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So, the thing is, when we are heavier, our bodies require more calories just to keep our organs functioning and get us through our daily movement. You can and should eat a fair amount more than the average person does on a weight loss diet. I started out at 256 lbs and could easily lose weight eating 2300 or even up to…

I also have found a moderate carb diet and upping healthy fats and protein helps a lot. I don't think necessarily you need to go extreme. Also, lots of exercise!!

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I agree eggs are a good option, although I'm not a big egg consumer myself. Lately I've been making my own breakfast sausage. It's really easy to make patties with ground meat of your choice and some herbs. Here's a recipe I like: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/228080/homemade-paleo-style-breakfast-sausage/ I've made it with…

Not sure about the answer here, but A1C picks up the past 3 months, so it may be too soon to see improvements. I'm not even sure if a 0.1 change is meaningful. Steroids could be driving the number up. I would expect the exercise will help if you are consistent over time. Congrats on the weight loss.

Well, the failure/success rates seen in this study are similar to those seen in most research for weight loss maintenance, so I am doubtful that the findings are solely due to the extremeness of the diet. My takeaway is that weight loss maintenance doesn't happen by accident. You need to maintain focus and monitor your…

I think focusing too much on less important factors... when really what works for me is a) tracking b) being active so I can eat MOAR food c) eating a predominantly but not purely whole foods diet d) keeping at a deficit

I've noticed on my relatively active days (e.g. 6-8 hours of dancing) I don't really feel the increased hunger day of, but I will definitely feel it the next day if I didn't eat back some cals.

12-17% for women??? No!

I agree with everyone, no need to lose more weight, lift heavy, and enjoy where you are at! Remember, we all carry some fat, women especially, and given that you are at the edge of underweight whatever fat that is there is probably overall healthy for you! It's hard to get a "gestalt" of how we look, and focusing too much…

The good news is controlling the food is absolutely #1 for weight loss. You may have a tougher road then most, but there are a lot of inspirational stories of people who lost weight while managing serious health conditions. If you are following the calorie goal and not losing it is usually 1 of 2 things: 1, you need to…

Calorie counting should be able to ameliorate the effects of an antidepressant. Definitely don't want to lower your seizure threshold! Some medications like steroids and the anti-psychotics are really hard to overcome in terms of weight effects, but I think good tracking of what you eat works well with a medication like…

It's tough to change a whole bunch of things at once. I'd recommend working on sleep OR working on weight, probably not both at once especially if you are feeling overwhelmed. If you decide to work on sleep first, I'd recommend finding someone who does CBT for Insomnia. There is a lot of confusing information out there on…

I would say start in the middle - 2025 kcals/day. Track over time to see your rate of loss. Frankly, I'm a 5'7" girl with an office job and lost weight consistently eating 1800-2300 kcals/day. Eat more, but make sure you are tracking accurately. *caveats: started about 100lbs overweight, and I am fairly active outside of…

I am a supporter of the sleeve and a lot of people have good results with it; however, it is a big decision and you will absolutely do best the more on point you are with your behaviors. Perhaps a good path to take would be to continue to prep for surgery while you commit 100% to using the tools at MFP. That means tracking…

I'm not a picky eater (was quite picky as a child, but pretty easily expanded as I got older), however I've had a lot of difficulty with eggs. I basically avoided eggs almost entirely and would gag if I tried to eat them. However, I suspected that it was psychological because I liked things with egg in them, included…

Agreed, super careful logging for 3 weeks and track your weight with trendweight. I'd also suggest weighing even liquids when you can, a lot of things like oils have entries that you can enter by gram (zero out scale with the bottle of oil, pour oil, then replace bottle on scale). For things like rice I normally weigh it…

There are several problems with supplements, they don't have to have any valid research supporting the claims, they are minimally regulated and when we're talking about your metabolism that is important, but I think the biggest thing is that they are a distraction. 99% of your success is going to be from having an eating…

Definitely, the calculator is just making a guess at TDEE. But, I think 400 cal deficit is pretty big at your current weight.

Well you are well into the normal BMI range, losing any weight at all might be very tough for you because you don't have the same body fat reserves as other dieters do. 400 kcals also may be too aggressive for you. With an ED history and being in the normal weight category, I would hesitate to suggest you lose any weight,…

I have one at home and one at work.

Sounds like it works for you

Broccoli, no lie.

Right now you are eating too little, which sets you up for a binge. The excessive exercise will feed into that cycle. My best advice is for you to see an eating disorder specialist to nip this in the bud (much easier to get onto a healthy track early than once this gets entrenched). Reading a book such as Overcoming…

You may want to aim for just 0.5 lbs/week since you don't have that much to lose and you are breastfeeding. Breastfeeding burns a lot. Good luck!

Gradually bump yourself up to 1800+ kcals/day. Actually, you can probably lose on quite a bit more than that. Starvation can lead to that obsessiveness, so once you are eating more I think you'll start to feel much better. Make sure you are also having a regular eating pattern (3 meals/day + 0-3 planned snacks). If you…

I would say give it a shot. I have done the same with frozen meals before. However, I notice having more difficulty sticking to my diet when I'm eating a lot of these frozen meals, I think the quality is a real problem. The local kitchen or home cooked meals seem to *work* better, even though I make sure the calories are…

I don't find that fitbit has been any more effective for weight loss than my previous estimating my exercise using mfp... however, it does motivate me to get more steps and activity generally throughout the day.

I'm sort of doing the same with a company called Kitchfix that prepares meals, although definitely NOT cheap! I'm halving their largest size and supplementing fruit, rice, etc to get to my 600 kcal/meal goal. For financial reasons, I plan to get back into batch cooking, and cut back on the meals I purchase, but for the…

When it comes to impact on health, calories is number one. Getting enough food will have biggest impact on you. Energy/fuel is the primary purpose of food for us. Secondary impacts would be things like getting sufficient macros, variety in your food to get different nutrients Relatively minor impacts would cover all the…