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A heart rate monitor that can calculate calories burned would probably be the most accurate since it is only concerned with effort on your part and duration. You are either working harder to maintain the same speed or working the same and going slower because of the extra load but your HRM would pick up either situation. I…

I think you are overestimating your calories burned during exercise. 600-900 an hour is more typical of someone who is in very good shape. The first thing I would check is your max heart rate setting on your HRM and see if that actually makes sense given your actual heart rate during exercise. Some people and it seems…

There is nothing wrong with going below your BMR and if you are sedentary and going tor 2lbs per week you will be below your BMR. The general recommendation is to keep your daily average deficit to 1000 calories or less because if you are overweight then the body can handle it without overreacting. So for you the minimum…

You have to determine your personal max heart rate first before you can determine your "zone". The standard formula of 220-age can be off by quite a bit for some people. Mine is actually lower than that formula and my wife's is much higher. It can take a few weeks to determine something close to your max heart rate…

If you look at the Fresco nutritional info compared to the regular version, it really isn't much of a reduction in calories. They simply replace the cheese with pico de gallo so you drop some fat grams and add carb grams. When I eat at TB I just order the regular version of the Chicken Soft Taco and Hard Shell Taco and…

What is good for you is good for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. What is bad for you is bad for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Don't get caught up in the "X is good in the morning but Y is better in the evening". 99.5% of your achievements will be made through eating healthy and keeping your calories under control regardless…

+1 in spades. Why try to create an artificially low reading this week unless this is the last time you are going to weight in?

You say: The article says this: The article you quote says the concern over fructose is that it does NOT produce the same response as regular sugar. So sugar is not sugar. Here is a link to a study in humans, albeit somewhat limited number of them where 25% of their maintenance calorie diet came from fructose, basically…

You don't have to eat your BMR calories. MFP sets your daily caloric intake as BMR + daily lifestyle not counting exercise - weight loss per week. That easily winds up below BMR for 1-2lbs per week weight loss and sedentary lifestyle and there is nothing wrong with that. As long as the deficit is not so great that your…

I'm very impressed. I find it is far easier to say no to the first one than to say no to the second one. You should feel great you have the self control to each just one and stop. Sure you ate something that really had no value to your physical body but as long as you keep those treats to occasionally and maintain the self…

If you are not losing weight then you are not generating a true calorie deficit even if MFP appears to be showing that you have a deficit. Calories in must be less than calories out to create a deficit. So if you think you have a deficit but are not losing weight then the calories in and/or calories out is wrong. Main…

I want and do enjoy the foods I eat. Fried chicken may not be the healthiest choice but it is still a reasonable choice. Even fast food in moderation and picking the best available does have nutritional value. The danger lies in the foods that are eaten for pure pleasure and have almost no nutritional value like soda,…

It totally depends on the person. If you eat a pleasure food that then turns into a binge, depression, and then giving up because you "failed to control yourself so what is the point?" then no, don't have it. If on the other hand you can have a reasonable portion and it doesn't lead to overeating then go ahead. I got to…

These people are supposed to be "professionals" but my personal BMR/RMR is calculated 1770 and with a sedentary lifestyle my maintenance calories are 500 more so 2270. I have MFP set to lose 2lbs a week for a deficit of 1000 calories leaving me 1270 calories per day. I am losing 2 lbs a week on average and am eating 500…

I really wish they would stop saying "boost your metabolism" when increasing meal count is simply an effective way to control binging for some people. I use it and it helps me.

Have you adjusted your calories and weekly weight loss goal for the 33lbs you have lost so far?

I changed the way I cook. Instead of just cooking lots of food and then having the dilemma of wasting it or eating too much, I now cook only what I am going to eat. If we only need 4 burgers then I make exactly four burgers. Cut only the amount of fruit and veggies needed for the meal. For those meals that simply make lots…

The original poster's numbers don't add up. If her RMR was 1880 and she did nothing all day but lay in bed, 1750 calories a day still loses weight, albeit slowly. The "starvation mode" everyone is worried about is when someone over estimates their RMR, unknowingly run a large calorie deficit and the body responds by…

Only if you expended 800 calories from the exercise not accounted for with traditional measurement (HRM, mechanical work from the machine's calorie count) and it was from the muscle energy reserves. Then your body over the next few days would restore those 800 calories to the muscles. There is some research to indicate…

I agree with almost everything you have said here and elsewhere but this is a stretch. Cavemen were several generations away from today's homo sapiens and even cavemen didn't have to eat all their kill instantly but could save some for later. It is not incongruous to have cavemen survive and today's humans to have, let's…

I usually eat an orange 10-30 minutes before a hard ride. A note on the water usage. When I first started exercising I needed a lot of water. I bought a second water bottle for my bike because I was going through the first one in an hour. However shortly after that I started needing less and less water during the ride even…

Plan ahead or simply eat them the next day. Your body doesn't freak out if you go a day with a larger than normal deficit. It adjusts if there is a chronic deficit it cannot handle. The best I can tell from the research is that eating right after exercise has the advantage of restoring your muscle energy reserves faster so…

Not to change the subject but I thought that thanks to technology (high altitude "tents"), that living high and training low works and is feasible for those with the money and dedication. Not really useful for ordinary people.

If you are using your HRM to calculate calories burned and your max HR is much higher or lower than age predicted, you need to change it. For those with higher than normal max HR, like my wife who is another one of those people whose heart rate goes very high during exercise, you need to make your best reasonable guess as…

I had posted this link on the subject previously in another thread. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/health/04real.html Short version: The fat difference is negligible and are more likely to have a less effective work out due to loss of energy. To me, working out on an empty stomach to burn more fat is like reducing your…

What I would like to know is that if you use the raw meat numbers and then you cook it, is the nutrition the same? Basically is the nutrition for raw meat as if you ate the raw meat or the nutrition of the 1lb of raw meat after you cook it and it is reduced to something lower than 1lb? I have always assumed that it was the…

+1. I love to grill burgers on my Big Green Egg and 4 oz (1/4 pounder) of lower fat meat like lean ground beef or ground sirloin will meet your requirements just fine. The other is to make them even smaller and stick with just one burger. A 4oz burger is rather filling.

I have seen it mentioned that it is your fat reserves that determine how large a calorie deficit you can maintain before your body reacts negatively to the calorie deficit by slowing down your metabolic rate to compensate. A pound of fat can only support so many calories per day deficit. So someone with more fat to lose…

I get it about double counting and I think most other people get it like the original poster. I just see many times about not counting hard work chores as exercise or calories because they aren't "real exercise". If you haven't counted as part of your daily activity rate then it is just a countable as exercise.

There seem to be a few things here. First it is difficult to translate a stationary bike speed to real world speed since you would need to know the gearing and then the actual resistance translated into % hill grade. The second thing is perceived effort and current max heart rate. Your actual max heart generally cannot be…