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If you feel hungry, you are hungry. Dieting is all about resisting your hunger so you can lose weight. I know, I know, everyone on mfp likes to pretend they aren't dieting, which is just silly. You are dieting to lose weight, but you can call it a lifestyle change if you like. It's a lifestyle change called "not eating in…
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MFP is not very good at taking into account the metabolisms of older women. 1200 is close to the max I can eat and not gain weight. I also have health concerns that prevent me from being able to exercise much, although I do what I can. I'm not suggesting you do it, just saying I am finding IF (intermittent fasting) helps…
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Or you could take some vitamin D supplements?
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And in interest of a personal illustration of why the "processed foods make you fat - clean/healthy eating makes you thinner" is a fallacy - I stayed fat for years while avoiding all fast food restaurants, being a vegetarian, and making meals from scratch at home. All I had to do was have a large plate and second helpings…
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Dropping food on the floor makes it dirty :)
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Because it's okay to eat the "processed" foods that are in the American diet, and that is not what makes "us" fat. Over eating is what makes people fat. "Healthy" eating is bashed because it has become, or perhaps always was, a way for self-righteous people to go around brow-beating and nagging all their friends - often…
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For people questioning the buttered coffee thing, I have been hearing it's the latest big hipster coffee thing. Or is that the latest yuppie coffee thing? I don't know, I'm so up-hip I make my coffee at home, in a coffee pot.
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I do a much, much simpler version of this, without the expensive and fancy version of these foods and am having a similar result - morning ketosis (just coffee!), small proteiny lunch, reasonable healthy supper with healthy fats and get most of my carbs from veggies. Weekends I have "off", but I don't go crazy. I'm…
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I don't. MFP grossly overestimates what I burn in a day anyhow. Of course, my exercise (due to health conditions) tends to be on the lighter side, mostly walking. If you are doing extremely heavy exercise and are trying to actively build muscle you may consider doing things a little differently. It depends on what your…
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Swimming, walking are great. I'm not old-old but I do have health issues that keep me from a lot of the high impact sports and heavy weight lifting stuff that people like to talk about on here. Swimming and walking are about all I can do - oh and if you can invest in a recumbent bike for indoor bike riding, that might be…
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For heavier people, I honestly think the calculators are off, especially for women who are heavier. I ran into this problem with several different calculators that told me in order to lose weight I needed to eat more food than I had been eating in the first place! If the amount you're eating isn't helping you lose, try…
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I'm doing it and it works fabulously for me. I should note I do have some borderline insulin resistance issues and that may be why it works so well for me - there's some research indicating it usually works best for men; women who have a lot of weight to lose; or those who have insulin resistance already. If you have a…
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Yes. ETA: To clarify - a lot of people, maybe most, don't want to sit there and measure out every bite of their food for the rest of their life. Some people find that to be an unhealthy, almost obsessive behavior that takes away from the ability to simply sit and enjoy meals with family. It can be needed sometimes to wake…
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I think most people go for the fast loss. When I look online for stories about people with a lot of weight to lose, it's all stories or tips about "how to lose 20 pounds FAST" or "how I lost 100 pounds in a year" or "how I lost 80 pounds in just one month!" While you can do that healthily, more often people who are going…
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Do you realize that if you chop up a vegetable, you have just "processed" it? Just sayin.
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I have come to learn that the people in life who cause the most drama tend to be those who walk around complaining about how much drama there is in their life and how badly they want it all to go away. Surprisingly, it never does. And they can never figure out why. But you know, where ever you go... there you are.
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*takes notes* Slave...
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They also want a woman who never bothers them with her stupid emotional problems, yet always has time for sex. I fixed the impossible paradox by ceasing to date men entirely and have been happily living with a woman for 10 years, although that will only work if you are lesbian/bi. Sorry, straight ladies.
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Topomax absolutely has weight loss as a side effect for some people, it is a well known side effect. It is not known how or why this side effect occurs, but Topomax is now being used in combination with some other medications as a weight loss drug for this reason. It also can have, for some people, other very undesirable…
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No. I'm fine. Are your "closest friends" aware you are talking trash about them behind their backs like this? There's more important things about a person than whether or not they work out.
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I think you need new friends, because they don't deserve to have fake friends who are sitting around secretly hating on them like you are.
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That's because people on this site are mainly really nasty about anyone who doesn't do it THEIR way. THEIR way is the only CORRECT way, don't you know. As for the people claiming 1200 calories a day is unsustainable and wrong, that confuses me since MFP itself gives me that as a baseline intake. Maybe they are male,…
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*waves* Aspie nerd in my little happy neuro-atypical nerdy Aspie family. We all have our separate nerd favorites and mostly communicate to each other by texting or emailing each other from our computers in our own rooms across the house. Fitness... is a challenge >.> We're working on it!
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Most of the people on this site are jerks, I usually just stick on my own little island... your title just caught my attention... yes avoid the forums here, haha - good luck
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Thanks for all the input! I do have asthma and use an inhaler for it. I make sure to use it before going out but maybe it's not enough? I walk on a pretty regular basis and wanted to do something more. Maybe I just have to build up more gradually to get my lungs used to it. I was having trouble gasping for air and getting…
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Great! Thanks guys, I have been dreading week two :) I will move on when I no longer feel like I"m about to die at the end of every workout :P
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It could be tied in with other problems. Be sure to have everything checked out. Vitamin D processing is tied up with the thyroid gland.
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Hi, I've been over 200 for most of the last 20 years despite many efforts to lose weight. I was diagnosed within the last decade with PCOS and finally just recently with insulin resistance - being on the right diet/exercise program and medication is helping a lot! I hope to eventually get down to the weight I was in my…
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Marriage isn't about "mutual sexual attraction". It's about responsibility and committment. If you can't understand that, you shouldn't get married. Would you divorce your spouse because they became ill, bedridden, and thus flabby and "unattractive"? Then don't marry, you're not mature enough to do so.
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It is absolutely not your responsibility to stay in shape for your SO. That's a ludicrous notion. Anyone who says their marriage broke up because the other person was out of shape is either avoiding a discussion about what the real problems in the marriage were, or they are a shallow jerk.
