SusanMFindlay Member

Yes, this is okay.

1650 calories is *not* a lot of calories for somebody of your height and weight. Unless you have a history of underreporting your intake (in which case, you'd be better off fixing that), a recommendation to eat 1650 cals/day to lose 1 pound/week when you weigh 173 pounds is completely reasonable.

For how long? Is it just a day or two then the tiredness goes away? If so, I think that's pretty common. If it's longer term than that, you have to decide if the tiredness is worth it. (I wouldn't. If I can have energy with moderate sugar intake, I consider that better than being exhausted with no added sugar in my diet.)

This. I don't think I've ever ended a day with a negative calorie adjustment, but "chasing" the switch from negative to positive adjustments is motivating for me. I don't think it would be as motivating to have it just sit on 0 until I reached the expected activity level because I wouldn't be able to see how close I was.

I do this too, but it's because I always get a sore if I make the mistake of drinking directly from a can. No, I don't know what the mechanism is. I can, however, drink from the can using a straw. I'm another person who eats one item at a time. Usually, I start with the vegetables then the meat then the starch. That…

How is your fat intake? Insufficient fat can have similar effects as insufficient fibre.

A lot of it comes down to tone (since some people use the term "females" to dehumanize women; admittedly, most people don't mean it that way). A quick and easy test is "would you use the term 'males' if your sentence was about men?" If so, it's probably fine.

This advice is for a general audience. The majority are not willing to subject themselves to a protein-sparing modified fast, and that sort of diet should only be attempted after proper research (mostly to prevent inappropriate substitutions/modifications). So, yes, there are situations in which this advice won't apply…

Bike riding won't add steps, though. Stairs will burn more calories than steps that don't involve elevation gain. All that said, 20 minutes of cycling (since you said 10 minutes each way to work) and a few hundred of the steps being on stairs shouldn't put you up to a 1400 calorie adjustment on 8500 steps. I'd expect…

What really kills me is when somebody complains that 1 pound of muscle weighs the same as 1 pound of fat... ...and then goes on to claim that an acceptable alternative expression is "muscle takes up less space than fat"! Because, apparently, it goes without saying that all comparisons involve equal masses of substance.…

I can see that. But if you use it to help you "make your budget work", it's a useful tool. e.g. We have dinner at Fatburger and I have about 500 calories to spend. I *could* spend 200 of them on a regular pop (small size), but then I don't have many left for food (and I can't have a refill or it'll cost more calories).…

This is true, but it's a correlation and it has cause-and-effect backwards. People who are fat will be more likely to choose diet soda as a way to cut calories. People who are naturally thin* will not tend to feel the need/want to do that. *Naturally thin = able to maintain a low weight without applying conscious effort

And you're 65 years old? That's the age I had to plug into the calculator to get those numbers. You're at a BMI of 19.6 at 107 pounds, so any weight you want to lose will have to come off really really slowly (and I'm assuming you're very close to goal weight; goal is 105 or so?). Sounds like you've been doing the right…

I weight every day because fluctuations happen. If I only weighed once a week or once a month, I'd never know if I was at the top or bottom of my current weight range. Weighing every day and letting the number sync across to a trending app means I can mostly ignore the fluctuations.

fruit raw veggies with guacamole, hummus or tzatziki cherry tomatoes! nuts (weighed; they are calorie dense) cheese rye crackers with cream cheese turkey pepperoni dark chocolate salsa with tortilla chips (phrased that way round because I have a lot of salsa and not a lot of chips) Greek yogurt

But calculating it from your arm needs to involve a measuring tape (and will still be flawed if the person has enough fat to make their wrist larger; losing weight has definitely shrunk my wrists). Using fingers to measure it is highly inaccurate.

"Gluten friendly". It's restaurant code for "gluten free enough if you don't have any medical reason to be gluten free, but not gluten free enough if you have celiac disease or similar so don't sue us if you have a reaction". Either have gluten free options that are actually gluten free or admit that you're not willing to…

You really can't tell from that. That test ignores that some people have long fingers and some have short fingers. And that the size of your ribcage is far more relevant to your frame size than the size of your wrist. Just pick a goal weight that seems reasonable to you - probably somewhere in the normal BMI range. You can…

Perfect! Numbers we can use to estimate. 10 pounds in 52 weeks is 0.19 pounds/week. At 3500 cals/pound, that means that when you stopped the barista job, you had a calorie surplus of 673 cals/week. Divide that by the number of days you worked each week to convert to cals/day worked. Keeping in mind that your calorie intake…

Do you mean 200 calories over and above "active"? That seems like an underestimate. If you mean 200 calories over and above any "sedentary" or "lightly active", it's definitely an underestimate. For me, a 15,000 step day is about 300 calories over "active" while a 23,000 step day is about 700 calories over "active". So,…

Does it have to be Dunkin Donuts? Or does it just have to be fast food? An Egg McMuffin is not a bad breakfast choice - 290 calories and has protein from the egg and ham (or bacon). I don't know the Dunkin Donuts menu, but they may have an equivalent. I'm not saying that should be Plan A. Plan A is to have a healthy…

Yes. Some people just get a general sense of "I should put something in my stomach" rather than a specific hunger or thirst cue.

You should eat back at least half of them - but it doesn't have to be today if you're not hungry today. If you want to save them for tomorrow or Sunday, that's fine. Your body doesn't have a little calendar inside it marking down which days you eat what. If you don't eat them back, you will lose more fat *but* if you…

Depends on the portion size. She listed a lot of calorie dense foods: sausage, gravy, jelly, salad dressing and cheese. They *could* be itty bitty portions for not a lot of calories, but they could also add up fast. If bread is 100 cals/slice with 50 cals jelly, 70 cals for the egg, 60 cals for the piece of bacon, 200 cals…

QFT 2,000 calories/day sounds like a good goal for you given your active job; however, you need to adjust your expectations in terms of weight loss. You ought to be able to lose about 1 pound/week eating 2,000 calories/day given your stats, job and workout routine. That's as fast as you should be losing. If you find you…

I don't run marathons. If I called myself "lightly active" like the site wants me to and didn't eat back my extra calories, I'd be undereating by 1000(!!!) calories every day. Except, of course, that after a week or two of that, I'd be so tired and hungry that I'd either binge or stop moving as much. Choosing not to eat…

You look lovely in that picture. If you can achieve and maintain that look again through healthy eating (at an appropriate calorie intake) and physical activity, go for it!

You're logging drinks too? Including milk/cream/sugar in coffee or tea? Check that you're using the right entries for your most common items. I was logging grilled salmon the other week, and the highest calorie option had three times the calories of the lowest calorie option. (The right one was somewhere between those two…

The only exercise I have been able to fit into my life since about March has been walking (unless you count standing when teaching, playing with toddlers and carrying toddlers when they're too tired to walk or don't want to go where I want them to go). I've been averaging just under 20,000 steps/day. That's 10 miles. The…

I see that suggestion a lot and I think it depends a lot on the person. Personally, I find it easier and more logical to choose the activity setting that most closely matches my typical day (or a slight underestimate of my typical day). For me, seeing the tiny calorie target that "sedentary" gives would make me less…