Larissa_NY Member

I've never lost weight trying to eat back my exercise calories. Since most people underestimate the number of calories they take in in a day, I figure if I don't try to eat back my exercise calories it will compensate for the underestimation of intake. For me, that seems to work out fine.

I've never weighed or measured my food in my entire life. I've also never been obese or even significantly overweight, and I've never had trouble losing ten or fifteen pounds when I needed to. Weighing and measuring is okay if you need it, I guess, but not everyone does.

I'm moving soon, OP. You can come help me. I'll carry all the boxes of pillows and you can carry all the boxes of books. And you're not allowed to complain about your load being heavier because a pound of pillows weighs the same as a pound of boxes, so that would be stupid, right?

Um... fyi, it's "muscle weighs more THAN fat," not "muscle weighs more THEN fat." Just saying. Also, when someone says that muscle weighs more than fat, they are paying you the compliment of assuming that you can read for context and understand that they're talking about weight by volume. It's not an esoteric concept.…

I have tried so many times to get my daughter to go zip lining with me. Doesn't work. OP, I'm sorry you and your mother are having a miserable vacation. If you only have three days left, just wait it out. Terrible vacations happen, there's no need to "punish" yourself or binge eat or, tbh, not just leave your mother in the…

Two practicalities: 1. If you don't have it, you can't eat it. 2. Soda and fast food cost a lot of money. Like, a lot. You say you can't get therapy because your budget is extremely limited; limited budgets suck, I know from experience, but if you've got enough money to binge on Big Mac meals, Doritos, and sodas, you've…

So what happened between three years ago and today? Renal failure from antibiotic overdose is awful, but as far as I know it won't in and of itself make you gain that much weight. Was it medication? Comfort eating? Were you disabled and unable to move around? No one's going to be able to give you targeted advice unless you…

You'll pry my protein powder out of my cold dead hands. I make shakes with it. I cook with it. I mix it in oatmeal and muffins and pancakes. I use it in fruit smoothies and green smoothies and in my water during workouts. Food's okay, sure, but there's no way I can eat enough chicken breast to support my workouts. To me,…

The good news is that if you weigh 470 pounds, literally the only thing you have to do is stop eating like it's your last day on Earth and pounds will fall off you into the street. You won't even have to change your diet for a while; just eat less of the things you do eat. The bad news is that, at 470 pounds, you're…

How much do you weigh? A 14-pound swing is a lot less likely for someone who's 140 pounds than for someone who's 420 pounds.

He's not the one saying it. He's just the one who posted a YouTube video about it. Here's a point to be aware of, though: the original research on which that claim was based wasn't done in the US. It was done in a society where people sit on the floor a lot. Regardless, the point is well established by research: your…

I feel dumber for even having read the summary of this article. I award no points to anyone who gave it even the tiniest amount of credence for even the briefest span of time, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Please demonstrate, using calorie math, how it is possible for a normal-weight person to become obese by eating candy for one day. Show your work. These threads show up on this board every single year. Every. Single. Year. So none of us has to relitigate all this, let me just let everyone know how it will go. 1. Someone…

I'm also 47 with little to no jiggle - if it jiggles, it's fat. Lose some body fat and also buy a pull-up bar to go over one of your doors. Even working your way up to a pull-up will do wonders for the muscles in your arms and back.

Ouch. That was a bad experience, but CAP is basically the Walmart of fitness. I'd let it go and buy a Rogue bar. Your time is almost certainly worth more than whatever compensation you'd eventually drag out of CAP.

I've never understood emotional eating. What are you going to do, chew angrily? Eat someone's face? (I could maybe understand eating someone's face.) However, it's a problem whether I understand it or not, so from what I've heard, journaling helps. Just sit down and write through the emotions instead of trying to stuff…

Weighted vests are great for people who are in good shape and already have a solid muscle base. I think you're profoundly overestimating the amount of time and energy you'll have for workouts while you're dealing with a new baby. Plan whatever you want now, but with the understanding that whatever you plan is more likely…

Ha, go for it. Hey, I have a game we can play. Let's take this same logic and apply it to other units of measurement. - A decibel is a decibel, so jet engines aren't louder than whispers. - One degree Farenheit is one degree Farenheit, so Death Valley isn't hotter than Antarctica. - A mile is a mile, so Ferraris aren't…

Tell you what, OP. Next time I move, you can come help me. You can carry all my books and I'll carry all the pillows and you aren't allowed to complain about your boxes being heavier because a pound is a pound so that would be stupid.

I don't understand why you'd want to let people who hate you control your behavior.

Ugh, what a gross jerk. Sorry you had to deal with that, but just think how much better it is to be you than to be Mr. Forever Alone Because He's A Douchenozzle.

Set your activity level to active, then you won't need to record it as anything.

Well... no. First, lifting may or may not make you hungry. It doesn't make me hungry. Second, just because you feel hungry doesn't mean you have to eat. If it's not mealtime, just live with it for a while. Third, even if you go straight home from lifting and make dinner, or even a snack, it doesn't mean you'll go over your…

That marijuana, y'all, it will make you drink, smoke, wear short skirts (yes, men, even you) and leap out skyscraper windows. Haven't you seen that documentary Reefer Madness? What it probably won't do is make you lose weight on your own. It might make you lose track of time so you don't engage in bored snacking as much,…

I don't really care about feeling hungry. It's a minor annoyance that goes away as soon as I eat anything and I'm never more than ten or twelve hours away from a meal (if that) so I honestly don't get what the big deal is. Pretty much the only time I consider it unacceptable is when I get dizzy and shaky, and that doesn't…

I don't know that anyone does call it that. If they do, I've never heard it. You'd have to ask the person who said it. It's not that weight lifting doesn't burn calories. Any activity burns calories. Being alive burns calories. I have a set goal of lifting at least 10,000 pounds total at every session, and when you're a…

There's no pill that will treat "greedy." Not even a legitimate appetite suppressant - witness all the people here who start threads asking for help because they can't stop eating even when they're not hungry. Come on. You can be better than this. Quit expecting to see the results before you put in the work; that's not how…

In order: 1. There are approximately 100 million sites on the internet that will figure out what your calorie deficit needs to be for someone of your age, height, and weight. Coincidentally, MFP is one of them. Enter in your height, weight, and age and your goal weight and it will tell you how much you should be eating. It…

Talk to bodybuilders and you'll find that pretty much no exercise makes your calves bigger to any appreciable extent. You have big calves because you've got the genes for them. I have calves that are thin from the side but wide from the front and I hate mine too. Eventually you just have to resign yourself to pretending…

I'm guessing that stuff is there because if it weren't, MFP would be deluged by help-desk tickets from the "If it makes a fat person sweat it must be cardio" crowd, wanting to know why they can't "get credit" for the 1800 calories they're sure they burned by ironing for an hour. If I were responsible for that tech, I too…