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Spread out your meals. It's not necessary for everyone, but as you're hungry at night and have additional calories, you should have an additional snack or meal earlier. I don't know if ethnicity matters, but sex, height, body frame size, age, and activity level certainly do. As long as you are eating balanced meals and…

It's all right to eat below one's BMR. Takes much much less food to put you in a coma. 1,100 calories doesn't come close.

If you eat the right food, 1200 calories can be enough to avoid hunger.

5'2" My best weight was in the mid- to low 90s. My weight has been in the 107-108 range for months because of stress and other factors. It's alarming.

Good luck. :)

If you don't want to count calories you can create a series of meals of known caloric content and eat those. Starvation mode is an extreme effect that happens only when you are derived of food for a significant period of time. Please do not perpetuate that myth. There are plenty of threads in this forum on the topic if you…

It depends on your metabolism, age, and activity level, as well as how quickly you want to lose weight. There is no one answer for everyone.

If I'm going strictly by hunger, 1200 calories is fine for someone of my age and current activity level. The problem is that it's insanely easy to go over if I'm not closely monitoring what I eat.

Someone may already have said this by now, but here's my two cents: Can you get help in the form of advice from a doctor, a nutritionist, a PT, a support group? Weigh yourself several times a week. It will be painful, but it will be harder to be blissfully ignorant. Good luck!

It happens. I wouldn't think that. Use it as a general guide. Those scales are aren't completely accurate, but they're better than nothing. I had a Tanita before my Omron. The former gave me a lower fat percentage reading. I always suspected the result was a little low. If you're concerned about becoming more pear shaped…

We don't want what we say we want as much as we think. We say we want to be healthier, or more attractive, but those goals seem too distant compared to whatever is tempting in the moment. That's the core reason. Everything else is a symptom. For example, not setting aside time for exercise isn't the reason, it's a symptom…

You've lost weight, congratulations. But how much fat have you lost? What was your body fat percentage when you started and what is it now?

I prefer not to use that term because I don't want to equate a food habit with a major drug problem whose withdrawal is best done under medical supervision. I also think that some people do not understand that the body doesn't have to be "detoxed." Having said that, I'm not suggesting that giving up sugar is easy. If you…

You need to concentrate on losing fat. That usually means a diet that is high protein and low carb. You should also lift weights, but watch your development, muscle doesn't magically replace fat. If there are areas where you store a disproportionately large amount of fat that fat will come off last, or not at all. You…

I drink skim or 1% milk and use regular butter and oil sparingly. The low-fat versions of the latter have no flavor and margarine is disgusting. I don't use mayonnaise. I try not to eat too much cheese, but as the low-fat versions often have no flavor I more often than not will eat the regular version.

Why are you torturing yourself? Throw out the old one. Use the new one in the same place under the same conditions: in the morning, before you've eaten, after using the toilet.

I agree. I'm not completely eliminating processed sugar as that might be too hard, but I'm sure as heck trying to eat less of it in all forms.

Actually, sugar is not good for you. Here's a well-known lecture, "Sugar: The Bitter Truth." The speaker is Robert H. Lustig, M.D. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM You also might want to Google "The Men Who Made Us Fat."

Straight orange juice is like the worst thing you can drink if you're trying to eat less sugar. It's practically pure sugar. Next time, eat a piece of fruit, say, an apple.

Yes, we understand that there are limits. Which means that if there are particular restrictions that are exceptionally stressful and at which we often fail at applying it's better to avoid those restrictions whenever possible. For some people, that means pretty much eliminating certain foods. I've maintained my weight well…

I thought you were taking about the attitude of people in general. My comment wasn't directed at you personally. I'm sorry if you received that impression.

It sounds like self-loathing. Hopefully after a period of time successfully maintaining her weight she'll be more compassionate. She's afraid of regressing and while what she's doing is a crude way of keeping herself on the right side of the line, it is understandable. At least she's keeping most of the comments to…

You shouldn't change the location of your scale; you should weigh under consistent circumstances. Many people weigh themselves in the morning after using the toilet. I've had good experiences with the Tanita and Omron brands.

Maintaining is usually THE goal for people who've lost weight. It's a life-long goal.

I would weigh the individual ingredients, calculate their calorie value and try to be a little under in my consumption of other food that day to make up for any problems with the estimate. Actually, I always assume that I've underestimated a bit, partly because of the calorie labeling regulations, so I'm never upset if I'm…

The fact that you might have trigger foods doesn't absolve you from responsibility. People ARE taking responsibility by recognizing that they need to avoid certain foods and by not bringing them into the house.

You can find you have a tendency to over-eat certain foods. That doesn't mean that you have an addiction in the clinical sense. (If it is an addiction, it is not uncommon.) But it does mean that you are not capable of eating a small portion when left to your devices. People who have studied the increase in obesity since…

EDITED TO ADD: Sorry, I think you were agreeing with me. Maybe the "rule" is not explaining the phenomenon. As I said earlier, it's well known that eating certain foods causes cravings for some people. This is a neurochemical phenomenon. Eating in moderation will not work for them. BBC America broadcast its documentary,…

My response wasn't snarky -- all I said is that moderation does not work for everyone, including myself. The strong responses may be attributable to the tone of the OP's previous posts and his profile, in which he presents himself as a lay expert and suggests that everyone else's experience -- including people who closely…

I enjoy green vegetables and will eat them if they're around. But I've never had a craving for excessive amounts of celery, cucumbers, and mesclun. There have been articles on how the brain responds differently to fat and sugar. The source of some of the cravings for some people is biochemical.