grza36 Member

Only about 3 and a half months in and still a long way to go but I already feel like a completely different dude, one that I actually respect.

Clinical depression is something that I've dealt with, and continue to deal with in my life. I completely get how difficult it is and can relate to your experience in terms of how paralyzing and alienating it can be. Having said that I've found that committing to eating well and lifting weights has helped more than any…

Eat more protein, although you're probably gonna be hungry for a little while anyway. You're used to operating at a caloric surplus, now you're gonna be operating at a caloric deficit. Being a bit hungry until you get used to that is fine assuming you get adequate nutrition.

When I first started, yeah, my family would give me a lot of *kitten* about it and make fun of me for trying. Now they're begging me for "the secret". Stick with it, keep doing you, and watch how people's reactions change. It's a fairly common sentiment, but don't let the other crabs keep you in the bucket.…

I didn't really start seeing results personally for about a month and a half even though I kept going down belt notches. We're typically our own harshest critics, but going by what you're saying here what you're doing is clearly working and it's something to be proud of.

BMI is a useful tool to get a rough idea of things, but it's not the be all end all. I'm actually in the opposite boat, I'm now smack dab in the middle of "healthy" for my height, but still have a higher body fat percentage than I consider to be healthy. After you've been losing weight and training for a while numbers like…

Height and fitness goals have more to do with it than gender, you might find it more useful to solicit opinions from people of a similar height who are looking to lose similar amounts of weight. If you wanna take a look at mine it's public, I have a similar calorie goal to yours and have been consistently losing/recomping.

If there's any doubt whatsoever, sedentary.

I've been lifting at a deficit for the past month and change and I'm definitely noticing some muscle development. It's possible that it's because I'm a relatively young man and beginner gains are fairly easy to come by, but I can assure you there was no significant muscle there to start with.

I drink black coffee super often, negligible calories and I find if I'm planning on consuming a large meal later in the day or drinking a bunch of calories on a night out the mild appetite suppressant aspect of caffeine can help keep me on track.

24 year old sound designer, 45 lb down so far. Feel free to add me if anybody wants to help each other stay accountable.

You're probably used to operating on like 150% of the calories you need to maintain a healthy weight, it's gonna take a little while for you to get used to operating on a little over half that. Eat protein rich foods to stay fuller for longer, but the fact of the matter is that being hungry is something you will have to…

When I first started doing strength training to supplement my dietary changes I stopped seeing the number on the scale go down (at least as rapidly as it was) but continued to go down notches on my belt, from what I understand that's typical and not indicative of a problem as long as you're losing fat. If you aren't losing…

I've had great results switching from beer to whisky either by itself or with diet pop, and I continue to drink more than I should. Orange juice isn't a great mixer calorie wise so maybe try experimenting with diet pop or ideally find a low calorie spirit you can handle drinking straight, which also has the added benefit…

I think it's pretty dangerous to even tell someone thinking about "weight loss pills" about this stuff without saying in the same breath that people who take it often cook themselves from the inside and die as a result of using it.

This is great, thanks a bunch. The formula there is pretty much exactly what I was hoping someone would comment with.

Hey great that's great, the thing about activities like hiking or being in the pool though is that they're pretty ambiguous when it comes to physical exertion and it's impossible for a program like MFP to accommodate that. For a lot of people, myself included, the solution to this problem is to continue to simply view them…

That's cool, I mean I have no reason to doubt you, but results-wise you aren't going to see any benefit to running the risk of overestimating calories burnt through exercise if weight loss is your goal. Do what you want but in my personal experience "knowing" my exercise calories burnt has slowed my progress more than…

I've noticed that this is a problem with me as well, I'm not handling it in the healthiest way (switching to neat whisky instead of beer rather than abstaining from drinking), but I've found that doing that allows me to fit it into my calorie budget.

MFP greatly exaggerates calories burnt from exercise, and it sounds like you have a predisposition to under-report your calories. The safest bet for you in my opinion would be to not track activities that you don't partake in for the express purpose of exercise, if at all.