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Hi and welcome. Just curious - your name is Kim and your user name is yvonne I am? Congrats on the big loss.

Welcome. Good luck on your weight loss journey. Everyone here is ready to help.

Complex carbs should last long enough to give you energy throughout your work out. Your body burns what was digested first, then glycogen (energy molecule stored in muscle tissue), then body fat. Fat is broken down by hydrolysis (water breaking the molecule). Make sure you are drinking enough water, because you are losing…

You always need to be honest with yourself. There is no sense not recording food or drinks that you consume. I love diet Mountain Dew. I work overnight and my 2 diet dews do a great job of keeping me alert in the hospital (and I need to be!)

If their total lean body mass is the same, then yes, they will have the same basal metabolic rate. Think about it. While sleeping, your body makes cholesterol, hormones, proteins, etc. It makes the same amount of these regardless of how much extra fat you carry around. It does make sense. When you lose 100 pounds or what…

I eat 800 to 1000 per day and lose steadily. There's some good material online (written by peer reviewed nutritionists) who explain away the myth of starvation mode. If you don't eat, your body will burn fat. Eating more will not make you lose more weight. Eating more often could, in theory, keep your metabolism active…

From "The Body Fat Guide" - But, the actual amount of calories burned by a pound of resting muscle in a day is not nearly as much as 50 calories, unless you include the activity that muscle performs. To determine how many calories a person burns at rest, scientists calculate a person’s Resting Metabolic Rate, which is…

To clear up confusion on what I was trying to say: Muscle weighs more than fat. Muscle burns calories while you are sitting on your butt. Fat does not burn calories when not active. When you plug your weight into an exercise online at various websites, the calories burned are for a normal (non-obese) individual. Rather…

I have a Conair "Thinner" digital scale. It always weights me the same, except it is 5 pounds lighter than the doctor's scale. I want a new one but my husband said that all scales have problems. I don't care about extra features. I just want something that is accurate. Money is not an object, as long as the scale is…

Bigger belly on the picture on the right side of the screen.

I'm a pharmacist. The med blocks intestinal absorption of fats. If they don't get absorbed they only go one place - out. Your stool will have a lot more fat in it. This is called a side effect of the med, but it is not really. That is the intention. It's no more harmful than diabetes meds that block carbohydrate absorption…

I love the Glory brand of canned veggies. I don't eat a lot of canned food, but when I do I choose Glory.

Just an addendum. There's nothing wrong with water loss. Your fat cells contain a lot of water. They shrink and water loss is the result. This gives you a nice loss of inches. Clothes should fit better real soon. Good Luck.

You have a lot of water loss right away. On my last stint of 800 calories per day, I lost 20 the first month and averaged 10 pounds a months after that. This through a doctor's office. Very low calorie diets need monitoring.

Also, what you need to realize is that calorie calculators are based on muscle weight, not fat weight. For best results, enter the weight that you should be at when finding your basal rate. Muscle burns much more calories just sitting there. Fat burns zero just sitting there. No calculator can be accurate that is based on…

I'm not sure which one I have. I bought it many years ago when the clear digital scales first came out. It cost $100 back then, but I was paying for style. Maybe it's time for a new scale. I'll ask my hubby about it this weekend.

Lap band is better than a full by pass. I've seen too many patients in the ICU who have lost bowel function. When it gets "bypassed" it no longer works. When you need to get it working again, too bad. I've seen necrosis of tissue. I've seen death. These are all 20 years or so post surgery. Maybe they have improved on the…

According to the ADA, no one needs more than 4 ounces of proteins per day. So, 3 ounces in each meal is a little high. Other than that, don't worry about it.

Hi, I just started a week ago. I like having the iPhone app so I can log my food right when I eat. The people here are nice, too.

I have a digital scale. Always weighs about 5 pounds too light. I round my weight up or down to the nearest pound, then add 5 pounds. I should just buy a good scale and stop doing that. LOL.

That's not a problem. For a 5'2" frame you don't need to eat 1,200 calories per day. Those are round numbers. If you are smaller than average you don't need to eat that. My doctor and another nutritionist said that I only needed 800 calories per day. I'm also 5'2" and I'm eating about 900 a day right now. Before changing…

I'm a pharmacist. You need the bacteria that is in your intestines. If you decided to "cleanse", buy some probiotics at the drug store to put the bacteria back in. We have a symbiotic relationship with bacteria. We need them for digestion. If you choose to kill them, you need to put them back.

It takes about 3 days. I eat 800 to 100 calories per day. But, I'm a night pharmacist and never leave my desk for my 9.5 hour shift. My daily commute is 3 hours. I sleep for 8 hours. No time for exercise. Not much time for eating, either. LOL. In 3 days, I'll be off for 7 days and that will be tougher. I think that we tend…

I just started a week ago. I'm 53 and lost 70 pounds a couple of years ago. I put 60 of it back on, so here I am. At least I already know what works - reducing my caloric intake. Last go round, I was on 800 per day. I've upped that to 900 to 1000. So far, 13 pounds are gone in the first week. I'm a night pharmacist and…