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I don't have cheat days, because I can easily wipe out a whole weeks deficit in one day. That's only 3,500 calories. That's one big meal at a buffet. Cheat days are a bad idea. I certainly wouldn't have one every week! That's just asking to stall your weight loss, and then you'll be back here so confused as to why you…

I never want to do this again (lose a large account of weight). I hope this time of massive NOT FUN deficit eating has given me enough motivation to make sure I've learned how to never let that happen again! My plan is to allow a couple weeks of, once I get to maintainance, being allowed to eat over my limit by like 250…

It isn't tomorrow until I've slept, no matter what the calendar says. I would log it under "snacks" because I don't have any other meals set up.

I'm taking an official break next week for two weeks because of this thread and others like it. I took one that ended up being three months long and wasn't really a break, but going back to "eat whatever" and I got lucky that I ate at basically maintanence. Maybe it wasn't really luck though, because I knew it was a break,…

My mother had an L3-L4 fusion. She's in terrible pain all the time. There's only so much the surgeon can do. Her doctor prescribed her lidocaine patches, which you apply over the painful area. They don't get rid of all the pain, but they help a lot. You'll probably have to fight with your insurance to pay for them if…

I can't always, because I have an abnormal knee that doesn't always let me walk without a lot of pain, but on a good day I can walk three miles without resting. Six months ago I was doing good to walk one, and that's with resting. On a bad day I can only walk one, if I'm lucky, but the reason I can only walk one mile has…

Even doctors fall victim to the "I got the flu shot and got sick so I shouldn't get the flu shot" fallacy. My mom is elderly, diabetic, and home bound. She sees a podiatrist every six months that comes to her house to trim her toenails and check her feet. They were talking about the flu shot this last week when the doctor…

My nurse practitioner, who I usually see because it's easier to get into to see her than my doctor (I adore then both, so it's not a big deal who I see), has arms like that. She almost always wears sleeveless tops too, and I've always been envious. (But to lazy to do the work to get arms like that for myself) The sad part…

I'm sorry for the loss of your brother's cat. The are part of the family. Three of my babies (I had six(!) cats) died in an 18 month time span. I felt like I never stopped crying. Your family has my sincere sympathy. If you must eat your feelings, limit it to only today, and log it as best as you can. One day won't do much…

It might be true for that person and that medication that you have to cut calories really low to lose. Calories in > Calories out is always true for weight loss. Always. But with the right meds you should have no more trouble losing weight than the average person. Long, personal theory with no science to back it up (if you…

I'm not on BP pills, but a lot of the pills I am on the side effects have been mostly temporary and in a lot of cases there have been other meds I could take to reduce the effect of the effects while i adjusted to the meds. Perhaps a visit with the doctor would be a good idea? Have a talk with her doctor alone about your…

I'm bipolar, so I know the antidepressant and anti-psychotic struggle very well! When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder I said I'd rather be fat and happy than thin and crazy (not that I was ever thin). But that was just an excuse not to buckle down and take control of my weight. Yes, I gained fifty pounds on my meds,…

I'm not sure where you are, but here in Texas I developed lactic acidosis from my metformin, and spent two days in the hospital. I made the mistake of saying I felt like I might pass out earlier that day when I felt unwell. I was never ever in any danger of actually passing out or falling, but they took my random comment…

The most supportive thing my husband has done is buying me a stationary bike when I said my bad knee was too bad to walk as much as I wanted to. We are very deep in debt and he could have said no, because we've bought exercise equipment in the past and I've not used it. He didn't say anything about that though, we went…

Just outside Fort Worth, Texas!

A hopeful NSV for me today. About six weeks ago I decided to go off foods high in added sugar (cakes, candy, ice cream, etc) except for special occasions (birthdays, anniversary, Christmas/Thanksgiving, if my husband gets a promotion), because of my diabetes. It's not worth the blood sugar spikes and nerve damage.…

Congrats @bjcrewe! I know you can do this. Keep on keeping on!

That sounds like an interesting idea. I have plenty of strips, like I said, so I think I'll do that for a couple days and see what comes of it. My app I track my sugars in will even average them out for me, which will be interesting too. My last A1C was 5.9, which was good, but knowing what my day looks like would be neat…

I used to think weighing and logging everything forever was a sign of an eating disorder. Because that's what anorexics do, and so it must be bad. But that was when I was at my heaviest and in denial about how much I really ate. When I did weight watchers, I tracked, but very very loosely and the weight fell off, but I…

Thank you for this. When I was first diagnosed with diabetes I tried working out when I had high blood sugar after a meal once, because I heard diet and exercise was a good way to bring my sugars down. I obviously wasn't dealing with the diet well, but at least I could exercise! But when I checked my sugar when I got home…

Thank you. It is what it is though. I've gotten help for it now, and I'm doing much better now. I do have the best partner though, seriously I really lucked out when I chose him. I thank my lucky stars every day that we met. I love him very much and I love myself more than I used to. With patience I'll get to where I love…

To be blunt, I didn't think I was worth it. I was sexually and emotionally abused as a child. I figured if I stayed fat and made myself ugly I would be invisible to men who would want to sexually assault me, and my self-worth said I didn't deserve to be loved because my mom told me I wasn't. It wasn't until I was on the…

Oh this is absolutely true, and my husband and I have talked about my food choices, and overeating habits. All it made me do though is get sneakier and hide my excess food "binges" (not a clinical binge, merely eating an entire bag of Cheetos in one sitting) from him, a habit that I'm still having trouble breaking. I still…

My mom eats just about all the fruit she can (I wish she wouldn't, she's diabetic and the sugar isn't good for her) and most vegetables. The only foods she doesn't eat is any non-sweet peppers, italian seasonings, sage, nutmeg, and black and white pepper, and eggs. But it's funny. If she doesn't know the pepper in the…

I don't remember how much I weighed or my BMI as a child. I was never "fat" per se, as in you couldn't look at me and see rolls like some children. I was just large. I was probably overweight, but not obese. I was homeschooled, and my family was fairly poor and deeply in debt, so we didn't have a lot of money for junk…

He could say all he wants, but until I was ready to change nothing was going to happen. As it happens though, I was obese when I met him, and he loves me and finds me sexy anyway. He said he'll love me and find me sexy when I'm a 150 pounds with saggy skin. He's never said anything about my size, but he supports me in my…

Because anecdote is totally data ;), I'll share my experience with getting vs not getting the flu shot. I've said before that I'm pretty homebound. I don't work and have no children, so the only place I really go is the grocery store and the doctor's office (I go to the doctor every few weeks, but only because I drive my…

I worked at Taco Bell for a year and a half some years ago. During that time there was a push for us to make the food the right way, by learning the exact amount of lettuce and cheese to put on each item (.1 ounce of cheese for a taco/tostada/most items with cheese as a garnish, BTW. That's hardly ANY). We had a food scale…

I could live with this side effect. I'm hoping for it, actually. I live in Texas. It's HOT (90F/30 something C) over half the year, and I'm miserable. If I could get to where I don't dread summer every year and can wear sweaters in the winter (outside might be chilly, but inside is too warm for sweaters, even very light…

He has already said he goes to a doctor regularly to weigh himself, I'm sure this has been discussed with him already. I've mostly seen advice about clearing exercise programs with your physician, not weight loss itself. Exercise makes more sense, because there may well be physical reasons as to why exercise is a bad idea.…