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Sometimes it's easier to get extra calories in in liquid form. Make a smoothie or something with whole milk (since you are trying to get more calories - whole would make more sense than skim). Or, you can make a "melty root beer float" out of diet root beer and heavy whipping cream.

Uh, water weight is super easy to lose. Just stop eating carbs for a week. Really.

Er, you SHOULD be eating your leafy greens because they contain tons of fiber, vitamins, and minerals your body needs without any of the sugar that fruits have... not just because of chlorophyll.

Oh no, you'll die! It's an essential food! There are so many studies saying you can't live without it! But seriously though, good luck. I know some people feel a lot better when they stop eating dairy.

Switch out one of your fruits with some veggies. Instead of a banana, have an avocado, or some salad, or some broccoli. It'll help you reduce your sugars and give you tons of extra nutrients. :D

Bread is such an arbitrary thing to decide you can't not eat. Have you ever had a durian fruit before? Because it's totally something you should never cut out of your diet. How about jellyfish? Also essential. Cashews? You will die without them. Etc etc, you get my point. Would you tell people with Celiac's disease, who…

The body can convert fat and protein to glucose just fine without eating carbs. I mean, eat them or don't, but they aren't 100% necessary since the body can make them all by itself. And if you go on a really low carb diet, it adjusts to using ketones for the bulk of its energy needs*, with neoglucogenesis filling in…

Arsenic is! ....and cyanide. And maybe rat poison.

Click the My Home tab up top, then click Goals, then click the Change Goals button at the bottom. You can set everything manually there.

Personally when I cut sugar out of my diet I just adapted to tea without sugar. I also started appreciating it more because I could taste more of the subtleties that I'd missed when adding sugar and milk. So you can try going without adding stuff and explore new tea options, or you can switch to substitutes. I think in…

It's kinda hard to miss your puffy-feeling cervix hanging almost as low as the opening of your vagina when you're removing a cup =/ I don't think it's a normal occurrence - I haven't seen evidence of anyone else having it happen to them. I still recommend the diva cup to everyone and am really sad I can't use it.

I was a huge Diva fan until the last couple of times I used it... it prolapsed my cervix. It went back to normal after a couple days, but I'm really hesitant to use it again until I've talked to my doctor. I've switched to instead cups. Not as good, and disposable, but still better than the alternatives.

If you're getting enough calories and nutrients during the day, it's really not that big a deal. I tend to only eat once a day - dinner - or twice if I'm super hungry. The human body can handle short intermittent fasting just fine.

If you want to up your calcium and iron, eat more leafy greens like spinach. :D

You could go hardcore and eat an all-meat diet. But that requires eating organ meats, marrow, and fat. If you're picky, chances are you won't eat some or any of those things, so your only option is to suck it up and eat vegetables until you like them. I used to hate broccoli for example, but I discovered it was okay…

This is my favorite place evar for keto. Other than that though, I eat a lot of steak. pork, and chicken with butter or cream based sauces, lots of salad, cauliflower prepared in various ways (riced, mashed, etc), roasted broccoli, green beans, eggplant, zucchini, etc. Last night I took chunks of steak, wrapped them in…

I get most of my calories (60-70%) from fat, and the rest from protein. Fat is awesome and keeps you full, not to mention it's essential for certain biological functions - there's really no reason to be afraid of it. Obviously use whatever macronutrient ratio makes you feel best, but it is still just eating at a deficit…

I do keto, and whenever I get a headache it usually means I'm dehydrated and hungry, so I drink a lot of water and have something high in fat, like mozzarella and olive oil. That usually clears it right up.

I'm never hungry at all and I eat way below my BMR. I struggle to get enough calories in some days. But then again I don't eat carbs (which can make you hungrier) and eat lots of fat (1:1 ratio of fat to protein by weight). I know diets with a lot of carbs can keep you hungry all the time. So it's probably normal for what…

Yes, it means I strive to stay in ketosis all the time, which is when your body uses ketones for fuel instead of carbs and subsequently burns fat more efficiently while stabilizing blood sugar and whatnot. The biggest difference between atkins and keto is that atkins gradually reintroduces carbs, whereas keto does not.…

I weigh myself daily in the morning after relieving myself but before consuming anything, and without clothes. That gives me a good benchmark where I'm not up on weight from food consumed during the day or whatever. I also use a trending tracker (the hacker's diet website has a great one) which shows the trendline of my…

Keto - 65% fat, 30% protein, <20g carbs. I'm not hungry all the time, my intestinal troubles are gone, and it's so easy to eat this way. Food is fun and exciting, and the weight is coming off magically because having things like steak or cheesy chicken broccoli casserole is awesome. I'm quite happy. =3 I do need to start…

If try replacing some of the carb intake with fat. Have veggies with butter or coconut oil instead of a serving of rice, for example. Fat triggers the full response much higher in the digestive tract than carbs do. Even though complex carbs are "better", they still burn off faster and keep you less full than fat.

I used to be hungry all the time and physically crave carbs... but then I went on a low carb diet (*ahem* lifestyle change) and eat plenty of fat and protein. I'm never hungry and I never crave anything anymore. What sort of macronutrient ratio are you following?

I eat no fruit because I can get everything a fruit can give me except better because it's without sugar from leafy greens and things like broccoli and cauliflower. I eat <20g carbs a day, and >60% of my calories come from fats. I don't crash because I don't have blood sugar spikes associated with rises and drops from…

Bacon and then eggs cooked in the leftover bacon grease. Srsly I can't eat til dinner if I have that for breakfast. :P

It's not the sugar in alcohol I'd be worried about, but rather the fact that the body will metabolize alcohol above anything else first, so too much or drinking excessively or frequently can cause stalls. Otherwise, meh.

If you're epileptic you could look into a keto diet. I don't know if it would help with the anemia, but high fat, moderate protein, very low carb diets have been used to varying degrees of success in controlling or eliminating epileptic episodes in children. It's not in high use medically now-a-days because of the advent…

I actually hated it and found it just as sensationalist as Supersize me. In some ways it does more harm than good because it's so easy to attack by anti-low carbers. While low-carb needed a movie portraying it in a positive light... the guy didn't have to be such a jerk about it. But then again, that's what sells.

I'd like to add that saturated fat is *not* your enemy, contrary to popular belief - quite the opposite. So don't fear things like butter and never use margarine again. Fake butter is full of hydrogenated oils which are just terrible for you. My diet is 65% fat, 35% protein (<20g carbs/day). I eat way over the "SAD"…