TimothyFish Member

Rewards for losing weight seems like getting a trophy for participating in sports.

More. I frequently pick a restaurant as a destination for a bicycle ride. More often than not, I burn off at least as many calories as I ate at the restaurant while on my bicycle ride.

Total weight loss: 60 lbs How long did it take you to lose the weight? 8 months What method did you use to lose the weight? Eat less, Move more. How long are you in maintenance? 2 years? How do you deal with social situations and vacations? Moderation. What is the biggest challenge for you since you are in maintenance and…

I don't think this will retain the concept of starving your body of carbs so that it is forced to rely on fat for energy. The body stores of up to 2,000 calories of carbs that it uses when you exert yourself. During exercise without eating carbs, this is where it would get its energy. At night, with carbs available in the…

I take a best guess and don't worry about it. If I'm over or under enough times then it is going to show up on the bathroom scale and I'll end up adjusting to account for it.

There's no reason to be surprised. If our bodies weren't designed to give us cues on how much we should be eating then we would either starve or stuff ourselves so full that we would suffocate. Instead, we tend to stay at about the same weight but gain about a pound per year. It is a little harder when we are trying to…

A food scale will accurately tell you how much your food weighs. Nothing more, nothing less.

Hmm. Sounds like a real winner you've got there.

What are you going to be doing when you go away? I would suggest that you focus on training for that.

If I can't pronounce it, I'm not touching it.

I find that it is easier to exercise willpower at the grocery store than what it is to exercise willpower at home.

I'm not a fan of paying to eat less.

Brussels sprouts and carrots. I like Brussels sprouts and I like carrots, but cook them together and that is just nasty.

1200 calories isn't supposed to be long term. You are supposed to lose weight and then go on maintenance. And if you are exercising (which you should be) then they would have you eating more than 1200 calories anyway.

But it is pressurized. If it weren't then you wouldn't be able to fart.

If we're going to say that the set point can't change then we can dismiss the idea outright. Teenagers usually weigh less than they will later in life. Young adults often weigh less than they will at middle age. But by the time people are in the nursing home, they are often quite thin. If set point were fixed then there…

I tend to burn more calories on weekends anyway. I can't, however, say that I have much reason to eat more calories on weekends.

If anything, "The Biggest Loser" ought to be reason for us to ignore this idea of a "set point." People watched these people lose weight throughout the season and no one stopped to think that maybe the reason one of them didn't lose very much one week was because their body had a set point that it was fighting hard to get…

Definitely see a doctor. One cause of dizziness after eating is that the heart isn't able to increase its rate, so the increased need for blood during digestion results in less blood flowing to the brain. You might consider snacking more, so you aren't trying to digest as much at one time.

Gas has a weight, but it isn't so much that you will notice it on most scales.

I don't know how much water weigh is the limit, but it seems like it must be very high. I've seen people who have been stung or injured in other ways with various body parts swollen to twice their normal size.

No, nothing like what you call "meditation." I actually find your use of the word "spiritual" to be more revealing. It isn't a word that I've heard a devout person of any religion use to describe themselves. It tends to be used by people who see religion as a set of activities that they can choose to do or perhaps lay…

In that situation, you would end up with double counting calorie burn.

Breakfast doesn't cause me to eat more or less, but if I don't eat breakfast I can't get much done all morning because I'm watching the clock for lunchtime.

I would argue that the fact that you are placing the priority on focusing on your own breathing for whatever reason you are doing it reveals something about your view of religion.

No, it doesn't mean that you will gain weight. Everything you eat will get turned into carbs eventually. Eating more carbs just means it takes less time for that to happen.

What is generally thought of as meditation comes from the Eastern religions. Because they believe that having personal desire can prevent someone from reaching enlightenment, they try to remove all desire by mediating. In doing so they are trying to remove all thought from their mind. In Christianity, mediation takes a…

No one said the "set point" has to be comfortable. A person who is willing to discomfort has a higher set point than someone who isn't. If a person eats themselves to death, they can't gain any more weight and they have reached their set point. Yours may be 400 lbs for all I know. Mine is about 270 lbs. That is the figure…

Really? You are going to judge me for the use of one word rather than the point of what I said. Can you not see that I am suggesting that one should create beneficial bounds on both sides of ones goal weight? I chose the words "deprive" and "glutton" purposefully because the OP used the word "guilt." Since guilt is what…

It is doubtful that you know your BMR and even if you did it is doubtful that anyone could tell you what to multiply it by to get an accurate maintenance level. A couple of years ago I broke my pelvis and could hardly move without pain. I was trying to lose weight at the time I was upset about the setback but I decided…