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Batch cooking, pre-planning, bringing your own food and learning that just because food is free doesn't mean you should eat it.

I've never understood the attraction to juicing. To me, it's expensive, messy, and boring. Also, it's usually solitary. I much prefer steamed or roasted veggies properly seasoned and eaten at a meal in the company of others. I've never thought that blending up your food and drinking it sounded unappetizing.

In addition to the other excellent advice described above, I would add that you should find some other things in life that give you great joy. Food isn't the only joyful thing in the world. As for food, I did not give up any food that I enjoyed. I just ate smaller portions of them and filled up on more veggies and fruit. I…

I try to avoid consuming unknown substances, especially those compounded in a processing plant. Several studies have indicated that many of the supplements people buy are adulterated by quite a few substances that aren't listed on the label. Much better to eat some plants and count calories.

Eat at your calorie goal. Enjoy a wide variety of foods to ensure total nutrition. And if 5 oranges fits into that, enjoy! I eat a lot of clementines in the winter and really love them.

GMO foods are perfectly safe. And they provide needed nutrition for much of the planet. Yay for science.

I drink practically no water. I do drink coffee, tea, lemonade, an occasional Coke Zero. I've been at my goal weight for over three years and have no health issues. All fine. Let thirst be your guide and enjoy a wide variety of beverages within your calorie level.

I love grapefruit. It is one of the hundreds of foods I eat within my calorie level. No magic. Beware of any diet that you would be sick of after a couple of days. That would certainly include this.

I love ham salad! But I frequently buy small quantities of ham and use sandwich thins and mustard to make a low calorie snack.

No. Make a plan for how you plan to eat for the rest of your life. 28 days of anything is not going to work.

Making small, sustainable changes can be much more effective in the long run than trying to completely overhaul your nutrition/exercise patterns. Make a list of all of the actions you hope to change and then develop a plan. Too busy to cook every day? Batch cook on the weekend. Avoid the gym because of work and family?…

This is what Webmed has to say about a raw food diet (besides being expensive and time-consuming) A raw food diet is low in calories, high in fiber, and based on primarily healthy whole-plant foods, so eating this way will lead to weight loss. But the diet is a nutritionally inadequate and highly restrictive plan that will…

I do my best to avoid group activities when I have an active cold. I try to do my fellow humans a favor by not passing along viruses.

Why do they have to be low in fat?

OP is listed as a female. But it's still too few calories.

I am also a fan of batch cooking. I cook and freeze single serve portions of meals. I have a special hand knitted and felted bag. . . every morning I pack it with baggie of granola, microwaved cinnamon apple slices, 2 slices of precooked bacon, a banana, a frozen lunch (stir fry, pork tenderloin and rice, whatever), a…

It doesn't matter to me what anyone around me is doing. I choose how I will take care of myself.

I have my before and after photo posted on my fridge. So really, it is my current photo that motivates me. I want to stay like this!

1273 days today. And logged every day.

Even teaching junior high can be physically exhausting even though I don't pick up my students. I walk around all day, kneel down at desks, move crap around. As for working would, I try sometimes to do half in the morning and half in the evening.

You work 10 hour days? I've been a teacher for 40 years, and yes, it can be brutal. Here's my schedule for my job at teaching middle school: 5:15 Wake up without an alarm; coffee is automatically brewed 5:15-6:15 Drink coffee, read the New York Times, browse other news, knit, read, snuggle with dog 6:15 Shower, make…

Now that the research indicates that coffee drinkers live longer, I have no qualms about continuing drinking fresh ground and brewed coffee every morning with modest amounts of powdered creamer and Splenda. I've been at my goal weight for 3 years. In fact, I think coffee curbs my appetite. And it's so delicious.

I wouldn't be too concerned right now with anything except calories. Get most of them from lean meat, veg, fruit, dairy and whole grain, in other words, nutrient-rich food. Don't worry about the other stuff.

Turkey chili, pork tenderloin, lots of stirfry.

I just eat a variety of steamed or roasted veggies and a few mixed salads. My health is perfectly fine. I have no desire or need to drink my food. It's also too expensive and messy for me.

I have all kinds of ways to get my steps high. At school I walk around the copier while my papers are coming out. I jog in place in the kitchen while the coffee is brewing. I park far away from wherever I need to go. I pace in the classroom. I always walk around my house when I'm on the phone.

Self-confidence comes from setting and achieving goals, learning new skills, and being competent at a variety of things. It cannot come from what you look like. It comes from a self-examination of all aspects of life (relationships, educational achievement, career success, personal growth) and saying "Yes! I did that!"

And bone loss. You will surely have that at 1000 calories a day. And I surely know that from my misguided attempt in 1998 to get skinny when I wasn't really even overweight. I sure did and I will be paying for that for the rest of my life.

What worked the best for me was to track calories, eat mostly nutritious food and avoid overly complicating matters.

1000 calories a day is not enough to get adequate nutrition. A lack of hunger does not indicate that you are getting the nutrients you need. It just means you have trained yourself not to be hungry.