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Long enough to know you are actually stalled. Even with an aggressive goal of 2 lbs/week, your body weight can fluctuate by at least that much on a weekly basis. If you lost 2 pounds of fat but are retaining 2-3 pounds of water, you've actually made progress but you just can't see it yet on the scale. However, your body…

If he was truly eating 1200 calories/day for a substantial length of time, he'd be losing weight. Frankly the advice to drop net calories in the face of a plateau is accurate and really the only reasonable advice one can give. Of course, that's all moot because the OP has been "plateaued" for all of 7 days.

This man speaks the truth. Once you've been tracking for a while, calculators are pretty much useless. Adjust based on your own progress.

People still go there :p

I find it all pretty comical, and to the extent it erodes Walmart's reputation just a bit further... oh darn.

Nah, I caught it. Just stuck more on the whole: Reads to me like you're telling someone diagnosed with hypothyroidism and insulin resistance that it's fine to eat 1-2 slices of pizza whenever they want it, just don't eat half a pizza, and fit it into your daily calories. Actually, that's exactly what you said - and I…

The problem is "moderation" is a meaningless term. What's eating pizza in moderation? 1 slice of pizza every 2 weeks? 3 slices per day? What sort of pizza? What are you eating with it? WE CAN SAY IT IN ALL CAPS AND IT'S STILL JUST AS MEANINGLESS OF A PHRASE. Just my opinion, but telling someone looking to lose weight with…

I'm not sure basic IIFYM is the best advice for someone with hypothyroidism and IR. Types of carbs can matter, meal composition can matter, etc. Flexible eating is fine but since when did it become the cure to every problem?

There apparently are low carb wraps you can find. I have no clue how tasty they are. I suspect you could make room in your weekly carbs for a few tacos, as the only carb there is from the tortilla (and, if you substitute a lower carb wrapper, you'd have very few carbs at all). But personally, I would just learn to…

I find showering to be the best tool at my disposal for leading a clean lifestyle. As for health, being accountable for your diet and staying active seem to work well.

Come on now, that's just nitpicking at semantics. People saying they're "big boned" are essentially saying they are large framed. Oftentimes they're wrong and just overfat, but that doesn't mean that they're actually claiming to have heavier, thicker bones. And muscle mass has little to do with being large framed or…

Just reinforces that the typical estimates for "healthy" and "safe" weight loss are on the cautious side, and most people could probably be more aggressive with their weight loss if it was sustainable for them to do so.

I know plenty of people that don't exercise and aren't overfat. When you speak in absolutes like saying they "will regain that weight," odds are you're bound to be wrong, and here you are. If you said "likely to regain," then perhaps, but there are no certainties when it comes to what people will and will not do in the…

Creatine is probably the most proven supplement out there. Preworkout, while many like it, is not any proven than any form of caffeine or more generally waking yourself up. As for creatine, the timing isn't relevant - you don't have to take it pre or post workout, but rather just take it once a day at a convenient time.…

As if bodybuilding is about health and as if bodybuilder shave a clue about health. Now that's funny.

Sounds like a good reason to do a bit of cardio.

Not necessarily. You can occasionally get drunk without being considered an alcoholic. That's harder to do with more addictive substances and I don't think anyone would recommend you try being a heroin junkie only on the weekends, but periodic overconsumption doesn't necessarily indicate addiction.

Perhaps try them on a salad rather than in a smoothie?

So all the health organizations, journals and the like that recognize psychological addictions are just misinformed? I raised this a bit earlier in the thread, but this argument largely comes down to semantics, but the problem with debating semantics is that the definition of the term addiction is not clear. Depending on…

Seems like a helluva lot to me, haha, but fair point. That level of consumption definitely messes with your brain over time. But to me, the better comparison in the first place isn't with eating to alcohol or drugs, but rather something like gambling.

You're missing the point I was trying to make. It's not logical to compare someone who died because they couldn't stop drinking with someone who did stop eating. One stopped, one did not. If you're going to compare the problem eater with the problem drinker, I know people that have died from both. If you're going to…

Beyond trans fats, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

And just to add, what constitutes "heavy" or sufficient weight for general LBM retention varies from person to person. It doesn't matter if 75 pounds on bench is all you can lift - if that's all you can manage for your target number of reps, then that's sufficient weight. Honestly the easiest thing to do is just follow a…

To be fair, the better analogy would be friends that died from overeating... And I suspect most of us know someone who died from a condition related to obesity.

The downside is that some people would be absolutely miserable on a ketogenic diet. For these people, the restrictive nature of the diet usually outweighs any benefit in terms of satiation, and frankly some people just don't deal well with cutting things out of their diet. It also makes anaerobic activities more…

That study gets overly cited but is just a drop in the bucket. There are tons of studies on this subject and the results aren't always in agreement, but the common themes are that there's no real metabolic advantage to low carb diets and yet there aren't significant disadvantages to LC diets either. For instance, just last…

Well the implication was that we're talking about a greater amount of LBM loss (a conclusion which the majority of relevant studies do not support) since she's critiquing a particular way of losing weight relative to other weight loss programs, but of course there will be some lost regardless. And yes, IIFYM's default…

That's on the higher end of keto macros, but yes. And personally I find this criticism a bit comical. On one hand, we've got a suggestion that you will lose lean body mass in this thread, yet studies show that LBM retention is predominantly controlled by protein intake and resistance training (assuming a calorie deficit…