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Keep yourself in a deficit considering your TDEE or total burn. This includes exercise, but be cautious about over estimating how many calories you burn working out. Most fitness watches, etc. tend to way over estimate the calories you burn. If you have a regular workout you will see over time where your maintenance number…

I stay in about a 20% deficit, which for me is around 600 calories. Mostly trying to lower body fat, I expect the scale will be around 10-12 pound lower when I get where I want. Down 40 so far.

It is all Calories in and out.. If you can just weigh all your food and know exactly how much you put in your body vs. what your total burn is you can lose. It's really that simple. You can have any food you want so long as it fits.

Cheers, when your smaller pants are getting loose and your obliques are poking out!

So long as you realize that it's just keeping you in a calorie deficit and that is why you are losing it's no big deal. I prefer to have all my foods and stay in a deficit.

I stay at 20% deficit when cutting and it works well. I'm not sure I'd do more than that.

We eat red meat all the time and have lost a ton of weight. You just need lean cuts and fit it in your macros/calories. To each their own but I love it.

Sorry for your frustration, put everything on the scale. Lose the measuring cups. It will make a difference.

We just use a basic digital scale. Weigh every morning after we pee. Enter the weight and then keep a 7 day running average to see the trend. We may invest in a wi-fi scale because I'm a technology geek, but outside of that they all work pretty well.

In my opinion nothing beats a scale, tape measure, and calipers.

I'd just go back to normal and move on.

My advice is to stay at around a 20% deficit from your TDEE.. total daily burn including exercise. Just keep in mind that most of the watches, fitbits tend to over exaggerate the calorie burn from exercise. I know my weekly workouts burn about x calories, so I build that into my total and just eat a flat amount every day.…

It's all calories to be honest.. if Keto/low carb helps you do that so be it.

It may be way more than 90% even. It's all about what you eat. I burn around 300 calories during my gym workout. Doesn't account for a lot overall.

We just have a cheat meal from time to time, sometimes it turns into a cheat weekend. We just get right back on it. We won't break until we hit maintenance for good.

As you are learning losing weight is more about what you eat and how much. So adding walking will also add some calorie burn, but not a ton. You are on the right path and I suggest you keep going.

Mexican food it my biggest challenge. I love it and want to eat it until I can't move.

As with anything else it can be abused. People have to take care of themselves. We have the government far to involved in things in my opinion. Two main differences in alcohol and tobacco in my opinion. One light drinking a few a week vs. a few cigarettes does vastly different damage to the human body. Second a person…

Nothing wrong with that at all.. I keep my fats around 20% of my overall intake and protein and carbs fairly even, slightly less carbs. Carbs are great for energy and there is nothing wrong with them.

It makes no difference on when you eat or how often.. It's all down to overall calorie input vs. burn.

Don't fall for fat loss schemes. Don't make yourself suffer the loss of foods you like. Measure and weigh everything you eat. Use a scale to know exactly what you are eating. Figure out your total calorie burn and get into a modest deficit. I like to stay around 20% when I'm cutting. You will lose weight, give yourself…

Any short term lose as much as you can diet are bad overall. I have no suggestion for you there. My suggestion overall is to get yourself in a modest 15-20% calorie deficit overall and eat lots of protein to save as much muscle as possible. I'm a fan of heavy lifting as well, it has done wonders for my body.

I eat lots of salt.. on lots of food. No hypertension issues so I just really don't worry about it.

I drink coffee everyday.. I wouldn't substitute it with anything. Is it coffee you are worried about or do you put tons of milk, sugar and other things in it?

So question, Have you been weighing your food to track it? How are you getting your 450 calories that you burn? My guess is that you have been under counting your calories you consume and/or over counting the exercise you add in. However losing 1 pound in 3 weeks is not bad. You seem to eating closer to your maintenance…

The bottom line is yes.. so long as you stay in a calorie deficit you can lose weight.

Awesome job!! The only way to get that off is to keep going. There is no such thing as spot loss or hitting a particular area. Fat comes off based on genetics, etc. Unfortunately for women it more often than not comes off the hips and thighs last. Guts and love handles for us guys. Not always but more often than not. Just…

My advice to you is to be sure you know what you are eating. Honestly the weight loss is 95% kitchen not exercise. I'm a big advocate of exercise but it's just not necessary to lose weight. You need to weigh everything you eat and log it to know exactly where your calorie count is. If you do that, than yes you can…

two things alcohol is a macro that carries calories in addition to the carbs that are in there. Secondly it is a depressant and it slows your metabolism. What I would do is enjoy the party and wedding and then get right back on the wagon. If you can't look good and enjoy life, what is it all worth. I wouldn't plan to give…

I think from reading your posts you really don't know if you are eating 1200 or 1500. If you would weigh you food and measure everything in grams or ounces instead of tablespoons or cups you would see a big difference. Without that all the talk in here is just wasted time.