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No you are not alone but i dunno know if knowing that is going to help you that much. It might make you feel a bit better though. So yes i've had my years of losing and regaining but now i'm off that cycle and am staying in maintenance forever. I've learnt a lot from the past few experiences and unlike you and probably…

The simplest answer i have for you is this. Do not cut your calories severely. Diet and avoid hunger. Eat three larger meals of nutritious food. Keep the meals closer together about 3-4 hours apart. If you have to go longer say 5 hours, have a snack when you start to get hungry. In my life, my afternoon snack is usually a…

Congratulations and i'm glad you are enjoying the exericse. But you the crucial thing you need to do to lose wieght is eat less and eat better not exercise. Exercise only becomes critical when you are at the skinny end of the program. By all means exercising if you dont increase your calories to compensate will result in…

In my opinion, you should set your calories to as high as possible so that you don't slow your metabolism more than necessary. Doing it this way will not slow your weightloss in fact it will make weightloss easier and more pleasant. You should set your speed of weightloss according to your current weight. If you are just…

That's a great tip.

Well unless you have a lot of money, i think its not a bad idea to keep your fat clothes for a while. I've just thrown mine out after quite a long time - I've been in maintenance since about October 2014, so wow that's a year. I am comfortable with this. I think its a good idea to keep them until you feel your new way of…

Its not just relevant to diabetics. Its relevant to all of us and you are right that low GI foods or less processed foods do keep you satisfied for longer. It matters particularly when you are cutting calories to get maxiumum bang for your buck out of food when in a calorie deficit. So the less processed your food, the…

Rice is not a good food for fasting. Its better to stick with protein if you are fasting. Reason being your body will lose less muscle tissue if you eat protein. You need to eat protein to maintain muscle mass.

wild Rice is rice and they are all grains. You could look up the difference between seeds and grains.

Ok this guy is not completely right. The GI of white basmati rice is not 90/100. Note the poster had the nutritional facts on basmati. Basmati rice is lower GI than ordinary short grain brown rice.

Basmati rice is good rice regardless of whether its brown or white. Just eat and enjoy it. If you want to know more about the nutritional differences between different types of rice google it and read a few articles. Written analysis will be out there and probably more reliable and less confusing than what you may read on…

The main thing that is available for diabetics on this site is the sugar counter. Lots of people use it in the belief that its of relevance to them. The only people counting sugar is relevant to are diabetics. What else would help? or do you expect? As a diabetic, i can tell you should aim to keep your carbs generally…

Okie DOkie, i'll have a go but it would help to know how many carbs you are allowing yourself every day. When i did my 2 month experiment with low carb first i did 100 carbs a day then i went down to 40 carbs a day becuase i wanted to experience the ketogenesis part. I only lasted two weeks. I was vegetarian at the time…

It looks like you are already skinny and don't need to lose anymore anyway. It would not be responsible to tell you to cut your calories any more or to increase your exercise. Learn to accept yourself as you are. Perfection is not all its cracked up to be and its certainly not necessary to be happy and beautiful and loved…

Good question. I have lost weight so many times so i am not sure that anything came unexpectedly this last time - in terms of things outside my diet that is. What has been wonderful though is some of the consequences of my diet rules: I don't relapse, I can avoid depression so far; Its so freeing to exercise only when i…

cups and tbsp can be just as accurate as weighing so long as you make them level. But my questions is, do you really need ot lose anymore weight. You are probably looking pretty close to perfect as you are now.

Its not hard to lose weight with hypothyroidism if your condition is being treated and your numbers are in the healthy range. If your numbers are off, then you should be able to increase your meds. If you can get hold of the results paper then you'll know if they are too low. You got the pills in your hand, take more. that…

Wow that must be a bother to have go through this all again. If you are smart, you will do what i did and not make the same mistakes you made last time. Have you analysed why you failed last time and figured out how not to get into the same mess again. Yes i have lost and regained many times over but i'm 52 almost. At your…

How come you didn't type in French? De tout facon, je ne suis pas francais mais j'aime bien la cuisine francaise. (I hope the gender is right there.) Avez-vous beaucoup de gras a perdre? (Excusez-moi, mon francais n'est pas tres bien, mais je comprends moi-meme tres bien. )

I would say that's the top activity level. But the thing is if you are doing this much exercise, i'm surprised that you need to bother counting calories at all. If you are overweight, well apart from being surprised, you must be eating a ton of food every day. The challenge for you is, can you maintain a low body weight or…

It is good to be part of a support group but in itself that may not be enough especially if you don't use it. I have a lot of frriends here and a great many of them have quit mfp. People fall of this mfp wagon all the time. I"m sorry to be the bearer of bad news there but you will need to do more than just be here. And as…

And excellent first post. LIke you i yo yo'd for most of my life until now. Last time i started, i was fed up with yo yoing so i determiend that this time i would not do it. So i took on the lessons i'd learned from previous attempts. I decided to take stock of what caused my failures, to create a plan and develop it to…

I know what 65kgs feel like. But i'm 10cm taller than you so i'm trying to imagine what its like to be 65kg at your height. Anyway, I would not say that health care professionals necessarily know what they have to do lose weight. Doctors are notoriously lacking in education about nutrition and weightloss methods. Why…

I know you are feeling impatient but if you rush it, … well let me put it this way, its easier to sustain if you take it a little more slowly. I know there are a lot of people who do one hour's worth of fitness six days a week but there are many more who started out this way and quit. You see as someone above suggested,…

I have so many sugestions but i think you should tell us how you usuall go about losing weight and then it will be easier for us to tell you where you might have went wrong. Give as much detail about the way you approach weightloss. As for "cant' lose" that's just rubbish. Everyone can lose weight. You have just been going…

Now i've gone back and read the other posts. You see how confusing it is when you use the word sugar to talk about carbohydrates. Anyway having done a low carb diet for a while last year, i would suggest that you probably do not need to go that route. Just quit sweet as indicated above. Its much easier and i have found it…

I don't get it. MOst of the recipes in the world are sugar free. What's the problem. Are you saying you want to eat sweet foods without sugar. That's another thing. If you going to quit sugar becuase you have a problematic sweet tooth, there is no point replacing sugar with honey, molasses, syrups of any kind ditto…

Well without knowing what she cooks, its hard to know but its sounds like its you who are being unreasonable. I mean it won't kill you to eat her food. Or even if you put on a tiny amount of weight from eating some of it, how is that doing to cause you any harm. Its that you don't want to eat her food for your own private…

She should not eat significantly under her recommended calories. That only leads to making weight loss harder if she has to do it for a long time. She should eat less refined carbohydrates most likely. And more vegetables because they are filling. Less snacking. Bigger meals so that they are more satisfying but made with…

Olive oil is good for cooking european foods - cold pressed extra virgin. ditto other cold pressed nut oils but they are expensive. Peanut oil is good for cooking asian foods. I am not too sure about canola and so on. These could be damaged by the methods of their production. Go for cold pressed whenever you can because…