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According to your diary you ONLY eat meat and dairy (with the exception of some veggies today, the first time in a week). Are you logging everything, or eating other foods that you haven't been logging? I'll assume your log is accurate. You need to eat a lot more carbs, bodies need carbs, it's in the owner's manual. Yes,…

Sorry if this is too obvious but you /did/ calibrate the new scale -- or it went through a visible self-calibration cycle, as many digital scales do -- before using it, right? Also, if your scale came with a battery, it's often worth it to just throw that out right away and get a fresh battery in there. The batteries that…

Love this tip, would be LIFECHANGING, except my scale doesn't do negative. After zero it goes to bars. :sad:

I read an interesting article quite recently, /sorry/ I can't remember where or I'd reference it, about a grocery store chain that was partnering with a government health organization to do some experiments to see what they could do to turn some of this merchandising science the junk food industry has to getting people to…

Peanut butter on toast is my diet salvation! It's very filling and satisfying. Sure, it's not a low-calorie food. As long as you carefully plan for the fat calories (no one should be eating a 0% fat diet, gee whiz!), it fits nicely in with any healthful eating plan. Like ANY calorie dense food, it is not suitable for…

Hang in there, is does get better. My hunger dragon lasted for exactly two weeks, then I was fine. Some of that was my body getting used to less food, some of that was experimenting with what foods made me feel full and satisfied but fit in my plan. My salvation in the first couple of weeks was planning for a piece of…

I'm tracking my weight and using weight as goalposts, but the ultimate goal is to feel better, healthier, stronger and to use this "dieting" time to build healthy sustainable habits for maintenance later.

I'm learning that when I skip a day, then trying to exercise the NEXT day is utterly miserable. And it's mostly a psychological thing, not a body reaction. So anyway I only let myself have one day off a week, my official rest day, because I just CAN'T FACE that disabling misery when the break is over.

I started using the free workout videos from Fitnessblender.com recently when I weighed in at about 320 lbs. At higher weights like that, you have to be pretty selective about which videos (even some of the easy ones have exercises that seem unsafe or put way too much strain on your joints if you're carrying a lot of…

td;dr version: Very Low Calorie Diets or VLCDs are only appropriate for a short period of time. They can be useful for obese people to "kick start" a diet for a few weeks. However, over longer periods of time the stress of such a large calorie deficit can cause hormone imbalances / deficiencies that make it harder to lose…

I think the whole wheat stuff is actually quite tasty. I make a dessert with it and almond milk, dried cherries, and almonds.

Yeah. To be fair, there is a lot of semi-reasonable science and even (gasp!) consensus in the medical world that eating EXCESSIVE added sugar is bad for your health. But I also think a lot of the consensus is more around the idea that people eat too much junk food, junk food has a lot of calories, not a lot of nutrients,…

All calories turn into fat if not used. That's why we count calories.

I'm hearing two (related) problems, that probably need two different approaches. 1. You're uncomfortable with body talk. Especially when it's about your body. 2. You have a relative you touches you more than you'd like. I think the second one probably needs a direct resolution. It doesn't mean your aunt is a bad person,…

The poster is not talking a lot of specifics at all, but from what I see people are very rationally saying "Hey, eat vegan if you want, eat natural organic foods if you want, those are not bad ideas, BUT you said your goal was to get rid of toxins. You know 'cleansing to get rid of toxins' is junk science and hogwash,…

MFP's default sugar limits are absurdly low: < 8% of calories. EVEN IF they meant to limit to "added" sugar as opposed to sugar naturally occurring in plant-based foods, that's aggressively low. And add to that, that their own database doesn't allow users to distinguish between "added" sugar and naturally occurring sugar…

Speaking as someone whose sense of smell borders on having a superpower, here is a PSA. Please do not use perfume to cover up BO. I'm not saying this as someone who hates perfume, or claims that it irritates my sinuses or allergies. I'm saying it smells very different when applied to a bad smelling person than when applied…

Yep, I've had this problem too. Typically after 3+ months of eating healthy. For me, it was two different things causing it. 1) My diet was too low fat. This was back in the 90's (I am an old!) when people really strove to cut ALL fat. I was eating <15% of calories from fat, and it gave me an inflamed and blocked…

Just a subtlety here: especially in workplaces where people don't know each other very well, this is just a matter of miscommunication. FOOD OFFERER: Have some cake! It's Phyllis' birthday! DIETER: Thanks, I'd love to, but I really can't because I'm on a diet. Sad face! To the dieter, this means, no thank you (but they're…

Actually, the optimal diet for unicorns is skittles and ecstasy.

I looked at your diary and agree it's not your diet. My next guess is that it's just laundry related. The synthetic fibers used in workout wear tend to resist laundering. 1. Pre soak in water + baking soda. 15 minutes will do, and you can't harm by oversoaking. 2. For really stubborn smells, add 1 cup white vinegar to the…

I agree with Ecka723 that it does take some experimentation and some time. I've been working on lowering my sodium and I have good days and bad days. If you're logging diligently with something like MFP you do start getting a sense of which foods tend to throw you into the red zone. Unfortunately, a lot of delicious flavor…

Big changes in protein intake can also change your natural BO (maybe because of the byproducts of metabolizing protein?), not necessarily bad or good, just different and you might be sensitive to that. And obviously increasing veggies with volatile compounds (eg aliums = garlic and onions, or cabbagey things) can do this…

Thanks! This worked!

Unless you have a commercial / restaurant bread oven, YES you need a heavy covered pot to make bread that beautiful. Something like what you showed in your picture would work great. Also a big dutch oven would work (and would be multi-purpose). Like this http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00063RWYI/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_Iasfsb1GBF3HH…

Honestly I think I'd prefer to make a distinction between "fat positive" and "body positive." Based on the OP's description, she used the term "fat positive" instead of the more common "body positive" pretty mindfully. Where "body positive" is ultimately about loving your body at any size, it's ultimately "fat neutral" as…

Bummer. You're gonna have to be firm with him. Does his practice / Canada include the ability to see what in the U.S. we call a "nurse practitioner" instead of a doctor? Here in the U.S. larger, more bureaucratic practices or HMOs sometimes include these. I have universally found them to be pretty awesome, because they…

Seriously, get a new doctor if your plan allows it. If your plan doesn't allow it, do you have open enrollment coming up in the fall? You doctor clearly just sent you the message "I don't approve of fat people, and refuse to treat them for anything but obesity." As you've said, it's not that he's wrong about you needing to…

Also, give me all the bacon and eggs you have.

I think relying on MFP for a potassium read will consistently result in an undermeasurement. MFP's data ultimately comes from food labels (either directly from manufacturer, or from users entering from package label). In the U.S., potassium levels are not consistently included on package labels. I for one frequently see…