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Yeah, no. Most specifically GF food is very high in calorie since they relace the fat/binders that are in glutened bread with a lot of sugar so the taste is closer. Most GF is higher in calorie than it's non-GF counterpart. If that were true, I wouldn't be trying to lose another 25 lbs...

I have celiac, no absolutely no gluten / wheat for me. I have some favorite GF flours (like bob's red mill, king arthur flour etc), but for the most part, I don't eat any type of bread - GF or not. I've never been a big bread eater anyways. There are GF donuts (they sell them at Whole Foods, for one), GF cereal (even fruit…

I log everything.

This is a no-brainer, IMO. If I buy the cheap stuff, I always get 2-3x the grease than if I buy the good stuff from the local butcher. Plus, the butcher's has better flavour.

You aren't eating enough to fuel your body properly, especially if you're logging everything. Up your intake to at least 1250, preferably TDEE - 20% (for the highest amount of healthy weight loss). http://iifym.com/tdee-calculator/

Fruits and veggies are naturally GF. A lot of salad dressing is GF. For GF-special stuff, I like King arthur Flour GF muffin mix, Annie's GF mac n cheese and any and all rice pasta.

I do. ;) I just have NO interest at all in weighing my food. None at all. And I really can't be the only one (according to some responses here, I'm not.)

Forget the thai part! Just rice pasta is so much tastier than wheat! They just seem to soak up the flavor more than anything with wheat.

Yep. The only thing I buy special for celiac is King Arthur Flour GF muffin mix. Other than that, except for checking labels/researching new foods before I buy, we tend towards naturally GF food. I don't eat out a lot, and prefer to cook my own food, so that makes it a lot easier.

Once a day. Early morning, just after I get up.

For carbs (the bread part, at least), try King Arthur flour GF muffin mix. It is seriously awesome. (I'm celiac, so no gluten/wheat for me). I mix in blueberries and two muffins (about 350 calories) make an awesome breakfast & keep me satiated until lunch.

I think your probably right. Your putting your body into the 'OMG she's not feeding me enough - gotta hang on to everything!' mode. My DH hit that when he was eating too few calories & exercising too much (not eating back the calories burned). When he started eating more, to properly fuel the body & still lose weight, it…

Personally, I think you're pushing yourself too much. I understand the feeling of NEEDING that weight off NOW, but it wasn't on in one day, and it won't come off in one day. I think you need to work yourself up to that much if doing that much makes you (or almost) makes you vomit. Cut back on some of it. Your body isn't…

I'm a bit older than you, and I started a bit lighter (at 190), but I think 1200 is too low. You are going to be starving. I know - that's where I started. With 1200. Til I got looking at what I was actually eating. Then I changed my calorie goal: I aim for 1300 and usually get anywhere from 1300-1450. I'm losing on…

I love baby spinach...drowned in blue cheese dressing. The spinach is filling when combined with fresh mushrooms, and the blue cheese dressing hides the flavour of any and all lettuce things I use. It's what I use as my bedtime snack. Low calories (for me, averages around 150) and keeps my stomach full until breakfast the…

This. Exactly. I weigh myself once a day, every morning around the same time. For the last 6 weeks, I've been writing it down on a calendar. There were a couple of weeks where my weight went up instead of down, and yet I was following my diet, exercising etc. So I input the numbers in a spreadsheet. And you know what I saw…

Giving in? I don't restrict what I eat, but I do limit it. If I restrict it, then I get horrible cravings & will totally binge out. If I just limit it (like actually eating a candy bar), I'm fine. I just make sure to count the calories and add it to my diary and I'm fine.