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The interesting thing, with keto I never even tracked my calories. I was on a relatively strict keto diet for a year trying to lose a hundred lbs, while I did track my weight I kind of completely ignored calorie count. I may have or probably had been in deficit but didn't really matter for the simple reason when you pretty…

'I'm not looking for Bruce Lee or Arnold Schwarzenegger, but somewhere in-between' A humble goal. LOL, sorry that made me smile. If you achieve that you are gonna look like a Greek God. Based on your stats 5.9 191 you dont seem to be overweight, to look like these two icons you need muscles, lots of it. It is not that…

I think the TDEE calculator assumes that two persons with the same weight but different body fat percentages will have different energy requirements to maintain that body weight. A pro bodybuilder with 270 lbs and 10 percent body fat will need more energy to maintain the weight compare to a person with the same weight but…

'Trying to lose weight is hard' is un understatement. Yes it is hard. While on my journey to lose weight a hundred pounds I had to give up most of the stuff I never thought I could live without. For a year no bread no pasta, sugar was pretty much banned in our house. In order to get where we wanted with my partner we had…

I have no idea. Agreed, individual calorie needs vary. But I am curious has anyone ever lost weight on a daily intake of 2500 calories? And I mean long term success. Personally I would be equally pissed off if following the advice given to me by an app not only not lose weight but put on an extra 2 kg. I think in this case…

2500 calories/day seem to much. I am doing weight maintenance, dont even want to lose more weight but I can't eat that much food. Not with 15.000 steps anyway, I tried it. To burn that much excess cals I had to do 50K rides and massive HIITs every day, not sustainable long term, unless you are a pro athlete.

Even if there were some magic formula, at your height and weight, if I were you I wouldn't take them. You dont need them. Sticking to your cal intake target and exercise should be enough. There are probably countless number of pills and potions on the market that will promise you everything, all lies I reckon. If anything…

Hi. I am. Actually I lost another five pounds in the process. I am at 198 lbs as of today with a loss of 95 lbs over a year. That was my target weight, so I am kind of celebrating. I dont do the crazy stuff like eating over 2500 cals a day just to see what happens though. I am probably in calorie deficit but I am not…

Good luck! The irony when I read this...I was a nice round 130 kg-could hardly breath- a year ago with a height of 174 cm, and my target weight was 90 kg. I got there a few days ago, and the funny thing is my target weight is still considered obese according to most sites on the net that I found. With this height TBH I…

I think it does say 'if every day was like this', or something along those lines. It is kind of impossible to make every day the same, it is for me. So it may be true, I doubt anyone ever tested the theory.

Interesting thread. The plan given by the good doctor sounds like hard core keto. i have done something similar, a pretty tough keto regime for a year until April this year. it can be effective but strict keto is clearly not for everyone. These 'rules' and numbers of keto, what you can or can't eat or how many grams of…

Hehe..I live in Ireland. As you know we have absolutely fantastic weather. it is May and it's already 11 celsius or 51 F, I am delighted...LOL. And it looks we will have rain in the foreseeable future as well. The good thing about running or cycling in the rain it reminds you you're alive...also fresh.

At 50 in general I try to avoid any exercise that puts too much pressure on my knees. A knee injury is the last thing I need TBH. I am a regular in the gym and my main focus is on the upper body, even there I try to be careful, that doesn't mean I dont push myself but at our age we have to accept our body can't take the…

I am not planning to do this every week though I do enjoy my road bike immensely, I think long term it would lead to me burning out at best or injuries at worst. I wanted to test the CI/CO theory taking it to the extreme, plus see if my body is actually up to it. I tried running, didn't work. Lack of strength or stamina…

The body can use its energy resources in the form of muscles too. Muscles are energy. If I try doing a bench press exercise with say 300 lbs my muscles will try to do it to prevent me dying, to survive. Maybe I will succeed, that doesn't mean I did much good to my muscles in the process. It will hurt them. An extreme…

Too much exercise will slow fat burning because the body will switch to 'distressed' mode will try to reserve its energies. Weight lifting is great but one has to be careful doing it, you have to find the balance to not overdo it. You will still lose some weight but most of it will be muscles instead of fat, and will…

The food industry in the USA was apparently worth 6.2 trillion dollars in 2019. That is a lot of food to sell. Its main focus is to make profit not make people healthy. Thing is if today everyone started eating healthy, this food industry would collapse in no time, probably millions of people would lose their jobs as well.…

A deep question. According to eastern philosophies our mind constantly seeks pleasure and happiness, it is in its nature. Not only that but we want immediate pleasure. This insatiable appetite to feel good is part of who we are. Hence in a 'depressed state of mind' one tends to eat more, escape into food, to have some…

My number one secret recipe on my 90 lbs weight loss was poached egg with home made mayo made of extra virgin olive oil, lemon, white wine vinegar, dijon mustard, with lots of fresh onion. I think I must have eaten a d.a.m.n. chicken farm over the course of a year. It is effective, relative high calorie extremely…

I live in Ireland. Thank God -and the EU regulations I guess- food is pretty high quality here, they are damn expensive though . Dont know much about food in the US we hear all kinds of rumours, I have never lived in the USA. But we are going to have the chance to taste your beef, so we'll see, I will give it a try.

Who said anything about keto superior...? Garbage food for me means processed food, and I know even the meaning of 'processed' is up to debate since everything seems to be processed one way or another. To rephrase I probably should say one needs to eat fresh food whether it is high carb/fat/protein or low carb/fat/protein.…

Ultimately one has to be in calorie deficit to lose weight, what keto does, based on my experience, is to make you mindful of what you eat. On a keto diet you won't be eating garbage whether you count calories or not, that's already a great start. I was doing strict keto for about a year starting last April, in the…

It is the calories you put in that count really whatever diet you use, whether it is keto, paleo or high carb. The problem for me with just simply counting the cals was that I got lazy doing it. If you know for sure you'll be able to track and record your food accuratly then you probably dont need keto. ...with keto you…

I don't think you can. Two different fitness apps will never agree. You just have to guess which one is closer to the truth. I have seen a review on YT on the most expensive fitness watches of 2021, dude was comparing seven different premium watches, got seven different results on calorie burns heart rates etc. I would go…

I have been on keto for a year, got my peloton bike last September. I absolutely love the home bike, sometimes I do hour long cardios sometimes shorter HIITs. TBH for me it was one of the best buys I ever made. With the gyms closed in our d.a.m.n extended lockdown plus a five kms travel limit that we have had in Ireland it…

I usually deduct 30% to get closer to reality from mapmywalk estimates. Easy solution, use the quick add cal to compensate.

There is no absolute truth when it comes to macros or nutritions I agree, what is bad for me may be perfectly fine for others, generally not universally too much salt is bad and makes it more difficult for most who want to lose weight. I have a female friend in her 40s who eats pizza, cake, drinks coke, all the 'bad stuff'…

I am well aware off sodium's water retention effect, that losing water is not the same as losing fat. Still I found too much sodium-in my case over 2300 mg-wont help you losing weight, in fact it will probably slow the process. Dont really know the science behind it I have just found it to be the case. But thank you for…

I am trying to lose the last five pounds while maintaining a ninety pounds weight loss, the damn scale hasnt moved one bit in the last six weeks.. It is tough. Two tactics I am using, put in as little salt/sodium in my body as possible, I kind of came to the conclusion that the only macro that is worth paying attention to…