huntindawg1962 Member

"My Cousin Vinny!" I can't avoid watching it if it is on somewhere.

it probably dropped your daily calories just a tad - probably not enough to really notice it if you were not paying attention close to the exact "old number."

You may want to check this out again. It IS a fat (14g of fat in a tablespoon and 130 calories for the same). Now, it is a good kind of fat to use but it is far from "free." It also melts at about 76 degrees so on a warm day the solid will turn liquid but will solid up again below that temp. Adds a light flavor to food -…

Not sure how long you have been doing this to lose those lbs - looks like you signed on here in March? Remember - a portion of those first lbs was just water. Most people that lose and are not doing heavy weight lifting also lose fat and muscle during their weight loss so in those first 15 lbs you probably lost water, some…

Think you meant to say "glucose" - glucosol is something very different :smile:

Careful - just an observation but when i read your list it almost sounds like you are already prepping for and justifying a failure. Read it again yourself and see if you come up with the same conclusion? You can do this! You just need to approach it with a little different angle - what can you do not to need the alcohol…

size matters

Tee Shirt

I preferred the pic with the donkey or cow in the background!

Then you really don't have a grasp on how the the free markets work and why junk, processed, convenient (and tasty) foods are so readily available and "cheaper." Its not some conspiracy from some Wall Street Board Room decision makers that has made junk food cheap - THAT is what the people want so there is lots of willing…

Congratulations ...... and good luck on what is really the start of your journey. Losing it was the first step. Staying away from becoming a part of the 90% regain statistic is now your target. And it really did not matter if you lost it fast or slow - keeping up those good things that got you here is your real challenge -…

Do you mean only log it weekly or log daily but look at the week as a whole. The latter is fine IMO but takes a really good memory and great self control and self-discipline to make it work by the week (which I would propose if any of us had we would not be here now :smokin: )

Let me give you a different take on the daily weighing: I like to weigh in daily (even several times a day) as I learn a lot about myself, the scale, etc. - as you just found out too. Although you will have questions when you see stuff you begin to understand and think about the previous day and can usually assign why they…

you can see variances of 2-5 lbs during the day. Most home bath scales also won't offer the best repeatability either. You can step on it 5 times in a row and some are so bad that they will give you 5 different weights - possibly 3-5 lbs total swing.

One week of no-loss is NOT a plateau

Just a couple of quick questions - 1 - Are you also taking and recording measurements in case you are in fact getting changes even though the scale is not showing them? 2 - Are you measuring and weighing your food portions (not just estimating them)? - most people WAY underestimate their foods.

Look - you have been on here since March - already down 21 lbs! You are "exercising your butt off for the last few days" and noticing a weight gain. That is most likely water. Don't change anything - you are not gaining fat if you are eating in a deficit. Why change up anything INCLUDING eating more just yet?

By the very definition of TDEE, I guarantee this did not happen unless your goal was to lose 0. Do you mean you were considering your sedentary TDEE and added exercise (thus really increasing your TDEE without adding in additional calories of eating)?

Your ticker says two lbs? Credibility is suspect when this is the case. So witchcraft is in fact in play as you were able to eliminate 28000 additional calories in two weeks? That is a remarkable job of repairing of a damaged metabolism especially since your deficit would have been 500 calories less per day! :)

Exercise when one starts out does not have to be a massive endeavor. You could try just taking a walk every day as a start and build it up from there. Any good physical movement helps. Then increase it as you go and start adding in some other stuff. Don't underestimate the power of some weight training, too. Body weight…

If you were still in a calorie deficit there is NO WAY you packed on 5 lbs of fat - more likely water retention from sugars or something else. And if you stopped working out for a period of three weeks - you may have started losing lean tissue accounting for the movement again on the scale.

I have a Withings - I find that out of all of them that I have used over the years - this one seems to have the least amount of variance on multiple "step on's" at one time. I hate the ones where every time you step on it in a sequence - they vary by a couple pounds.

Agree with Eric - in the overall scheme of things what you do in any one meal on any given day is really not significant. Heck - some people skip meals all the time altogether so no carbs, protein nor fat :happy:

Before you jump on the "change" anything or "eat more"- are you taking measurements and are they changing? If you added a lot of exercise that were not done in the past, then you could be retaining water or even building some lean body mass which will disguise the weight loss.

Are you also taking measurements? How are the clothes fitting these days? The addition of the workouts activity that is new will certainly add some muscle and you may just be replacing lbs of fat with lbs of muscle so you are not seeing the net loss.

The other ones you will see a lot are TDEE - Total Daily Energy Expenditure BMR - Basal Metabolic Rate RMR - Resting Metabolic Rate VLCD - Very Low Calorie Diet OP - Original Poster More are out there

Non Scale Victory (NSV)

They have the special equipment where you are placed for an sampling period and it gathers data from several monitors including being in a "fish bowl" like contraption around your head to collect and analyze the CO2. The test itself is about an hour long. Someone sits with you to monitor that you remain still but yet don't…

The HRM calorie expenditure will show the total burn during the activity including the base calories one would have burned had the just been sitting in a chair (your BRM burn rate by the minute). The activities on here are only estimates for a bodyweight too so they won't be exact.

There is one study that had a control group - sorry I did not keep the URL but the VLCD group (800 calories/day) was 10% depressed but also rebounded with weeks of the end of the VLCD portion of the study. But I would not live and die by these studies either. As I posted in another thread, I actually had mine tested and…