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Indeed, I frequently get palpitations from acid reflux, but it didn't sound like this was afflicting the OP so I didn't mention it. But for me, yes, keeping that acid reflux under control makes a huge difference with the skipped heart beats.

Being a person with palpitation issues, here are things you can do to try to self-manage them, after you talk to your doctor, because it goes without saying that palpitations should be discussed with a doctor. Often (in fact "usually"), they are not indicative of a serious underlying health condition, but they CAN be. So…

5 lbs in 3 weeks is pretty close to the maximum possible safe/healthy weight loss of 2 lbs/week, so I am not sure why there's dissatisfaction. How much did you expect to lose beyond that? Anyway, the first couple/few weeks of a diet are very exciting as the weight just falls off, especially if one is eating low-carb and…

I just don't see how this question could have led to any detailed answers of what to do differently. There's only one reasonable answer here: "You've been dieting for one week? Be patient." No one can draw conclusions about a diet after one week. A week is nothing in diet-time. Normal water weight fluctuations can easily…

6.5 lbs per 30 days is a lotta weight loss. That wasn't going to continue forever, without tremendous commitment and a growing dissatisfaction/diet rebelliousness. Either ditch the daily scale check-ins for less frequent check-ins, or work on accepting that things are going to be slower going forward. 13 lbs lost =…

Yep. I figure there's two sides to IF, first, skipping morning food to free up calories to concentrate in lunch and dinner, especially dinner, so they're truly fulfilling meals, and second, 10x as important to me as a binger, closing the kitchen at 7 pm and limiting myself to water. That formula has worked for me for two…

Try the Intermittent Fasting forum on Reddit. It's mostly level-headed people with a realistic yet positive attitude about IF, and very little of the hype stuff. Lots of discussion about IF, and TONS of before-after photos and success stories. Many of the people who comment in the threads have been there a very long time…

If you don't sleep well, the reason your HR is higher is because your adrenal glands are releasing adrenaline to compensate for your over-tiredness. And indeed, when you're pumped with adrenaline, you're burning more calories than when you're not.Some amped up meth addict whose body is flooded with adrenaline and a HR of…

You are suggesting that HR has absolutely nothing to do with calorie burn? So for instance, if you do Activity A and it causes your HR to beat at 145 bpm (say, very vigorous cardio), and Activity B gives you a HR of 95 BPM (say, a stroll walking the dog), you don't believe you're burning more calories doing Activity A than…

There's a bit of truth in the idea of your body getting used to it, as measured in heart rate. I've noticed that my HR has declined in cardio I do repetitively whereas a new cardio activity using different muscles can reinvigorate things as far as achieving a good exercise HR. When in doubt, go by heart rate. The rest, I…

So all I have to do is eat more to lose weight? Sounds doable and fun.

It's OK to set a goal of two pounds a week, but here's a suggestion. It's actually pretty difficult to keep up that pace of weight loss for any but the most trivial amounts of time, e.g. a couple/few weeks. It really becomes a slog to keep up with the 2 lbs/week goal, unless one is starting from a very obese level, which…

Lots of good insights from other posters above. I just wanted to add that in my own case, resistance training days tend to be slightly higher RHR or no change in RHR. But an hour of cardio in the 70-75 % RHR zone for a couple days produces a drop in RHR that lasts several days to a week. That is to say, if I do an hour of…

You're not burning 2500 calories per day. Given your stats, your "break even" - the calories you could eat and neither gain nor lose weight - is approximately 1700 per day. To verify this for yourself, you should go to TDEEcalculator.net, a site that many people use here and is quite accurate for most. Burning 1700…

"Cheat day" can mean whatever someone decides it means. It's a phrase without a rigorous definition. It can cover a wide range of behavior from "casual day when I'm not counting calories but generally trying to be sane about it" to all-out binging which can easily undo a week or more of dieting. It's really not helpful at…

For me, dieting (losing weight) is an impossibly difficult task in a vacuum. I can do it for 2-3 weeks and lose a quick 7-8 pounds but then something throws me off my game - a party, just getting tired of dieting, booze, whatever - and things fall apart. But when the weight loss component is nicely tucked into a broader…

I wholeheartedly support this approach of taking planned maintenance breaks. I'm almost 2 years into my diet & have lost 87 lbs, so it's been a long journey with some ups and downs, but I have been pretty consistent most of the time. During covid (March 2020 to a month ago) things got a lot harder for me, due to boredom,…

This is all so confusing. Unplug the Garmin. Put it in a drawer. It is not helping you. Go to the MFP Goals tool. Enter your age, gender, height, weight, etc. Tell it you want to lose a pound a week. It'll probably tell you 1200 calories, because your maintenance level (break even) is around 1600 cals/day, so to lose a…

Yes I am a fan of that net calorie formula, although I prefer to use a 0.35 coefficient, which would yield 241 for 3 miles. I just can't find any functionality in the app to knock it down from inflated Gross calories, to a reasonable net-based 240-ish. I do truly love the app above other walking/running apps except for…

I concur it is time for a fresh start for the OP. MINIMUM calories consumed per day should be 1200 PLUS workout calories. Everything else is just a footnote to that and can be sorted out once OP has gotten in better habits as far as not crash dieting. Crash diets do not work and are unhealthy. By workout calories, I mean…

I've looked over your diary. For what it's worth I have two observations: - you are undereating. You seem to be under 1,000 calories most days. 1200 is supposed to be the rock-bottom minimum, and in fact that is supposed to be 1200 PLUS all of your intentional exercise. So if you do 300 calories worth of workout, 1500 is…

It's very, very unlikely you had net negative 350 calories for a whole week. That would be less than zero calories, as in, eating zero calories and then doing 350 calories of exercise. You'd be gnawing your own arm off after a week of that. There's a terminology issue here. Why don't you tell us how many calories you ate…

The number of times I've eaten 1/2 or more of my calories for the day in pure junk food at the M&M level would be ... uncountable. It actually does work for weight loss. Works just as well as eating healthy stuff -- for weight loss, anyway. Doesn't really help with the whole "building good life habits" thing LOL

I've done DDP Yoga on and off for a long time, was doing it pretty seriously for a while back in 2012. Good program. The results look insanely ridiculous but are for real.

I have premium and see no value in it. They've had years now to add some real premium functionality and have only built superficial, unnecessary features most people probably won't get anything out of. Things that seem like obvious low-hanging fruit, like more sophisticated charting of weight, calories, etc., are just…

Another one here for Team Sedentary with separate logging of walking. I just find that works out better for me than trying to fidget with adjusting the activity level.

You've lost 5 pounds in two weeks. Fantastic work! You're literally doing as great as you could possibly be doing. Weight loss is going to vary from week to week and is frustratingly random and illogical, you just have to roll with it. Keep doing what you're doing. There's nothing wrong with focusing on macros but they…

BMR is not a useful concept for dieting. Just forget all about BMR. Do this: 1. Go to the MFP Goals tool. Enter your age, gender, weight, height, etc. Tell it you want to lose 1 lb per week. It will tell you how many calories to eat each day. 2. Measure every calorie that goes into your mouth. Preferably with a…

I've been at this almost two years. I'd say that while there may be some people who can go on a long time without a diet break, most are much better off realizing that your body does not want to be in a calorie deficit until the end of time and will start to fight you at some point. The diet break will happen, either…