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Yeah I just log everything and seeing too much red tells me to back off. I don't beat myself up if it's one day, but, if the second day looks like i'm going to be going over I guilt myself into not eating the chocolate or whatever.

You aren't eating 1000 calories if you haven't lost weight for 6 months. I think you need to reassess your calorie counting, something is off, fam. Maybe invest in a food scale. I wish you luck!

My TDEE is going to be 1900 calories or so. That isn't huge, I'll need to deprive. 400 calories for breakfast, 600 for a healthy lunch, that leaves 900 for dinner and some snacks. Afternoon lull grab 100 calories of almonds, that leaves me with 800 for dinner. That's surprisingly small. Let's say I want to have a beer with…

It's never linear. Just keep eating in a deficit and the weight will continue to drop when it wants to. If you get stuck for two or three weeks that's when you worry. For me losing a pound a week sometimes I lose nothing, then the following week 2-lbs drop off, etc.

My final pounds were really hard also. It's like I got close enough where I was a little more casual about the dieting and that slowed things way down. I also started getting hungrier. Those last pounds can be a struggle. You'll get through it.

Try oatmeal in the morning with high fiber and protein in it. Look for something low sugar. Some even have zero. Make it with water rather than milk. As far as meals in general: If I eat carb heavy meals I find i'm starving inbetween meals. So i try to keep lots of protein. Calories are calories, but, I think the trick to…

How often are you weighing yourself? You might be dropping but just not realize it because you weighed in on high days. I only start worrying about a plateau after like three weeks because a week of two much sodium is enough for me to not show any progress for another week after that. I'll have weeks where I just for…

Congrats on the baby! Try Vitamin Water Zero!

This guy knows what's up. Came here to say that. Also whenever you get super hungry drink a bunch of water. I'll pound a Vitamin Water (it's bs but tastes good) right before dinner and helps keep my hunger under control.

I figure my TDEE was always an estimate, so to maintain I need to learn my real TDEE. I've been adding 100kcal per week. I have dropped a bit more but not much and the adjustment has been gradual to what I should be eating. As soon as I see the scale start to tip in the wrong direction I'll reduce 100kcal and then use that…

21 is right in the middle, that's a great place to be. How did that happen? When you reached your goal did you just keep eating how you were before and so the pounds just crept off some more?

Acceptance. Accept your suffering and it becomes much more bearable. Struggling against suffering, which is a major part of life, is what creates anxiety and unhappiness. Everything happens for a reason, accept it, and better things will come for you in the future.

I'm rusty on my statistics, but 16 people for this type of study might very well be statistically significant with a reasonable confidence level.

That's look the look of motivation

Well it seems to be relevant at least to the extent of that once you become fat, you have - to some degree - changed how your body metabolizes food for the worse. It might be a fraction of what that study suggests, but still applicable.

Get a dish with grilled chicken and ask for it as plain as possible, then when it comes knock the rest of the stuff that makes it Mexican off and just eat the chicken.

Great idea. It's a marathon not a sprint. You can try different things and see how your weight loss progresses. If something doesn't work, can always adjust it. That said, if you are already eating only 1420kcal per day - then to get all the nutrition, vitamins and minerals you need, every useful calorie counts. Say you…

Probably not worth it fam. It's just a snapshot and of course it will read low because you have been in a diet. It's just a snapshot in time. Just keep reducing your food intake until you start losing again. If you tried eating 1200kcal and didn't lose weight, you weren't eating 1200kcal. Also don't count exercise against…

Do you tend to eat more sodium when drinking?

Then there is likely more validity to it than we are giving it credit for. It might be exaggerated here but the point of our bodies being permanently changed seems likely if there are multiple studies. Way I look at is that it was my bad behavior and laziness that made me into a hamplanet so I'll just have to work harder…

It does though. It is the first fuel to be used when combined with carbohydrates, fats and proteins, postponing the fat-burning process and contributing to greater fat storage. So while your body deals with the alcohol, it isn't dealing with the fat being stored. Absolutely CICO still applies, but alcohol is empty calories…

I have done some experimenting with drinking and weight loss. It for sure slows you down. Alcohol is a poison and your body will stop processing everything else until it deals with the alcohol, and that's a bigger problem than just the empty calories. I still have a beer once or twice a week but I count it as double…

The big deal is that this study concludes that after you've been fat, your baseline metabolic rate will slow once you've gotten thin again, and that your hunger hormones and chemicals will be elevated - making it much harder to keep the weight off. They said that for one guy his TDEE would be 800 calories lower than…

I'm a skeptic of the study also, but it brings some interesting topics up. Lost me here a bit. Isn't RMR related to TDEE? Excuse my naiveté but I thought RMR was a major determining factor of TDEE? In the Danny Cahill example noted in the NYT, they said he burns 800kcal less per day than expected per that study. So I…

Welcome fampai. Maybe try dropping like 3-lbs and see how you feel. 110-lbs might be a little low. And yeah if you start gaining muscle you'll be getting leaner but heavier, so it is all relative. You might want to try getting some calipers and measure yourself that way if you are trying to gain muscle. You'll know better…

Nice m8. I did similar and have had success (TDEE -500/750). When you first start you might drop some water weight but by the end of like week 6 you'll have a very good idea of how much weight per week you are losing. If it is a pound a week you'll know you are accurate on your calorie counting. If it is less you'll know…

Thanks m8. Sorry for delay. I'm using TDEE -500kcal. That's the target, anyways. But my weight loss this month has been slower so I think I'm doing more like TDEE -400kcal (1lb/9-10 days or so)

Nice job. I started at 216 now down to 164. I'm also 5'10" My goal right now is 155-lbs, but I think I'll go lower. Just going to see. This month has been really slow with weight loss, only 3-lbs. I've been slippin' a bit.

Wouldn't read me bedtime stories and make me chicken tendies

Change it to .5lbs/week m8. Gradual is always good. Once you reach your goal just eat your TDEE and you'll maintain.