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If you're shopping and happen to be passing the scales ...

The late-1970s movie with Frank Langella -- yum!!

Um, who, me?

Roughly doubled my usual allotment -- pretty much as anticipated! Good day, good friends, good food; not as if I do this more than two or three times per year. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Best wishes!

You can do it! :-D

The only thing I am worried about tomorrow is hidden gluten. But even if it ambushes me, I'll get over it. I will eat whatever I want (of what seems to qualify as edible), and enjoy the good food and good company, and log it all, and get on with my life. Friday, I don't expect to be very hungry.

You could try brighter light, if this is a recent problem. A good calcium/magnesium supplement (preferably not carbonate) is worth a shot -- most of us could use a little more, anyway, and magnesium is one of the goodies in chocolate. Berries and Greek yogurt are a good way of getting enough fruity goodness. When you do…

Try doing a different exercise. As you keep doing the same workout, you get better at it = more efficient = fewer calories burned. Sigh. (Plateaus can last a long time. I tend to drop weight in 10-12 pound chunks, when I persuade my body to finally let it go.)

cinnamon plus chopped nuts or ground flaxseed Greek yogurt and fresh or frozen fruit protein powder and something sweet butter and salt and pepper ...

I'll be logging everything. :-)

People can be pretty oblivious. I cut 15" off my hair once and dyed it bright red. I got two comments at work: "Have you lost weight?" and "Are those new glasses?"

Used to be not quite 5'9 (lost a couple inched to injury) HW: 275-ish (avoided scales) CW: 265 (ill and injured and frustrated) LW: 150 (way too thin; no periods, no breasts, ribs all visible; fainted a lot; sank in salt water; size 10) GW: 170 (might be a little low, but that's my compromise between health & appearance;…

Maybe try to get more light? Tis the season. Soup can help, it's warming and filling. And I don't know about you, but if I eat too many carbs, then I turn into the hunger monster. You've lost a lot of weight, maybe it's time to go with the flow and just maintain for a couple of months, let your body stop going WTF?!?, and…

No, you won't lose your muscle if you take a week off. Yes, you might want to ask your doctor for blood tests: Iron, B6/B12, D, at least. A lot of women are short on calcium, magnesium, iodine and other trace minerals, too -- it's just about impossible to get enough from food on less than 2,000 calories per day, even if…

The way you are feeling and what your body is doing sound like what I went through, once upon a time. I was trying desperately to get down to what the height-weight charts (and my doctor, who didn't look at the actual patient) said I should weigh and get rid of that tiny tummy bulge... and had managed to get my body fat…

Trouble getting fiber on a LOW-carb diet? Heck, no. Vegetables have lots more fiber than chips or bread or spaghetti.

The insulin / blood sugar roller-coaster from a high-carb, high-GI diet can cause people to be hungry more often. So not only do people lose more weight on equal-calorie low-carb diets, they also tend to stick to the diet better if it's not high-carb.

What a great job! And it doesn't look as if you need to lose another ounce.

Really good dark chocolate. Sliced banana or pear or peach with chocolate syrup. A piece of fruit with cheese. Berries with Greek yogurt or cottage cheese. EAS low-carb chocolate protein shakes. Fruit and greens and protein smoothies, often with cocoa powder.

Actually, your stomach tends to shrink a bit if you're living in junk, because it's low-bulk but high-calorie. And you tend to be hungry again sooner, because the starch and sugar tend to cause big blood-sugar swings. For most people, if you're eating real food, eating when you're hungry is a great guide. Not everyone…

Add me if you want to see what I eat. Some days are better than others!

Estrogen is involved in fat metabolism, which is closely intertwined with sugar metabolism, so when levels change, things get interesting. Ground flax seed (good on yogurt, or in oatmeal if you can eat it) has some plant compounds that can help, as well as some of the "healthy" oils. Everybody's hormones are doing…

Those little cups applesauce comes in? they're great portable and disposable half-cup measures. I am generally cooking just for me, so I measure carefully when cooking then don't sweat details of how big each serving was. Or, if I am having yogurt and frozen berries, I just divide package size by the number of servings…

That looks like an absolute blast! Go for it. :-)

Yes! more like chicken than some "real" nuggets -- and no salmonella!! Morningstar definitely has wizards on staff.

Metabolisms vary. If you're not sure what you WERE eating, you could just track for a week or two and tweak from there. If you really do need to trim below the (no, it's not magic) 1,200 calorie per day level, then getting a medical workup mightn't be a bad idea. Sometimes, there's a problem. (Even something simple like…

Tai Chi can be good, if you have that much mobility and stability right now. Pilates is great for building the strong core muscles that help protect the spine -- but look out for the aerobicised health club version. Elliptical walkers can be great: no impact, and they help with neuro "retraining" -- walking smoothly…

For some people, they're perfect. For most people, they're pretty close -- because they make assumptions based on the average metabolism. For other people, they are wildly inaccurate -- because they are based on the average metabolism. For me, they are downright hilarious.

Some people can lose weight on 2,000 calories per day. Some can gain weight on 1,200 calories per day. There are no magic numbers. But usually, for weight loss, it's considered best to lose about a pound a week (on average). So usually, the idea is to start with something that much lower than what you were eating before.…