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Meh, I dunno. I just noticed it wasn't as geared towards food bragging. It's a badge of honor here. It's very skewed and I think it paints a one sided picture. It was just interesting to hear a group of men my height who were my weight say honestly "yeah, I could eat more at first but then I had to go much much lower"…

Yes. No I don't weigh my yogurt. At 80 calories a piece eating it twice a day there is no way any discrepancy would be statistically relevant. Even if each one contained 50% more calories than it stated that would only amount to 80 calories. This could in theory make losses slower (turning a 1lb loss into .85lbs but it…

Success on the MFP is measured in abs. I used to be 365lbs. I bounce between 225 and 230 now mostly randomly. When I was losing and my clothes were getting smaller it was awesome. When I started weight training and gradually the XL shirt became an L even though my weight stayed the same that was cool. But it becomes the…

MFP is the land of food braggers. Everyone is eating. I don't know how but they're doing it. I've been poking around the reddit loseit forums asking similar questions I ask here. How many calories guys my size eat, etc. The answers here seem high. Here you get guys swearing they lose weight eating 2500-3000 calories. Women…

jerky?

I'm generally a terrible person but if people feel the need to subject themselves to me so be it.

600g of carbs...that's a lot of ice cream. I'm in.

Water is a chemical. So there's that.

Well you don't want to appear overly aggressive so I'd say sneak up behind her quietly when she least expects it. I'd follow her around first for a while to try to figure out the perfect time to do it. YMMV.

And there has to be a secret. Wolfman doesn't even count calories apparently. What's the secret there? I can't ask for a secret without getting flack for not weighing my package yogurt but he doesn't even count. What's the difference maker there? What can I do to lose weight in spite of not weighing my yogurt?

I find it reallllllllllly hard to believe everyone having success never goes to a restaurant where they're unable to weigh and measure the items they're eating and that they never take one single day off. Some of the blogs I read even recommending taking a week off from logging every so many weeks.

Because my weight will stall out. I'll get annoyed and I'll take a break and try it again. Basically. I consistently have trouble getting below 225-230. I give that as a range because I can literally be 225 one day and randomly 230 the next.

Food scale. Diary's open. I don't eat many package things but I don't weigh packaged thing. I'm not dumping my yogurt into a separate cup to see if it's 3gs too heavy. If that's torpedoing my progress then so friggin be it. This last weekend was the first time since Christmas I've eaten/drank without attempting to log as…

So you're telling me someone can't lose weight having a few beers every 6-7 weeks? LOL I call BS.

And yes, people make the beach body look easy. "Lift weights and eat at a slight deficit." This is literally the advice people give for getting a nice stomach. There's a thread on it. Hasn't worked for me yet.

I know what I'm doing and my results are still slow and crappy. And forget fun. I had a couple beers this weekend. Boom. Literally 10lbs heavier in two days. Yeah yeah. Water. But still. Now it will take that 2 weeks to come off. Just to be 227 again. Then the slow crawl to 226 begins. One day it will be 226.2. Then maybe…

Wait, so why do I have to be super anal and basically not have any fun to barely, and I mean barrrrrrely make any progress? And that's at 27% body fat (assuming the Bod Pod is at least reasonably accurate). Shouldn't I get the same results in the same time frame and honestly shouldn't they be easier since my % is higher?

I'll be frank. "Be patient." The people throwing this advice out are usually rippppppppppppped already and if they were as overweight as I am they'd be be cutting corners like crazy to drop the weight. They're usually the ones that can't stand to gain more than a few pounds without being emotionally crippled. Not to…

Sweet! I'm not fully convinced I'll reach my goal weight until 6 months after I'm dead so can we hold off on the test until then? #finallybeachready #absnotflabs #shirtlessselfietime

2-3 months sounds good to me. And if a person is already heavier it should be even easier. I think this is my big issue with the "why don't you give it six weeks" advice. Six weeks for it to START working? Huh? When you have people losing 10-15lbs in 2-3 months who barely have any fat to begin with? I just like consistent…

Going back further, one day in May 2014. 251 and about 29% LOL. Yeah. OK.

I feel like this should be correct but in practice isn't. Any temporary spike throws the whole thing off and it doesn't seem to recover. Maybe the results are better if you're leaner and don't swing as much water as I do. Just to throw out a couple of my numbers back last August I had a day where I was 237 and 28.9%. Cut…

I'm guessing the "sure honey, you could stand to lose a few" answer wouldn't exactly make a woman happy either so he's probably playing it safe.

LOL well can someone please give me the unhealthy manor. I'm 227-230. Short term goal 210. 195-200 longer term. Been trying foreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever to lose the rest of the weight.

Anyone? Gears turning? Trying to hold yourselves back from shouting out "Six weeks. Hit it hard. Get beach ready. Abs abs abs!" I know that contradicts the regular human advice of "well you really should take 19 months to slowly lose the weight."

Explain mine. TDEE now is about 2400. I eat 1800 and lose about a pound or so a week. Maybe more, maybe less. At 200 and 20% body fat my TDEE should be 2300ish. Oops. That'd be only a 100 calorie a day deficit. At that rate I'll never get to my goal, which I probably won't anyways since eventually I'll probably need to eat…

EDIT: Let me even phrase it in a cut and dry way. Guy/gal who was bulking got a little crazy. They now weigh 15lbs more than they'd like. How long should the person take to lose the 15lbs. Go.

So in other words you're not going to explain why it's easier for them to lose weight and harder for me?

Then how to the people bulking/cutting seem to gain 10-15lbs and then proceed to lose 10-15lbs in a matter of weeks? They make it seem so automatic. But then you read things like you wrote where it's "months, years, etc."

For me that would be a 100 calorie difference between my current maintenance even though I want to lose 30lbs. Maybe this is more for people who are fit and want to be fitter?