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This thread is hurting my head. :) whatever the food and liquid you’ve consumed during the day wants to do after you go to bed, however it’s moving about your body, it cannot weigh more in the morning than it weighed when you consumed it. If you weigh 160 pounds right before you hop into bed, you can’t weigh more when you…

I could easily gain 10 pounds if I were on a month long vacation so 2 pounds of true weight gain is a blip for an entire month of vacation eating. It’s easier to gain fast than to lose fast so be patient, it will come off.

The only time I would feel “full and nauseous” is if I ate 1200 calories worth of dense food, all at once. I’ve never thought of 1200 calories spread over 24 hours as giving me enough to “stuff” myself. You may be underestimating what you’re eating. Another thought is it’s psychological in that when you have a normal…

I don’t get my period any more but I would get leg swelling during my TOM and taking Ibuprofin for the cramps made it worse, especially when sitting down for long periods of time. I craved salty foods so of course it wasn’t pretty all around.

I find it less exhausting to log daily than to have to start all over again losing the weight I've gained back because I stopped logging.

Looking at your stats, you would not be able to set your weight loss goal at 2 pounds a week without doing a heck of a lot of exercise or going below 1200 calories a day, not safe. You're already at a great weight for your height so maybe focus on recomp?

When I was younger and still living at home, I went to the fridge to get the cookie dough I purchased to make cookies. It was 3/4 gone and the plastic was hanging open with what was left of the dough quickly drying out. My brother had eaten it. Needless to say I lost it. :)

I think sometimes new dieters think of 1200 calories as an abstract concept and not something that should be meticulously tracked to be accurate. They have a mental idea of how much food that is end up wondering why it doesn't work. I also wonder about those who feel "stuffed" all day on 1200 calories.

Way to go! The first step can be hard but each day gets a little easier. Just keep looking ahead, you will do it!

Maybe fat reduction faster than your skin can “snap back”? The fat could be looser in your skin causing it to be jigglier.

Think about it...1.5 kg loss spread out over your entire body. Any reduction in measurements may be too small to register. Keep at it and you will be able to see a change in your measurements over time. :)

On top of what everyone has said, and I'm not a biologist, but I think that even if one eats a whole pound of pure fat, some of that is expelled (quite quickly I would surmise) without the calories being absorbed and stored in the body.

Cantaloupe has calories so you should also weigh things like that as well. Just to be sure. :)

The OP’s responses are really vague and just enough for people to continue to provide extensive advice and responses to those vague and non-specific posts. Everyone’s going in circles.

It's really odd how some food labels tell you serving sizes in cups or numbers of pieces. Like how do you measure popcorn with a cup or numbers of chips in a serving when they're different sizes? I weigh everything, down to the last peanut.

When I was younger, I lost weight to look good. Now at almost 58 years old, I do it to stay healthy and alive. :)

I would never lecture a stranger on what they should eat, even if I thought it was dangerous (Aspartame actually causes sharp pains in my head and can trigger my migraines with aura). Not my business to assume what happens to me will happen to them.

Best advice I found on here is to weigh everything. You can pack a lot into a measuring cup and there's no way you can determine the calories in that, it could easily be 2 or 3 times the calories you think it is.

I went vegetarian over 8 years ago and three years ago was the heaviest I'd ever been. Being vegetarian has nothing to do with weight loss.

I just had a conversation with someone about this yesterday (more like a rant on my part). I've maintained the same weight for a year, give or take a couple of pounds, and some people make comments about how thin I am and not in a nice way. I'm currently 143 and on a 5'5" frame, it's not too thin. Society does view normal…

Did you tell him it's wrong to say that?

If you start out with a 500 calorie deficit, that number is based on the deficit calculated to lose a pound a week at your starting weight. It's true that you will lose less weight as you go if you continue to maintain that 500 calorie deficit because your current weight is no longer your starting weight. It's not that it…

I can't imagine asking someone flat out if they have cancer just because they've lost weight! It's none of my business and quite rude.

I know if it was me, even if the jam was "put away", if I truly wanted it I'd know exactly where to find it. Out of sight isn't always out of mind. :)

My husband and I have been eating the bean pastas made by Explore Asian. Black bean is my favorite! It keeps you full, has no sodium and full of protein. Less calories than regular pasta. It looks like straw so when it's cooked it plumps up.

I drink my coffee with 1 tbsp. of soy milk creamer which is 15 calories. It's lightly sweetened.

In all of the years I've tried dieting, I believed I needed to eat less and eat what would be construed as "diet" foods and drinks. The eat less part is fine, it's the eating diet foods that would derail me because they weren't necessarily foods I really wanted to eat. I ate them because they were less calories or they…