TimothyFish Member

Without begging the question, can you show that the calorie count on food that you weigh is more accurate than on food that you measure with a cup? The concept is still the same. By weight milk contains fewer calories than the curds, so anyone who weighs the curds without the milk will get more calories per gram than what…

I must be hungry all the time.

My suggestion would be to stop viewing food as something that makes you fat. Instead, look at food as fuel for your activities. If you aren't providing your body with enough fuel for the thing you want to do then you are depriving yourself. But also, if you are providing your body with too much fuel then you are being a…

It is possible that you had more muscle mass four years ago, or that you were more active than you are now. It is also possible to that the food you are eating now has more calories than are listed on the label while what you were eating then had fewer calories than on the label. And it could just be that you are…

The first has already been addressed, so I won't belabor that, but I'll say something about the second. There are a couple of ways that food companies determine what to put on their labels. One is by grinding the food to a pulp, removing the water, and then burning it to see how much energy is given off. The other is doing…

I'll tell you what my mother taught me. Eat more prunes.

I've heard of people with this condition. It can be dangerous because they forget to eat and can end up starving themselves. If you aren't forgetting to eat then my guess is that you probably do experience hunger but you may not have associated the sensation with the word "hunger." It could also be that you eat so much…

I weigh once a week so it becomes a habit rather than something I plan. I don't weigh daily because I don't care about fluctuations. Bi-weekly is okay, but its just that much more you have to lose if you gain weight during that time.

Eat smaller meals at a greater frequency.

How much does a calorie weigh? When you weigh your food and then convert that into a calorie count, you are assuming that the calories per gram in food of that type is a constant. This is not the case. You can literally take 4oz of meat from two cows with the same mother and raised in the same field and find a significant…

You won't lose weight on low carb if you eat too much of the other stuff. How many calories are you eating?

One of the reasons why we don't feel like eating when we are sick is because it helps starve out whatever bug is causing the problem. Forcing yourself to eat can slow your recovery time.

The only reason to buy a recovery drink is because they come in a convenient bottle you can take with you. If you don't need the convenience, you can easily get all the protein you need from regular food.

If you aren't losing you won't start losing by increasing your calories.

If you haven't reached the point at which you stop gaining weight without being careful of what you eat then you haven't reached your "set point." There is a limit to how inactive a person will be (they won't stay in bed all day), so their calorie burn will never drop below some number. There is also a limit to how much…

I don't bother logging food when I am maintaining. Exercise calories are added automatically, so I still log those. However, I still adjust my eating based on my activity level.

As long as you are losing weight, it doesn't matter if you use one or not. People on here assume that by more accurately knowing the quantity of food they will add accuracy to their calorie counts. The irony is that if a scale would cause you to eat less of one food but more of others that you could actually move yourself…

My view of "set point" is that it is what you will weigh if you just follow your normal habits and eat whatever you want. At some point, the availability of food combined with our activity level will reach a state of equilibrium. If a person changes their habits so that they are more active and they reduce the availability…

My rough guess is that you will regain six of the nine pounds you lost.

Muscle weight increases much more slowly than other kinds of weight and it is somewhat unlikely to occur when you are eating at a deficit. What actually happens is that why you exercise you produce micro tears in the muscle fibers and the body sends water to those areas to help with repairs. Once the extra water is no…

Being below your BMR doesn't matter. Smaller bodies burn fewer calories. Having a low TDEE just means you get to spend less money on food than the rest of us. But if you don't like your TDEE, you can always increase it. To do so you just have to move more.

Rather than mindlessly eating, why not find something else that you can do mindlessly? Go for a walk. Take up a hobby. Focus your energy on doing something beneficial instead of something destructive.

Weight loss doesn't slow from eating too little. Weight loss slows from reduced activity, which can sometimes be caused by someone not fueling their workouts. Men shouldn't eat less that 1500 calories a day and no less than 1600 calories if they are working out. Your calorie deficit shouldn't be more than about 1,000…

If you go down 2 and up 1, that's still a net loss of 1 lb. Weight loss takes a while. Besides, what else are you going to do, stay at a weight you don't want to be at?

Maybe your job isn't as active as you think it is. In any case, if you aren't losing weight then you aren't eating less than you burn. I tend to favor the brute force method when I can't figure something out. Some people will tell you to weigh your food more accurately. My approach, if I were having trouble losing weight…

Studies have show that most diets work for weight loss, if you stick to it. The problem with diets is that people don't usually stick to them and if they do lose the weight they don't know how to keep it off once they are done.

Why would you treat it any differently than you do normally?

My heartrate monitor is made by Garmin. It can be used with anything that uses ANT+. Aside from being able to show my coworkers that my resting heartrate is 47 bpm, I see no reason to wear it all day. Heartrate monitors don't count steps and they won't tell you how many calories you are burning. All they do is give you an…

I think a lot of people eat just so they will have something to do with their mouth. They don't think about it that way, but if you are constantly drinking something then it fulfills the desire to do something with your mouth so you don't eat as much.

How do you know MFP "overstates burns?"