PrismaticPhoenix Member

I don't think anyone is going to try to sell me any. Otherwise, I would buy. Nom nom nom.

Is the fiber causing you problems?

I weigh daily, but I'm trying to lose weight. Once I'm at maintenance, I plan to continue weighing because the way I gained 40 pounds was by ignoring what was happening. Will it need to happen every day? Maybe not, I don't know. I will be aware that fluctuations happen, just as I'm aware of it now.

Maybe? I'm very fatigued all the time, but that's pretty usual. I probably ought to make another doctor's appointment but I'm pretty tired of going to the doctor, and I used to go to doctors who got tired of seeing me, so much so that that they told me that I just needed to learn to live with my fatigue. They used to test…

Is this what's going on?! I've started cooking my own chickpeas but recipes always assume that I'm using a certain number of cans of chickpeas and oof it messes everything up.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions! I'll give some more information for those who wanted it: I've always struggled with anemia, even when I wasn't doing anything specific with meat in my diet (I was first diagnosed with anemia as a teen and I eating meat heavily then). My doctors' suggestions have always simply been to…

My mom really likes angel food cake. I don't. There is this one recipe that you can make with an angel food cake mix (and it can't be the cheap mix or the whole thing is a disaster) and a can of pineapple (and maybe some other stuff, I don't have the recipe on hand) that I think is reasonable. but I don't like it enough to…

I'd be cautious with eating only 1200 calories (because 1200 seems like fewer calories than I would be comfortable with), but the weight loss that you're experiencing may not inherently be an indicator of a problem. In my first 3 weeks, I lost 12 pounds of weight (pretty much what you lost) and in the last 3 weeks, I've…

Has your husband agreed to any of this? Does he want to do any of this? What are his goals and priorities in this? Have you talked with him about this? And I don't mean lectures him or talked at him (which can be hard to do when you have your own goals, I know), but talked with him to determine what is going on in his…

Do you need to be eating 1500 to maintain? Are you gaining weight when you eat 1,800? Anyway, my answer to that question is to look at what you are eating and "Try different recipes" and "Look to see what within the recipe you can substitute and/or cut back on." Eat things that you like, but also choose mindfully. That's…

I took Wellbutrin for a while for depression. It never did anything to my weight, but it was either the one that made me vomit while extremely tired (horrible combination, vomiting while trying to not fall asleep) if I took it too close to another medication or it was the one that made my balance really bad and I walked…

I think this is a big part of the problem. Like, how can our intuition account for "Panera Bread Kitchen Sink Cookie" which has 800 calories per cookie, or Sonic's Peanut Butter & Cookie Dough Dream Master Blast, which has 2,300 calories? Sure, we may be able to say, "This is going to have a lot of calories," but if we…

We have indeed moved away from tailoring more durable, expensive clothing to extremely cheap, disposable clothing. Even repairing clothes if it gets a tear isn't done. It's an odd situation.

I say ignore the intern and talk to your normal dietician when she comes back.

I'm just going to put this here: Your Height: 5'4" Your Weight: 130 (pounds) Your BMI: 22.3 BMI Categories: Underweight = <18.5 Normal weight = 18.5–24.9 Overweight = 25–29.9 Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater Your Height: 5'4" Your Weight: 100 (pounds) Your BMI: 17.2 Underweight = <18.5 Normal weight = 18.5–24.9 Overweight =…

Ooh, I'll have to try that! Thank you!

I'm not sure that I understand what people are talking about in regards to intuitive eating. I'm logging my food, but for me, a vital part of what I'm doing is ensuring that I'm still enjoying eating. I want to make sure that I'm eating when I'm hungry and that I'm eating foods that I like. Logging my food is a way of…

I was just thinking about making my own hummus! Amazing!

None of us are qualified to offer advice about moving from a healthy weight range to an underweight range via pretty intense calorie restriction. Someone in this thread already ran the numbers for you, and I ran them again, and right now your BMI is normal and your goal BMI would be underweight. People have tried to talk…

That looks really delicious! Thanks for the suggestion. It's really tricky because I like spinach but it can be hard to tell how fast I'm going to go through it. Oof! I'll look into that. Thanks so much!

I have both a Vitamin D deficiency and an Iron deficiency without vitamins. I'm trying to correct it, but it's not working yet.

I want to buy a tofu press.

I've heard that argument before, but I don't know about it. Because while almonds certainly do take up water and use pesticides...so do cows and the plants that are necessary to feed them. And I say this as someone who consumes cow dairy and doesn't intend to stop.

Of all the things I have the most trouble keeping from going bad before I use it, it's the stupid tubs of fresh spinach in my refrigerator. I love fresh spinach, but lord, that stuff. I just found a Pinterest page that says it's got a list of things that will help. We Shall See.

I'm going to basically reiterate what lots of people have been saying: Don't stress about this happening overnight (it won't), don't set your calories too low (that's going to cause problems), don't worry about fluctuations (that's natural), and your period is going to mess everything up (always). I've lost 12 pounds over…

I want to go to the Indian buffet and just devour everything. I'm planning to go again sometime in the future, but I need to feel confident that I'm not going to eat myself sick.

My version of the online recipe "Greek Inspired Spinach and Feta Breakfast Wrap"

It depends on how you react to NOT eating breakfast. I dislike the push that there has been to get people to eat breakfast regardless of how they are feeling because "breakfast is the most important meal of the day!" If you're fine until lunch if you don't eat breakfast, don't eat breakfast. If you want a mid-day snack…

Thank you!

Someday I will figure out how to cook tofu. I've tried before and botched it terribly.