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The default settings are usually too low, especially if you don't have a lot more to lose. There are two main easy options here: Change your settings to 0.5lb/week, or up your activity level - if it's "sedentary", take it to "light" or "moderate". The more accurate, but work-intensive way, is to use a calculator to find…

You don't have to be underweight to have disordered eating or an eating disorder, just putting that out there. But, if your attitude towards food is healthy, you're just misguided. Even a net of 1200 is too low for most people, especially those who do not have much to lose. If you are consistently netting 1200, please do…

I maintained my weight on 500 calories per day. Now I'm maintaining my weight on 2100 calories per day. Not advocating that starvation mode exists, just saying that this was my experience. Take what you will from it. Netting 300 is not a diet. It is disordered eating. You need to double your intake, then eat back exercise…

I think we may be in the same boat with the strength-training thing. I just thought it was odd because a 500-700 cal difference is quite a bit for someone who is 5'2 and 120-ish pounds.

I don't log exercise, btw, just for simplicity's sake, since I'm already accounting for it in the original equation when I select "lightly active"

This is actually a really good point, and probably the source of the numbers being off, although I think I only lifted maybe once per week during this time, so I'm not sure how much that really accounts for it. Good to know. And a good incentive to keep up with the lifting. I like eating.

No, most calcs give me 1400-1600 as my TDEE.

That's because some women are such germaphobes, they won't use a seat cover (holder might have cooties), but the seat DEFINITELY has cooties, so they hover. Some hoverers can aim. Others not so much. If everyone would just sit the hell down, there would be no need to hover. Not that many germs on your butt-cheeks,…

I'm going by what most calculators give as the categories: Sedentary - Desk job with little or no exercise: pretty much what I did this whole time. Sitting on my butt all day, and occasionally getting up to cook or clean for myself. Lightly Active - 1-3 hours per week of exercise: what I normally do. About 60 minutes a…

Yes, obviously. What I was saying was I had previously believed that, barring thyroid or other conditions (which I do not have) BMR/TDEE could easily be estimated with fairly decent accuracy. That happened to not be the case. Mine, as estimated by every method I could find, was at least 400-800 calories too low in every…

I get that when I eat white chocolate and coconut. Doesn't mean that either of those things are inherently bad for EVERYONE. Most people are not sensitive to those foods and can consume them with no problem. I am an exception, not the rule. You have a bad reaction to aspartame. You are the exception, not the rule.

Close! 23. And for you, I guess...21?

Craig - 24?

If I stopped eating and drinking everything that supposedly causes cancer, I would starve to death. Most of the aspartame studies, btw, used HUGE amounts of the stuff. You would have to drink several liters every single day to get that much.

That's just wrong. I think I would have actually punched my bf if he did that to me.

Part of it is in HOW you sit. I used to sit very swaybacked without realizing it, and it gave me not only trouble with my hips, but trouble with my lower back. If you make a conscious effort to sit with good posture, abs tight, it can help so much with back and hip pain. Strengthening the abdominals can protect the lower…

Rita - Belle!

You didn't mean any harm. Personally, I wouldn't have been offended. Maybe she's more sensitive. But honestly, if it was said in a joking way, I wouldn't have seen anything wrong with it. I either would have responded with, "ARGH....you're right." or "STFU, I want a damn cookie." But I wouldn't have taken it personally.…

I haven't gotten into a physical fight since middle school. A girl had been pulling my hair and calling me a b*** all through a choir practice. After we left the auditorium, she kept up with the nasty names. I don't think I actually said anything, I just whipped around and slammed her in the face with my (quite heavy) art…

For what it's worth, as a former wally-world cashier, I can tell you that the cashier probably wanted to punch her, too. 1) It slows down the cashier's transaction time, which they can get a write-up for if they're too slow, too often. 2) On a speedy, there's usually not a belt, just a counter, and the bag carousel only…

Nice. And points for subtlety, as well.

Yes, but what about all of the men who visit my house, possibly using my hairdryer (because of aforementioned uncontrollable male reflex), and contaminating it with ball-toxin? I don't know if the bf is up to sharing a ball-dryer with his buds.

Several people mentioned it in another thread. I can only assume that all men uncontrollably blowdry their balls if they happen to see a blowdryer.

Testicles secrete airborne toxins which cause cancer, diabetes, obesity, and anal seepage if exposed to the ears of another human being via hair-dryer. Didn't you know?! I guess ear-candling is my only option.

Among certain demographics.

One would think this would be the logical conclusion. Aside from possible burns, I'm almost 99% sure that smells are stronger when you heat them, especially if you're blowing them towards your face.

But besides the pros and cons of warm balls, what should I do to my hairdryer to make it clean again? A) Dunk it in a bathtub of hot, soapy water? B) Put it on a 7-day juice detox? C) Place it in a circle of candles and chant, "Testiclus Eradicus"?

BWAHAHAHA! Epic win. ...I considered being offended for a second, then the giggles set in.

If it's the artificial sweetener getting to you, you get used to it after about 2 weeks and can't taste the difference. I use Torani sugar-free syrups which are made with splenda. Or, if you're opposed to sweeteners in general, try gradually cutting back on the sugar until you are drinking it black. Try cutting back by 1/2…

I could have written this almost to the letter. I've struggled with anorexic-type EDNOS, BED, and bulimia. 2012 was a bad, bad year and I was very unhealthy until December, when I started to recover. I can't offer words of wisdom. I don't know for the life of me what made me better. It was sudden. I just couldn't do it…