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I understand where you are coming from ... but a pound is a pound, whether it is muscle, fat, or water. So a pound of muscle weighs as much as ... a pound of fat. I think what you might MEAN is that a pound of muscle takes up less room than a pound of fat. Weight loss and health result from good nutrition and good…

In addition to the sensible posts above, change the batteries in your scale if it's digital.

Your Saturday entries look pretty on target to me. Your category headings are quite entertaining :) MFP makes you enter percentages for macros but that doesn't mean you have to hit them if they don't work for you - just add up the totals and decide what DOES work for you. If you find you are urinating a lot more than…

For what it's worth, for a basic walking activity like mowing the lawn, I don't bother to separately count it as "exercise" and just let my step counter do the logging - the extra calorie burn is just "bonus" for me. If I am doing more strenuous yardwork, I log it as such. My Fitbit requires a start time and duration and…

Something IS different - the posters actually agree with you that there is a calorie deficit going on ... what they are chalking that up to is that their bodies are burning through calories faster, and they are hypothesizing that their metabolisms have changed.

There is a part of RFL that discusses its usefulness & limitations, as well as the over all utility of having a more gentle deficit. If you are committed to remaining a vegesaurus that consumes no animal products, I don't see how you could do RFL. (If you go to McDonald's Body Recomposition Forum, you can read through the…

If it was as easy as "just do it" then no one would be on these boards :) Maybe a new way of beginning would work for you - make changes one meal at a time, for example, or be mindful that the change COULD be "adding" rather than "subtracting." Adding another 20 minutes of walking? Adding protein? Adding fiber? Adding an…

I found that vanilla Pure Protein (11 oz in a bottle) tastes good in coffee. Works better with hot coffee rather than iced, in terms of dissolving right.

A good guideline is .8-1.2 g protein per pound of current weight if you are eating at a deficit and want to minimize muscle loss. I am 5'6" weigh 149# at the moment and eat between 135-150 g of protein a day. It does help with hunger and also supports my activity level. That being said - drinking sufficient water and…

Good for you for your work thus far (including medical clearance for exercise). It would help to know what your fitness goals are. If you are OK to weight train, I would suggest adding resistance exercise in to the mix, since at our age, maintaining or increasing muscle is really important (left to our own devices, we lose…

Each meal may vary in macro content. The object is to finish up the day at your goal. So with that one meal, you had a bit more fat and protein, and very low, if any carb content. So with the grams "left," you can plan the remainder of your intake. Hope this helps! Edited to add: the weight loss part depends on your…

The cucumber might be responsible for the gas (it has that effect on many people). You could try 500 mg of Vitamin C twice a day, plus 500 mg of magnesium at night. Don't take laxatives - they actually are counter productive in the long run.

You don't actually need very many carbs to function properly. You definitely need fiber! People who eat low-carb, either because of health issues or because they find that the most pain-free way to eat at a deficit, don't generally find energy depletion to be an issue once the body is adapted, if they are on a…

When I cook pasta, I weigh 3 servings dry (6 oz). Then I weigh the drained pasta and serve myself 1/3 of it - (partner eats the rest).

I just went back to edit my response as I see you are male and not female, and I guess I didn't "post" it - so here it goes again. If you gained any weight from lifting, it would likely be mostly water retention - the amount of muscle weight you would gain through progressive, heavy lifting would be a couple of pounds in a…

If you did gain weight by lifting, it would be due to water retention. Women would be LUCKY to gain a pound of muscle in a month. Also, muscles don't turn in to fat when you strengthen them :) Start doing resistance exercises now, if you can - it helps with increasing strength, limiting the amount of muscle you lose when…

Weight loss is also not a linear process. Hormone variation in women can account for a 3-5 # swing, for example. Look at where you are 5 weeks from start to get your "weekly average." As long as it's going in the right direction, you're good :)

OK I am not a Dr. Oz fan by any means but having looked at the information, I think it will be effective - basically lean protein & non starchy vegetables. MFPers will no doubt note that restricting food groups is not necessary for weight loss, but there will be folks who find the lean protein/leafy, fibrous veggie plan…

These are great questions, and the answer is "it depends." One variable is duration of time, and related variables are the content of the calories and additional nutrient supplementation. Another variable is percentage of lean body mass to begin with. A final variable is degree of activity. If you want to explore this and…

For a buffet, scan the options before you get a plate. Then depending on your decision to a) continue at your daily deficit, b) eat at maintenance that day, c) decide to to over your maintenance, you can make your choices. For me, if I am deciding to stay at my deficit or close to it, I will choose a lot of vegetables as…

It's hard to know what to suggest without seeing your macros and/or diary. "Adequate" protein may not be optimal - so that would be one thing to consider. Also, the content of your carb intake would be helpful to know. Whole-food carbs take longer to digest and so they help stave off "hunger." Fat content is also important…

I often nuke vegetables - green beans, broccoli, cauliflower seem to be my go-to during the week, and then add lemon juice and herbs. Roasting vegetables (broccoli, asparagus, cauliflower, any root vegetables, e.g.) is yummy too but you need time to do that. Do they always HAVE to be cooked? Because a huge salad of leafy…

I'll just add that you might not need to drop your calories quite so low at this point, if you find that you are feeling starved on that amount. Congrats for losing 7 # :) I find on 1200 calories I do best with higher protein food - lean meat (I look for sales on chicken, pork loin), lean fish (more spendy), cottage…

Not sure what you are asking - if you entered the correct data, the 1858 # is what you are burning every day - so if you want to maintain, keep it up, and if you want to lose weight, then select a deficit that makes sense (250-500 calories a day for a .5 to 1 lb loss average per week). The information is an estimate only,…

It maybe, OP, that you get enough more fiber in your diet using wheat bread that your gut is moving better.

That link has some good info - just beware it's based on male bodies, and hence the recommendations for rate of weight loss will be too high for women (the author uses body fat calculation), and muscle building rates will also be too high.

Post menopausal for 20 years, in good health - and I miss the "extra gas" lol - sometimes it feels quite cruel to have such a low maintenance number - if I walk outdoors 4-5 miles a day and lift 2-3 times a week, I MIGHT be able to get away with eating 1750 and maintain, at 5'6" & age 65, according to a year's worth of…

Typically, the weight loss is more the first week or so (water) then it becomes whatever it will be. If you are feeling OK (good energy, able to sleep well) then you should be fine. It might be helpful to take a multivitamin for insurance, and will be helpful, long term, to ensure sufficient protein and fat grams each day.…

Try having protein with every meal and snack - it helps with the hunger. I have 30-36 g protein with each of three meals then maybe 15-20g with my one snack. The protein comes from lean meat (chicken, pork loin usually), lean fish (and occasionally a fattier fish like salmon or catfish), egg whites, cottage cheese, nonfat…

It seems like you have 1.5 hours of commute time each way to/from work - that's a lot of time out of your day. If it was me, I would prioritize sleep, quite frankly, and find time to move as much as possible during the day (stairs instead of elevator, using the restroom in a diff part of the building, parking far as…