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What's more MFP doesn't care if you close out the day either. All it does is pop a message in your private feed and give you a rather meaningless 'if you ate like today' message. It really serves no functional purpose and I haven't closed my diary off in over two years.
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I weigh and record first thing every morning. I use these daily weights to formulate my weekly weight I do however jump on the scale anytime I find myself in the bathroom in a suitable state of undress. These other weigh ins aren't recorded and are just out of curiosity. 30 seconds after I step off the scale I'd have…
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4 weeks may be slightly short of a time period. Usually you want to give it 6-8 weeks to get a clear picture of what's going on, but that said... If you're weight isn't going down then you're eating at maintenance. Doesn't matter how much lifting or cardio you do. Doesn't matter how 'clean' your diet is or how much booze…
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MFP doesn't have you doing anything. It just takes the information you've given it and performs calculations. When you entered your details you selected to lose 1lbs per week and MFP produced a calorie target based on that (and other factors like height, weight, activity level, etc). Change your rate of loss to 0.5lbs per…
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That may have come across a little bit more harsh than I intended... but only a little. It's true I have a very low tolerance for garbage like ACV and other miracles and fads. They're nothing but scams that feed on the wallets and hopes of desperate people and I find it utterly despicable.
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Do you pre-log? It can be helpful to not let anything pass your lips until it's in the database. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to eat something. Logged it and saw what a huge dent it would make in my calories for the day and instantly it becomes WAY less appetising. Pre-logging give you information, post…
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I look at total calories per serve in order to make sure that the database item matches what I'm consuming. Other than that the only thing I look at is calories per 100g and this is only if I'm comparing similar products and trying to decide which one I'll go for. Everything else is ignored as it doesn't matter.
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ACV and water. Not only will it make the water you drink taste awful it's an awesome way to strip the enamel from your teeth. I guess drinking something so disgusting would kill the appetite but then again so would licking the sole of your shoes, and I suppose long term, once your teeth rot out of your head, it'll be more…
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To steal a concept from 'The Good Place' TV show. Weight loss is very Jeremy Bearimy
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Really? Have a bit of perspective here 30ml (a shot glass) of skim milk is about 10 calories. You're really willing to diminish your enjoyment of coffee over 10 calories? 10 calories would be swallowed up by the margin of error in even the most fastidious logging. 10 calories isn't enough to have any appreciable impact on…
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That's because the weight prediction thing you get when you complete your diary is utter nonsense. It's a meaningless gimmick that you should ignore accordingly. In fact there's really no reason whatsoever to 'complete' your diary each day as it really doesn't do anything except pop up with that useless message and add a…
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It strikes me as so odd when I hear about adults who are learning to swim! Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to belittle non swimmers, but just the concept of not being able to swim from from the age of being a toddler is just so foreign to me it's hard to wrap my head around. Maybe it's a Australian thing or a growing up…
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Woah. More power too you man. I'd be bored out of my skull by day 2 eating like that.
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I'm 45 now and started 2 years ago so I'll try to respond to each section individually. I lose weight by being in a calorie deficit most of the time. Sorry, no magic or secrets. Just eating fewer calories than I use. Goals were simple. Eat an appropriate number of calories which I started doing 2 years ago. So in effect I…
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In a previous post you discuss how you're eating 900-1000 calories per day. Given that information bingeing is inevitable. You can't starve yourself and severely under eat and not expect it to happen. You didn't binge because you're weak or because you're a bad person or because there's something wrong with you. You binged…
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@MaggieRose73 Right off the bat I can see some things that need to be addressed which indicate that you're probably eating far more calories than you're logging. 1. Incompleteness. There are several days where your logging looks incomplete. Entire meals missing and some that just look incomplete. I don't see any…
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To me it sounds like you've got yourself some wiggle room. Something many people would kill for. If you find that you're able to increase your calories to 2000 but you're finding 1800 'satisfying' this means you have 200 calories to enjoy. Maybe add a few treats in that you can enjoy, or enjoy being a little less strict by…
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I believe it just makes your diary entries public.
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Look at the chart in the post above this one. Determine how far above a healthy BMI are you currently and you'll know the approximate rate of loss to use.
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For me restriction = binge which usually = guilt. And it happens in one of two ways 1. I will deprive or deny myself something I like until the cravings get too much and I 'break'. Then I think well, I've blown it now so I may as well make the most of it before I go back to depriving myself again and go crazy. 2. I will…
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Unfortunately, 2 weeks is too short a time frame to make any sort of judgement call on the effectiveness of an approach. Weight loss effectiveness is gauged over months rather than weeks. It's particularly too short a time period when changing to a low carb diet as this can cause a significant drop in water weight during…
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Oh, I have no doubt that I have some petty stalker who insta-disagrees any post I make. I could post an objective, undisputed fact like "I went for a nice walk yesterday" and they'll disagree the post. Quite frankly I find it endlessly amusing, and to be honest it's a bit of an ego trip to think that something I've said…
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It's not that losing weight fast isn't good. It's that losing weight fast for the most part doesn't work. People spend decades losing weight fast because they're too impatient to spend a year. Losing weight fast is the fastest way to not lose weight.
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As late as you feel like and whatever you feel like. In relation to weight loss, what you eat and when you eat don't matter. It all comes down to the amount of calories you consume. Some people like to eat late and find they sleep better with something in their stomach. Others find that this disturbs their sleep. Some…
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Interesting. I tend to log before I eat it. Often I pre-log the entire day when I get up in the morning so that I have a plan for the day and will make changes/additions/subtractions/substitutions as needed. The other reason I find pre-logging handy is it helps me avoid problems before they happen. Like, I'll grab…
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If you have even a scrap of evidence to back up any of these absolutely outlandish claims then I have some fantastic news for you! This evidence will be so earth-shattering that it will turn the entire scientific community on it's head and no doubt you'll be a shoo-in for the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine,…
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While starting a new workout or exercise program can definitely cause some temporary increase in water weight, but if you've been working out for a month then this initial water retention may have passed and the fact that you're not seeing your weight go down on the scales is due to the fact that you're eating more…
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I had what I considered a 'bad back' for a long while and self diagnosed that I probably had weak back muscles that I needed to strengthen. Turns out I was completely off base. While visiting a physio to address a knee problem she told me that more than likely my back problems were related to my flexibility, particularly…
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Are you perhaps looking at your goal weight as a 'finishing line' and making temporary unsustainable changes in order to get there. Then once you've achieve this 'goal' you abandon all the temporary unsustainable changes you made, go back to previous 'normal' and thereby return to your previous 'normal' weight?
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You only need to be as accurate and stringent as is required. There's no use making things more difficult or arduous if you're already seeing the results you want.
