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The people who were mocking those of us who want serving sizes to be intuitive by joking about a jar of peanut butter...way to be purposely obtuse. I said in my original message that "if your packaging is clearly broken up in a way that appears as a single serving you cannot list the serving size as less than that" not…

I am also struggling with this, losing weight has caused my perfect complexion to become that of a teenage boy. Zits on my chin, forehead and beside my nose. Ugh. Even had a huge zit IN MY CLEAVAGE. I have never dealt with this before, only thing that changed was losing weight. So odd

I also logged before I started dieting, I logged how much I normally at each day for a week just eating 100% normally for myself and wasn't even hitting 2300 calories THEN.

I log my fitbit info manually as I don't have a fitbit, so I am just inputting my weight from my weigh ins each morning. No exercise right now, besides some strength training yesterday which I am crazy sore from. So my maintenance is based off of what MFP, and a bunch of other sites say my BMR is (not my TDEE as I have my…

That wouldn't cause my weight to go up due to water retention?

I end up doing that accidentally. I will eat a small breakfast and then get busy doing stuff, being active and don't eat again until I slow down in the evening. My normal day goes 400 calories before 5, and 900 calories or so after 5.

It has been 3 weeks now, still no loss except my weight hasn't gone above 235 now for a few days. 235.6 yesterday and 235.2 today, so maybe it is going the right direction? Still 3 lbs over my weight at the start of June. Trendweight is saying based on my weight graph so far I am eating 500 calories a day OVER maintenance…

I don't know if I could do this. I always sip water throughout the day, and they say your body adjusts to expect the level of hydration you usually have. I get dehydrated really quickly because of this, normally I consume about 12 8 glasses of water and if I am working and only have 8-9 instead I get an awful headache and…

Yes, I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis (essentially autoimmune where your body attacks your thyroid) and had my last tests in April. At the point they were ok, but the issue with Hashi's is it does tend to fluctuate greatly since it depends on how badly it is being attacked at the moment.

Interesting, MFP has my goals for those are set below what I calculated out. They have my "goal" for fat 66g and calculations you gave me says my minimum would be 82g. Protein is even worse, MFP has it set at 100g and my calculations show it at 150g-192g. Fat I usually hit the 66g goal mark (this week my average was 72g)…

It is going up and down but still hasn't gone below where it was June 6th. I was down to 232 June 6th, and now my weight has been bouncing around a bit but staying around 235-238 depending on the day/time of day.

Embarrassed to say, but what do you mean by Macro's? Like my fat, carbs, sugar per day? I generally stick to the MFP guidelines rarely going over their daily recommended amount for me. What other numbers and details did you need?

Also, to be clear here to anyone who looks at this...cheat days are bad. Don't do them. That has been a slippery slope to recover from, not recommended.

Also good point LOL, I think they say women a "healthy" amount is in the 20's somewhere...we need body fat to ovulate

Yea, didn't seem like her reason for requesting I make my journal public were because she wanted to "support" me for sure. Her pattern of posting likely means if I did make it public she would do exactly what you said. I have a scale that supposedly measures my body fat, but considering it shows my body fat varying from…

Whatever, pointless arguing with you. A couple of you derailed MY thread by essentially getting pissy pants because I chose which poster to respond to (free country and last time I checked I had that right) and accusing me of "only hearing what I want to". That is especially funny since you, SexyStef, clearly didn't read…

Quote from academic paper done by two very reputable PhD's another from same article Link to article: http://spectrum.diabetesjournals.org/content/20/3/166.full Another academic, reputable article on European PubMed: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/6695117 So while CICO does count, numerous studies have shown that the…

Pretty much what Kalikel said, it isn't with minimal exertion, it is with any exercise that would increase my respiratory rate. I have asthma and got pneumonia a couple times last year, so clearly my lungs are just not in great shape. I am seeing a doc in a week, specialists take a while to get in to see. I was on steroids…

LOL, funny how we ended up pretty posting that exact same point within a minute of each other. I agree, the science of weight loss and obesity is not understood very well yet which means nobody (no matter how amazing they are for losing what they have lost so far) is the know it all expert on it. I mentioned the somewhat…

http://breakingmuscle.com/nutrition/dont-count-calories-to-lose-weight-the-body-fat-set-point-theory https://medical.mit.edu/sites/default/files/set_point_theory.pdf Two reputable sources to back up what I was talking about, this isn't bro-science, this is the science of obesity which is a VERY changeable field. New stuff…

Wow, cool. Good to know this supportive environment is only supportive if you don't dare have any controversial opinions and just do what everyone says with no questions asked. Ever heard you attract more bees with honey than vinegar? Being rude and posting telling me that essentially I have no idea what I am talking…

No, it was nasty. I have a right to agree and disagree with what people post and it doesn't mean I only want people to tell me what I want to hear. I am not a sheep, I take advice but don't need to just automatically follow or agree with it just because. Get off your high horse.

Pretty much I asked because I had seen before people saying that it is only a true "plateau" if it has be X amount of weeks...and that pretty much follows with the responses. No offense to people posting here, but if I went 2 months without losing a pound while eating 1300 calories a day I would quit completely. I have…

Wow, no need to be nasty. Seriously now. I quoted that post because I found it interesting, and accurate to what I myself had experienced when I dieted 2 years ago with great success (until a breakup threw me off). I actually valued everyone's answers and opinions, and started a Trendweight graph which I think will help me…

I did this last time I dieted, I gave myself a "cheat day" where I would go over my goal by 500-800 calories on one day and I didn't plateau last time. So funny enough I just decided to do the same thing tomorrow, eat over my typical 1200-1300 range and probably hit maintenance or a little over to see if that budges it. I…

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Yes! I forgot about feta! That was a HUGE surprise to me, as I just assumed cheese = caloric bombshell. However Feta is really packed with protein and not bad as a snack even as it is so salty and strong that it really satiates me, it doesn't take much to "hit the spot" so to say. Also fantastic is Feta eggs, my bestie is…

Not the only one, I got food poisoning from avocado toast a few months back and now hate them!