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When all you say is "CICO is all that matters" you're inferring they can eat just junk if they really want to. No, no one is advocating it, but the fact is so many people just lazily respond with CICO and expect people to go do their own research, we're a lazy society and there's still a portion of the people who are going…

@singingflutelady I didn't really say anyone was, just adding my 2 cents to the debate. Since so many people just say CICO and nothing else, it really needs to be expanded to a balanced diet CICO.

Exercise causes anxiety for some people too... what works for one doesn't work for everyone else. Mental health is just one of those things that we'll never fully understand.

Even though the argument Antoinette is trying to make is pretty much all BS, the main point he/she was trying to make is correct. CI/CO will make you lose weight, but it won't ensure you are healthy. If the OP is eating the right calories but nothing but junk food, you will still lose weight, but are going to struggle in…

How much are you trying to lose per week? How much are you currently? Do you own a food scale? How are you measuring liquids? How are you measuring things like nuts and peanut butter? A medium sweet potato for example, the entry you picked is 133g. You should grab a food scale and a handful of "medium" sweet potatoes and…

On weekends I generally only eat 2 meals a day, mostly because by the time I wake up at ~10am, it makes no sense to do breakfast, so I'll make lunch around 11am and then eat dinner at around 6pm. This lets me have a cheat meal without cheating.

For leftovers, the best thing to do is when you are making your dinner, input everything as a recipe. This tracks the total amount of calories you have made for the entire dish. Then you can set how many servings you're getting out of it. Then you gotta try and keep all the servings equally portioned, so just weigh a bowl,…

There's a few things I weigh cooked, like Bacon for example. You just gotta make sure you find entries that are for the method you're using.

Make sure you are measuring all your meats raw, all your rice and pasta dry and all your veggies raw. All your liquids via measuring cups. For condiments, best practice is weigh the bottle, tare the weight, use the condiment and reweigh it. The difference is how much you used. Similar concept for fruits like apples and…

I like to cut up green peppers or cucumbers. The wife likes celery with peanut butter or cream cheese. Air popped popcorn lightly salted. Steamed Edamame, or just a handful of potato chips work in small serving sizes. On days my meals were light, I'll grab a bowl of sherbet.

Whoops, deficit was supposed to be in there lol, brain thought I wrote it but fingers did not.

This probably sounds a bit rude, but ignore pretty much everything Traveler said. Eating until "full" is purely based off volume. And eating when hungry leads to constant overeating for most people, it pretty much is why we all got fat in the first place. If you eat peanut butter until you're full, you're going to sky…

Glad I'm not the only one with the runny nose problem during exercise. The worst part about it for me is any sort of extended sessions with the wife and it happens, nothing sets the mood like hearing someone trying to suck in a runny nose.

Over the long term, weighing once a week will track your progress, but you will have many days where it doesn't show it. I generally weigh myself every morning after I use the rest room while I wait for the shower to warm up. After 3 days of weighing, I'll record the lowest weight of those days. This helps to remove the…

Picture your body as a car that is always running, and calories are your gas. When you're idling a car, you still burn gas albeit at a slower pace. Now when you work out, you are driving the car at a normal speed, burning more gas than idling. For me, my body uses ~2300 calories a day without factoring in any gym exercise.…

People sometimes give short answers because this site is filled with a lot of more indepth details. But to summarize, figure out your required daily calorie intake using one of several online calculators, and eat 10-20% less than that amount. I use this one personally.…

Yeah you risk the chance of weighing on a day where you're retaining more water, or bloated and skewing your actual progress by only doing it 1x a week. That's kind of like the equivalent of checking the weather on Saturday to see how hot it was all week.

That's a pretty pointless challenge TBH. When you eat has no bearing on your weight or health with maybe the exception of your dental health... Your challenge should just be eat to your goal and not go over... all you're doing is taking on unnecessary restrictions that will ultimately hurt your long term chances of…

Also keep in mind most likely your exercise calories are being grossly overestimated. None of the trackers are ever really accurate. But really just pay attention to your body and if it feels like you're struggling to work out after a few weeks, you'll know you aren't eating enough. Just up the calories a little bit if you…

The wife and I joined a gym and started doing Stronglift together M,W, F. Tue/thurs she does Yoga and I jog a few miles. When we started this, we lost all energy by the end of the day for any sort of bedroom fun. Nowadays, it seems like the exact opposite. It almost fuels it. Positive side effects of the gym I never…

What kind of chicken? Are you doing a whole roasted chicken? IF so, roasted veggies and squash/potatoes are a good pairing. If you're doing something like just grilling up a chicken breasts/wings than I like corn on the cob and some sort of rice side dish. Fried chicken you need mashed potatoes and collard greens for that…

A lot of people seem to suggest the Stronglift 5x5 for anyone starting into weight lifting. It's 3 exercises a day, 3 days a week. Alternate between 2 different sets of 3. Day one is Squats, Benchpress and Barbell Rows. Day 2 is Squats, Overhead press and Deadlifts. Very easy to learn, nice app made for tracking your…

The best way to get through it is to just think about why you actually care what other people think of you. People in a gym are going to notice you, they see everyone pretty consistently that it is hard not to notice a new person. But just because they notice you, doesn't mean they care you are there. Get in there and do…

Also in case you didn't know it, looking at MFP on your phone, if you switch to landscape mode (turn your phone) it changes the display to show more columns for you.

When possible for fruits like Apples, peaches, pears and anything else with a core you don't eat, the best way is to measure it whole, eat it and remeasure the core and subtract the two in order to get the total you consumed. For bananas, since the peel is easy enough to remove, just peel and measure. Same with Oranges,…

How many calories a day are you eating now vs before you started your desk job then? You would probably want to eat 200-300 less for going from active to sedentary. But there is something you're not really seeing for the overall picture. Your diet is what will cause the weight gain unless you have an undiagnosed medical…

It wasn't the desk job that did it for me, it was the eating out all the time that generally comes with a desk job. Have you seen an increase in the amount of meals you're eating out at lunch?

Greek Yogurt, Cottage Cheese, Hard Boiled Eggs, Protein Bars, Protein shakes are all easy things.

Generally speaking, Binge eating isn't the disease, it's a symptom of an underlying problem. Usually a form of emotional stress. Now I emphasize the Generally speaking part. It's very hard to diet if you have emotional stress going on. But to answer your first question, you will see rapid "weight" loss to start usually,…

If you're trying to cut cals, replace your ground beef in dishes like Chilli, tacos and spaghetti with turkey burger instead. I find with proper seasoning most kids don't even notice the difference when you mix it into a dish like that.