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For me I only eat at the table. If it's late at night and I'm starving I'll get a small low calorie snack and eat it at the table. I sit on the couch to watch tv and one or both dogs get onto my lap, so I can't eat on couch. If it's late and I'm not so much feeling physical hunger as just "I'd really like to eat" then I go…

I feel like they make me hungrier, but I've been losing even so, just by measuring and recording everything I eat and trying to make filling choices. But yeah, if I were just eating whatever, whenever, they'd likely lead me to eat more.

Antibiotics kill off the "good bacteria" in your digestive system along with "bad bacteria" you are taking them for. This will affect water retention, absorption of vitamins, and all kinds of things. It can also slow down your digestion meaning when you weigh yourself you have more undigested food in your system adding to…

Funny, I was at a restaurant the other day and an older gentleman sat at the table right next to me. The waiter brought water. The gentleman asked "can I have a bunch of lemons with this?" So the waiter came back with a saucer with like 3 slices of lemon. The gentleman said "I need more than just that, bring me as many as…

Got sick traveling, couldn't keep food down, lost a bunch of weight.....

I have found that if I'm hiking for a long time and I start dragging and getting really tired, then if I almost step on a snake, or just see one near me, suddenly my energy picks up and I'm able to finish my hike at a decent pace. Adrenaline for you.

When my grandmother got toward the end of her life she developed dementia. She always loved bread, her whole life, but toward the end she started asking where the bread was if there wasn't any at dinner. It was one of the first signs really. Because she'd ask two or three times. Then as she got worse she was inconsolable…

Me too! Yes, I just figure "oh there goes 1 or 2 calories!" They totally expect it and get really annoyed if it's something dogs shouldn't have and I don't give them anything. Though one guy who went to our dog meet-up would always say "well one bite of ____ isn't a problem." But I try to be really careful and not give…

I'm pretty sure some people who shop at my local organic store do that, because the garlic smell wafting off of them is so overwhelming.

I'm in in the same boat, going to read all the tips now. I want to eat everything in sight right now. I'm like a bottomless pit.

The cheapest thing in the store are bags of dried lentils. Make them into soup--high fiber, low cal, etc. http://www.food.com/recipe/hearty-vegetarian-lentil-soup-227665

My old boss's husband went on a "cereal diet" where he ate nothing but cereal until he lost the weight he wanted to lose. Me, I love cereal so much I'd probably gain doing that.

One theory I read was that when people are eating so little that they don't feel well it decreases both unconscious energy use (fidgeting, using your hands while speaking, jumping because you're excited) and slows down your overall energy so conscious work-outs just aren't as vigorous--even if they feel like they are. You…

I eat salads made with lettuce and greens two meals a day most days. I am trying to lose a lot of weight though. No issues for me. I don't think it would hurt you, unless as others say you start having digestive issues or other symptoms and are getting other things in them too, which it sounds like you do.

Hi, I'm Neva. I've been vegan for a little over 20 years (wow) and I was vegetarian a few years before that. I stopped eating animals (and stuff that comes out of them) because of my love for animals, not for health. I rescue abused and abandoned cats and dogs (used to help bunnies too, but I have so many feral cats in my…

Beans!

All of a sudden this weekend I realized most of my bras are way too large. Not the way I wanted to notice it. Actually after about two weeks my clothes felt slightly less snug. After a month the clothing was fitting much better and I felt I looked just a little trimmer in the gym mirrors.

Mine tend to be all over the place actually. Weight loss can affect it. What you ate the day before can affect it. Recent exercise can too. If everything else looks good you might just wait until your next blood work and see where they are then. I tend to regard it more as a trend over time rather than a reason to hit the…

I still eat bread, just less of it.

No. But that's interesting. I also know that cemeteries in New Orleans attract a lot of tourists. No, this is Arlington National... Whole family are war veterans.

My grandmother is buried in a place where my grandfather also intends to be buried. It just happens that this particular cemetery is a tourist attraction. It was very strange having a bus full of tourists slow down to gawk at our funeral. I haven't been back since the funeral because of that feeling. Though I have to say…

I have a problem absorbing iron due to my autoimmune condition so I have to take supplements. Nearly everything made me sick, like waking up in the middle of the night with pains and dry heaves kind of sick. Didn't matter when I took it or what I took it with. I experimented and found one that didn't make me as sick,…

Taking fiber helps me, but as people here say, it's different for everyone. Personally I like Glucomannan. I'm not sure why everyone is putting it down. I've tried a whole bunch of fiber supplements, and while I'm not sure there's much difference in how full I feel, the Glucomannan causes me less, um, er, um, gas.... TMI I…

I HEART you for taking care of feral cats! I moved into a neighborhood where 60 cats were living on the elementary school grounds and none were fixed.... My husband and I got the humane society (local, not national) to help us get them TNRed. We used online ads and found homes for about 25 tame cats and kittens. We had to…

Thanks so much for this thread. All the stuff you wanted to know but didn't know how to find out!

Sounds good. I'm moving soon--not sure how that will mess with the weight loss. But the new place needs some repairs so I don't have a definite date yet. Hopefully I will carry so much stuff that I'll lose extra weight.

I keep trying to graze on my lawn but it makes me queasy. Some wild animals gorge and fast. For example Boa constrictors. Others eat slowly, consuming rather low calorie foods, continuously, during their waking time, like pandas. Others eat whatever is there, whenever it is there, like bears--they might gorge on a salmon…

This! I'm vegan too. I found I'm really, REALLY bad at estimating. I have to measure everything, including the healthy things, even oatmeal. For something like a bun or slice of bread, the calories per serving on the package can be way off--one bun could be bigger, another smaller. Had to start weighing fruit too because I…

You have a built in support system there! Must be great to have so many close by who you can ask questions and talk about whatever is going on with.