tomcustombuilder Member

calories between 1-3 am don’t count

Drinking sometimes blunts our appetite so you end up not having dinner then when the drinking goes away you end up eating more. Alcohol DOES have calories but it also has a very high TEF which means the body uses 20-25 percent of the calories on processing. Gaining 40 lbs is a calorie issue so somewhere in the scheme of…

Fatloss is a product of a consistent weekly calorie deficit. You are taking in too many overall calories so you need to tighten things up

Guess as close as possible.

no progress since January means you are not in a weekly calorie deficit regardless of what your numbers are telling you. Here are some things to look at as far as not making progress even though you think you’re doing everything right - incorrect daily activity choice - Inaccurate weekly calorie counting/tracking -…

Some people with decent natural ab structure just have to lose fat to see abs. If you aren’t one of those people then you need to build up abs with strength training and depending how much fat you’re carrying, your calorie amount will vary in relation to maintenance calories. Exercise wise, sit-ups aren’t great however…

The more you suck at swimming the more calories you burn doing it. A really good swimmer has to swim a lot farther to burn the same amount of calories as a poor swimmer. Bottom line is swimming calorie burn numbers are really inaccurate in most cases. As far as swimming in general. It’s about the best thing you can do…

It depends on how much of a deficit you’re running without exercise. If it’s a small deficit then isn’t really necessary to eat more. If your deficit is sizeable then you may want to eat more however all these things depend on several factors as far as accuracy of data being input into your logging.

Eating too little won’t cause you to not lose fat. Eating more weekly calories than you burn will cause you to not lose fat. It takes around a month at a certain calorie amount do determine if that amount is correct for your goals.

Put the powder in after the porrage comes out of the microwave. You want the porrage to be a little thinner so the consistency is correct after adding the powder. This is my morning ritual

You can eat back your exercise calories then in a month review your progress or lack of it. If you’ve met your goal then you’re on the right track and if you’ve fallen short of your goal then the data you’ve input is flawed because of one of the reasons below or a combination of reasons - incorrect daily activity choice -…

Weekly is the number to look at however for most people loweing calories enough to offset a big cheat is a bad precedent to set. Best to incorporate foods you enjoy into your normal diet in a small way. Too stringent of a eating plan is why most people "cheat".

Those high energy output days carbs will be what you want to bump up Also, the reason for grams is that you want to keep your protein at the upper levels as you lose fat and begin to lower your calorie target. % and protein gets lowered

The less fat you have the more difficult it is to do both simultaneously. 99% of the time it's best to work towards one goal or the other. Many times just losing fat will make you appear more muscular if you have decent muscle mass under the fat layer. Sometimes the way to look 10 lbs more muscular is to lose 10 lbs. of…

If you are in a decent and consistent weekly calorie deficit and this only happes only once a month or more it wont really have an impact long term however depending on the size of your weekly calorie deficit and the size of the cheat it can very easily wipe out a whole week of dieting or possibly more. If you have to…

Just because someone miscalculates their calorie needs doesn’t negate CICO. Your body doesn’t go by what data you input into MFP, it goes by how many calories you actually consume and how many calories you actually burn.

You want to set up your macro goals in grams and not percentages. If you’re extremely overweight use more towards your target weight in the equations and not your current weight for protein and fats.

lol,I wish it was 40.

please elaborate why CICO is flawed science regarding Fatloss. Also a pound of muscle only burns around 6-8 calories a day and many people overestimate that figure in regards to added muscle as a fat burning tool.

What amount are you trying to hit?

Which factors are you referring to exactly? Please elaborate ……

Good luck! Much will depend on how accurate you are with calorie data input. Some data will be beyond your control as far as accuracy as the food choices on MFP are crowd sourced, Products with listed calories can be off by 20% and just how focused you are on logging everything you eat and drink.

How long have you been at this calorie amount? If less than a month there can be water fluctuations. This app or any app can be inaccurate between crowd sourced data entries, exercise calories burned being inflated, you picking the wrong activity level and\or under reporting calorie consumption. Product labels can be as…

Be careful with peanut butter as it’s highly caloric and very easy to under report the amounts

a week is not enough time to gauge how a new calorie amount affects weight. Give it a month

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Not really any healthier. Fatloss comes from a consistent weekly calorie deficit and not meal timing or frequency.

A lot of calorie adjustment will depend on how being 20 lbs had affected your lifestyle outside of the gym]exercise program. If the loss causes you to be more active then not much if any reduction is needed. If your outside of gym\exercisise activity hasn't changed then drop around 100-200 calories a day and review that…

Normally you want between .7 and 1 gram of protein per lb of bodyweight however someone very overweight use your lower, target weight for that calculation and for carbs there is no real rule. Get in around .35 gram of fat per lb also.

You can shoot up all you want but until you change your lifestyle you're just kidding yourself that you’ll be successful long term. Losing the fat isn’t job done its job starting.