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Stop, she is just trolling.
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As she stated, she is the actual troll on this thread.
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Obesity and poor health are strongly correlated, there is little chance that you will be able to maintain your obese status and not have serious health problems down the road. This is not about psychology or you being ok with yourself, it is about health. Anyone who advises you that it is ok (from a health perspective) to…
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The Nike Fuel Band tracks activity calories so if you know your BMR then you can just add the calories tracked from the fuel band to get your total caloric burn and then set your caloric intake goal accordingly.
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The fuel band is tracking activity based calories, or calories above your BMR. So to know your total daily burn you add your BMR number to the calories on the fuel band. If you're using it to lose weight at 1lb/week then your target calorie level is 500 below the sum of your BMR and fuel band number.
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Measuring yourself is a procedure filled with potential for error and/or biases, weighing has no error or bias. If you're trying to track body composition changes then use a device intended for that purpose.
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I strongly advocate daily weighing. The scale is the most easily accessible and reliable indicator of what is going on with your body, and of course it is completely impartial. Also, it is important to lose any fear of weighing in. It is easy for people with weight challenges to develop a fear of the scale, stop weighing…
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He shouldn't have the same calorie goal now as he did when 20lb heavier as your BMR drops with your weight. It should be re-calibrated for his current weight. .
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There is no utility to a "cheat" meal, it is just an excuse to go off plan. If you want a big meal then earn it by creating the caloric deficit through eating less beforehand and exercising.
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If you haven't lost weight it means you haven't run a caloric deficit so your estimation of calorie intake, BMR, and/or exercise are off. This site just estimates BMR, your true BMR may be lower. Also this site over estimates calories used in exercise. The easiest thing to do is to further reduce your caloric intake by…
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You should have your activity level as sedentary and use either an activity monitor (Nike Fuel Band) or HRM (such as adidas micoach) to estimate caloric burn of your exercise sessions.
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It is likely your calorie numbers are off, the estimated BMR could be high, your actual intake could be underestimated, and/or your activity burn could be overestimated. Any of these things could lead to you thinking a calorie deficit exists when it doesn't.
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No, as long as you have a net caloric deficit it does not matter when you eat.
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If you are certain that you aren't missing calories in your diet (like from drinking) I would recommend setting your activity level to sedentary and using an activity monitor or device with a heart rate monitor that estimates caloric burn to correctly estimate caloric burn. If you're using the calculators here to estimate…
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The most likely reason is that your estimations of caloric intake and burn are quite off. In order to succeed you need to be absolutely accurate with caloric intake (include ALL intake and be accurate about the amounts) as well as your caloric burn. Eating and drinking items you can most easily measure would make recording…
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Sugar intake impact on insulin is a non-factor if you're in a calorie deficit because there aren't surplus calories to store as fat. If you are on balance or in excess with calories there is probably some impact depending on the insulin sensitivity of the person and other factors like genetics.
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Actually it isn't a "lie" it is the 2nd law of thermodynamics.Your body doesn't run on magic beans, if are actually burning more than you intake the only possible mechanism is to source calories from the body. People that make claims of not losing weight (long term) aren't actually burning more than they intake. The most…
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Get a Nike Fuel Band, it is not a HRM but does a good job of tracking total activity and calories burned. Also it is easy to wear and use all the time.
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It doesn't integrate automatically with this site but the Nike Fuel Band works great and is easy to wear/use (won't fall off etc...). I highly recommend it.
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For most people setting their activity level at sedentary and then recording exercise or other extended activity is best. Using a Nike Fuel Band to track your overall activity and caloric burn helps immensely.
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Yes if you're very accurate with your intake and exercise measurement.
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Bodies vary but with respect to weight loss this is mainly an issue of metabolic rate impacting actual caloric burn. It is possible that you have a significantly slower metabolism than average and weight loss requires a significantly lower consumption level than would be indicated by the estimates on sites like this one.…
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If you are accurate with your calorie consumption and activity level (through precise tracking of both) then eat all your exercise calories back. If you're not 100% accurate you probably under track calories and over estimate activity so only eating back a small part would be advisable.
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If you're not losing weight you're consuming more than you're burning. The answer is likely that you consume more than you track (an example being the drinking you do). With such a low net calorie consumption goal you can't miss at all on consumption and expect to make progress. Also possible you overestimate activity,…
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A more accurate way to measure your progress would be to use a bodyfat measuring scale. The absolute accuracy is not good (meaning you should not rely on it for determining your actual level of bodyfat) but the relative accuracy should be (so you can compare measurements over time) and allow you to see if you are changing…
