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You know, this has always been a huge problem for me, to the extent that weight maintenance (let alone loss) gets really difficult when I put in any decent distance on a regular basis. A friend of mine suggested upping my fat percentage considerably while keeping my calories stable, but I still had appetite issues. But…

Hi! Do you eat quinoa? You could have it instead of rice or even as porridge in the morning - you can even bake it into cookies.

That old chestnut is well out of date. Nowadays Wagnerian singers have to be very athletic, so they tend to be built like Waltraud Meier, who was looking distinctly athletic when I saw her in Goetterdammerung recently. Debra Voigt was very famously fired by the Royal Opera House in London a few years ago because she…

I'd make time if I were you. Bloating can be a sign that something really serious is going on.

I want to be fat like Adele. Nuff said.

Oh yes, forgot to say that Professor Fink is excellent: http://www.youtube.com/user/professorfink

The anatomy and physiology colouring books are very good. And test yourself frequently, because that correlates with better learning. There are lots of interactive MCQ websites online you can use. This approach improves my students' learning even when they don't seem to do very well on the tests. And try and relate what's…

To be fair, any diabetic will tell you that the way they handle blood sugar differs throughout the day. See this article: http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/50/6/1237.full "In humans, glucose tolerance seems to vary during the day; more glucose is taken up early in the morning than in the afternoon and evening.…

Yes, you have highlighted a problem with this type of approach - they are extremely general. I always find that plans or programmes or approaches need quite a bit of customisation to fit the patterns of my life, which are also not typical. I'd very strongly recommend a book called 'Blood Sugar 101' by Jenny Ruhl. She…

You know, the link between health and fatness is actually not particularly well understood. For example, fatness itself is not an unhealthy thing in species such as seals (hence my profile picture, ahem), and any causal relationship between fatness and poor health in humans is the subject of a ongoing research. My point,…

Yes, my understanding is that it's a much more subtle issue than is generally presented. This is why I'm relaxed about my BMI as long as I feel well and am eating good food. I have also read that mortality and morbidity is only really affected at very high and very low BMI values (sorry, don't have the sources right here,…

Yeah, what she said. And if hunger is a big issue for you, find a macro combination which controls your hunger. Some people seem to do fine on high-volume, low calorie foods, but those leave me really hungry. I'm more of a low-volume, high-fat sort of gal. I don't get a lot of food for my 1400-odd calories, but I'm almost…

Whether or not weight loss is simple arithmetic, it makes sense to go back to basics and check your portion control, right? The great advantage of prepackaged processed food for weight loss is that it comes in very controlled portions. Portion distortion is therefore usually conscious and deliberate, not a matter of…

Wow, that's impressive. In the UK Farmers' Markets are synonymous with ruinously expensive. Fortunately my local street market has great fruit and veg at a very cheap price.

I've never done this, but is there any way you could make your own protein bars? http://www.food.com/recipe/no-bake-low-carb-protein-bars-402307 Like this, for example: http://www.teaaddictedgeek.com/?p=198 I'm sure if you ask Professor Google there will be lots more recipes. Edit: or how about the Atkins…

I'm 5'4" SW: 215 lbs (started July 15th 2011) CW: 174 lbs (attained November 2011 - then my appetite got out of control, so I'm just trying to maintain) GW: 140 lbs

Maybe you should try it, then - looks like me and Suffolk Sally are in the minority! It's quite unusual for me to find a food I don't like. I really am an eating machine!

Chocolate Philadelphia cheese. To me it's like very low-grade chocolate and again, left a really nasty after taste and feel in my mouth.

If you hate exercise this much then don't do it. I mean, it has lots of benefits in itself but I haven't found it to be at all necessary for weight loss. In fact, if you're the type (as I seem to be) who finds that exercise increases appetite, then it can have a paradoxical effect. Even very disabled people manage to lose…

Actually when I'm that hungry I could eat HIS arm ^^^^^^^

Awww, this is so nice! Well done to you for making such excellent progress. I'm glad you're getting positive feedback. My friends have been lovely as well. In fact, even some of the people I haven't got along very well with have been complimentary to me.

Hi! Yeah, the meat chili idea is a great one. I do that too. And I also make other batch meals which I bag up in the freezer and use similarly. For example: Coq au vin, sausage cassoulet, beef/chicken/pork stroganoff, lamb tagine, chicken and leeks, ma po tofu. You get the idea. I don't accompany them with rice or any…

Well, I always think that we should go by results and by how we feel. If this plan is working for you and you feel good, go with it. You're in a better position to judge what's working for you than any of us, and to engineer a solution based on what you need. For example, my plan worked well for me for 40lbs but now I've…

This sounds like an acute dental abscess to me. Mostly, make sure you get yourself to the dentist as soon as you can because the only thing which will sort this out is proper treatment. Essentially, if I'm right, the pulp in your tooth is infected by bacteria, and these need to be removed by doing a root canal procedure,…

Glucose can be created from protein and fat. Look up gluconeogenesis.

25g Macadamias are circa 190 calories. I love them.

Yeah. Yeast. Yummy!

Saccharomyces is yeast (of the kind familiar to beer drinkers). Candida is yeast. So it looks like Saccharomyces out-competes Candida in these mice. I wonder if the latter causes any adverse effects ever. Edit: I mean the former. Duh.

Peanut butter. You can cross-contaminate PB with any kind of hot sauce and it also tastes wonderful (in the manner of satay sauce).

See. Told you nuts are always the answer. That's why there's a Nobel prize for nuts.