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If you are eating at a deficit then just keep doing what you are doing. Eventually, your body weight will drop faster than you would expect in a week. If that doesn't happen in another week or so then you aren't eating at a deficit.

It's okay to throw stuff away. (Not that I'm good at doing that.) As goofy as it is, there is some food that I find myself thinking that if I finish it off then it won't be around to sabotage me. I made this cake from a box the other day. It tasted pretty nasty, but I ate it anyway. What I should've done was just throw the…

I weigh 205 pounds with a BMI of 24.3 and I have a flat stomach without the need to hold it in. I don't, however, have well-defined abs. I would have to flex and pose to get my stomach to stick out and it doesn't stick out far at that. My rib cage is somewhat visible all the time, but even more so I "suck it in." If I had…

It depends on what is causing it. Some people take medicine that causes them to retain water for years. But when it is caused by overeating it is probably because the digestive system is overwhelmed. I would think 3 or 4 days at the most. It seems like there is usually a unpleasant experience in the restroom involved.…

It is up to you, but I would, if for no other reason than it is easier to get motivated if you have a goal you are aiming at.

A pound a day is way to fast. Considering that one has to burn 3,500 calories to lose a pound of fat, a person would have to be an athlete who isn't fueling properly or an extremely obese person to have the right conditions to lose that quickly beyond the initial water weight that many people lose during the first week of…

Carbs are good for you. It won't hurt you to cheat every day as long as you keep your calorie intake low.

Most people can go for a few days without food without doing permanent harm to themselves, so no you won't starve yourself if you don't eat until the next meal. But hunger helps us know when it is time to eat and if you are exercising when you are hungry there is a greater risk of doing harm.

Goldthistime, there is a more simple possibility that would explain this other than that the body has a desire to hang on to fat. Because we have the same number of fat cells when we are obese and when we are thin, the ability of fat cells to process fat and release it as energy is limited, but the number of calories obese…

A rest day doesn't mean doing no exercise at all. It is actually better to do some exercise on a rest day, but instead of pushing yourself take a leisurely stroll, or ride a beach cruiser down to the local coffee shop.

Savithny, let's run with that thought for a moment. "In the wild," which do you think the body would want to protect more, the fat that is so difficult to come by, or the muscles and other organs that the body uses to keep it alive?

I lost 70 pounds 20 years ago, kept it off for about five years and then regained it all over the next ten years. If I had to say what went wrong I would say it is because I didn't use the bathroom scale and because I was a fair weather athlete. I also found it easy to tell myself that because I had ridden my bicycle that…

You've said nothing about how many calories you are consuming and that is the most important part.

It does seem strange that you were losing a pound per day, but given that many people drop several pounds the first week anyway and there seems to have been a "correction" this morning, it can probably all be explained as normal fluctuations during weight loss, though somewhat aggressive.

Double check your calorie counting accuracy. You don't typically gain inches around the waist while at a calorie deficit. Not likely.

I'm more interested in long distance cycling than what I am in how I look. Meal timing and frequency plays a much more important role than macros. Macros are easy because before and during the ride it is mostly carbs and electrolytes. After the ride it leans more toward proteins. But timing is important because you want…

The way MFP does things doesn't change the meaning of "net." The reason the "MFP net" is the way it is has nothing to do with NEAT versus TDEE. MFP is just trying to give people a goal number that tells them how many calories they can eat. If you wanted, you could use the TDEE method on MFP by including your exercise when…

Keep in mind that MFP isn't just for people who want to lose weight. It is also for people who training or need to track their food for health reasons. In answer to your question, you should pay attention to macros when you understand what they mean to you and that meaning is significant. If you have to ask whether you…

I'm not sure that most people would notice a 15% change in weight if they haven't seen someone for a while. Even if they do, my experience has been that most people don't say anything about people gaining weight, only when they lose weight.

Fats are high in calories, but from what I've read, fats are more filling than what carbs are.

That's not exactly true. We frequently use science to prove negatives. Also, just because there aren't studies that show something occurs doesn't mean it doesn't occur. It is possible to prove, for example, that the moon isn't inhabited. At the same time, it possible that there is there is an object orbiting the sun that…

There are worse things than being hungry.

Actually, net calories is the negative of your deficit. But you're on the wrong site to ask about it because net means something different here. Here it means the number of calories you consumed minus your exercise calories. Outside of MFP, calories in minus calories out should equal a negative number to lose weight.

Depends. If I know I'm about to go torch a bunch of calories, I'll eat before hand even if I'm not hungry. If I'm not doing much and I'm not hungry I'll hold off eating. But it is unusual for me to reach mealtime and not be hungry.

I think I'll prescribe myself some ice cream.

No more that 1% of your weight per week. There is a table that keeps going around here that is based on how much you want to lose, but it is just something that someone on here dreamed up and then people keep reposting it.

On a bicycle, the best you're going to get outside of a lab is a power meter. Of course those are expensive, but a GPS unit that uses speed, distance, and elevation gain to calculate calories can produce a good approximation.

Neither how much you sweat nor your heart rate are good indicators of calorie burn.

It also has nuts, which are also healthy. And cream cheese is a dairy product. Seems like a health food to me.

Pie. Pie is my favorite health food.