DanSTL82 Member

What you just described is physically impossible. You must be logging your calories in/out incorrectly. For most people, this is due to not measuring your food properly (weight/volume) and just guessing at the portions you're eating, and/or neglecting to log condiments like salad dressings or the butter you grease the pan…

If what you say is true, and you are staying under your calories and exercising a lot throughout the week, the only possible answer is that you are logging your food incorrectly. Buy a food scale and measuring cups, and measure everything you are putting into your meals, ingredient by ingredient. It's tedious at first, but…

You may not have enough time to work out, like many people, but nobody is too busy to eat less. What I tell everybody who has a problem with overeating: Don't keep junk food in the house. Most people eat for "fun" rather than because they're actually hungry. So when they're munching all day, it's on stuff like cookies and…

I thinks it's probably usually harmful, as most people tend to overestimate the workout they did, and underestimate the calories they're consuming.

Do you have the MyFitnessPal app? You should really be tracking your calories every day. That's the only way to lose weight. It's great that you cut soda out and stopped snacking as much on cookies and chips, but if you're still going over your daily recommended calories, you'll still be gaining weight. As far as eating…

People have a tendency to vastly underestimate the portions they are eating. I highly suggest you get a food scale for around $15 on Amazon and start weighing your portions. You might be eating 3 servings of spaghetti thinking you're only eating 1, and if you do that every day then your calorie count is *way* off.

Keeping healthier foods instead of junk food in the house will help greatly. I would hazard a guess that your house currently has a bunch of chips and cookies and sugary cereal and sodas and pasta and pizza, etc. That's stuff that you should not be eating much of anyway, let alone on a daily basis. If you stock your fridge…

Diet pills are either just caffeine pills, or they are "fat blockers" that don't do much and give you oily diarrhea. If there were a good diet pill that actually worked, everybody would know about it. You wouldn't have to research it.

You can't target fat loss in certain areas.

Is it for weight loss? Just keep your protein higher and your fat and carbs lower. Like 45% protein, 35% fat and 25% carbs would be good. Keep in mind "fat" isn't bad. Stick to healthy fats like avocados, artichokes, nuts, and peanut butter and almond butter; not bratwursts and pizza rolls. Google "macros for cutting" to…

Depends if it works or not. I'm skeptical, but all you would have to do is measure a few different meals yourself, then scan them with this device to see if it comes up with the same numbers. If it does, I'd be satisfied, and yes I would use it. It would be convenient to take with me whenever I'm eating out at a restaurant…

If you're gaining muscle and not losing fat, that means that you are eating over your maintenance every day. Set your MFP app to lose 1 or 2 lbs a week, and stay under that calorie goal. If this is what you have been doing, then you have simply been tracking your calories incorrectly, and/or overestimating the calories…

Abs are made in the kitchen; i.e., through healthy eating. If you will not eat right, you will not get abs. End of story.

Meat and vegetables. Eggs. Salads. Things from the outside walls of the grocery store, not from the freezer section or the aisles of boxed foods.

MFP calculates this for you, doesn't it?

Diet soda is fine; however, the artificial sweetness and the carbonation can make you feel hungrier throughout the day, making you want to eat more. So consider that.

Really? With low carb, you can eat all meat and cheese. How can you not reach your calorie goals with that?

The Atkins diet, just like all other fad diets, is just a "trick" to eat less calories. When you are watching how many carbs you're eating every day, the side effect is that you're also watching how many calories you're eating every day, and that is the real reason you lost the weight. Same with keto, paleo, intermittent…

The fact that weight is based on calorie intake is science. No anecdotal evidence will disprove the laws of physics. In this case, it is the simple rule that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Every time you move, you must be burning calories equal to that movement. Otherwise it would mean your body would be summoning…

Is the food you eat carb-y and/or sugary? Do you drink soda and eat most meals based in bread and pasta? That can make you feel hungrier throughout the day. Switching to mainly protein/fatty foods instead of carb foods and sugar will make you feel more satiated with what you eat. I keep my carbs pretty low, and eat at a…

Looks like you just have to go lower, because whatever your workout is, it must not be burning as many calories as your previous routine. That is the only possible explanation, if you are still eating exactly the same stuff.

Your body shape is genetics. Your weight is 100% based on your calorie in vs. out and nothing else. If you are carrying weight in your belly, that means you have excess weight, so the only way to get rid of that is through dieting/exercising more. Another commenter here said that her family all has big stomachs, big boobs,…

Use an elliptical instead of a treadmill. It is easier on your joints and you can set the resistance higher so you're working harder to pedal the machine rather than just going faster. However, if your problem is that you can't do an exercise that gets you breathing heavy, there really are no high-fat-burning workouts that…

No matter how often you hang out with your friends, you can manage 30 minutes a day a few times a week to work out. I doubt your lives are that exciting where something amazing is happening every minute of every day. I would guess that mostly you're all just sitting around watching TV. By being afraid of missing out on…

A good way to avoid this is to not keep food in your house that you shouldn't have. My house has zero snack food whatsoever in it. Everything is an ingredient for a meal. That way I'm not tempted to have a handful of Doritos when I get home. As far as the meals go, if weight loss is your only concern, you can eat whatever…

As people have said, if there were a fat loss pill that actually worked *everyone* would know about it and you wouldn't need to be searching around internet forums to hear about them. They are all placebo, as they all suggest that you use them in conjunction with an exercise and diet program, which are the things that…

Yes this is easily attainable if you stick to your MFP plan. Do you have the app? Download it, put in your stats that it asks for, and set your goal at 2 lbs/week loss. If you stick to that, you'll be at your goal in 3.5 months, with 1.5 months to spare (this will allow you to cheat a bit here and there which may take you…

Get the Stronglifts 5x5 app on your phone. It is a workout plan where you start with whatever weights you can handle lifting, and it progressively ups the weight with each workout, and the program is full-body.

For weight loss alone, you don't even need to work out. Working out is a nice bonus to burn off a couple hundred extra calories per day, but you should be mostly focused on staying below your calorie goal every day. Many people are too busy to work out, but nobody is too busy to eat less.

People are making the explanation way more difficult than it is. Your "net" calories is the calories you have consumed, minus the calories you burned with exercise. So, basically what it is saying in your example is that, calorie-wise, your exercise cancelled out 1,000 calories that you've eaten today, so you have done the…