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Considering that a stone is 14 pounds and there are still 17 weeks left in the year, set your calorie goal to lose 1 pound a week and you should make it. Remember, however, the closer you get to a healthy weight, the harder it is to drop the pounds because your calorie needs decrease as you get smaller.

Just follow the getting started instructions, set a number of calories to consume and go for it. It works. Calories in/calories out is all you need to worry about. You don't need to choose any particular "diet" to lose weight. Different folks make different choices but if you eat fewer calories than you use each day, you…

You can't rely on much of anything happening in three days. You might lose a lot, none, or even gain in that period of time because our weights vary so much from day to day depending on things like how much salt we had in the last few days, weather, state of digestion (full versus empty intestines), hormonal swings…

It may show up. You may be dehydrated a bit this morning. It's only an extra 1400 calories ( a little over 1/2 a pound) over your 2100 so isn't much in the grand scheme of things unless you do it repeatedly and often.

What's listed in the MFP food database is generally limited to what is being required by governments on food labels. Calcium is only required to be listed as a percentage of RDA (recommended dietary allowance). If an item is input by a member, not all numbers may be entered or correct. If you are looking for amounts rather…

You definitely should not be cutting your calories and looking for weight loss while your bone heals. While inflammation will probably cause water retention, the bone healing itself requires extra calories to heal and a nutritious diet. https://www.webmd.com/osteoporosis/osteo-fracture-diet Bone healing takes additional…

Weight loss is never consistently in one direction day-after-day-after-day. All sorts of things change the amount of water your body is holding on to. It could be minor variations in salt consumption, the state of your digestive cycle, your hormones, stress, weather, you name it. Look at what the trend is over weeks/months…

Flavoring helps make chicken taste different depending on what you add to it. I have amassed a gazillion spices but you can start slowly. Head to you local hippy healthfood store to find loose spices that are very cheap. Also, spices among the Latinx foods tend to be cheaper than elsewhere in the grocery store. Consider…

I live in a seniors community with a fitness center, pool, and trainers. The trainer has me doing two reps of 12 (24 reps) of each exercise on five machines (total 6 x 2 x 12 total). She has me adjusting the weight so that the last of each 24 should seem almost too hard to do but not painful. With just these few minutes…

There are a gazillion youtube videos of exercises, both seated and standing, for seniors. Just add the word seniors to your search and they will pop up.

I have a relatively "instant" solution for you. Stop the beer and non-nutritive/high calorie snacks at night and replace with tea and carefully weighed out nuts or measured high fat yogurt with measured honey. Then start a little extra aerobic exercise like walking, preferably with music or happy meditation tapes. Don't…

@oliverwnc and @fictionreader91 Yup, I think it's delicious. I like to buy the singles packs of guac so it doesn't turn brown. I've found two brands in the grocery store, Sabra and Wholly Guacamole. I just stir a container of guac and an ounce or so of cheese into the hot oatmeal. The cheese melts and the guac turns the…

Consider reading this, it will probably help set your mind at ease. https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10689837/does-this-uterus-make-my-stomach-look-fat

You can still celebrate with food just change which food. How about some jumbo shrimp, scallops, a lobster, an expensive cut of beef, etc. All these can be eaten within calories and celebrated as a splurge.

I just want to say welcome to MFP. You should find lots of peers/friends on here (not me -- I just among the obese senior citizens on here) but since no one had responded to you yet I wanted to make sure you got quick feedback that you found the right place! :)

Here's a good source of unbiased information about garlic supplementation. https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/garlic Note this: "Garlic is probably safe for most people in the amounts usually eaten in foods. "Side effects include breath and body odor, heartburn, and upset stomach. These side effects can be more noticeable…

What everybody said about doing what works for you. This may take some experimentation. Listen to what your body is telling you. If the "Special K breakfast" makes you want to eat six Whoppers for lunch, you need to change how you are eating. Your diet should both keep you healthy and satisfied. I'm happiest for the rest…

Don't be "on a diet." We all have a diet. Our diet is what we eat. You need to change your diet to attain wanted outcomes. Your eventual goal is to have a diet that keeps you healthy and at a healthy weight. You have chosen a "diet" that is making you unwell. It is obviously not the proper diet for you. Change it. To…

I want to live long enough to outlast my retirement money. Right now, my financial planner has me still okay in my mid-90s if I don't do anything foolish. Also, I don't want to be miserable at that age. I turn 70 in a couple months and my excess weight is already having a deleterious effect on my quality of life. But more…

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Yes, the electronic scale rounding function can give you the illusion your weight is staying exactly the same when it really isn't. Then, when it can no longer justify the same weight it will leap to the new weight. To prove this to yourself, try weighing before you poo and after. Your poo weighed something but the scale…

(Excuse the second post but it's a different topic.) Hot drinks can often sate your appetite and prevent mindless snacking. They are also especially good when its cold outside. Tea is great stuff and comes in a number of different varieties, different blends, flavored or unflavored, tea or herbal. Lately, you can find…

I'll second @lorrpb. Soup! You can make homemade soup easily and avoid some of the excess sodium. Soups are also a great way to incorporate beans & other legumes into your diet. Make one using the recipe builder to keep track of calories and then divide it into servings for the freezer. When you know how many servings you…

You are absolutely not alone. I think we underestimate how hard it is to change eating habits, actually any well-ingrained habits. So, cut yourself some slack. To think of it as perfection versus failure is riding for a fall. Acknowledge that you are trying something very difficult, especially long term. Start every day…

For most people, dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol are not as closely related as was once thought. For other people, however, dietary cholesterol serves to raise their serum cholesterol to unsafe levels. Given that you are now identified as one of those whose serum cholesterol reacts negatively to dietary…

There are plenty of societies that have been strictly vegetarian for years. There are also plenty of societies that almost exclusively eat meat or fish. Humans have, as a species, adapted to a variety of diets and thrived. What we tend to forget is that those individual populations with diets at one or the other end of the…

There is no scientific evidence that any particular amount of water is healthy, although the recommendation of eight 8-ounce glasses of water per day is a common one. What one should do to make sure one is sufficiently hydrated is to look at the color of their urine. It should be pale yellow or straw colored. If it is…

Hubby's sleep greatly improved once he started wearing muffling headphones. He says its because I snore but I've never heard it. Everyone else agrees with him. They say I rattle the windows. Even the sleep lab people said that, although I don't have sleep apnea or anything, I do snore. I think it's a plot. He suggests that…

Proof positive it can be done!

I use it but just for the measurement of distance