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You might be retaining water through all the cardio and stress you are putting your body through that will mask fat loss for a while (and thus "hurt" scale weight).

Continue doing what you are doing. Slowly up your activity level to compensate for the fact that as you lighten up it will more activity to continue the same level of burn. When you feel ready, add strength training. Don't get into the cycle of further and further calorie restriction or get obsessive about hours of…

Fitbit gives me around 550 calories out a day on those days I have walked 6 miles (a mile of that using intervals) and an hour or so of full body strength training (which I log as "light" although lifting iron repeatedly does not feel light).

I went on the NROLFW Facebook site and the recommendation now is to swap out crunches for planks and jack knifes - but keeping the butt down on the jack knifes as you roll the swiss ball, and side planks for those flexion exercises. Anyhow - I just finished Stage4A(2) and also had to stop with the OHP due to shoulder…

26000 steps for me would be about 10.5 miles (I test it against various treadmill mileage counts every so often) - I don't think the calorie burn is that far off, actually.

So last year I lost 45 pounds or so - the last 15 took longer. I kept eating the same # of calories - making my deficit smaller and my weight loss slower (from about 1.7 pounds/week at the start to .4-.5 pounds/week at the finish). I increased general physical activity, and also added weight training in. My attitude was -…

If you are training outside, maybe its a contact dermatitis from vegetation, or insect bite(s) that cause a eczemic looking rash (ants do that to me).

This is why I do "maintenance" with a calorie range - it tends to even out over a week but even if it doesn't, it evened out over the last month and I have stayed put weight-wise.

Awesome work :) It is SO much easier to make these smaller adjustments sooner than to let things slide. Maintaining within a range makes so much sense.

Sorry, varshanathan, but unless you amputate a body part, 20 kg is not going to happen. And, as the above poster notes, you can surely make some great progress in 2 months :)

Good nutrition for most folks - whole grain foods (B vitamins are in there), green leafy, and other vegetables, fruit rather than fruit juice, protein from lean meat, fish, beans (combined with rice or corn for complete protein), perhaps dairy but certainly a source of calcium and magnesium if you are lactose intolerant.

^^ This is the key to "eat more to lose more," in my experience. Adequate fuel for me has led to much better and more satisfying workouts and decreased net calories.

It sounds like it needs a new battery, or it's just broken.

Plug your data in here for an estimate on calories. Edited to include the darn link: http://scoobysworkshop.com/accurate-calorie-calculator/

I have the "One" - I like it - it has helped me both keep track of calorie burn and motivated me to move more - from about 2500 steps (which for me is a little over a mile) to 10-15000. I track all physical exercise through the fitbit site and sync it to MFP where I track all the calories in. I never bothered with sleep…

Weight loss is not linear. Obsessing about what other people may or may not be doing is the unhappy road to stress and self loathing (stress inhibits weight loss, by the way).

Continuing doing exactly what you are doing you will most likely reach your goal by the end of the year - which beats what happened last year, right? :) Still, I understand feeling peeved at a slow loss rate. It's great that you are walking - you don't say how much. Last year, I started eating fewer calories and walking -…

Yeah I had a bad one on Tuesday ... but Thursday was AWESOME. The workout spirits giveth, they taketh away lol.

You can do it either way. I did the same as RosieRose - bam up to maintenance. It's been about 4 weeks and seems to be going ok. My maintenance level is about 500-600 calories lower than RR so I still have to be watchful.

It may also depend on what you ate the day before, and how late you ate. I had my best workout in a LONG time earlier this week - only a glass of milk before I went, but the night before I didn't get much for supper and had a peanut butter and banana sandwich along with a glass of milk late in the evening.

Fat doesn't turn into muscle :) Lifting will help you retain muscle as you lose fat (but you still will lose some muscle). Cardio will help overall with aerobic capacity. My suggestions would be to eat at a slight deficit - around 250 calories less than what you are burning, and eat a well balanced diet; engage in some…

Don't eat so damn much.

The number of pounds is not the issue, I don't think (152 is reasonable for a 5'7" 19 year old male). I would advise you to eat at maintenance and concentrate on a decent strength program for a few months and see if you like the results.

I would want to be in the group of subjects that got to eat mince pie hehe. Thanks for the article post :)

I weigh and cook 6 oz of pasta. I weigh the cooked pasta (colander first, tare, then with pasta) and eat a third of the cooked pasta by weight. It's not as cumbersome as it sounds lol

There are mouse studies showing a correlation between ingesting artificial sweeteners and development of insulin resistance (mechanism is alteration in the gut bacteria) but as far as I know, there are no human studies so hopefully further research will clarify that and also provide some information about how much and what…

This explains current thinking behind sleep deficiency and increased hunger: http://www.webmd.com/diet/sleep-and-weight-loss

I would chalk it up to the combination of water retained due to sodium & carbs, and the time it takes for that fair amount of bulk to move through your system, (which can be up to 48 hours).

And, at 255#, ms jozzmenia is at .8g protein per lb bodyweight. My own ratio runs around .8 - I feel the best physically with a somewhat higher ratio of protein & it's much easier to stay at maintenance calories. Whatever rox your sox :)

I don't know if it is a lot for a person who is 6 feet tall and weights 255 & even if on a deficit might be weight training in order to retain muscle mass~maybe a third of daily calories?