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While it's possible to maintain or build muscle in a calorie deficit, yours is likely too extreme. Especially if you're doing all cardio without any strength/weight training, you're telling your body that you don't need the muscle as much as you need the caloric energy contained within it.

I don't notice a distinction in artificial/processed flavors, but I will say that the less sugar I eat, the less sugar I crave or can tolerate. A lot of foods you might call artificial or processed have a much more overpowering flavor because of the overwhelming sweetness of all the sugar in them. So strawberry ice cream…

That is something that will come to you more naturally with time. If you follow some exercise videos for a while after several months you'll begin to understand how a routine is put together and maybe be able to do some on your own. Here are some things to watch for in the videos that can help you plan your own workouts…

I have an unusually fast heartrate. My RHR is somewhere around 75-80 bpm and my MaxHR is around 215. A slow jog that I could do forever without getting tired puts me in the 170s - that's my Zone 3. I don't really feel like I'm working/in Z 4 until I'm in the 180s. And I routinely peak at 195ish, and occasionally peak with…

It's a Polar M400 with the chest strap monitor. Interesting discussion here. I don't try to track CICO religiously but I do record them. I usually try to err on the side of overestimating how much food I ate since I know the opposite problem is common, and I never eat back my exercise calories - I eat the same steady…

Then why does the HRM have a different mode for strength training, if not to compensate for that difference? It also has different modes for biking vs running for the same reason - adjusting for the difference in what you're doing.

1920s style weight training where guys were just sitting on benches curling their biceps or doing barbell presses has a very low caloric burn. Modern circuit training methods incorporate things like plyometrics, burpees, supersets, and other demanding full-body movements in order to maintain a high heart rate and high…

I swear by weighted sit-ups. Hold the weight in front of your chest for moderate difficulty. Hold a measly 10 lb weight behind your head and marvel at how your abs fail on the 10th sit-up. The best way to build muscle is by steadily increasing the weight you're lifting with it. I've also found there are a lot of creative…

To track strength training calorie burn accurately you will need a HRM. The estimates built into the cardio section of the exercise tracker are WAY off...they assume you're like like, lying on the ground doing chest presses the whole time or something. I do a 40-minute weight training session with a HRM a couple times a…

Push-ups, planks, sit-ups, lunges, squats, leg lifts, jumping jacks. That's a really comprehensive workout you can do at home, in a small space, with your own body weight. Despite what all the companies selling stuff would want you to believe, you don't need any fancy equipment or complicated exercises to stay fit. If…

As others asked, how long have you not been losing? I have been steadily losing about a pound a week for the last 3 or 4 months - but if you would look at my once or twice weekly weigh-ins there were a lot of times it went up a pound or two, or times when it plateaued, but it all evened out in the end. Shoot, I weigh about…

If you're having trouble meeting your daily goal, eat more healthy fats. Put butter on things. Cook your veggies in coconut oil. Have an extra tbsp of olive oil on your salad. Enjoy some full-fat dairy products instead of that watered-down crap. Slice up half an avocado and eat it with a bit of salt. You can easily add fat…