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Hi! I just had a chocolate chip muffin for breakfast, ate fudge, doritos + cookies yesterday (among other things), and I have a.) maintained a healthy weight for 15+ years after a 50 pound loss with b.) no health problems. So which friend am I?

Hah - this is pretty much exactly my story - including amounts + time kept off. =)

Rainbow chip frosting on saltines is awesome.

I have not watched it but my understanding is it is very one-sided, too much propaganda, and that even vegans don't want to be associated with it.

This is all so very wrong and the real definition of woo.

I'm single and rarely eat out. I budget $250 per month for groceries, maybe $50 to 100 for eating out. I definitely am not careful with my spending. I've been challenging myself this month to clear my pantry, and have spent $15 so far this month on groceries.

Makes me want to re-read this book - https://books.google.com/books/about/Make_the_Bread_Buy_the_Butter.html?id=t96Zstlc02EC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false

My mom lives near me and is a good cook. We're both single so she gives me portions of food when she cooks. My favorite is her homemade chicken noodle soup - soooo good. Served with crescent rolls + saltines. She also does excellent spaghetti + meatballs, lasagna, chili... I had one of her meals for lunch today. It was…

I love where this thread has gone. I have read all 65 pages. I just want to put my hand up as another who always looks for @janejellyroll posts. They are always awesome. But she is one of many that I admire.

I had my first physical therapy appointment for my right knee. Looks like some tendonitis and some meniscus damage. I've had problems on and off with this knee for literally 20 years. Right now I am on naproxyn for the short term to deal with it, and hopefully some swelling I have will go away with the therapy and time.

I am in love with Vom Fass, which is one of those fancy oil/vinegar tasting places. They have a store in Madison, WI and thank goodness I only get to go there occasionally when I am visiting family, otherwise I would have entirely unreasonable amounts of fancy oils + vinegars vs. the mildly unreasonable amounts I have.

"When you hear hoofbeats think of horses, not zebras" Diagnostically across a variety of specialties you work from the common to the uncommon based on symptoms. This is the same approach you see from doctors to engineers. And I would argue the most common reason to not lose weight is inaccuracy in measuring food intake.…

Hi! I've been maintaining a 50 pound weight loss for over 15 years, live alone, and have a counter full of candy that is almost disturbing in its volume. I maintain a healthy weight and always have excellent reports at annual physical; this includes excellent blood test results and borderline too low blood pressure. Eyes…

Wow! A sighting of shouty guy in a thread he didn't create! This is a strange and wondrous thing.

But she didn't say she ate all she wanted. She eats a variety of foods and is able to make her choices in such a way that she is in a caloric deficit.

And puppies!

I thoroughly respect and also want to hug this post.

Realize that 'no' usually means 'not right now'; it's not a rest of your life, permanent no. Telling yourself you can never have anything will backfire - hard. So while 'not right now' may end up being never, making it a 'maybe later' instead of a hard 'no' makes it easier.

When reading items on the internet it is important to consider the source. The link above yours is from the Mayo clinic.

I've been what would be considered high carb eater (50% and over of diet on a daily basis), including eating a measured amount of desert (candy, cookies, cake - whatever) every day. And I've done that while maintaining a 50 pound weight loss for 17 years. And have excellent blood work.

I wonder if it's a backslap, kind of trying to say "if you had followed Keto you would be at goal and wouldn't still be here on the message board". When really it's the other way around. This is a fun board (I enjoy the train wrecks) and the people who have high post counts have seen the conversations go round and round.…

I'm 44. I lost 50 pounds when I was 27 and have maintained that loss since; up until that loss I had always been overweight. The weight loss made a big difference in my late twenties and thirties and then when I hit my late thirties I started running and that made me feel even better - emotionally and physically. I feel…

Is there a reason you are thinking of doing intermittent fasting?

I recommend building upper body strength by slapping your husband any time he criticizes your body. (Not really)

I must be doing baths wrong because I'm not floating - my butt is on the bottom of the tub.

Eating food that I like within my calorie range, with moderate exercise. I eat everything - "processed/dirty/whatever" doesn't matter. I've maintained a 50 pound weight loss for 15+ years this way.

Twizzlers over Red Vines any day of the week. And on the Oreo front the hot cocoa flavor ones are good.

Just remember - you need 5 dozen eggs to be roughly the size of a barge.

And just to point out, sometimes what is "slow" is actually "mandatory for health". There are some times that the difference between the calories you need to eat to stay healthy and lose weight and the ones to maintain your weight is not enough to have the big pound losses per week. I.e. your TDEE (BMR + exercise) might be…

I just love being the special unicorn snowflake that I am. I was fat into my late twenties, lost the weight (50 pounds), and have maintained that loss (within a +/-5 pound range) for over 15 years (I think this is 17 years this year? I've lost count). All from cutting calories. Heck - my usual carb % is 55-60%, and it's…