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For a very small disabled person, it is possible for that 1,000 calories per day is the appropriate amount. 1,200 is the bottom of the scale for women, but the charts are generally based on women who are above the 5th percentile in size and who have full mobility. I would suggest talking to your doctor.

After a big meal some people don’t eat again until they feel hungry, but I don’t think most people who do this are eating 6,000 calories. Even so, that might be a good thing to do because your body simply can’t process that many calories in a short amount of time and dumping more on top of it is pointless. On the bright…

Take the number of pounds you are losing per week, multiply by 500 and the result will be the number of calories you add per day.

It's those doughnut induced whooshes that convince me more than ever that it isn't what is happening in the fat cells that causes them.

I haven't seen the documentary, but I think one of the big problems with weight loss game shows is that the contestants are motivated by the prize money or the challenge of losing weight rather than a desire to get healthy. Once the lights are switched off and the cameras are put away, there's nothing to motivate them to…

If you know how many calories you were eating on a typical day prior to trying to lose weight, your average TDEE is going to be pretty close to that, but probably a few calories less. TDEE calculators are helpful if you don't have that information, but knowing what you were eating will give you a more accurate figure.

How so? Suppose a person has an average NEAT of 1,500 calories. Using MFP they are on a 1,200 calorie diet. One day they burn 700 calories with exercise. Putting them at 500 calories MFP Net. Their TDEE for that day is 2,200 calories, giving them a calorie deficit for that day of 1,000 calories. It probably isn't a good…

Everything I have seen indicates they are more like a beach ball. When they are empty they lay flat rather than shrink.

I'm not sure why people think the "squishy fat" has anything to do with whooshes. Squishy fat is actually due to the fat in an area of the body deflating more quickly than the skin over it can adjust. This does typically happen where there are large chucks of fat. Once the skin tightens it goes back to normal.

All cells contain water, but in a fat cell the location where fat is stored and where the water is located are distinct. There is a special reservoir in which fat is stored in the cell. This reservoir doesn't fill with water when the fat is released and if the rest of the cell took on as much water as the capacity of the…

Not so. There are a number of things that can cause weight loss to be nonlinear that have significant scientific backing. Damaged muscles hold fluid. Once muscles repair themselves the fluid goes away and can appear to be a sudden drop in weight. Glycogen holds more than its own weight in water, so a drop in glycogen can…

You aren't eating below 1,200. You said you ate 1,420. The 1,200 limit comes from research outside of MFP that doesn't even consider how MFP calculates net. The Net figure is a MFP specific thing. Don't try to mix the two or you'll just confuse yourself.

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The fluid that is retained in muscles after exercise is due to capillaries leaking. The strain of exercise creates tiny breaks in them, allowing fluids to leak into the surrounding tissue. This fluid serves as a quick temporary fix for the damage while the normal tissue cells go about the process of replicating themselves…

That 1% is a killer. While the energy required to move something from one side of the cell wall to the other is insignificant, for osmosis to occur there must be an abundance of water outside the cell. Getting water to the cell requires energy. Also, there has to be something in the cell that attracts water. Fat molecules…

What makes you think you shouldn't eat below your BMR? There's nothing special about BMR. It's just calories. Your body is going to get the calories it needs from the food you eat or it is going to get it from stored carbs and fat. If you are always replacing the calories you burn then you will never need to use fat.

Pretty much everything we know about how fat cells work tells us that this idea that fat cells become sacks of water is false. You might consider this: if it is a lack of energy that causes a fat cell to release fat, where does the energy come from to allow the fat cell to take on water? And if that energy is available,…

My "bank" is the number on the bathroom scale. If my weight decreases by too much then I eat more. If it increases by too much I eat less. Other than that I don't even bother tracking food calories when I am maintaining.

That's usually a sign that someone knows that what they "know" to be right is actually wrong, but they're hoping someone will help them shore up their belief.

Both choline and caffeine are supposed to help improve your ability to exercise for longer periods of time. It won't do anything for weight loss beyond allowing you to burn more calories. If you replace those calories then your weight loss will remain the same.

I don't know why you would want to add a pound to your weigh-in. By giving a pound of blood you actually are a pound lighter. It isn't weight loss in the typical way and there's a limit to how much you can lose that way, but it is weight loss. You will replace that blood over time, but as long as you are eating at a…

It seems to be pretty close.

Eat whatever is convenient. My recommendation is to allocate a fourth of your daily calorie goal to each meal. If your goal is 1200, for example, you would eat 300 calories at each meal and have a few left over for one or two small snacks.

You're right that if you only record numbers once a week you have the same numbers. But presumably you aren't going to step on the scale six more times for no reason. So the question becomes, "What do we do with those numbers?" Are we trying to figure out on which day we are heaviest? Why do we care? It seems to me that…

It's been a while but I think I saw five pounds lost the first week and probably three the next. It stayed at about two per week for several weeks after that.

For most of us our activities on each day of the week doesn't change much from week to week, but there are significant changes from day to day. By weighing once a week on the same day at the same time there is a higher likelihood that the events leading up to the weigh-in are consistent.

One and a half Oreos is only 70 calories.

Food stays in your gut for quit some time after you eat, so yes it is true that it takes a while to reach a "fasted state." For weight loss I don't know that it matters. A calorie deficit equals fat loss whether you are in a fasted state or not. But for training it is something to consider. Some athletes do a portion of…

It's only accurate if you always weigh after a workout. The most important thing is to weigh with consistent conditions each time. If you don't you will see a lot of fluctuation. If you haven't been weighing after a workout then the weight loss is due to dehydration.

I've never been to Disney but my experience with vacation is that I tend to eat less than normal because I snack less. I find it helps to go into every meal with a plan. It helps to know if I'm going to have dessert before I fill up on other stuff.