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I lost weight pretty quickly due to a medical condition. According to my doctors, you're pretty safe sustaining a loss of ~1% of your body weight per week. At more than 10lb/month, there's increased risk of gallstones and kidney stones. There's an increase in fracture risks. Most of the bad things about rapid weight loss…

Sloppy accounting works both ways. I see a lot of people talking about rounding up "I put a tablespoon of half and half in my coffee, and I call that 100 calories" "I add 200 calories a day to make up for all the tastes and condiments I eat" "I log everything I put on my plate, even if I don't eat it." I suspect, as with…

I'm still getting local grapes in California. They're about the same price year round ($3.50-$4/lb). About the same as the Chilean grapes I can get, too.

I'd want a scale that can be calibrated. IME, scales that can be calibrated seem to not need it, and scales that can't be calibrated are nearly always out of true.

She knows that I'm trying to maintain weight, and am clearly struggling with it. We have a diagnosis that explains the weight loss, but it doesn't keep it from happening. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but to be asked if the loss was ok - wasn't it.

When you're working with TDEE - it's total calories, not net. Otherwise you're double-counting your exercise. I don't know that I'd give much credence to two weights taken on different scales, with different clothing and probably at different times of the day. Start weighing in regularly - on the same scale, in the same…

My husband asked his doctor about losing weight. His doctor said "Your blood work looks great, and you get 10-15 hours of exercise a week - you're good." He's been slowly losing weight anyway. My doctor looked at me last time I went in for a sinus infection "You've lost 12lb since I saw you last - is that ok?" I always…

I like to keep the portion small. I also like chocolate. A couple of andes mints. A single triangle of a toblerone. One square (or even a half square) of Trader Joe's dark chocolate with hazelnuts. Most days I have fruit after lunch - oranges, pineapple and berries seem to give me the most enjoyment for my calories.

I've done it, and had it not be water bounce. I wouldn't recommend it, didn't do it intentionally and my doctor was not so pleased. It's hard on your body to lose weight that quickly, and it won't all be fat you're losing.

Yeah, I have memories of my first colonoscopy because my heart rate got too low (It went down to 32bpm, and they brought me slightly out of the sedation). The second time I said "Last time I had sinus bradycardia, and I remember waking up, then being given something else and I fell asleep again. I liked the parts I was…

Ok, your prep was WAY smaller than mine. I needed a 17.9oz bottle, plus a smaller bottle, and 144oz of gatorade. By the time you're peeing out your butt, it's much less irritating than the earlier stages, IME. For the OP - I wasn't ever hungry during the prep. I was cold, and felt full. I like hot soup for the clear fluids…

What about trying to make better choices instead of just going back to sleep? Then you can try to save some calories from the day for overnight.

I'm a dealmaker. I also recognize that my subconscious can be much sneakier than my conscious mind. If I'm going to feed a food craving, I give myself -exactly- what I want. Last week, I had an utterly emotional craving for a greasy burger. Preferably on a donut. So I sat and imagined my burger. What would make it perfect?…

I didn't. I wrote down all the things that I hated about being on a diet. I wrote down all the self-destructive things I tend to do on a diet, and mapped out their triggers. Then I made a plan for myself that avoided them. When things changed, my plan adapted. Counting calories every day is unsustainable for me. I made the…

This week it's sausage. Particularly paired with carbs. Warm corn tortilla, melty havarti cheese and breakfast sausage link. Breakfast sausage patty, toast and a fried egg. Italian sausage with peppers and onions with a side of pasta. Italian sausage, peppers and onion sandwich. Cured sausage with cheese and crackers.…

I'm not sure if that was directed at me, since I mentioned very low calorie days are when I tend to log. If not, you can disregard this, because it doesn't apply to most people in the weight loss forum. I'm looking for maintenance, and tend to lose weight - I log bird-eating days so I know how many calories I need to try…

The USDA database says that chicken drumsticks are 68% refuse* So 168g of raw bone-in drumstick should yield 100g of raw meat+skin weight. *that's 34% bone/cartilage and 34% bone/connective tissue in the entry for meat and skin from chicken drumsticks. The entry for meat only has 43% refuse - 34% bone/cartilage and 9%…

One of my goals is to be able to maintain (or slowly lose or slowly gain, as I see fit) without logging. Logging is frequently inconvenient for me, and I find it difficult to sustain. Instead of logging every meal, every day, I'm using logging to calibrate my sense of "enough" or my sense of moderation. I'm also using it…

Trader Joe's has new "crispy, crunchy broccoli florets" - it's like the broccoli version of banana chips. They were surprisingly tasty, and I can't eat anywhere near what they call a serving.

The intent of keto (low carb, adequate protein, high fat) is that you replace the protein you're eating too much of with fat. My husband does modified keto (he eats slightly higher carb on days he bicycles more than 2 hours) and his target is 2g of fat per gram of protein. Higher fat beef and pork (he generally avoids…

I spend a lot of time not logging, and often log just one meal in a day. For me, calorie tracking is a tool, and I use it when I need it. I'll usually log new recipes/meals once and see how they fit into my usual diet. If I have unusual dinner plans (really high or low calorie) I might track the whole day to make sure it's…

Instead of standing in cold water, I've had good luck with a flexible gel ice pack at the back of my head. It's sort of torture, but it works. I take a couple of magnesium pills, advil with coke/coffee or excedrin with juice then grab the ice pack, stumble to my bed, put on a blackout blindfold and lie down with the ice…

I like to look at things I can tweak for next time, because feeling like I have a plan makes me more comfortable. So I might look at today's breakfast (2 sausages, an ounce of cheese, two corn tortillas and some coffee) and say "Was that the best use of 370 calories? Could I come up with something more satisfying or as…

That seems perfectly reasonable. It would be easy to see if there was any water or other non-miscible liquid in the oil, and you've clearly removed a verifiable amount.

One strategy might be to log a couple of example days of the medifast packets + lean and green meals (plus any extras) you've been eating. Then set your MFP targets to match what you've been eating. You can change one thing at a time and see how it affects you.

I don't think that I claimed people become special snowflakes and the laws of physics don't apply. And if you'll notice, I pointed out that the OP was eating less when he was losing weight. By about a pound a week. At his calorie counts, eating less is probably a better win than exercising more. However, there's plenty of…

The theory is actually that your body gets used to the same exercise and you improve efficiency. Most of that improvement seems actually be in technique. My suspicion is that advice works because people have a lousy ability to gauge exercise. Changing your exercise (running faster, cycling instead of running, etc) resets…

Changing your exercise can help - over time your body gets more efficient at doing the same things, so you're going to burn fewer calories. Otherwise - eat less. It looks like you were eating 5-600 fewer calories per day in September. I've had anecdotal experience with "eat more and lose", but it's two very specific…

I actually started weighing every day because I WAS obsessed with the scale. Now I have a year's worth of data that tells me I always have a spike about CD 10, and another about CD 21. I also tend to shrug a lot about the number on the scale. It probably took me two months to stop obsessing.

When and how did you track that? It looks like you log on MFP for a few days, then stop, then log for a few days. Most people (myself included) tend to eat more on days they don't log. It isn't intentional - but there's a pretty big subconscious bias. Either way - you know that you do best when you eat ~1500 calories per…