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I'm 5'1, 114 lbs, and wear between a size 6-8.

Why wouldn't you track drinks? Being in liquid form doesn't somehow make a calorie any less a calorie.

Stop being a sanctimommy. Mothers get judged enough for everything they do -- relax and just focus on your own kid.

I'm 5'1, female, and only do moderate exercise, and am losing weight eating 1200 calories a day. Either you're logging your food incorrectly, or you have some sort of condition that makes weight loss difficult (you might want to check for this possibility with a doctor?); otherwise, I'm not sure how a 5'7 and 170 pound…

I'm 5'1, sedentary, and my calculated maintenance is between 1400 and 1500, so I don't think your maintenance cals could be so low. Are you accurately estimating the number of cals you're eating?

Same. I used to be insanely hot, all the time. Now I'm cold. Strangely, I was really hot even when I was skinny the 'first time', pre-weight gain or weight loss. Maybe it's due to a slowed metabolism?

If you are obsessively eating only 800 calories or less a day, you already have disordered eating. I think it would benefit you to talk to a therapist or someone who can help you deal with your food issues.

This is true, I think. I've found that my tall friends always look skinnier than my short friends with roughly the same BMI/body fat %. OP, maybe tell them you're exercising because you like it, not because you want to be skinnier.

Sounds like you two would benefit from seeing a relationship counselor together.

Meal frequency is irrelevant. I eat one huge meal a day, and have lost weight. Others prefer to eat many smaller meals. They can also lose weight. Just eat a deficit.

Well, there you go. You know your mother is fixed only on meaningless numbers -- so don't listen to her. From your pictures, you look like you're at a really good weight. Your biggest goal right now should be to get mentally healthy -- for which you should talk to a therapist, or some other sort of mental health provider.

I think you do care too much about what others think about you. Most people won't judge you -- but even if they did, so what? If most people on this random internet forum thought you were a loser -- would you then define yourself as a loser, because other people thought you were? Asking others their opinion of whether you…

I had (and have) so many issues that 'chubby' was the least likely thing I would get bullied for as a kid. However, I do remember one time, in high school, a guy pretended to ask me out as a joke. I knew immediately what he was doing and didn't even bother responding--I just walked away.

Why would it? You lose weight by being on an overall caloric deficit. What would feeling hungry before a meal burn more calories?

I'm an atheist -- not only non-religious, but non-spiritual. I don't believe in a spiritual energy of the universe, higher powers, souls, etc., so subbing 'a higher power' in for 'god' wouldn't work for me. Looking at the 12 steps of the OA program, I'm not sure how you could complete all of the steps without believing in…

Most people (without medical condition) will get enough water just by drinking when they feel like it. I don't aim for a specific amount. I don't find it necessary to track water, and it's really difficult to do so anyway, because you don't know how much water you're getting from the foods you eat. If you're really worried…

I don't think her BMI is at the lower end of normal--it's exactly in the middle of normal. OP, rather than losing more weight, have you tried doing body recomp?

If I lie in bed for a while without falling asleep, or if I briefly get out of bed for any reason, or if I wake up in the middle of the night--I have to go to the bathroom. Even if I don't actually have to go. No matter how tired I am, my brain won't let me relax and go to sleep until I've gone to the bathroom. Just one…

This is one of the most bizarre series of responses I've read on this website. Anyway, yeah, a lot of animals don't drink milk after infancy because 1) It's impossible/highly difficult/impractical to obtain, 2) most cannot digest lactose after infancy. Fortunately, humans developed a mutation some many thousand years ago…

Don't know why people are saying this could throw a wrench in the relationship, or implying that OP's being deceitful to her husband and secretly just wants to get hit on. Not wanting to watch a game alone and going to a sports bar seems totally reasonable. Do want you want, OP.

I'm the exact same way. Lost 15 pounds, see no difference in the mirror, and am surprised when others comment. Strangely, I felt skinnier than I was when I was chubby too. I think people are just poor at judging their own size.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the long length of the thread is due more to the OP's increasingly immature antics than anything else. If OP had just conceded that some of her 'facts' were wrong, rather than calling people 'retards', I'm sure there would've been less piling on.

Because weightloss is simple. Stay in a calorie deficit and you lose weight--you stayed in a calorie deficit, you lost weight. People who are misinformed about certain aspects of nutrition lose weight all the time. The other claims you're making are the ones people are taking issue with, especially since you are still not…

Yeah, okay. Care to cite that from a reputable source?

I eat the recommended minimum of 1200 calories a day -- a little below my BMR. My weight loss is reasonably moderate (only about 0.5 pounds a week). I maintain at less than 1500 calories a day when I don't exercise (the joys of being a ridiculously short woman), and my calculated BMR is about 1250. If I didn't eat below…

Going to college in a few months. Figured this was about as good a time as any to get control of my diet. I want to learn portion control and calorie counting so I could preempt the 'freshman 15' I keep getting warned about. I also want to not look vaguely chubby for the first time in my adult life.

I'm 5'1, and started at 130. My original goal was 110, but now that I'm around 115, I think I'd like to be lower. I'm hoping to drop down to 100-105 or so.

You're eating more than you think. Or you have some sort of medical issue that is drastically impeding weight-loss. But it's probably the former. People overestimate their intake by a lot; even trained nutritionists do. Buy a food scale and measure everything you eat. Log religiously and eat 1200 cals a day and see if you…

You do come off sounding a little defensive; like, you want people to know that you're not a 'grossly fat person' and still have a '37 inch waist'. None of that really matters, because no one's trying to judge you on your appearance, your weight, your diet, your activity level, anything. People are just trying to help you…