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I can't offer you perfect advice, but I can offer you what I'm trying for myself (though my situation is slightly different). I've had the baby pooch for as long as I can remember. Even back to elementary school. It's why I always thought I was fat, even when I wasn't. I'm trying stomach vacuums. They sound weird, but a…

While I'm usually a proponent of good healthy fats in a diet, limit them! A good rule o thumb is to look at specific medical diets (available from google) for gall stones and gout. I think the gout diets work as well.

The only time I ever bother with timing my calories is on a work day. Meal 1- 600 ish Early snack: 150 Late snack: 150 Meal 2-3 even split of leftovers or one is skippped. I often end the day with a bit leftover and I like to use it for a pat on the back well done for not murdering anyone snack. Which is usually peanut…

Add a protein rich snack. It could just be that your body wants more building blocks for those muscles you're working. I'm getting 1380 a day, and adding post-workout snacks hasn't really affected my rate at all. So, 100 calories (give or take) of protein. Greek yogurt, boiled egg, baby protein shake? If you really don't…

That is awesome! Woot woot! I love crossing a round number off my list. I just dropped one myself, and if I see the other side of it again, it'll be this week and it'll be water weight!

Try to find foods that won't trigger the nausea as bad. Raw fruits and veggies, cold chicken, salads with light dressing. The key is to avoid oily or over spiced foods. Anything that gives you a good bit of water when you eat it is usually easy to get down. It was 104F here today, and it isn't even high summer yet, so I…

In that case, your extra 3600 is just another pound of loss more or less.

Realize that its a myth? I work nights, is all of my eating bad for me? The whole, don't eat after 7pm thing is meant to help decrease mindless nighttime snacking. If the snacking isn't a problem, eat when you please. Also, if you do decide to adhere to this rather arbitrary rule, consider it as 4 hours before bedtime…

stupid hospital internet

I'm awake and vaguely in need of entertainment. And distraction.

it depends on how low your average daily is. What's your deficit set to? And what do you usually eat at? Ex, my deficit is 1380, I frequently eat at 1200-1250.

Ease up for a little while. It can sometimes help to ease down into the deficit a few hundred at a time. I went down to 1300ish, the deficit I have now and couldnt maintain it at all. I went back up to 1500. After two weeks at that I went back down and haven't had problem since.

It looks to me like you have an ill fitting bra. It's actually harder to get one that fits than you'd think. If you have a cloth measuring tape, measure around the band area. Don't add any inches unless you are an odd number, in which case 31 for example, becomes 32 (in most cases). Then measure the cup area. The…

Depending on what I'm making, no changes. My homemade cupcakes though... I drop the sugar a good bit (it honestly calls for too much to start with) and add some almond extract. By the time they're done, the almond extract makes them taste sweet enough (and complex enough) not to need icing. Other recipes (less baking,…

I use the flavorless benefiber stuff. I just stir one serving/dose into my morning coffee and that usually pushes me to the lower limit on fiber. If you stir as you tip the spoon in (be amazed at the amount of coordination that shows for me, pre coffee) it doesn't clump at all. 30 secs of stirring and you're ready to go,…

Pills! I hate milk (and it hates me) so I find a multivitamin helps a great deal. It also gives me the iron I frequently fall short on, as well as some trace minerals that I don't even know what they do, but at least I'm now at 100%.

This actually sounds delicious and I loathe eggs.

Rice cakes, sugar free pudding, microwave popcorn, cheese sticks. Think of the things you usually like to snack on and find a better alternative. Rice cakes and popcorn give me the crunchy chewy so I stop eating chips, and sugar free pudding does a great standin for a chocolate bar. I eat "lunch" around 0130-0200. A snack…

To the last line, yes. For people in my hospital who actually need to cut sodium or die, we usually only drop them down to 2grams. Which is 300 below the RDA. You can't cut sodium too far, because you actually need it to live. Hyponatremia is some scary stuff, and a pain to treat. If you want to cut your sodium, talk to…

Your weekly total deficit is more telling than your day to day. So if you are over one day and under the next, consider them a balancing act.

I second the cooking with iron skillets. You pick up additional iron from the cookware in food you were going to eat anyways. Adding a multivitamin can help to, as many have iron in them (but don't cause as much GI upset as traditional iron supplements.)

Hey, I'm on time for once! SW: 175 (Which I have revisited again and again) CW: 168 (Vacation weight! Pretending it's water...) Friday Morning GW: 163 (May alter if 6/4 weight is a lot lower than Friday) GW2: 158. As of Sunday (6/5) I'm down to 164.8. I figure that's good enough for me. Weigh in dates: Start of the…

I think a better way of wording it is that hypertrophy doesn't happen in a deficit. A calorie deficit causes you to lose weight. But weight doesn't just mean fat, even if you do weightlifting in a deficit, you still lose some lean body mass along with fat. Speaking from experience, you do get stronger, even in a deficit.…

Have a hander at my diary some weekend. I'm down almost 8 pounds in about two months and still eat the occasional full size candy bar and fast food always before work. You make smarter choices for fast food/restaurant food, and limit your portions all around and you'll lose weight without having to give up all of your old…

In the BM future, some advice. If you go 3+ days with no poo, or very little, that's the point at which its considered constipation from a medical standpoint and needs intervention. First level of intervention is a stimulant laxative, like magnesium citrate or senna (also sold as Senakot, a pill). Second level is an enema.…

You got a lot of good answers, but I'll stick my oar in too, just because. I just went through this myself. I was losing 1-1.5 pounds a week like clockwork until I added in exercise. Queue three week stall. Muscles hold on to water after exercise as a protective blister of sorts. It's part of what makes you so sore a day…

Sailrabbit.com/bmr/ That's what I used to set my deficit (you can set a custom calorie count). I want to lose around 1.5 a week (1 pound would be more comfortable, but I'm on a deadline) but it was spitting me out 1200 calories at 5'6" and 170 lbs. I get hangry sometimes at 1380! I'd straight murder someone at 1200! I like…

The only weightloss supplements you need are a good multivitamin maybe some protein powder. And they don't even help you lose the weight!

This, I'm looking forward to. I've never not had chipmunk cheeks. I wonder what my cheekbones even look like?

When I had to by bigger underwear. It seems like such a small thing, but I've been wearing tell same size for a number of pounds so when I sized out, I knew it was time for a change. War really got me moving was a quote on Tumblr of all places. "How many times do I say, 'I'll start tomorrow,' before I realize I could have…