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What are you using to get your calorie reads from?

If losing weight as an older person is not harder, my experience (I am 64) is that it is less comfortable - my calorie needs to maintain a reasonable deficit are considerably less than they were 30 years ago, even though I am more physically active now in comparison. My goals are different now, though. My health, now and…

I would suggest: 1) Yes, do full body, such as StrongLifts or New Rules of Lifting For Women, 3 or 4 times a week (but not two days in a row). If you are in a calorie deficit you will not gain muscle mass but you can avoid losing any and make strength gains. 2) Maybe yes, if you are wanting to lose weight, and IF your…

I watched a guy yesterday who was doing a seated OH incline press with dumbbells - he set them on his knees and used a quick leg-up to get them into position. I am going to try that next workout where that set comes up.

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Sounds like you are doing great, to me. Keep up your current routine for 4-5 weeks and if you like the results, continue. The intervals will help you torch fat and gain aerobic fitness and the lifting will help you maintain more muscle while eating at a deficit-as long as you are moving real weight (what you can do with…

The pasta was a pleasant surprise to me too - I started weighing servings dry then weighing the cooked lot and calculating a serving from there. My pasta with clam sauce (calculated out in the "recipes" tab) turn out to be an OK dinner calorie-wise, and weighing out the freshly grated cheese has been a cool surprise, too.

He was right though - you DO have to be careful with DL form esp when you start loading heavy.

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Oxo is the one i have - weighs items up to 5# which is handy and it has a pull-out display so you can see it easily even if you have a plate on the scale. I got it on amazon~

The question really is, what is causing the hunger? If there has been excessive calorie deprivation then eat.

I think that it's different for everyone, too. My upper body shows I have lost fat sooner than my lower body -

Averaged over 8 weeks that's about 2.4 lbs/week - but as your rate has speeded up, you may be being a bit over-zealous in the calorie restriction department. Perhaps rather than trying to eat more on exercise days, you could bump up each day by 50-100 calories (a handful of nuts would do it lol). You want to make sure that…

Given that pattern, which includes headache and fever, and general feeling of unwellness that persists for 2-3 days, I would get a medical consultation. Something is not right.

Bad knee here - over pronation - losing 50# definitely helped of course. My gauge for workouts is not pain, per se, it's whether there is more pain & how much for how long. I was hiking a couple of years ago and the down-hills were killing me. But I am a "never let it be said that I am not game" person, so I just powered…

My rest days are really walk-4 -or-5 miles days (which I also do on weight training days). Maybe every couple of weeks I will have a really inactive day but it's not planned - just happens due to obligations for the day. Mostly I train with weights for full body workouts M-W-F but if I have really hit it hard, I allow an…

Five pounds at a time totally worked for me :)

Weigh daily, log every week or two.

Thumbs up.

I would just shrug and move on. Probably even though you were "over the eating goal" you were still at a calorie deficit for the week (just not as large as you were aiming for).

I still think Vit D levels should be our first thing to test since treating it from Wal-Mart, Wallgreens, etc cost next to nothing. ^ totally agree

The advice about taking breaks during the day and ways to do that are great. Sitting for 12 hours a day is awful for your health - clearly during the commute you just want to get to where you are going but those 8 hours will offer opportunities to move.

Y here, too, hands down.

With 7 months to go you can see results. If you are a college student check to see what your school has for fitness equipment/classes. Focus on bodyweight exercises if there is no lifting equipment. There are youtube videos on "convict conditioning" for bodyweight exercises, and something structured like Strong Lifts might…

My strategy is to keep moving through the discomfort - something easy like walking, and stretching when I am warmed up. Sleeping well and good nutrition probably don't hurt, either. I don't like to take NSAIDs but have on one or two occasions in the past several months after getting too enthusiastic with lifts.

My advice would be to slowly up your calories to maintenance and do a structured weight training program. I am following New Rule of Lifting For Women. At lot of folks like the Strong Lifts program.

I actually don't know if the calories from exercise are inflated or not - I log all my exercise in the FitBit app (step and non-step) and it ports over to MFP. I have set a small deficit with the goal of 1-2# a month. My monthly net CICO according to FitBit is almost equal ... yet I have lost 2-3# during the past 6 weeks…

I basically changed my meal timing to deal with late afternoon hunger. I eat my first meal at mid morning, the second one at mid afternoon, the last one around 7 PM and then frequently I have some calories to play with and finish the evening with plain greek yogurt. I eat a substantial amount of protein with every meal &…

Active recovery day after pushing it at the gym yesterday - I invited myself to 5 miles of walking outside in the gorgeous spring weather (it was not a hardship).

Get a food scale :) No, really -