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Nope: I was a teenager, I was "bigger" than any of my friends, and I bought it hook, line, and sinker. This is one reason I get ticked off at the whole "well, if we tell people they're fat, we're helping them" argument. Because it doesn't. (Seriously: "Plus size" started at size 12/13 back then. I almost had to get a prom…

You'd be surprised how few people take that into consideration. In high school I weighed the same as my best friend. I was 5'10" and she was 5'1". So at 150, I was at a good and healthy weight, and she was significantly overweight. But somehow in the "fat talk" among friends, everyone talked about *me* like I was just as…

What are your step counts like on days you don't work out? I'm skeptical that you'd count as "lightly active" since you generally have to be at about 5000 steps a day to get out of "sedentary," and I have a similar job with similar "walking around the building" requirements. Even when I'm walking a mile to work, I have to…

Scales make you think they're accurate and precise by offering their measurements to the tenth of a pound. They actually aren't that accurate or precise. Most have plus/minus ranges of half a pound or more. Why don't you see that variation? Because they don't want you to. Digital scales have algorithms built in to make it…

You should just lose slower. I was (unintentionally) losing at about 2 pounds a week earlier this spring. I've lessened my efforts over the past few weeks and I'm watching the rate of loss drop, but not stop.

Well, its a good thing that the Annals of Internal Medicine article that this is summarizing is at annals.org, then, isn't it! Here you go -- now you don't have to stay away! https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2730525/association-among-dietary-supplement-use-nutrient-intake-mortality-among-u?doi=10.7326%2fM18-2478…

Armchair paleontology is fun, but there are plenty of people out there doing all kinds of research. 1) Another very strong contender for the "bigger brain" theory is that we developed cooking, and we applied heat to meat, tubers, and seeds -- increasing bioavailability and allowing us to spend less time procuring and…

It may be paywalled for you, but... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248414002620

I've got access through my organization and found it. It's a literature review about ways to study and reconstruct historic, ancient, and paleolithic microbial "passengers" and the uses of that data It describes methods for examining ancient feces and dental plaque for the microbes that live in it. It does say that the…

If that's where your body stores its favorite fat, then that will be the last to go. Your body is like a fat-storing corporation. IT has "accounts" in lots of places, but there is one big profit-loss sheet that includes its total holdings. When it makes "fat payments" you don't get to choose which account they come from.…

So reframe: You're in recomp mode. You spent the winter bulking, and now you do a cut...... Right?

Human beings managed to colonize every ecosystem from the arctic to the rainforest. There is no way we could have done that if there was One Perfect Diet. We're enormously adaptable omnivores, and no, we did not spend 500,000 years in ketosis. (As evidence: We didn't domesticate grains out of some weird idea that we'd like…

The one thing I see in what ou say here is the bit about eating lots of food from one specific restaurant. Is it possible that the person who makes the salads has changed since the last time you needed to lose weight? restaurant calorie counts are notoriously inaccurate, and something like a salad, where things are piled…

We took our cat to a Blessing of the Animals at a local park. For safety, we took her in her cat carrier. For stability, because cat does NOT like the sensation of the carrier swinging as it is carried? I found our old umbrella stroller in the garage. Carrier straps into stroller (standing on its short end). Cat goes into…

How's a person supposed to pick just one? Garlic plus ginger Garlic plus oregano Ginger plus cilantro Coriander plus cumin Turmeric plus everything? (but never alone) cinnamon plus coriander Cayenne plus everything (but again, never alone) I guess if I had to live for months with just one, it would be garlic, or black…

Over the last six weeks, I've been losing (according to Happy Scale) at between 1.5 and 1.8 pounds/week. Even then, I've had single-day jumps of up to 1.5 pounds.

My team. If you've got the calories in your budget? Go for it. And then if you want a flavored beverage but don't have the calories for it? Get for a calorie-free drink. If I'm looking forward to a treat like ice cream after a kid concert? I'll adjust my intake to make room by eating much lighter earlier in the day. That's…

Activity is incredibly important to health and wellness. Even moderate amounts of activity like walking 30 minutes per day has been shown to have major health benefits. That said: you have to reduce food intake in some way to lose weight. If you just walk 30 minutes a day, but you change nothing about your eating, you're…

You've got to start mentally counting and then doing this math. How many grapes? How many pieces of pineapple? How many pieces of watermelon? How many pieces of cantaloupe? Look them up. Log them. See what it looks like. Next time, you can copy that, or you can find a "Mixed fruit cup" entry that matches the number of…

Also: Everyone is fixated on the "salad," but I'll note that the OP said "And veg, etc..." Not all vegetables are wafer-thin leaves that are mostly water. If you don't log your green beans, carrots, squash, parsnips, corn on the cob, edameme, peas .... you'll find yourself wondering why you're "keeping to your allotment…

1) Are you putting dressing on your salad? Full-fat dressing? 2) For snacks - nuts, string cheese, etc. 3) Have something else with your omelet. If its an egg-white-only omelet? Use whole eggs -- yolks are full of vitamins. 5) Have the beer at night -work it into your allowance. 6) have a granola bar or popcorn in the…

And if its from a cafeteria-style place I"ll look for Aramark or Cisco.

Confession: I just record what I eat. My macros vary a lot from day to day, but Its interesting to see how they average out after you've got a month or so of data. Start there: Don't worry about a program that gives you strictt macros or exchanges. Write down what you eat, as accurately as you can (food scale matters a lot…

My spouse found that seriously increasing his activity levels made major imporvements in his blood sugar -- even before any weight came off. He had gotten very sedentary via his work (very, very, VERY sedentary). He went on metformin, but that alone wasn't enough -- doing 45-60 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise…

Okay, a couple of thoughts from a woman's POV. 1) "My wife hates the gym" plus "We can have more time together if we work out together." You do NOT want to set up a system where "more time together" is doing something she hates. That is not good relationship-building. Trust me on that one. Spending time with you doing…

I think that I've seen people pretty much in agreement with the following: 1) many of the studies of the benefits of intermittent fasting were rat studies. 1a) Did you know that rat/mouse students are usually done only on male animals? 2) of the studies done in human beings, many were done only on men and/or postmenopausal…

Also: How old is your baby? Is there a growth spurt happening ? How big is your baby? My kid grew from a 10-pound newborn to a 25-pound one-year old while refusing bottles and solids. When I was ravenously hungry, it was generally because she was going through a growth spurt and I was working to keep up. I have *never*…

You are on the cusp of a key and difficult time, body-image-wise, for young girls. MANY MANY girls put on weight right before puberty. They get thick around the middle. And THEN they stretch and grow and all the rest. On top of that, part of puberty for girls is adding the body fat percentage that women have above the…

I remember looking at a diary once where someone was logging a mozzarella-covered cheeseburger as only 250 calories, because he'd made really bad choices in which entry to take from the database. There is SO MUCH bad data in there. I also remember people saying they only don't log beverages and asying their 2x/day lattes…