jdleanna Member

As pretty much everyone has said already, no, I don't cheat my own diet. I eat at maintenance sometimes, or, like last night, I eat extra calories that I save up over the week. I log every single day.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1734744 More than likely yes, there is mental illness here. As an aside, I'm curious about how you think mental illness manifests. The man here is behaving abusively and obnoxiously in the videos... why is that in conflict in your mind with his also being mentally ill? (ETA to fix…

OP, I'm a short middle-aged woman and I weigh 125, and I am losing weight eating 1650 calories with light exercise. You can eat way, way, way more and lose weight. At your calorie level, you'll lose tons of muscle mass. Best case scenario is that you'll lose weight but be flabby and weak. Worst case is you become…

I lost 15 pounds, no change to size. Lost another 1.5 pounds and suddenly down two sizes. Which makes me think it may be random. :-)

Get a crock pot. They are life savers. You can easily find recipes online that involve, literally, just dumping the ingredients in the pot in the morning and coming back 10 hours later to a finished supper. I'd forget the gym. Do you have a stroller or baby carrier? On nights you have the crock pot going, strap baby in and…

Made one this weekend for my son's birthday. Full of delicious cheese and beef and sausage and not in any way low calorie. My small 110 gram slice fit into my calories but I'd have loved to have three times that much.

When I began exercising I felt energized. The days I'm really tired tend to be the days I haven't eaten enough - the days I didn't eat back enough exercise calories the day before. Are you eating back at least some of your exercise calories? Your body needs extta fuel for exercise.

You should eat some of them. MFP is different than other weight loss programs and gives you low calories and expects that you'll eat your exercise calories. But exercise calories are usually overestimated, so most people suggest you eat back only some of them, say, 50% to 75% of those extra calories.

My goal is 83 but I generally get only in the 50s and 60s. But that's my own fault because I save calories for wine after dinner. :-)

Or, alternatively, if you exercise for fitness and strength and to preserve existing muscle mass while losing weight, eat them back.

20 is in the athletic range. Fitness begins at 21. So, what you personally find ideal is an athlete type. That's not a universal ideal. Fitness may be. That's about health and activity and I agree that many people find that appealing. The waist to height ratio you cite of 38% I don't see on health sites - I've seen under…

In your other thread, I think it was you, you were looking to lose weight but you're already 18.5 bmi, right? So if you lose weight you'll be underweight. It's not the 1200 kcal that made people wonder about an eating disorder but the push to lose 2 lbs a week for an already borderline underweight person.

Someone's imagination, I think. Even quick basic research contradicts the body fat % part... under 30% is healthy, and between 21% and 24% for real fitness.

Weekly calorie deficit - how much less you eat over the course of 7 days than your body burns. It's your daily calorie deficit times 7. You can count calories by the day or by the week in order to lose weight. So, if you want to lose one pound a week, you need to eat 3,500 calories less each week than your body uses. If…

If you told MFP in your goals section that you wanted to lose weight, then the 1390 calories it gives you is what you should eat to lose weight. That number includes a calorie deficit. Eat 1390 (weighing your food so that you know for sure how much you're eating) and you'll lose weight. Aim for 1390 every day.

My guess then is that you're eating more calories than you think (very easy to do if you aren't weighing all foods on a digital scale). Because although everyone is different as you say, everyone is the same in that our bodies need more than 700 calories. If you were actually eating at that level, you'd start to experience…

I eat back 50-75% of my exercise calories *and* I am losing weight and a nice rate. I have seen your other posts and I know you're committed to eating at quite a low level, but it is really possible to eat more and eat back calories and lose weight. MFP has the deficit built in so eating back calories is sensible. It's not…

Yes - eating back calories is crucial. MFP is designed that way. Other programs (ones that use the TDEE method) will consider your exercise routines when they set your base calories, but not MFP. here, you pick a general activity level separate from how much you workout and that's what your calories are based on. So if you…

I get you're maybe hedging because you have to estimate your calorie intake but your body is telling you loudly that you must eat more.

According to your food diary, this past week you were under 1500 calories each day without even considering exercise - once you add in the exercise you logged, your net calories are way, way too low. Of *course* you feel week. You need to NET at least 1500 daily.

I'm 5'2, started this process end of June at 144 pounds and am down to 127. I eat about 1400. Plus exercise calories. There is NO NEED to starve your body. No need to risk malnutrition, hair loss, organ failure, muscle loss.

But she didn't advise not counting fruit. Just veggies. Still calories there, yes, but much harder to go over with a bowl of, say, broccoli. I can see why some people push the "don't count veggies, they're free" approach. If a person has avoided veggies and only snacks on junk food, a dietician will be looking for a way to…

No cheat days. I had one day where I ate maintenance. I'd thought I'd do that once a week but I have to say, I like the progress I'm making and don't want to slow it. I want to have sustainable, forever weight loss, which for me means finding ways to enjoy life without wrecking my own goals and without thinking of excess…

What is your calorie deficit? How much did you lose so far? 3 weeks is hardly any time. It isn't instant...you just need patience. It took me two months before I went down a size. I expect the next size down will take longer than that for me. You need to recognize that you'll be in this for the long haul, and find other…

Is everyone where you live a horrible person? I vote for moving.

Yup. You're looking at total, not net, weekly calories based on the screen shot you attached. You shouldn't be under at all for your total calories, in general. People who have weekly calories under are looking at net calories - they're also logging their exercises and not eating back all those calories. That's where their…

Oh... I assume that your 1400 is TDEE -minus a percentage (10% or 20%), right? Looking at your post I'm actually not sure if that's what you meant, or if you meant that your actual TDEE is about 1400. (Edited to fix a million typos)

Are you losing weight? That's how you'll know if you're eating too much. Also, are you logging exercise into MFP? If you aren't then that's why your net calories leftover is lowish. Not a big deal at all. But, is there a reason you're not eating your full calorie allowance each day? Since you're doing the TDEE method you…

Yup! At some point you might end up feeling fine pre-logging more, as you see how consistently you're earning extra calories. I use a Jawbone and was surprised at first to see how many calories it was adding to MFP for me.... I am set to lightly active and get a few hundred extra by the end of the day (& from the posts of…

You've misunderstood the article somewhat. The author was noting, I think, that eating an extra 100 calories a day will not lead to an increase of 10 pounds in a year because as you gain weight your body uses more energy - i.e., as you gain weight your maintenance calories increase so eating a cookie won't be "extra"…