sgthaggard Member

Cheese: the only reason I exercise.

You won't die young, you'll just wish that you would.

Or eat maintenance, lift heavy, lose fat and gain muscle. This is the route I'm going.

Protein can make some people feel fuller for longer. There's no indication that it does anything for your metabolism.

Yeah, they should probably eat some cheesecake, chips, or chocolate. Oh, wait. . .

I refuse to watch anything that will get between me and cheesecake.

No. Our society didn't become obese by eating too little and working out too hard. Starvation mode is bull.

The 5-7lbs that you lose in a day isn't fat, it's water. The 5-7lbs that you're gaining back? Also water. You are spinning your wheels by looking at weight loss in the short-term and misinterpreting your weight fluctuations. I can't give you motivation - nobody can - but the tools are all here. Weigh your food, track your…

No idea what she's talking about. Fitbit is a great tool for measuring your activity level. You walk, you burn calories. You walk hills or walk faster, you burn more calories. Fitbit recognises this. Where a fitbit isn't enough (unless you have one with a HRM and then, for me, the jury's still out) is when you are…

I walk between 13K to 15K steps each day. My activity level is set to sedentary all the time and I let the fitbit do the adjustments for me. As for your OP - you have not plateaued if you are still losing a pound/week. It may have slowed from a rate you previously enjoyed but weight loss tends to do that. Keep doing what…

The more I up my protein, the more important fibre becomes.

I've had my fitbit for over 3 years - that's what I do.

Water retention in your muscles would be my guess.

For me, calories first, protein second, fibre third. The rest? Whatever.

Really what I'm doing is eating what I normally would and exercising my way into a deficit. ;)

To paraphrase what I just said, yes, exactly that. ;)

That's exactly my point - a deficit doesn't care how it's created. I could create a deficit through diet alone, I could create one through exercise alone, or I could create one through a combination of both. Discounting exercise by saying it improves your health but has nothing to do with weight loss is where I take issue.…

300 calories is my daily deficit. Exercise, for me, is the difference between losing weight and maintaining.

I don't understand - you met your macro percentages or you met your macro grams. You can meet the percentages at any calorie level by eating the right mix. If you are doing IIFYM, it's the grams you want to meet, not the percentages. If you meet the grams, you'll hit your calorie target.

I'm smack dab in the 'acceptable'. Give me a week and I'll be tiptoeing into the 'smug'.

The ever-popular "exercise for fitness, diet for weight loss" makes me a bit nuts. I get that a lot of people overestimate their burn. I see it daily amongst my friends. But that's really not a reason to discount it's effect on weight loss. I ran 5k yesterday. That allowed me to have a sizeable dinner with hundreds of…

Another viable option, since you only have 9lbs to lose, is recomp - eat at maintenance, sufficient protein, lift heavy. This is a longer process that will let you lose fat and gain muscle. You won't see much movement in the scale but your body composition can change quite a bit.

Unless she ate 17,500 extra calories, she can rest assured that it's not fat.

Lower your reps by half, increase your weight.

+1

I'm currently eating a serving of zero cal capers. I log them to remind myself tomorrow, when I'm retaining water, that my capers carry a crap-load of sodium.

But her husband isn't going to be there to help her with the program (I'm assuming he hasn't done it), just the moves. I don't know, I didn't have much problem following it. And if she has problems, there are lots of people here who can explain it to her pretty quickly.

There's nothing complicated about NROLFW. The moves are in the book and they're fairly simple to learn. If you want your husband to help you out on form, I would spend time on your squat and deadlift.

The only thing that replaces ice-cream, IMO, is more ice-cream.

Not your fault. People just tend to be overly pedantic. Even those saying a pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat knew what you were talking about.