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What do you do when you DO eat all the cookies? Do you log them? If not, you absolutely need to. Eating cookies is not something that 'happens' to you. It's a choice. On some level, you believe that it's worth it. So to have any chance of changing that behaviour, you need to fully experience the consequences of that…

Distraction. Don't stand there staring at cookies. If that's what you're going to do, don't go into the grocery store in the first place. You need to stop the temptation train at an earlier stop.

I'm afraid there is a lot of denial here. What you are doing is simply not healthy and you need to face up to that before you do yourself some serious harm.

What you're trying to do is pretty hard and thankless. If it were me, I'd stay away from trying to overturn the accepted dogma of an online community, it tends to be pretty stubborn. Instead I'd look for one that already talks sense. But if you decide to persist, your quest is noble. Ultimately the arguments from physics…

I'm not sure I understand the original post

Are you logging what you eat? If not, do that. Don't change anything else for a while, just log what you eat. That way you will give yourself time to adjust to the idea of getting back into a deficit. Also, you will glean important information about when you tend to overeat and on what, which could be very useful in…

If you push it too hard, your body will fight back to save itself from starvation. That is what the binges are about. They are not weakness, they are your body fighting to survive in what it sees as a starvation situation. I suspect you should not be trying to lose weight at all, but especially not trying to lose it this…

Depends if it's down to diet or exercise, and if exercise, how sore it left me. Weight gain due to muscle soreness seems to take longer to go, maybe 3-4 days. In your case, you probably have both at play.

I mean, if you ordered shoes and they only sent you one, would you cut off your foot?

I'm confused. Are you saying the dressmaker ordered the dress a size too small, and instead of asking for her to send it back and replace it with the correct size, or refund you so you can go elsewhere, you've decided to resize your actual body instead? When you aren't actually overweight? That is the strangest reaction to…

You could try maintaining your weight for a while - don't aim to lose anything, just focus on getting into the swing of logging your food. I've had times when I just didn't have the mental energy to actually eat at a deficit, but I could manage to maintain and sort of keep a lid on things.

I would pay double for no ads, too. As I currently pay nothing at all, double that would be a pretty good deal. Ads don't bother me much. At one point they were taking ages to download, to the point that they made the app pretty much unusable. That annoyed me (in fact it was a factor in stopping me logging for a while) but…

I'm getting like that too, it's a good habit to cultivate, both for health and for budget! Another poster mentioned having to order water if it runs out. I'm lucky that I live in a place where pretty much all the tap water is drinkable, so I have lots of options to fill it up, but even if that isn't the case where you…

You need to give this more time. It will take time to see a trend, and only then can you judge how fast you are losing. One weigh in is just a single number and there are many things that can affect that number, not just fat loss. I know it is frustrating, but you need to keep going consistently and be patient. If you stay…

At the end of the day, all myfitnesspal is trying to do is help you stick to your goals, whatever those happen to be. Even if you aren't really tracking macros and just left it at the default figures, it thinks you really want to stick to that and gives you reminders to be helpful. Of course you can ignore them or switch…

Starting new exercise causes water retention. This is normal and expected.

Fresh water weighs *exactly* 1g per 1ml (density 1000kg per cubic metre). There's nothing approximate about that. Oil, however, weighs between 800 and 900 kg per cubic metre. So 10ml of oil only weighs between 8 and 9 grams. I would personally use a measuring spoon for oil.

It may not be realistic to lose those pounds within that timescale. At your weight, half a pound a week is the max, and it may take longer than that. Puzzled as to why you need to lose the weight before school starts. Do they weigh you before they let you into classes or something? Flat stomach is not tied to any…

It could just be constipation because you're adapting to your new diet. I'd give it more time, and make sure you're drinking plenty.

What are your height and weight?

You have probably lost some fat, and also some water. Don't be too discouraged if the scale bounces back up. This is a long game and short term fluctuations are just part of it.

Not for everyone. That's the point, I think. For me, it's easier to stay fat. For my 'naturally slim' relatives, they would have to go against their natural tendencies to get fat, and they'd have to put in effort to stay that way. Some people naturally tend to be underweight and have to put in constant effort to gain…

I'm from the UK and the 'hot cereal/cold cereal' thing sounds odd to me too, because when we say 'breakfast cereal' we only ever mean the cold crunchy stuff. I realise porridge etc are technically 'cereals' (as are polenta, rice etc) but we don't use the term in that way when talking about breakfast.

None of us has any way to know one way or the other what the nature of your relationship is (people use 'girlfriend' in different ways). Anyway,, it doesn't really make much difference to the advice whether she's a friend or a partner. You still need to be losing weight for you, not someone else. In fact it makes me more…

I'm covered in stretch marks, from weight gain and pregnancy. I'm very prone to them. They do seem to get more prominent for a while when you are shrinking, and then less so as the skin recovers. Give it time. If they are still pink just now then it means they have not fully healed, they eventually turn silvery and are…

I've noticed my heart/lungs seem to adapt to exercise quicker than the muscles. When I start new cardio exercise, I'm feeling breathless quickly and that's limits what I can do. Within a very short time of adapting, that has gone away and I'm fighting the burn in my muscles when my heart still seems to have plenty to give.…

Not relevant to your basil mountain, but I made a sort of pesto thing once by whizzing up frozen peas and mixing with grated cheddar. It worked well on pasta. ETA just to clarify, I did thaw the peas first. We called it peasto.

You could get some ground pork and spices and make up your own sausage without the rusk. The sausage texture is a lot to do with the salt and fat content and squishing it around a lot (the opposite to how you treat a burger).

Have you adjusted your calorie goal for your new weight? As you get lighter, you need fewer calories. Myfitnesspal is meant to do this automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck and you need to change your rate of loss to and fro to force it to recalculate.