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Being ~165lbs its likely the vast majority of that 10lbs lost in 7 days would have been water weight. Probably around 1-2lbs in fat in reality, the rest just from eating better. 1 lb is 3500 calories that would be a deficit of 500 day. If your TDEE before the deficit is 2190 then it would be a pound lost or if 2690 then…

Just to emphasise it doesn't matter how much exercise you do, if you eat low carb or not, or what kind of food you eat. All these things are irrelevant, as long as you count every calorie you eat and meet your net you'll lose weight. If you feel you are eating your net goal, then you're either not accurately logging the…

Losing weight is absolutely nothing about how many meals you eat each day or at what time you eat them, and what you are eating for them meals. Its all about total calories consumed to what you have burnt. If you eat more than your TDEE you put on weight if you eat less you lose weight. Its as simple as that. To illustrate…

Well if you think you'll be having an egg a day roughly for 14 days then buy the pack of 12. I tend to get a pack of 6 for 1 week shopping and might have one or two left over, but they last for awhile. I think 18 would be eggcessive for one person. :|

No, unfortunately there are no foods which take more to digest than they contain.

Is it essentially temporarily squashing the fat in your body? Then after a few days it naturally unsquashes back?

Cheers. Well I did quite a bit of walking and always ate back the cals. It felt like i was eating more even though the net was the same result. So I might have burnt 400 cals worth in a day and then ate 1600 that particular day to compensate. Rather than walking miles, I usually did a shorter distance but at a quicker…

27% > 15% in 12 weeks on 1200 cals 15 % > 13 % in 4 months with 100 cal deficit. Almost into the high 12% now and looking to get to 10%. I'm 5.7, 133 pounds. I'd say if you do it sensibly (and not on 1200), retaining as much muscle then it'll be around 7 mths (min) to 12 mths at a guess.

For a women between 20-40 years old, 21-33% is healthy, 33-39% is overweight and 39%+ is obese. If it was set to a bloke of the same age range anything 25%+ is obese.

It is really about a deficit over what you eat. I haven't ever lifted heavy, and I eat a balanced diet of both nutritionally good and bad food and drink. I'm eat vegetarian 5 days out of 7, and never focus on macros at all. My BF has gone from 27% to 12% and I've retained and strengthened my muscles through just doing…

Losing 60 lbs in 90 days would require 0.66 lb loss each day With 1 lb being 3500 cals, you would need a constant daily deficit of 2333 cals. If you were going for your TDEE - 30% then it would need to currently be 7800 cals for this to be safe. :| Depending on your current weight, 2 lbs per week could be fine so your…

50 lbs / 90 days requires a loss of 0.55 lb per day To lose 1lb you need a deficit of 3500 calories. To lose 0.55 lb you would then need (3500*0.55) = 1925 cal deficit every day. This of course isn't possible. If you have 12 weeks and really focus you could lose up to 18 lbs safely, but aim for 12 lbs as a goal. this and…

Yeah so with a loss of 7.7 kg then 81% of that was fat. The higher the better but this seems reasonable to me. I have those scales at home but you have to take the measurements of those with a pinch of salt(er). As long as its a download trend then its :) I'm fairly consistent with my loss but I find some weeks it can be…

This. So when you look at it like this you could say you're only actually ~ two stone away from being 20% Plus 20-33% is a normal healthy range for women between 20-40. You're looking good and seem to be on the right track. I'd say you're at 35% atm Those bod pods are a waste of money unless you're an athlete needing to…

35% ?

Same story here, used to be ~27% when i started end of last year, lost 30+ lbs and now almost into the 12% range. Its probably the most fit I've ever been and was determined not to hit the big 30 with a beer belly. I'm going for 10% as a goal, should hit that just in time for summer. :)

So your caps lock key hasn't broken? I'm sure everyone has days where they don't feel on the ball, such is life. Next week will be another week, you just need to stay focused and don't let one bad day get you down.

Well women actually have very very slightly higher core body temp than men, its just that skin temperature tends to be up to 3C less which gives the perception of feeling cold. The usual issue in feeling cold is after significant body fat lost over a short period of time. I've never heard of feeling cold by just eating…

Losing it is nothing about exercise or the type of food you eat. Its really all down to sticking to a deficit until your body fat percentage is lowered. As a bloke it was around 14-15% when it just started to begin going, im currently at 12-13% and reducing, and at 8-10% it should be gone. For a women that range is going…

12 wks from 170 > 140 5'7 - CW 134, Goal BF 10%

Im sure this is meant to be a positive and inspirational thread but I don't get the contradictory bit at the start where you say you dont understand why people gang up on people who want to lose fast then your story involves you losing weight fast then telling people that they should lose slowly :/ Anyone can still lose…

http://www.livestrong.com/article/500440-what-does-the-plank-exercise-benefit/

lol this, can anyone verify if this isn't just some text stuck on a picture they found. The ideas good but that looks way more than a pound.

Sorry I wasn't trying to crap on your success, congrats on the loss too :) I did 12 weeks at 1200 cals. If I did any exercise I would always eat it back, so when I burned 400 cals I ate 1600 etc I didn't find the dramatically reduced intake that challenging, and knowing I was only doing it for a set time gave me a clear…

If its just a case of it going up from your last measure its going to be water weight if you have been eating less than your TDEE. If you are seeing a steady upward trend gaining over a few weeks then you're either eating over your actual TDEE or underestimating logging.

This sounds like a recipe for disaster, personally I'd be knackered after a week living like that and complete overkill imho. I lost 30 lbs in 3 months, (170>140 lbs) by sticking to eating a deficit. Thats it. I walked now and then and did a few pressups, situps to keep active and always ate back my calories to compensate…

There's nothing different you need to do than you've already been doing. You just need to keep at a deficit and that's it, the abs take very little work to be defined, its all about reducing your BF % down. Exercising will help preserve muscle loss though whilst on a deficit. I had my top abs visible at ~15% but still had…

I still don't get why people think you need to cut certain foods to lose weight. :| As long as you stick to a deficit you'll lose weight, its just about total calories in the day not the type of food. Some food is more nutritional than others but its all just fuel for your body. Whilst I'm not advocating living off junk,…

It really doesn't take much ab work at all to have nice abs, its 95% about losing the fat covering them and getting your BF % down to below 12 to make them visible. You do crunches till the cows come home but if you have that fat layer then they'll never be seen. If you exercise whilst on a deficit then you'll more likely…

I find that weird too, but I thinks it's just so they can read it later under their My Topics. I think if MFP had a thread subscribe link instead they wouldn't do it, as it looks like the only way to bookmark them is to post in them. If you're talking about self bumping then they are just being very impatient