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Friday mornings. :-) I used to weigh every day but I found I didn't actually learn anything until the week was mostly over, and the anticipation is fun.

Sounds like a load of crap :-)

Haha, I clench my stomach too. It looks natural because I'm so used to doing it I don't even try, if I relax my stomach it feels really uncomfortable! It's just a habit leftover from when I was a chubby kid. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and rub between my hip bones and it feels great :-)

Interesting read! Thank you.

I have no correct or scientific knowledge, just observations and opinions! I am a youngin' but I have definitely seen some 40 year old women with rockin bodies who looked good skinny. The trick I think is not in the fat in your face, but the resilience/suppleness of your skin. If you have a skinny face but your skin is…

Logging on the computer is deff faster and has more options, the phone app is just good for when you're eating on the go. I like to plan my breakfast lunch the night before and log it, and make any adjustments if I eat something slightly different. Then I'll just log dinner after I've measured my portions and cooked it! I…

To those people who claim they maintain or gain weight when they eat their exercise cals back - then you are DOING IT WRONG! The law of thermodynamics will not allow you to gain weight when you ate a deficit (and MFP already has you eating at a deficit BEFORE you exercise). You are either thinking you worked out more than…

5'4" - GW is 110. It might go lower, and I have been lower, it depends on how much is lean body mass.

I know there are varying methods for measuring body fat %, I'd try 3 approved ones and average them? I know when I started my gym membership I had my body fat % professionally measured and it was 14% - yours will probably be lower than mine was as I was very soft and had never done exercise! haha

Sounds really unhealthy unless you're severely obese, you're basically eating 0 calories a day...

I have an issue with exercising to eat because even if I feel like it, I usually hit my macros throughout the day and after exercise I have calories to spend... but no macros. I'll stay in my calorie limit but SOMETHING is going to go over (unless it's protein, don't mind going over that. but who goes for a run so they can…

If you're eating back your exercise calories properly, it should be impossible to gain weight. The law of thermodynamics does not allow you to put on weight when you consumed exactly how many calories you spent - you probably overestimated your exercise or underestimated your calories. The point of eating back your…

There are no scientific studies that suggest that conventional birth control pills make you gain weight. Everyone reacts differently to them, but what often happens is the woman gains weight and blames it on the listed side effect: weight gain. This is something pharmaceutical companies just include to protect their legal…

What's your day like? If you spend more than 5-10 hours sitting you're probably lightly active or even sedentary. Active lifestyle by MFP is considered someone is on their feet and walking or lifting or working all day. As far as feeling hungry and ill, your body is just not used to that amount of food - you can gradually…

1200 is easy for me because I have almost no appetite, trying to hit 1400-1600 a day would be impossible without eating extremely cal dense food like cake and pizza. It's not too low to function if MFP has recommended it, in general, but it differs from person to person. If your TDEE is 2500 you should at the least have…

Just to clear something up: Fat does not turn INTO muscle. You can lose fat and gain muscle, but one does not become the other. It is HARD to gain pounds of muscle. It will take way more than 1 week to gain a pound of muscle. If you gain 3 lbs exercising it was probably water retained, a poop in your system that you…

Toning is a BS word but an easy one to explain what you mean. In actuality, losing weight and strengthening muscles does NOTHING to "tone" your muscles. The tone of your muscles is predetermined, it's the composition, what the texture is like, etc. If an exercise program is telling you how to "tone up" it is probably…

Alright, thank you! I'm very anal about weighing all my food which is why it bothered me. Thanks again.

Whenever I eat out or have to account for a meal I can't look at the labels of, I find the closest estimates in the MFP database and choose the highest cal/least optimistic one, lol. Why lie to yourself? It's way better to have a negative margin of error. Also people overestimating exercise is pretty common for unfit…

I cheat every day with a fudgsicle =] light coconut milk, banana, and cocoa powder frozen together! I agree, although I personally try to cheat with manageable and healthy things (which sounds like it defeats the purpose...)

I didn't know that! I wasn't sure what the ratios should be at all so I just tweaked protein because 15 seemed low. I literally never ever hit my carb limit either so it shouldn't be a problem. Thank you :-)

55% carbs, 20% protein, 25% fat I upped the protein by 5% of what MFP originally recommended

Thanks. Yeah, I always estimate cals eaten and burnt so that the margin of error is negative calories. I'd happily eat pb and avocado by the spoonful, but they're pretty high in fat (admittedly, pretty good fats). That's my dilemma, going over fat trying to recover some exercise cals with calorie dense foods like that

Those are both good suggestions! I guess what I meant was high cal high protein foods. Unfortunately all the foods low in fat and sugar, like egg whites and veggies, aren't very calorie dense and I'll have to load up on them haha. I was anorexic when I was younger so eating large portions is challenging and I have to tell…

In my opinion, making your child obese and not coming anywhere NEAR their dietary needs should be considered child abuse.

I dont mind brown fried rice cold, but if possible I definitely heat it up in a microwave (our cafe just got one free for students to use and it has improved my lunches immensely, lol)

There are tons of options for bringing lunch! I like bringing a tupperware container of brown fried rice with egg, or shirataki noodles, or a chicken and lettucs wrap, or a wholegrain turkey sandwich... think about compact things you'd normally eat for lunch and seal them in a tupperware or wrap in saran wrap. None of its…

Yup, those numbers seem right then. You can definitely aim for 2 lbs a week, it probably won't start slowing down until you are 150-160, it depends on the person and how active you are. Eat your MFP recommended cals, and adjust from there - whether you discover it to be too high or too low. I'm also not sure about the diet…

Not a problem! I can't see your diet profile so I have to assume it's your TDEE - the number of calories you burn a day including moving around and day to day activies, since multiple websites I've tried have confirmed your BMR to be around 1550-1600. What is your weight loss goal per week, if you don't mind me asking?

Yep, weight loss is pretty much just math, calories in calories out. A 500 calorie deficit a day = 1lb lost per week. What MFP does is it takes your BMR, and adds your average activity cals (remember when it asked how active you are day to day? It estimates how many calories you'd burn just doing your day to day stuff) and…