Lillymoo01 Member

Another thing you can do on top of the great advice I have read is to have scheduled diet breaks. Every few months eat at maintenance calories for a week (your weight will go up a bit but this will be mainly water retention and extra food in your body). This gives you some practice for when you reach your desired weight…

Putting up with all of those ads also brings $$ into their coffers so I wouldn't go premium for that reason alone.

It put you at 1200 because you chose a 2 pound a week loss which is quite rapid. Change that to 1 1/2 or even 1 pound a week. This is a more sustainable (= greater chance of success) and healthier way to do it. Slower loss results in less muscle loss.

What happened to posts doing up in smoke after 5 spams?

A nice sweet treat that I enjoy is a great way to finish off my day. I just prelog at the beginning of the day to make sure I have the spare calories to allow it.

And this is the best weight you have lost so far!

Seems like I don't really have a definite answer. I am aware of all the things that can affect the day to day change with the scales and have fun trying to determine whether it will go up or down based on the previous few days. I normally get it right but this one truly baffled me.

A person brings with them a wealth of knowledge and they are experts in their own right on what works for them. However, I am certain that an endocrinologist would be well aware that reducing carbs can have a significant impact on insulin. I am even more certain that they have comprehensive knowledge of what works best for…

It would be easier if packaging using both. I certainly agree with you there. I go by the divide by 4 rule though for a rough estimate.

I just read this which I found interesting. It appears that only the US and UK officially use calories as their unit of measure. https://www.coca-colacompany.com/au/news/you-say-calorie--we-say-kilojoule-who-s-right-

I am fine with using kilojoules but there is nothing stopping you from changing kilojoules to calories in your diary settings.

Don't listen to a specialist in the field but listen to a stranger on the internet with no relevant qualifications? That sounds like REALLY crappy advice if you ask me.

Is it possible that you are overestimating the food you are eating rather than the Fitness watches overestimating the calories burned? Which one gave you 700 calories more as you mentioned the Apple watch twice in that sentence? One figure could be total calories burned so far for the day and the other additional calories…

Meal timing can affect satiety and this can make weight loss more difficult. Some find if they skip breakfast they are really hungry later and are more prone to overeating. Others find if they eat breakfast they are hungrier throughout the day and are more prone to overeating. There is no right or wrong way to go about it…

I am curious how successful you will be with this approach once you reach maintenance. Once you have reached your desired weight taking each day as it comes can easily lead to weight gain or weight loss if you do not have some idea of how many calories you are burning through exercise and how your calories look over a…

I am another for just using my Fitbit. I used the online calculator you posted and assume this is additional calories burned whereas the Fitbit is total calories instead. If this is the case the figures from this mornings walk are pretty close.

You said walking a mile a day would put your thighs in great shape. The only way to 'put thighs in great shape' is to build muscle mass in that area. Walking a mile a day won't do that. If OP is 'skinny-fat' the only way to rectify it is through resistance training. Progressive weight training would be beneficial to reach…

How will walking a mile a day help build up muscle mass?

If a tall person and a short person were the same weight wouldn't the short person burn more calories?

I have always found this calculation to be significantly lower than anything any app or fitness tracker gives me and long term data shows my Fitbit to be pretty accurate. It makes sense as to why. The formula does not take into consideration height and stride length. As someone who is under 5 foot, I need many more steps…

If you don't eat back your exercise calories you run the risk of under fueling your body which will impact on your exercise as you simply won't have the energy to put in the same amount of effort. It also affects the effort you put into everything you do, whether you realise it or not. This reduces your calorie burn which…

All 3 of my siblings are morbidly obese. I hate seeing them that way and would love to see all of them at a healthier weight. That being said, I can't see any good coming from a conversation about their weight and strategies to help. It is their body and their choice and any suggestions will most likely result in negative…

I'm another fan of both apps. I prefer MFP for food entries and the community and Fitbit for exercise and data analysis. I couldn't imagine doing away with one of the apps as it would make it more challenging.

In my humble opinion, you would be much better off eating 1200 calories a day and losing the weight slowly. It might take longer but you are more likely to get the desired results as it is actually so much more sustainable.

I am an early riser and like to start the day by walking for an hour or two before breakfast. I can not go more than 2 hours before a need to eat and there is no way I'd cope until lunch without bonking. I am also the type of person who can't sleep if I don't have a nice full belly which means that fasting at the end of…

As I am not low carb I don't care whether what I have added is total or net carbs as long as the calories are correct. Most countries actually have net carbs on their nutritional labels anyway. While a calorie is a calorie, not all foods are created equal because their nutritional content varies significantly. However,…

Some people become very passionate about their method of success that they simply can not comprehend that others will not succeed in the same way because of either inability to comply long term or health conditions that are incompatible with those foods. It is even more confounding when they are still in the process of…

I have lost all of my weight and maintained that loss by keeping it simple. I didn't make any changes I knew I could not adhere to long term and I did not eliminate foods that I really enjoy. I just made sure I was eating less than I was burning. Slow and steady wins the race.

There is something seriously wrong with that entry. Find another or add your own. There are 1000 milligrams in a gram so there is no way cereal would be measured this way and no scale would go down to milligrams either.