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Usually takes me 9-12 days to see scale results on a cut. Just be persistent and know that you’re doing the right thing.

More like 20 cal/oz. Assuming OP didn’t cut her babe off cold turkey and rather weaned him/her down, the abrupt change in calories out won’t be quite so dramatic.

That’s because you and MFP are both simply estimating and you’re using similar estimating equations. It does NOT mean that if you MEASURED your BMR/TDEE that those numbers would be accurate.

How long is “by now” meant to represent?

The beauty of he CICO method is that it is infallible and simple. If you are not losing weight over a reasonably long period of time - 2 weeks should be plenty - then it means you are eating too much food. The MFP app estimates your calorie expenditures. It isn’t tailored to YOU, it is estimating what most people LIKE YOU…

How much fruit are you eating? Because fruit (and to a lesser degree, vegetables) is definitely a source of carbs.

Come on, get out of here with this. You start losing fat the instant you are in a calorie deficit. You can start losing fat within a few hours if you exert yourself and expend your glycogen and GI tract energy stores. You can’t “make” energy. It’s one of those famous laws of thermodynamics. If your body is in a deficit not…

10% of 2400 = 240 calories from sugar 240 calories of sugar = 60 grams of sugar You’re already under your “limit”.

One pound at a time.

You (and your watch) are assuming that exercise + tachycardia = calorie burn. I can give myself a heart rate of 142 bpm without exercising. I can take stimulants, I can get scared, I can hold my breath... or I could get dehydrated. I'm willing to bet that after 3 continuous hours of aerobic exercise that you were quite…

BMI is an excellent and valid metric to assess the obesity-related risks of a population. It is not easy to interpret that data for an individual. It is possible to have a normal BMI and have nutrition-related health problems and it is possible to have an abnormal BMI and be perfectly healthy. Does BMI predict your health?…

Write to your congressman?

If a serving size has fewer than 5 calories many jurisdictions allow it to be marketed as calorie free. Your 3 oz bag probably has somewhere around 12 calories, or "0" per serving.

I think it’s not possible.

You need to stop scale hopping. Pick one scale. One. Use that one consistently. Your “true weight” doesn’t matter; you want a PRECISE scale, not an accurate scale. Choose one device and weigh under the same circumstances consistently and that should chart your course.

A specific, non-validated, opinion-driven guideline that is. No evidence or physiologic rationale driving that. User experience at an individual level may make that more successful for some but not necessarily for others.

Fifty pounds is the difference between healthy weight and obese. It would catapault most people right through the overweight category, and would possible put some short people into almost morbidly-obese. You can absolutely lose 2 pounds per week with 50+ to go. I don’t know if this applies to the OP (I didn’t see the goal…

It is very unlikely that you are burning 800 calories in your exercise session

Eat less food.

I doubt that you're burning 800 calories per day. If you're not losing after 3 weeks, you should cut calories.

Your ER doctor was right. Gallstones that don't bother you (ie asymptomatic stones) do not require treatment.

Prescription pills work. Non-prescription ones may work (ECA) but the vast majority do not. No pills are necessary to succeed in weight loss. No pills make a dramatic difference; even proven pills make only minimal changes in weight loss success.

The OP is around 140 lbs (goal weight 120, trying to lose 20). Assuming a 30% body fat percent, that gives her 42 lbs of fat or 1260 fat-calories per day that can be sustained in a deficit, using your numbers. If she is only 25% BF, she still has 1050 fat-calories per day of sustainable deficit. A 1000 calorie per day…

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I could never follow this advice. Calorie restricting for 40 weeks rather than 10 weeks would be brutal. I'd rather "suffer" (it's really not that bad) a few lean weeks than nearly a whole lean year.

You misunderstand how regressions work and I don't really have an appetite to explain it. However, the simple summary is that cumulative risks accumulate proportional to their dose. Losing weight FASTER with a drug may be safer in aome circumstances than losing weight slower without it, even accepting the added inherent…

For me, IF is the greatest thing ever. Pros: Eat big satisfying meals Able to eat in pretty much any restaurant without restriction Able to be spontaneous Less work prepping breakfasts and lunches for work days Less cost buying or prepping breakfasts and lunches Almost zero daytime hunger while at work Cons: Hard to…

I find pastrami to be the most sensuous of the salted, cured meats.

While I agree that the original advice of not eating below BMR is nonsense, I have to point out that if you are maintaining your weight then you obviously are not eating below your BMR, so your example isn't a good one. All it shows is that the estimate of your BMR or TDEE was not a good one.

This one seems so obvious: you're lying to yourself. I would be hard to eat nothing but fast food and chicken wings and still amount to only 500 calories, AND you certainly wouldn't gain weight on 500/day. If you want this website to work you've got to be accurate with your logging!