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I play this game too and I have similar stats to yours! I'm 24, 5'6.5, 165 pounds currently, try to lift heavy two or three times a week (50 minute sessions) and do cardio three times a week (usually no more than an hour, and usually running). My TDEE according to various calculators is 2400ish at that level of activity…

I weigh each ingredient separately before mixing it up in a salad. Usually for shredded lettuce/spinach I just use measuring cups, though. Sometimes I estimate, because after like five years of calorie counting, I'm pretty good at eyeballing portions and calories. When I'm in maintenance mode I estimate a lot more than…

Are you drinking electrolytes? My doctor recommended Electrolyte Fizz and I use it during my cardio workouts sometimes. It could be a placebo effect but I feel a lot better/have less cramping when I drink it

I usually walk a mile at 3.5 mph and 3.5 incline, then I run at 6 mph/1 incline for 1-2 miles, then i alternate running and walking. Usually end up doing an hour.

rice cakes 100 calorie popcorn packs a hardboiled egg or 100 calories worth of egg whites 3/4 oz of almonds or other nuts string cheese

No. The calories are too low for me and the pre-set macros are weird (if I followed their suggestions for protein, I'd be getting half as much as I do now and I'd be hungry all the time. Doesn't work for me, so I changed them). I do TDEE minus 15-20%. i work out four or five times a week and my TDEE is 2500ish when i…

People can lose weight eating that much because their TDEE is higher than 1600. I lose about a pound a week eating 2000 calories if I'm working out 5x a week because my TDEE is around 2500 when I work out that much.

Go for it if it fits your calories. As long as you're not eating ice cream for dinner every night, who cares? Treat yourself.

The heaviest i've ever gone is 4 reps 50 pounds I usually do 10 reps at 20 or 30 pounds though. I know I can probably go a lot heavier, but I only started barbell squats a few months ago and I'm focusing on perfecting my form before I increase the weight

there's nothing grosser than a man who thinks he gets to comment on everything a woman does and how "sexy" it is for him. some of us are there to get our workout in, not to be ogled. ew.

1) coffee 2) onions 3) tomatoes 4) garlic 5) laughing cow cheese 6) coconut oil 7) carrots 8) apples 9) honey 10) 2% milk i'm neither proud nor ashamed i try not to attribute morality to the food choices i make (unless it has to do with ethical issues of how the food gets to my plate i.e. abuse of farm workers/food…

Nope. According to MFP I should be eating like 1400 calories a day and losing a lot slower. I lose 1.5 pounds a week eating 1800-2000. I don't eat back exercise calories though. I also tweaked the macro levels. I work out a lot and lift heavy so I like to hit at least 100 g of protein, and MFP's recommended amount was…

sent you a message. add me if you like, i know exactly what you're going through and am in a very similar situation right now, im sure we could both use the support!

Meal timing doesn't matter

No, I understand. Your post makes a lot more sense than most of this thread. If you look back at most of the posts, it is people defining naturally thin like I said - naturally thin = defying the laws of physics. That's not a thing. What you're talking about is different and you're bringing up a good point. I do agree that…

6 - 6.5 mph is my slow steady run pace When I do sprints I go anywhere from 7-9 though

barbell squats. go heavy. Edit: unless those are the squats you already do. I'm just assuming you do body weight or light dumbbell squats from your post - I could be wrong, in which case, ignore this advice.

But that isn't exclusive to thin people. There are plenty of overweight people who are overweight because they make bad choices/eat fatty food that puts them over their maintenance calories and causes them to gain a great deal of weight. I know plenty of obese/overweight people who don't have issues with bingeing and are…

I look at my calories over a weekly average. Anything below a 2300 average is a good week for me, honestly. I shoot for 2000 though. I've set my daily goal limit to 1700 and try to hit that most days of the week, because some days I like to go over. I work out a lot and my TDEE is 2400 so staying as low as 1700…

I'd say that looks-wise I was in the best shape of my life about a year ago, when I was 22. I'd finally gotten to my goal weight (150 pounds, down from 217) and was working out 3-4x a week (mostly cardio). Had a flat stomach and low enough body fat to see some decent muscle definition. My collarbones and even my hip bones…

Lol, welcome to my life. Sometimes i can eat a whole pizza and not feel full. And sometimes i forget to eat all day, usually when i'm busy, because my brain doesn't register that I need to eat something. Those signals are broken in me, which is why I spent most of my life very overweight and then obese. I have trouble…

Okay, this makes a little more sense . . . but it's still not a magical "lucky trait" in my opinion. It's just genetics, a 6'1 male is going to have a higher TDEE than a sedentary shorter female, and will therefore be able to eat more. I might feel differently about this if I had a lower TDEE - mine's about 2400 and I lose…

Nothing you've written in this post (or subsequent posts) suggests that your husband is naturally thin . . . just that he has a higher TDEE than you and eats to meet that TDEE - not more, not less. If he did force himself to eat above that, he would gain weight.

steamed edamame (soybeans): yum virgin coconut oil: yum commercial peanut butters: blech lactose free chocolate milk sweetened with sucralose: nah whole kernel corn: sure farmed salmon: ehhh lowfat grainfed beef: not a fan of beef pinto, black and kidney beans: YES. albacore tuna: yes >80% cocoa dark chocolate: i like 85%…

are you with him 24/7? back when i did IF i could easily put away a large pizza for my ONE MEAL of the day and still be at a deficit with my activity level. if people just assumed that i ate like that all the time, they might have thought that i have some kind of magical metabolism that allows me to eat 10 slices of pizza…

do you exercise?

because "as much of whatever they want" is still less than their/your TDEE i don't understand why this is so hard for people to understand

Well, my mother is 62, 5'3, and doesn't exercise at all either. She eats around the same amount. She's not "naturally thin" - she does gain a few pounds when she eats more than that, and she loses weight when she eats less. She is a teacher,so she's standing up all day. When she comes home she moves around a LOT. She…

Okay, I'm seeing a lot of generic database entries in your food diary. "Chicken - Breast, meat only, cooked, roasted, 1 cup, chopped or diced" isn't going to be accurate enough. You need to weigh the meat. Also, what did you roast it in? How much oil? or "Banana - Extra Large (9" or Longer) (152g), 1 Banana (152g)" There's…

No. That's not a thing.