So, is it not portraying her as a saint? Leaning too much on her mental health? Sympathetic towards Charles? It could be anything. . . . .

It does, really. It’s got vanilla, alcohol and water. And a 16oz bottle there is $35 give or take, depends on the market rate. I do keep a small bottle of Nutty Mountain Clear Vanilla during the holidays for cheesecakes and buttercream frostings, but that stuffs expensive so it’s the only time I use it.

Wasn’t Ethel Vanillin the neighbor on I Love Lucy?

I actually just buy the McCormick Pure Vanilla Extract in the giant bottle for $35 at Amazon. They all have to have at least 35% alcohol and I make a ton of chocolate chip cookies, but I notice a difference in the taste. It’s not as...sweet in a non-sugary way. Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. Then again, I’m one of…

I deal with the same thing. I have dealt with food issues in the past; but really my big problem is eating just feels like a big hassle a lot of the time and so I just put it off until I realize it’s 3pm and all I’ve had is coffee and a banana.

There is a lot of misinformation regarding carbs, keto, and I will point them out every time I see them spread by the more zealous online. That being said this is misinformation. There is no data, that I am aware of, that the state of ketosis is damaging to ones body. The major issue is that most people cannot…

Trying to lose/maintain weight is so frustrating, because it’s so individual! Add to that the fact that over a lifetime our bodies change so much. I’m like you, 5’4” but almost 50, and right now about 155, down from 175 over the past 5 months or so. The last time I got down to 130, I looked skeletal. So 140 is my…

The average American woman is overweight as defined a metric designed in the nineteenth century to look at population-sized starvation levels in Belgium. The line between “normal” and “overweight” is arbitrary and multiple studies have shown people of all genders in the “overweight” category have better health…

People go about it wrong. They need to calculate how many calories they burn for their age, weight, sex, and activity level and then set a deficit based on that. If you’re burning 3000 calories a day, anything below 2000 calories is bad. My personal minimum is 1500 calories, so if I want to lose weight I have to…

Per multiple doctors, my caloric needs as a woman between 30 and 35, 5'10”, do not exceed 1,500 or 1,600 calories a day. 1,200 is barely dieting, by that metric. On 2,400 a day my weight would be galloping upward. I can easily maintain a steady weight (overweight) for weeks or months on 1,300 calories a day. I’ve done…

Glad to have done so. I lost a lot of weight when I turned 50 because I was getting my butt kicked on the tennis court. Now I’m around 207 (my primary care doc says 175-185 is probably my healthiest weight) I feel much better. And really, all I care about is that I can play tennis to the level that I expect out of…

The problem with 1200 calories is that it might actually be the magic number for some people. I went to a nutritionist to try to hone in on the best eating habits for me, and they have this fancy scale that uses BIA, but it’s just slightly more expensive (about 10k) than the scale in your bathroom. It will actually…

Going from half a gallon of ice cream a day to one small meal day is going from one eating disorder to another. This should not be encouraged unless you want someone to die.

Master’s boxing is for amateur athletes over the age of 35. There are a lot more restrictions, including more protective gear, shorter rounds, and your opponent has to be within 10 years of your age. Competitors tend to be in good shape, but they also have families and jobs and everything else that comes with being an…

That may be true for the “average” woman—since the average woman in America now is significantly overweight. As a small framed woman with a normal BMI who’d not mind losing 10lbs, I can attest that 1200kcal is the absolute maximum I can eat and lose any weight, and it’s really more like 900. It used to be more but age…

They’re mostly all sewers. The keto one seems alright (I did keto for a while, still restrict carb intake), but you dig in and it’s full of people posting like “hey so I’m doing keto + OMAD and I’m wondering if it’s normal for my hair to fall out,” or “so I’ve been doing keto and am thinking of switching to zero…

It’s always going to be calories in and calories out that dictates weightloss. Caloric needs vary by individual. Their age, activity level, food intake and genetics all need to be factored in. I have my clients spend a week logging what they eat, like if it goes in their mouth, it’s rrecorded. As if they weren’t on a…

This morning I go for my normal run. I track the time and distance on my lovely Garmin device and hope for some level of accuracy. The GPS does great [most times] but the metric for measuring calorie burn is HIGHLY suspect. The same run, every measurable factor being equal [8.5 miles -1:16:00], but at times the…

I didn’t say you start at 1200 calories but to act like it’s automatically a starvation diet because of the average TDEE is stupid because just the average is a dumb statistic to use in general. It looks like the standard deviation in that study is around 397 calories. Within two standard deviations is not considered…

Yes, I was going to comment, 1200 calories a day may be necessary to lose weight for some short, sedentary women.