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Unless you have a medical reason to avoid sugar, I wouldn't worry about it unless it's making it too challenging to stick to your calorie goals consistently.

Then open up your diary and back up your claim.

Breaking down differently does not automatically mean more or less weight loss. If you truly believe that different types of foods of the exact same calorie value provide different sustained fat loss (not water weight etc) then I encourage you to provide 2+ peer reviewed high quality research studies that state it.

It's true, people hear the word 'Harvard' and assume the school imparts some magical ability to never be wrong or suffer from bias. The simple truth is very very smart scientists make mistakes all the time. I personally blame the 'publish or perish' mentality in academia.

This has not been proven at all. Unless you're talking about going low carb and dropping water weight. Calories for sustained weight loss, nutrition for health.

In almost all cases of this on MFP, it comes down to under reporting calorie intake or over reporting calorie burns. I've personally never seen a person claim they couldn't lose weight, but had an accurate food diary, and then have that claim turn out to be true.

Your food diary reveals this isn't quite true, there are homemade chicken breasts with no weight noted, cups of veg and other things instead of weights for them, and a few generic entries instead of specific brands. Tightening up your logging may well reveal you are eating more than you think, because you are logging very…

When you're down to the last block of weight to lose, it's very very important to be honest and accurate with your logging. If you are: Using generic entries for things instead of specific brands, not using a food scale, not logging condiments, not counting any oil you use in cooking etc, then now is a good time to tighten…

The reason you can't lose weight is most likely because you aren't in a calorie deficit anymore. You've lost a whole bunch of weight, so your body burns fewer calories still and moving, but none of that stops you from losing weight. You need less food now than you did then, stick with an appropriate, accurately measured…

Not showing as open on this end.

Make sure to be accurate. Use a food scale, because if you aren't, it's *very* likely you are eating a lot more calories than you think.

This. Plus you may well have gone really high carb over Christmas (roast potatoes are yummmy!) which causes extra glycogen weight (don't worry, it's still temporary water weight.)

Short of a medical condition, there is no need to go low carb, it's a preference thing, and it doesn't sound like it would work for you. Sustained weight loss is 100% about calories in vs calories out.

3 weeks really isn't enough to declare weight loss has stopped. Especially when you just did something like going from low carb to moderate carb, which will cause water weight gain.

Yes. But don't worry about it. 99% of human beings fall into the (very narrow) normal range. And even aging 10 years only makes a 50-100 calorie per day difference.

Yes. Many times yes. They are dirt cheap too! For solids, they go on the scale. For messy solids, they go on a zero'd plate on the scale. For condiments or stuff like peanut butter, I weigh the jar before and after. For liquids I use a measuring jug.

I just weigh everything individually.

Eat in a moderate calorie deficit, let science do the rest. Exercise is great for health, but it isn't actually required to lose weight.

Usually when people go low carb, it's the fat they increase, not protein.

Scam. I don't think starting your weight loss with something completely unsustainable is a smart move.

Yes, when you click complete entry on your diary it gives you a 5 week prediction. It's useless though.

Anything that claims to make you lose significant amounts of body fat in 21 days is a scam. Slow and steady wins the race. You didn't get fat in 21 days, you won't get slim in 21 days.

First off, one week is not a suitable time frame for judging anything related to weight loss. Weight fluctuates far too much for that. Secondly, How are you determining your calorie intake? Honest and accurate food logging with a scale will most likely point out the flaws in estimations. If you're currently overweight and…

Just eat slightly smaller serving sizes. You aren't overweight because you don't do any exercise in your room. You're overweight because you ate too many calories. If you try and solve this problem with purely exercise, then the moment you have a string of mid-terms / finals coming up, everything will go out the window and…

I think it's incredibly depressing that so many people will accept a study with n=2 of non random participants purely because it is telling them something they know to be true / really sounds like it should be true to them. If this was a study claiming that eating cake made you slimmer if you were at maintenance and had…

An opinion piece from a blog that doesn't cite a single verifiable source for the claim it is making is not a good source of information.

See a doctor. Self diagnosis and asking the internet for help with non standard treatments to a virus is not a sensible idea.

If you aren't losing over two months while being consistent with your calorie intake and exercise regime, then the hard truth if you are no longer in a meaningful deficit. What calorie deficit per day are you currently running, and what means do you take to ensure that deficit is an accurate figure?

It's a scam. I'd get those $4 back and put it towards a food scale, that'll do far more for you than a scam.

Good man, best of luck! Sustainable is the key here, since we're all looking to solve our weight issues for good here. Keep yourself satisfied and let the science do the rest :)