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Fat isn't stubborn. You're not eating in a deficit.

Try poaching the egg by putting it in a soup bowl with some chopped spinach. Pour in some boiling good quality stock. Let it sit for a few minutes so the egg sets and the spinach wilts. Instant an d delicious soup. When the yolk breaks and thickens the stock, it is amazing.

Who whined, complained, made excuses, spread blame, or failed? And who set crazy, overrestrictive goals, except you? There's nothing in CICO that means you must maintain a calorie deficit 365 days a year. But have fun pretending to be a warrior.

Exercise is a purposeful activity on top of your routine daily activities. The routine daily activities are already assumed and accounted for in MFP's calorie estimate -- it assumes we all cook, shop, mow the lawn, etc.

OP: It helps to mostly eat home prepared food, especially at the beginning. It's hard to reliably estimate the calories in restaurant food and the portions can be very large. Is there a reason you can't bring your own lunch to work?

You don't need to go hungry. You just need to learn the difference between hungry and not full.

Dried beans are cheaper, taste better, and freeze well, but canned beans are a fine convenience food. Try a rice salad with black bean, corn and cilantro. It's beautiful and tasty

OP: i hope this doesn't sound harsh, but if you think that you need to solve your depression and other problems to lose weight, it's not going to happen. Those problems are really hard and not entirely in your control. Weight loss is entirely in your control and comparatively easy. And once you succeed, you have done…

Wrong. 1000% wrong. But nothing tastes as good as keeping a promise to yourself. Except really good beer.

If you've lost 6 pounds on 10 weeks, you're not eating < 1200 calories/day. You may think you are, but you're not.

Power foods? Super foods? I happen to like most of the ingredients, although the combination seems dubious -- kale and blueberries? But what makes it super or power?

OP: you don't need to eat the same food all the time. For that matter, you don't need inspiration, just discipline.

This. Scales are wonderful, but it is a slippery slope to fetishism.

3500 is a rule of thumb, not a law of nature. http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/111114p36.shtml

OP -- Very few trainers are competent to advise on diet and what little they know is usually wrong. There is no need to vary your exercise for weight loss. And what you eat isn't important for weight loss.

* eat the calories that MFP gives you, plus 75%of your cardio exercise calories. Adjust after a month or so if you're not losing an appropriate amount of weight * at the beginning a lot of your weight loss is water, not fat, so 3.5/wk at the beginning is not worrisome. If you continue to lose at that rate, your not eating…

Listen to the science, not the anecdotes, and you'll be fine.

No, you'd call that person weak.

BMI isn't a scam. It is a useful tool when used for its intended purpose. But it's more of an ax than a scalpel.

OP:at your size and weight, you cannot healthfully lose 2 lbs/ weekIf you don't want to run on the street, find a high school track near you to startA deficit just means burning more calories than you eatYou really should read the Getting Started stickies

Pink-if you are eating based on your calculated TDEE, you are eating exercise calories, just estimated in a different way than the usual MFP method, unless you told the calculator you do zero exercise.

The scale will tell you much better than an online calculator. If you're not losing, you're eating at maintenance. If you're accurately tracking, you know your TDEE.

Only if you do enough reps.

Sorry, but over time the scale doesn't lie. If you're distraught because of a bad day or week, understand that there's a lot of short term noise in the numbers. But if the scale shows that your not losing over time, you're not losing. You can throw away the scale and pretend to diet, but that doesn't seem mentally healthy.

The first 10 means that your existing, too tight, clothes, start to fit. Which is not a small thing.

I've been about my current weight for perhaps 18 months of my adult life, broken up into a few different times. Other than that, probably 1969.

OP -- this just restating what others have said in a different way, but think of TDEE in terms of burning calories 4 ways:* staying alive (BMR) * digesting food (TEF) * daily activities other than purposeful exercise * purposeful exercise. All 4 = TDEE.

Why the advice on how often to weigh? He can weigh as often as he wishes, as long as he doesn't freak out at the normal day to day fluctuations. and there's no reason to think that he will.

No. The secret to weight loss success is a deficit, not CONSISTENCY............DETERMINATION. She is eating at maintenance and needs to change. Better to be a "mean people" than a cheerleader for failure.