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The one weird trick I use is to eat at a calorie deficit. Doctors hate me.

I'm not offended, just yanking your chain a bit. I'll make up for it with an answer to your question. The reason people were telling you walking is a waste of time is because they're not being precise. Their intended meaning has to do with the rate of a particular exercise's calorie burn. Compared to, say, running or…

And I don't need 27 question marks after a question, but we can't always have what we want!

OP, within the context of what I mentioned and linked earlier, ignore this. This individual is recommending a fairly complicated supplement regimen. Like nutrient timing, supplements also have their place and can be the difference in that last 5%. But, supplements are the very last thing you should be considering; they…

Nutrient timing has its place, but way later after the basics are in place. Here's a GREAT article that I'm going to start linking to people asking this type of question: http://rippedbody.jp/complete-diet-nutrition-set-up-guide/ Read it all, but first scroll down a bit to the Pyramid of Nutrition Priorities. Basically,…

Your past and your methods aside, is there anything else you need help with or are you good to go?

You're strict by your standards, but not anyone else's. You're probably strictly eating more like 1700-1800 calories and under the impression it's 1500. With your methods, you'd never know. Just know that you either need to exercise more or eat less or both, within reason, to lose weight.

You can be in good cardiovascular shape, and have a high body fat percentage. You store fat in your belly, like I do. If you want to get rid of it, lose weight until it's gone. It's that simple. Weightlifting will help with the slimming effect. Women only look muscly and bulky when they take steroids and train bodybuilding…

@_lyndseybrooke_ this seems like it's right up your alley now that I think of it.

I got you. Don't worry about weights just yet. Focus on your diet. * Get your calories under control first. Find your TDEE, subtract 500 from that number to lose 1 pound a week, or 1000 from that number to lose 2 pounds a week. Eat that much every day, weighing with a food scale. Eat the same foods for now, but stop for…

Well that looks amazing.

The best way to curve hunger is to place it in a strong gravitational field, such as near the event horizon of a black hole. General relativity will guarantee hunger gets curved. I hope you've found this helpful. Good luck!

There have been some great answers here, and from them I just want to echo that for weight loss alone you simply need a caloric deficit, and that can be achieved without exercise. For fitness purposes, exercise is important, and for health you need a nutritious diet, which takes more than just calories into consideration.…

You're kinda all over the place here. In response to your last post, get enough sleep for sure. Inadequate sleep doesn't help. 2 lbs a week is too steep unless you have a ton of weight to lose. Otherwise, why not shoot for 4 lbs a week and just not eat anything at all? There are limits here. If you only want to lose a few…

OK, so just to be clear that involves guessing too, just of a different variety. You might be weighing, but that doesn't guarantee accuracy because you're making an assumption that a heterogeneous mixture is homogeneous. Mixing it around approximates homogeneity, but differences will occur unless you put it all in a…

You would need to do that for every ingredient, unless your recipe is something homogeneous like tomato soup. By the time you're done weighing each thing and subtracting from the total you weighed earlier, you could just estimate, and even if a particular meal might be off, you'll equal out by the end. I guess I don't see…

Well first, it's fun to see another Laconia native. I'm not there now, but I grew up there. Weigh raw ingredients. Make sure that you're getting the raw ingredient nutrition from the MFP database by verifying with some other source what it should be. I'll do something like Google "raw chicken breast nutrition" and then…

For myself, I estimate about 50 calories per 1000 steps. At 2.5-3mph, a typical walking pace that's not particularly fast or slow, 1000 steps takes about 10 minutes, so it takes an hour for 6000 steps. That's 300 calories. You're different, as you're a woman and weigh less, so you might use 35-40, instead of 50, which…

I wouldn't tell someone else what's best for them, but what works for me is a cheat meal. It's not a full day (I can clear 10,000 calories in a day and undo weeks of effort), but it basically allows me a meal a week where I don't have to track. It's still relatively controlled; I try not to go overboard, and the hope is…

Here's a snapshot of your diet (assuming your logging is accurate) for the past 8 days: Carbs Fat Protein Calories* 41 113 203 1993 18 155 224 2363 28 200 195 2692 205 165 201 3109 400 77 297 3481 15 159 157 2119 19 81 211 1649 22 128 239 2196 *Calories were derived from your macros, not copied from MFP Your average…

Whoa this girl is 5 meters tall!

In addition to seeing the doctors you've seen already, who have already prescribed medication for a thyroid issue, I recommend you see a dietitian. That's a registered, clinical professional who can work with your conditions and get you where you need to be.

I JUST got done reading that article! Love his stuff.

I keep my diary open too.

Keep in mind carbs aren't to blame here. You simply started eating more calories by way of carbs. The same thing would have happened had you consumed more protein or fat.

I'll echo seeing a doctor, and not listening to me or anyone else, BUT I'm just going to point out that different people store fat differently. I want to bring your attention to "visceral fat." From Wikipedia: "An excess of visceral fat is known as central obesity, the "pot belly" or "beer belly" effect, in which the…

Because I'm always hungry and I often see things I want, but they don't fit within my calorie or macro goals. Historically I've given in too easily.

I have lots of experience with Fitbits, and personally disregard their estimates for calories burned from activity. I assume I burn about 50 calories per 1,000 steps, on average. There are obviously problems with this static number; heavier people burn more, steps running burn calories at a higher rate than walking,…

Ah the struggle of the hardgainer, how I envy it. Choose foods and drinks that are energy dense (rich in calories). Whole milk, peanut butter, avocado, etc. Cook with lots of olive oil. You can eat tons of calories without very much volume of food.

You're not the only person who has felt this way, and has had the same doubts and feelings of failure. I have, and most of us have. Setbacks happen, and that's ok, really. If you lost the 15 pounds before, you can lose them again, and it doesn't have to be a frantic sprint to your goal. In my case, I had lost a bunch of…