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Yes actually! I ate huge quantities of food, and especially loved pasta doused in olive oil and parmesan cheese. And yet I only gained about 10 pounds per year. I went from 140 to 170 in three years (at 5'7") but hell, I'm surprised I wasn't obese! My brother managed to go from normal to obese in about a year, and my dad…

While it's true that perhaps 40% of women (not the majority or all!) have used their period as an excuse (http://jezebel.com/5953440/almost-40-of-women-use-their-period-as-an-excuse-to-get-out-of-lame-things), there's no way for a stranger to know the actual medical status of any given women. Words like "PMS" are indeed…

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Like others have mentioned, I would buy a fitbit activity tracker and a fitbit scale (that will set you back maybe $250 depending) if I didn't already own them. I could blow probably the whole amount on a walking/treadmill desk -- I spend a lot of time at my computer, even though I don't usually work from home, and that…

Use it to make kugel: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/the-kugel-challenge/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 I had never had kugel before reading this recipe, and I never would have thought of it. But it's SO tasty and filling.

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Article about the obese guy who didn't eat for like a year, fyi: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/07/24/3549931.htm

You need to eat back your exercise calories. If you know you are working out in the evening, it looks like your workouts are at least 400 calories, so plan to eat those in advance.

Just because I hadn't seen it specifically mentioned, binging with insatiable hunger is a side effect of going back to normal eating after long term starvation, and can continue for several months but will eventually even itself out. If you've only recently started eating enough calories, it may just be a waiting game.

It's not that I'm shy, it's just that exactly what I eat every day seems a bit weird for strangers on the internet to be reading about. If they're MFP friends, then we are in a journey together and it feels more like talking to a Weight Watchers group about your food if they're reading your diary. But if some random person…

I'm not really sure what a clean eater is, but I guess I have an idea of what I'd consider a good clean meal, and I do try and eat plenty of those. To me it would be: nutritious, balanced in macronutrients, fresh, and digestion friendly. It probably wouldn't be fried or buttered, but that's the Californian in me talking :)…

You are correct, this is a sign of malnutrition and starvation. Rescue workers have to force patients with these conditions to consume enough food until their hunger returns. So in the short term force yourself to eat more, and in the long term, eat way more than 1200 -- everyone else is spot on with their observation that…

I was forced to give it up for a month until I bought some Splenda after my international move. I didn't notice any positive effects, still craved biscuits and chocolate and ate more of those foods to compensate for the missing artificially sweetened foods. I went right back to my artificial ways. But I do notice that when…

I'm 27 years old, 5'7", 170 at my highest weight, 130 at my lowest, and ~144 this morning. My goal is 120 -- I think I'm a small framed person because my wrist/ankles/waist are tiny, but I do have really wide set hips that just will not let go of the weight! At 160-170 I'm a C, at 140-160 I'm a B, and when I got down to…

Food poisoning is only suitable for those looking to lose small amounts of weight, and once finished, dieters inevitably return to their non-vomiting ways and gain it all back. Might I recommend instead Tuberculosis, a solid lifestyle change. :wink:

I think some trial and error might be in order here. As I understand it, you shave off 100 calories from the days you workout (perhaps to compensate for the possibility of overestimating your calorie burn?). Maybe you are actually underestimating your calorie burn, in which case I would try adding an extra 200 calories (so…

I don't even have a witty comeback here. This is really just shockingly offensive.

There have been actual, arguably unethical, studies done on what the maximum weight loss per week is that you expect to see in total starvation. I seem to recall it's something like 2.5 pounds per week, and don't think for a minute that means 2.5 pounds of fat. The Minnesota Starvation Experiment is one such study. I think…

Sorry to hear you're feeling unmotivated -- it happens to the best of us! I can relate because I don't know anyone else who is on a weight loss journey, and my partner whom I live with is one of those people who is shockingly thin, can eat anything, and loves to populate the place with biscuits! I don't know about you, but…

I've just moved to the UK and I've just moved to MFP from LoseIt so I'm doubly new! I gained some weight moving here (my recent introductions to the Full English Breakfast and Sunday Roast may have played a role...) and now looking to learn to eat healthy in a new place with new foods! I'd previously lost 40 pounds with…

I've just moved to the UK from the US and have been desperately searching for carton egg whites to no avail! Would really appreciate if anybody can recommend where to get them :)

I want to "let go" of the supermodel ideal by getting to my minimum possible healthy weight. I know I won't look like a supermodel even at that weight, but then once I see it, I can say with absolute certainty to myself "in order to look like a supermodel, I'd have to start dying basically!" I mean I know intuitively that…

2 months. It's probably a bit quick of a rate for somebody who was only 10lb overweight, really at the upper end of what is healthy. My goal was 2lb per week so I logged a 1000 deficit every day, along with a running weekly deficit that added up to an average 2000 extra (this is all including exercise, not just food…

AH! I am so confused by this! I have these super-tiny hands and wrists and apparently elbows too that all put me at "small frame" if I use a calculator (seriously, I'm 5'7" and have hands the size of my 5' tall friends). I know this isn't right. It's just up to the elbows that I'm small, I swear! I wonder if there's a…

There have been some designer bits here and there that were always just that little bit spendy that I never felt like it was okay to get them for any regular reason... maybe like once a year for a birthday treat or something! I keep a list of them around as I see them. When I started on my weight loss, I took a couple off…