daniip_la Member

I'm not in the area, but I just wanted to say good luck and that you can do it! I started out with 200lbs to lose, and I've lost 72lbs so far. It sounds daunting when you start, but it's possible. Good luck!

Oh no. I'm going to have to find some chemical-free chicken now.

I agree with using the food scale for other liquids with a density of 1g/mL. What I did was put a graduated cylinder on my food scale, tare it, add however many mL is a serving, and check the mass. I've found that my half & half, for instance, is also 1g/mL (or close enough that the difference didn't matter). So I can…

True, that's a factor, OP. The numbers I gave you for myself are sedentary numbers.

Yes, Fitbit generally assumes you're going to keep up your current activity until midnight. Which is kind of ridiculous, but that's how it calculates.

Your mom shouldn't be getting more calories than you. You have 60lbs and 6" on her. Make sure it's "lose 1 lb" selected and not "gain 1lb". Your calories seem a little high. I'm 6'0" and 298lbs, set for 2lbs/week loss and have a calorie goal of 1690. If I went for 1lb/week instead, I would be at 2190.

My Fitbit One calorie adjustment is perfect. I tested it over a few months and the numbers matched.

I know my safe deficit. My weight can well support the deficit I have. It can actually support an even bigger deficit, but I'm not about that life.

Endomorph/Ectomorph/etc has absolutely no bearing on weight loss.

Believing that carbs/sugar caused extra weight gain. Doing keto for 6 months and hating every second of it. More recently (a few months ago), not eating back exercise calories. I already have a 1,000kcal/day deficit. Adding another 500kcal deficit to that made me sick and exhausted.

I'm not derailing this thread, but there's nothing wrong with artificial sweeteners. It's anyone's choice whether they want to ingest them or not, but they're not unhealthy. There have been many, many threads in this forum where scientists (others as well as myself) have provided scientific support to the belief that…

Yes, when I began meticulously tracking calories and dropped 20lbs in about two months, I skipped a period. Then I had two regular ones, and now they're coming every two weeks or so. Everything to do with my hormones gets so screwed up when I'm losing weight.

Yeah, that's why I said you have to make it recalculate.

The advice still stands that you should be asking your doctor about your diet. How do you know someone here won't give you wrong information that harms you further?

Fingers meeting around your wrist doesn't really mean anything. I'm 6'0", wear size 12 shoes, and my fingers still meet around my wrist because I have crazy long hands.

Your body detoxes itself, no need for "detox drinks". And they certainly don't help with weight loss.

If I had to pick the healthiest fast food options, Subway would be it. If you have to eat it, you have loads of low calorie options. You just have to say no to the things that don't fit in your calorie goal. Losing weight doesn't depend on organic food or fancy gym equipment. Just eat at a calorie deficit.

I did keto for 6 months without cheating a single time, and then I ate a regular meal (Christmas dinner). I was never able to go back on it afterwards, and ended up binge eating my way to regain most of what I had lost. LCHF is definitely not for me. I'm losing at the same rate by eating whatever I like and just staying…

I'm 6'0" and weigh 298lbs. I'd rather stay this size than go on an 800kcal/day diet. I get lightheaded and dizzy if I have a 1500kcal deficit for a few days, I think a 2000+ kcal deficit for more than a day or two would kill me. Or I would kill someone.

You should be losing at maybe half that rate with your current weight. Please choose a less aggressive rate of loss, it will help you in the long run.

You probably won't lose weight every week. Give a change 6 weeks before deciding if it's not working for you. One week isn't nearly long enough.

Coffee doesn't help or hinder weight loss, unless the caffeine gives you pep to go exercise. Just be sure to count the calories that you add into it. If it helped with weight loss, I'd probably weigh negative pounds at this point.

I haven't had my coffee yet, so my conversions may be a bit off, but I believe you're around 5'10" and 275lbs. You shouldn't be losing more than a maximum of 2.75lbs per week. That would put your weekly deficit at 9,625kcal, and your daily deficit at 1,375kcal. From my experience (I'm 6'0" and 298lbs) you shouldn't go for…

That's it. Pack it up. Gonna buy it all.

Every morning.

/shudders You might as well be eating baking cocoa.

You underestimate me on a shopping trip.

Put your stats into MyFitnessPal and eat the calories they allot you. As long as whatever you eat fits into those calories, you'll lose weight.

You'll gain back water weight when you reintroduce carbs. If you feel like eating keto isn't for you, I'd advise you to go back to calorie counting. From my experience, keto was easy to maintain until I "cheated" after six months. I was never able to go back on it again, I can't deal with that restriction.

I actually managed something slightly similar a few months ago, though from a freak accident instead of negligence. The neck of a flask I was using snapped off while I was pulling a vacuum funnel out of it, and the jagged edge cut my hand open pretty badly. Instead of passing out, I was yelling for a lab mate to come…