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ColoradoDan, I really really love your attitude ... you can do this!!

Look at the contents of those 4000 calories - how much was alcohol?

Eating out every meal is likely to pack on weight - a lot of it will be water (good news). I was in NOLA for a week in November ... yeah there were 2# of actual fat gained right there. It happens.

Good for what? What is your goal?

Take enough protein and also continue lifting to maintain :)

I hear you - and good on ya for taking back the reins. Now for the Rest of Your Life bit - I think ultimately you're gonna have to curtail the alcohol/snacks some, or PERMANENTLY build in a few (to several) hundred calories worth of exercise a day. What ever you can sustain that includes reasonable quality of life as YOU…

Yup, for lower calorie options thats the way to go .. for me .. if it's a good restaurant I would order whatever schnitzel they do best for main course, opt for a side salad to go with it, and skip breakfast tomorrow.

Where your body holds fat is largely determined by genetics, it appears. You may notice losses in the thigh area with that last 10 #, and you also may notice that a year into maintenance your body shape has changed. But if you are pre-dispositioned to maintain larger legs that's how it's gonna be.

Further noted in the scientific american article cited above: These patterns do not prove that the sweeteners caused the problems. Indeed, it is quite possible that overweight people are simply more likely than others to consume artificial sweeteners. But Segal's team went further, testing the association directly in a…

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Yup, second the above.

That's a challenge - your palate is accustomed to salt and my guess is that if you reduce salt in seasonings all at once, things will taste pretty lifeless. I see that Tony's Chachere's makes a "lite" seasoning which might be worth a try - maybe blended with the normal gradually reducing the usual in favor of the "lite."…

I understand the pizza/office culture thing, & also the pizza-is-crack experience. If you are accustomed to eating 5 or 6 slices, eating 4 slices would be a victory. Eat your first slice nice and slow an enjoy it to the max. Then do the same for the 2nd one ... and the 3rd. You can do this :)

I agree with the above post that the food eaten out might be where the issue is - even if you are eating at a place that publishes nutritional information, the actual preparation methods may vary. To test this out, go for two weeks preparing your own meals, continuing to weigh and measure everything, and see if you remain…

Stick with your 1300 calories a day if you are functioning ok on that. Eat some exercise calories back if you are (a) miserable on 1300 or (2) feeling more tired than usual. Take a daily multivitamin (it's difficult to get appropriate micronutrients at that calorie level). Weigh all solid food and measure all liquids so…

If I remember right, the Atkins method from going from "induction" (20g or under) was to add 5 g a day, up to 30-50 daily to reach the 2nd phase of carb restriction. Maybe that would work for you.

Disappointed isn't the right word for it, for me. I am female, 65, 5' 6" and "lightly active" (averaging about 3 miles of walking a day -more outdoor walking in the warm months, less in the cold ones) - 1500-1600 daily is the maintenance sweet spot for 155# according to a year or so of data collection that includes…

Consulting a primary care provider is never wrong. I would also suggest fueling and hydrating much better if all you are having is a bowl of special K and coffee.

That first stage is short - the workouts get longer as you go. With regard to squats and knees, when you squat think of your knees spreading out - adopt a wider stance as well, maybe (think sumo style) - and don't use weights until you find a stance where you have no knee pain. Instead, raise your arms in front of you -…

If you are bothered by your sleep schedule, here are some suggestions. Cut back or eliminate caffeine & alcohol; eliminate screen time an hour before you choose to sleep; try to NOT nap during the day the first day you are recovering from an up-til-5 AM bout. Other suggestions here:…

From a taste standpoint, nope :smile:

Only caffeine - and a nap lol

I hear ya. I was up a few over the top end of my "range" and futzed around for a few weeks - logging everything and just not being up for a deficit by the end of the day (tho re-discovered maintenance lol). I went to 16:8 for a few weeks and that was all it took for me to be able to put in a small deficit and see the scale…

My personal experience has been that actual gains (not just water weight) have not been detectable in an instant and there often is a several day delay for a gain to show up.

Go for the half and half.

Hello, Soner - it would help to have a bit more information, such as how the weight loss has been progressing, what the size of your deficits is, etc. Without that information, I would suggest that you reduce your deficit (eat more) on gym days-add a small meal following your gym might do it. I am a creature of habit and…

Timing of meals might help - feeling "full" on that amount of calories is pretty hard. What works for me recently is having two meals a day rather than three - something around lunch (500-600 calories)e and something around dinner, and frequently my daily "steps" enables me to have a snack (recent favorite is oikos triple…

Bitter, much? Now in my 7th decade, I can concur that folks always seem to have an agenda for other folks. Sometimes it is coupled, as with @newmeadow 's remarks, with the idea that the "rightful" wage earners were somehow deprived. Sorry, not buying that particular victim fantasy. With regard to the question at hand,…

5'6" age 64 - I walk 2.5 - 3 miles mostly outdoors over the course of the day in the winter, and 4-6 outdoors in the summer - winter maintenance is around 1600c to weigh 153 (absolute top of "normal" weight range).

Same here. It's a bit annoying to see more bat wing on the right arm than the left arm .. so I don't look lol.