cbohling1987 Member

If you're doing Crossfit you DEFINITELY need to be eating more. Workouts at Crossfit-level intensity burn a lot of calories. I do Crossfit 5x/week and I have to eat over 2600 to MAINTAIN. (30/male/5'11"/165lb.)

And there are still NEAT differences that have nothing to do with your job so people discount them - i.e. being a fidgeter, living on the 6th floor of an apartment building with no elevator, etc - despite the fact that they could easily account for a small difference in TDEE in otherwise identical people.

As others have said, your goal is too aggressive - you will almost certainly feel bad and be unable to sustain the diet. That said, once you have a more reasonable goal selected, keep in mind that it is not required for you to eat at your prescribed deficit every single day. Some days you can eat at maintenance (or even in…

Aww yeah the elusive Scandinavian character typo Anyway OP, a lot of protein bars use sugar alcohols or artificial sweeteners to keep sugar content down so you could switch to one of those. Alternatively, yeah an egg will have 6g protein and about 70 calories on average so 2 eggs is pretty close to 1 protein bar. Also…

When I was losing weight I did do 16/8 IF. Actually it was more like 18/6 but whatever. It didn't have any noticeable impact on my weight loss (i.e. the rate was the same regardless of when I ate, which makes sense) but it did have a meaningful psychological impact on me in that it taught me how to better resist the…

In terms of calorie burn, speed doesn't matter that much - only distance matters. For reference, the formula from Runner's World for how many calories you burn while running is this: (body weight in pounds) * .63 * (miles run) As you can see, speed is enough of a non-factor that they don't bother to include it in the…

Yeah, this is why my #2 bit of advice to Crossfit newbies (after "keep the weight low") is to SLOW DOWN. There is no benefit to working so hard you puke. A guy at my gym has a shirt that says "World's Okayest Exerciser" which I feel like captures Crossfit pretty perfectly.

Depending on the particular Crossfit gym, they might or might not have onboarding programs where they introduce you to the various lifts with proper form and technique (ESPECIALLY snatching). If the particular Crossfit gym you're looking at doesn't have this, you may want to seek out instruction elsewhere before starting…

I don't think people were slamming her, I think they were concerned that she has an unhealthy body image.

Yeah for people my age (30) our outlook is very much colored by the Great Recession so we have low expectations and don't trust most promises of future prosperity "if you only do a, b, c and follow the rules." We know that things that were once considered "guarantees" like long-term stock investments or Social Security are…

Actually Millennials are significantly less likely to use credit cards or buy things on credit. I'm a Millennial (30 years old) and I almost never purchase anything on credit. The only reason I was able to buy a house with almost no credit history was because I made a 60% down payment. It's not just me either, this is a…

My wife gets violently ill if she eats gluten, so no, it's not a fad, and if you keep insisting that it is, then well *kitten* you!

I don't typically weigh my food but I do overestimate amounts/underfill cups. For example I eat 2 cups of Cheerios every morning but while I was losing weight I would intentionally underfill the measuring cup. Alternatively, I would buy a packet of chicken at the store that was sold by weight with 2 chicken breasts…

I hit what seemed to be an acceptable goal weight about a month ago. I was actually still trying to lose but the weight wouldn't budge - just a combination of bad logging, Christmas, and gaining muscle. Eventually I realized I was being silly and didn't need to lose any more weight so last week I started a new 2500 cal…

As others have said: Garlic, onions, ginger, lemon zest, pepper, cumin, cilantro, basil, etc.

"Don't get too hung up on trying to look good naked. I've been there and it's a dark dark place." -user named i_yell_things on Reddit

If you don't do anything you will see no results If you do something you will see some results. You may not see the results you want, but you will see some kind of results. So do something, you have nothing to lose!

Do a proper squat snatch without falling down!

I don't know if this is the cause (water retention and the need to recalculate your TDEE do matter), however, the machines usually also overestimate calorie burn just like the MFP app. If you're using those numbers and then eating back some of your exercise calories, you may be eating back more of your deficit than you…

That too, though what I was mostly referring to was being frustrated that my results for certain activities were getting worse (i.e. 1rm back squat and deadlift). I've had to make a choice between continuing to lose vs. improving my performance. I decided my weight was OK and chose performance.

Also I dunno if you're trying to lose, but in my experience losing while doing Crossfit was a frustrating experience. You have to be comfortable with your results getting worse for some workouts.

As an avid Crossfitter I've found that it's basically impossible to get a consistent measurement of calorie burn because the workouts are so varied. It's one of the downsides of CF as opposed to just, say, running. Here's my recommendation: If you are going to Crossfit on a regular schedule, don't worry about trying to…

Frequency of meals doesn't really matter for weight loss as long as you are hitting your calorie goal. I assume that's your goal because you're posting in the weight loss forum.

This seems like the best explanation @Seattlegirl25 . Are you using Myfitnesspal's exercise calorie estimator to estimate calorie burn, and then eating those calories back? If so, that might be your problem. The estimates the MFP app gives you for calorie burn for running/walking is usually WAY TOO HIGH. For example, MFP…

For giggles on Thanksgiving I ate the normal turkey + mashed potatoes dinner, weighed and measured everything as best I could (and underestimated if I had to estimate, for reasons that I will explain in a second). Then I ate until I actually "felt full" according to my brain and body. Total? Over 4000 calories. The moral…

If you find yourself craving fatty foods the most, following a keto diet plan might work for you as it will allow you to eat more of those foods. However, you need to keep in mind that the ultimate determinant of weight loss will always be eating fewer calories than you expend. If going keto makes you happy because of the…

Even a lot of things that would be considered more "traditional exercise" are things I don't specifically log for calorie burn. For example, when I go to Crossfit I don't log that because there's no reasonable way to estimate calorie burn for that kind of exercise. Instead I just picked "lightly active" for my activity…

Yes, you have to run a calorie deficit to lose weight on any diet. It's impossible to eat more calories than you burn and lose weight, that would defy the laws of physics. All other things being the same, keto will not make you lose weight any faster or slower than any other diet. If you eat at a 20% calorie deficit every…

As somebody who's trying to lose weight while maintaining strength for lifting, I find protein powders useful for hitting higher protein counts while not going over calories. I try to avoid the really carb-heavy sugar-heavy ones, though.

Yeah, my wife never actually got the test for Celiac, but it's very obvious that she has a major gluten sensitivity since she gets sick and throws up if she eats any food containing gluten. So I realize it might not be scientifically "accurate" to claim she has CD, but for the purposes of diet it just makes sense to assume…