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For me, the week BEFORE is infinitely worse than Shark Week itself lol. I'm SO hungry and SO pissed off and touchy. I find pushing myself through intense workouts really helps and I permit myself to eat at TDEE which also helps. Once AF actually starts I'm actually relieved because the voracious appetite and *****itude…

I'm super hungry when I wake up but somehow eating breakfast doesn't help, I just go on being hungry if not hungrier within an hour of eating. I ended up going well over goal every day because I was still starving come lunch time no matter what but having eaten breakfast I had fewer calories to work with. Now I force…

I can't get past the ****ty writing lol

If I had it to do all over again I wouldn't have married him in the first place, at the very least I wish I'd kept my maiden name and given the kids my maiden name = 100% problem solved.

I kept his last name ONLY because it was also the kids' last name. And if I ever remarry I will hyphenate it because I will NOT not share a common last name with my children. Any man who can't deal with that couldn't deal with a host of other aspects of being with me so he can just keep walking.

Short answer: absolutely positively YES. The long answer seems to get Dr's, PA's all huffy because they will swear there is no possible connection between Mirena and weight because Mirena is designed to only act locally, not systemically, so any weight you gain or fail to lose is either a result of your diet/exercise or…

I freakin love cilantro but only shop once a week, I'd love to find a way to keep it from getting wilty so I can enjoy it all week

I'm totally trying this out tomorrow. I eat breakfast because I feel like I have to but it triggers extreme hunger an hour or so later, and no, I'm not eating Cheerios and OJ to trigger it, I eat steel cut oats and a protein shake and an hour later I'm voracious. Tomorrow I'm ::GASP!!:: skipping breakfast and postponing my…

I'm resurrecting this thread simply because reading it is saving me tonight. I srsly thought I was some PMS freak, I was almost in tears earlier. Now I'm still angry but less lonely. I heard evening primrose oil helps, as does borage oil. Totally going out to hunt some down tomorrow. I hate PMS, it's a 7 day unrelenting,…

In my case I have my macros set 45 carbs, 30 protein, 25 fat and I stick pretty close to that. Still hungry all the time tho. I've experienced heartburn before and this isn't it. This is full-on hunger. It's annoying as hell and freaks me out. I think I need more sleep because I don't know what else it could be.

Yeah mine was an eye opener for me too, lol. I had been going by MFP's numbers and it turns MFP was overestimating my caloric burns. Oops. :grumble:

No advice but I'm kind of wondering about the endless hunger thing myself....

Pffft not me. I went from working out 2+ hrs/day to an hour or less once I found EM2LM because I wanted to reign it into the realm of 'sustainable'. My TDEE avoiding to my Fitbit is 1933 and God help me it took everything I had to keep my eating under 3000 cal/day once I started eating more lol. My appetite could care less…

This is EXACTLY what I have to do to keep from bingeing. For 10 days before TOM I won't even allow myself into a grocery store. Yeah that takes some careful planning but it keeps me from shopping in a vulnerable state and coming home with crap I don't need and will only binge on. I can't eat what isn't here and I won't…

My God I should hope I don't have to eat according to that calculation because at most it gives me 1380/day. Pretty sure there's no way in hell I can eat that little and still function. NET maybe, but never just eat that much total. Never, ever, ever. :P ETA: even in my VLCD days I ate around 15/1600 cal/day I just worked…

What a great thread, thanks OP! I sweat insane amounts when I run, cross train, anything really, like rivulets running off me everywhere. I hate it and why I sweat more NOW than I ever did when I started out all fat and out of shape is beyond me, but this just gave me some great ideas!

^^^ YES!!! lol

I'm right there with you, 15% cut from TDEE, starving all. the. time. I'm trying to teach myself to just be okay with the hunger. It won't kill me, eventually my body will accept that we aren't eating at TDEE anymore although when I ate at TDEE I was STILL starving. Its like the more I eat, the hungrier I get over time. So…

First, what a remarkably mature thought process for a 19 year old! I was absolutely terrible at long term planning at your age. Second, as someone who also lost enough weight to have loose belly skin, mine is slowly, slowly shrinking back and I'm 35 so as young as your are it's quite likely yours will, too. Maybe maintain…

I workout at least 60 min/day six days/week which put me on the high end of moderate if not strenuous, but when I ate according to those modifiers I gained like crazy. Got a Fitbit and realized I should have stuck with sedentary. I do eat some of my exercise calories back. I hate those modifiers, they're worthless. But…

I know of a place here locally that does Bod Pod analysis, is DEXA more accurate? Either way it's a lot of money for me so I might as well get the most bang for my buck.

For me craving a food is like having a song stuck in my head, it won't go away until I indulge it. So I just work it in. I've been on a cottage cheese and pineapple kick lately. I tried fat free cottage cheese, gag. I tried low fat cottage cheese, meh. Nothing but 4% large curd cottage cheese would suffice. So I just went…

Yes, totally, lest you should harbor any delusions as to how inactive you really are, Fitbit will throw you a nice pie chart in the face. People kept telling me 'oh you work out anywhere from 60-90 min/day six days/week you need to be using your TDEE at strenuous level, even moderate is too low', wear a Fitbit for a week,…

Yup, she's right. Sorry.

Basically yep that's what I'm doing, I just really like to eat so no matter what I set my goal to I always seem to overshoot it by at least 300. When I was on 1200 cal I almost always ate closer to 1500-1600 and then I'd workout until my nets were under 900. I lost weight like crazy and never stopped. Nearly went bald tho.…

Yes, I log my workout calories and yes that means I'm eating around TDEE. I'm trying to cut a bit now, so I'm trying to not eat back ALL my exercise calories now. Generally I'm trying to keep my TOTAL FOOD just under TDEE and my NET just over BMR. Does that make sense?

^^^ Pretty much exactly how I did it. My average daily exercise burn is 400 and my average TDEE is 1900, hence my 1500 goal. (btw I was wrong, my workout TDEE's are around 1900 occasionally I'll see a 2100, and my rest days are 1500-1600 but I only have 1 actual rest day/week). It just feels better doing it this way, I…

I do! I tried not doing it, only claiming 1 calorie per workout but I got so bored and unmotivated. My TDEE is between 1700 on rest days and 1900 on workout days. I set my ”goal” to 1500 (cut) and eat back exercise calories AT LEAST until my net is above 1200 (1190 BMR). Most days I'm eating 1700-2000 cal total.

I don't know if it helped the OP, but I LOVED this. I already boxed up all our dinner plates so now I eat off a dessert plate and even that seems almost too big, I might try to find saucers. And I haven't checked out the website yet but it sounds perfect for me right now. Thanks! :)

My fat likes to hang out on my rear lol, but I had lost a ton of it before joining EM2LM and he was nursing the same then as he is now so I can't blame that for it. It's all food. :P