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You might want to set your expectations differently, focus on eating healthy and healing foods and maintaining your weight until you are mostly healed. Your body needs nutrients to build the tissue and recover from the surgery.

I agree, and I also believe the OP didn't intend to be rude. Her post is one of the few I have read here that made me speechless with disbelief.

Larry, if your activity level is set to sedentary, you might (or might not) want to log these walks. If it is set to anything but sedentary, then things like this are already figured into your daily totals.

One trick is to use one whole egg, and one egg white. You get nearly all the protein and about half the fat of two whole eggs. My dog loves it when I do this, she gets the extra raw yolk with her breakfast. ;-)

There is hope for both of you, I used to hate water too, now I only drink water (well, after my one cup of coffee in the morning, it is all water, all day), and I enjoy it!

The 2 ounces is pre-cooking weight, about a cup cooked is a serving.

It depends on your settings. If you are set to sedentary, then you could add them. My guess in that your activity level is setbto something more active, so these things are factored into you base calorie amount.

Yes, at least initially.

Yes, this site gives most people everything they need to lose significant amounts of weight.

Welcome! Keep an open mind on the slim fast part. Learning healthy eating habits is important so that you can keep the weight off once you lose it. Getting a jumpstart with the slim fast will be good practice, but long term it doesn't let you learn anything.

Accountability. I have to show up, I have to work my hardest, etc.

First of all, log EVERYTHING. Make your diary private if you want to, but be honest with yourself. You aren't here for the rest of us, you are here for YOU. Not logging the chocolate does you no good at all. Second, you sound so angry with yourself. What do you need to do to accept yourself the way you are, and cut…

You could use this as an educational tool for your daughter, without restricting her calories. Help her learn what getting enough protein feels like, what a balanced diet for the day looks like, etc. Have her compare nutritional information from "healthy eating" days to the not-so-healthy days, etc. Make a game of it.…

P.S. I find nothing wrong with someone offering ONCE. That puts the decision, and the control, with me. What drives me NUTS is when someone sits down with a piece of something and says "you're on a diet, you can't have this".

I find that a sweet smile with a "No thank you, I didn't get this girlish figure eating those things!" diffuses the situation... especially since I DID get my not-so-girlish figure by doing just that, eating things that aren't good for me!

Just chiming in to say it wasn't a dumb question.

I've lost over 90 lbs, and have only changed one cup size (and of course the band size). I think it is possible to lose 30 lbs and end up with the same breast size.

Agree that she needs to be a strong advocate for herself with the doc to make sure unnecessary meds are not prescribed. The symptoms she describes could be many things, some of which she might want to get treated for immediately (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, etc.) Since she has been working with a doctor, these…

This is good advice, but may be a little more conservative than you need to be. If you reduce your calories to 1750, and after a few days realize that you are doing OK at that level (feeling pretty normal, not feeling overly hungry in between meals, etc.) then reduce it to the next level. Bottom line, listen to your body.…

Have you talked to your doctor about this?

Did the nutritionist tell you how many pounds per week you could expect to lose at the calorie level she gave? The difference could be simply in the speed at which you attain your goal. That said, faster is not always better...

Tiny sips of water spaced out over time. You need to get fluid in, and it sounds like you have to sneak it past your body right now. Get rest, when you can tolerate more water, make sure you get a good healthy quantity of it in. After that, take two aspirin and call us in the morning. ;-)

Nope. You might not be consuming enough quality calories from "whole" foods. Are you eating a lot of processed foods? Have you cut your calories back drastically all at once?

A vast majority of the time, I eat wholesome, healthy foods. When I want something that doesn't fit that criteria, I plan for it and have some. I have found that the longer I eat mostly the wholesome stuff, the less tasty the non-wholesome stuff is when I eat it. Makes it really easy to avoid it more and more as time goes…

I took a look at your food diary, look at the sodium level for dinner last night, it is seriously out of line with the rest of your day. My guess is that your body is trying to process that sodium spike. Drink lots of water and the taste should go away in a day or so.

I believe that it is fine to cut yourself slack for good reasons, as long as you get right back on track ASAP. If your reason was that you were just tired, I'd consider that more of an excuse than a reason if you didn't work out at all, but pain that only occurs once a month is a valid reason for a light workout, or…

That is a HUGE victory! Congratulations!

I've done a combination of having stuff altered (costs about $10 to have waist taken in on a pair of jeans) and buying from Lands' End. If you wait for their special, super-duper, free shipping plus big bucks off type sales, you can get a nice quality pair of jeans that fits well for about $21. I don't have the time,…

I'm not familiar with the Suunto M5, but I have the Suunto T4 and couldn't be more thrilled with it. The chest strap is comfortable, and the watch is reasonably intuitive. It keeps track of calories burned, workout time, current heart rate, heart rate range, and has functionality I haven't even tapped into yet (Coach,…

That is a tough one, one that is probably more than you can handle on your own. Have you tried going to AA meetings, or finding some support locally to help you? Getting alcohol out of your life isn't impossible, in fact, I am sure you can do it. It will take a LOT of work!