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Any diet that claims it's a "cleanse" or a "detox" is just using buzzwords to try and grab attention. Your body is self-cleaning and self-maintaining. If it weren't, what you'd need is a visit to the doctor, not drinking lemon water with cayenne pepper, some $30 tea, or consuming nothing but water. Is drinking water…

OP sounds like they have an eating disorder, or at the very least disordered eating habits, so I'm less frustrated and more sympathetic. EDs can be pretty stressful because a lot of it involves both control and compulsive behaviors, so they probably want to just be done with it and they believe it'll stop once they're at…

You need to take a diet break. I know it seems like that means you're gonna gain weight or your progress will be stalled, but it's already stalled since you haven't been losing. Your metabolism has slowed down both because of weight loss and because you've been eating very low amounts (especially at 400-500 calories, your…

Yeah, hence why I don't bother calculating EPOC, especially since the recovery time of any exercise is probably going to burn calories until at the very least your heart rate goes down. In my experience it burns a good bit of calories in a short span of time. I'm not saying that it would burn as much as 30 mins of walking…

First go to your pediatrician, at the very least to rule out problems like thyroid issues, hormone imbalances, etc. If they check out as otherwise healthy, talk to the pediatrician about whether the weight is a problem, since children do need to have more weight on them to grow properly. If the weight is a problem, cut…

In addition to the fact that scales aren't 100% accurate, water retention accounts for up to 5-10 lbs of weight fluctuation, and that varies throughout the day/daily. Food weight (as in after you eat and before you have a bowel movement) will add a little weight as well. It's a good idea to weigh yourself in the mornings…

Just speak with your medical team and tell them that you don't want to go on medications that will lead to weight gain. There are antidepressants that don't have the weight gain side-effect, and a good doctor will accommodate you. If you couldn't go on antidepressants without gaining weight, a lot of people with eating…

1200 is the recommended minimum for women, 1500 for men. I'd also drop calories slowly. So if you're starting off at 2010, drop to 1910 after a week, 1810, etc until you're at a calorie intake that you feel works for you, but don't go below 1200.

30 mins exercise a day is plenty to start off with. You could also try doing low-impact cardio exercises to prevent stepping on children underfoot, and cardio burns a decent amount of calories in a short time. Caloric deficit is important too as already mentioned. Have you considered maybe making exercise a family…

So your source is a study with ten (10) whole average weight young adult men.

HIIT and circuit training burn a fair bit of calories in a short span of time. There's a lot of discussion around calories burned through EPOC wrt HIIT, but I'm not entirely sure how you'd go about calculating EPOC so I don't bother.

Teriyaki chicken with rice.

Oops sorry yeah that's what I meant, I'm having a slow brain day.

Low-carb diets is the basic idea behind keto diets (long story short, foods with healthy fats supposedly increase metabolism), so what you're saying isn't new, although there's no end-goal difference between keto diets and high carb low fat diets. It doesn't negate CICO, because you're absolutely still at a caloric…

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Avoid lots of salt, drink water, drink coffee. Your water weight will fluctuate throughout the day, every day, between 5-10 lbs. It's not a big deal and will always be present in some amount. Don't stop drinking water, that will make you retain more fluid and it's really dangerous.

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Yeah, you're definitely eating more than 1400 cal/day. Some of it might be in liquids you consume, or in unlogged snacks, or in eating a lot during the weekends. Generally when you're overweight you lose a lot more weight than someone who's trying to lose at a normal weight, so you're doing something to be losing only that…

Cutting is generally easier to do first because bulking up requires you intake more calories than a deficit caloric intake, with high protein content. That said, you're not going to lose muscle by eating 1500 cal/day. It's the minimum recommended intake, for one, so it doesn't make sense for doctors to recommend it if it…

There are online support groups and online mental health resources (off the top of my head, therapistaid has various worksheets and info sheets with different therapy styles available for free) ED online support directory ED referral site NEDA hotline/chat/txt