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  • MSlaterSr wrote: »
    OK all, I did not read through every post so apologize if I am repeating. The object here is not to eat as little calories as possible. The object is to get your body to burn fat calories in the most healthy way possible. All of the research says the safest way to do that is to lose between half a pound to two pounds a week by eating between 250 to 1000 calories less than you burn in a day.

    You have to understand that when your body is acting normally it burns calories even when you sleep and rest. This is called your Basil Metabolic Rate (BMR). Mine is about 2300 calories. Find your BMR with a calculator on the internet. Depending on your activity level your body burns a few more calories when you move. If you are sedentary you can multiply 1.2 by your BMR. So if I don't workout and just do normal activity the number of calories I burn is between 2600 and 2700 based on the above math. If I want to lose 2 pound a week safely and not change my activity level I would subtract 1000 calories from 2600 to get the number of calories I should eat, which is 1600. After answering all the beginning questions in MFP this is the number they told my I should eat if I do not workout. Now if I workout I have to log the workouts correctly to find out how many more calories I should eat to stay in the safe range of weight loss. If I log an activity that burns 300 calories I need to be sure to add that 300 to the 1600 and eat 1900 calories.

    If you burn over 1000 calories more than you eat then weird things start to happen with your body. It is not safe to deprive your self of the nutrients your body needs on a daily basis.

    Some facts that help. A pound is about equal to 3500 calories. In 7 days if you burn 7000 calories more than you ate you should lose about 2 pounds. 7000 / 3500 = 2.

    Please do yourself a favor. Log your activities as accurately as possible and use a scale and read the packages closely to be sure to log your for food intake correctly. If your numbers in your log are correct you need to figure out how to change your diet to fit your activity or your activity to fit your diet.

    I hope this helps.

    Thank you very much, very detailled.

  • ana3067 wrote: »

    You can have beer, go to parties, eat Mcdonalds, and eat pizza while losing weight. I've done all but the beer (whiskey and vodka instead). CICO.

    You cannot gain lean mass in a calorie deficit. And with your current goal, you'll most likely lose a fair bit of lean mass.

    Snacks CAN be everything. You clearly know nothing about how weight loss works, otherwise I'm sure you'd have set up reasonable goals and wouldn't be fretting over what you eat and putting yourself in actual danger.
    His goal is too aggressive because his goal is half of what my goal is to lose weight (2000 calories) and I'm a 160lb female who only works out 4hrs a week, most of which is weight lifting. And his goal is too aggressive because he only wants to lose less than 20lbs according to his profile, meaning he should aim for no more than 0.5-1lb/week lost. Your goal is also unnecessarily aggressive for your weight, especially if we assume you are also not eating back your exercise calories (which is necessary when doing MFP net method).
    You aren't weighing or even measuring your food. So no, the amount you enter is not accurate. Learn how to log properly.
    You are not burning more fat because of your supplement and you are not burning 1000 calories in 1.5hrs of exercise. Eating more protein doesn't mean you will lose fat and gain weight. Learn how weight loss actually works and learn how to log properly. Until you do both you will continue to spin your wheels.

    And now you are wondering if you can do an aggressive calorie goal plus an aggressive low-carb intake? Seriously, get the mindset of "aggressive" and fast results out of your system, because that's not how successful weight loss goes and that is not how one preserves lean body mass.


    Thank you for the advice Ana
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    You have lost over a pound a week! That is pretty good and alot healthier if you ask me.
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