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If you love fruit and veg and you're not an emotional eater you will lose it anyway now that you know how (you've made quite the progress since May!). The surgery is for life. And you might not be able to eat the stiff you like after that. I have no experience nor knowledge. Just your comments made me think you can do it…
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I aggree completely. However you might not see it regularly on the scales. Usually for me my weight drops once a month in big chunks. The rest of the month it is in fact pretty level fluctuating up and down by 200gr. So OP like others have mentioned if it has been less than a month wait it out. I have had one or two…
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Yes, I'm trying to do my best with protein but it is not always easy. Turns out oats and seeds of which I eat quite a lot are good in protein. Obviously pulses. I also eat fish a couple of times a week and sometimes meat. Every day is different. This was just an example day to showcase the variety and hence taste while…
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I mostly walk and do some exercise at home. I used to go to the gym but I can't afford it at the moment. I have resistance bands - the type with handles. What I wanted to share though is my newly found motivation for exercise. I no longer think about my figure (not as much anyway) and focus on strength and ability. I have…
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10 years ago that's how I found out I had POTS. My fibit was telling me to eat thousands of calories just because my HR was very high most of the day. Oh I wish HR affected calories. Sadly nope.
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yes 0 If you're gonna drink soda, 0 calories is the best choice.
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If it was a vaccine of some sorts it is normal for your heart rate to increase a bit the evening of the event, you might also get low grade fever. As for your following heart rate symptoms - it sounds like POTS. Which might not be related to the injection even though it might seem like it. I have POTS diagnosis by the way.
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For me the scooby calorie calculator gives the most accurate calories for sedentary.
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1.5kg of fat is 11500 kcal. What do you think?
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It matters what not. How much it does.
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Junk food. Urg!
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The single digit thing is not true. Depends on your body shape. I had visible abs cos all my fat was in my bum and thighs. I'm thin wasted.
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You don't need to do anything about it. It's a natural thing (assuming it's a whoosh), that's how the body works. I usually lose my weight once or twice a month in two whooshes, all deficit accounted for. That's how my body is.
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It REALLY depends on your build and your muscle to fat ratio. For example when I was young I was 120lbs and 5.7 and looked thin. My friend was 135lbs and also looked thin. Why? Because I was pear shaped and she was apple shaped. Her extra lbs were in her breasts and upper torso mostly proportionately distributed; mine were…
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Well done. Keep in mind that to lose 1lbs you need a total deficit of 3500 kcal. So 8 lbs is a total deficit of 28 000 kcal. This means 2800 kcal deficit per day for 1 week and a half. Which is close to impossible. So much of the loss must be water. I'm explaining this so you can have more realistic expectations for the…
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"anyone... actually lost weight from reducing your calorie intake?" Literally every human being on earth. This is the only way a living being can lose weight.
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1 week is too short a period to discuss. 4-5 weeks needed.
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If you've had no change on the scales for 5 weeks this means you're maintaining. I.e. you're eating exactly as much as you are spending. The scales over such a long period of time are the best indicator of your actual maintenance calories no matter what any app or calculator says.
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I've come to realise that some people need to make up challanges and overcome them in order to feel they are doing something. I find this cruel deprivation pointless.
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May I ask where you are from? Attitude towards weight differs greatly from culture to culture (I've changed 3 cultures in my lifetime). So the advice you're gonna get here may be to an extend inapplicable to you.
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I'd stick to your original goal. Being "small" or "large" esthetically is a matter of personal preference though. So if you and people around you like you better large, you may as well stay larger.
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For whatever health condition: if you're not losing (for more than a month) then you need to eat less.
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MFP assumes you do about 3000 steps in the sedentary state. That's around 100 calories (obviously depends but 100 is a good round estimate). So just eat at whatever MFP gives you as maintenance minus 100. Until you properly heal I wouldn't go on a deficit. I'm myself recovering from a laparoscopy for endometriosis stage 4.
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Everyone's weight fluctuates every day. It has little to do with the amount of calories you ate the day before. Fat has to do with that.
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My personal experience is that it took me 3 years to lose 20ish lbs. The reason was like yours - I just didn't like being hungry and my overall weekly deficit was very small. Then after 3 years it was impossible to keep deficit anymore. The food just wasn't enough. I'm completely sedentiary due to numerous health issues…
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I've noticed this in the past when I was weighting regularly.
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It's harder as you get older only because your body slows its metabolism (your bmr gets lower) as you age. So you have to eat less than you did to keep the same weight.
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? People (and other animals) lose and have been losing weight without counting calories since life started existing. Losing weight is only possible through deficit in energy. What are you asking exactly?
