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The "benefit" of IF is typically that it helps people adhere to their calorie deficit because they are eating for fewer hours of the day. There's no scientific proof that IF is actually a healthier way to eat in and of itself. How long have you been at a plateau? Have you recalculated your calorie needs after losing 10+…

Do you wear rings? I was super excited to (hopefully) break into the 150s this morning, but knew as soon as I woke up that it wouldn't be happening today because for whatever reason I am retaining more water today, as evidenced by my engagement ring being tighter than usual. Sure enough, my weight is up today instead of…

I would talk to your doctor before you start any new exercises while pregnant. The typical advice is to stick with what you already do, so if you weren't biking before you might want to check with your doc, especially if you're experiencing numbness from it.

C25K is awesome! Like OP, I always wanted to be a runner but didn't have the discipline to push myself past a mile, and C25K really makes training easier. I can't yet actually run 5K in 30 minutes yet since I run super slow, so I started C210K/Bridge to 10K to get me running for longer before working on speed. I realized…

Unless he's The Rock, I doubt that he's just overweight and not obese (sorry, OP, no offense meant, it's just reality unless you also are well above 6' tall). Losing 2 lbs/week is a realistic goal for someone 250 pounds, although reducing that to 1 lb/week isn't a bad idea if adherence to a 1000 cal/day deficit is hard.…

There is no scientific proof that supports any additional benefits from fasted workouts iirc. The biggest benefit to IF is that it helps people maintain a deficit by limiting their eating window/how many meals and snacks they can have a day due to that narrower window. Eating before or after your workouts won't make a…

If you ate Easter ham (very salty), you're probably retaining more water than usual. I think I probably gained a genuine pound (or even 2!) over Easter because I had 2 different family events and didn't practice any restraint all weekend lol, but I shot up 5 pounds because of all the salt, which is now coming down, albeit…

I'd say that 1lb/week is not unreasonable for that height and weight. Where she is right now, if she is lightly active her TDEE is 2048 calories (I put in that she was 30, actual age will affect this somewhat). To lose 1lb/week she would need to eat 1500 calories/day. If she wants to get down to 135lbs, which would be the…

Edit: Saw the picture, understand what she is saying now, if she loses those last 5-10 pounds and does some lifting I think she'll be fine. I'm trying to figure out how a 28" waist can be the widest part of a person's body. Does she not have shoulders? I can see it possibly being wider than, or the same width as, very slim…

I think it all depends on the processing. Processed food that has a lot of unnecessary sugar and preservatives might end up having a negative impact on a person's health if it is consumed too often. Conversely, canning is a "process" that preserves most of the nutrients in the food without adding *too many* preservatives…

It would be 1800 gross calories, 1200 net calories, and it's net calories that matter for weight loss.

MFP uses NEAT to determine how many calories you need, and NEAT does not include exercise activities. If you are sedentary during the day (outside of exercise), set your activity level to sedentary, then log and eat back some or all of your exercise calories.

OP talks about doing multiple workouts with the trainer and whether they all need to be entered separately, which sounds like circuit training (or close enough) to me as well.

I'd suggest changing your rate of loss, not your activity level, when you make any changes unless you are actually becoming more active in your daily life. You'll be able to eat more calories if you have it set to lose .5 pounds a week than if you set it at 1.5 pounds.

He gets some taxes back, but not all, and he lives off of the <2k he gets per month, not the tax refund he gets once a year (that goes into a retirement account). The cost per person would go down if the middle men (i.e. insurance companies) were eliminated. It's why the U.S. has the highest cost of health care. And I'm…

As I wrote above, my fiancé already spends about 10% of his gross income in taxes. If we moved to Universal Health Care, his taxes could be increased 10% and he wouldn't notice the difference in take-home pay (maybe $10 less per paycheck). If everyone's taxes increased by 10%, but no one was paying out of pocket premiums,…

This is what I don't get about the argument against universal health care in the U.S.. My fiance has a relatively low insurance premium (only $200/month), but that is still almost 10% of his gross income. On top of that, he has a pre-existing condition that costs $50/month to fill just one prescription and a $1,500…

A bf% of less than 20 on a woman puts her in the "athlete" category. If that's really your bf% (don't know how you calculated it), I'd stop dieting and start lifting to get a more defined look.

Garage sales and second hand fitness stores are a great place to look for used exercise equipment. As others have said, a lot of people barely use their treadmills/ellipticals/etc. before deciding they take up too much room and selling them. Facebook marketplace (or whatever it's called) is probably another place to look.

I probably wouldn't log my time on the elliptical if my FitBit is also calculating those "steps." A simple solution if you still want to log your elliptical workout would be to take your FitBit off while you are on the elliptical and put it back on when you are done. Then there's no double-dipping.

25,000 is probably closer to 12 miles, as 10,000 steps is typically around 5 miles.

I suggest entering your weight into a trending app like Libra (Android) or Happy Scale (iPhone). As it accumulates more data, it will smooth out those fluctuations and help you see your actual weight loss trend, instead of getting thrown by the (totally normal) daily fluctuations. Also, weigh yourself at the same time…

You can safely go from 190 to 180 in 9 weeks. That's just slightly over a pound a week. It won't be easy, and would require a 500 cal/day deficit, but would be less than 1% of OP's bodyweight/week, making it a safe and reasonable weight loss plan. I know nothing about the Renaissance Periodization Template, but if you set…

I do the same by spreading an "over" day out to make averaging for the week easier. Eat too much pizza? Pawn a couple of pieces off on tomorrow to make the two days average out.

More double counting problems: MapMyRun/MapMyWalk apps count GROSS calories, not net, so they are showing the calories you burn just existing (which MyFitnessPal already accounts for) plus your exercise calories, which means you're double-dipping those "existence" calories.

I weigh daily, after I go to the bathroom but before I eat or drink anything. I record my weight in Happy Scale, and only change my weight in MFP if it's gone down at least half a pound lol.

Her fitbit will calculate those calories for her and adjust appropriately without her entering in any exercise. If she sets her activity to sedentary on both MFP and her fitbit, the calorie adjustment should give her the right amount to eat for her activity that day. The only thing that might change this would be certain…

That program sounds great, and I'm glad that your parents recognized that they weren't able to help you and your brother with this and went out of their way to find something that could. I can definitely see how a program like this through the school could be a bad idea, though. I also think it is funny/sad/odd that so…

You're eating too much. How do you count your calories?

Forgot to pack a lunch. Now craving a bicycle sized pretzel.