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At only 1200 calories, OP is cutting at nearly 40% without exercise. Include exercise, OP is cutting at over 50% (If they're really burning 800 cals it would be somewhere in the 60ish% range)....they need to eat some exercise cals back. They're setting themselves up for a massive crash and burn.

For your age / ht / wt in your profile....if your logging is on point you should eat every single calorie back and adjust from there. 1200 is already a pretty aggressive cut for you pre-exercise, let alone after exercise.

If you know what your baseline is (let's say 1500), I don't see how it's hard to eat back 1/2 your exercise cals..... The reason that some log all of their exercisese is that they're tracking time, mileadge, etc... For me, I didn't so I used to enter about 60% of what I do (since I'm not tracking mileage). With my Fitbit…

What does bulking have to do with anything?

Possibly two of the most contradictory sentences I've ever seen in on post. "You can by whatever you want, except you really can't" Why do I need help if I'm buying cheetos and ice cream in bulk?

How can we buy in bulk, but yet not by giant amounts...you're constant contradiction (to the point it sounds labored) is what's setting off everyone's troll detector. It's not that we can't understand it...you just make zero sense and are a walking contradiction that doesn't have a plan and is just making it up as you go…

Again....so we can't buy in bulk....it's cheaper? How do you know all of this "junk food" is going to kids? What's a junk food and what isn't.....on your card? A specified list would be great.

My fav, but it's tougher to drink than a shandy when it's hot as hell out.

Does this count? If so, I may have cleansed enough for the next three years over the 4th weekend.

Yep, that includes the couple grand we get back at the end of they year (in deductions, etc), and that is federal only. I'm adding state, federal, etc...to get to 28%.

That's nice for you I guess..... For what I make, it's in the 28%. Socialize healthcare (purely estimating of the Canadian model), it would be in the 38-40% range. Get it under 5% of gross (because premiums aren't taxed), I can listen.

Yep.

I guess I just prefer paying 28% in taxes rather than 38-40%, but that's just me.....

Kudos to you. My last two years of college were absolutely terrible because of the bolded, the worst being the days where I left by 6am for work and didn't get home until midnight. On those days I didn't get to see my wife and newborn at all.

What's her claim? I think she said that the study was ridiculous and what's worse is that many nutritionists think artificial sweeteners cause weight gain.

Running is a great workout, but you can't spot reduce. Fat will come off from wherever it wants to, with the midsection normally being the last place. In order to lose fat and muscle you need to be in a caloric deicit....nothing more, nothing less. Like what was said above, just worry about overall fat loss and see what…

This is the 3rd or 4th thread I've read where this has been copied and pasta'd in.

And now the thread has gone full potato. That video is just a commercial.

What we were trying to figure out was how accurate you really were with how much you ate vs how much you burn. From the info, it's probable that you're eating more than you think and burning less, so your deficit isn't that steep. So, go ahead and follow Christine's advice and see how truly accurate you are and go from…

This, and how are you measuring your intake.

If you're mid range for a healthy weight, you really should be looking at recomping. Building muscle is really.....really hard to do. Why would you give it up now when you'd need to do all the work plus gain weight again to get it back?

The bolded is why. Your TDEE (without exercise) is only about 1900. If you want to eat more, make sure your goal is set at 1lb per week and make sure you are eating back at least some of your exercise calories. There is a big difference in eating and sustaining on 1200 calories depending upon whether or not your eating…

Then why bring it up?

As yes, thank you for that. That's what I get for using my copy and paste answer I hold onto for threads like this. Please, let me extrapolate. Who's angry? All anyone is doing is dispelling the misinformation. When someone comes on and says cutting out xxxxx (in this case sugar...yes the same sugar you can find in fruit…

Who's angry? All anyone is doing is dispelling the misinformation. When someone comes on and says cutting out micro xxxxx is the key to weight loss, posters are going to say congrats on your accomplishments, but cutting a macro out isn't the key to weight loss.

True, but with the OP lifting at the deficit she claims her scale progress isn't being masked by muscle but by the standard water retention. OP. When we start a new workout plan (especially when adding in lifting), or increase the intensity of our current program our body retains water for muscle repair until it adjusts to…

Yep, ditto.....so did I

Need to add that it sounds like you need to reign in your expectations too. You're not going to maintain a loss of almost 2lbs per day for very long. Without knowing how much you have to lose...you're not plateauing after 10 days. You're at a point where it may take 2 months + to lose 8 lbs now.

Did you read the thread? I think it was laid out pretty straight forward a handful of times.