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>... Are you drinking more fluids? Yes, I'm drinking water like crazy. I drink about 96 ounces a day. I drink water almost exclusively.

OK I think I know what the deal is. I corrected my height. For years I have said I was 5'11", but last night I was measuring the kids and I measured myself and I am only 5'8". So I went in and updated my height in the system. But evidently it is not retroactively applying the height change. It's possible that the height is…

I agree with Road Dog. This girl went from 186 pounds at 9 years old to losing 37 pounds. The whole family is now on a fitness regimen and it has changed her life. Could there be psychological issues with the intervention? Maybe so, but I don't see how there was any other choice in the matter. This was a serious health…

It said that the power meter was "stolen". Not sure how you steal a power meter, but anyway, it's possible the generator was stolen, too. The generator was running indoors. It was speculated that it was not left running outdoors because it might disturb the neighbors. Might also be because if it was stolen it might attract…

I would use a non-changing weight to verify that the weight reading of the scale is repeatable. Your 4-year-old does not qualify. Go buy a 20 pound dumbell or something that doesn't change and use that every day before you weigh yourself to verify the repeatability of the scale. I can't imagine a 10-pound fluctuation in a…

See, this is what I vaguely remember from school also. They are trying to push the idea of the food pyramid and good food/bad food. You can get plenty fat eating good food off the food pyramid.

Great video Owl House. Here is another video that shows the importance of proper food logging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjKPIcI51lU#t=260 If you aren't losing weight, the bottom line is you are eating more than you are burning. Eat less or exercise more.

Honestly I don't remember anymore if they taught it or not. But I do know I have known it for years and years of trying to lose weight. All the gimmicks are just that - gimmicks. I think what they need to teach in schools is not just CICO, but that people need to start counting calories and start being calorie aware before…

Calorie deficits cause weight loss. The only reason why low-carb diets sometimes help with weight loss is: 1) Carbohydrate-based foods are often calorie-dense. If you cut calorie-dense foods from your diet, you may find yourself more easily maintaining a caloric deficit. But not necessarily - you can very easily eat a…

Man, I read about this all the time. Women are so worried about security that they are willing to put up with the worst abuse to take the punishment of the pain they know rather than risk the fear of the unknown of leaving. Don't do that! You are in an abusive relationship. You do not need to endure that! You deserve…

Generally speaking there are no "bad" foods. This is not to say that the only thing that matters is calories - clearly you need a balanced diet to get all the nutrients your body needs. Barring health issues, the only reason why people tend to think certain foods are bad for them is because they are high in calories or…

From what I've read, there is evidence to suggest that some hunger is one of the reactions to fat loss an the body's attempt to restore the previous fat level. If so, it may not matter if you have learned new eating habits for some people. When I was on Redux back in the 90's, I lost 60 pounds in 6 months, but gained it…

There are very few effective appetite suppressants currently on the market. One of them is Qsymia. This is Phentermine combine with Topiramate in a once-a-day, time-release capsule. Both Phentermine and Topiramate are appetite suppressants, but Phentermine is a stimulant while Tompiramate is a depressant. Given in…

Yup, I'm lazy. But the fact that you said you'd do something and then didn't do it solidifies what I've thought about you all along: You're a liar.

I did indeed. I rode the bike from 5:04 until 5:34. Even went and fished out 2 AAA batteries to try to make the readout work since it was dead, but the replacements were dead, too, so no calorie readout. Anyway, I kept up my end of the bargain, are you going to keep up yours? I tend to be most interested in doing things…

I do not have a defeated attitude. I acknowlege that hunger, among other things, derails most weight loss attempts and I have taken steps to mitigate hunger, thus mitigating failure. Now, are you going to answer my question? Also, I spent 30 minutes on my exercise bike. Are you now going to watch the video? The only thing…

Challenge accepted. I do not dispute that you and others succeed at weight loss. Do you dispute that most people do not succeed at weight loss?

I have mostly eliminated it currently with appetite suppressants (phentermine/topomax). My fear is that if the studies I have read are correct then hunger is caused by lower leptin levels caused by lower fat levels, and not by the amount of calorie deficit. So I'm going to be hungry regardless of the level of caloric…

I am set up for 2 pounds per week weight loss and MFP has me at an allotment of 1770 calories per day. A 783 calorie hamburger is 44% of my daily allotment. My diary is open.

Yeah, that's me. I'm not exactly sure what "intuitive eating" is, but all I can say is it is not at all intuitive to me how many calories are in what you are eating. If you want to get a great idea how easy it is to mis-estimate how many calories are in things relying on your intuition check out this video:…

To be clear here, I am not setting my current caloric intake to be based on the hypothetical discussion of what my maintenance intake might be. That was another tangent. My current caloric intake is defined by MFP for a goal of 2 pounds per week at 1770 per day. This has always resulted in hunger for me. Any amount of…

But we were talking about if you had been on diet pills for years. In which case by that time new habits should be well formed. But it's almost a certainty that if you stop taking the diet pills, you'll be hungry again if you were obese before your weight loss. It has happened to everyone studied so far (over 50 people)…

I want you to watch the video to have an understanding of the how weight loss works in obese people. Why are you so resistant to learning what a scientist has to say about the subject? I suspect you will agree with much that is in the video. For example, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. Diet composition has virtually…

In the past 2 years I've lost like 50 pounds, regaining 30 of it. I have never weighted more than 290. I don't like to exercise. Most people will fail to keep weight off long term. Congrats, you got 50% right. I tried once. I am unable to jog 1/8th of a mile. Why don't you try watching the video? Heh, the photo is not from…

Exactly - the hunger would have come right back. Which means the issue is not the eating habits - you'd reprogram those in six months. It's the hunger caused by your body trying to return to its previous fat store levels. That's why it may very well be that you end up being on some kind of medicine for obesity for life.…

Wouldn't you learn after a year or two of being on the diet pill? Or five? After five years of having no appetite you'd think you'd learn to eat within a reasonable calorie limit.

Or, (sorry for the plug here but I love my scale), you can get one of these cool WiFi Withings scales (other people might make them, I don't know), and every time you step on them it automatically broadcasts your weight to the Withings web site, and, if you hook it up to here, it automatically posts it to MFP also. It's…

There are very few effective appetite suppressants on the market today. I have not tried any of the fat-uptake-blocking diet pills, but I would not use them. As has been noted, what they do is block the uptake of fat in your intestines, and as a result the fat leaks out the other end. This results in a lot of uncomfortable…

Yes! Absolutely! Gah! No! Please, please when you have an hour, watch the video. It's pretty easy to follow in spite of the medical and genetic lingo. All this this is saying is that when you have been obese for some period of time (and they are not clear on exactly how much time is required) if you lose body fat it…

Agree. Check out this video comparison of two complete daily allotments of food. They look nearly the same, but one contains nearly twice the calories of the other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjKPIcI51lU#t=260 Unless you are working with processed foods, portion measurement can be difficult. I have a cheap digital…