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Weight Loss Slowing When Approaching Goal - Why
What is the mechanism that causes weight loss to slow down as you approach your goal? My body doesn't know 'goals' and goes along taking and using food where it can most easily find it. Deliver fewer groceries than it needs, it will go take the difference out of the pantry. I don't get how that's related to weight loss…
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Pain and Discouragement - Right Hip
Over the last two years I lost 70 lbs, regained about 15 after a terrible summer of divorce death financial collapse serious illness - wretched turn of the wheel in general - and now I'm losing that 15 plus a little more all over again. It goes very slowly. I aim for about .5 lb a week or less and I'm used to the pace…
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Maintenance - Guessing the Calories
A little more than a month ago I went through a difficult time, losing my beloved dog to diabetes and finalizing a divorce. (By the way, seeing ketoacidosis eat up my dog until he was a walking skeleton was horrifying and far worse than the divorce.) I stopped logging. I ate more than I should have and I ate some things I…
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Weight Gain After Surgery
I had major surgery yesterday: general anesthesia and removal of a fairly large tumor. When I (pretty blearily) weighed myself last night, I was 6 pounds heavier than I was before the surgery. Weighing this morning, those 6 pounds were now 3 pounds. Is weight gain immediately after surgery just to be expected? I hate to…
