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  • Ready to have your mind blown? Here goes. My advice: Eat less food. If you're not losing weight, you're eating too much. Regardless of how you track, what your diet plan is, how much exercise you do, whether you weigh your grains or rice or not, or how often you pray to the gods of fat and cellulite: if you aren't losing…
  • Wow, a whole 15 calories per slice! Must be why everyone is on a stall around here. Seriously, this is nickle and diming. After all, the TDEE on which you're basing you goal is already an ESTIMATE! You're certainly off by more than 30 calories.
  • This is the minimum per MFP. This isn't an objective, science based figure, it's a combination of marketing and legal defense policy. It's probably a safe figure to plan on but it's not a magic number that makes it a true minimum. Also, calories don't measure nutrients. You can eat 10,000 calories per day and be…
  • There isn't likely to be anything wrong with what you're doing, as medically prescribed diets are often in the 700-800 calorie range. However, those are doctor supervised and fit into a category called VLCDs (very low calorie diets). They are technically against the rules of discussion on these boards and you should…
  • Why does everyone assume that packaged foods have more contents than labeled? That doesn't make much sense. I'm willing to accept that labeling and weighing at the factory are not going to be accurate 100% of the time,but certainly the bias would be the inclusion of LESS product than advertised. These companies don't make…
  • Surely you realize that losing more weight and leaning out is the result of your exercise plan and hiring a dedicated fitness coach, and not the result of a measly 100 cal/day adjustment right?
  • This is an observational dataset, not a prospective dataset. The people in the study not eating breakfast are going to include those who cannot afford to eat breakfast. Such a group will have a poorer diet in general, poorer educational opportunities, poor general access to food (hence more desire for snacks), and more…
  • Agreed. I prefer to eat a 1000 kcal dinner. This basically requires me to do IF. It's far easier to abstain from eating breakfast than it is to start eating and force moderation to save calories for later.
  • Timing is mostly irrelevant, at least compared to net calorie balance. Perhaps intermittent fasting would work for you. I do it and I share your experience, so eating only after work is easy to do.
  • To be fair, untreated obesity is also risky. It's not our call as third parties which risk is higher, or more acceptable: that's up to the individual person and their doctor.
  • Distance is what matters.
  • How much do you weigh? 2400 calories seems high for a weight loss target, but it could be reasonable depending on your stats.
  • This isn't a real problem. If you eat under 1200 AND you are logging accurately AND you are truthfully not hungry, there's no sensible reason to force feed yourself. However, you didn't get to be overweight by undereating. Eating more calories in the form of foods that you enjoy will probably improve your compliance to the…
  • The only person who can answer this question is you. It's probably possible to gain 20 lbs in a month, but I doubt that you could do it and still be surprised. You'd have to eat an average of 2300 calories per day over maintenance. If your diet didn't change drastically, then you probably didn't gain 20 lbs of fat.
  • This is user error, not device error.
  • It's commonly regurgitated advice on the boards to not go below BMR. Nobody has ever provided a compelling explanation for why this is. Maybe? Hunger is subjective. Did you change what you're eating to allow more calories - for example, more simple sugars which you are digesting faster and not keeping you sated? MFP lowers…
  • Log every day as 3000 calories. Eat and drink anything you want. Go back to dieting when you get home. MFP is for a lifestyle change. Your lifestyle should include indulgences that are not part of your routine. A vacation seems the perfect time to indulge.
  • Respectfully, your anecdote is not a good form of evidence and is more likely related to user error than the device being off. These are well studied devices. Here are the first few papers that came up using Google Scholar, a much better free resource than some random website (Weightology). The American Journal of Clinical…
  • Rapid weight loss and fasting cause gallstones, two things which I suppose are phentermine related. That being said, taking out the gallbladder of a 26 year old isn't exactly rare.
  • Hey friend. I've logged every day for 670 ish. Started at 260, down to 174, then I stopped restricting calories (but kept logging!) due to some major life events over around 6 months. I got back up to 197, and I'm back down to 193. It's a grind, it's for life, but you've done this before: you KNOW you can do it, so go out…
  • Not for everything, but for 90% of things. Calorie counts for things that lose lots of fat or water will fluctuate a lot pre/post cooking. Bacon for example, loses about 50% of its calories by cooking, presuming you're not slurping the rendered fat out of the pan. Bread is another example; you can weight the dough, but…
  • Sorry if this comes across as rude, but this is the truth my man: You need to correct this line of thinking. You got to be obese because you eat too much. Period, full stop, irrefutably. MFP is a great tool for chronic, life-long change. This can only happen if you accept that your lifestyle, in its current state, is not…
  • All of the posts saying "they aren't accurate" are missing the point. They don't need to be accurate. They need to be precise. Body fat measurement by bioimpedence, presuming you maintain relatively consistent conditions (similar levels of hydration at each measure) are quite precise. They are excellent for charting…
  • Totally agreed. Just as there are no good diet pizza or diet potato chip options, there aren't good diet Chinese options. If you just want food that happens to be Chinese because it's convenient, get steamed vegetables and steamed chicken and cry at the lost potential. If you want Chinese food because that's what you're…
  • @elizabethymartin You could do the reasonable thing and have your gallstones treated with a cholecystectomy.
  • To answer the question ("What do you think about the effectiveness of juicing for weight loss?"): juicing for weight loss is HIGHLY effective, as 1-2 litres per day of home-pressed vegetable juice is very low in calories. Still not recommended.
  • This was the strategy I used with my wife. I started losing weight while she was pregnant and gaining weight, which irked her. "Have you been losing weight?" Nope! She caught on after about 30 lbs though.... What's interesting about the subject at hand is that it's NOT limited only to people who also need to lose weight.…
  • Yes you CAN exercise to compensate. In fact if you do that, your weight is likely to INCREASE due to water retention from muscle injury. Exercise if you want, alternatively just log it and start again tomorrow. Your choice. You cannot exercise enough today to lose meaningful weight tomorrow though.
  • I think that the problem is, in part, because you have the wrong goal. Your goal seems to be to lose weight. There are lots of healthy and unhealthy ways to do that. You REAL goal should be to meet your nutritional target every day. Plug you data into MFP, look at the goals it gives you, and each day try to meet those…
  • A few comments: 1. Pepsi and lattes have water in them, and count towards water consumption. That said, these are high in calories and if your goal is weight loss, you should reconsider this choice (or at least make sure that the rest of your diet is high in nutrients to balance these "empty" calories). Consider…
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