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Moderation is key. Don't cut your self off from foods you like even when you are dieting. Like you said, this is a lifestyle, so you don't need to be at your goal weight by tomorrow or next week or next month. Take your time losing the weight so you are not in huge calorie deficits. Think of it as long as your not gaining…

[/quote] Can you scan a copy of your report? Not sure what YN and AM means. It should give you a breakdown of %fat per arms/legs/trunk/Android/Gynoid and Total. [/quote] YN stands for young normal. Ie what someone between 20-29 would be. AM is age matched. Which is where I rank among people my age. So for those 2…

Finally got my health report back. The dexa scan didn’t show as much info as I expected. Not sure if this is because it was an older model or what. I thought it would give me my tdee. Does anyone know what the %fat trunk/% fat leg and trunk/limb fat mass ratio under the adipose indices suppose to tell you. Those 2…

Waiting a few extra day to start is ok as long as you start. But the real question is how long you will stick to it?

CICO, so as long as you are burning more than you take in, you will lose weight. That being said, make sure you are accurately tracking your food and exercise. The calories shown on exercise machines are typically not accurate and most people tend to underestimate the number of calories they are eating. There are also…

If the scale hasn't moved in a month, then you are eating close to maintenance. Instead of lowering your calories, you can burn more calories instead by moving more or exercising more if you can.

What people enjoy varies between people. I love my current meal plan. In fact now that I’m trying to eat at maintenance, I’m just adding an additional meal similar to my other 4. I value my time far more than time spent cooking. So bring able to buy the frozen packs of broccoli and microwave a pack and share it with my…

I'm not a vegetarian, but I get over 100g of protien in my typical diet. Majority of the 100g comming from 600g egg white, 500g broccoli, and 50g edamame. So it is definitly doable if you dont mind eating that much egg white.

You need to know what your TDEE is so you know how many calories you can consume to meet your weight loss goals. Once you know what that number is, you can then figure out a suitable meal plan that will help you lose weight and still be healthy. More than likely, you will have to do meal prep so you don't have to think…

I used to do the exact same routine as you for 3 years ago for a couple of years. I used to walk 1+ hour to work and then back home, then do strength training. I was averaging 20K a day and I have a desk job where I really didn't move at all once I got to work until it was time to come home. I can say it was much easier in…

I beleive I know what a healthy diet is. I boil it down to just getting appropriate calorie intake and macro nutrients from whole foods. So when I'm dieting, I will eat every meal at home except 1 a week so I know what is going inside my body. When I say i'm going to stop dieting, it means i'm not going to be as strick and…

The fasting requirement wasn't specifically for the dexa scan. How the health checkups are done where I live is they do a bunch of basic test and let you pick some optional test. You go in to the facility in the morning and they herd you from station to station to do test after test. So basic test would include blood work,…

This is what I ended up doing. I put my activity level to sedentary, and only log my cycling since that actually burns significant calories. Even when i'm walking on the treadmill for exercise, I dont bother loging it as excercise and just let it count as steps. I don't bother loging weight sessions since they don't burn…

I find my fitbit scale to be very consistent and almost predictiable the 3 years I been using it. After a vacation or fun weekend, the body fat goes up predictiably with my weight and comes down slowy as my weight drops. When I first got it, and was a litte heavier, it registered a higher body fat, and has come down with…

I went back to 2250 because I wasn't hungry eating that before I went to 2500. Figure no harm in sheding a few more lbs of fat before the checkup. The typical body fat test that they do where you stand and hold 2 things in your arm had me at 15.3% body fat. So it's not like i'm super lean. My fitbit aria scale that morning…

I had the opposite experience. When Covid started, and I started to wfh I decided now was a good time to diet without outside pressure or distractions. With my activity level, I worked out that my diet calories at 2000, about 500 calorie deficit. At first it was easy, maybe due to the fact it was a new goal, and I was…

When you are doing spin class, does it give you your total watts for the session?

To answer your question of if 1300 calories is safe, I would need to know what makes up your 1300 calories and what safe means to you. If safe = healthy, then 1300 calories of sugar would not be safe. If your 1300 calories consist of all the recomended macronutrients/micronutrietns/vitamins recommendation per day for you,…

I eat 500g of steam sweet potato a day. It's 430 calories that I can fit into daily intake regardless of if i'm trying to lose or maintain.

Calculating calorie intake is a lot easier than exercise. Instead of trying to figure out how many calories your burning and accuracy of apple watch, you can stop just stop eating back 200 exercise calories assuming it doesn't leave you in a depleted state. Keep everything else the same and in 1 month you should lose…

From your post. I would say you have found your maintenance exercise/calorie ratio. All you need to do is increase exercise and keep eating the same. Or eat less and keep exercise the same. Or a mixture of both. Depending how much you want to lose, just adjust your weekly exercise or intake by 3500 calories per pound.

Nothing works if you don’t use it as it is intended to be used. Like MFP wouldn’t work if you don’t log accurately or put in proper information. Weight loss or gain can’t be measured properly if you don’t weigh your self under similar conditions every time. While the machine may not be accurate, it should somewhat be…

My goal is not to lose weight or compete. I just want to eat healthy without spending too much time in kitchen. I eat out on weekends on regular basis. But during week, I like to make sure I’m eating healthy. My goal is to be able to plate up all my meals for next day and have them ready to go each night. Avoid as much…

The point is if 1 slice of 25 gram bread is 71 calories, its shocking that people can make hamburger buns that are 80 calories for top and bottom piece.

My point is this kind of flaws the advice people give to other when they say exercise more and you can eat more. Technically true, but the amount or intensity you have to put in is probably not what most people expect to be able to eat that extra slice of whatever.

Maybe i'm calculating my bread wrong. I was under the assumption that you add up all your ingridient calories and divide it by your final product. 25g of my bread is 71 calories. ingridents are 381 g White Bread Flour 9 g olive oil 33 g unsalted butter 9 g sugar 6 g salt 4 g yeast 20 g milk powder. makes a 1.5 loaf bread…

I know there are buns out there that claim 80 calories. However I bought a breadmaker to make my own bread, and using as basic ingridents as possible to make bread, 80 calories would be essentially 1 slice of bread.

@springlering62 No, i wasn't talking about you. I was talking about the person that posted the cookout nutrition table. To have a burger that is 226 calories just seems impossible to me when 2 pieces of white bread is at least 150 calories.

It just seems like a lot of the "i'm not losing weight post" nobody bring up the fact that if they are eating out, their calorie count probably isn't what they think it is. People usually say, it takes time, fluxuation or the it's not linear. If one is overestimating exercise and underestimating calories, and most people…

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