sgthaggard Member

Again, yes I do have one of those MILs. I just deal with it a bit more directly.

A united front is great but the original post I was responding to said that it was the husband's responsibility to respond, not the DIL. If the MIL felt comfortable enough to make the obnoxious comment, not through her son but directly to her DIL, then there's no need to involve the son in the response. If he feels like…

Yes I do. I just don't need my husband to speak on my behalf.

What? If my MIL says something directly to me, I'm not going to use my husband as a go-between to respond. This has nothing to do with her husband - why put him in the middle?

A general FOAD tends to be my response.

If you are eating at a deficit, regardless of your macros, you will lose weight.

Someone should probably tell her that, if her motive was to steal it, she probably shouldn't have stated that it was from an article right up there in her thread title. While it's always nice to link your source, she's hardly trying to pass the article off as her own words.

I exercise because cheese.

Sorry, you lost me on the very first sentence.

I set my goal weight on day 1 and started maintenance the day I reached it. I set it low enough that there wasn't much temptation to take it any lower.

I'm in the same boat - I sent a request.

A magnesium supplement worked for me. If you don't want to take a supplement, avacado, pumpkin seeds, spinach, and brown rice are all fairly high in magnesium.

The issue is that the poster is still hungry at their calorie level and just barely losing. Knowing how many calories they are eating just so that they would eat less to lose more would increase the actual problem which is hunger.

Tough. I weigh myself daily because I own those fluctuations. It's recorded daily because my scale is a technological wonder.

I have yet to see someone who doesn't have some sort of roll when they sit, be it fat or skin or lunch. If you are asking if you need to lose more weight - you don't.

Walk up your calories until you find the balance you're looking for.

Pierogies - 120 of them made by hand for Orthodox Easter. It's going to be a long day.

So, 1600 is not your maintenance. Start walking your calories up until you find that balance.

I consume 40carbs, 30fats, 30protein which typically puts me well over 100g a day. FTR, I'm a 121 lb woman.

A DEXA scan helps you lose weight in the same way a scale helps you lose weight . Or a thermometre helps you recover from the flu. It's just a tool to measure.

Eat as you normally would.

I weigh daily and my weight is automatically entered. I'm wondering what an artificially low reading is.

Do you blend the oil and coffee to emulsify it like 'they' say you are supposed to? The would probably be the extra time that people are talking about.

I would be tempted to ask him how much he has lost but I would also be afraid that showing interest would open doors that would be hard to close.

Also, make sure you are measuring at the same time every day - first thing in the morning post-bathroom, pre-breakfast is best. I have an Aria as well. Something I really like about it is that I can link it to trendweight.com - it will show you your overall trend in weight, body fat%, lean mass & fat mass.

Or more muscle than fat but, essentially, that.

2lbs a week is a 1000cal deficit/day. TDEE = 1200+1000=2200 give or take.

Maintenance means maintaining a current body weight. Body composition at that maintenance weight is variable, not fixed. My TDEE is approx. 1900. I determined this based on my calorie consumption and weight loss over a longer period of time.

I joined because this site has the tools I need to help me get the body I want.

Exercise calories are not related to weight loss except through reducing net calories? But net calories are the most important thing. So, if you choose to exercise as part of your weight loss, those exercise calories can have a direct relationship to your weight loss. No, you don't have to exercise to lose weight but…