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It happens. You felt a need for something and indulged it. Remember how you felt at the time and try your best to control it the next time it starts to emerge. Other than that, relax. You aren't the first one that has had it happen, and you won't be the last one either.

Perhaps what I said earlier was not understood the way it was intended and for that, I apologize. What I intended and probably should has stated was that the PERCEPTION that people have is that weight loss takes a long time but weight gain is instantaneous. People who are trying and struggling to lose weight will see the…

I personally think that everything should be measured by precooked volume/weight. Cooking anything changes the structure of nearly everything, and can have an effect on it. That is why, for those that indulge, fast food nutrition charts list things as pre-cooked weight (i.e., a McDonald's Quarter Pounder is 4 oz (1/4 lb)…

Your weight loss goals, coupled with your activity level will determine your daily calorie recommendations. Always remember that it is not a requirement, but what is recommended to remain healthy. You are allowed to adjust it slightly if it is needed, but if you are adjusting anything, it should be based upon your goals…

If you are trying to do what I do, you have to know how large a "serving" is. For most proteins, that is 3 to 4 oz. So, if you use a calculator, 12.75 ounces would be 3.1675 servings. Rounding being what it is, that would be 3.17 servings to enter. Or, convert it to grams and enter it based on the number of grams you eat.…

You can always reset your counter, as mentioned above. Or, as I do, treat the counter not as a sign of failure, but as something that the site is using solely to count your visits. It shouldn't matter if you didn't log your food and exercise one day, if you actually kept track of what you ate and what you did. Entering…

It is not that food don't "fit" the standard serving size. It is more that the people that determine serving size are not always realistic. Most food nutrition information is created by the producer and advertisers. In order to be able to call something "low calorie, low carb, low fat, low sodium, low sugar and the like,…

I know that this may seem counter productive, but I don't weigh anything. I keep track of what I eat, log what I eat based on what this system deems to be a "portion" and up or down the servings (not the size, but the number of portions.) Since I am not really trying to rapidly lose huge amounts of weight, or to become a…

Surprisingly, I don't seem to be having any major issues with it. I do occasionally get an error trying to load my home page, but I haven't had any problems with food logging or exercise logging at all. Even the home page tends to refresh after a little bit of time. Maybe its just good timing for me.

Just because you have calories available doesn't mean you HAVE to eat them back. The whole principle of losing weight is to have a caloric deficit. If you are tracking every calorie burned to figure out how much more of them you can put into your body sounds more like an attempt to not lose, but to stabilize your weight. I…

It almost sounds to me like your metabolism has gone into starvation mode. This is when the body doesn't get enough intake and in order to function correctly, begins store everything rather than burn off the calories. I have had that happen because of the job I was doing. I was only eating a single medium to high calorie…

Thanks for your input, but I may not have phrased things right. I do light weights for now, with more repetitions because I don't want to look like Mr. Universe. At my age and body shape, I just want to stop looking like the Michelin man. I am way out of proportion and I am somewhere around 50 pounds or so overweight, so I…

It depends on your goals I guess. Are you looking to lose weight or to build muscle? I need to lose weight so I stay away from bodybuilding things. My routine is to start with some cardio. Most people would consider what I do to be light cardio. Walking on a treadmill for 25 - 30 mins is a nice warm up for doing the other…

Most weight loss experts and dietitians will tell you to NEVER weigh yourself daily. First off, the standard bathroom scale isn't really very accurate and is more for a general idea of how much a person weighs. The scales in a gym, if they are a "bar scale" is much more accurate but even those can be off by a pound or…

It is all in how you find your motivation. Some people look at the "before" picture. Some think about a reward for doing the exercise and stuff all week. I remember John Pinnette had a schtick when he was going to the gym where he had a mantra of what he would get to eat after his sessions were over. "Raviolis and a nap"

I know this might seem trivial, but...are you exercising more? In simple terms, muscle is denser, and therefore heavier, than fat. Exercise will start to turn the fat in your body to energy to fuel the increase in muscle mass, you don't actually lose weight, you just redistribute it.

I have seen this with Samsung Health also. Basically, what is happening is that all the apps are linked and every time they sync, they read/write the same data to each other, so the one that first reported the activity gets it rewritten the next time it syncs. It gets stuck in a loop, and the only way to fix it is to only…

Personally, I wish my local gym would reopen soon. It was open 24/7 before all this and I hope it returns to that. I try to avoid crowed places anyway, so I would go when it was less popular, like mid morning. After the morning crush but too early for the lunchtime crowds, or the ones that come in after work. I was told by…

In a nutshell, muscle is more dense than fat, so it is entirely possible to gain weight as you replace body fat with muscle from exercise.

I would stick to 1lb per week as a reasonable goal. If you actually dig into things, like I tend to do, you will find that most dietitians say that it is a reasonable amount. Trying to lose too much, too fast can be detrimental to both your physical and mental well being. You want to lose more, but you are so hungry you…