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I can't sleep if I'm not eating enough. I'm also a runner who runs 25 miles a week. I have to up my calories when that happens.

Yes! I have been doing it since August 2017 (Doctors orders) and I LOVE it. Have lost 50 lbs with 20 more to go. I will eat like this for the rest of my life, it's SO easy. But that's not what you came here for. My macros are: ~1500 calories a day 5-10% carbs (18.75 - 37.5 NET grams) 70-80% fats (116.66 - 133.33 grams) 15…

I signed up with a trainer at my gym. I see her twice a week and I've been working with her since December 2016. This December will be my last sessions with her, I've learned a TON. I have like 20 more lbs to lose, but she taught me so much I believe I can continue on twice a week without her now. I highly recommend…

I love it! I wasn't able to eat lower calorie for long term until I tried keto, since it's higher in fat I feel fuller longer. I am really learning what my macros should be and eating all of the foods I love that keep within my macros! I've lost 30 lbs since April! 25 lbs to go to my goal! It's really not a diet, I truly…

I totally agree here. I used to be a division I athlete in college, and then became obese due to being very sedentary but continuing with the athlete diet (eating everything all the time, lol), but I definitely still have quite a bit of muscle mass under there and I am VERY fidgety as well. I have a TON of energy on this…

Excellent advice! I did the last 4 weeks, and my TDEE came out to 2554, which is also extraordinarily high for someone who does not exercise much regularly besides light weight lifting twice a week. I guess it makes more sense than 2800, but it still is out of bounds of what any TDEE calculator gives me for what my TDEE…

I'm a software developer and I've actually programmed my own graphing app (it's not public) cuz I'm a data/numbers nerd!

-1.74, that's perfect weight loss in my book! Even a 1 lb loss a week would make me happy, as long as it was steady. All I ask is for steady predictability, because once major fluctuations and long plateaus happen, I go downhill fast

I've had people tell me to NEVER EVER eat less than 1200 calories in a day or my body will go into "Starvation mode" LMAO... I have several 800/900 calorie days when I'm very sedentary and not hungry. Don't worry - it's always made up for right before my period when I have to eat 1800 calories! My IF friends have 500 cal…

No, I eat dinner at 9-10 PM and I've lost 13 lbs in three weeks. CICO.

I'm wondering if you're more muscular than the average 61 y/o woman? I have heard that muscle *can* make ones metabolism faster than someone of the same age/height/weight without much muscle. I am quite muscular, naturally built and I lift weights twice a week, so I'm wondering if that really does make a difference. Either…

I did do gluten-free for a few weeks before reducing all carbohydrates. It was definitely easier to get into the keto diet. In addition, I did NOT go very low carb at first - I stayed around 45g - 50g of carbs. Only in the past two weeks have I touched a few 25 g carb days. I find that if I can eat 50g of carbs and still…

Thank you for your input!! That's good to hear actually, that you're 5'2" and have TDEE of 2500. Then my latest TDEE calculation of 2770 might not actually be that far off because I'm 5'4"!

Yeah, I understand what TDEE is, my question is if by your calculations eating 1318 a day would give me a 1-2 lb a week loss, then why am I losing 3-4 lbs a week? That would mean the calculated TDEE is low. My TDEE is actually higher than calculated, even though I am in fact sedentary. That's what is odd to me. The other…

Excellent, thank you! I was gluten free for weeks before starting keto, and so I wasn't sure if I was still losing water weight or not. I'll start tracking next week and on to get my "real" TDEE. If it is actually around 2100, I could probably up my cals to 1500 a day. I'm so sedentary though that I'm not very hungry on…

For me the main thing has been when someone asks if I've lost weight, and I say how I am eating less and lifting weights, they tell me "Well you still need to exercise" WTF do people think weight lifting is?! I swear, literally everyone apparently thinks that unless you're running / doing pure cardio, you can't lose…

For the record, I'm 50 lbs overweight. About 5'4" ish 190 lbs. I average 1450 calories a day (weigh everything with a food scale and paying attention the cals on packaged food, which I only eat when I absolutely HAVE to), but some days I eat as low as 800 calories and some days I eat as high as 2300 calories. In all, over…

Less. Way less. Simply because I'm eating less. I've always cooked my own food and I still buy the same exact foods, but now that I measure them out in normal portions, I find they last a week+ longer than they would before. Instead of grocery shopping every weekend, I'm grocery shopping twice a month! It's awesome!

Of course I only have situational evidence, but from that I truly believe a general body with similar levels of stress and other surroundings, one 70+ lbs overweight who never smoked and the other a chronic smoker who exercises regularly and eats very healthy, the person who is overweight will die of their complications…

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I don't work out in one chunk, I take 3-4 10-minute brisk walks a day. That's all you really need. Other than that, I have free weights at home that I use a few days a week when I have time.

I never weighed myself daily before, but I heard people raving about it. It kept them accountable. Now, I have been weighing myself for a week, every single day. I understand the rationale for it. As a woman, I see my weight go up by 5 lbs in a week just with hormone fluctuations, so while I record my weight every day it's…

This is a common misconception amongst most people who have not worked in the medical field. I found doctors, PAs, nurses all to be extremely undereducated when it came to weight loss, and what appropriate weight for sex/height/etc.. was. I even had a GP tell me I needed to lose weight when I was 130 lbs, and about 20%…

The best way to start the conversation is to ask the person about their exercise and diet routines, along with your normal line of medical questioning, as if you ask every patient regardless of size these questions. Not only will it get the patient thinking about their diet and exercise, but it'll give you as a…

I can also go without alcohol and not miss it. I truly believe different people's bodies crave different things in terms of enjoyment of food. Personally, I can cut sugar no problem, never eat it again, and it doesn't affect me one bit. I don't even miss it. Cookies? Candy? Ice cream? Donuts? Basically any processed…

CICO is simply the basis on which to start for strictly weight loss. Then you have to take your individual person into account - what times of day do you prefer to eat depending on your work / life schedule? Do certain types of food leave you hungry whilst others fill you quickly? What foods do you enjoy / crave? I never…

There's a great Scientific American on this - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-exercise-paradox/ I subscribe to the magazine, and would highly recommend reading that article if you're interested in the science behind why exercise doesn't cause humans to lose weight - there's an evolutionary answer and it's…

Hi everyone, I might be glad I found you! I had sudden weight gain at age ~31 of about 30 lbs in 3 months. Before then, I was a long distance runner with a solid healthy diet and always thin / fit. My weight gain made me unable to run, so I started long distance walking, and eating less, but it made no difference. I'm 34…

Thank you for the information, very useful. I will stop wasting my money getting body fat tests done and simply go on how I feel / the scale / how my clothes are fitting from now on :)

That's reassuring to hear and makes sense to me. Even if I did gain 2-3 lbs of muscle, I still wonder why I have 15 lb of lean body mass left over. Bone? I'm a woman in my mid-30s who doesn't eat dairy and takes no supplements, I thought my bone density was supposed to go DOWN not up by lbs!! Basically all of the answers…