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After I lost 110 pounds, I have so much loose skin that the only way I'll have a flat stomach is if I get plastic surgery. Which I'm not going to do.

I'm 5' 0" and the last time I weighed myself I was 131. I want to have 15-20% body fat and at least 100 pounds of muscle. I have no idea what weight that would put me at but I'm going to guess around 120.

No food that exists today is Paleo. The stuff we eat today is so different from what they ate and didn't exist back then. Which is part of why the whole thing is just silly.

You're a woman. You can't bulk up. Well, unless you shoot yourself up with testosterone.

I went with whatever level got me the daily calories that I knew I would maintain on. Right now it's on "lightly active" to give me about 1500 calories a day and then I add my exercise calories on top as that method works best for me.

I think eating to a calculator's TDEE is the tail wagging the dog. When I wanted to maintain, I added 200 calories to my daily allotment and waited 2 weeks to see if I kept losing. If I did, I added another 200 and repeated until I stopped losing. Then I adjusted my MFP settings until it said I should get that many…

I work at a start-up in Silicon Valley. It's part of the culture to have the job provide food. We make regular Costco runs and Google Express is always delivering. One advantage is that it's not random crap that people bring in. We can get whatever we want so I make sure there is always nuts, Greek yogurt, beef jerky,…

I had my diary open and then someone I didn't know at all sent me an email scolding me for what I was eating and how much. First of all, it's none of his business. Secondly, he made a lot of assumptions about how I had lost my weight and how I believe we should eat so his advice was off-base. Finally, I had done a 100 mile…

I never use the elevator if I'm only going up 1-3 flights. And I stopped trying to find the closest parking space to the door ages ago. (It's much faster just to take the first spot you see!) I also try not to sit too much at work. Sitting is killing us IMO. It's been years since my surgery so these things are…

I agree with Laura for the first 6 months of the weight loss phase. After that, it really depends. By 6 months out, I was super-active and my surgeon wanted me getting 120 g of protein a day. I couldn't do that and keep my calories at 800. I gradually went up to 1200 over the next couple of months -- still losing at the…

Sleevie Wonder

It's the name I use everywhere on the internet and have been using online since before there was a commercial internet. It has to do with being a computer consultant and specializing in Macintosh software. I don't specialize in that now -- now I do web and mobile apps -- but that was my business at the time and I used to…

I once knew someone in the 70s who went to India to "find herself" and came back a fruitarian. Well, she certainly was fruity.

Well that's your interpretation. It isn't actually mine. Mine is the friend is a flexible type who thinks that plans for dinner are just a suggestion and then when it gets closer to the date, you firm them up based on what you actually feel like eating and the OP is one who likes to make plans way in advance and then gets…

You can be skinny and not be healthy. Eating too much sugar can lead to Type II diabetes, insulin resistance, etc. It's hard on your liver, too. Unless the OP is doing a lot of endurance type of workouts where the body needs simple sugars for quick energy, limiting sugar is the healthier option in the long run. To the OP:…

I used to eat a little bit all the time and I found that I was never really full. And then over time my choices got bad. A few chocolate-covered almonds here, a mini Snickers there. Hey, it was just a bite - what harm could it do? Except it was just a bite of crap food every 30-60 minutes! And then the cravings start as…

Oh that's a good idea. I have mixed feelings about them myself. I think if people are posting a lot in the a thread, I don't need to see their ticker over and over. And I noticed there was this tendency on some people's part to believe anything someone who had lost a lot of weight said... as if losing 100 pounds made one…

He's splitting hairs. If he goes on his show and says some nutritional supplement is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you'll lose weight if you take it, then he's promoting it. He may not be saying "Buy Dr. John's Raspberry Ketones" but he does promote taking raspberry ketones to lose weight. Even though there is…

Technically I've run a marathon because I've done two Ironmans. But I've never done a stand-alone one and after my 2nd IM, I crashed my bike and got post-concussion syndrome and it's taken me almost 3 years to get back to even the HM distance. I am signed up for the Tinkerbell HM in May though. It will be my first HM since…

I got my IUD in 2010 after losing 100 pounds. Which I maintained with no issues. It's coming out next year and I may finally be in perimenopause so I probably won't replace it but if I'm still ovulating, I will. I love having no menses!

I've never gained weight on a cruise. I used to lose weight because having set meal times controlled my snacking and because I was walking more and being more active. Now that I eat properly and am active all the time, I just stay the same on cruises. If you want to do strength training on the cruise, I recommend a TRX…

I found I need to consume 80-100 oz of fluid to keep everything running smoothly. If I do that, I do pee more but I also have better poops, less gas, and feel better.

My original goal was to get to a point in my life where I was a "normal" person and that included the ability to maintain my weight without having to track every morsel of food. It took years to get to that point but it eventually happened and I stopped logging. That was about 2 years ago after over 4 years of logging. I…

I am not a morning person. But I joined a triathlon club that worked out 6 days a week early in the AM forcing me to get up as early as 4:30am some days and no later than 5:30 am on others. I had to adjust or see my money go down the drain by not attending the workouts I paid for. This is what I found: When I just was…

If you aren't losing weight, you aren't eating at a deficit. That's just math and physics. <<The inches are shifting, but can you imagine how shehulky I would be if the damn scale stays the same and I continue to lose body fat?!>> There is a limit to how much muscle you can gain unless you get on the juice. :wink: Plus, at…

I'm curious as to why you say that.

Maybe it doesn't keep you on-track but everyone is different. It keeps me on-track. And studies show it keeps a lot of people on track. Those who weigh daily during maintenance tend to do better on average than those who do not according to numerous studies.

No, the glycogen stores are full most of the time. They get used as soon as you go back to your regular calorie level. They get replenished about 4 days after the cheat day. But I agree with you that for the last 10 pounds, you want to change your deficit to something smaller.

I am going to give contrarian advice. I am not going to say YOU GO GIRL! And YOU CAN DO IT! And "just set up MFP to lose 1-2 pound a week." I say: If you aren't too motivated, then why push it? Just use MFP to take inventory. Don't even think about weight loss just yet. That's what I did when I first started. The goal at…

Typical recommendation is to weigh every week (or less) during weight loss but every day (more or less) in maintenance. I admit it -- I weighed almost every day during weight loss anyway. :laugh: At one point it was driving me crazy so I had dh hide the scale for a week, but the rest of the time I only recorded my weight…