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@MarziPanda95 I'm trying to find this post where MFP are asking/talking about gender identity, but I can't find it! Do you know where I should look or which search terms might work?
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My weight has been going up a bit lately! I've been busy, which means chronic illness prevents me from using my spoons for good food management and exercise, bah.
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@Byronic_Ryu Thank you for the congratulations! Surgery has been a huge relief to my physical and mental health, and I'm glad of it every day. I'm sorry you have to deal with horrible dysphoria, blaeueueuegh it's rubbish. :(
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I had endometriosis, a little bit in my cervix. I hope this is not too disappointing but for the year or two before I had a hysterectomy (uterus and cervix gone, overies still in) I used MFP and ate healthier. I can definitely say that diet and exercise had no effect whatsoever on my endometriosis. Edit: I should add that…
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I can relate to this a lot. After I got top surgery my weight stopped bothering me nearly so much. I'm now just trying to lose so I can fit into all the clothes I own! For some reason even having a hysterectomy reduced my physical dysphoria. I also hear you so hard on the gender thing here on MFP. I'm set to female because…
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@wikkidwanda @zeroh13 I've been vegetarian for quite a long time, so I am... *reasonably* aware of what's proteiny, though I am not amazing at it. Inspired by your comments I just looked up grams of protein per 100g for some things to put into my magical spreadsheet: Chick peas: 364 kcal, 19g protein Kidney beans: 333…
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When you exercise your body needs more fuel, and that means you get hungry. Being hungry a lot or going "over" on your calories do not make for a happy brain or a sustainable food-exercise situation for many people (like me). If I work out and then don't eat some protein and aim for my calorie goal, I feel terrible for a…
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Thank you, @annemmr and @wikkidwanda. :) My daily check-in is... I just woke up! For the first time in a few weeks, I have been eating at a calorie deficit for three days running. I'm pleased with that but half-expecting to go over again today. The weird part is, for the entire time I was consistently eating over my…
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For the past week I have been feeling really down, and using sweet treats as a lure to get me out of the house. Good for the whole fresh air and exercise, not so good for the calorie goals. ;) I'm also investigating my inability to ignore sweet stuff in my cupboard, since I have excellent discipline in every other aspect…
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I won't. :) There will be plenty of questions that work well in the international places, I'm sure. I just like to take the more local approach a lot.
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@KarenJanine Thank you, good advice. Also I've joined the group you mentioned - thanks!
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@999tigger I don't have a question yet, but a lot of the things I'm curious about are things where UK-specific answers would save a lot of time, and I'm getting a bit fed up of asking questions and having a bunch of USians say, "well, I'm in the US and we have blah blah equivalent, and we get it from blah blah shop that…
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That is really cool. :) I am currently pondering on how I really struggle with your third point, stopping at one mouthful of tasty-yet-calorific things. It really is like a total lack of self-control, like I think one thing and my body does another. "I don't need another truffle!" *reaches for truffle* ... y'know? I'm…
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@shiftynj Ahhh, so it's not a very easy question to answer for an individual then. I'm not a woman but I've got a lot of oestrogen, so I'm guessing there would be a lot of similarities for me with women when it came to measuring whether it's fat loss or muscle loss or both. For me, I have noticed that my arms and legs are…
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I didn't know this thread was here but I like the idea, so I'll try it out. Here I am. :) I've got chronic illness stuff going on of a vague and unhelpful nature, and the past few days have been something like a flare-up? So I've had to sleep in the day a lot, and I've not been able to move around much. 1,000-3,000 steps…
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@annemmr - how do you know whether you're losing fat or muscle? I'm losing about 1/4 kg per week, maybe a little less, and I have no idea whether it's fat or muscle!
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I'd be interested to know if we actually do burn more in the week leading up to menstruation, and I'd love to know why! The hunger itself must be a hormonal thing, because when I was on hormonal birth control I was constantly hungry for a good few months - plus, I no longer menstruate (no uterus) but I still have cycles…
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Post-op nonbinary person here. :) (Agender, they/them pronouns.) I'm working off some weight that I put on after my surgeries, and it's going... reaaasonably well!
