lepetitrouge

Hi everyone, I'm glad I stumbled across this thread. Reading everyone's stories has been very interesting, and it's amazing how common epilepsy is. I started having seizures (complex-partial and simple-partial) when I was 15, but I didn't know what they were. I just thought they wered odd episodes everyone must have from…

Haha! :) I hop on the scales every morning before breakfast. I know I shouldn't, because, for example, it went up by 0.4 pounds the other day, and I was bummed about it the whole day. How silly. It was probably water weight or something. I know I should weigh myself once a week to keep my obsessiveness in check!

And thanks for sharing this article. It was very illuminating. All this talk of reaching 'starvation mode' and ceasing to lose any weight never quite made any sense to me. Sure, you are probably comprimising your metabolic rate, but you will still lose. The part about 'short term' re-feeds in order to maintain quality…

Thanks for that link! It was really handy :)

I don't eat breakfast, because I feel like it stimulates my appetite for the rest of the day. When I skip breakfast, I feel hungry later in the morning, but it doesn't really bother me. It's not the same kind of pre-lunch hunger pangs I usually get after having eaten breakfast. At most, I'll eat a banana before lunch (if I…