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If you are a migaineur, you will get migraines from any of a number of triggers. If you can learn what your triggers are, you can reduce the number of migraines. It helps to keep a headache diary of when you have headaches, what you ate, what you did,etc. For me, the triggers were caffeine/theobromine withdrawal (it took…

Stretch marks are pink when they are new, then become light with time. You can't do much about them, since they are basically scar tissue, but the normal skin will tone up with time.

Muscle weighs more than fat. The number on the scale is meaningless if you're building muscle at the same time you're losing fat. Your waist circumference is the best indicator of how your diet is going.

19 days isn't that long. You may not be seeing weight loss because it is lost in the usual daily fluid shifts. Also, if you are exercising like that, you should be building muscle. Muscle weighs more than the fat you are losing, but looks much better. It's all good. Follow your waist circumference. Make sure you are using…

If you want to keep up with folks drinking all evening without going over your calories, consider ordering Virgin Marys ( Bloody Mary without the vodka). 34 calories per 4 oz serving, full of vitamins, though also full of salt. You can drink those all night.

Look at how you feel. If you feel like crap, you're not going to stick with it. If all you're focused on is reaching a particular weight as fast as possible, you're going to regain once you "go off your diet." If you feel good at 1200 and can picture yourself eating that way the rest of your life, then maybe it's right for…

Try to get your coworkers on MFP! If they're aware of the calories, it will be easier to have them split a meal with you. Eating the same low calorie choice every day will get old. You can also bring tupperware and put half aside before you start eating, then make a second meal out of it. Unbattered meat/poultry/fish is…

I'm eating a lot less starch to stay within my limits. It's just hard to make my numbers and include everything I'd like. So I still eat it, but less often. And if it's something I don't want without smearing it with butter or melting cheese over it, then I'm going to eat it even less. It's often not the carbs but the…

I tried the rice cooker idea, and it boiled over very badly. It was a huge mess. Same with microwaving. I may try the turn it off and let it soak method, like bulgur. That sounds promising.

I'm not a snack during the movies kind of person (I can't hear the dialog), but eating during a movie is the whole point of going to a movie for my husband. If you're the same way, you'll have to work it into your routine so it's something you can live with. Get to know the calories of everything you like to get, so at…

Make sure your scale is on a firm level surface and that you are standing straight with your weight evenly distributed. You can see how much the readout varies if you rock side to side, so you can imagine how easy it is for it to vary 3 pounds.

I would find some way to maintain muscle strength even if you don't do cardio -- do leg lifts, arm curls, whatever you can do. You'll be a lot dizzier standing up if you let your legs get too flabby.

If you figure out something, your family may consider branding and marketing it -- Alicja's Slim and Healthy Menu, or whatever. Have a special menu with measured portions and calories of delicious healthy foods. It could be very good for business if you could draw in regular customers who knew they could enjoy a meal there…

Two weeks is not enough time to draw conclusions. Your weight goes up and down by several pounds every DAY -- with only two weeks, you don't know where you are in that up and down zigzag when you weigh yourself each time. It takes over a month to see a trend. The three pounds you lost at the beginning is water. Real weight…

It depends how old you are. Young skin tends to go back to shape more easily. Pregnancy leaves some stretch marks and a few wrinkles, but most people go back mostly to their original size. If your skin is so heavy it's pulling itself down under its own weight, you may want some supportive garment to counteract that. Anyone…

You can't gain that much with an occasional splurge. As long as your daily habits are healthy and within your goal, you'll keep drifting back down to goal. You have to get away from the mindset that a splurge puts you "off your diet" and that you've done something hard to repair. You have to overeat by 3500 calories above…

Unless you bring your old and new scales to your doctor's office and weigh yourself on all of them at the same time, comparisons may be meaningless. Your weight goes up and down during the day due to what you eat and drink, \ what times you use the toilet, and what time of month it is.

The most effective weight loss herbs are cocaine and nicotine. I wouldn't recommend either. Just because it's herbal, doesn't mean it's safe.

When you waitress, you're on your feet all day, right? Then maybe you go out Saturday night and go to bed late? You may not have your feet up in bed long enough to mobilize the fluid that accumulated there while you were standing all day.

I'm small. After pregnancy and breastfeeding, never being more than a B cup, my breasts shrank but my rib cage didn't, and it left me a very hard-to-find 38AA. I hate not being able to wear a lot of v-neck clothes. But generally, smaller is more convenient. It's nice to run without worrying about how supportive my bra is.…

There's no way it would hold up in court anyway. The whole purpose is to intimidate people into submission when they don't have the resources to fight back. It's like creating a whole new group of trolls to join the ones trying to extort money over old patents and the ones trying to do "reputation repair."

If I'm running, every time I take a step, my leg is launching my entire body weight a few inches into the air. If I put a slope on the treadmill, I have to lift my body during the pass-through as well. It may be cardio, but at least some muscle groups are lifting, too. (And when I use the slope, I can feel which ones are…

For every 1 lb/week weight loss, you must eat 500 calories a day less than your current requirement. So at 2 lbs a week, any calories requirements under 2200 will come out as 1200 calories goal (MFP won't let you go below that). Unless there's some urgent medical issue, 2 lbs a week is pretty aggressive. I agree that 1 lb…

If you don't like what you're eating, it seems like it's not the diet for you. Not everyone has to do things the same way. You have to chose a method you are willing to stick with long term.

It must feel like walking on the moon, to have so much less gravity weighing you down! You look great. Even if you had opted for surgery, they wouldn't have promised this much weight loss.

Look at the weight limit on that trampoline. 38 inches is a little wider than a yardstick -- one person jumping up and down in one place. It's probably meant for very small people.

I contacted mine yesterday. I noticed that despite all the publicity, not one had any information about the bills on their websites. I get the sense they are working for the lobbyists and hoping their constituents won't notice.

Unless there is some urgent reason you have to lose a particular amount of weight by a deadline, there's no harm to easing into things. Just log what you eat to start. without trying to lower your intake, then gradually ratchet down your daily goal. 1200 seems pretty low for a 19 year old, and you aren't that far above…

"food that used to work for you?" If you're planning on eating differently during the diet that you would by choice, you're not going to achieve any permanent results. You have to be able to lose weight by eating food you consider your normal diet. You will have to adjust how much and how often. If you can't imagine living…

The 1200 calories is an arbitrary number chosen for safety. Below that, it is difficult to get all the vitamins, minerals, and protein you need for minimal health. But logic should tell you that starvation mode for a 6'4" man and a 5'1" woman will be at different calorie levels. And if you don't eat sufficient nourishment,…