TimothyFish Member

I find that exercise helps with most things.

As far as I can tell, you are the only one who has even suggested that the fluid we are talking about is water in the lungs.

Rapid loss the first week is common. It is the week that follow that are important.

The number of cells isn't exactly constant. My understanding is that there is a limit to how much fat a cell can hold, at which point the body will produce more cells to hold the fat. But when people lose weight, there is no mechanism that would trigger a loss in cells.

Am I the only one who gets the VeggieTales theme song stuck in his head every time he sees this thread?

Fatigue. Sometimes you just need a break.

Most people really don't pay that much attention to what people look like. Even if they notice a change, they may doubt what they see. It takes a significant change for people to feel comfortable mentioning it.

You're eating more than you think you are.

You might be able to lose 30 lbs between now and then, but even that is aggressive for someone who weighs less than 200 lbs. To lose 55 lbs in that length of time would require a calorie deficit of 1,800 calories per day. People have died from trying stuff like that. This attitude of "reach my goal and then go from there"…

I don't see that switching back and forth would gain you anything over what you were doing when you added calories as exercise. Changing your activity level is just going to give you another estimate. Activity level estimates are based on some percentage of your estimated daily calorie burn. But me personally, I wouldn't…

It will make your loss less than it would've been, but it won't destroy your loss.

To quote Robert Atkins himself, "burning fat takes more calories so you expend more calories."

"Have you been hearing stories that fats are better than carbs for fuel for endurance athletes? Maybe you have wondered if scientific research supports those stories? To find the latest science, I attended the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). ACSM is an organization with more than 26,000…

If it makes you feel better, you can set your calorie goal to your maintenance level and then not eat your exercise calories. It makes no difference. It is just a different way of looking at it. However, the MFP works is that you set it up so that you have a calorie deficit and then exercise adds to your daily goal so that…

I don't know what the OP is doing, but I burned 1,000 calories this evening on Zwift in about half that time.

Carbs are good for you. The theory behind low carb diets is that if you keep your carbs low enough then your body has a hard time processing the food that you are eating, resulting in weight loss. The problem is that if you reach that point then you lack the energy to do much of anything, so your total calorie burn drops.…

Since we're talking about only 400 calories, yeah, it is probably safe to ignore them, as long as you aren't experiencing any problems. For large calorie burns, no it isn't safe. In fact, you could die from burning too many calories without replacing them. But that's not so much an issue of whether you replace the calories…

Some people say that if you eat while you exercise that you are less likely to eat too much after you exercise. 30 - 60 grams of carbs per hour while you are exercising should do the trick. You'll actually burn more calories than that, but your body can't process more than that.

Given how little you are eating and the length of the workouts, you are probably depleting your glycogen stores and the next day your body is still sucking the sugar out of your bloodstream to replenish them. Lower blood sugar is one of the reasons we feel hunger. Dehydration can also cause hunger. And lack of sleep can…

The Cheesecake Factory amazes me. They give you three or four times what anyone needs for a meal. The lowest calorie stuff on their menu is the cheesecakes. Which is just as well because everything else on the menu is kinda blah to yucky.

I don't know what you weigh, but even if you are on the light side, if you are putting in 1400 calorie exercise sessions and only eating 1950 calories, that has to be a calorie deficit in excess of 1000 calories. Your weight loss is too aggressive and you need to eat more.

The "sedentary/personalized" setting just tells it where to start from. Active people are more likely to see calories removed from their daily goal if they use "personalized."

Weight fluctuates. As long as I'm within a few pounds of where I want to be then I assume it is just a fluctuation from one week to the next. But I have an arbitrary point that triggers my taking action. If it goes above that number I don't try to explain why it is high that week, I just drop my calorie intake. The next…

When I see my weigh climb out of my ideal range, I hit it hard by dropping 1,000 calories from my diet. It's not that I need to drop the weight that quickly, since a week at a 1,000 calorie deficit should bring it back in range, its just that the challenge of trying to eat at that level makes it easier for me to motivate…

With hypothyroidism medicating it should make it easier to lose weight because your energy level should increase.

yes

#2 is misleading. It is true that if a person exercises and then follows that up with more rest that they aren't going to burn more calories than a person who doesn't exercise but rests less. However, if you replace part of the time you normally veg out with exercise and continue your normal activities the rest of the…

I don't think most people who are exercising 2 hours a day see it as a "chore." I'm typically putting in 60-90 minutes daily and often 4 hours or more on weekends. For the most part, I don't even think about it as exercise. I'm just out riding a bicycle. It is a great way to get to know your neighbors. It is a great way to…

With fitness trackers MFP attempts to make an adjustment up or down based on what the tracker reports. If used properly, a fitness tracker won't add calories on top of normal activity calories but will give you a better idea of what your normal activity calories are. (In theory anyway.) Also, it isn't always true that…

I'm not sure it should be called a bug. When you set your goal you are asking it to tell you how many calories to eat to lose that amount. Once you have your calorie goal set, you may not want that to change every time your weight changes. Some people think you should slow your weight loss as you near your goal weight…