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First question in my mind if someone is having problems with food obsession, cravings, binges (or wanting to binge) is: are you eating enough? Of course there are other possible reasons, but that's the first one I'd check. What is your height, weight, goal weight, and calorie allowance? Are you allowing extra calories for…

If you enjoy it, that's fine. To each their own. But just watch that your calories are not too low. At your weight you need to be aiming to lose weight slowly and gently, as there isn't much fat to lose and you can give yourself various problems with too low a calorie goal. Your listed menu seems very low in calories.

My life insurance company charges extra if your BMI is 'obese' or higher. No penalty for 'overweight'. I think it's fair, to be honest, for life insurance - which is basically gambling. You pays your money, you takes your chance. Health insurance is rather different. Putting hurdles between people and healthcare because…

I'm not a fan of the texture of cooked egg that's been frozen, it goes spongy and watery. I would just keep cooked egg in the fridge. You can cook them up once a week and they'll keep fine (if they're not in the shell, put them in an airtight container so they don't dry out and make the fridge smell).

I'm also happier and less anxious when I log my food - and I enjoy food more!

You could use something like Pacer for a week or so to get a snapshot of how active you are, if you don't want to shell out for a pedometer. Though the simple ones are pretty cheap.

You're buying yourself an extra 1000 calories to eat over the weekend, then. You might find it helpful to watch the weekly total or weekly average rather than daily. You can even change your calorie goal from day to day if you find that helpful - eg say your goal is 1800, you can keep it at 1600 on weekdays, then change it…

Great to hear good news! Keep at it, you're kicking life in the butt.

No, I keep it quiet mostly. If you're being served by someone else and are worried the portion is too big, just don't finish it. Most people don't pay much attention to how much others are eating. If someone does mention it (rude), just say you're not hungry. I agree with many others on here that making your weight loss…

It can vary massively. Why not get a pedometer? If you have a rough number of steps it will make it easier to pick the correct activity level.

Everyone has a different approach. I'm coming down on the side of "eat what you want but log it all". Previously I did "eat what you want and don't log anything", but I'm happier logging, and it makes it easier for me to get back on the horse afterwards. Your mileage may vary.

Keto involves tracking carbs quite precisely. If you haven't lost weight calorie counting for that length of time, your tracking isn't as precise as it needs to be for either approach to work. I'd advise you to take this seriously and take the advice of people here, who have made pretty much every tracking mistake known to…

I was going to take up a clean eating regime where I eat nothing but raw carrots that I pull from the ground with my teeth. But does weeding count as processing? What about digging the ground over? What about selective breeding? Perhaps I should go back to the raw nettle diet. ... OP, healthy eating =/= suffering.

Why have you chosen such a boring diet? Are you trying to punish yourself?

Drinking water is definitely a good idea when you're sick, but trying to suppress your appetite when your body is trying to recover from illness is not great advice at all.

I would absolutely say eat as much as you can get away with while still losing weight. Go for a moderate rate of loss that gives you a calorie budget you can live with - a pound a week, half a pound a week, whatever works for you. @amusedmonkey is right that you also need to deal with psychological matters, but I have…

I didn't get that impression at all.

Really interesting. Weight loss Vs body acceptance seems to me a false dichotomy. Losing weight is an act of self care. So many of us started from a place of self-loathing, shame, self-punishment - we only started to make progress when we got out of that mindset and started to see weight loss as a way to better love our…

I've had a few glitches of this type over the last month or two. Not often enough to be a serious annoyance, but yes, I recognise especially the problem of things being logged and then disappearing. I've also deleted things and had them come back again. Looks like something has changed in the syncing between the app and…

Almost but not quite. What she's lost will be mostly water weight in the first week, but not completely. When you go into a deficit you start losing fat right away. The beginner whoosh is a combination of fat loss and water weight.

Also, I don't weigh myself when I'm ill, as dehydration/water retention will mess up the numbers to the point that they're meaningless. I really wouldn't worry about forming habits that will carry on when you're better. Being very ill is such a not-normal situation that all your behaviors and routines are out of whack…

Eat at maintenance (unless I've lost my appetite, in which case I eat however much I feel like eating), drink plenty of fluids, and put off weight loss til I'm better. Eating at a deficit puts your body under stress, and when I'm sick, I want my body to put all its resources towards the complex business of fighting disease…

Eggs. Fried, boiled, scrambled, omelettes... Pasta. You can make a number of quick pasta toppings in the time it takes for the noodles to cook. Rice with various things through it - canned fish is a good addition. I keep pots (about 250ml) of leftover cooked meat in the freezer, which makes it very easy to make a quick…

OP, I know it can be hard to be super accurate when others are cooking for you, but you really need to start trying to log at weekends. A rough estimate is a lot better than an empty diary, which can be hiding all sorts of munching. This is definitely a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good. I don't think you are…

OP, if you're not logging your weekends, I'm afraid you're a long way from being accurate. It's very easy to undo a whole week's deficit over the weekend. If you want this to work, you need to consistently log everything you eat over several weeks. Persistence and thoroughness are key to this.

You can't really just stop being upset. The way you feel is the way you feel, whether it's rational or not. Tell yourself the helpful things people have suggested above, then give yourself a hug and carry on with your day. You'll feel better shortly.

Yes, you need to dial back on the scale obsession. The human body is not a solid object with a fixed weight, it's a complex system made up mostly of water. Think of it more like a wet sponge - it's weight varies according to how much water it's holding at that moment. And those variations are complex and unpredictable.…

Perhaps when I was in labour. But then I had no idea what time it was, or what day it was. Also, I was on a drip. Apart from that, never. I've skipped meals a few times, but only at times of very extreme stress (like death-of-close-family type stress), and I always thought about the meal, maybe even made it, but just…

How precise is your logging? Are you weighing your food? As you get lighter, your logging will need to get more accurate. There's less room for approximation. You may need to weigh your portions at least for a while to make sure you're not suffering from portion creep.

Just keep logging and don't dramatise it. If you are persistent about logging and don't build overeating into a big disaster, you'll get back on track eventually. When people end up going off the rails is when they throw their hands up in despair and stop logging. Don't do that. Whatever you eat, log it. Be totally honest…