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I haven't noted this as a problem at this stage, though I wondered about it. I was careful not to loose weight too quickly—started in mid January 2012 for the progress reported here. I think Fitnesssocial is exactly right. I heard somewhere that keeping water intake up is helpful with skin issues... not sure if that…

I have lost 42lbs (or in my language, 19kg) since mid January. I haven't added any additional exercise at all, really. I walk to work every day (20 mins downhill) and back up (22 mins up a steep hill, and it's steep enough to be a cardio workout) but I did that for the last two years and gained a couple of kilos. The only…

I don't drink many diet sodas, but my other observation I've had is that it looks like when I do, my weight loss flattens out/weight goes up initially, and isn't on the expected track for a few days, maybe even five days, but then will suddenly reset itself and I'll drop fast to exactly where I'd have expected to be by…

You were right that I was wrong, but what I actually should have been saying was "glycogen".

Your body has to use 3g of water to store every gram of glucosol. Therefore, energy stored as glucosol weighs more than the same amount of energy stored as fat. As I understand it, your body stores carbs and protein as glucosol if they are not burned immediately, and stores fat as fat... When you first start creating a…

clickmaster, really like nearly all of what you wrote. Please provide a reputable citation for this claim, which I would argue has been well debunked as a myth. In fact, the frequency of eating only matters insofar as it changes the total number of calories that you consume.

Eating 5 meals vs 3 makes no difference to total weight loss; only the net calories do. However, snacks are an easy way to build in more calories if you're not meeting your targets...

Some days when I've been under target I can feel really down, and I think it is a blood sugar thing. So first thing, are you eating enough? Many nutritionists etc argue the fastest you should try to lose weight is a pound a week, so 44lbs in a year is fabulous! Yes, some people here report losing more, and when someone is…

The HRM I have logs virtually no calories burned if I wear it sitting around, but does when I exercise. It appears to be subtracting the BMR content for me. Very useful. It matches almost exactly with a website I found that estimates calories burned walking various routes in my local area, based on my weight, so I'm…

The BMR calculator on this site estimates your BMR at 1,355, which would lead to an estimated sedentary rate of 1,690 as you say. So a *net* target to lose a pound a week would be 1,190. That means, eating 1,100 is a 590 deficit and 1,000 is a 690 calorie deficit. That extra 190 calories not eaten if you only eat 1,000 net…

Given MFP recommends a 500 calorie deficit to loose a pound a week, overshooting this by only another 100 calories will not trigger 'starvation mode'. But perhaps what is being implied here is an additional deficit of 600 *on top of* the 500 already built into the target. That would be a deficit bigger than I'd be…

In order to understand your situation and be able to give you advice, the important question is how you got to your 1,200 calorie target in the first place. Did MFP recommend it to you based on your height, weight, age, weight loss target, and activity level? If so, what was the weekly weight loss target you entered and…

If this was true for any of us right now, surely we wouldn't be here. :)

Tracking since Jan 17th... more than happy. I'm back to 2003 and still in reverse. :)

So sorry to hear about your loss. This week is going to be a tough time, so why not revise your goals a little. The first thing you might want to do is to set your MFP settings to "maintain current weight", just for this week. That gives you a little more room in your target and you can still know that if you meet that…

The only function this has is to reduce total calories by reducing a chance to snack, if you follow the rule. If you're using MFP to track your calories and you're sticking to target, it doesn't make any difference when you eat them...

This definitely happens to athletes so isn't impossible. Someone with more X chromosomes will have to comment how often it is seen around here.

How so? You seem to think MFP is suggesting you eat less than you are, yet your diary shows that MFP is suggesting you eat even MORE than that. Are you mis-reading something on the site perhaps?

Looking at your dairy, you've been consistently going hundreds of calories under your net target recently due to your amount of exercise. Your target already includes a 500 calorie a day deficit. On a day when the site lists you as 500-700 calories under your target, that means you are 1,000-1,500 calories under what you…

The widely cited claim that eating a large number of smaller meals will boost your metabolism has been debunked. (And if it was true, the quoted advice would make the OP feel *more* hungry, not less, as they would be burning more calories.)

At 48 days here so far, I don't know if I'd fit your category of "sustained success", but I wanted to comment on this: The person quoted here has valuable experience, but just as a counter-point: essentially the only thing I've changed in my diet is my portion sizes and how often I have snacks of the same kind of food I'd…

A 300ml glass of the brand of full cream milk we buy is 190 calories. You can add 2 tsp of hot chocolate powder for another 80 calories. Easy fix to the base deficit. You say you are not eating back your exercise calories. How many calories are you burning through exercise usually? You may be creating too high a deficit.…

Generally I agree, although it may be that the point they are making is that the average workout would burn a lot less than 1,000 calories, so you'd actually put on weight in that scenario (even if there are some health benefits not offset by the poor nutrition in junk food)?

You can fit it in your calorie target so no need to give it up. Your food diary is viewable so I wonder if you were open to other comments? You're clearly deliberately targeting a high protein intake and your profile picture suggests that you're working pretty successfully on building and defining muscle. Just be aware…

Go back and have a look at your diary. This just isn't correct. If you set your goal to 1,200 now, it retrospectively is applied to previous periods too. Once you've done that, where you've eaten 1,200 net calories you'll see zero calories remaining. Except when you actually go back and look at that period you'll see that…

Based on your height and weight, it would take about 1,650 calories to maintain your current weight, if you were only moderately active (just moving around during the day) and did not do any additional exercise. I suggest you go back to a 1,200 calorie net goal, substantially reduce the exercise you're doing to be more…

You said you've "stuck to your calorie goal" but looking at your diary you must think "stuck to" means to go UNDER. Last Friday, for instance, you ate only about 850 calories, coming in over 1000 net calories under your goal due to exercise, even with having set a very low (1000 calorie) goal. You are not eating enough.…

Your diary is private, but it does show your progress ticker, which states you have lost 2 pounds, which is more than "not a single pound" and "nothing". That's progress! What activity level did you set when getting your daily target? Perhaps you over-estimated your base activity level?

Know how many calories it takes to maintain your current weight, and how many calories you're actually eating and burning. Almost everything else you think you know about weight gain and weight loss is just confusion, smoke and mirrors, designed to sell books and products you don't need.

I figure it isn't an all or nothing thing. Start by having some days where you don't log the food during the day (if you were) and instead log at the end of they day, so you can begin to see if you're eating the right amount of food even when you're not logging it as you go. When that is working well, start only logging 5…