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Just noting that OP says their “calorie intake is between 1k and 2k a day same as it always has been.” That is quite a daily variation - are you measuring anything or just guessing? If you end up hitting closer to the high end of the estimate daily you might be consuming at your maintenance level. If you aren’t already…

It may well be that you won’t fix your cholesterol numbers with weight loss if your HDL is so low and your triglycerides and LDL are so high. You say you are as “big” as you want to be - I assume by that you mean muscular - but then you keep talking about losing and bulking and whatever experimentation it is you are now…

I think I am missing the point of this exercise - especially if you say you have been doing this for 24 years? What is your desired outcome long term?

I think it does pretty well where answers can be crowdsourced/culled from lots of data amassed from the internet such as the questions about diet above. From what I have read, and my anecdotal experience as a university professor, the challenges appear when questioners ask the AI to solve problems. The AI wants to be…

@joans1976 it concerns me to hear you are having so many skin effects. That is not supposed to happen as far as I know (and in my experience getting a high dose every day for 6 weeks after 9 mos of chemo and surgery with still healing scars it didn’t happen). Everyone is different, and treatments are different, but they…

@ladybanksia59 responding to your question and AnnPT77’s response .. Interestingly enough I started my weight loss journey with a diagnosis of cushings syndrome (not disease) meaning that I had consistently elevated cortisol levels. They check this via several rounds of 24 hr urine collection tests, dexamethasone…

@joowelz you are right that folks are often very negatively disposed to using medicines to help reach goals here. I personally am not opposed if one works with their doctor and uses the medication as it is intended. I think it is great that these medicines are available for people who need them and use them as intended.…

It sounds like you are exactly on track and feeling great — so just trust the process!! Realistically 2-3 lbs spread out over an entire body is not going to show up in measurements in a big way unless you are also doing significant weight training to turn fat into muscle at the same time and looking for results from body…

If you aren’t eating in a disordered way then I don’t see the problem with continuing to log meals. You say you are burned out from “logging every little bite” but that if you skip logging a couple of meals where you know you didn’t overeat you get overly worried. Can you find a middle ground and log approximations of what…

Agree on the mocktails/low alcohol drinks for adults idea. I sometimes pop in to the less alcohol thread and folks sometimes share ideas there, but that is a monthly thread so they get lost quickly. Plus the list has a higher purpose that not everyone interested in the occasional mocktail recipe will share. On N/A beers I…

@Jess_Below_30 a couple of things that I think are helping me with maintenance are that I lost weight relatively slowly (a little under 80 lbs over about 2 years) and I did so by measuring and recording everything so that I was very mindful of what I am eating. I have continued with the measuring and recording, and I…

@AnnPT77 tagging you here because I found another great bitter - sumac … it has a really complex/nuanced flavor like the spice itself and the bitter is based on a rhubarb extract for bittterness. I am having it with fever tree tonic and a slice of lemon at the moment and it is as good as any adult beverage because of the…

I just log it with the meal I am having — so under breakfast I would log whatever I ate and also the coffee and oat milk. Coffee itself has no calories so what you really care about is the sugar and the milk. To be accurate I would weigh the oat milk on a kitchen scale (you can do so in g or ml) and then record the…

So what are you going to do differently this time from all the other times? What have you done in the past, and how can the MFP community help you fix the problem, assuming that is what you want?

Just jumping in to also give encouragement to people wondering if it is possible to lose weight after menopause. I am in my mid 50s but went in to menopause early due to chemo for breast cancer almost 6 years ago. I put on a lot of weight after that. I was on a variety of medicines, and had some serious complications that…

@MissMay they have these bottomless mimosa brunches at every restaurant popular with the 20-30 yo crowd in my city every saturday and sunday, It is ridiculous and so is the mess & noise afterward. The quality of what is served - both juice and booze and accompanying food is pretty bad. It seems like the way to clear out…

Follicular cysts are sometimes just called ovarian cysts - I had a roommate who used to get them almost every month. I did fertility treatments for a while and I ended up getting a couple after they concluded. Many people have them every month and don’t ever know because they are not ordinarily painful. They are not really…

I will ask a different question …what ELSE are you eating and drinking that you feel you don’t have room for something with great taste and decent nutritional value in your calories? Its not likely to be the other omlette ingredients, so what does the rest of the day look like? On the other hand, you are doing exactly what…

This is such an interesting thread and illustrates why MFP is such a valuable resource for understanding how we each perceive and react to the world. Although (or maybe because ?)I recently lost almost 80 lbs it has never occurred to me that anyone would think of hunger as painful or be afraid of it unless they are in a…

Do you think if I charge a membership fee and make him scan a card when entering my husband will help clean the house?

@forestdweller1 I love your answer “sound of a baby or kitty crying … must be found and comforted” I fully attribute at least part of my ability to keep AF to a lapful of purring kitties (usually both at once)= instant meditation/lower heart rate/bp /better mood etc. Plus you can’t get up bc you are cat furniture. So i…

I am in maintenance/trying to gain a bit back. I weigh myself every day and since I also log my food I know what to expect (meaning if I have eaten bigger meals or salty foods I know the scale will show a slightly higher weight.) I did this as I was losing too. I expect to continue to do this as long as I can stand up on a…

Agree with Ann and Lietchi and adding only that we always comment that these monthly fluctuations occur only for women who still have periods, but I actually noticed them into menopause (mine was chemically induced so I might be odd that way). I’ve stopped paying attention now, but I wonder if there are any cyclical…

@AnnPT77 just to clarify, the Ghia and the Pathfinder are both NA recommendations for herbal apertifs. I also saw a few wormwood based ones at my local wine/gourmet shop but did not try those. The brand is Gnista I believe. It is from Sweden. I think it is an acquired taste. Here are links to articles in NYT and epicurious…

@mtaratoot I’ve been totally dry now for a couple years for overall health reasons (cancer survivor, other stuff, general weight loss and now everyone seems to agree its just healthier not to if you don’t already drink). But when I did imbibe I agreed with you 100% on martinis . I wholeheartedly agree with the theme of…

@mtaratoot if you haven’t tried the N/A spirits my advice is that they work mostly as mixed drinks and not to think it will ever remind you of a real drink jut like a NA wine won’t ever taste like a real wine etc. If you are used to the mouthfeel and heat and other effects specific to alcohol those are not readily…

Crodino comes in the golden/blond version you purchased @AnnPT77 and also a rosso which is a bit more bitter. There are other companies that make the bitter version like sanbitters. They all sort of approximate a somewhat sweeter campari apertif. You can get them on amazon, or at the online italian store or find retailers…

@AnnPT77 I went out to dinner last night in NYC to an austrian/french restaurant (Koloman) as an appetizer we had celeriac tartar which was raw celeriac grated and prepared with condiments usually used for beef tartar. It was wild. Very good. I have used raw celeriac in salads before (i soak it in acidulated milk first to…

@joans1976 thinking more about your situation… just don’t sign anything or agree to anything. I am not sure what a lawyer is going to do for you at this point if you are not protected by FMLA or ADA. Why would Narcissa have to agree to do anything? I don’t know how old you are but if you are over 40 and she fired you you…

@joans1976 I am not an employment lawyer, but what I recall of my own FMLA situation was that I only needed to present a letter that said that I needed the time off and that the employer had to give it to me without pay and that is it. No additional requests or renegotiations of my work obligations were made because that…