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I did this too when I had a FitBit (I have a Garmin now). If you're curious, I find Trend Weight gives me some very interesting feedback as well. There's also Happy Scale (which I think is for iPhone) and Libra (for Android or vice versa, I forget).

I would suggest eating at maintenance for a few weeks and you'll be able to see if 2500-2700 is your personal TDEE. If you keep losing weight, then you'll know for sure your numbers are off. If you chose this route, report back and let us know what you learned. I'm very curious to see who's right.

That sounds like a pretty aggressive cut. If I were you, I'd take a diet break and work on eating at maintenance for a while, then when I started back, I drop my deficit to no more than 1 lb/wk. But that's just me...

Yes, this sounds like a really good plan. Also, you might consider using a weight trending app if you're not already. I find it helpful for taking my head out of the day-to-day fluctuations and it helps me focus on my weight over time.

Ok, now that's something I can get behind.

I swear sometimes I think this stuff is just intended to make it unnecessarily complicated. Maybe that's so people don't feel like they can do it on their own and need to buy something to help. Marketing drives me bananas sometimes (and I say that as a former marketer turned SAHM).

And if you think about it in the reverse, just by cutting out something small like that roll with dinner, the sweetener in coffee, one soda a day or a million other things, one can also LOSE 50 pounds over 5 years. I find that idea greatly comforting.

Not the mention the fact that the title of the post is "Garlic Diet".

Isn't there a post out there somewhere that's collecting these? My brain isn't working and I can't for the life of me think of what it's called or who the OP is.

That's not how 5:2 works. You eat vlc for 2 days - 500 in your example and at MAINTENANCE the other 5 days. There are lots of posts and even groups here that can teach you how to do Intermittent Fasting safely, responsibly and effectively. Please don't do your plan. It's a terrible idea.

OP, read this one again and again until you get it.

I think it would depend on the circumstances including how it's presented, the emotional maturity of the teen, whether the teen is actually interested in learning about it, etc. IOW, I think it would be a very individual thing. I certainly wouldn't want it taught in schools or anything like that.

Have you tried Fiber One Brownies? They're 90 calories and if you put them in the microwave for 10 seconds the chocolate melts. Yum. Plus I think it has 5 grams of fiber which is always a bonus.

Know how I know you didn't read any of the comments in this thread?

How exactly does building muscle reduce fat?

Judging from your sample diary page above, you need to buy a food scale and use it for all solids. Cups and spoons are not very accurate. You'll find that you're eating more than you think.

My guess is that your calorie deficit is too aggressive - that's very often the case at 1200. It's simply not enough to fuel your activity more than a few days before you break down and over eat. You need balance and patience. You haven't provided your stats or how much you want to lose, but I'd set your loss rate at 1…

I eat out constantly. I'm at a fast food burger place right now. The key is the choices you make and that's 100% under your control. For example, I ordered a single burger with cheese and loaded it up with tons of veggies. I passed on the fries even though everyone else ordered them. 500 calories and I'm full until dinner.…

The first thing that comes to my mind is how do you know you were eating 1200 calories all those times you tried to lose?

As an Econ Major we had a lot of fun with that book. I need to read it again. It's been more than a few years.

I want to be at a low enough weight that going lower wouldn't have any additional health benefits so I can eat as much as possible to maintain.

I tend to not have an appetite on days I workout hard especially in the evening but I'll be hungry the next day. I regularly roll several hundred calories to the next day when this happens. Never had any adverse effects. Your body doesn't work on a 24 hour clock and doesn't reset at midnight.

I love Leslie Sansone. I pay $5/mo for the "Your Daily Walk" program. It's called a walking workout but I get a fantastic cardio workout from it by increasing the intensity. She also does some basic strength training.

It's just a data collection device. How one chooses to use or interpret the data is where the human factor comes in.

What's wrong here is your expectations. It's only been 5 days. You're throwing some pretty crazy radical stuff at your body. Give it time to adjust. You'll have to have more confidence in the process than this or it's going to be a veeeeeery long road. Hang in there.

I hope you enjoy your roughly 1500 calories/day especially on heavy exercise days - which I assume will be pretty much every day. I would not want to be you. Good luck.

I do it all the time at Sam's Club because it helps me decide if I want to purchase an item that's usually in a very large package. I'll only sample the ones I'm not already familiar with and only the ones I might consider buying. I have a 200 calorie "Misc Grazing" food I created just for this purpose.

I love onions, especially the sweet vadalias. I put an entire huge onion in my last batch of yellow rice and it really added a great flavor.

Trader Joe's 21 Seasoning Salute is my personal favorite on roasted potatoes. I eat them a lot.

I'm a data nerd. I actually find logging to be rather liberating because I worry less about whether I'm over eating over time. Having said that, I've never been uber careful about weighing and measuring to the last gram. Side note: I just learned that my phone will autocorrect "uber" with a capital letter.