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Okay, but what does your SO actually SAY about your weight loss? Can you give us a sample conversation that includes both of your typical points? I’m a binge-er, too, and I lost my weight when I stopped. That’s actually reassuring to some of the people who’ve asked me about it, because I can tell them I’ve stopped…

At our local Y, there’s always a staff member on the floor, and part of their job is to show people how to use the equipment. Not to the level of personal training, but for someone just starting out it can be a good way to get comfortable and start building up a regular circuit. Especially if there are motions you need to…

What qualifies you to evaluate the claims made by OptaVia about their products? What education and skills do you bring to the table outside of their “training” that allow you to understand their promotional materials within the broader context of human health?

They are. That's where that starting number comes from: sleeping, breathing, swallowing, blinking, and just generally being alive and having a body. If you choose a higher activity level, it'll assume you also stand a lot or walk more and give you more calories for those things. And if you do additional, purposeful…

This is it for me. I love fitness and I want to be healthy, but the honest truth is I’ve always worked out hoping to look a certain way. Keto helped me get to my goal weight, and the fit body I had built underneath was still there. I mulched a huge garden last week and wasn’t even sore the next day. I’m not jacked and I…

The issue isn’t the trigger. Something is always going to make you feel anxious, or angry, or uneasy. No one sails through life with no negative emotions whatsoever; no one’s life is entirely without obstacles. Even if you traded places with your favorite celebrity tomorrow, you’d still feel pretty much the same ratios of…

This is one of those things where if it works for you, it works. The math is on your side—there are lots of different ways to accomplish “eat less.” Our brains are endlessly complicated, though, so for each of us there will always be some ideas that work better and many that don’t get off the ground. So try it for a month,…

My carbs are in the 60s or 70s most days, but I try to get a lot of those from fiber so that my net carbs are usually 45 or less. Protein and fat make up the rest of my calories. I’m at maintenance now, toying around with the idea of losing 5-10 vanity pounds, but I haven’t gotten serious about those. I exercise a lot. I…

If your activity level is set to the lowest option, the Fitbit is giving you calories for more than just purposeful exercise. Basically anything you do during the day other than reclining or lying down will add up. You’ll get calories for walking to your car, folding laundry, standing for more than a couple of minutes, and…

I think every low-carber has been there at least once or twice. 😉 It’s not a coincidence that every cuisine in the world includes some kind of soft, bland, starchy staple food. It’s what we WANT. My low-carb diet is easier on my digestive system and much higher in vitamin C than the way I used to eat, though. So I’ve come…

I don’t worry about how much I’m eating, but I do still eat low-carb. Reintroducing carbs when I already feel awful only makes it worse, so no matter how much I crave comfort foods I remind myself they aren’t what my body really wants. I can pull up out of it faster if I stay the course.

Genuinely curious, OP: where does your conviction that some beers are good for weight loss come from? Why do you take it for granted that they must exist, even though you personally have no idea what they are? Why would so many people drink the “beer-belly” beers when there are perfectly good “non-beer-belly” beers out…

Try a month of one, then a month of the other. If they’re both appropriate for your needs, there’s no reason not to test them out. I’m on keto because while I love carbs, I don’t miss them when they’re (almost) gone. I’m not great at moderation and don’t get especially excited about a lot of the staple foods in the…

If you were eating enough of those things, MFP wouldn’t be flagging your calories as too low. If, on the other hand you really were eating less than 1000 calories per day on a sustained basis, you would certainly be losing weight. Which brings us to: how are you deciding what portion sizes to log? Are you eyeballing your…

Keto isn’t inherently deficient in any vitamins, although as with any diet it’s on you to make smart food choices. Keto makes it a lot harder to rely on processed foods, though, which is good news for most vitamins except the ones enriching enriched flours. By happy coincidence those tend to be pretty abundant in many keto…

Like nvmomketo said, I aim for 5-10% of my calories from net carbs, and I have no trouble remaining in ketosis on that amount. Subtract fiber grams from carbohydrate grams and multiply the result by four; compare that number to your total calories and adjust as necessary throughout the day. That way you don’t have to eat…

I so have this. I get all the symptoms of low blood pressure, and I’ve done a bunch of testing to rule out other explanations. Slap a blood-pressure cuff on my arm, though, and I can physically FEEL it rise. I can’t “catch” it going any lower than 110/65, even though I’m quite sure by now that it must. Stuff like this is…

I usually do a month on, then take two days off. That way I don’t feel like I have to cram everything I don’t normally eat into one meal, or even just one day, and wind up eating myself sick. I can plan two carb-y breakfasts, two sandwiches or soups or salads I’ve missed for lunch, two starchy dinners, and whatever…

Drink water with food, after vigorous activity, and when you’re thirsty. There really shouldn’t be a need to measure it.

A fitness tracker with a heart-rate monitor can help, but they’re not totally accurate, especially for that kind of activity. Ultimately your best bet is to take your best guess, keep at it consistently for a month, and then see where you are, weight-wise. Over time you’ll be able to estimate the burn for individual…

I second all of this. My carbs are usually in the 60s (net in the 30s or 40s) and I’m in ketosis just fine. Don’t make it harder than it needs to be. Aim for up to 10% of your calories from net carbs (carb grams minus fiber grams, times 4, then compare the result to your calorie total so far). My diary is open and if I…

MFP’s lowest activity setting is now called “Not Very Active.”

Yep. But I have really inconsistent activity levels day-to-day, so now to be on the safe side I wear a fitness/heart-rate tracker that’s connected to MFP. MFP gives me a basic calculation based on my age, height, weight, activity, and goals, then the tracker adjusts that number based on how much I’ve actually moved during…

Have you entered your stats and goal weight into MFP? What does it say?

1400 is extremely low for maintenance. How long is “lately,” and how were you measuring your food intake during that time?

Yep. You need a food scale, stat. Also, if you suspect you might sometimes forget to log, consider taking pictures of everything you eat right before you start eating. Photos are the easiest thing you can do to impact how much you actually eat, and they’ll help you to log more accurately and figure out what’s going on.

If your Fitbit is synched and you have negative calorie adjustments enabled, it shouldn’t really matter what your activity level is is set to. Your Fitbit will estimate how many calories you’ve burned based on steps and movement throughout the day, compare it to MFP’s goal, and give you an adjustment number that eliminates…

I’ve always done better on a higher-fat diet. Now I’m happy and healthy on keto, with fat grams most typically between 130-170. If someone recommended 25g to me, I’d frankly just assume they don’t know that different people are different, and disregard their advice. When it comes to eating, do what works. If you can stay…

One of those was mine, and I DO keto, for crying out loud. If OP wants to try it again I’m happy to try to help her out. But her own comments preclude offering any constructive advice, because the narrative she wants us to stick to doesn’t match the facts she’s offered us. She says she eats less on keto, but she also says…

How tall are you, and how much do you weigh?