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Losing several pounds one week and then none for a few weeks... is this normal?
I've been counting calories for the past two months. I've been finding that, despite eating pretty much the same # of calories/ types of food and exercising a similar amount from week to week, I'll drop two to three pounds every few weeks, and then no weight to half a pound at most in between. Is this normal? I'm only…
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Adjust Diet Profile or count Commute as Excercise?
I've been tracking calories/ exercise for about a month now, and I've noticed that on days when I commute to work via public transit, I'm generally much hungrier than when I drive. My commute involves walking about 3 miles (up and down very hilly terrain, also I walk around 4-4.5 mph), but I work at a desk job so I didn't…
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Shame, weight loss, and breaking the cycle
I have always been "the fat girl." But how fat I am, percentage-wise, has changed a lot through my life. I've had severe hypothyroidism since I was a child, and depending on whether or not I was medicated properly, my weight would fluctuate by a lot. Hypothyroidism also comes with fatigue and depression, so that often made…
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Stress eating at work (because I hate my job)
I'm currently working nearly full-time while in grad school full-time, and over the past year, my weight has crept up slowly. I started tracking calories over winter break (when I wasn't in school or working) and was pleasantly surprised to find it easy to eat only my set amount of calories. During this time, I was doing a…
