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Fractional measurements for such things are a horrible idea. I'd bust out the food scale, as was mentioned a couple times, mass out the whole pie, divide total by 5 and then portion out that amount to myself. Whole pizza = 890g 890/5 = 178 Remove pizza from scale, cut what you think is 1/5th and weigh it, is it at or near…

Of course I eat out, this is 21st century America, how can I NOT?! lol. The thing is fitting the calories consumed in the meal into my daily targets.. if I go over, then I need to accept a lower deficit or adjust somewhere else within the week. If possible, I like to choose lighter dishes than I did before I started losing…

Just started the second week? I doubt you're actually in ketosis at all yet... give it time and look for keto support groups and look online for keto recipes and meal ideas.

I weigh daily, in the morning post pee. I sometimes will weigh myself immediately before bed, post bathroom break as well. I do that to watch the trend and patterns of how much weight I carry at the end of the day compared to what I am the next morning. I've found I'm almost consistently 2.0lbs heavier before bed.

This part matters. This part does not. This part matters the MOST.

I know a lady at my son's scout pack that brings a 2 liter of Mountain Dew (or cheap generic) with her every week.. 45 mins in and that sucker is bone dry. 1000 calories or so gone in less than an hour. Not the way I'd do it.. but some people just don't care I guess. Sad thing is this lady, while nice and pleasant, walks…

Also, keep in mind that even heavy effort weight training does not actually burn a whole ton of calories... actually a pretty insignificant amount unless you're in the gym putting forth 120% for 2-3 hours.

Soda (pop to us in Michigan), is not where I was over-consuming my calories.. so while I cut back drastically, I did not give it up. I never could, I couldn't sustain that, so why try to sabotage myself? If it fits within my calorie allowance for the day, why not?

These are some of my monthly graphs of weight... I am losing on a downward trend which is great, but notice all the little up-ticks on the line? Those are where my weight increased temporarily. It happens, it's normal, it's usually retained water, waste in the digestive tract, or consumed meals in the stomach. Trust that…

Agree, I consistently weigh 2-2.5lbs more in the evening, a few hours after dinner, before bed, than I do in the morning, post first-pee.

Ask anyone who has starved to death or near death. There is a preferred order your body has for utilizing tissues for energy when food consumption is too low... sometimes it uses a combination of tissues, not just one. Starvation mode is totally bull.

There is no versus on these two points. They work in tandem together to great effect, or you do one or the other. The only way "diet" works against (hence, versus) exercise is if the diet consists of too much food that you don't need.

Hmm.. i was just using boxed wine as an example... NAILED IT! haha.. Consider, a typical box holds 5L of wine.. we pour them deep in my family, so 8-10oz glasses (goblets? no... portable and individual decanters is more accurate), so box wine is more economical.. but it goes down too easily too quickly.

You also need to have self-control and not drink an entire box of White Zinfandel. I know it's delicious and easy to do.... but still.

While we're clarifying things to help you out, "toning" and "toning up" aren't really things like you may think they are either. A carry-over from the aerobics craziness that was the 1980s. Basically, losing body fat to allow the muscles to be more defined and give you a "harder" appearance is what you're thinking of. Lift…

To be honest, my lunch yesterday consisted of 2 Reese's peanut butter cups, about 1oz of nacho Doritos, a Rice Crispy treat bar and a Checkers/Rally-burger no bun. Quiet yous! It fit into my calorie goals for the day! It satisfied a craving I'd had, and now I'm good for like 2 weeks before I go grabbing for a piece of…

There are plenty of high-fiber foods that you can consume that will do the trick just nicely.. I'd much rather fill a nutritional void in my diet (noun) than take supplements any day. Talk about not natural... humans aren't meant to take pills for nutrition (unless an underlying medical need necessitates it). Beans,…

Interesting.. so you don't actually EAT breakfast. That's a lot of supplements... are you really sure those are all needed? Are you deficient in any of those areas? You are clearly over-consuming. I'd bet it's the weekend drinking.. if you are used to 6-8oz glasses you are probably likely to over indulge on the weekends..…

Look at my two graphs here, one is all of my weight loss for the month of Jan (which was a slow month for me), and then from Sept 1 through today. Notice the ups and downs, a couple spikes and drops... but the overall trend is downward. This is how it goes and takes MUCH more than 2 weeks to call it a plateau or a stall.

My *current* BMR is 1949 calories/day ... I consume between 1400-1800 calories daily, and for the first 2 months of my weight loss I ate even less than that, barely 1200 (thanks to Saxenda for that). I am still alive and healthier now than I was in September before I changed things. Down 33lbs, 14% body weight gone. BP now…

I think those questions in those posts were rhetorical anyhow.

Same here... had my fitbit with just step calculations going on linked to MFP.. had to disconnect it, it was throwing everything off and caused me to eat at the wrong caloric intake. If I was just going to ignore it anyhow, then I might as well not even have it link up. It seemed to give me something like 300-400 calories…

I had heard it the other way around, 4 weeks to FEEL the difference, 8 weeks for your FRIENDS to see it, and 12 weeks for YOU to see it. OP, good luck, as you noticed, cardio after lifting is the way to go (for most people). Logging and weighing your food intake is key, as you've noticed. Those smoothies will get ya every…

See, I'd rather avoid supplements and pills to satisfy a nutritional need that I can get by simply eating properly. Instead of swallowing a bunch of pills for supplements, made in a lab, sometimes from synthetic compounds of Lord knows what...(admittedly, not always)- if you're looking for Omega-3, just have a single fish…

Very interesting. A lot of misconceptions about a high calorie intake day as opposed to what really happens. But holy cow, 8,000 calories in one day.. not sure I could even stomach that!

I can only add a few comments to this, as veganism and I don't get along. You likely gained that weight whilst "eating healthy" (even though what is healthy is plenty debatable) because you ate MORE of it. Oranges and apples and kale is fine and good for you. 3,000 calories of it will still cause you to lose weight.…

No sweat, this stuff is frustrating and can be difficult, nothing taken personally. To clarify, i stated that your food diary looked like crap to me, not that you- as a person, were a piece of crap (shite as I spelled it to avoid any word filters). There was just so little food actually logged, and it was bits here and…

K, so I looked at your entire current week's diary... it's shite. First off, you can NOT be logging everything correctly, as you've barely broken 1000 calories per day on most days. If you were truly only eating 900 ish cals perday you should be shedding weight like a cat sheds it's winter coat. Some of your meals are…

Not enough to matter... Weight lifting is critical and highly effective for fat loss and overall body strength, but it does little for just burning calories.

Downloaded to try it out! My only complaint so far, only two language options, English and French. What, no Elvish?