missmysty Member

From what I know, building muscle depends on what's maintenance and what's surplus for you. 1800 sounds a little low to be a surplus unless you're a bit short, but it's also a pretty small deficit, so it's more likely that you're going to lose less than you would with the same amount of exercise at 1500, yes. I wouldn't…

Not necessarily true if he allows for the negative calorie adjustments, which will bring down the calorie goal at the start of the day and then bring it back up again if you move enough.

Any calories burned, no matter what you're using, are going to be inaccurate to a degree, so whether you going by a fitness band or the one that is often on exercise equipment, you need to take it with a grain of salt and not just eat everything back because you could easily wipe out your deficit. That said, I usually…

I've found most people who do detoxes are impatient. They may know they have to start eating right, but they see "Lose forty pounds in a month!" and want that instead, not realizing that 90% of that is going to be water weight that they can easily gain back.

Detoxing is for alcoholics because they have a poison in their body. Food is not poison, and all you're doing by restricting entire food groups is making yourself miserable. Weight loss is more like quitting smoking. Can some people do it cold-turkey? Yes, but most do it a little at a time, going down from a few packs a…

Yep, it could be onset menopause causing it, but missing period is also a symptom of an eating disorder as someone commented up-thread. Not that you have one, necessarily, but it's mostly just that the body sees it as a waste of precious energy if you're eating too little for too long.

Detoxing leads to yo-yo dieting. You lose a bunch of weight, find it too hard to continue with the plan, quit, and end up gaining it back (and then some, in many cases). That can be even harder on your body than just the 'detox.' People who make detoxes are either trying to sell you something, have a very unhealthy…

Yep, you might find something else that works better, but to start, simply reducing portions is a good way to go. Using a food scale and measuring cups/spoons for accuracy can help you see what a serving size of something actually is.

Yeah all I had to do was disconnect my Fitbit account from my MFP account and reconnect, and after that everything was fine.