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I think it's easier to recover from illness when in maintenance rather than a deficit. I do try to eat healthy foods when I don't feel well, but of course it's much harder to be strict about food when you feel like crap. I try to be kind to myself and do the best I can.

I recently decided to gain a few pounds because I've been feeling very tired and weak, and really struggling to keep my weight near the bottom of my healthy BMI range. I was so happy to get down to 132ish, but after a bit it just started to seem too thin.

If you have just been diagnosed with celiac disease and have not been gluten free for very long, your body still needs time to heal before you can properly absorb food again. The other thing to be very sure of is whether your diet is completely gluten free, including watching out for trace contamination. If not, you will…

I don't know if I've ever felt inner peace, but I'm doing my best. I think the first thing that really helped me feel better about life was when I realized I needed to treat myself like I would treat a sick friend. When my body betrays me, which is often, my first impulse is to be mad at it, and to punish it by pushing it…

When I'm anxious I tend to eat. In the short term, this calms me down. In the long term this causes weight gain which makes me anxious. So not a good long term plan. Depending on where you are at, you may be able to get low cost counseling through local programs. My city offers one which has helped me a lot. The therapist…

I'm 5'10" and sitting at 135. I have been trying to decide if that is too thin. I am very small boned (I can very nearly touch my thumb and middle finger around my ankle - they overlap easily more than my first thumb knuckle around my wrist.) I wear anything from an 8 to an 11 in jeans depending on the maker, style, and…

My guess is your floor isn't level. When you move your scale to a place that slants more, or in a different direction, you will get a different number. Your scale will be most accurate on a stable, level surface and then zeroed before use. However, for the purposes of monitoring weight, when you simply need to know if you…

The obesity diagnosis may have been recorded in order to qualify you for the phentermine. Even the modest amount of weight you have already lost puts you below that level on the BMI, so although it may have technically applied to you before, it does not now. You're doing fine, just keep at it. It may go slow, but it will…

I have definitely seen the MFP glaze over look. "Oh, no, I could never calorie count. That's too complicated." Urgh. I think when people see you have lost weight and start telling you about their weight loss plan, it's likely that they see you as someone who will be interested in their story. Everyone likes to talk about…

It sounds like your eating isn't actually comforting you. It is making you more anxious. You need to find some other way of comforting yourself. Go be with people, drink some hot tea, take a bath, make your home cleaner... whatever you can think of that doesn't involve overeating.

Since you don't appear to be getting quite enough calories for maintenance, you might try tracking your steps and adding them as exercise. It is a good way to add some calories to your daily goal and acts as an encouragement to be out and around. If that sounds like too much trouble just do as others have said and slightly…

I've had them last hours. They are beyond awful. Sorry to hear you're in pain. You might want to have a chat with your doctor about your treatment plan, since you're still having attacks. Make it clear that you have been careful with your diet.

This time of year I drink lots of hot drinks. They make me warm for 20 minutes or so. A hot bath works too but there are only so many of those you can legitimately take a day.

This might help: http://www.30calgal.com/how-can-women-conceal-carry-let-me-count-the-ways/ It even mentions your Ava holster. There are also youtube videos that show how to conceal with different types of close fitting clothes.

It might be worth asking for a referral to an endocrinologist. First of all, what does your current doctor mean by "thyroid numbers"? I don't know of any "thyroid numbers" with that range, especially with the low end of the range being zero. Also, true iodine deficiency would be unusual, especially if you live in the U.S.…

The good news for those of us with exercise limitations is that losing weight is completely possible through diet alone. The bad news is that it's easy to get bored and eat. The more carbs I eat the more I want them, so I try to eat protein and fat every time I eat, so the carbs don't have such a strong effect. I try to…

There is one point I'd like to make - if you are experiencing the feeling of bloating and abdominal pain, it's quite likely that what you are thinking of as a fat, wobbly stomach is a bloated unhappy stomach. When I lost the weight I wanted to lose I was dismayed that I still had a visibly round stomach (to me at least). I…

I think for those of us with Hashimoto's it is especially important to try to eat a diet that is nutritionally solid. I keep my protein and fat on the high end (fat is needed by the body to make all kinds of necessary stuff like hormones), and the carbs on the lower end but not too low. In other words, I use the standard…

Do you obsess about other things in your life? If so, you might want to address that. The obsession with counting calories might be a symptom of something like obsessive compulsive personality disorder (which is different than OCD). I have OCPD, and I'm going to obsess about something. At least the calorie counting has a…

When I first started maintenance, I maintained at about 1400 kcal per day. I am a 5'10" woman, but I have some health problems (and urgh, middle aged) so it didn't surprise me that my metabolism was slower than average. But after I kept it there for awhile, I started to lose a little again. I slowly raised my calories…

Have you had a doctor run the blood tests for celiac disease?

I have taken a medication that had the side effect of fairly major weight loss. When I stopped taking it, I regained the weight right away (I wasn't trying to lose weight at the time so that was fine). The weight loss was real but my body needed to readjust to normal after, I think. So in your shoes I wouldn't worry at…

I have chronic migraine, so I tried the ketogenic diet as it is used for chronic migraine and children with intractable epilepsy. Not only was the migraine worse, but I generally felt like hell. I stayed on it for the two weeks to see if I would start to feel better, but I discontinued at that point because I just could…

I read the book "Healing the Shame that Binds You,"on the advice of a therapist. I think it did a very good job at describing how shame shapes our lives in negative ways. It didn't do such a good job of explaining what to do about it, but understanding the problem goes a long way. As long as you are mired in shame, eating…

Someone mentioned sleep eating - this isn't so farfetched. It is well documented as a side effect in some people who take Ambien, for example. If your numbers really don't add up, and you are taking a sleep aid such as Ambien that can cause amnesia, then I'd look into it.

How long have you been trying to lose the 10 pounds? The first bit I was on MFP the scale didn't budge, then it started dropping, even though I was doing exactly the same stuff. Bodies are weird sometimes. The other thing that might be going on is that you might not really need to lose 10 pounds. if that's the case, it…

I've been averaging around 1600 and maintaining. I weigh myself every day and average that as well. The real answer to how many calories you need to maintain is whether your weight is stable long term at that caloric intake. If you log everything every day and weigh yourself regularly it will become clear. When I first…

You want to lose weight. But that doesn't make it not hurt when the person you are thinking of marrying tells you that you aren't good enough at your current weight.

I am so sorry this happened to you. I would be crushed. I think you need to get to the bottom of where this is coming from. I would have a hard time trusting someone who had said such a thing to me. He would need to explain to me how this could be anything other than a sign of him having a lack of respect of me. It could…