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Awesome, honest post. I especially agree with the answer to the question about not being honest with how hard you are working out. That one I would like to shout from the rooftops! While it is true that just doing something (i.e. getting off the couch) is better than nothing, most people don't realize that to see REAL results, you need to push yourself a little. Being in the gym is the first step, but you need to make yourself work for it. As my trainer says, words which I now live by: "The body takes the path of least resistance, to see results, you must force it to take the path of more resistance, this is how you see results."

Awesome, honest post. I especially agree with the answer to the question about not being honest with how hard you are working out. That one I would like to shout from the rooftops! While it is true that just doing something (i.e. getting off the couch) is better than nothing, most people don't realize that to see REAL results, you need to push yourself a little. Being in the gym is the first step, but you need to make yourself work for it. As my trainer says, words which I now live by: "The body takes the path of least resistance, to see results, you must force it to take the path of more resistance, this is how you see results."

Great quote:drinker: glad you shared it

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Excellent post. I'm not sure whether this was mentioned because I don't have time to read every page, but it bears repeating:

The reason we exercise, and then eat all of our exercise calories -- even though it seems like a "wash" :grumble: -- is in order keep our muscle. Ideally, everyone should be doing strength training as part of their exercise routine. You want to lose fat, but keep muscle. Otherwise, you'll lose muscle every time you diet for weight loss, your metabolism will decrease every time, and the scale won't tell you whether you're losing fat or muscle. If you're not exercising and you're losing weight, you're losing muscle, and you're metabolism is decreasing. :noway: You will be able to eat less and less over time, and it will become harder and harder to maintain any losses you achieve.

Exercise -- cardio and strength -- and eating one's exercise calories in order to fuel that exercise, are both extremely important.

Just a little BUMP in the seat to start your monday.

I work on my feet running around for at least 9 hours a day. I work 5 days a week and my bmr just tells me to eat 1200 calories a day to lose weight. What about my work? Doesn't that factor in? Cause I've been on 1200 calories for 2 months with exercising and eating most (within 60 cal) of my exercise calories and I'm still not losing weight, or inches. Any advice?

I said I was sedentary b/c I have a desk job...but I run 3-5 times a week. I should count that should I? And that would make me moderate?

String. Around the neck. (inside joke, ya'll) Hi, V!!

This really helped me a lot. I wasn't going to count my exercise in the log because eating more seemed wrong. Now, I understand much more and I'll continue to do that. Thank you!

(and some of your other points were hitting close to home also!)

I am trying to eat only my allowed calories at this time because I can't workout for another four weeks. Really it hasn't been that hard because my appetite has been down.