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It's hard to be patient, but you mentioned you began really becoming more active at the beginning of July! It's July 10th! I'd consider that to be still the beginning of July. My point is that you just need to relax and just trust the process. Don't convince yourself that this time around is harder or slower, because you…
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I think your point about carbon dioxide in the blood promoting breathing would prove the point no? Increased need for oxygen would "take your breath away" causing you to need to breath more.... With that said, sodas or carbonated beverages are not going to cause your blood levels to increase enough to have any real effect…
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LOL what was he buying? holy smokes ha
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What makes you feel like you should be drinking more water?
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There's plenty of free information online and free programs that are proven and work; I don't see a need to pay for programs especially if you are just beginning. Are you a beginner or do you have experience weight training?
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It's tough to really say for sure. From my experience doing HIIT I can genuinely feel myself expending more energy to just maintain my body temperature after doing HIIT. I am breathing much heavier than normally for at least 30 minutes afterwards and generally it's pretty difficult to stop sweating even after a shower.…
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Has your weight been constant?
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Are you comparing a morning starting weight with a evening weight? Weight can drastically change throughout the day. And yes, water weight can change 4.6 pounds very easily. Some are different and 4.6 pounds may be alot but for others it is not. In the morning I generally weigh between 215 and 218. I workout first thing in…
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When I was reading halfway through I was about to say something similar. Now you get to walk to the bus stop, walk to work, walk to things near by, lots more walking, lots more calories burned, lots more weight lost. All the best
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People will probably "woo" you for this but its very possible for you, that this helps you lose weight faster. Before everyone freaks out about CICO, yes CICO is still there and is what determines what happens. But if eating from 11am to 7pm helps to increase your activity levels or make you nap less or motivate you to do…
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There are so many ideas about humans being stalking animals and what kept humans alive was the ability to stalk prey for hours on end until the animal would be too tired. Our ability to metabolize fat easily (relative) and sustain decent energy output for long periods of time would have been useful for us. We ain't out…
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Seems about right based off the information from the other calculators you've checked out.... MFP is giving you about 1,820 as your maintenance calories and reducing it by 500. The TDEE calculator is giving you between 1,900 and 2,250. Seems like with 4 45 min workouts a week they are pretty similar. Now thats a starting…
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Over the last month how much weight have you lost? You should be able to get pretty close to figuring your maintenance calorie estimate based off how much you’d been losing previously. Add about 125 calories a day for each pound you’ve lost of the last month.
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I would just stay confident and keep trying to work with your Endo to figure it out. It’s weirdly similar to the guy I mentioned above which is why I even posted. Just don’t get discouraged and don’t get down. You’ll find the solution, it may just take some time, but once you get your hormones “dialed in” the changes are…
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Gonna need a lot more details for people here to help you. But let’s start with: How long have you plateaued? What was your starting and current weight? Height? Female I assume? Exercise levels? Caloric intake? How strict is your tracking?
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Go back to what you mentioned was giving you impressive relief! Once that feels stable start testing things one by one. Start adding this slowly one at a time. Pay specific attention to your body and how ur reacts to the different foods when you add them in. Obviously your sciatic pain and inflammation, but also sleep,…
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To be honest, I’ve not got much knowledge about female hormone levels. I have a little experience working with 2 men with Low T, which in turn causes low estrogen, causing issues with bone health. One of them had VERY similar issues and experiences as you and turned out to have low T. I’m not sure the symptoms of low E in…
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They “cost” no more than protein.... Sounded like her issue was her addiction to sugar and carbs as she mentioned in her post....
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Calorie deficit has nothing to do with her issue with a carb/sugar addiction....
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I had both sides done about a year apart.... first one was open and the second was laparoscopic. The laparoscopic was ALOT easier to heal from and was able to start training again fairly quickly. At the time I was playing soccer at school, and not doing too much weight training. I don’t know exactly but I believe at 3…
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Yeah, your body will be able to more successfully digest and store glycogen in the muscle if meals are more spread throughout the day. Glycogen is just stored glucose which is generally from carbohydrates but can be provided from protein and fats. Best to think about it as stored carbohydrate energy that can be used easily…
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If your weight is static I’d just keep doing what you’re doing in terms of calculating your daily expenditure. If adding in a little extra calories helps you get through it, you’ll be fine doing that. Adding in 200 calories likely won’t have any effect on your fat mass at all. It may make the scale rise a bit, but you’ll…
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Probably right in terms of 10kg. That likely would not happen with a 200 calorie increase. But if he is truly at maintenance and glycogen depleted from his long diet, putting on 4-5kg over a few weeks wouldn’t be outrageous and could be slightly discouraging if you don’t know what’s going on. Not saying I’m advising…
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Responding to the chocolate piece. In my experience it’s USUALLY a magnesium deficiency. I would increase fat intake and take a magnesium supplement before increasing calories to start. Unless you’re still losing weight. Then all the above and increase calories to meet maintenance ETA: usually probably bad way to phrase it…
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The real question is, what is your weight doing? After doing such a big reduction in weight, depending on how aggressively you’ve cut the weight, your hormones may be trying to recover giving you false signals to eat. I would agree just based off your numbers and seemingly pretty active and in decent shape now, that 2500…
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Everything in moderation is fine IMO. Could it negative health consequences over years and years and years? Maybe. Does it effect different people differently? Probably. I think it’s just like everything in the world. If you enjoy it enough just do it in moderation and be smart about it. I drink diet soda on a daily basis.…
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What do you get if you win? Lol It wouldn’t be too difficult to manipulate your water weight to lose 20lbs in a couple days if you’re a male over 200 pounds. For your weight it would be difficult, but do able. Definetly not worth it if you’re not winning any cash to do it though IMO
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Changing diet should always be the first move. IMO. Obviously if levels are very dangerously high, action needs to be taken. But I personally believe non-medicated avenues should be explored first.
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Generally not advised for athletes to attempt to lose weight during a heavy training load phase. If it happens as a by product accidentally then that is fine. I would advise against trying to lose weight while training. Save that for the "off sesason" when you aren't training as vigorously. My .02 cents
