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Oh, also...I am officially menopausal now. My last period was in February of 2017.

Update: I started using progesterone cream on my doctor's advice and I just realized I haven't had any hot flashes in a while. I use it for three weeks out of every month.

I used to, a long time ago. I was proud of myself if my stomach rumbled from hunger because I assumed I was being forced to burn fat. I just didn't really understand how it actually works.

Are you really 61? You are gorgeous. I know you were just sharing your experiences and what you found on what is supposed to be a reliable source. I get it. Personally I work out at night. I would never have time to get up in the morning, work out, shower, dry my hair, get my kids ready to be on their buses, have everybody…

Or I believe somewhere in the area of 25% of the globe, for that matter?

I love eating at night. Ahhh, relaxation and a nice warm bite (or cold one...ice cream...mmmm....) I make sure I have calories remaining at the end of the day just for this purpose. Undoubtedly it is psychological, unhealthy, un"mindful" and probably connected to my mother in some way, and you should never, ever use food…

I can't imagine even having relatively big'uns throws things off all that drastically...I mean surely the Powers That Be have noticed by this point that women have breasts and have accounted for same. Of not, then BF% is totally bogus so why worry about it? I have giant hooters and trust me, I know when, south of them, I…

I am hypo-T and my stubborn doctor doesn't take me down to what would be optimized (and finding a replacement for my former endo who moved has been a *ich with a capital C), and I am menopausal. I don't feel I have it harder than anyone else when it comes to weight loss. My weight loss is slow but that's because I am at a…

I actually never missed a period (until peri), not even when I was eating little enough to be fainting in class and losing hair and was down to 95 lbs. If you're not restricting beyond what is reasonable (you should know what that is for you) then you may want to just check in quickly with the doctor if you still don't get…

I had a friend like this in high school. 5'8", 108 lbs. She hated being as thin as she was. And we all thought, "Oh, this girl PIGS out, this is crazy, she must have an insane metabolism..." But the more we hung out the more I saw that yes, she would pound back a handful of loaded nachos, but then just trail off and stop…

How honest/graphic should we be? I may be done with periods (nearly a year now without one) but when I was so heavy that I...well, gushed, no matter what I was wearing, I did all standing-up exercises. Somehow not having backward pressure, I guess, made gushing less likely during a given exercise. And immediately before…

Oh, God, why did they have to take away the Awesome button???

And it is precisely THE BINGING you describe that keeps the fat on. :) Because food. No Set Point necessary...just eating at a surplus. As you have just described. Are you saying the body somehow knows lack of resources due to dieting v. lack of resources due to actual lack? Like geographically/nearby? Because I don't…

I like the touch of drama in that first sentence, LOL. I am picturing giant eyes and a mouth in a shocked "O." "You can't be serious!!!" Very 60s B-movie. Made me smile. :) Anyway....so this Set Point dealio ALSO involves people who regularly eat? That is another "rule"? How about people who eat at regularly intervals…

Wow, that sounds so cool and corset backs are so on trend, not to mention romantic, IMO. OP, this sounds like a really great idea. How about it? Meanwhile, start that weight loss plan. You can get healthier...so many of us have.

So this is an older dress, obviously, not one you just bought. Why do you need to wear it now? Can't you buy a different dress instead? Or have a seamstress add panels to this one in order to make it fit you, if it has some sort of sentimental value or some specific meaning for you? I just think trying to decide in advance…

I think it depends on where. If she means 5 total inches of a combined loss on, say, her bust, underbust, waist, hips, calves and upper arms, probably not, if she is eating at a deficit and doesn't fall off the wagon, experience stalls, and somehow achieves an exact downward trajectory of loss in an exact,…

I don't think that's too much. I started out at nearly 1600 per MFP and am probably much older than you (I was 48 at the time) and I think I was set to sedentary, and I lost weight. Try it, see what happens.

Honestly, excess skin doesn't make weight loss harder, unless I am misunderstanding that. Are you saying it's hard to deal with now having the sagging skin? I get that. Totally. It is hard to come to terms with. Do you have a plan? Have you input your data in MFP to determine how many calories you need to eat?…

Does Lyle explain then how it is that people actually do starve?

But then your new "set" temperature isn't 101.2. It goes back to about 98.6. That is true whether your temporary condition was a fever or hypothermia (well, unless you die from it). Whether up OR DOWN. :) You don't get a 100F fever, stay at 100F for a while, get sick again, go to 101F, stay up there for a while, get sick…

No way. I always wound up face-down in a feed bag full of Doritos following any keto attempt. The 7 or 8 water weight pounds came back instantaneously each time. I tried it looks a gazillion times. I'm slow to catch on, obviously. When I went on my LC boards they were always filled with either people fantasizing about…

I love holidays, all holidays, but I do kind of like being back in a "regular" routine. As far as eating, I really didn't go nuts in any sort of extended way this holiday season (Halloween through New Year's). I had I think three big "overeats" during that time. I had raised my daily calories a bit (long story) and just…

Fruit, toast, muffins, or cold pizza.

This came out weird. What I meant to say is that I tried for 13 years to stick to a weight reducing eating plan, THEN after I did buckle down and stick with it, I lost 60 lbs.

I was really slim before having my middle child in 2003. Then I was gigantic. It took me 13 years to stick with a reasonable deficit plus workout program to lose 60 lbs. I don't even know how many "times" or restarts that was. Weekly. Sometimes, daily.

You need a different dress. Why did you buy a dress that was 5" too small? Or is it someone else's and you want to wear it for sentimental value? Thank the person and tell her you love her and would like to honor her by wearing her veil instead. Or her pearls. And then buy a dress the fits you. I mean fits you right now.…

A clinically low metabolism is extremely rare and causes some BIG problems. Metabolism is responsible for providing all your energy needs - including, for example, breathing. It isn't just about being able to eat more or less. I am 50 and I still gain the way I always have - overeating - and I still lose weight the way I…

You wave a magic wand and your azz shrinks.

I doubt it. You were growing and were consuming, overall, approximately maintenance calories to exist, be active, and grow, even if you felt like you were "force feeding" yourself. Also, I am assuming you DID gain weight. You didn't weigh, say, 55 lbs. at age 6, age 10, and age 14. Right? :) Unless by "young" you mean full…