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How is sustained weight loss not logical? If you had a water bucket with holes in the bottom, would you consider it to be illogical for it to continue losing weight if you were replacing the water more slowly than it is leaking out? Every time you exhale you are losing a small amount of weight. As odd as it may seem, most…

Cardio tends to burn more calories than weight training because you can keep at it for longer and with fewer gaps during the time you are doing it. Most likely, you are burning fewer calories now and because you didn't decrease your intake you are gaining weight.

Mine floats between 203 and 208 lbs most of the time and that is with me weighing under consistent conditions.

I eat from a cafeteria nearly every day. Eating out doesn't mean you have to overeat, you just need to learn to throw food away. Trust me, cleaning your plate won't help starving kids in China, no matter what your mother told you. I know people like to say that you don't really know how much you are eating if you don't…

Cravings often indicate something that is missing in your diet. I figure it is good to work your cravings in, just reduce consumption of other things to do it.

Since you aren't gaining weight, it seems like what you are doing is working. I say that I have dinner at lunch time, but honestly, my dinner is probably my snacks. I have 350 calories for breakfast, about 700 for dinner, 500 or so for supper and then the rest is snacks. That amounts to about 1,400 calories of snacks.

I wish I could afford to lose 20 pounds of gold per month.

You don't have to count calories to lose weight, but tracking your calories and making sure you are eating less than you burn works very well. Just eating healthy foods will not cause you to lose weight. Dark chocolate and nuts are two healthy foods, but it would be easy to gain weight while eating chocolate covered…

Two pounds or twenty pounds, it is important to figure out how to eat in moderation in a social setting. If you are going to be eating out and you know where you are going beforehand, it is helpful to check the menu before you go. Look at the calorie counts and have a plan for what you want to eat. This way you don't feel…

When you eat out, ask for a second plate or a take home container. Put two-thirds of the meal on the second plate and ask the server to take it back to the kitchen for disposal. Enjoy the rest.

The flaws in our ability to measure calories in and calories out doesn't mean it isn't true. There is plenty of evidence to support it. While it is true that two women of the same weight eating the same amount and at the same activity level won't lose at exactly the same rate, their weight loss rate will fall within a…

As with most things, sugar in and of itself isn't the issue. The problem is the balance of sugar with other things. Bananas, for example, are like this miracle food. They are packed with all kinds of stuff that is good for you and they come in their own little package. They are roughly 100 calories. If you are on a 1500…

Exercise is good for your health and it will burn more calories, but it isn't required to lose weight.

Looks about right, other than you having a dead battery. You might want to plug that thing in. Oh, you might also want to eat more.

I would ignore what Apple is telling you. Your activity setting on MFP already accounts for you walking some anyway. The extra 23 calories is just what you burned in addition to what was already accounted for.

I usually aim for over 1,000, if I have time.

Yeah, let's blame it on a tool that does little more than let you track your calories.

At most you may have lost a couple of pounds of fat in four days. The rest is something else and you'll regain it as things go back to normal.

Mine is between 200 and 210, so roughly 5% of my weight.

While we do need to take a break ever so often, putting in a little bit of exercise can help reduce the soreness from exerting ourselves on other days.

It may be just a number but it is kind of an important number if your goal is to lose weight. To ignore it would be like an athlete who is trying to run faster ignoring the number on the stopwatch. Once you reach the weight where you want to be, it is still important because that number tells you whether you are eating too…

Exercise isn't required and yet I seriously doubt that I could have lost weight if I hadn't incorporated it into my routine. There were days when I was so hungry I could think of little else. I would reach the end of my set calorie goal and I wanted more. But after going for an hour long bicycle ride I had more calories.…

Outside of a lab you aren't going to get precise numbers for calories out or calories in. On top of that, February 1st was just a few days ago, so it could easily be water weight that you lost during that time that explains the additional weight loss. Just because you've been doing this for two years doesn't mean that your…

Your height doesn't make a significant difference in the number of calories you burn.

At this point, I kind of want to go slam my head in a door. I never compared sore muscles to slamming one's hand in a door. If you take the time to read what I wrote you will see that I didn't compare anything to slamming one's hand in a door. All I did was provide you with some examples of capillary leakage that are…

Try eating more carbs.

We're not talking about bruising, just micro tears in the muscle.

I'm partial to the see-food diet myself. As long as you stay near your calorie goal, eat whatever you see that you think looks good.

No, you are misunderstanding the articles that you linked to. Capillary leakage is the cause of pulmonary edema, but the article is making the claim that this doesn't happen during exercise except in extreme cases. In other words, it takes some very heavy breathing for pulmonary edema to occur during exercise. But you want…

You won't gain weight if you keep your calories low enough. As for chocolate, you can and should eat it. If it weren't for the sugar, chocolate would be considered a health food.