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The week leading up to Thanksgiving, I made a point to not eat back as many of my exercise calories. For Thanksgiving, I tried not to overdo it on appetizers, but once dinner came out I didn't care. I ate what I felt like eating (but not until I felt sick). I put 2000 "quick calories" into MFP for that day as a really…

Losing weight and being healthy are two different things. You can eat nothing but M&Ms all day and lose weight. Or you can eat nothing but organic fruits and veggies and gain. You should exercise to be healthy, not just to lose weight. I eat back my calories because otherwise I get hungry. It also motivates me to exercise…

Abuse might make you not want to sleep with men, but it doesn't necessarily make you gay. A man can wear a dress. Does that make him a woman? No, it makes him a man dressing like a woman. Gay is who you are, not what (or who) you do.

Why would someone choose to be part of a stereotyped, hassled group like that? I have known people who privately begged God to change them, to make them stop thinking about people of their own gender that way, until they realized it was just who they were and they needed to stop hating themselves for it. Who you sleep with…

Regarding doing things the "natural way", there isn't anything magical to Lean Cuisine or Weight Watchers meals. One of the main ways they work is by limiting the size of your meal. A lot of people who aren't watching their weight will say, "boy, that's not a lot of food," when they look at a Weight Watchers meal. Not…

Try pre-portioning your sweets ahead of time. Pick something that's easy to measure, like M&Ms, then portion out 100 calories or so worth of them into baggies or small containers. Limit yourself to just one per day. Even better, require yourself to burn the 100 calories off by walking or doing stairs before you eat the…

Why do you want to lose weight? You don't need to tell us, but think about that when you sit down to eat. Is that piece of pie worth it? Watch your portions. You can eat all that stuff, but take only a small bit of each. Plan your meals ahead of time. Enter your foods into MFP before you eat, then eat only what and how…

Before I started using MFP I used to hit a blood sugar low around lunchtime if I didn't snack in between breakfast and lunch. This wasn't just craving food - I would actually start shaking and felt really weak. I've been using MFP for over a month now, lost 8 lbs, and I have not hit that same blood sugar low since then,…

Yes, I do when I feel like it (which is most days). MFP has me at a ~400 calorie a day deficit. For a while I was getting so good at eliminating calories from my diet that I started getting so hungry at work that I would not be able to concentrate. I realized at that point that if I'm unhappy or uncomfortable then this…

If I'm hungry after dinner (either "real" hungry or just craving a snack) I have a cup of India spice chai tea with honey and a little soymilk. It's sweet enough to feel like a snack, and I think the protein in the soymilk helps my body feel full. And it's less than 50 calories (I use lite soymilk, and probably a teaspoon…

I didn't really know where to start, either. When I started writing down my calories and measuring what I was eating I realized that I was eating way too much for my activity level. I started scaling back what I was eating, figuring out by trial and error what I could eat that wouldn't leave me hungry and wouldn't push me…