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I've been through two rounds of logging my food religiously. While logging my food, I lost 20 lb the first time and 10 lb the second. I could stand to lose another 15 to 30 lb, but I'm ok if I stay where I'm at. In between the first two rounds I simply maintained; no weight lost or gained. After the last round over the…

Recording my food was an eye opener for me too. I had no idea that the things I used to eat all the time were that full of sugar.

When my daughter was in pre-school she had a teacher who was obese. She never heard comments about weight at home about her or anybody else. We talked about some food being 'junky' because it didn't have anything the body needed to stay healthy, and we talked about other foods being 'real' food because it helped the body…

You might check out Overeaters Anonymous if you think you do have a food addiction. For myself I have found that certain situations and settings trigger overeating. One example is the candy dish at work. If I eat anything from it, I am done. There is no such thing as eating just one piece of candy from that candy dish.…

I had to increase the fat content as well as the protein content of my breakfasts to keep from getting hungry and shaky before lunch. It doesn't take a lot of fat for me; a couple pieces of bacon OR a piece of sausage OR a small handful of almonds, etc, but if I cut back too much on the fat, it's a problem.

Don't know what the other person did, but I can tell you what I did and why. After I had lost about 30 lb with another 35 lb to lose, I re-entered the weight I wanted to be so MFP would give me the calories to maintain my target weight, not the calories to lose weight at my current weight. I was concerned because the…

You're my hero!

Scott, I wish they had 'like' buttons on MFP forums. Your post most definitely deserves one!

Anything in the candy dish at work. The same candy from the vending machine is not a problem; it is self-limiting on how much I will eat. But the candy dish? Ugh, I will eat it all.

I started with MFP the Monday before Thanksgiving. What on earth was I thinking??? Well, it worked out very well. I ate holiday meals, some holiday treats, and lost about 15 pounds by mid January. Yes, I did eat well over my recommended calories on Thanksgiving day, Christmas day and on New Years, and there were a few…

Beets and okra and eggplant.

^ this

There was a thread in the success stories yesterday where the woman was 2 lb heavier in the after picture, but it looked like she had lost weight. It the heavier picture, her body was buffed and toned and her stomach was flat. It was a good illustration of why the scale is not always the best measure of success. From my…

I do worry about fructose, but not the fructose I get from a piece of fruit. I worry about the fructose that comes in the form of sucrose (table sugar which is one molecule of fructose and one molecule of glucose) and high fructose corn syrup. See the information from Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in…

This matches what I've learned fairly closely except I have not gotten to the ones about exercise. I will have to check that out.

Back when I had a menstrual cycle, I used to take 1000 mg calcium daily in the form of Tums because I heard that calcium helped regulate cramps and mood swings associated with a woman's menstrual cycle. It worked for me. I would be curious to know if it helps with the extra weight. Since I am postmenopausal, I have no way…

How much sugar is recommended seems to depends on who you ask. Here is a sampling: 20g per day for a woman http://www.rodale.com/recommended-sugar-intake "Robert Lustig, who is largely concerned about what too much fructose does to us, thinks that 50 grams of sugar (sucrose or HFCS) is a reasonable Upper Limit for most…

My current favorite breakfast is about 1/2 cup of fresh blackberries mixed with 1/2 cup of plain yogurt and 1/4 cup almonds. Other fruits and nuts work just as well, but blackberries and almonds are what I have at today.

I never intentionally lie on my food diary. I am human and I'm sure I forget to log some foods on occasion, especially if I log all my food at the end of a busy day. If an item is not in the database, I go with the closest thing I can find that is in the database. That might not be perfectly accurate either. I do try to…

I was a skinny kid and I was never overweight until my first pregnancy. I gained 60 pounds with each pregnancy. After the first pregnancy, I settled out about 10 lb heavier than before, and after the second I settled out about where I had been after the first pregnancy. I do have a sweet tooth and my eating habits were not…

At some restaurants I ask the server to bring the box to take home left overs at the same time they bring the meal. I immediately put half in the to-go box, and eat the other half. It keeps me from nibbling after I am full. It helps the most at sit-down restaurants where the portions tend to be too large.

My first inclination is to think something along the lines of, "Oh goody! Time for chocolate!" Then sense kicks in. If I'm not hungry, I let it go and don't worry about it. If I'm not hungry, there is no reason to eat. Your situation might be different than mine. I am trying to at least maintain what I have lost or…

My rule for myself is that I can eat absolutely anything and everything regardless of calories as long as I record ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING I eat. And I do mean I record ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING that I eat, or at least I try very hard to do that. In some cases I approximate what I ate if what is in the database does not exactly…

I actually found the study I was looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment Another related link: http://www.stress-free-weight-loss.com/

Part of the problem in finding the research related to the effects of eating too little aside from weight loss seems to be that much of the research was done long before the internet. I remember watching a PBS show in the 1970's about research that was done either in the military or in a prison where they were looking into…

I-80 does very little to dispel that misconception since it goes across what must be the flattest part of Nebraska past a lot of corn fields. That is the route most people travel.

Are there plans for you to go to physical therapy as part of your recovery? A physical therapist could make sound recommendations.

Liver.

Chocolate and MMORPG's. If I exercised for even 5 minutes for every hour I play World of Warcraft and Star Wars each week, I would be in great physical condition.

I was always hungry until I changed I increased both the fat and protein that I eat, and I reduced the carbs (especially white sugar, corn syrup and white flour) to keep my calories at the MFP recommendations.