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It sounds like perhaps constipation/water retention (or having lost water weight in the first place, and then gaining it back and thinking you've gained fat, when actually you have not*). I really would not have thought that on 1200 (and below) you'd gain weight, even if the scale seems to indicate you are for a time.…

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Clean foods being a necessity for weight-loss or certain types of food being absolute no-no's. Spot reduction and 'toning'

Favourite food that I eat regularly: I'd go with prawns/shrimp (or really any crustacean) or tomato <3 Favourite 'treat' food: Chinese takeout or cinema nachos (I eat these very infrequently now, on special occasions I can still make space for them) Food I've had to completely give up: I don't believe any food needs to be…

I'm losing weight again and only half way or so there for now but I did lose more than half my body weight in the past. Regularly but especially when I was at the beginning of the process and morbidly obese, the task seemed gargantuan, the time seemed to drag on to eternity, progress was so slow - but somewhere central in…

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I'm not sure if the gym is a new thing or something you were doing before you started using MFP, but starting to exercise will certainly stimulate the appetite. Lowering calories from where they were before does, naturally but even the act of counting them and thus thinking about food more stimulates the appetite for me.…

Also that I have ptsd. Or that looking at art or creating art is one of my favourite things to do and that I can lose many happy hours to it.

One couldn't know just from my appearance that I once lost 122 lbs. That I grew up in Belgium, speak fluent french, am a synesthete and can do handstands.

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Not very much to go on, but possibly ;)

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Sarah

I'm 5'2 and about 140 pounds and I'm trying to do this right now so in on this. I've made that jump in the past and it took me 3.5ish months, which was too fast, really. Left my metabolism very slow and if I'd gone slower, I think my body fat percentage would have been lower by the end. I ate around 1200 calories, kept my…

General head shape/bone structure.

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Raspberry macaron

Gouda cheese: Yes Have you ever accidentally electrocuted yourself?

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Someone intense and possibly musical.

If the feelings of starvation are *severe* at that amount of calories, my urge would be to see a doctor. While it's probably just the drop in calories being taken hard it could possibly imply an issue with blood sugar/thyroid issues or any number of things and could be worth ruling such things out.

I understood it as hyperbole. Literal starvation is a terrible state. Having been anorexic in the past, I can understand people being sensitive about the distinction and wanting to argue that point. But starvation or not, it also makes me happy to see someone valuing their well-being enough to care about their hunger…

You are hungry. You want to gain weight. Win-win. Feeeeeed!

No - You will not gain weight if your net calories are below what you need to maintain. It sounds as though your net calories have been too low if you have been eating those calories and burning calories without eating them back, so it's possible that you might gain a very small amount back if you raise your net intake but…

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oops, more people posted while was typing. Cookie:Wouldn't support my career in the circus </3

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How tall are you? If you are tall, 200 lbs and as muscular as you say you are, I can believe 1600 might be a shock to the system. When I began eating 1600 calories at 220 lbs, I do remember being fairly hungry all the time. 1600 was a big jump from what I had been eating before - and it may have been too low to start with,…

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