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This strikes me as a good potential solution - my rich and often catastrophic roommating experience has taught me that it doesn't serve house dynamic well to be an overly accommodating roommate as much as is doesn't to be a difficult and picky one. If you're happy to participate in this kind of level of social interaction…

Yeah, winter is a tough one...looking forward to being in bed early with a book and a cup of tea (and not so much out late over drinks) I guess?

This is me as well...when I'm in the groove, I don't find it difficult - to the contrary, I enjoy it, its a project, a hobby: how low can I go? How can I get enough protein? What should I cook? What should I buy? What treats make sense? How about today? How much have I lost? Is that too fast? Two slow? Lets check all the…

Update: August 2 - 214 September 8 - 199 September 21 - 195 I had a 10 day diet break around September 8-18, so in a sense being down 4 pounds over these past two weeks is kind of not what I was aiming at. It has been that little bit harder to come back the last week, but I'm still motivated and sort of oriented around a…

Lol, I just added rice back a little after cutting out most grains for a month. That said, I think its really way more about your personal habits and triggers, so if rice is something that you were having every meal and would drive your calories high, going no rice is an effective way to shake things up! (Me, I know i'm a…

Huh I don't have a current interim goal. Let's say 175 by November 7th, when I've got a week of travel. Currently 199 (oh hi 100s!)

Totally. I've never had a problem with particularly 'bad' foods - no daily soda or fast food habit to break here - just large portions and often, at times at least twice a week, these late night binges where I feel like I just eat through everything in the fridge, even if its making a giant stir fry with every left-over…

I lost about 15 lb in August, probably a bit more - I started tracking end of July and didn't get on a scale until August 6th. August 6 to 29th went from 215 to 200. I've been sticking to 1200 calories (with the occasional but not frequent over day, mostly around socializing) and sometimes eating back a bit of exercise…

Started tracking, lost about 15 lb, got into yoga consistently, did a few lifting and swim sessions, walked at least 150km, moved continents, started grad school and have finally learned the names of everyone else in my program.

Yeah, 'reboot' may be a silly word in this context. Leptin and Ghrelin, IIRC, can affect appetite, and when eating at a deficit for a while slip low. Upping calories for a while helps to bring them back up.

That's also what i've heard - its about letting the body reboot for 1-2 weeks, particularly to stop certain hormones slipping too low, as well as the psychology and motivation of it (which I assume are related anyway). I'm planning to take breaks to maintenance for 10-15 days out of every 50 or so. It just seems more…

I lost circa 35 pounds in around 3 months (100 days, if I'm recalling correctly) at my 'fastest'. That included the big initial 'whoosh' where I dropped 8 pounds in like two weeks and it was generally during a fairly slow moment in life where I had a fair amount of time and energy to devote to shopping, cooking, reading…

31 here as well, just over 200 now and can't wait to get past that particular milestone!

I'm putting a tentative goal of the beginning of summer (say 1st June) on it. That said, I don't really have a goal weight in mind - I expect to attenuate the rate of the weight loss and raise my calories as the year goes on and take planned breaks, as well as keep exercising and building up my fitness levels. I'm also…

Hey all, add me! F, 31 here, just moved to the US for school, about 70lbs to lose. I lost 40ish lb with MFP about four years ago and then a lot of life happened (good stuff!) and my attention turned elsewhere. I had (mostly) kept it off, but gained back this last summer. Looking to turn it around and get on with losing the…

Yes, and in heels.

I'm a little like this but with cities, lol - I'm an urban planner, and whether that's what pushed me into the profession or that's what I get out of it, I can spend hours walking around a city and never be bored, so I've never found those 10k steps difficult to get in if I can make the time to go flaneur (the space, the…

OK so I'm not THE biggest person in my new 30ish-person program, but I'm the second biggest by a fairly long stretch. I think the one-bigger-than-me person could be a good friend, because she's sharp and says what she thinks and our interests align, but I don't like the mental image of being the two funny fat chicks…

I definitely also meant the glossy post that keep popping up in the MFP home feed (or whatever you call it) not a well-intentioned personal kids recipe. I was also participating in mocking the poor peanut butter banana tortilla in a spirit of joyous exaggeration. Its ok, I leave it. It can live on if it likes.

I'd argue its a bad recipe. Its needlessly complicated, unoriginal, shoddily titled and possibly out of place on a calorie-counting community. I've found it oddly annoying every time I see it as well, some pretentiously smarmy out-of-place enthusiasm radiating from its nauseating list of ingredients. In its defense, since…

Lol, yeah, figuring out what to wear for my first US conference was a full blown crisis. (Jeans? Yes? No? No one knows. Finally one supervisor told me I can wear anything I want, I just need to wear it with the right shoes.)

Oh christ...I have one set of teaching reviews to date, from a small section I TA'd in my masters, and it consisted of 9 bland reviews that could have been of the doorknob in the classroom ('does job well') and one that was weirdly negative, and yet still totally impersonal. I should know not to take them too…

It really seems like you're a long way from needing to start thinking about surgery. You're way too young, and not nearly heavy enough, to be taking that seriously before you've given a serious shot to the good old diet-and-exercise approach. Surgery has serious, serious risks and also won't help unless you've got your…

Ha, I'm trying to make that my strategy - exercise instead of food for procrastination and stress release. It semi-works for me here, but in practice its usually either a good day with both exercise, healthy eating and good research productivity, or off days of not being able to be bothered to leave the house, re-reading…

Wrapping up the MA and staring PhD in August - moving halfway around the world for it, a bit stressed about that. I've been juggling work and school for most of my 20s and quite liked it that way. Now switching to the famously intense US all-encompassing PhD thing is stressing me out and I'm worried that (along with the…

So I can hit a formal-not-formal dress code just where I want to. I'm starting a PhD this year, presenting research, teaching sections, etc. There's suddenly a bunch of stuff in my life that requires being just a bit dressier and standing up in front of people and needing to make an impression, but I HATE business-casual.…

That statistic sounds about familiar. Why is so much of the writing on this topic such utter junk? Will definitely check out the first two!

This is my motivation. I love gymnastics and looking forward to getting back to some variation. I motivate my patchy weightlifing at the moment by reminding myself that it will give my tumbling and acrobatics a boost when I'm in a place (geographically, not just physically) where I can get back to it. There's so many…

Weighing in: Obesity, Food Justice and the Limits of Capitalism, Julie Guthman, 2011. This was an interesting counterpoint to the Angry Chef - a much more academic book (from UC California food studies series) but with a readable, relatively populist bend. Guthman IS a social scientist, and she comes from a…

The Angry Chef, Anthony Warner, 2017: Nice, straightforward tear-down of eating fashions, fad diets, 'that one trick', superfoods, etc, and drawing on research to debunk various claims of toxicity or raw food or coconut oil or wahtever is going on at the moment. This includes current semi-concensus favorites like paleo,…