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Had to go down a size when buying jeans today. I have another pair of the same model and I thought them getting looser just meant they'd overstretched. Nope! :smiley: (Also broke my step record today, 17,000+ steps. On a workday, too, and my job is a very much a desk job.)

I use it as a rough guide, but take what it says with a grain of salt, especially since my Flex doesn't know how to count when it comes to my deficit. Example: my deficit is set to 500. Yesterday my deficit was 725 cals (2258 out, 1533 in), but the app simultaneously tells me "You are under budget" AND "169 calories over".…

I donate regularly (I have for over 10 years) but I honestly never even considered the possibility of it burning calories. o_O All I've accounted for is the temporary dehydration/desanguination, meaning I try to drink more water and take it easier that afternoon/evening. Oh, and I try to amp up my iron intake too.

Be careful, it's very moreish. ;)

Gingerbread (the Nordic kind) with blue cheese and fig jam. But only as a very occasional treat because it's OMGALLTHECALORIES. Russian pickles with smetana and honey.

I got the same result. Thin wrist, broad elbow, so the results don't match. (And believe me, I pinched hard on my elbow.) I have disproportionately thin wrists (I get that from Dad), but my shoulders and my ribcage are broad, ditto my hips (and I'm 5'8"), so I usually discount anything that only looks at wrist measurement.

Thanks for the replies, everyone. Looking back over the post, I see a lot of my early morning frustration had spilled into it, making me sound rather nervy and obsessed. (I won't deny my self esteem is very low, however. I'm trying to work on it.) I'll take logging into consideration, since it'd let me see if I'm just…

Every day. I changed the unit on the scales to lbs (normally I'm all metric) so I wouldn't get so stuck on the number and let it determine how I feel about myself, plus I log the number in an app that calculates an average to smooth out the inevitable jags.

5'8"-ish, 40.5-29-42 I've always had a hilarious waist-to-hip ratio. (Finding trousers that fit without alterations: like looking for the Holy Grail.) I'm hoping my hips will narrow a little as I slim down, ideally to match my top, but I know I can't spot reduce or fight my genes. I'll always have wide hips and big thighs.…

Seconding this. I have fainted due to low blood pressure (standing up too fast after squatting down for more than a minute can do it) and I can definitely tell if I'm about to pass out. I can only speak for myself, but when it happens, my field of vision gradually shrinks to nothing, my ears start ringing/droning and my…

I love the stuff. The only time I've actually spat it back out was when I made the mistake of mixing it with strawberry-flavoured whey power. Eurgh. Tart+sickly sweet=terrible combination. I mostly get the unflavoured stuff (Fit or Rainbow, occasionally Ehrmann) and put either a tiny bit of maple syrup or applesauce in it,…

Huh. I tend to worry that I flatter myself and think I'm smaller than I am, and then the test gives me "you are 20% smaller than you think you are". (I knew I was an hourglass shape-wise, though, that wasn't news.)

Ooh, finally someone with the same trifecta as me. A lot of the PCOS advice here is aimed at people with IR, which I don't have (nor do I have cysts or central obesity), so I've decided to just try weight loss first and see how that works. BC didn't make me gain (or if it did, it was minute), but that's different for…

My bad, I phrased it poorly. What I meant is that I can feel that the other bones and joints are thick/sturdy (if I measure my elbow in the manner someone upthread suggested, I come out as large-framed). My wrists are disproportionately wimpy. I've even been told that when I had to have my hand x-rayed to rule out a…

I find that for me, it's wildly inaccurate. I have tiny wrists (I can get each pair of fingers to touch, even thumb and pinkie), but broad shoulders and hips (definitely not a small frame, and yes, I'm talking wide bones here). It might work for others if they want to gauge frame size, though.

So sorry for your loss. :hugs: It's always tough to lose someone you've loved so much. I lost my grandma in July (it was very sudden), and my eating patterns got thrown out of whack for weeks. At first, I didn't have any appetite at all (I was exhausted from crying and didn't care about anything), then it seemed to return…

I guess I'm bucking that trend, then. :( I recognize clearly that it's all up to me, but it's still bloody hard. Hard because I sabotage myself because the rules I set for myself are too strict. I don't blame anyone else for that. So for me, it seems to be a question of impatience (leading to failure) rather than not…

I'm incredibly ashamed of how much I weigh, and the last time I told anyone how much I weigh was five years ago. And that was a GP who needed the number for her files. (I was 8kg/18lb lighter then! Right on the cusp between normal and overweight as I'm 5'8"-ish.) I probably won't tell anyone until I hit the sixes (ie 69 kg…

IMHO, if you're going to drink your coffee black, invest in good coffee. :smile: A good blend that's been roasted right will taste lovely on its own. The best coffee I've ever had was a Peruvian blend that was soft and very slightly sweet on its own. I'll also echo the suggestions upthread: scale down on sweetener/sugar…

Confession: I'm elated by the sharp drop in my weight during the last three days, even though it was caused by/thanks to the All-Natural Norovirus Cleanse (a.k.a. Let's Have You Throw Up Everything That Isn't Bolted Down) and therefore just water weight. :/ Today is the first time in three days that I've a) managed to eat…

I tried to figure out my shape based on that wiki link and it seems I'm what I thought I was: an hourglass (though possibly leaning toward a bottom hourglass; I have ~2 in difference between bust-hips, 13 in between waist-hips). :D When people tell me they're jealous of my shape/waist-hip ratio, I tell them finding…

I do sometimes stop to wonder why I fixate so much on the number on the scale. I mean, no one (apart from nurses at health checkups) has ever asked me point-blank: "How much do you weigh?" Also, for the last two days, I've felt pretty okay about my body in the morning before I stepped on the scale. Then I weigh myself and…

I was so flippant about my food baby/gain after that giant May Day brunch, thinking it'd go away in a few days. It hasn't. I'm STILL gaining, despite going back to normal (even more restricted than normal) eating. I'm up almost another pound in five days and it's doing my head in because I tend to let what I weigh in the…

Aztec Two Step Detox Tea - you'll never trust a fart again!

If you have beer left over, use it to beer brine some chicken. It's delicious! And it makes the chicken really moist, too.

I know that feeling so well. :/ That damn dissonance that @ythannah mentioned is what keeps me second-guessing and over-analyzing every.damn.compliment. I wish I could just accept the compliments instead of tearing them apart to find the catch. But, as always, it's one thing to acknowledge an issue and another to actually…

I'm still trying to figure out if being a Gemini means I should eat for two or eat people...