DanSTL82 Member

No, it doesn't matter when you eat. You could eat everything in the morning, everything at night, or evenly paced throughout the day, etc. All that matters is what you eat in a 24-hour period. I mean, there might be a *tiny* difference from one or the other, but nothing significant enough to worry about.

Anything but carb-y foods. Things high in protein and high in fat. Carbs = sugar = hunger sooner. And don't keep snacks in the house, then you won't be tempted to eat them.

Try as best you can to deal with emotions in some other way than snacking. It's not like eating is inherently the only way to solve stress. Go for a jog or even just a long walk, listening to music or something. Anything to get your mind off the stress instead of eating.

My computer wallpaper is a rotation of guys who have the body I am striving to have myself. When I get the craving for ordering a pizza, then I see the six-pack guy on my desktop and think maybe I shouldn't. Google "Ryan Reynolds body" and see the kind of images I'm talking about. Sounds corny but it's good motivation.

A pound of fat is roughly 3,500 calories. Unless your beers were quart-sized, there's no way 4 beers was 3,500 calories. So it must be water weight. Or you just hadn't eliminated waste yet that day, or any other reason that the body naturally fluctuates by a few/several pounds on a daily basis.

Get a food scale, and weigh, measure, and log everything you eat. If you eat less calories than you are burning, you will lose weight, regardless of the specific types of food you're eating. Since you haven't lost weight in the past 3 weeks, that means you are eating exactly the amount of calories your body burns each day,…

Whether you work out or not, you're going to be 40 in October either way, so why not be a better-looking and healthier 40?

As far as I know, MFP doesn't recalculate anything. It wouldn't be smart for them to program it that way, since most people probably aren't 100% accurate with their logging of food, exercise, and/or weight, so calculations would be based off erroneous data entry. It's much safer to just stick with what the person entered…

I drink carbonated water all day. It gives me the fizz fix I used to get from diet soda all day, but diet soda would make me hungry and the sweetness would sit in my stomach all day. Carbonated (flavored) water is the perfect substitute, and has the benefit of having no sodium or caffeine, so it's pretty much exactly like…

I would recommend just abstaining from snacking. Eventually you'll get used to not doing it, especially if you do it all the time now. Snacks are the enemy of weight loss. One of the best things I did for weight loss was ridding my house of any and all "snack foods," and only kept ingredients for meals around. I lost about…

Of course taller people can eat more, but taller people are also hungrier than you are, because they have more mass to feed into than you do. So it all evens out.

Low carb is mostly a gimmick. It can have some benefits like making you less hungry during the day, but ultimately you'll lose generally the same amount of weight regardless of what you eat as long as you're regularly eating at a calorie deficit.

I use yellow mustard and relish. Nice and salty/tangy.

This is true. If you're simply trying to lose weight, there's really no point in logging exercise, because it will just lead to you eating back those calories anyway. Take the calories burned as a surplus deficit for the day.

I do once every couple weeks, in the morning, after I have used the bathroom and before I eat or drink anything. That way I'll be generally in the same mode when I weigh myself, as weight can fluctuate several pounds throughout the day.

You don't have to eat the same stuff they do. Make them their thing and then you eat your own thing.

Didn't read the article, but the easiest thing is to just not keep cookies in the house. Then you don't even need a strategy of how to eat just one, because there's not even one available to you.

I know you don't want to hear "any of them," but really, search on Amazon and sort by 4+ Star reviews. Then literally any of them will do. I even bought two different brands and they both show the exact same food weights down to the decimal.

If you're trying to lose weight, there's no point in eating back the calories. Just take the bonus deficit. Or, eat an extra snack if you're really hungry late in the day. If you're trying to gain muscle like a body recomp, then you do want to eat back those calories because your muscles need them.

It doesn't matter what you are eating. All that matters is how much you're eating. If you're not gaining weight by eating bread, pasta, and peanut butter, eat more of it. Maybe eat more ice cream and get milkshakes from your local fast food joints. However, are you trying to gain fat? Because that's what you'll gain, if…

It depends on what "eating less than I currently am" means. If you are currently eating 1,000 calories above your calorie needs, and you start eating 500 less than that, you'll still be over your daily calorie needs and will still not lose weight (you'll just gain it at a slower rate). Do you do no activity throughout the…

Try to go on some long walks. When you exercise a bit, you won't want to "waste" that exercise by eating poorly, doing all that work for nothing.

I just don't keep carb-y foods in my house, that way I'm not tempted to snack on them. Also, I don't snack much. When I do, it's something high-protein because I have a high-protein macro set up. So I eat things like Oikos Triple Zero Greek Yogurt (tastes like ice cream and it's 15g protein per cup) or cottage cheese. The…

Set your protein and fat higher than your carb macros, then. Like, 40% protein, 35% fat, 25% carb. Eat at a deficit of 500 calories a day. If you want to keep/gain muscle while losing fat, you will have to keep your protein intake high. Almost a gram of protein per pound of body weight on you. As far as your workouts, you…

I will guess that you're eating lots of carbs (Bread, pasta, rice, chips, etc.). Carbs can tend to make you feel hungrier, faster. Start eating more meats and vegetables, cut back on the carb-y stuff. Also don't drink soda or other sugary things, which also make you hungrier. Lastly, don't keep "snack foods" in your house.…

It's all about the calories, as far as weight loss is concerned. You will lose just as much eating 1,360 calories of McDonald's every day as you will eating 1,360 calories of lean meats and vegetables. However, your overall health will be worse, because McDonald's is not nutritious, and your will be hungrier in general,…

Agreed. Though it's convenient to know your exact weight, even if the scale says you weigh 1,000 pounds, as long as it's 999 a couple days later, and 998 a couple days after that, etc., that's all you need. Then you see the real results in the mirror.

No, but since people can really overestimate the amount of calories they burn while exercising, it's a good idea to not try to "eat back" all those calories. For example, if you eat 1460 calories, then go on a late-night jog for 30 minutes and your exercise tracker/app/whatever says you burnt 200 calories, don't get home…

When people say "you can eat whatever you want," what they mean is that calories from cookies and calories from salad will have the exact same effect on your weight loss, which is true for everyone. Whether some foods make you hungrier or less hungry is a separate issue. In the end, eating more of the calories gains more…

You will not gain your weight back from eating more carbs than you used to. You will only gain your weight back if you eat more calories per day than you are burning, regardless of what percentage is carbs, fat, or protein. The main reason "low carb" diets work, is just that they get people to pay attention to what they…