spekkio12345 Member

There is nothing wrong with Diet Coke. As long as you aren't drinking a 12 pack a day or whatnot.

Eating healthy is much easier than marriage. There is little a person controls more than what they stick in their mouth and eat.

This site is based on a calorie deficit of 500 - 1000 cals a day depending on your goal. So if you eat back your exercise cals you theoretically will still have that deficit. Reality is there is no need to obsess over eating back exercise calories. Eat them back if you feel super hungry, if you don't then don't. People…

If you stick to the 1200 honestly and keep up the moderate exercise you will lose over time. Don't put a single thing in your mouth you don't count, not a sip of caloric drink, a tablespoon of dressing, a chip.....nada. And talking about carbs, a small pasta dish from a college cafeteria can easily have over 1200 calories…

The whole purpose of this site is to lose weight without the fads and nonsense. In turn, you not only lose weight but change your life in a way that allows you to keep it off. A honest calorie deficit of 500 calories day in and day out will result in safe and sustainable weight loss.

Well, you are so small to begin with that one pound per week is a significant amount of loss for you. Make sure you goal weight would still be a healthy BMI for you, then stick to the 500 calorie daily deficit MFP recommends and you will lose weight over time. Remember that MFP will not recommend less than 1200 daily…

Even on the "cheat" days (or whatever you want to call them), you should still count, especially in the beginning. If you want to go over you calories, then go over but the habit of never eating a darn thing without tracking it will greatly increase your chances of success.

Sometimes what appears to be a plateau is a slowing of the rate of weight loss that is normal and healthy. As you get closer to a healthy weight, you will lose weight slower. Even 1/2 of a pound per week is still a decent rate of weight loss over the long term as your body settles into a healthy weight.

I agree with the guy who said "starvation" is an alarmist term as used for the most part in the US. If you are 100 pounds overweight, then you have well enough energy stores to eat 500 calories a day for a long time without "starving." Starving is those kids on TV from Africa, and those rare few who truly do have eating…

My scale reads the same whether I stand on one foot or two, I guess it depends on your scale but it should be pretty close, you can always use the scale in the doctors office to confirm your weight.

I have read that a more aggressive approach to weight loss is to calculate what your BMR would be at your goal weight and make that your daily calorie limit from the beginning. This site uses a more conservative approach by recalculating your BMR as you lose the weight, gradually reducing the amount of calories you eat…

If you follow the caloric recommendations of this site based on your goals, day after day, week after week then your body fat percentage will continue to decrease. If you are already at your ideal weight, then reduce body fat by lifting weights and other strength training.

It takes your body a while to convert the unneeded calories into fat stores, just like it takes it a while of being in a caloric deficit to burn fat stores. Of course if you want weight gain to stop and reverse, then you need to get back to a caloric deficit as suggested by this site based on your goals.

Unless you have a specific medical reason to focus on sugar, don't obsess over it. Focus on your calories as suggested by the site, and you will see results.

Sounds good. If a whole day off is more that you can handle, then a single meal can go a long way in keeping you sane. I like McDonalds once a week myself.

When in doubt, use sedentary. It is not a negative thing to use sedentary in your setting within this site, it will only cause the calculations for your calorie goals and such to be more conservative. The exercise you log on a daily basis, it is separate from your "activity level"

Even with the swelling and fluctuating weight you can still determine if you are losing weight over time. If you weigh yourself several times daily, then log the MAX weight you observe for yourself each day. Over time you should see that max value decrease if you are losing. But yea, I would continue to investigate with…

If you want to be successful in your long term weight management, then you need to focus on you and making permanent lifestyle changes you can live with over the long term. Losing 4 pounds in 5 days may feel good for now, but what will really matter over time is managing your daily calories intake and exercise day after…