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I quite often make a best guess for food. If I'm not 100% sure I'll make a best guess, then add a bit to be on the safe side. For something like homemade pizza I'd have to weigh all the ingredients as I put them into the meal, so I'd have to count calories in the base, sauce, toppings, etc. And then I'd have to eat the…

Guys, that's most notably Big Ben, of London fame. :D It's a standard on-the-hour chime. I think. Unless you're talking about something else and I am mistaken. God, I feel so British right now.

I think others have dealt with the honest cheating idea quite well. :) I can add something new to the needs-fulfilment bit though. I suggested an open relationship with my first partner, when I was 15, before we'd had sex, and we were together for 4 years. For me, openness feels like an orientation, like a sexuality. It's…

It always makes me laugh to hear this opinion, because when you are in more than one romantic relationship at once and you care about the people you're with, you're on a very intensive crash-course of emotional learning. Lots of poly people I know (including me) are often told we are very emotionally mature for this…

Interesting! I've never heard of it being this way around before.

I've often had trouble with the phrase "having your cake and eating it too". Like, why would that be bad? How can two cakes be bad? Polyamory often means being in more than one loving committed relationship. If you like being in a loving committed relationship, why just have one? Ahhh, the One Penis Policy. Because sex…

Even with quite a low body fat percentage a little roundness to the tummy is pretty normal, and attractive, I think.

A healthy weight loss is 1-2kg per week, says the NHS website. 800 kcal per day sounds kinda dangerous, a la the starvation experiment, and if you're not far off average height you'll probably feel rubbish, so er. If you feel like giving up at any point, don't actually give up, just increase your calories so that you're…

I read a post on here recently about a woman who was losing weight and couldn't work out where it was from because her clothes weren't getting any looser - and then she worked out she was losing it from her back. It's not possible to lose weight from particular areas, so you've just gotta keep losing weight and eventually…

Go back to that method, if it was working!

I want to know this too. I am a person with very little testosterone and plenty of oestrogen and progesterone, and I bought a set from John Lewis - pairs starting at .5kg x2, working up to 4kg x2, and even the 4kg x2 was too light for me, and I've had CFS for 6-7 years! ETA: I'm not even sure why they would sell them at…

Why different videos for women? The only difference I know of is some women menstruate some of the time?

Yesterday I had an enormous custard fruit pastry thing for lunch! It was awesome. I was still not-hungry for the whole day and I still had a calorie deficit at bedtime without doing an extraordinary amount of exercise. Sure, my macros were probably off, but I can live with that. My cake macro is never neglected.

Today me and a few friends start a 30 day "marathon" using our Fitbits. We each "pay" a joining fee in the form of a small awesome prize, and the person with the most improvement after 30 days gets all the prizes. I really like the social and motivational aspects, but you've got to do it with people you trust to not fake…

Celeriac is also good grated in salads. It's nice raw, but in little bits, y'know? Ugh, I love celeriac.

Set really tiny goals! Like, really easy ones. Ones that make you go, "pffft, I can do that in my sleep."

You could try new foods and find new treats? :)

I eat fish about once every two to three months (4-5 times per year?) if I'm caught hungry out-and-about and there's no veggie option or the veggie options are all awful or I'm fed up of egg mayo, but I still call myself vegetarian because if someone offers me meat or fish I pretty much say no every time, and I have to ask…

I'm vegetarian, and mostly vegan because the person I eat with the most is vegan. I'm getting a decent amount of protein from meat substitutes, most of them made from wheat gluten, and occasionally tofu-based things. Pretty much everything I need to log is in the database already. :) I take a "for vegans" supplement…

That's interesting, I didn't know that but it makes sense. Thanks. :)

Scales suck! Weigh once a month instead, because week to week it will fluctuate - but if you're eating at a deficit you're definitely going to see a drop if you weigh yourself once a month. It's okay to go over your 1200 cal target every once in a while. As long as you're below your maintenance level of calories you'll…

I'm just working on burning enough calories to have a hot chocolate right now. :) I've managed it but I just want to burn a leeeetle more just in case I want toast and marmite or something...!

Queer solidarity! *highfive*

Tiny goals are so much better than big ones. :) I've been poking my various goals and such, and I've come to the conclusion that the deficit I can keep up is 150 kcal per day. I'm totally not in a rush to lose weight or anything, so it felt really good to have an attainable goal! I'm going to lose 1 lb per month or…

I'd want pizza too after burning 1000 calories, wow! Don't feel bad. :) I just worked out that my comfortable sustainable deficit is about 120 calories per day. That's about half a kilogram (1 lb) per month. You are doing GREAT!

When I'm sick I do what my body craves. I usually want curry if I've got a cold! Maybe it's the only thing I can taste. But yeah, eat what feels good, because depriving your body of calories when you need to heal is a stupid idea. Virus recovery guidelines say to eat plenty of protein, if that's any help.

I found this article helpful: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/13/myth-eight-glasses-water-day We should all raise our glasses to Dr Margaret McCartney, a GP from Glasgow, writing in the BMJ (http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d4280), who has revealed what most doctors already know: there is no scientific…