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You're going to have to find other ways te cope with your emotions. Exercise, playing with your dog, reading, etc. And, nobody likes hearing this, but it's also really helpful long term to force yourself to sit with those emotions and just feel them identify and name them, then get comfortable with them. We've grown to…

The idea that "all your other labs are normal" says nothing about red meat. Remember the guy who ate nothing but Twinkies and some other gas station food, lost weight? His labs were perfect. They improved eating a diet almost entirely of twinkies. Using your rational, we should all be eating mostly twinkies. Also, our…

No one app that I know of is going to track all those things. You can find free apps for each one, but free or pay, you'll likely need to accept multiple apps.

🤣😂 oh good lord, is that really a thing now?

He also never logged back in after posting his initial question, so I'm guessing he wasn't actually too concerned with what anyone else had to say.🤷‍♀️

The tracker tracks sodium, not salt. Many people enter it incorrectly, entering salt amounts instead of sodium. So it is notoriously largely inaccurate when tracking sodium in your diet.

Agreed wholeheartedly. I hate the advocating for raw milk. Most people don't understand how dangerous it is and how many people were dying from milk with dangerous bacteria growing in it before pasteurization became a thing.

How long have you been "watching" your calories?

My strong recommendation is to check your tracking. Make sure you're accurately weighing and measuring everything. And I mean everything. No guestimates. Also make sure you are choosing accurate entries. Not the one that shows how many calories you *wish* something had. Food entries are made by regular users and some have…

I actually have a lot of respect for him for coming out and admitting this and acknowledging he was wrong about carnivore. He built his entire career around it, and took a big risk by doing that. Wish he would have come out a little sooner, but he did have that major book deal to think about, so I understand the spot he…

I don't know that there's anything outside of yourself that can make you care or stay focused. Setting up routines and boundaries for yourself can help, but you have to care enough to follow them. When you're ready, you'll do it. Until you're ready, nothing can make you. Taking it one step, one day at a time can be…

You and I may have different intentions with the use of a word and perceive it in different ways. That's how words work.

Need to lose 12 pounds? No problem! Just call us and hop on semaglutide for 6 weeks!!!!

It all depends on your personal information. If you're older and fairly short (say around 5 ft) then 1200 may be fine. If you're 6 feet tall.... probably not fine. What did MFP recommend for you?

I would think carefully about your goal. Building muscle and losing fat are two opposing goals. To lose fat, I would not recommend increasing calories. For gaining muscle, you probably want to increase your calories a little (that's with the assumption you've been maintaining). You have to decide which one goal you want to…

That's why I said the term became widespread during covid. Agreed, it was around before. Not in the US, but in certain places. Anyway, I went off on a tangent. I think the medication can be very beneficial for many people, and I'm not against it overall.

You would do the same for protein and carbs. I get the annoyance, but it is what it is a right now.

Yes, it really does. If I refer to someone as baby girl instead of woman, those two terms have two different connotations, even though both are common terms. Same thing with jab vs. the actual name of the medication. Jab really mostly started being widespread as a derogatory term by the antivaxxers for the covid vaccine.…

The term anorexia means lack of desire to eat. Which is really the whole purpose of this medication. On another note, calling it a "jab" indicates the lack of seriousness with which people treat this medication, which concerns me (I know you didn't, but the OP and others have).

I didn't realize there was anything wrong with my weight, until one day I saw a picture of myself taken at work. It horrified me and made me realize I needed to change something. It took that feeling of absolute shock and horror to make a change.

Total daily energy expenditure. The total amount of calories your body burns in a day.

I think you make a really good point though. It feels as though it's being pushed on everyone and way too easily available. There are real potential side effects that can be deadly. And people ignore that.

Yes, however, you may find certain foods leave you feeling hungry sooner than others. Most people will find foods containing protein to keep them fuller. But yes, you can eat whatever you like and lose weight as long as you are in a deficit

No, because it would be meaningless. The glycemic load of a food varies depending on your individual body, time of day, and what other foods you eat it with. (A banana will have a completely different glycemic load if you dip it in some peanut butter, for example).

Then why are you asking? It doesn't make sense. Either your doctor wants you to take them both or not. Not really a question for random internet strangers as to whether or not you can.

Up to 3400 mg per day is considered safe. One 12 oz. can of diet soda contains around 200 mg. That would be about 17 cans in a day.

Just add up all the days calories together, then divide by the number of days you added together. Should take about a minute using a calculator (if you don't have an actual calculator, use the calculator on your phone)

Fiber. And, if you've been eating low carb, your body doesn't really want it's glycogen stores to be depleted, so it will drive you to crave carbs until you refill your glycogen reserves. Also, it just tastes good. And your brain will drive you crazy until you eat what you're really craving (many of the people who advocate…

The only person who might be able to help you is your doctor or dietician. There are kind people on here who will try to help, but their advice will be from their own very biased perspective, with little to no understanding of eating disorders and how to deal with them.

The calorie allotment they give you is just an estimate. If you are actually gaining weight, you most likely need to decrease your calories by, say, 500.