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We all have the ability to choose our poison. It's always struck me that when someone abstains from a particular poison, folks get so defensive about it.

I find it's so helpful to actually gather and look at the data you collect over time. I use 30 day data chunks, myself, and then I feel more confident in making adjustments. For me the Fitbit app is the most helpful for this since it provides a rolling 30 chart for calories in/calories out.

I use olive oil, or butter (or a combination) for most things and coconut oil when that particular taste would be good to add to a dish.

no idea why a gym bag would need to weigh a ton - use hotel sized products for shower afterward, and only have your shoes, sox, top, pants, set of clean underwear, towel. If you can't lift that easily, you are in need of PT lol.

USDA values include cooked meat - use usda cooked beef (per your example) in search.

MFP adjusts calories based on the whole day. If you have most of your calorie burn in a single session, and more than MFP expects you to have (based on your stats) by that time of day, then it may give you a pretty initial high adjustment. If you are sedentary the rest of the day, or just proceed about your "normal" day,…

Strength training that targets upper body will improve your shoulders and that will help balance your lower body a bit.

Re # 1 - aim for a small deficit - you might find yourself eating more on heavy lift days or you might not. Based on your information, I would be starting out aiming for 1850 as an average, and I would re-assess in a month. Don't just pay attention to the scale. Take body measurements, too. And use a food scale to weight…

How do you get back at it? Start by logging all (ALL) your food. Then make adjustments to what you eat. It's not rocket science.

Feeling "bulky" after upping protein might just be due to gut motility issues. If you want to try again, drink a bit more water and have a bit more fiber. And wait longer than 3 days (it can take 48 hours or so from food to travel from mouth to elimination).

Try a lower deficit, with protein at every meal, plus higher fiber or higher protein snacks. On a very hungry day I might eat at maintenance. This has worked for me at any rate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCP1vQHX_yw&feature=em-subs_digest Worth ten minutes of your time to watch, then the ensuing time to put into motion.

The fat, protein and fiber content makes the difference for me when it comes to satiety.

When I am in deficit mode, as I am right now, I might have one day a week where I eat at maintenance or a few hundred calories above~but I don't approach it as "cheating." It's a choice.

This.

Going all day and eating very little is often not sustainable and may not be healthy (depending on what you eat when you do decide to eat). The "general tips for hunger" are great, in my opinion. My experience during deficit eating periods is that I make friends with the "I could eat" feelings (hey, how are ya doing, wish…

It's really common to experience insomnia when you cut alcohol out. Drinking a bottle of wine in an evening is actually "binge drinking," hard as that might be to believe, and there can be withdrawal symptoms when a person decides to be abstinent even if the drinking happens only on the weekend. On the up side, this will…

My strategy was just to work my plan. This included accepting small portions of food offered in situations where it would be socially awkward to decline, and in other situations say "no thanks - I just ate/I'm not really hungry. Looks great, though!" Whatever reason you want to move from the middle of a healthy weight to…

My experience is that it is easier to say "no" to the first piece than the second piece. Like others, I bring my own snacks. I also have found that adequate (for me) protein and fat in my meals really lessens the force of any temptation to eat stuff I don't have calorie room for.

The only "magic" I know is to have 1) a reasonable calorie deficit; 2) a plan for the day you will be eating out; 3) a willingness to get back on the wagon if you fall off it. I agree with the posters' suggestions above.

Look at how you eat during the day - if you are tired and craving carbs in the afternoon, it could be that you are both dehydrated AND not getting enough protein and fat in the beginning part of the day to keep your blood sugar even. I found with candy accessible at work - I could pass up the first piece much more easily…

Track for 30 days and then make an adjustment if you need to :) 30 days will give you time to assess progress and not get derailed by temporary hormone fluctuations that affect water retention and digestive process.

As long as you cool down adequately after your workout, are plenty hydrated, don't have any medical conditions that contraindicate heat, and limit exposure to safe temperatures/lengths of exposure it should be fine. I think it feels good.

Check for possible access to local markets, and watch portion sizes for the canteen. Where ever you are going, if there is access to any local markets I would take advantage of them (using suitable caution of course to avoid becoming ill). Walking, bike, body weight exercises can help with the fitness part of the equation.

What you eat matters for general health. You can lose weight eating nothing but ring dings or cheezits if you are eating in a deficit. The term "detox" makes people crazy around here but there is nothing wrong with dealing with a sodium overload by following up with low sodium stuff and a bit more water than usual for a…

I would log it as raw food calorie count OR next time in the supermarket, look in the "health food" section at packaged products that don't add sugar or other stuff and take your calorie count from there.

I set MFP for sedentary and took the FB calorie adjustments and found that even at "maintenance" I was still losing about a pound a month.

Yup - that one can of carbonated sugar water is something that many people will find easy to ditch in order to meet a calorie goal for weight loss and still get enough macro and micro nutrients to be healthy.

Sadly, beer is now "special occasion and only one" for me now ... I love craft beer, too, and will go without rather than drink crap.

If it was me (at your age) I would start around 1500/day, track for 30 days and then re-evaluate. The thing to watch for as you pursue the gluten-free world is that a lot of gluten-free products have a lot of added sugar and are surprisingly high-calorie. A food scale that measures grams/oz and can be reset to tare weight…