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Weigh the finished recipe on a scale in grams, enter number of grams as number of servings.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts
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If if can only eat what you describe, how did you get to be overweight? Twenty pounds of onion and lettuce per day?
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Exactly! About 3500 is still the number. What changes is your estimated deficit. You may need a higher ESTIMATED deficit to reach your goal, but that doesn't mean a higher ACTUAL deficit.
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That makes perfect sense and is the entire point of the program. Chronic calorie reduction leads to metabolic compensation and slowing. Lose fast, negate the metabolic effects; lose slow and deal with them. Thus if you want to lose weight slowly, you will need to achieve a higher total calorie "deficit" (which ISN'T a…
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I promise you that if you try to lose 60 lbs by eating the same 3 meals every day, you will fail.
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So far I still have 3 dimensions but if I keep losing weight I hope to hit only 2 dimensions really soon!
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Stop re-weighing yourself. Get on the scale, note the number, move on with your life. What's the plan of checking over and over?
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It doesn't. That's why height is part of the equation.
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Never really feel hungry. In fact, I only start feeling hungry if I eat. For example if it's a weekend and my wife wants to make a big breakfast or go out for lunch or something, I usually will eat because it's more about quality time together than a utilitarian meal. Once I've eaten for the day, I get hungrier throughout…
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I'm also (generally) a one-meal-a-day-er. Way easier to sustain.
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I believe in you wolfman. You can do it!
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I'm not invested in this discussion. In fact I'm about to head out to do some lawn mowing so I won't see whether you reply or not, and I hardly see how that qualifies as flame baiting. That said, MFP cites a source for this data as the National Institute of Health. The NIH document actually says 1000-1200 for women and…
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Page 14 lists the estimated number of calories to maintain weight. It lists, for an 18 year old male, a maintenance calorie value of 2000 calories per day minimum. I don't see how this supports your position on intentional weight loss.
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I'd love someone to post a peer reviewed source claiming that 1500 "net" calories is an absolute healthy minimum for men. I suspect that nobody can do it.
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Unfortunately, sciatic nerve pain is correlated to obesity in a dose-dependent fashion. Losing weight is a treatment for sciatica. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24569641
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I'm not buying it. Physicians serve the role of health advocates. In Canada the accreditation body for specialty medical training is the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and their model of residency training is summarized in the CanMEDS roles, one of which is "Health Advocate." As an advocate for health you are…
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1.5 lbs per week is entirely do-able.
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Because the healthy BMI range for a 5'9" person starts around 130 lbs (I didn't calculate the exact weight, but it's around 130, 135).
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I didn't miss it. Maybe I missed the part of MFP that says I must eat PRECISELY the prescribed number of calories each and ever day. Could you forward me that link? If he at 1620 instead of 1630, is that a cause for concern for you? He said he eats under his goal - meaning he doesn't over-eat.
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Sort of. To gain a pound of fat, yes, you need on average 3500 calories of surplus. To gain a pound of WEIGHT - ie. a mix of fat, water, muscle, etc, you could eat a lot less. For example if you ate a cup full of table salt and then hydrated yourself, you'd probably gain a few pounds of water weight from an enormous…
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On path to goal. Lost lots of weight in 9.5 months (260 to 192.6, or 67.4 lbs). Goal is 160 "diet" weight or 165 "normal" weight after the usual post-diet water gain from glycogen repletion etc. I used the "eat less food" method.
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That may be your goal; that is not everyone's goal. It could theoretically be defined as a math equation. "Dieting" is any unnatural restriction in your food intake and as such produces a product that we'll call unhappiness. Unhappiness is proportional to the daily level of unhappiness (proportional to calorie deficit…
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If... if you've not exceeded your calories for 7 days, then you HAVE had a good week. Why would a week of met goals be bad?
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The problem is that everyone - especially on weight loss boards - believes that they are an outlier.
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@ShrinkingStargazer It's important that if you want to start this journey that you be committed to it. It may help you to commit if you are fully reassured that your heart is fine. Go see the third doctor if that will help you. When you're cleared to proceed, you've already found a great resource in MFP and I hope you kick…
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A sodium deficit (hyponatremia) is almost never from under-consumption; there are very few conditions that require a high salt diet and they are all quite rare. Things like pre-op patients with pheochromocytomas, cerebral salt wasting, sometimes with the syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion (though salt supplements are…
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Haven't you ever been to a carnival with a "fun house" that has a bunch of mirrors that intentionally distort your image? Glass that isn't perfectly flat will distort the reflection, either making you wider or narrower than reality.
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We often say that there's a difference between depression and just being unhappy; sometimes life actually DOES suck, and if you have real, chronic reasons to be miserable, that's not he same as having depression. I suppose the same is true here. If you've known yourself for years as "fat" then thinking of yourself as "fat"…
