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For what it may be worth, I found that avoiding eating foods with sugar, especially earlier in the day, really helps. And a question for Saltysparkle - what is maple water?

Ok, I've read all 250 pages of this thread (I was home sick for about 10 days) and I have so enjoyed the different perspectives and the fabulous pictures. As some one (can't remember who) once said "If we all liked the same things, what a terrible haggis shortage there would be!". There were some wonderful desserts…

The bulging disk may be bulging in front, behind, or to one side. Preferably with the help of a PT, very, very carefully experiment to find out if slightly arching your back helps, or slightly rounding your back helps, or moving your hips to one side or the other helps. The goal is to find a position where it doesn't hurt,…

Hi - nine years ago I thought I had arthritis in my knees, and that they would always hurt unless I got them replaced. My doctor examined me, and told me that tight ligaments had pulled both kneecaps out of alignment. He sent me to a massage therapist, for some treatments that were kind of uncomfortable but extremely…

You don't have to wait 6 months or a year to enjoy your success. Even the first 20 pounds is going to make a difference in how you feel. You don't have to wait till all the weight is gone to feel the difference. And remember, that time is going to pass whether you are losing weight or not - make it your goal that a year…

If you are working out this much, perhaps you are building muscle as well as losing fat. Have you measured yourself? It's possible you are slimming down, but not seeing it on the scale.

If you get a chance to look at the paper, it was the sedentary EE was higher in those who exercised as well as cut calories, and was lower in those who only cut calories, rather than TDEE. I should have been more careful in the summary. As to the third experiment, yes, the total calories consumed were much less in the…

CICO, while true, is kind of an over simplification. Look at this 2009 study https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0004377 which demonstrates that if you lose weight with just calorie restriction, your TDEE goes down significantly. If you combine calorie restriction with appropriate exercise,…

I've noticed that as I lose weight, about every 5 or 10 pounds I need to go back to the MFP settings page, and get it to reset the number of calories allowed if I want to keep losing at roughly one pound a week. My calorie limit has gone down by a couple of hundred or so over the past year. For some reason, MFP doesn't do…

I've made Coq au vin - it's straightforward (though a little time consuming) and you can definitely make it a day ahead, then finish it in the oven. Hosting people at your home seems like a lovely idea.

From what you said, it's clear you made the right decision for you! As you progress in learning programming, or working as an artist, you may find you get a similar kind of pleasure, and it will be taking you in the direction you want to go. Congratulations on making your decision, and best of luck on your path. Stick with…

Well, here's a paper from the Pennington Biomedical Center, a campus of the Louisiana State University System, which indicates that losing weight by only cutting calories resulted in a significant decrease in TDEE after 3 months, while a combination of cutting calories by by 12.5% of starting TDEE, combined with doing…

It may well be true that you have logging issues, but it sounds like you are logging the same way you did when you lost 17 pounds. There is a school of thought that suggests that after successfully restricting calories and exercising, and having some weight loss, your body tries to adapt to the new intake/exercise. You…

Some people do have success with raising their calories for a time - check some of the threads on "refeeds". That said, a week (though it may feel like forever) isn't a long plateau.

I have found that it is much, much easier to not eat sweets (or other snacking) in the evening if I avoid sugar during the day. So, I'm with you!

I agree - go for one pound a week - there is some evidence that a slower rate of loss will keep your metabolism on a more even keel, and will make it easier to maintain the loss once you have lost weight. Good luck!

Check out this study of overfeeding of identical twins, from the New England Journal of Medicine. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199005243222101 What is interesting is that, even after controlling for exercise, and being fed the same surplus of calories, different pairs of identical twins gained different amounts…

For what it is worth, I was successful losing weight on the Keto diet, and gained it all back and more after going off it. For me, it was not long term sustainable - I lasted about a year on it.

While it is true that you should get an accurate counting of the calories you use, and that your weight will reflect the difference between calories in and calories out, there is some recent research published in the New England Journal of Medicine indicating that different people burn calories at a different rate, even…

Wow - Your accomplishments are truly impressive. Good for you! And thank you for sharing your story.