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He sounds like a great guy and very supportive. My husband will weigh my ingredients if he makes a meal for me and I appreciate it. He isn't into tracking calories himself, but he knows how important it is to me.

I adjusted the measurement of my walking and running gait because the setting it comes with is not accurate for a lot of people. After I did that, the calories are really pretty right on. I have lost 30 pounds this year and fitbit has been a very useful tool in doing that. It is especially great if you run or want to track…

This is an ad. You have to start thinking of the motivation of the writer before you go off and believe anything online. This person wants your money. Keep that in mind. I tend to trust studies and authorities on health who are not trying to get me to spend on them.

We are human so we feel the same way a guy would. If it's a quick look while you walk by, that is fine. If you stare and won't look away, anyone would be uncomfortable with that. Women have the right to be comfortable in the gym. Why should we have to wear a million layers and be way too hot? Control yourself and treat…

Slow really is the major key. I ran my first 5K at 4.4mph and I was proud of it. It has been a while now and I have slowly worked up to running at 5.5mph, but it took months to get there.

The real con of crossfit is that the trainers only take a 2 day course and most have no idea what they're doing. They aren't real fitness professionals. People get hurt there all the time and they will be competitive about making you do many, many heavy lifts. RIP to the spine of people who end up at the wrong "box" and…

So now disabled people can't celebrate their achievements just because it makes you feel bad about yourself? No one finds the disability inspirational but find the determination and persistence of the strong person who overcame a disability or found a way to make it work in their favor to be an inspiration. How about we…

Yes. This is how I lost 20 pounds in the earlier part of the year. I suggest giving it at least a month before you see significant weight loss. My scale barely moved for 4 weeks as my body was adjusting to the new routine. Since my muscles weren't used to lifting, they were very sore and my body needed a lot of extra water…

I hope this doesn't come off as horrible as it probably will but I think a lot of us ended up here because we were very immature about our approach to food. For little kids it is normal to have no self control around things they like. I think overweight adults often were not taught or did not learn that taking care of…

MFP is not a reliable place to get your daily caloric number. You need to find a good TDEE calculator and then subtract a percentage from that number to get the deficit you should be going for. MFP gave me 1200 calories when I first started, but because I was obese at the time, I really needed closer to 1800 calories per…

You have to weigh and record what you're eating otherwise you have no idea how many calories you're consuming. What you eat does not matter, it matters how much. Too much "healthy" food will make you gain weight.

Dieting will make you smaller, but it will be proportionally smaller unless you also work out and build up some muscle. Otherwise you will have the same percentage of fat on your body, just less of it because there is less of you. Without going to the gym, you will lose a lot of muscle along with the fat. If you want to…

So spending five years and still not having a good system is easier than developing the habit of weighing and logging? If that's true, no one can help you here. Weighing and logging is what works for us.

Binge means eating too many calories. Unless you also purge, you cannot stay slim while eating too many calories. This is how everyone knows you are lying.

You can be slim and muscular and not be giving your body the nutrients it needs because you use all your calories up on junk. Eventually those nutritional deficiencies will take a toll. Maybe your eyesight will suffer, your hair will get dull and fall out, your nails will become brittle, your bones will thin. Health can't…

Okay, to answer your question, no, I would not say anything if someone was doing some silly stuff. I remember when I was new to the gym and a stranger coming over to criticize my routine would have rattled me to the point of giving up I think. Now that I've been at it for a while, I would welcome the comments of more…

I'll be honest, I haven't enjoyed Walden Farm products or the miracle noodles that much. That said, if you do like them and they save you calories, I say go for it!

I always yo-yoed a lot until I figured out that it isn't a sprint but a marathon. I only eat at a 10% deficit under the calories I would need to maintain my weight. Yes, the weight comes off slower, but I am never deprived or hungry the way I was when I tried to lose as much as possible. Also a lot of people here will tell…

Been there, done that! Currently I am up about 4 pounds after having a good time with my old friend for the 4th. It sucks to see that higher number on the scale, but it really is temporary. Usually about 4 days later I am back to normal as long as I resume counting calories, exercise and drinking plenty of fluids.

I love mine and have it synced with MFP. You have to personalize it and calibrate the steps so they actually match your natural gait and run patterns. Once I did that, it became insanely accurate. If you calibrate it correctly, it should give a fairly accurate calorie and step read for you. I do eat back a lot of my…

I used it to motivate me throughout my initial C25K and I still use the app now when I run intervals. I like having the encouragement.

I started running for the first time in my life in January doing the c25k and I have kept up with my running since. The first time I ever successfully ran a full 5K on the treadmill it was at 4.4mph. Now, more than six months on, I am running my 5K at around 5.2. At one point I decided I knew better than the experts and…

There are no health benefits that can be proven by credible science to back up a plant based diet. If you're doing it for moral reasons, good for you, but it won't be a magic pill. Oreos and doritos are vegan friendly for example and there at lots of overweight, unhealthy vegans.

5'10" in that weight range is perfectly healthy. I really dislike posts like this. This is both a medical question that no one here can answer and also is about a child. TBH, I think this post probably does not belong here. Are we really going to sit and judge the mental health of a child based on what their older sibling…

I kind of agree that I wish all places, not just the fair, served normal sized portions. It has tricked soooo many people into thinking that you are supposed to eat a whole serving when what they really give you is enough for a family. That said, anyone with a reasonable IQ can figure that out as an adult and still enjoy a…

You did nothing wrong. They just sound miserable at their job. If you were cutting it into a million one oz pieces or something I could maybe understand some annoyance from the clerk (but not really, because what do they care?) but you literally asked them to do what they are standing there waiting to do.

Weight seems to be the one scientific issue that people choose to ignore if it hurts their feelings. You can be in denial all you want, claim that obesity is healthy and that you are in total control. Go for it. You know you're lying if you're obese, I know you're lying and so does society. There is nothing empowering…

When I first started running a few months ago my heart rate would get up to 177bpm. It has dropped considerably since then, even when I do sprinting work. I was a bit worried as well, but that was just my cardiovascular system getting the workout IT needs to fuel me in the future as I get into better shape. It now also…

People should not be calling your friend an idiot. That is not nice. He does seem to be using a lot of "bro science" in his advice though. People are not wrong to caution you about that because if he has bro science about something this big, he is probably going to be wrong about a lot of other things as well. It would be…

Honestly for such an expensive product, the fitbit has a litany of problems that just should not happen. It's a bit ridiculous.