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What activity level did you enter? I started at 245 (44 year old male, 5'10) with a "lightly activity" level and it gave me a similar calorie level. I am now "active" level and it gives me ~1900 calories per day for 2lbs per week at 200lbs. I am losing around 1-2 lbs per week with around 2 hrs per day of exercise (bike…

I have been getting comments at work from coworkers and I hope some of them jump on the healthy eating healthy living bandwagon, it'd be nice to pay it forward, but I didn't do this to motivate anyone, just make myself happier and healthier. If someone uses it as motivation all the more better however!

I'm evidently the least creative person on here. I have a slice of multigrain bread with 1tbsp of natural peanut butter on half of it and a banana, every day. If I don't bike commute I delete the banana. It does have a nice mix of proteins and carbs and gets me through to lunch.

I honest to god have a friend that did the 100lbs in a year thing. He did it the right way be deleting all the soda, candy, beer, chips and empty calories and replaced it with a sound diet of just the doctor prescribed daily calorie allowance. He didn't exercise until he was healthy enough to do so and I remember the day…

As others have mentioned you need to have a huge deficit to make that weight loss amount and obviously you aren't going to live on 240 calories per day so you will need to lose on exercise. Consider that to burn ~1800 calories, I, a 200lbs male, have to ride my bike continuously over 1 hr 45min with an average speed of…

Just in case you want to know what the Mayo Clinic thinks of detox diets: http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/detox-diets/faq-20058040 here is another article from the Guardian debunking the detox myth and superfoods and nutrients:…

I'm not sure about the daily allowance but the bicycle calories you are getting seem way off. As a 230lbs male I was lucky if I could burn 1000cal per hour on a 17mph+ average speed ride. If you are getting 1200 cal per 10 miles either you are covering those miles at a staggering 20mph average or your HRM is calculating…

The best way to calibrate calories to use a heart rate monitor during the exercise and coordinate it with your MFP count. I ride 2 ways into work and half my ride is downhill but MFP says I burn more calories on the way in than I burn on the way home back up that huge hill because the average speed is higher in the morning…

I have found that many items I use for making my meals have a lot of sodium in them. Breads and wraps especially. I was using a low carb wrap for my breakfast (which involves 2 wraps, a banana and 2tbsp of natural peanut butter) and the wraps alone were contributing 300mg each to my daily sodium. I previously bought a…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia It is thing, just because you have never heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't or it hasn't happened.

I find food that you make is much more satisfying than food that you buy. I will always gravitate towards a sandwich I made at home vs. one I buy, because I know what went in it and if I know what went in it I can more accurately measure its caloric content. Sure lean cuisine has the nutrition values posted on them but…

Many vitamins need other foods to be taken in by your body. Just having water in your stomach and the vitamins would probably mean you wouldn't be taking in the vitamins your body desperately needs. This aside from the fact that not eating for a month would be bad for you. Your body would need to get nutrients from…

http://www.webmd.com/diet/diet-sodas-and-weight-gain-not-so-fast?page=1 and a recent neurological study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/ there is still no consensus about this topic. Logically it would seem to me that kicking the need for a sweet flavor would be beneficial as sweet items and…

Straight up sugar. Candy, chocolate in my coffee, granola bars, honey, etc. Eliminate of that as an item has made me less hungry overall. The other day I had a glass of ginger lemonade before going home and it made me very hungry. Without the sugar I can go much longer between snacks and snack more sparingly when I do.…

I will brush my teeth and floss. It sets my mind to a bed time routine and makes my taste buds stated.

Also consider that adding more exercise will replace fat with muscle so the trade off might be a more svelte physique that isn't recorded on the scale. When I step up exercise I tend to lose fat but less weight than when I just watch calories without the exercise.

I have used MFP a couple of times to lose weight and each time I hit a plateau in weight loss and I saw a number on the scale and I got discouraged and eventually I just gave up using it and then a year later I would try again. I always saw it as a failing due to motivation and I finally realized the scale was the issue,…

My advice is to stop weighing yourself. I have made a few great attempts at weight loss and each time I would weigh myself and not see the result I wanted to see it made me depressed which made tracking my food more difficult and eventually i just gave up and stopped watching what I ate. This time I didn't weigh myself at…

I would recommend starting with a food journal. Track what you eat a day for a week. Count everything, drinks, snacks etc. You could do this through MFP or just write it down. After that week you should look at the foods you eat. Look for the empty calories, foods that are high sugar and highly processed are always…