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I see you are anorexic as well, and you are using Ducolax for weight loss purposes rather than constipation. The issues you are dealing with are eating disorder issues. Keep seeing your mental health specialist and be sure to bring these questions up with him/her. Your mental health specialist should have recommended a…

Oh bless your heart honey -- I'm steering the conversation away from concepts and towards particulars. Also, I am going to make a button that says "An absolute 100% complete lack of understanding." It'll go next to my button that says "They are usually almost always never home."

Such as? Yes, this is a great example of when Oreos would be the optimum choice. For a body builder. Who is about to burn the calories off. This is the argument I see time and time again on MFP: 1. Sugar is the devil! It's addictive and I can't stop eating it! -- average Joe 2. No it isn't! Eat what you want just in…

I've put together a chart of four foods considered to be carbohydrates: mixed vegetables, Oreos, banana, spaghetti. The foods are all weighted to 200 calories. For my percentages, I'm using a TDEE of 2200 with 40 percent carb (220 g), 30 percent fat (74 g), 30 percent protein (165 g), 28 grams of fiber. Here are a couple…

Yes, like when vegans binge on meat and people with peanut allergies can't stop eating Snickers bars.

Yes because before science, human knowledge didn't exist. Humans clung to life by the mearest of threads until the 19th century. Hardly anyone made it past infancy, especially those who used apple cider vinegar without the benefit of a double-blind placebo controlled study.

I have a cup of yogurt, a cup of fruit, and a cup of cheerios right before bed.

I started my weight loss back in August after a pretty intensive 24 hours of throwing up and crapping out the Hoover Dam's worth of water every 10 minutes, then 2 more days of sleeping in bed. When I finally was able to drag myself away from the toilet, I found I had lost 5 pounds. Hey, I said. Why not capitalize on this?…

Because of MFP and all that I have learned about CICO, for the first time in my life, I am going to eat whatever I want and know for a fact that I'm not going to gain a pound. Thank you MFPers!

Has anyone mentioned this yet? If you are losing weight at too fast a pace -- like 4 pounds a week, for instance -- you are very likely losing muscle as well as fat. Here are some things in your body that are made of muscle: 1. your eyes 2. your heart 3. your anal sphincter If you want to lose muscle in any of those…

To gain 1 pound, you have to eat 3500 calories MORE than your total daily energy expenditure (TDEE). I am 5 feet 4 inches, and I weigh 162. My TDEE is 1962. I would have to eat my TDEE plus 3500 calories -- a total of 5500 calories -- in a single day to gain one pound of body tissue (fat, muscle, whatever). To gain five…

heh heh I love the .gif part of every MFP fight.

I'm 5' 4." I started at 180, am now 163. I was aiming for 150, but I might try for 127. The last time I weight 127 I was in 7th grade. I just don't know if it's doable for me. When I hit 150, I'll start thinking about what the next step is. :) Thanks for asking the question -- I'm curious too!

Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks. utoh mods are going to shut us down for hi-jacking.

Thanks for the responses, guys! I have a much better understanding of what's going on vis a vis water weight.

You are telling me to think about things I don't even know about yet. Seems legit.

A thinking cap is used to think, or puzzle out a solution to a problem. It is used for helping internal processes. Research, on the other hand, is an external process, used to gather information. One research tool is asking questions. If you have any sources you'd like to send me to, I'd appreciate the links. Otherwise, if…

According to everything I've read on MFP, the first 5-7 pounds will be water weight that just drops off once I go back to deficit, so I'm not too worried about it. Also, my TDEE is 1964. In order to gain 1 pound, I would have to eat 3500 calories above 1964. Even if I overate by 1000 calories a day, that would only be two…

I think that exercise is the first tree to fall. If someone is eating back their exercise calories, once the exercise is gone, the weight creeps back on because the calorie buffer is gone.

This MFP tradition of starting a post with "No" when you disagree is very offputting. I'm not your dog. That said, you are right -- it's not like you become taller if you get heavier. I misunderstood something I read to mean "our bones get bigger when we get heavier" instead of "our bones get stronger when we get heavier"…

I'm medium framed but short, so matter how much weight I lose, I'll always look like I should be in a field picking potatoes for a living.

Bones are not a static entity -- they grow when you get bigger and they shrink when you get smaller. They make up around 15% of your body mass, regardless of your size. In other words, someone who weights 150 pounds has around 22 pounds of bone mass. If this same person gained 100 pounds, they would then have around 38…

At my heaviest, 213, my blood pressure was 108/72 ish and my cholesterol was 154. I am 5'4" so I was considered obese. That was about 10 years ago, in my late 30s.

I'm down 20 pounds in 3 months, and all I did was plug my numbers into MFP's settings and did what the machine told me to. Good luck to you!

OP, thank you for posting this question. I have a similar problem and was afraid / embarrassed to ask. Imma up my butter and fiber starting first thing in the morning. Or maybe second thing in the morning. heh heh

One day at a time.