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I'm an Elementary School teacher. If there were a Tantrum-Stopping SWAT team, I'd be on it.

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Plus kimchi, tofu, and enough chili derivatives to make you cry. God bless Korea.

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Call the WAAHH-mbulance.

Just as long as you don't love avocados.

Seriously. We're just living our lives, trying to obtain gender equality through rational, reasonable alterations of gender stereotypes and perceptions, and then the straw feminists just have to stick their oars in and make us all look like frothing crazies.

Avocado is a food of chicanery and deceit. They taste like lies and feel like smooshed dreams in your mouth, and if one more person suggests I start eating them to hit my fat macro, I'm going to murder them. Possibly with an avocado.

Trying to completely hit every number every day? That way madness lies. Just do your best. If you and your body are happy and finding success hitting your just your calorie and protein goal, stick with that. Personally, I have... digestive issues *ahem* if I don't watch my fat and fiber counts, too, but, again, pay…

Definitively my motivation to try and make better food choices, care of Dr. Alejandro Junger: "The problem is we are not eating food anymore, we are eating food-like products."

Definitely invest in a food scale. They only run about $10 or so, and gram weights are one of the most, if not the most, accurate ways to measure solid foods, simply because of the amount of variance you can get with cups/tablespoons/small/medium/large/etc.

Rice, beans, and in-season/on sale produce are your best friends. With the fruit and veg, definitely cut and freeze anything you can't use yourself, and definitely, definitely skip the pre-cut options unless they work out to be cheaper than the lowest price fresh alternative. My freezer right now is packed with…

OP, this is coming from a place of sympathy and respect, but if you truly expected nothing, you wouldn't have started this thread in the first place. Yes, three years to reach a goal is daunting, but this ****? Worthwhile ****? It takes time. Our bodies take 20+ years to fully mature. We put a full dozen into high school…

To quote the basics of Dog Bite Law in the Western World: Yes, dogs bite people. But the dog and the owner are then legally responsible for the real-world repercussions of those actions. If your dog attacked someone, you would be held responsible for your animal's actions. If you had a peanut allergy and curb-stomped Mr.…

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It's not the calorie count I was raising an eyebrow at, rather the behavior at which the count was arrived. You outline this eating plan to prevent binging by essentially scheduling a binge, thereby ensuring that a binge will not only happen this week, but next week and the week after, creating a cycle of deprivation an…

I think that one might have been less about levels of offensiveness and more about applying your standards of offense to someone else.

Personally, I would worry about getting into the habit of overeating, no matter what the reason. Whether you're measuring or not, you're still setting your mind up to expect that weekend binge, that huge rush of food, and no matter if it's once a week or once a day, you're still going to start associating that overstuffed…

You're right. That's just you. For me, and for many other people, being called names, names that might not offend you, would really offend them, which is why we don't do it.

Chicken Feet. Sea Cucumber. Acorn Jelly. Oh the joys of Korean cuisine.

Maybe it was the light base? I've done it with brunettes and gotten a nice burgundy to copper highlight, and I've done it on darker blondes and gotten a lovely strawberry, but everlasting orange- My sympathies, friend. That is- Well. Ouch.

Oh my god! Did you bleach beforehand?

Meal planning is your very best friend on this one. Log beforehand and it'll make it that much easier to stick with it. As for the recipes? Well, the site's recipe calculator here is far from perfect, but it's a whole heck of a lot easier to type in everything you use to make enchiladas all at once rather than hunting down…

In that case, maybe henna? It's really good for red tints, and it fades/washes out pretty quickly.

If this is for cosplay, I'd suggest skipping the dye entirely and buying a wig. A decent wig will look better than dyed hair 99% of the time, especially for bright colors, and especially especially when going from brown to anything but darker brown.

You're a law enforcement professional trying to make connections in the seedy criminal underbelly of the weight loss and healthy living website circuit?

Count. Your. Calories. Meal plan. Look up what you're going to eat ahead of time, log the calories, see where you're at. Weigh, don't guesstimate. If you don't have a smartphone, do with pen and paper, but don't come on a website built around a calorie counting system and then flat-out refuse to consider counting properly,…

And it's your first week. Be patient. Count calories. Keep at it.