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I'm 59 y/o and never ran in my life until I started C25k almost exactly a year ago. I now take more pride in my ability to run than I do in my weight loss. Do it.

That's a very personal question.

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You did not lose 30 lbs and look the same. You may not see the change, but the world does. The only thing that apparently hasn't changed is the 6 inches between you ears.

A pan scale certainly has two pans-otherwise is one hand clapping-but I still view the scale as singular. However, you are correct that i would refer to "scales of justice"

It depends on your definition of fast food. It appears most are talking about burger joints. I don't eat there because I don't like the burgers (they don't taste like beef), although the fries are good. If fast food includes everything without a waiter, I eat Jersey Mike's about once a week. Very tasty and perfectly…

Nothing, other than weight loss

Instant mashed potato flakes to thicken a soup. Or cooked rice and a blender. The first is James Beard's "trick", the second Julia Child's

Not to quibble, but BMI is not an average, it is a standard. If you have a normal BMI, your weight is considerably below average. BMI is a perfectly good answer to the question: how can I judge whether I'm at a healthy weight of my only tools are a rule and a scale? But if you're not stuck with those tools, there are…

I was imprecisely precise in my response. Can I rephrase it as "it doesn't make s lot of difference in terms of calorie burn, but a big difference in terms of cardio benefits."?

Why did you choose those macros? It is an effort to keep your carbs that lowlow. Why go to the effort absent a good reason ?

It's the same in terms of calorie burn, but not in terms of cardio benefits.

You're looking in all the wrong places. The question isn't a 2 week stall. It's how you've only lost 15 pounds in 7 months at 1100 calories. The only answer is that you're eating way more than 1100 calories. And don't shock your system. I tried using a hair dryer in the bathtub and it didn't help my weight loss at all.

No. BMR and exercise are only 2 of the ways in which you burn calories. There is also non-exercise activity and digesting food. MFP's target includes all but purposeful exercise.

What you call "flipping out" is what others are calling starvation mode. Which you correctly say does not exist.

Your warning worked. All the people who know what they are talking about are staying away from the thread. Good work.

From a health standpoint, "eat a varied diet" is all the macro advice we need. I suppose we're all wired differently, but I would find it maddening to turn dinner into a macro algebra problem

1450 should translate to 0.5 lb/week, so you probably need to go that low if you want to lose. If you're struggling with satiety at your current intake, the standard advice to eat what you normally eat, just less, isn't going to work for you. You'll need to experiment with your macros and meal timing to figure òut what…

I've lost 70 pounds. Feel free to find that motivational.

I've been buying a prepared manicotti from Costco. According to the label, there are 7 servings in the package. There are 5 manicotti in the package. I guess I'm supposed to eat 5/7 of a manicotti and serve someone else the stubs.

if your goal is lose weight, you don't need to eat healthy foods, drink lots of water and stop eating everything you like. You lose weight by eating fewer calories than you burn. Maybe you won't fail if you just count calories.

You're suggesting that she could have gained 30 pounds in 6 months while eating in a deficit?

Not pan frying, but you can "poach" vacuum packed frozen fish right in the pouch. Simmer at a very, very low temperature. If it's an oily fish like salmon, you are essentially oil poaching. Very quick, nothing to clean and delicious.

No one said that calorie tracking is necessary for everyone. But it is the point of MFP. OPs question was whether MFP would be an effective replacement for WW. The only sensible answer is, not if you don't want to track calories.

OP: A local high school track is a good way to start running if you want a safe, secluded place

From the NYT article cited above: The vast majority of clinical trials involving fish oil have found no evidence that it lowers the risk of heart attack and stroke. From 2005 to 2012, at least two dozen rigorous studies of fish oil were published in leading medical journals, most of which looked at whether fish oil could…

I assume OP's question translates as, is there a significant variance in the BMRs of people with comparable statistics (gender, weight and height). I understand there is minor variance except for a handful of outliers, but I stand ready to be persuaded otherwise.

WW offers two things: 1. A structured, reasonably well balanced low calorie diet and 2. The "motivation" of weigh ins and meetings. Re #1, it is a dumbed down version of calorie counting. I'm not sure why anyone would prefer WW to MFP as a way of counting calories. Re #2, only you know whether the meetings, etc are…

Over time you should develop a reasonably good eye for the ingredients and cooking techniques. It helps of you cook. You're not going to be as accurate as if you cooked it yourself but you'll get close enough.

It won't do you any harm, but the claims that fish oil supplements provide health benefits is shaky, at best. As I understand it, there were some early, methodologically questionable, studies that showed big health benefits. Those studies triggered the fish oil craze. Studies since then do not show health benefits.…