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You may be making this more complicated than it needs to be. Lots of us are in similar situations. First, the best thing you can do for fatty liver disease and type II diabetes is to lose weight and exercise. And MFP is a great place to do it in a reasonable and healthy way. How did you calculate 2000 calories/day? How…

Hubby's gonna get a rude awakening in about 11 pounds from me! I've always, throughout our marriage, weighed as much as or more than him -- mostly more than. Although he weighs about 50 pounds less than he did when we got married, I'm catching up. He's crept up from his low and I'm still heading down. I told him he doesn't…

Wow! Those pics are sure an inspiration for this pushing-70 woman!

I know I don't have to exercise. I do know I feel better when I exercise. I selfishly want that feeling, I have a craving for that feeling, I have a hunger for that feeling. I know how to get that feeling. I'll exercise.

Walking is terrific exercise and don't hesitate to use walking aids. I do. My legs aren't as much a problem as my scoliosis (back) but meniscus tears in my knees mean my legs can fold at the most inopportune moments. I used a cane for years, then crutches because they let me walk upright and straighter than a cane.…

Exercising makes me feel better and therefore more able to control other things in my life like eating. I don't count exercise calories since I don't earn more than a couple hundred or so a day. I keep my calorie goal at between 400 and 450 below my sedentary TDEE, not quite enough to lose a pound a week. Exercise calories…

I'm 69 and by measurement 5'2" but still use 5'4" for TDEE calculations since scoliosis has crinkled me down. HW: 283 CW: 246.4 Came back to MFP 88 days ago and have lost 22 pounds in those 88 days. 8/31 GW: 238.9 I need to be losing just a touch faster to reach my 70th birthday goal which is to reach ONEderland on that…

Shame is a lousy motivator. It relies on self-punishment which is really not terribly healthy or affirming. For four days, you did something self-defeating. You could either continue that or do something else that is more life affirming. You know from your work with your therapist that your emotional/mental maladies make…

My favorite source of nutrition information is the Harvard University School of Public Health. They have a site called "Nutrition Source" with lots of great information they keep up to date. They also have a nutrition newsletter that has articles about recent nutrition findings. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/

GOLO says you don't have to count calories but then it emphasizes portion control -- seems like the same thing to me. It emphasizes eating "whole foods" rather than processed foods so roast pork is okay but sausage isn't. If you follow all their eating rules you end up consuming between 1300 and 1800 calories a day. It…

It's very difficult to calculate grams of "added sugars" using MFP since most of the entries in the database do not and cannot distinguish between natural and "added" sugars. Milk, for instance has lactose, among other things, which is a sugar. Fruits contain sugars. Even a stalk of celery has 0.4 grams of sugar. If you…

If what you eat for breakfast is carb or sugar heavy, it may be causing a high-then-low blood sugar sequence that is making you hungrier at lunchtime. Try eating more proteins and fat at breakfast, e.g. eggs instead of cereal.

Fruit juice is NOT a particularly healthy food. Drinking juice without the solids of the whole food can be too much of a sugar jolt and can be calorie dense. So, enjoy your juice-based drink as you would other high calorie, high sugar foods. That being said, I do wish you luck with replicating a flavor you liked. Even the…

The reason I suggested it is because they have access to more expensive indexing tools universities pay for. One, Science Direct, (formerly Science Citation Index) has the capacity to search who-cited-this-article questions. So, if you wanted to know who is doing further research today that leans upon and goes further than…

For me, it's easier to ignore the exercise calories. I'm not doing hours of exercise a day so usually I'm only burning and extra 250-750 calories worth. I'm also not exercising every day. Truth be told, sometimes I knosh a little after I've closed my diary and go over on occasion. So, it all works out. The scale keeps me…

Heck, I had twice that much to lose. I still have to lose that and half again. But here's the deal, if you don't start you never make any progress. Lots of folks start with hundreds of pounds to lose. Others have less than 20. But we are all in the same boat. We all need to decide to change our eating and exercise habits…

In contrast to @slunburg, daily weighing is what keeps me on track. Weekly weighing and I start acting on bad thoughts like, "Oh, I can eat that today! I'll make up for it over the next few days." Yeah, ha! I'm lying to myself and years of experience confirms it. So, DO WHAT WORKS FOR YOU. It may take trial and error to…

You are not eating enough. Eating too little makes you tired. Dump the Slimfast (unless you like it over other things with the same number of calories). Figure out how many calories you should be eating. Then eat a healthy, well-rounded diet. Remember, if you do exercise, your calorie needs increase. 1200 calories of a…

Your aunt, besides being rude, is just full of baloney. I'm going to respond to each of them one at a time. Liposuction really only works for spot reduction of surface fat deposits. It is not used for weight loss, is major surgery, and has many possible complications. I assume she is talking about lipotropic injections…

Here's a citation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8561056/ You might also want to look at other research and writings by the same author. Had I access to a citation index, I would have "searched forward" to see who had cited his article to get a more recent take on this. A librarian at a university library can help you…

Absolutely terrific! You're an inspiration!!

If I could do that I wouldn't have weighed twice what I ought. I must weigh/measure my food so I know how much to eat. More importantly, I log it and keep count of how many calories I am ingesting a day. I know how I weighed so much. I ate twice as much as I needed.

You are absolutely right -- so was whoever posted the graphic. Sadly, the only things that correlate with weight loss and health are eating less and moving more. Calories in, calories out. Do whatever works for you. For some, it's IF, for some its low carb, for some its OMAD, for some it's a cheat day. for some it's 5:2.…

If your change in diet is giving you a stomach ache, then there is something about the diet you chose that is not agreeing with you. You need to develop an eating pattern that works for you and makes you feel good and healthy. It may be that you have developed lactose intolerance. It could be some other food like eggs that…

Either a good return policy or too cheap to worry about. I have twenty-buck samsung in-ear headphones for my phone that work fine and just bought a $60 Mp3 player for swimming that came with function-adequate earphones and cable. Neither is exactly ultra-high-fidelity but for exercising, they are both fine.

Both hubby and I have reflux and take drugs. Hubby has a hiatal hernia as well. I take omeprazole and he takes esomeprazole. We do a couple of things to keep our GERD under control. We take drugs but we also have raised the heads of our beds. I have 4 inch blocks under the head end of mine. He has full-sized cinderblocks…

I do weight cycle with mask on. Also cardio walking with mask on. Yes, it's stuffy and hotter but once you get used to it you don't notice.

Here's a good read on them: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/fats-and-cholesterol/types-of-fat/

I like it, too. Soy milk is my number one but oat milk comes in second. Both have a fairly neutral taste unlike many of the nut milks. Almond milk just makes my coffee taste weird.

I'll be 70 in a few months and have lost over 20 pounds since early May. It can be done. As they say, eat less, move more. If I do the arithmetic on calories in/calories out, I have lost about what would be expected at 3500 calorie deficit per pound. You can do it, too. I'm making sure to think about what I eat and how it…