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I'm curious to hear what people say because I don't really know. I had this issue as well, on Wednesday. What I did was Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and today I exercised a bit more than usual and then did not allow myself to eat back the calories. I worked out that on Wednesday I ate AT LEAST 600 over (more but I quit…

THIS. So true. I come on here for a few reasons, usually to distract myself from eating, sometimes to hear ideas. But real medical advice should ALWAYS be from your doctor. And always trust your doctor over what you read on here.

not really. You need it to be healthy. Most of us don't drink enough water, so our bodies hang on to it when they can. When one first increases the water intake, the body realizes, hey, I'm getting this regularly, I don't need to store so much! So you lose weight at first from that water weight. It's also a good tool to…

lots of stuff to unpack in here! 1) Healthy weight loss is 0.5 to 2 pounds a week. Your goal is not sustainable--as in, yeah, you can starve yourself and lose the weight but as soon as you stop that behavior the weight will come back. In order to lose weight and keep it off, you need to lose at a slow, steady, sustainable…

you need to find a reason to be motivated. For years, I had external motivation (parents, friends, etc) and guess what? Weight won't come off that way. YOU need to be ready, YOU need to want this, and YOU need to become dedicated to it. Think hard about why you're doing it, focus on something. I've heard lots of different…

Thank you Jackie! I agree completely. It is one thing when someone asks a specific question, in which case, yes, people are going to present different opinions (but they should be polite!) but all too often the attacks begin about a different topic. I wish that didn't happen so much. :(

WHAT?! healthy weight loss is 0.5-1 pound a week. You're on the high end of that. It means you are probably (hopefully!!) making actual real lifestyle changes, which you will keep forever. People who lose a lot so quickly will just get it back, it is not a sustainable weight loss. Also, the less you have to lose, the…

You don't have ANY weight to lose. You don't get a toned body by losing weight either--you get that from strength training. You will probably gain pounds as you gain muscle but supposedly you will look and feel better. (I am not at that stage so I don't know personally). From what I've read on here, you should probably eat…

haha I go over sugar every day at breakfast. Ignore it. Unless you have an actual medical issue, sugar is meaningless--just make sure you are getting the sugar from natural sources, like fruit, NOT processed food (cookies, yogurt, etc). Same thing for sodium--it can be an issue IF you have high blood pressure. If you…

true. but we also get to eat basically no cals per day. :(

bump bc I am also curious about this.

Please reconsider your goal. Check out this BMI calculator: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/english_bmi_calculator/bmi_calculator.html 97 lbs for your weight is underweight and very unhealthy. At 112, you are on the mid-low side of normal healthy. Please stay healthy.

play around with your cals until you get it to be the weight loss you want. Make sure that you are choosing a sustainable number of calories though. How close are you to goal? When you are very overweight (100+ lbs up) 2lbs a week is reasonable. Other than that, healthy weight loss is 0.5-1lb a week. When you are closer to…

use your BMI. A great calculator is here: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/english_bmi_calculator/bmi_calculator.html you will notice it gives a wide range of what a healthy weight is. Once you're within that range, you should reset your goal depending on how you feel. for example, the range for my…

check out this bmi calculator: http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dnpabmi/ to know what is a healthy weight for you. If you were an adult, right now you'd be squarely in the normal range, but the teen one is slightly different and I don't have enough info to do it for you. For an adult of your height the healthy range is 115-154. I…

it's not how much you work out. it's how much you eat. Healthy weight loss is 1lb a week. If you put everything into mfp (ht, wt, age, activity level, etc) it will tell you how many calories you get a day. Good luck!

bump cause I'm curious. I don't have an answer though--if I know something is coming up I try to exercise more and not eat back those calories...your body doesn't know one day from the next in terms of calories, but you don't want to starve and over eat in a cycle. I personally just try to make healthier choices in general…

I put sedentary. Then, when I do exercise (which is more and more frequently) I put that in and eat back about 1/2 the calories I have earned (I don't trust the machines at the gym to give me an accurate number). That way I'm not overeating on days I don't exercise. Hope that helps! Good luck :)

don't cut out carbs. Sure, you'll lose weight but it won't be sustainable--as in, at some point, you will eat carbs again and the weight will come back. Make SUSTAINABLE changes. Eat more fruits and veggies. It makes sense that you have to eat with your students, but why do you have to eat what they eat? Bring your own…

weigh. everything. don't guess. don't do an average or normal. weigh it with a scale (preferably digital) and enter in what you eat.

I agree with everyone else--please go to a counselor! Best of luck on your journey to be healthy :)

So your goal is 110? That gives you quite a low BMI, nearly underweight. You may want to reconsider... (got the info from http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/) To answer your question, I try to really fill up on fruits and veggies, and everything else in moderation. My protein sources are usually chicken, low-fat cheese, or…

I can't afford a HRM and therefore have been relying on the machines at the gym. Since I cut the calorie count in half, I seem to be doing better. Seems it is true that those machines give crazy high numbers (even though, yes, I put in my age and weight).

Healthy weight loss is 1.0 lb a week. At first you lose more than that, which is mostly just water weight. If you lose more than 1 lb a week once you've gotten into it, then you're probably not making sustainable lifestyle changes (as in, when you go back to what you used to do, the weight will come back). Remember this is…

make sure you are within your calorie limit. Fruits do have calories, to track them, yes, every berry. As long as you stay at your goal calorie number, you should lose the weight. Good luck! PS--I eat a ton of fruit as well...so far I've been fine--but I've only been doing this for about 3 weeks.

for the first part--I had been getting heavier and heavier over time, and I knew it. I went up a pant size and a bra size, which was really frustrating, but it just made me depressed so in turn I ate more and more. It was finally a visit to my doctor telling me I really need to lose weight since I am in the obese…

some interesting info here...but if you do a quick google search on the topic you will find many websites about this topic. http://exercise.about.com/cs/weightloss/a/weightplateaus_2.htm it's more efficient in that it takes less calories to do the same job. Remember, our bodies were designed to HANG ON TO the extra energy.…

cool, thanks guys! I didn't know about that quick add function. Just did it. :) Thanks

fruits and veggies. anything non-processed really...

unless you have much more to lose, then no. There are unhealthy ways to do it, but the weight will come back. Much better is taking a slow and steady approach. 1lb a week is a good goal. If you have over 100+ lbs to lose, maybe 2lbs a week. Much more than that and you will probably make unsustainable changes. Good luck!