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  • Re: One household, 2 WOE

    OP, it sounds like your head and heart are in the right places. An anecdote: When I first married, DH complained regularly about needing to lose 30-40 lb. I had been maintaining a 5 lb range for abou…
  • Re: It can’t all be calories in/out

    ^^This is true. Genetics and metabolism can vary, but not that much from human to human. What does vary are size and activity. Even having nervous habits like being jittery can, over the course of a …
  • Re: Appetite Suppressants

    I wanted to emphasize the sleep part. Google ghrelin, leptin and sleep. I’m absolutely ravenous when I’m short on sleep. No amount of willpower will match the urge to eat. Truly, getting adequate sle…
  • Re: If it’s in the house, I’ll eat it.

    Some good advice here. I'll emphasize just how incredibly helpful it is, especially for people with a binge eating habit, to make the effort to determine the appropriate number of calories in the fir…
  • Re: Maintaining after a diet.

    ^^ agree completely. Honestly, maintenance for me is re-gaining and re-losing the same 5 lb over and over. I’m ok with that. I let it get to a 7 lb gain one summer and made a mental note to correct a…
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