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Thanks. I do know, what NEAT is and that increasing NEAT can produce a significant increase in TDEE. Heck, I have a fitbit with a hr monitor (which seems to be very accurate juding by my losses and gains) and I know very well, what a difference can there be between an active day and sedentary day even without any…

This. Every time I hear people say, "you don't need to do cardio!", I get quite frustrated. Maybe you don't need cardio and can just eat less because you're big and/or have a high NEAT, but some of us are will be starving with the amount of food we could allow ourselves to maintain the same deficit. On some days my TDEE is…

Thanks for the recs everyone! I had Nike+ training club a long time ago, I completely forgot about it. I think I'll try all of the apps mentioned above.

It seems like the 16:8 is the most popular one and the easiest to sustain while also still having at least two meals at culturally accepted times :) I think I'll start with thus one and see how it goes from there.

Do you live in the US? I don't know how true it is about the majority of people being overweight there, but you know, things are not everywhere like this. And it's not only about industrialized nations and availability of food. I live in France and the majority of (middle and upper class) people are at a healthy weight…

Intuitive eating like that just blows my mind. I know a lot of people like this. The concept of body and mind being so in tune and autoregulating the calorie intake and expendurw without much concious awareness of the process! That's how our bodies are supposed to.work idea. But I don't think i'll ever be alble to learn…

If I understood you correctly, I'm using the same system of calculating. I don't have to log anything into my Fitbit, it has a heart rate monitor and calculates the calories from there. And it is supposed to synch automatically with MFP. However, I get a much higher difference of calories between the two. Fitbit always…

In reality, I'm neither "sedentary" nor "lightly active". I'm "moderately active". Even without counting the intentional exercise most days I burn a lot just from walking around and doing my everyday stuff. The reason my diary is set to sedentary now is because I've seen over and over again people advising to set your life…

I think it depends on the activity level they've set their dairy to, basically their NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis), because MFP only counts the intentional exercise that you log. So if the person who exercises 6 times a week has set their diary to sedentary/not very active because they are not very active…

I mean that my diary now says for example: 1200 goal - 627 food + 489 exercise = 1062 remaining. However, the 1200 goal that my MFP is set to (it's set to sedentary and I'm a short female) is already supposed to include my BMR. I know that fitbit shows me my TDEE and not just exercise calories, but I thought that when it…

When you switched to intermittent fasting how fast did your body adjust to this way of eating and were't hungry anymore outside of your eating window? I used to be able to do IF several years ago for a short while, then went back to regular meals and now I'm very used to eating 3 meals with 1-3 snacks in between. I am…

Yes! Eating more than usual makes me wake up so much hungrier the next day whereas normally I am not hungry for a few hours after waking up. I'm glad I'm not the only one! Yeah, I've seen you mention this before in an another thread. A similar thing happened to me, I was able to lose a considerable amount of weight in the…

Yeah, you are right. Thanks again for the advice ! I'll check out those programs!

Thanks for the advice. The thing is, I don't have a number at which I feel 100% satiated. I really don't think it's the question of a certain amount of food being satiating for a particular person. Our hunger levels are so much more complicated than that. Our hunger levels obviously adjust to our calorie deficit (or lack…

Thanks! You know I think, it's not just that muscles are visible in my of these photos and relaxing makes them less visible. I actually didn't even use the word "bulky" in my original post, and people started explaining how lifting in itself won't make me bulky. Ok, if we actually think about the word "bulky" it doesn't…

Thanks! It's interesting because to my inexperienced eyes she doesn't look neither super skinny, nor too lean, just slim and toned. It's depressing to know it's so hard to achieve and maintain. In terms of exercise, I think BBG program is mostly high intensity bodyweight resistance training and some HIIT mixed into that…

Yeah, middlehaitch is right, I think. MFP's activity level doesn't include exercise, it's supposed to tell one's activity level in day to day life. I use my fitbit to estimate my TDEE and calculate my goal intake from that (since the adjustments my fitbit is making automatically seem to be to big). Judging by my losses (or…

Thanks so much for all the advice! It's very helpful! My goal weight maintenance calories are pretty much what I'm aiming to eat everyday. Most days I success but some days I'm struggling with this amount. However, I think that my hunger is primarily due to simply being in a caloric deficit and maybe also some of my…

It does help! thank you so much for taking your time to go into such detail! This a very useful advice for a beginner. I may not share the same level of fascination for lifting as you, but I totally understand your frustration with assumptions and condescending attitude towards women in the fitness industry/community.…

So true about how almost every fitness program is based on an assumptions of everyone's goals. This is frustrating indeed. And it's true that there's a certain kind of pre-defined aesthetics for men and for women out there with not much variation. Thanks for the advice! Can you elaborate a little what you meant about…

Yeah, it's possible that soon I will have to face that that this might be the only way for me to lose weight without feeling ravenous all the time. Maintenance doesn't seem to be easier for me though. I'm pretty sure I will still feel hungry (for a while at least), maybe hunger will even increase at first. And knowing that…

I don't remember it having a separate weight program, but I might be mistaken. I think I will find her book and look through it again. And yeah, I agree, I know that if my body doesn't made to look a certain way, there's not program in the world that can change it. Yeah, it's something to keep in mind. Thank you!

Well, here are progress pictures from someone doing a BBG program for example. And the result photos look close to my goals. As you can see, the person is very toned, lean, not too thin, but has no pronounced muscles anywhere. VS models are too curvy for my taste. I was actually looking into BBG program (which doesn't…

Um, this is exactly what I was talking about? The quality of most of the pictures is poor and I didn't go though all of the 115 pages, but what I saw didn't motivate me. Most of the women have very pronounced muscles, many have "curves". I think there's a certain assumption about how the women want to look, or how they…

Yeah, I'm starting to suspect that overeating and then having a bigger deficit is the only way for me to produce a net deficit over time. I'm a creature of habit and like routine and overeating makes me feel like a failure, so I'd rather have a small but consistent deficit. But if that doesn't seem to work, what can I do?

I started to run 3-5 times a week consistently about 6 months ago but even before I followed the same running program on and off since about 3 years ago. It's hard to say when the hunger problem started and wether it corresponded to when I started running... I think the increased hunger started before but I'm not sure.…

Not at all! I eat between 45-50% carbs usually. I know I need some carbs, starches in particular to feel full. Over 50% though seem to have the opposite effect and I feel hungrier. Though that's probably not the upping carbs, but the lowering of fat and protein that does that. I didn't mention carbs because it's rare for…

Wow, thanks for the the details, That's very helpful. I did also notice that strength training makes me feel even hungrier the next day. So this is why I think I end up eating more and having no choice but to to compensate for it by running. I'm trying to do incorporate maintenance days but finding it somewhat hard at the…

Thanks for the advice. I'm currently trying to find the right structured strength training program for me. I definitely need one. I'm a novice to weight gym machines and weights in general so I find myself mostly just using the few machines I know well and that's it (the selection of machines at our campus gym is not huge…

5'2'', 128lbs. I find that when I eat between 25 and 30% protein I feel a bit less hungry. At least I feel satiated right after meals. When I try to "refeed" and add more carbs I only seem to get more ravenous and can't seem to feel full...