weight was "OK." I'm 6'3 after all. I was in the overweight BMI, but made excuses for…

You're going to have to consistently monitor. Us folks in 2016 have fewer excuses though. A smartphone with MFP is like a super-tool. If its the tool that keeps you in steady maintenance, USE IT regularly! Tomorrow I will have 2 solid weeks of tracking in MFP, and when I do get to maintenance, I don't intend to stop using.

I think the great thing about this is that you can SEE it happen. You follow the rules and you can see progress, and that progress creates a positive feedback loop!

Hook up with a gastroenterologist. Tell him you want an EGD for a definitive diagnosis. That way they can tell if you have a Barrett's esophagus, and monitor that. Tell him/her you are on a weight loss plan but you want to be surveilled for this. Chronic GERD actually can kill you, IF you don't address it and have someone…

Youre just going to need to run a deficit for a while, one way or the other, there's no magic secret potion. Make movement a part of every day, some way. (We live where we can walk 1/2 mile into the middle of our town. Consequently my wife does so nearly every day with our twins. I do too, often. Then, not making a stop at…

Related note.... Coffee...I put 1% milk in my coffee and never bothered to check how much. its about 40 cal worth. 3/8 of a cup. A few days into MFP, I made sure I was logging that too.

Salads...I try to hit the big items in the salad....eggs, dressing, beans, tomato, lettuce/spinach. If a little carrot ends up in there or some onion, meh. But don't go pile on some lump of cheese and forget to log it. After all, your body logs it. It logs everything. No pun intended.

Plan your snacks in MFP in advance. Build them in. Build your day of food beforehand. Then just keep at it. Slow results are lasting results. And you are succeeding already. Keep at it.

Its a bumpy road down the weight hill if you take it daily, EVEN if you do it at the same time every morning. Don't live and die by that daily number. Look at Trends.

[quote="Rachel0778;37290130 So I had a rude awakening this morning when I went to crack my hardboiled egg and found out my significant other rearranged the fridge last night so the egg was definitely not hard boiled! Wish me luck that the rest of the day goes smoothly, I guess I'm having a light breakfast this morning!…

If you go to bed with food in your stomach sleep on your left side to aid digestion.

This works if you have retrained you mind so that "anything you want" is not excessive amounts of garbage food. once you've broken the barrier and gone beyond wanting that stuff, then, probably, yes.

I use this line "ooooh, sorry. have had some indigestion today. nothing more to eat for me! gonna take it easy"

Fellow I know at work does this. Whole days not eating. Says he's 275+ pounds. And it aint muscle. Fill in any height you want, still overweight. (he's prob 5'10). Something else going on, I think...

Maybe consult your doctor. But the food thing...you need to work that out.

Ah, that TAL episode. That's what got me aboard my own plan to finally trim down. I figured, If I could maintain 206 for 10-15 years, why not just maintain where I should be (I *think* 185-190) ? That episode got me to read /fatlogic and recognize some of the fatlogic I had been using on myself. Ms West just sounded insane…

This year, don't let that time of year take a toll!

I've been veggie for a month (ovo lacto veggie). But a year before that I dropped red meat and pork. Don't even miss 'em. I've also dropped a few pounds the past month, but I've also been doing MFP. I've recently added in whey powder because keeping up my protein intake was important. Me, I just "feel" better being veggie.…

^^this. you have to retrain your mind some. whatever you're doing so far is working. now you need to work on your mind so that you can hit, and more importantly, keep your goal. We were a the beach and Dunkin Donuts was right across the street. We'd go over there and they'd get a box of 8 or 9 donuts. I would just sip my…

I've been using MFP for a week, though have been actively focused on nutrition and activity for a month now. Yesterday I identified a change that made me more comfortable eating exercise calories: I set my basic activity level to the lowest one. Then I make sure my tracker (in this case my phone) is with me wherever I…

Any time you want to accomplish something in life, it takes persistence, and dedication. You have to stick with it. Winners fail, the difference is they don't stop trying. OK, we've all heard those before, but its true. Have you spoken to your doctor about being tested for metabolic issues? If you have an undiagnosed…

I ate a salad today. I've eaten a salad almost every day, for a loooong time. *But* I've never been so watchful of what I put in it. This time, I did so carefully. Opted for olive oil and balsamic (2 TBSP of each). Guess what? I still managed to build a salad that was 671 calories. And I used to pile on significantly more…

Me too, though its been a while. I would have "one" serving every night. In quotes, because if it was wine from an open bottle, that could end up being a little more, and was hard to measure. Or one beer. The kind of thing where "if I had it in the house" I would drink it, one serving a day, until it was gone. Not like an…

I understand your point here. I went to the beach for 2 weeks and went totally "open-loop" No calories tracked and no weight taken each day. I came back and was 2 pounds lighter. We walked a LOT, and were pretty active, and I did moderate my diet. While my kids were eating ice cream, I had a taste and was done. While folks…

Keep a business card or small note with you, typed with " I'm responsible for this group I brought in here and we are on a crawl. So I've got to drink very light. Fix me a club soda with lemon and lime and some cherry juice in a highball." Hand that casually to the bartender and say "I'll have my usual!" Pretty soon you…

my wife has Hypothyroid. Was tough to get under control, she has to take the non-generic med. Keep that monitored by your Dr. and *make sure that is under control*. Dosages often need to be tweaked to get right. She is 5'1 and like 112 lbs, after 3 kids (via only 2 pregnancies), so her hypo isn't really an impact on weight.

The HAES community is made up of essentially the young, who have not had the chickens come home to roost yet. Sure, you're in otherwise ok shape at 25 and 100 lbs overweight. Update me at age 40, 50, 60. My dear mother thinks I don't need to lose any weight. She refers to her brother in law as "emaciated" when in reality…

There are old people, there are fat people. There are no old fat people. If losing extra pounds with age is harder, this alone is motivation to someone young to fix it now, when it's likely easiest!

Make sure you get a cardiologist to monitor you. A baseline now that you have been told you have Type 2 would be good to have. Heart issues in recent years have been understood to be a comorbidity to diabetes. My grandmother fought Type 2 for YEARS, not too well I might add (purely her choice), and ended up with CAD. So…