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Lift during a deficit to maintain muscle and body composition, not to build muscle. Yes, muscle burns more calories than fat while at rest, but to build muscle (not talking about newbie gains), you need to be at a caloric surplus. However, you can maintain a good portion of your muscles while cutting by lifting. Your…

That's a pretty general statement. It would depend on the amount of loose skin, the length of time the weight has been off, the amount of body fat, the amount of muscle grown, the speed in which the weight was lost...a whole lot of factors really. One way to reduce the look of loose skin is to build muscle, and since…

Regardless of what you do, food specific diets, exercise, intermittent fasting, lifting weights, running, walking...whatever it may be, the key is to do something different than what you've been doing. You are on the right path talking to professionals, but the key is going to be you living it every single day, so you have…

One question I haven't seen asked, but, are you eating back your exercise calories? If so, how are you tracking those calories? Between not accurately counting food intake, not accurately calculating exercise burns, starting "over" with an exercise routine...well, let's just say that the scale may not reflect too kindly.…

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I've both "gained" a pound and "lost" a pound taking a shower. The scale is only good for trending, that's it. Down 13lbs is a trend, you ARE losing. Don't let the scale get in your head, keep doing what works for you...as long as it's healthy and doesn't put you at risk, then you will be fine over the long run.

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While logging everything is important to a point, there are times where you have to live life and just let a night go. As long as it stays the exception and doesn't become the rule, you'll be fine. Any "weight" you gain from one night is water weight most likely and will work itself out in a day or two. Being aware of your…

I haven't read all the post, and I probably should, and this may have been covered, but, weight management - weight loss, weight gain, weight maintenance - is a life long process. If you're stressing about going over one day, then you're in for a really long hard battle. It's going to happen. If you want to have any kind…

You are most likely fine. Aside from the scale, how are clothes fitting? Have you taken measurements and compared the before and after? Have you changed your exercise routine? Added creatine to your diet? Started lifting or strength training? There are several factors that affect the scale. Personally, I would just cuss…

Even with a lot of weight to lose, as stated previously, lifting will help preserve the muscle you already have with the possibility of slight muscle increase. In order to "bulk up" you would need to be at a calorie surplus. Do some research on body building and lifting. There are tons of good YouTube channels and tons of…

If you gave 3 girls $2 dollars to each to buy their own cookie. And you gave one Hopper enough to buy 3 cookies, how screwed over did you get by an 8 yr old who hustled you out of cookie money and told his mom on you?

I would have asked Hopper's mom for my $2 back.

I think the goal is more about tracking 90% +/- so that you are aware of how many calories you're taking in each day. A decent walk, 15 minutes on a treadmill or elliptical, or some other exercise should negate those calories. We're talking 50ish calories give or take...it's not worth worrying about. However, if you had a…

When you're weighing yourself, make sure you are weighing around the same time every day and either wearing nothing or the same clothes each time. Also, the scale should be used more to track trending. I've weighed before and after taking a shower and one day I can lose a pound and another time I can gain a pound. Doing…

The way MFP works is you have a daily level that you are suggested to intake in order to lose the weight you wish to lose. You log all your food to reach that level. When you exercise, you log that exercise, and that will increase your allotted amount to eat. An example would be this: If you eat 2000 calories a day to…

Maybe it's just me, but I couldn't A) care about what my coworkers ate B ) invest any amount of time to even notice any kind of eating habit/pattern C) rationalize how anything other people ate was any of my businesses. I may be alone in this line of thinking, but this wouldn't be the first time.

Are you going on a journey? If so, are you a small town girl living in a lonely world? Will you be taking the midnight train? How much are you going to eat? How active do you plan on being? Will you be drinking? IF so, what will you be drinking? Are you eating all the foods you would normally avoid? Are you eating nothing…

A bad day? I have no clue what I eat over on a bad day. If the day is going to be bad, then I don't log, I eat all the foodz, I don't care. It's one day and while it may put me off track for a week, two tops, it's not the end of the world. I'll bounce right back in the swing of things, logging properly, and right back to…

Eat until you reach your goal, then stop eating. Pretty much the only way to do it. You may want to look into foods that offer the most feeling of being full and will keep you feeling full longer. Also, without knowing what your goal is, it's hard to offer any other advice. If your goal is 500 calories a day...you really…

I wasn't referring to those of you who are vegan because it's an ethical position, I was referring to those who use it as a weight loss program of sorts. Some, not all, but some "go vegan" to lose weight, that is the only reason I added it to the list. It's the same, in this particular scenario, as going gluten free when…

My initial run with MFP I lost about 90 +/- pounds. Life stuff happened and I stopped logging and hitting the gym. However, I thought I "had" this thing. For the most part, I paid attention to what I thought I was eating, with a lot of eyeballing and guessing. Fast forward to today. While I never gained all the weight…

Going over close to 4000 cals one day and being short 400 the next, then going over 2500 another day is NOT overeating one day and making up for it the next. Be constant. Hit your goals more times than not, have a day of "whatever" every now and again to keep your sanity, track what you can and expect to be doing this for…

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