CalorieCountChocula Member

It's never come up. I guess I'm still fat.

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Yellow snowcone smoothie!

Plastic surgery.

Go for a walk after work. It might even be relaxing in addition to benefiting your fitness. Go for a walk at lunch. I know you said you don't take a lunch but I thought I'd throw it out there. Same idea. It's a relaxing way to destress at work. Maybe commit to to exercising/going to the gym on one of your work nights. It…

I second this. I've lost a 135+lbs already. To continue to lose I have to eat 1700-1800 calories at this point (or run 5 miles a day I guess which frankly I don't feel like doing). When I see all the "you can still have pizza" posts I have to roll my eyes a little. Sure, I CAN have pizza but do I want to waste half my days…

Even if it does is it cheaper than McDonald's?

Probably a necessary evil. I'll probably alternate between trying to eat intuitively (not counting) and calorie counting when I get to a weight I'm happy with. I'm not trying to get my body fat as low as a lot of dudes here so I'm hopeful I'll be able to pull it off.

I own the Aria. At the time it was cheaper and I owned one of the FitBit step counters. It works well and does everything it's supposed to. I sync the data from the FitBit site with trendweight.com to get a smoothed out weight trend. I can't speak to the Withings first hand but from my research when I bought (2014 I think)…

But where exactly is the line? What if your family or friends eat out all the time and you're actively trying to lose weight? I know, I know. Make smart choices. Box up half. Split a meal. Etc. But should you have to do that 3-4 times a week just to maintain friendships? Isn't it better just to admit it's going to be…

It sucks but depending on where you start you're not going to get those easy to see results all the feel good stories from the threads showcase. I'm a male and I'm in the same boat with clothing sizes. Earlier in the year I was 222lbs. Then up to 250lbs. I was 230lbs this morning. That's a whopping 30lb range. The kicker.…

Daily too. Wifi scale and trendweight.com to track.

BTW, I think people stress the "weigh everything even packaged foods" because it sounds better then "just don't eat a lot of packaged foods." That would put a bummer on the whole flexible dieting thing. Same thing with the sodium. You'll notice syn noted my sodium was high but didn't say "stop eating packaged foods" which…

Thursday morning the 24th, 229.9lbs. Saturday the 26th 238.7lbs. Because that makes sense. 231 this morning. It's mostly BS because there's noooooooooooooooo way I ate 3500 calories over my TDEE for the 2 days. Christmas Eve I only had two meals. Christmas one meal. Whatever though.

I get it, I just think I simply don't eat enough pre-packaged foods to make a meaningful difference. Maybe the OP does. I dunno. I just think everyone has this "you're logging wrong" default response. "Tighten up your logging." How? Some days I literally eat 6 individual items. You're telling me if I trust the label on the…

Order my coffee. Sorry, I got priorities.

The flip side of this is being bigger, being able to seemingly gain 20-30lbs in a relatively short amount of time, having it make no visual difference/clothing size difference, but "feeling it." Once this summer I got close to 250. That's up from 222. I'm 230 now. I've look mostly the same (cheeks get chubbier) and can…

Also, my favorite thing about this whole debate is the minute someone posts a question about eating out you're going to get a flood of "it's just one day! just estimate high and move on!" Me, I don't weigh my yogurt but instead trust the value on the container. "You're doing it wrong! That's why you're not losing!!!!"

You're really making me want to start weighing my yogurt out of the container to see how many extra pounds a week I couldn't lose. It's too late for today so maybe tomorrow. I'll do the hot dogs tonight for giggles.

Fair enough, so what is an acceptable error rate? There has to be one since by your own words it's nearly impossible to log 100% accurately. The different densities of fruits and vegetables alone is enough to produce some sort of error right?

Also, I can see a few calories mattering if I was trying to go from, oh, 7% body fat to 6%. But for someone trying to go from 230 to 200 who's 27% body fat? You're telling me 50 extra calories a day more than 1700 is significant? Nope. Calling BS.

Those little things CAN add up if there are a lot of them. I'm asserting that there aren't enough of them in my day to account for the TDEE discrepancy. Even if all 6 hot dogs (OK this sounds bad but really, IIFYM right?) are 10 calories over and my yogurt was 10 calories over that's 70 calories. Where's the other 130? Oh…

Wouldn't the losses be consistent though? Since the water is already there and I'm holding it. If you lose fat you lose fat. It's not like water rushes in to take it's place randomly.

So me not weighing my hot dogs tonight or my yogurt earlier (calm down, I'm going to weigh the chili) is going to account for the 200 calorie difference between what my TDEE is supposed to be and what it really is based off my eating? You're saying that because I don't weigh my yogurt, which I don't even eat daily, that's…

1 cup of cottage cheese which weights 234 grams. Which I measure. And seriously, you want me to measure the hot dogs I'm going to have tonight? Let's say they each weigh 5 grams more than they say. Or half of them do. The others are probably 5 grams less. What is the actual calorie difference there? Not that I even eat hot…

Weight wise, I re-started my program in earnest November 2nd at 240. this morning I was 231 (232.something trend). That's about 8 weeks and about a pound a week.

Done. Didn't log Christmas or much Christmas Eve. Didn't go bonkers with sweets or anything. I've been doing this a while. I know how to make decent choices. Yes I did eat only 900ish calories the day after the holidays as a sort of balance. The last day I didn't log well before that was Thanksgiving. Same deal. Not…

5'11" 1. I lift weights 3-4 days a week. No cardio beyond bike rides for recreation when weather permits. 2. Desk job 3. I weigh and measure. I'm eating single item foods (that is, generally nothing like lasagne that has several ingredients) and meals that consist of 3-4 items tops. To get any more accurate, that is…

So if he is eating at a 1000 calorie deficit then why did his weight loss stop? I weigh 80lbs more than this guy and I eat 1700 calories to barely lose a pound a week. Maybe people don't always fit into these calculated numbers people toss around constantly.

Maybe? I dunno.