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Drinking water helps maintain the amount of fluids you lose just by breathing, evaporation from skin, sweating... It can help you maintain how much you eat as well. It also helps your kidneys and transports waste from the body, helps your skin look nice. Also helps your muscles.

Doesn't matter if you limit those foods. What matters is if you're in a deficit or not. If your body is burning more than you are feeding it. You could lose weight eating tacos and ice cream and gain weight eating salad. Weigh all your solid food and log consistently.

I use cardio to supplement my crossfit workouts. So sometimes I row at a moderate pace for 30min or go jog. I am recently starting a C25k program. I also cycle in which case I go at a moderate pace for about 20mi.

Why would you go on the scale right after working out and eating? That makes no sense.

Probably from the food you've eaten.

Skill Work: Pull ups Ring dips Lift: Push Press 5RM Conditioning: 21-15-9 pull up 15-12-9 heavy push press

Careful on what you use to calculate calories burned. If you are using MFP to calculate those, only eat about 50%-75% back. MFP way over estimate calorie burns. I personally don't eat calories back. My exercise routine is calculated into my daily intake. But even before I never really did. I've done both ways and haven't…

Like many have mentioned before, stick to a deficit. If you aren't weighing out your solid food, do so. Measuring cups are very inaccurate for these. Measure liquids and log everything, be consistent.

I've been there, got down to 150lbs and went back up to over 200lbs. Working on getting back down. It's a struggle. I find that I eat better when I exercise more. Diet will produce more results but personally if I feel better I make more conscious choices.

More protein may help.

^^ This right here.

You're eating more than your body is burning.

There's is no starvation mode. The reason that 1200 is usually the minimum is because you want your body to get adequate vitamins, minerals, etc. Starvation mode had been debunked.

Calorie deficit, don't eat more than your body burns; includes food, exercise, whatever. If you're following the calories MFP gives eat back about 50% to 75% of your exercise calories because it over estimates. If you're following the TDEE method you don't eat your exercise calories back, it's calculated in.

Yeah....agreed. No.

Also, you're suppose to adjust calories for every 10lbs you lose if you are using MFP method. For TDEE method I use iifym.com site personally. But it stands for total daily energy expenditure. You do that minus 20%. Don't eat back exercise calories.

Your metabolism is fine. Are you weighing your food?

Also, it's only been 7 days...

So how long have you been at this? Do you log regularly? If you don't weigh your food you need to start. Eyeballing and measuring cups don't cut it. Also, MFP overestimated calories burned for exercises, you should probably only eat back about 50%-75% of the calories it estimates you burn.

I had successful weight loss on both the pill and an IUD.

She's back!

If it's an everyday task I don't log it. For example, I don't log walking around campus all day to get to classes. I only log exercise that I make an effort to go out and do.

You don't need a detox or cleanse unless your organs arn't functioning properly. If you want a healthier lifestyle then look at what successful people here have been doing, or do some proper research. Not fad diets. My 2¢.

Eat at a deficit. You didn't do anything to your metabolism, starvation mode is a myth. Weight loss is just calories in vs calories out. Eat less than your body burns, doesn't matter the type of food. Follow a weight lifting program and cardio.

I agree that there is information being left out. That or possibly OP might just be a little to sensitive. I re-read the post and it doesn't say if he was being malicious or not. Extra skin is going to happen. Either get it removed, hope that it tightens up, or live with it and move on. I think the bigger issue is that you…

So conclude that the options are being very overweight, initial water weight drop, or a massive bowel movement. OP, average weight loss per week is about 0.5 to 2lbs. I would stick with that. The weight didn't get there quickly. 3,500 calories is 1lb, you would need a deficit ranging from 10,500-17,500 calories per week to…

Yeah, it's not muscle. More likely water retention. But you need to track your calories. Weigh everything, measuring cups don't cut it for solids. Dr. OZ is a fraud.

No magic way to do to it. If you had tons of money you could have surgery, but you would put the weight right back on because you never learned the discipline. You didn't put that weight on overnight, don't expect it to come off any faster. Stick to a deficit, log accurately, exercise.

Are you weighing your food? Measuring cups don't cut it for solids.

Also, weight loss will take longer depending on how much you have to lose m if you were losing weight before MFP why not sick with that?