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I'd guess it's dehydration or the weight loss itself that's causing you to have gout issues. For hydration, it looks like the hydration target is an ouput of >2L of urine per day. If your weight loss trend is more than 1%/week, I'd suggest reducing your deficit and seeing if slower losses help with the gout. Your body…

Ground. I toss the walnuts in the food processor, grind them into itty bits. Add the sugar and let it act as an abrasive to get the nuts finer, until they're starting to turn into nut butter. Toss in the eggs/salt/leavening and whiz it more. The chocolate can either be added with the walnuts or melted and added after the…

No flour. The recipe was inspired by those three-ingredient peanut butter cookies (peanut butter, sugar, egg).

We make delicious GF walnut brownies. Walnuts, sugar, chocolate, egg, a little vanilla, salt and leavening. Lots of omega-3. They're good for the kid to eat, but when I eat them, I eat fewer calories overall, so I haven't made them in forever.

Some people who have celiac disease report that they lose weight more easily after going gluten free. I didn't, and actually gained weight as my absorption of nutrients improved. There are some foods that upset my digestive system when I eat them - it can make me feel like I'm hungry all the time. That makes it harder to…

It only takes 4-5 months to get a new order!

Coconut milk drinks and coconut oil are good ideas. I could probably do a coconut milk chai or cocoa that would work too. Today I'm trying chicken gravy out of condensed cream of chicken soup and heavy cream - we'll see how that goes. If I put it over roast chicken breast, it ends up ~ 370 calories per 3/4 cup.

I bought 2lb bags of fresh cauliflower florets at Costco last night for $3.50 each. Whole heads were ~ $2 per at TJ.

Oh, I haven't done risotto in awhile. That's a good idea, thanks! Crackers with my soups is a good idea too - they seem to add a nice dose of calories and sort of melt into the soup without bring much substance.

Nut butters tend to be a little problematic - I can do a tablespoon or two. I should make sure to eat that tablespoon or two most days, though. Nut butter in milkshakes and sauces seems to be best. The rest, yeah, that's my daily life. And mayo. Lean meats dipped in mayo-based sauces. Chips or crackers scooping up…

I'm not sure which version of healthy you're going for you, but lets see... You can make smoothies in advance. Toss them in the freezer and once they're hard you can leave one in the fridge overnight. A good shake/stir and it should be pretty milkshake consistency in the morning. Also good in a shaker bottle would be…

We get olive oil from a local market that labels the individual bottles (repacked from the wholesale packaging, presumably) with press dates marked and polyphenol testing. (Polyphenols, like the rest of the antioxiants in olive oil degrade fairly quickly after pressing.) We bought a Chilean olive oil with really high…

Track everything you eat and learn how to eat at a deficit are kind of the hallmarks of MFP, so it's not really surprising that it tends to be the majority of posters here. I do a lot of calorie blocking. Breakfast is a block of about X calories. Lunch is a block of about Y calories. Dinner is either low/med/high, and…

To avoid sugar, what about: hard boiled eggs turkey/chicken or ham wrapped in a lettuce leaf Pre-portioned cheese (string cheese or cottage cheese might be good choices) peanut butter, almond butter or cream cheese in celery sticks nuts (pistachios or other whole nuts will slow you down) Veggies with dip (hummus, maybe?)…

I don't like slimfast shakes. I tried them as a teenager (not the diet, just the shakes) and the only way I found them palatable involved mixing with milk, ice, extra cocoa powder and a banana. The new slimfast method isn't 2 shakes and a meal, it's 2 (200 calorie) shakes or meal bars, 3 (100 calorie) snacks and a (500…

I'm in a remarkably odd place, so this struck a chord. I eat to fuel my body, not for pleasure. It works out... variably, but it isn't something that I would recommend for anyone. In January, I was obese. I needed an antibiotic and took two doses which upset my stomach and I've never properly recovered from it. I've…

I have some experience with this. If your dinner stays in your stomach all night - there's something medically wrong with you, and you should go and get it checked out. On the bright side, it's something wrong with you that will probably make you lose weight!

Having actually read Varady, it isn't 500/600 and TDEE. It's 25% of TDEE (with 500/600 as approximations for anyone who doesn't want to figure out their TDDE) and ad libitum on alternate days. One of the advantages of ADF is that you don't have to log your food on non-fasting days. Most of the studies have involved obese…

Unintentional weight loss is terrifying. With my condition, I lost 35lb before we got it under control, and I really struggled to maintain that weight. The GI said I could lose another 10, to see if it made it easier to maintain. It did, but then I accidentally lost another 10lb two months later. Part of me wants to ease…

I mostly drink genmaicha (green tea with toasted rice) - it is my current comfort food. My indulgent splurge is usually oolong. I'm very fond of assam, but I'm also picky about it - so I only drink assam at home, when I have the time and attention to fiddle with it. When I need to add calories, I drink chai. I'm working my…

My favorite is the Sinto radish kimchee. What we have now is Genuine Grub (ok, but I prefer the cubed radish of Sinto) and King's (I haven't tried that one yet).

I have gastroparesis, and my usual symptoms are lack of appetite and early satiety, so been there - done that! Exercise may help perk up your appetite - mild/moderate cardio seems to help me. Drinking calories is an excellent method of getting them down. I have a lot of soup and smoothies when the GP flares up. Crackers…

I have a spike ~ CD 10 (which always goes above my trendline), and then another ~7 days before my period (which doesn't usually hit the trendline). They both last a couple of days.

Our household is a little different - my husband is on high fat, low carb, high fiber for weight loss. I'm on low fat, low fiber, high carb for easy digestion and weight stabilization. The kid would live on pasta and cheese if we let her.... Our answer is that there's something on the table that's good for each of us. A…

(On re-reading, this comes across a little less weight variance/water-shifting/weight discontinuity is complex and a little more 1) Steal Underpants. 2) ?????? 3) Weigh less! - sorry about that. ) Likewise, the OP's trainer's advice seems to involve a little magical thinking. As it is now, it works out for the OP, with…

Yup, water balance is a funny thing. Although my GI claims that in a lot of people there's a fair amount of stool weight fluctuation, too.

Thanks for the judgement. I'll be sure to file it appropriately - somewhere beneath the opinion of the medical professionals who have reviewed my medical record and were involved with my care at the time. The topic is of interest to me merely because fluctuating water balance explained my weight drops with long periods of…

Meh. Bodies are weird, and don't count calories consumed to determine how much they ought to weigh. When I was actively losing, I regularly ate at a deficit, but I'd lose 10lb in a week then "plateau" or "stall" for 3-5 weeks, then lose another 5-10lb. Lyle McDonald mentioned it in one of his books - something about water…

IME, Chipotle bowls as prepared contain significantly more rice, cheese and sour cream than the website thinks that they do. For the meat and beans it's usually a smaller difference.

sliced turkey or ham with mustard, celery with almond or peanut butter, hard boiled egg, coarsely mashed black beans with salsa, hummus and veggie, lentil salad...