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Keep it simple. Like stupid simple to begin with. To get you started have 1 goal and 1 goal only. More often than not eat fewer calories than you use any way you can. Put your details into MFP and choose an appropriate calorie deficit Buy a food scale and weigh everything you eat so that you're tracking your calorie intake…

Would you be willing to make your diary public? Often this can get the most productive and useful feedback and guidance from the forum brains trust.

CICO isn't a weight loss method. It's an energy equation. If CI is greater than CO you'll gain weight If CI is fewer than CO you'll lose weight Doesn't matter how you eat, when you eat, what you eat, how you eat or why you eat. If you eat more calories than you use you'll gain weight and visa-versa. So on strict…

I would say "Be patient. You're 25yo. Taking it slow over 3 years and being healthy, trim and fit by 28 may seem like a long journey but it's a damn sight better than spending 15 years vainly trying to do it quickly and still being obese in your 40s and having to do it slow anyway.... And buy Bitcoin!!!!!"

Is there a reason you've chosen 1 gallon? Is that the right amount for you? Is that too much for you or too little? The idea that you should drink x amount of water per day has largely been debunked. Your body has a perfectly adequate way of telling you when you need to hydrate called 'thirst' so just drink when you're…

No CO2 in the blood causes breathing response. When you hold your breath the urge to breath isn't caused be a lack of oxygen but rather a build up of CO2. When doing apnea training (for freediving for example) you first work on ignoring the discomfort of CO2 build up to extend your breath hold time. That means that if the…

I have two approaches depending on if my appetite is driven by hunger or cravings. Appetite due to hunger: It helps me to eat most when I'm naturally hungriest. I'm usually peckish in the morning, really hungry at night and never really that hungry in between. so I have a light breakfast and then eat pretty much the rest…

Simple answer is "I don't get enough sleep" but that's not new because I never really have and for the most part it's not been too much of an issue as I see to able to function effectively. Every few months, when things get too out of whack I have a melatonin prescription from my doctor. I take a dose about 1 hour before I…

I reject the pigeon holing of food! There is no breakfast food or lunch food or dinner food. There's just food. Judge not a food by the tradition meal designation but by the content of it's nutrition and calorie value and, the tastiness of it's flavour! I say throw off the shackles of the oppressive food…

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It's as hard (or easy) as you want it to be. Managing weight doesn't have to be a struggle and it doesn't have to be a punishment. Pick a suitable calorie deficit = easy Pick an aggressive calorie deficit = hard Eat foods you genuinely like and want to eat = easy Force yourself to eat foods you don't really like = hard…

I see 2 choices here: 1. Continue to aim for the 2lbs per week deficit, continue eating 1300 cals per day and accept the hunger pangs and that you'll be miserable. (Also accept that there's a pretty good chance that it'll all get to be too much and you'll "fall off the wagon") 2. Aim for 1lb per week, increase your calorie…

Patience. Keep going and see where you are in a months time.

I simply only do things I want to do and, conversely, never do things that I don't want to do. It's only a struggle if you're forcing yourself to do things that you don't really want to do. I eat the foods I genuinely want to eat and never eat anything that I don't feel like eating, ignoring moralising labels like 'good;,…

I don't understand. If you're missing days and only partially logging then your weekly totals are meaningless anyway.

That's great news. It's important to realise that managing weight doesn't have to be a punishment. One slight word of warning though. That "You'll be whatever in X weeks" message you get when you complete your diary each day is generally wildly inaccurate to the point of being pretty useless so take it with a grain of…

The first thing I do each time I visit the forum is to check the threads I've commented on. 1. click on Search 2. click the little arrow/triangle at the end of the search bar (next to the magnifying glass button) this will reveal additional search fields 3. click in the 'Auther' field, start typing your username and select…

I see, well, while I personally don't have the 'equipment' to provide first hand information, it's consistently confirmed by those on this forum that do that weight (due to water retention) tends to go up to some degree during their TOM. That water could easily be offsetting any fat loss so give it some time.

This sentence makes me think that you might not be under eating quite as much as you think. using spoons, cups and volume measurements are generally pretty inaccurate and tend to under report pretty regularly. For anything that's not a liquid (and even liquids if you can) go by weight, not by measurement

2 weeks is generally too soon to judge. I'd give it at least 4 weeks then take another look. What calorie deficit are you hitting? Keto can be an effective way of eating for some people but it's not magic and you still need to eat fewer calories than you use for fat loss to occur.

You're car analogy isn't quite right. You have 2 tanks, one of them is a spare tank. In this situation the car (you) has a spare gas tank (fat) which is magic. Each day you add fuel (food) to the main gas tank (body) to use throughout the day. If you put more fuel in the main gas tank than you use that day, it takes the…

0.5lb per month means you're eating 1750cal per month above maintenance. Thant's (approx) 60cal per day. That's how little you need to adjust what you're doing. Achieving that doesn't require giving up the beer or ice cream. You could probably achieve that just be reducing condiments and sources or even finding a slightly…

Somewhere between 13,000 and 13,500 p/w

Firstly, the internet is the worst possible place to seek medical advice. Go to a doctor. Secondly, your doctor is right, you don't have to eat 3 meals a day, you can eat 1 or a 100 if you want. But I'll bet all the money in the world your doctor didn't advise you to dangerously under eat and that if you told him you were…

I have a hybrid watch (Skagen) which is my daily driver. Does alerts and counts my steps which is all I need on a day to day basis. For times when I need more functionality I bought an Amazfit Stratos. It's basically the exact same functionality as a "Garmin VivoActive 3 Music" without the Garmin price tag.

Goal: Enjoy life, manage weight. It's a very flexible goal so I'm finding it very easy to achieve.

'Vigorous' riding isn't usually sustainable. Unless you're out of the saddle frequently putting 3-4 watt per kg through the pedals non stop for over 2 hours than you're probably overestimating the effort level. Unless of course you're Mark Cavendish or Peter Sagan =)

What is your rate of loss? Struggling and feeling like you constantly having to deny and deprive yourself could very well be an indication that your deficit is too aggressive. I've always been of the mind that losing 1lb per week happily and effortlessly is a far better way to live your life than losing 2lb per week and…

You have to go into a 'meal' in order to 'add' foods but just because you scanned something doesn't mean it automatically gets added to that meal. You need to hit the tick to actually add the food to that meal. I do this all the time at the super market when shopping. I'll scan, check then cancel the entry.

I agree, the ability to tag obviously inaccurate entries for removal would be handy but as mentioned there are tens of thousands of entries and more being added every day by the user base so logistically it's probably not feasible. It would be good however to be able to tag entries on an individual basis so that they are…