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Everyone's right here about the fact you're not eating enough protein. Very low calorie diets pretty much require you to eat low-carb, and to get almost all your calories from fat and protein. However, please ignore the people who insist that 1200 calories is some magical number. You can easily eat under 1000 calories, and…

Agreed. Slow and steady is better. But it's nice to know I can do this if necessary, that it's an option if I have lots of free time (and little common sense).

Absolutely. Do not eat your exercise calories back. Starvation mode is mostly (not entirely, but mostly) a myth. If you're exercising vigorously, you're keeping your metabolism up, and that's the most important thing about exercise. As a recent article posted here showed, exercise alone rarely gets people to lose weight.…

I go against the grain here. I say to never, ever eat back your exercise calories. The biggest reason is miscalculation. People burn calories in different ways, and I don't trust any assessment of how many calories any exercise burns. People also tend to underestimate the weight and portion size of the food that they eat,…

Every single day. I don't get discouraged if I bump up. For me, it's just fuel on the fire of the anger I feel that I allowed my body to get to this point. Whether I'm up or whether I'm down, it's all good. I'm incredibly good at lying to myself about what I've eaten and the results on my body. So I need that constant…