PaulKruse

Some people fuss to much about eating too little and putting their bodies into the “starvation mode.” If you really want to lose weight at a fast but reasonable pace, cut back as much as you like. You will lose lots of weight before your body goes into starvation. Exercising will help prevent the starvation mode. Watch the…

Losing weight almost certainly means losing both fat and muscle. The trick is to lose more fat than muscle. You already have good advice on that. Weight training helps. Everyone is a little bit different. If you run some algorithm for figuring your metabolic rate, treat that as a ball park number. Then back off 500…

The opposite is also true, that if you are training to gain muscle mass, then you are also putting on some fat. Body builders will put on some fat in order to enable new muscle growth, and then try to lose the fat before a competition without also losing too much muscle mass. If you have much fat, then your body will…

Thanks.

A pound of muscle weighs exactly the same as a pound of fat, or a pound of feathers for that matter. But a pound of muscle will take up less space than a pound of fat. It is denser.

I'm an engineer, so what do you think? I treat my diary like a lab book, and make all entries as quickly and completely as possible. If I don't, I forget what I did and what I ate. I prefer to use my computer, either at work or home; but will use my phone if I'm out.

I had no idea there were so many of us. I started a 100 pound diet a week ago. 88.6 pounds to go. Second week ends and next weigh in is Monday.

Yep. We are newly-weds. Only married 38 years, but every day is a new day. Enjoy your trip to Alaska.