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  • I suspect whether cico works or not depends on where your body is at hormonally. I’m 48 and when I was younger, the math worked. I lost weight if I ate less, period. Now I’m insulin resistant and prediabetic and the math doesn’t seem to work anymore. I logged daily weights and calorie counts for quite a while and it…
  • Hello- my suggestion is that instead of following the formula MFP gives you, find out what your body actually needs using data your body gives you. I did it like this: set MFP to maintenance, eat at around that for about 10 days. Weigh yourself each day and log it. Then find the average of the calories you ate those ten…
  • I have three daughters- the older two always ate all the vegetables and loved them. They were never picky about anything. My youngest has an extremely keen sense of smell and is what I would call a "super taster" and an extremely picky eater. She's 8 and no vegetable has crossed her lips in years..... we're currently…
  • I take time release melatonin, which has a quick dissolve layer to help fall asleep and a second layer that releases slowly to keep the person asleep. I find it enormously helpful….before I started taking it, I would wake up like clockwork at 3 am and not be able to get back to sleep. Now, if I wake up to use the restroom…
  • Since I was 12 or 13, yeah, and I’m 47 now. Even when I reached goals and was “thin.” I've tried intuitive eating and I don’t lose weight and that is not acceptable to me. So I keep trying. But I’m reading a book called The Kindness Method, which is about making changes in a different, less punishing way. It has very…
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