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Weight management is very simple (but not always easy) thing. It's an energy balance. Supply more energy (calories) than you use, your body will store that excess energy as fat. Supply less energy than you use, your body will begin to burn those excess energy stores. MFP makes this transparent, clear and straight forward.…

The results are all that matters so if doing what you're doing is getting the results you want then there's no need to complicate things or make things more difficult. It's all about getting the results you want with as little effort as possible. Keep in mind though that should things stop progressing you might need to up…

Weight loss isn't measured by the day. It isn't even really measured by the week. Waste in your gut will fluctuate by 100's of grams, the amount of water you're carrying will fluctuate by 100's of grams. There are just way to many fluctuating factors that have nothing to do with body fat making up that scale number that…

Sounds to me like what you're describing is 'volume eating'. Some people feel are satiated by protein, or fats, or fibre, etc. Others are satiated by larger volumes of food regardless of the macro split. So the key is to find ways to eat large amounts of food while keeping within the calorie target. 2 ways to do this…

The problem you're going to face is that your calorie intake uses your weight in the calculation so guessing at your weight is going to have an impact on how effective the tool can be. You don't need an expensive fancy scale. In fact I reckon those fancy scales are a total waste of money for the most part. A $15-$20 scale…

I think the first two things you need to rethink is that you're on a journey and that you need motivation. The thing is most people when they say 'motivated' they don't really mean 'motivated'. Motivation is the desire, or the want to do something. The very fact that you're here shows that you want to (you're motivated to)…

I work, a lot, but that's OK because I really enjoy my job. But the flip side of this is that I don't have very much free time. Couple this with the fact that I really dislike cooking, am terrible at it and live alone so don't have anyone to cook for means I rarely, if ever eat 'home made' food. So my 'normal' and…

That 'err' reading on my scales was the final impetus I needed to start losing weight properly. It's what sparked my 'defining moment' and caused everything to change. Seeing that 'err' for some reason make me twig to the notion that to properly reverse my weight problem I had to approach this from a completely different…

It might not be glass and rather might be some sort of clear polycarbonate. But even if it is glass it would be toughened glass. Regardless of what material it is made of you're well below the maximum weight for the device so I'm not sure what your concern is. Even further I don't doubt that the 180kg limit refers to the…

I think 97% of people fail because they try to fix decades of weight gain in 6 months I think 97% of people fail because they've been lied to and sold a convenient lie about how to really go about managing their weight I think 97% of people fail because they go from eating 5000cal of foods they love and want to eating…

Use the guidelines to start. This will get you into the right ballpark. Your activity level isn't set in stone and can be changed any time. Then the best indication is progress which you can use to fine tune and hone in on an appropriate setting. To do this you just check your progress after about 6 weeks or so and see how…

You could also create a new food entry called 'Personal Quick Add' and have it be 1 calorie per gram. Then when you want to add, say 500 quick add calories you can just add 500g of your Personal Quick Add food then change the name. Not sure if that'll work

Pretty much any exercise can be adapted and changed to suit almost any fitness or level of physical ability. Can do a push up? lean against a wall and push off that Can't do a squat? Sit down on a chair and stand back up or if that's too difficult use something higher like a stool Can't run? Just walk, can't walk very…

That's what belts are for, or if its more your style, suspenders.

There is no normal because life isn't normal. Normal could be a lot, a little, or none at all. The biggest fallacy with weight loss is that anything below a certain threshold constitutes a failure. I can't count the number of posts I've seen on this board with the title reading something along the lines of "Can't lose…

The more pertinent question isn't should you run but rather a) Can you run b) Do you want to run By can you run I mean can you safely do the running or jogging action safely? I'm not talking about sprinting or even running fast but are you able to at least shuffle your feet in a jogging action and not feel like you're…

I'll survive quarantine just fine. In fact quarantine and isolation sounds both pretty great and not really that much different than normal for me. Psychologically, I've never been anti-social but at the same time have never been one to be out of sorts through lack of company. I just plain enjoy being by myself most of the…

I'm very much opposed to moralising and categorising food as 'good' and 'bad' but Cucumber and Celery are the exception. So so sooo SOOOO BAD! Awful! Blech!

It's just a guess but if you found Keto worked for you without having to pay attention to calories than it's possible that you're naturally satiated by fats and protein. This would explain how you were able to eat in the required calorie deficit automatically. So that would be a good place to start. Eat keto-ish (calories…

The goal to lose 40lbs is done in the kitchen not in the gym. You lose weight by creating a calorie deficit and this is primarily achieved by monitoring your calorie intake. What exactly do you mean by 'get tone'? To be honest I've never really understood what people mean when they say this. I'm assuming they mean build…

It's a fantastic progressive program and starting 13 weeks out is perfect as the program goes over 9 weeks so you'll have a month of running the full 5k before the event. The C in C25k stands for couch potato for a reason. It's designed to be accessible and achievable for pretty much any level of fitness. The thing to…

Extreme example used to illustrate the point doesn't make the point any less valid. A raw food will have a more reliable calorie to weight when logging for accuracy. The weight of a food will change during cooking and the fact that you don't know how much it has changed means you can't as accurately estimate the calories.…

I record daily. Average those 7 weights on a Sunday and that's my weekly weight.

at home I use splenda granulated because it's the easiest 1-for-1 for sugar but I'm not fussy. Sweet-n-Low, Equal, Spenda, Generic Artificial Sweetener, they're all the same to me

So the real question boils down to this: Do you want to successfully lose 1lbs per week and be 52lbs lighter this time next year or unsuccessfully lose 2lbs per week and be exactly where you are or worse? Successfully losing 1lbs per week is better than failing to lose 2lbs per week. Losing 0.5lbs per week is better than…

Food when raw will contain a consistent calories/grams. Once cooked that food can lose a differing amount of weight during the process. So when you weigh it after cooking you don't know how much is lost so that "90g cooked" might contain the calories of 100g raw and lost 10% weight through cooking or it could contain the…

I tried last year and was rejected because I had an unexplained PE event 20 years ago. I figured if they're that picky that they'd knock me back because of something that was ancient history then they can't be that hard up for donors.

60lbs is a great achievement already so congrats. This is a really good community which doesn't brook nonsense when it comes to the myriad of misinformation that plagues weight loss. MFP is a fantastic tool when used properly to give you the insights and information you need to make smart decisions. I think, well for me at…

What exactly are you trying to correlate with that graph? Calories consumed and weight that day? Calorie deficit and weight? Generally speaking when you're creating a graph one axis would be a series ad the other would consist of data rather than having 2 data sources mapped along each axis. I guess you could generate a…