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Have you ever recalculated your goals as your weight dropped? A 230 pound person burns more calories at rest than a 160 pound person. From my experience mfp doesn't automatically deduct calorie counts as you loose weight. So every once in a while you have to update your diet profile to get it to stop tracking all the extra…

I work out for 2 hours. By the time I've finished I've drank 6-8 cups of water out of pure necessity.

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Pick your battles. A cookie is 80-200 calories (depending how big it is), if it's impolite to refuse one, just take it and have a smaller dinner, or work out 20 minutes longer. You can generally politely refuse though, if it's just a tray left out or something (that's how most people do it) Keep in mind how annoying…

Plateau's happen. Don't set super ambitious micro weight loss goals, especially after a few months into a dietary based weight loss. Especially as your body gets closer and closer to the weight you'll ultimately be maintaining, you just get these plateau's that are very hard to force your way through. To be clear, if you…

It took me about 2 months to lose 25 pounds. You guys can definitely do this! Go for it! Stick to your calorie goals, refuse to be in the red!

Your body has some natural defenses against this. To some degree there is some real science behind "starvation mode". But the effects are more negative health and feeling effects. Fundamentally you cannot, in the long term, eat less, exercise more, and gain weight. You may gain weight for a little while, depending how…

My best suggestion is spread those workouts out. The most efficient way to build muscle and lose fat at the same time are these high intensity circuit type workouts that rip your muscles all apart on large areas of your body and basically eat you up and crap you out within 2 hours at the gym. However, the body also isn't…

The ratio is something like 70% body fat 30% lean muscle mass lost due to weight loss strictly from calorie deficit. Those ratios are most significantly modified by the amount of protein vs other stuff in your diet as well. It goes from about 40% body fat loss 60% lean muscle in a protein deprived diet, to 80% body fat,…

I don't think updating your goal is a bad thing. I my goal was "lose 35 pounds" which put me basically just in healthy body weight by BMI but once I got there, I could see I still had a lot more fat on me than I wanted, and it wasn't going to be so easy to transition all that flab into muscle. So I updated my goal. I had…

I've updated my goal every time I've logged in a new weight, so I'm not using the same calorie intake I was using when I started, my current daily budget is 150 calories per day less than my starting daily intake. What do you mean by "change my workouts"? I go to the gym about an hour 3-4 times a week, but I don't have one…

I'm not sure about the veracity of the starvation mode claims, but there are some serious risks associated with weight loss that is too rapid. Your body needs fuel, and a more active body needs more fuel. My experience from the past, doing heavy workouts and not replacing calories quickly made me feel over-trained, and…

Regardless, there are serious risks associated with losing weight too rapidly.

How tall are you? If you don't mind me asking? You look great by the way!

The MFP recommendation for me was WELL under my BMR, however, I'm significantly overweight. I think, the important thing, is the calorie counting. Success doesn't come from weather you are eating exactly your BMR, weather you are 500 calories per day over, or 500 calories per a day under. Success doesn't come from always…

A caloric pound is 3500 calories. If you didn't eat that many more than your BMR you have not gained a pound of longterm body weight. The body normally fluctuates within about 5 pounds. Water weight, food digestion, gas retention, biological processes. You cannot ever take 1 bullet point of weight and say "I have lost or…

I'm way ahead of schedule for my goal for Christmas :)

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/health_advice/facts/loseweight.htm "This doesn't mean crash diet (anything less than 1500 calories), which usually ends up with you either getting weaker or giving up in desperation. Quick-fix diets can lead to a yo-yoing effect of drastic weight loss followed by weight gain, resulting in a…

You're unlikely to build much mass while you're on a large calorie deficit. But in general, 3-5 sets at a weight where you can do a maximum of 10 reps and a minimum of 4. Per any given workout you want to do 3 or more different exercises that hit the same muscle group from different angles. If you're doing that, the…

The body can hold as much as 10lb in water weight (in cases of extreme dehydration). Even just after a workout, if you had your water bottle with you, you probably have gained weight from putting water into your system, much of which will come out later. Your water level varys significantly. (as others have said, 3-5…