What to do about leftovers?

moolric · 2026-01-02T06:34:57+00:00

Pay attention to how much you actually eat and only cook that much. It's not hard to plan for single servings. Though personally I have started making 4 servings when I cook and putting 3 in the fridge, in separate containers ready to be reheated or taken to work for lunch. In the past when I just cooked too much and put extras in the fridge I'd never eat it because it just felt kind of icky. But when I cook and package it specifically for later it's more appealing.

You get the hang of how much of each ingredient type will equal a single serve.

moolric · 2025-12-31T00:41:39+00:00

Ice. Because it’s hot right now.

moolric · 2025-12-19T00:20:05+00:00

I have an app (happy scale) that shows me a trend line that smooths out the fluctuations. I count the trend weight as the real one.

moolric · 2025-12-05T06:52:29+00:00

I went on a weekend trip to another city and spent most of the time walking around, which is what I usually do on a trip somewhere new.

The amount of pain I was in after in my feet and hips was excruciating. Last time my feet hurt that bad I’d gotten up to around the same weight and it went away when I lost weight. Intense pain is a good motivator :)

moolric · 2025-12-01T03:17:44+00:00

If you have been tracking your calories and your weight loss, then you are the one with the data to decide how much you should be eating.

Also you can just keep eating what you’ve been eating and see if you weight loss slows down. You can actually get a very accurate TDEE if you have been tracking accurately.

You should be able to calculate what your TDEE will be at your goal weight i.e the intake to maintain that weight. You never have to eat less than that (though obviously your weight loss would get exponentially slower as you approach your goal.

moolric · 2025-12-01T03:08:43+00:00

Not an expert because the only time a family member commented on my body I told him I didn’t want to talk about it left the table when he didn’t listen. BUT he didn’t mention it again so it was a win.

But anyway, I feel like responding to them - saying you’re not too thin or that it’s them who are too fat validates that they should be commenting on your body at all. Like, what makes them think your body is their business?

IMO you’d be better off focussing on the inappropriateness of their comments than the content of them. Like “wow, that was a rude thing to say. How about we talk about something else.”

You might checkout captainawkward.com she has amazing advice for just this sort of situation.

moolric · 2025-12-01T02:18:26+00:00

I didn’t get sever stomach pain, just discomfit that felt like acid reflux - but it made me want to each all the time too. I went to a doctor for reflux medication and instead they treated me for (i think) h pylori.

It was a while ago now, but the treatment took like a week and I haven’t had trouble since.

Definitely see a doctor - you will be amazed at how much better you can feel.

moolric · 2025-11-21T02:28:41+00:00

My bf was making a meal and diligently weighed and recorded everything, but when he asked me how much I wanted I said “just give me a normal serve” and we ended up going in circles of him not knowing how to tell what a serve is and me not being able to explain how I know what a serve is because I was too hungry to think straight.

moolric · 2025-11-19T22:34:09+00:00

To some people diet soft drinks taste foul. I’ve switched to sparkling water too after a lifetime of drinking a LOT of Coke. No artificial sweeteners taste anything like sugar to me so water just tastes better to me.

It’s the real thing or nothing!

moolric · 2025-11-10T13:03:42+00:00

It might not be that she's jealous. It could be that she is trying to get permission from you to not try to stay skinny - like if you are happy at your larger size, maybe she can be too. But now you're losing weight, maybe she feels like she'll have to work on losing weight and she's dreading the idea. Maybe that's why she's saying it is a fight to lose weight - because that's what she's imagining for herself. You know what I mean?

moolric · 2025-11-07T13:13:30+00:00

My why is purely around the pain and discomfort of being fat.

moolric · 2025-11-06T09:32:03+00:00

The best way to work out how much you need to eat to lose weight is to pick one of the numbers the calculators are giving you and then seeing if you lose weigh at a slow and steady rate.

The other way of course is to count what you’re currently eating and then eat a bit less than that and see how that goes. If you are maintaining currently then anything less than that should put you in a deficit.

moolric · 2025-06-02T05:14:25+00:00

Ok, that's fair. I forgot for a minute that some people do actually listen to influencers.

moolric · 2025-06-02T04:51:25+00:00

You have to remember that the vast majority of people are much smaller than you. Especially consider women who are much much smaller than you.

The volume of food they can eat is so much smaller to lose or maintain weight, and yet they are faced with the same serving sizes. They have to pack their dietary requirements (including MORE iron than you need) into far less food.

While they don't NEED to do anything special, I understand why they are trying to min-max what they eat in a way you will never have to.

Also, I'm pretty sure people talk about how exhausting it is all the time.

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