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Your resting metabolic rate is what you burn if you're totally inactive. As soon as you get up and start moving around, you're burning significantly more. So you've cut way more than 500 calories per day off of what your body needs to function. Which could be related to the dizziness. Use the goal setting function here at…

Yeah, "filling up on low-calorie vegetables" doesn't prevent some women from having serious supply issues if they eat at a deficit. Because the hormones responsible for milk production, reproductive hormones, AND hunger/satiation? They aren't always responding to "full." Feeling "Full" is a stomach-load and stomach…

I did lose weight nursing, without trying. I nursed my 10-pound newborn to being 28 pounds before she was willing to eat much solid food. I effortlessly got down 10 or more pounds below my pre-pregnancy weight. That said, I don't discount people who say that they have a very difficult time losing the last 10 pounds or…

Humans are opportunistic omnivores who can survive and thrive as a species on almost any diet. It's what allowed us to move populations of our species into almost every ecosystem on earth. The idea that of all of those groups and dietary patterns there is Only One Ultimate Right Way is frankly ridiculous.

Since no one has asked, and these are relevant: How tall are you? Starting weight? Current weight? Goal weight? How long did you only eat 500 calories a day? Why were you only eating 500 calories a day?

Wait, it says 1425 remaining at 9:30 in the morning? Before you logged food? If that's the case, its working just like its supposed to. It didn't "add 1425 calories" from your steps, it added about 200 calories to reflect that you're not "sedentary" and will burn a few hundred calories more per day than someone who *is*…

Frame size can set other things in context. A lot of women, especially, think of clothing sizes when they think about weight gain or loss, and clothing size can be very dependent on frame size. You can't diet your pelvis or ribcage smaller.

Speaking as someone who has worked on research projects that try to match data across government databases? SO MUCH THIS. SO MUCH. There is no overarching database that allows the government to put together everything on you. It took us TWO YEARS to even match two databases collected by the same agency well enough to run…

How do you add calories/nutrition? You find food that isn't sweet or pasta, and you eat it. What ARE you eating? Have a slightly larger portion! Add a little sauce to it! Are you eating veggies? Put a full-fat salad dressing on them! Add some nuts! What about some toasted seeds? Pine nuts! Avocado slices! Drizzle…

Meal planning. I'm feeding four people, including teenagers, on about 600 a month and we eat well. You need to plan what you're going to eat and stick to it. And you need to cook for yourself and awful lot. You also need to think about what your definition of "healthy food" is and why you think it has to be expensive?…

I think very often in weight discussions, 'The perfect is the enemy of the good.' You start experiencing notable health benefits at just a 10% weight loss. For you, that was 37 pounds. There are continued benefits as you lose, no matter how much more you lose (unless you lose too much, but that's not what we're talking…

Prunes are dried plums. because "prunes" have become synonymous with "things old people eat so they can poop," there was a rebranding campaign a few years back where they tried to re-name them to "dried plums" and you will still see advertising and packaging that call them that. I have however never heard the term "Soft…

When people respond to requests about "Spot reduction" with "Just keep on losing, eventually the fat will come off your X." Yes, eventually the fat WILL come off your "X," but because you can't spot reduce, it may require that you drop to unsustainably low bodyfat percentages to do that, so telling people that they "just"…

Around the edges of my grocery store, in order, I can buy: Toilet paper and light bulbs Dog food Cat litter Beer More beer Sodapop Candy (bagged brand-name candy) Candy (bulk) Nuts and seeds (bulk) Milk and eggs Lemonaid and juice Butter and sour cream THE WALL OF YOGURTS (most of it sweetened. Why is all yogurt so full of…

so you have a list of things you don't eat. Great. As someone else said, you have this idea that you have to eat flavorless foods, lettuce leaves, and fish in order to "eat healthy" and lose weight. WHy do you think that? (also: I"m thinking "Plain chicken" means "chicken that isn't breaded and fried?" There are so many…

You just helped me clarify what bugs me. IT's a kind of faux-spiritual piece of jargon that you see a lot on blogs and sites where people are trying to monetize their daily life. It's an attempt to "upsell" something that is basic daily existence and convince other people of its importance.

If you're cooking for more than one, AND you don't price out your cooking based on having to buy every thing for the meal, it's very difficult to eat out for less than an equivalent meal costs. I can do really good burritos for my family of four, with local organic meat, black beans, sour cream, and fresh guac for under…

(I mean, if you want larger arguments/statements that set my teeth on edge, there's: "I've gained 50 pounds since graduating from college 10 years ago. I need to lose it all in 12 weeks!" "I'm doing everything right! Why am I not losing any weight? I started two weeks ago and I have only lost five pounds! THIS ISN"T…

Oh, yeah. Just remembered. (I"m thinking of these as word choices rather than larger arguments): "Lifestyle." In any combination. "Low-carb lifestyle." "Keto lifestyle" "Paleo lifestyle."

As a side note: How are your teeth? A cousin of mine did a few years of the typical computer programmer "Live on Mt. Dew" thing - and wound up with thousands of dollars of dental work. Dentist said that dentists actually talk about "Mountain Dew Mouth," and its not just the sugar, its the acid. Is the fizz really worth it?

the word "Roughly" is a bit of a red flag there. Increasing exercise increases appetite. Human beings are very, very prone to undercounting what they are taking in, by a LOT. Increasing appetite with exercise can drastically increase the kind of eating that is difficult to count - grabbing a bite here, upping your portion…

"Journey" (and I hate it in all its new-agey context: "Weight loss journey" "bullet journal journey" "wellness journey" "spiritual journey." If you are not physically moving someplace, I do not want to hear it called a freaking "journey." Another multi-context new-age meaningless jargon word: "Tone." "I want to get toned."…

I think the people who say "just keep going, eventually it will come off" are doing you a disservice. Women's bodies function well at a certain % of body fat. Every woman stores that fat someplace different. It is never (or almost never) evenly blanketed over the entire body top to bottom. Your body doesn't care where its…

I tend to advise "sedentary" because the vast majority of Americans ARE sedentary. Extremely sedentary. And people coming to MFP for the first time to lose significant amounts of weight are even MORE likely to be sedentary. And overall, in my experience, people overestimate their activity levels, and the guidelines offered…

Can you go with someone else and cut the 1000 calorie burger and fries in half? That's what my parents do nowadays.

We don't eat out because eating out with a family is prohibitively expensive, and the more people you have to feed, the more you can benefit from economies of scale in cooking at home. The first thing to do when you're cooking at home for a busy family is: PLAN. you need a meal plan and a shopping list. That helps you plan…

That just might be where your body wants to stash its store of fat. Every body has - and needs - fat stores. Women in particular carry a particular percentage of bodyweight as fat, and biologically its more than men because we "need" it for the preganncy and nursing that our bodies think we're gearing up for. It's really…

Yeah, you have to be really careful with entries from the database, too. I think there are a lot of people entering really bad data, and there are entries that were probably taken from packages so they SOUND right, but the serving size was entered wrong so that any other serving sizes get calculated wrong. A single small…

As others have said -2 pounds a week requires a big deficit - you need to be 1000 calories per day in the hole every day to lose 2 pounds a week. When you're very big, that's much easier to achieve. A lightly active woman who is 5'5" and 200 pounds needs 2273 calories per day to maintain that weight. If that woman is only…

And it interferes with one of the common hormones in birth control pills, meaning that may make some of them less effective: ADDITIONAL CONTRACEPTION RECOMMENDED: Efficacy of oral contraception may be decreased by concomitant use with topiramate. The mechanism of action appears to be increased metabolism of the estrogenic…