sgthaggard Member

Uhm, actually. . . it's as valid a suggestion as any other.

If you are weighing your foods, I would suggest that your issues are probably on the calories out side largely because even HRMs rely on algorithms based on estimates. If you're looking for advice, I would start with eating back fewer exercise calories.

How big of a gain? How often do you weigh yourself? Do you weigh your food? How do you record your calorie burn? Do you eat back all of your exercise calories? The issue could be a number of things - water weight, inaccurate calculation of calories in or calories out. What the issue isn't is CICO.

I kind of get the confusion - we measure in feet and inches not feet and fractions of feet. But, yes, the decimal means a fraction.

Newspeak. Food is either good or ungood, never bad.

My diet is only limited by calories, protein, and taste.

Always weigh your dry/solid foods.

I'm just about to start my last week. I did it on the treadmill so that I could control speed and have some consistency. I'm currently taking the run between 8 and 8.8km/hr. Once I'm done, I'll up the incline and then move it outdoors.

If you are losing between a half pound and a pound a week, I would say you are doing very well. Yes, buy a food scale - you will be amazed how much of a difference it can make.

Another Torontonian checking in.

For fat loss, no, it doesn't matter. Cutting carbs tends to 'jump start' weight loss because of an initial water loss as you lose glycogen in the muscles and liver. But, that will come back.

Not lying but, looking at just your breakfast yesterday - 1 medium banana, 1 ham slice, 6 melba toasts - is not accurate logging. The calories in a 'medium' banana could vary wildly and ham slices and melba toasts vary in size as well, even when they are portioned out by the manufacturer.

I don't know what you mean by 'leaner' but a gram of carbs and a gram of protein are each 4 calories.

Muscle doesn't take up less space than fat - a square inch of muscle is the same volume as a square inch of fat. ;) Here's the thing, though - I understood what you meant. Just as most thinking people understand that, when someone says that muscle weighs more than fat, that they mean at a given volume.

You mean like a 950calorie key lime pie slice? No, never. o:)

I don't drink diet pop but, honestly, that's just because I don't like the taste. I would imagine that you are going to find a correlation between overweight people and diet drinks because, I don't know, overweight people diet?

If you're curious about where this thread became negative, start with the OP. Just sayin'.

Technically, I don't need any - I would do this fine on my own. The social aspect of this site is just an added bonus and, for that, the more the merrier.

I track my food on MFP and my exercise on fitbit. If I input the calorie burn of my exercise (per my HRM) on fitbit, it replaces what the fitbit calculates for that period of time - it doesn't add to it.

Oh so that! I've been comfortable in the weight room since day one but I would be extremely self-conscious in group fitness classes.

I'm at the gym to work out. I'm too focussed to look at you or to notice if you're looking at me.

I guess it depends on how comfortable you are with your burn estimates. What works for me is eating back some. How do I know it works for me? Because I'm rarely hungry and still consistently losing weight.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's still coffee. I just happen not to like it without cream and sugar. 1 cup a day with 4tbsp of half and half and 2tsp of sugar - 114 calories that I will always make room for in my daily budget.

On the flip side, a raw food diet doesn't restrict you to 1200 calories and not eating back exercise calories. No matter what you're eating, a calorie deficit that high is eventually going to cause problems.

Calories, macros and fibre.

I'm more likely to exercise to 'earn' additional calories than to save up the calories I have.

Different personalities. I'm much more likely to do something on my own than if someone orders me to do it. That doesn't mean that I'm not ready, just that I'm not into being pushed around by someone with power issues.

I was going to ask if that was with or without the core but it would have had to have been one big azz core to make up the difference. ;)

Unless my birthday falls on my rest day, I'll be working out.

The scale started changing pretty much immediately after I started. I don't really know when I started to see the difference in my body.