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I'll be honest too, comments like that are frustrating because from what I'm doing, what my husband sees, and what others see, I AM eating what I think I'm eating.

When I used metformin, it made me inattentive and forgetful. I wished it had worked for me or else I'd probably be at a lower weight.

My current intake is 1400 a day. With -250 that brings me down to 1150. Is that healthy?? I was warned a while ago not not continue cutting my calories because I'd get frustrated and hungry. The lowest I've done consistently in the past was 1300.

What I meant is I will use a spoon and place it on the scale to hold the butters and whatnot for weighing. It's easier for me to weigh peanut butter using a tablespoon, and then I fill it with the pb until it hits 30 grams or the serving size (varies across brands). I don't lick the spoon. It makes more sense to me to use…

I had to chuckle at the chart but it made me realize I'm sort of stuck at that point where you should see a doctor. I can't afford to go to one right now, but IME doctors haven't been helpful AT ALL. I ask pointedly for help and once I was dismissed, and another doctor wouldn't give me specific guidance. It's frustrating…

What kind of programs do people follow to be consistent?

Unfortunately, it's all up to genetics. I'd suggest doing workouts which have low weights and higher reps. You'll build muscle. Women can't exactly develop huge tear-dropped muscles unless we work out for hours every day for years or juicing. Don't do that lol. Also-- and this is JMO-- after working with a trainer I…

I find using a food scale has been extremely beneficial. There's nothing like having an honest visual aid to teach you what real serving sizes look like. I attempted to do this, but it didn't work because "eyeballing" looks different to different people. I'd rather be honest with myself and count the calories. Maybe one…

I absolutely use a food scale, for everything. All of my meals, snacks, and when I have juice (only once a day). I use a food scale and measuring spoons for things like peanut butter, honey, butter, and sugar (eaten sparingly). I'll admit, I'm not always perfect because of my husband. Not making an excuse here! But he gets…

If women can't have broad shoulders, why does the "Inverted triangle" shape exist? At my absolute thinnest (125 lbs), I still had to wear a size large because my shoulders are broad. When I stand next to pear-shaped women, people can see the difference in shoulder width, torso, and leg length. Let me guess, we all have the…

It's genetics. My mom will always look younger than her age even if she was overweight, and she's within the healthy weight range. When I was 20 pounds heavier, I thought my face looked bad and it looks better now. I don't think losing weight makes you look older unless there were other habits you don't stop contributing…

I do have cheat meals, and more than I should because my husband likes to go out to eat. Sometimes we go to a restaurant where I can't find the nutritional info for the meals. If I know that's going to happen, I eat one small meal earlier in the day and hope I don't go over my calorie intake for the day. I'm starting to…

I second the weighing food and accurately keeping track of portions. My food scale was really a godsend for me and it opened my eyes to food portions. Also, it's not advisable for anyone to eat 1000 cals a day.

I personally chose not to do low carb because I couldn't figure out how to get enough calories without od'ing on the fat. Low carb for me was 50-60 and it was too difficult, but i was able to lose weight before low carb anyway. It made meal planning and cooking a bit of a challenge and after logging and experimenting with…

You have to think about what's a reasonable caloric deficit. I think getting down to 200 lbs would be more realistic, but nothing under 190 at least. The human body can get very resistant to weight loss after a while. Have you calculated your TDEE and BMR? If your TDEE is something like 2,100 and your BMR is 1700 (sorry…

Have any other ladies with PCOS found it difficult to continue losing weight after a certain point? I can't get past 20 pounds. I've tried a few things such as low-carb and HIIT to change things up but nothing seems to work.

What was the point of your post?

YES! This has been my experience, too! I thought being open and honest would set a great example, but it doesn't. People complain how there's something magical about weight loss, and when they see it's about changing your eating habits and incorporating physical activity...well, it's something.

I'm Indian.

Oh yes, I did some of this dance too. It didn't seem to work...especially since the hostess kept dishing up plates with dessert. She kept tabs on who was eating their dessert, and would check to make sure you ate it. I noticed she did this especially with me, and not the other ladies there who were thinner/smaller. Seems…

I'm eating less and I round my weighted food up.

Doesn't TDEE change with weight loss? If a person's TDEE was 2200 cals a day, after a 30 pound loss that won't be the same.

People have asked "what are you eating," to which others reply "that doesn't matter, it's calories in and calories out." A balanced, healthy diet needs to be coupled with weight loss but often what I see here is they are treated separately.

Okay-- my point was people still need to eat healthily and not just use "calories in, calories out" as some way to justify eating that way.

The basic idea here is that living with people can make weight loss difficult. We've all seen this post in some shape or another. The husband didn't like it, the boyfriend didn't like it, the parents, etc. We all took what the OP told us, just as we have in any other scenario with similar posts. The OP said multiple times…

I think you're missing the point. The majority of "junk food"-- such as the typical oil-laden pizza or sweets full of sugar isn't sustainable to eat as a meal, for every meal, of every day. Sure you can have a small piece of chocolate every day-- but is your entire meal chocolate? Are all of your meals the typical Standard…

What I am saying is a person cannot completely subsist off of chocolate and pizza. Is it healthy to have your entire day's worth of 1,200 cals come from pizza and chocolate? Think about the ramifications of what it does to your body. I remember Rush Limbaugh tried to "debunk" some ideas of health and weight loss by citing…

There's a problem with "diets." It's not about dieting; it should be about a healthy, permanent lifestyle change. We've all heard "diets"-- the Beyonce diet, the cabbage soup diet, the cleanse diet, what have you. The problem here is none of these are actually sustainable because people want to be able to eat like a normal…

But they do have to do with health. Can't exactly eat 1,200 calories of pizza and chocolate...

That study is very flawed in the fact there was a group restricted to a diet of 450-800 calories a day for 12 weeks. No person should be eating less than 1,200 per day. Not only was this caloric restriction unhealthy, but it was unrealistic considering the possible metabolic damage and how it may have contributed to the…