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You might as well document how much you go up and down each month, so you don't get worried you're losing ground. It's all fluid, and it doesn't count. Now, if you don't want to get bloated (it can make your breasts uncomfortable or make your cramps worse), then cut way back on sodium and only drink the amount of fluids…

What just occurred to me: You know the most expensive thing on the menu, the thing you've always wanted to order but felt it was too big a splurge? Order it. Then cut off pieces for everyone else at the table, so they can try it, too. They may not even know you're cutting calories. :)

Make sure you're getting all the nutrition you need. It's tempting to lean on a low-calorie routine when your intake is that low, but you could be consistently failing to meet some nutritional requirement. You can't settle for the few things listed on nutrition labels. You need to know about things like vitamin K,…

You're probably underestimating the amount of potassium you eat, since most nutrition labeling leaves it off. Don't eat a high sodium food to increase your potassium. When your kidneys eliminate the sodium, it takes potassium with it. By the same token, you can get by with less potassium if your sodium intake is low. (They…

Those ads are trying to get you to click by saying something outrageous that you can't believe. Don't believe them. I wouldn't click on ads that try to manipulate you that way, either.

If you're trying to lose 15 kg in 9 weeks, no wonder you're not motivated. It's not a realistic goal just in terms of fat loss, and working out will make you gain weight in muscle that will offset some of the weight you lose in fat (but will make you look totally hot). Try losing 3 cm waist circumference by then.

I got past finishing food to "not waste anything." Eating food I don't really want wastes calories I could use on something I like more. I agree with logging before eating -- if you can't bring yourself to eat it if you know the calories, it's not worth it. And measure precisely. The amount you have to cut down is actually…

If you get one of those Camel water jugs that lets you drink through a straw while hopping, you can incorporate the unicorn into your routine -- just no leapfrog, I definitely agree with that caveat.

Wow, you were definitely destined to be thin. You look perfect the way you are. I wouldn't worry about the BMI. You've got loose skin other places that will shrink over time, so there will be further weight loss if you you just maintain your current body fat.

I have gotten over being self conscious about counting calories. There's lots of good natured joking at work about me weighing stuff and scanning bar codes, but now that I've lost significant weight, they also respect success. If it's a special meal, I may just go over for the day. I know about how many calories it takes…

I see you just joined. I suggest that to start, you set your calories for maintenance and just get used to logging everything. Get a food scale, cup measures, teaspoons. Use the smart phone app so you log things at the time you decide to eat them. Set your activity as "sedentary" and log all your exercise as you do it. Get…

Make sure you are truly measuring accurately, using a food scale. Then stick to your calories. Look up food in different sources to make sure you're not using inaccurate data. Don't try to lose crazy amounts, so you go into starvation. A pound a week is plenty. But don't overestimate your activity -- most people are…

Wow, no tuck? Wish I were that young! I know I'm going to get a tummy-waddle when there's no fat to hold it up. :( Too bad I'm not gay; you'd look really hot. ;)

There was an article in our paper by a cook who has written a book about how terrible all the processed foods we eat are. Then she offers recipes for alternatives -- using highly processed vegan alternatives to dairy products. Last I checked, neither soybeans or almonds had teats on them.

I think everyone here is going over their sugar. I'm not sure why the setting is so low. If God didn't want us to eat sugar from natural sources, he/she wouldn't have made us crave sweets so much.

I know someone who eats real healthy himself, but his job was research for a big company that makes box cake mixes. He said it broke his heart. They were perfectly capable of making a mix that tastes exactly like homemade, but every time they did consumer testing, all the people who actually buy cake mixes rated the…

Agree, I'm mainly hungry when I first start limiting calories or right after going seriously over my calories. I do better if I ramp down my calories over several days and let my stomach adjust.

sugars= 4 calories a gram starches = 4 calories a gram protein = 4 calories a gram fat = 9 calories a gram alcohol = 7 calories a gram It's not as innocent as other clear liquids, but it's not so bad as to be impermissable.

I have found the mobile app to be essential. I used to have a pocket PC and was essentially doing this on my own using Excel. It worked great until my pocket PC died. I just couldn't get the same results trying to log my food later on a desktop PC, and it didn't allow me to make decisions on portion size at the time I was…

Get a smart phone and download the app. The data plan is expensive, but it's cheaper than smoking. Log things as you eat them, and use it to decide how much you will eat.

When you're close it may seem close enough, like you really won't notice the extra 10 lbs. Get a backpack and load it with 10 lbs of soup cans. Wear it all day. Then feel what it's like without it. That's what losing another 10 lbs will feel like.

Somebody check my math, but... 6 oz potato chips 930 calories. 3500 calories is one pound of fat. So you eat 6 oz of potato chips but can't gain more than 4 oz of fat. So far, so good. But those potato chips contain 894 mg sodium. 23 = molecular weight of sodium. 23 grams (23000 mg) is one mole. So 894 mg 0.039 moles…

I have lost 22 lbs since the end of October. I weigh myself every day. But I DON'T do it to see if my diet is working. I KNOW my diet will work. I approach this as a scientist. I have food scales at home and work and weigh everything that isn't pre-packaged. I know how many calories it takes to fill me up so I can't eat…

By definition, crack isn't moderation. It's free base cocaine straight into the circulation. Cocaine itself is a legal (though highly controlled) drug. If your kid needs stitches and they dab on a medicine to numb it a little before they inject the novocaine, there is probably some cocaine in that topical concoction. But…

MFP is incredibly easy, but I use an iPhone. I bop around my kitchen barcode-scanning the food in the recipe. It's extremely easy. I really only have to manually add fresh produce and things like that that aren't barcoded.

Don't get too nostalgic about how nutritious food was in the olden days. People understood nothing about nutrition and vitamins. There's no scientific way to compare the nutritional value of the food then and now, when people had nutritional diseases then because they didn't understand/have access to the healthy fresh…

Before you delete your cookies, remember that they are what keep you logged in when you move from page to page on a website, and what keeps track of what is in your "shopping cart" until you check out. That information is stored on your computer, not the server hosting the website, and cookies are how the information is…

As far as coupons, compliments work, too, sometime. The building next to my job sold their "air rights" and so there's a billboard on top of their building they have no control over. When I started working there, it was one month cigarette ads, next month liquor ads, back and forth. It didn't do much for the neighborhood.…

I've got NoScript for safety, so I only see ads that don't use javascript. MFP doesn't seem to run too many of those. I allow javascript for MFP, but not for every random third-party that might show up on the page. I don't have any objection to them making money from ads, but if they insist on using animated ads with third…

I'm not sure what you're saying. Is it a 12 oz box? Was there less than 340 g in the box? If you're measuring cups, it's very inaccurate. Dry pasta doesn't pack well. Cooked pasta will have wildly different weights depending on whether it's al dente or mushy.