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It's pregnancy category D and is associated with cleft palate and facial disabilities! Plus at least some of the weight loss side effects come from changes in your ability to taste certain foods!

Search "Qysmia" or "Topamax" here and you'll see a lot of posts. Topamax is a powerful psychoactive medication used for seizures and serious migraines. People on it for those conditions discovered that it has weight loss as a side effect. However, for many people it also has very serious cognitive side effects, some of…

Something about your energy balance changed. Whether it was a change in some of the foods you were eating, or a change in how much exercise you were getting. Maybe how much sleep you were getting as well. Did you get a new office or change where you park or stop walking a kid to school? 20 pounds in 4 months is 5 pounds a…

If you have kidney issues and fluid retention problems, some of what's going on could be related to that as well. And that could also be tied to all the restaurant food, because restaurant food is unbelievably salty. Restaurant calorie counts are also notoriously inaccurate, in part because they are based on serving sizes…

I was reflecting further on this. There are places where I just have no fat, even when I am "fat" by BMI standards. My hands and feet for instance - I hvae NO subcutaneous fat on my hands, so you can see all all the ligaments and veins. My mother is the exact same way, and one of my kids is. The other kid? Must have gotten…

Face and neck first. Then arms and back fat. then upper belly (above the waist) Then lower belly (below the waist) Then MAYBE breasts? But mine are mostly breast tissue and not fat, so I lose band size but not cup size. ... I've never gotten low enough that my hips/thighs do much.

T2 Diabetes (the kind you get as an adult) is NOT about "your pancreas getting worn out from processing all that sugar" It's about your cells becoming insulin resistant and not registering the insulin that your pancreas is making. And that's not the result of too much sugar per se. It's a complex interaction of diet,…

Is that walk a part of your daily routine or is it extra? If you do it al lthe time you should include it in your activity level, which is a more accurate way of handling it. HOWEVER: since there's only about 2000 steps in a mile, if you don't do anything else during the day, that walk may not lift you out of "Sedentary,"…

Actually, if the before picture is you, you might be able to maintain on fewer calories than the calculators suggest. Studies disagree about whether preserving lean mass helps prevent the "reduced obese" phenomenon, but it does exist - people who lost a lot of weight are found to burn fewer calories than people of the same…

My mom had a thyroid condtion as a teen and was 115 pounds at 5'9". She still wore size 13 jeans at that weight, because of the width of her hips. If you have wide hips, you're not going to shrink them, because that's not fat, that's bones.

Sadly, that combination has been rolled into one pill and given a new name (Quismia) and is being marketed as a miracle weigh tlos combo. Despite the usual issue that the "statistically significant results" work out to a couple of kilograms lost over what someone NOT on brain-altering medications would have lost. (from…

Define "Success" and "As quickly as I'd like" please? Remember that a pound a week is a very reasonable level of success, that two pounds a week is VERY fast, and more than that is .... unreasonable to expect.

Yeah, I'm shooting for 1700 or so.

Yeah - if you're going to be eating out a lot? Order takeout at least once and weigh your portions. Compare with the portions on the nutritional information. Do they match? If not, either do the math to figure out how off they might be, or don't eat the whole thing you're given.

If you're still curvy, look at Eddie Bauer's "Curvy" line of pants. I was really tired of all my pants gapping at hte waist until I found them - they fit me perfectly without gaping.

"healthy" doesn't mean "weight-negative." Many "healthy" foods are very high in calories. As an example: My relative GAINED weight on Atkins once he discovered that Costco had all kinds of "low carb" snack foods. He was eating low-carb but still eating too many calories overall.

Specific foods don't really "help" weight loss. I suppose they can "hurt" if they are very very calorically dense, but that's not the case here. Food is food, it doesn't care whether you're losing weight or gaining. And there are NO foods that will automatically help you lose weight if you add them to your diet. The…

The whole point of the calculator is that it gives you one number. You aim for that number. You log the food, the site does the math, you follow the numbers. You shouldn't have to be doing daily extra mental math.

Yeah, the definition problem is a real one. In a quick google and check on some high-traffic "Clean eating" websites, I've seen: Eat less meat! Eat Paleo! Eat LOTS OF MEAT. You must eat organic! Don't worry about organic, just eat your veggies! Eat five to six times a day! You should fast, either 5/2 or pick an eating…

IT's not always on purpose. In a busy/loud cafe, an oral order of "skinny" might not get passed down to the person who pumps diet vs. regular syrup, for example. More to the point, restaurants base their calorie counts on some kind of mythical serving size, and studies have found that cooks and/or waitstaff actually often…

Another question is, of course, if the drinks are measured and poured correctly - are they actually skim if you order skim? Are they putting in syrup? Are they filling the cup fuller than the calorie calculations on their website suggest? Are you picking the right size of the right drink, and does it match the information…

That's not slow. We all want it to happen rightnowrightnowfastfastfast, but that's not the way it works. People who dump 10 pounds in a week are generally losing mostly water weight, and that's a rate that can't be sustained (and will mask real losses subsequently).

MFP *is* "using" TDEE at some level - it's making the same calculations. I put in my height/weight, called myself sedentary, aimed for 1 pound a week and I don't log exercise separately. I'm not "working out" so much as I'm walking, stair-climbing, etc. (trying to raise my TDEE). I'm 5'10" and my goal is 1700-ish.

I've lost about 25 pounds over the last year (at least; I don't have a good start weight). And I did it by alternating periods of trying to lose a pound a week and trying to maintain. Yeah, if I'd kept it up all year I could have lost more, but I stuck with maintenance during some important events - travel, a wedding I was…

Yeah, that study should make everyone stop and think twice about the show and its tactics. (Just in case anyone says "but they lost weight, of course they burn fewer calories," - the article specifically says they now burn far fewer calories than a person of the same weight who didn't lose weight the Biggest Loser way).

Here's my takeaway, and its something that I fully realize is "(Try to) do as I say, not as I (often fail) to do." Over the years, I have felt bad about myself, upped my exercise, gotten in much better shape, felt really good, and then gotten on the scale and realized that I haven't lost much, if any, weight. And then,…

I'm a copy editor and I put them in, actually. It depends on the style guide you follow - academic writing guides mostly require it rather than ban it, so just tell your daughter you're writing at a higher level than the stuff she normally edits.

YOu are listing variables on either side of the equation. Making either side of the equation more complex? DOes not change the fact that it is an equation. x+y=z is an equation. ax +by = z is ALSO an equation. sin(x) - cos(y)^2 + 42 = z is ALSO an equation. And even 42x + log(y) = (sqrt)z - cos(b) + q^x-1. Adding variables…

I'm going to just say this: In preparation for delivery, your ligaments loosen up so that your pelvis can unhinge like a snake's jaw. They tighten back up, but it can take awhile, and if you exercise too hard before they do that, you may find yourself very uncomfortable and regretting going too hard. Take it easy getting…

Actually, the sourdough thing is perfectly possible. Your argument that "there's only so sour you can make it" is true, BUT you don't have to make it that sour, and I would totally bleieve that there has been a recent trend to stop the dough fermenting beofre it reaches "peak sour." Because we make our own bread and so I…