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4000 Calories master race checking in.

Why do you need protein powder? What's wrong with meat and dairy and stuff? I eat 250-300g of protein a day and only 35g of those come from a shake.

No, you can't just convert volumes to weights like that. To take an extreme example, a cup of lead will weigh a lot more than a cup if cotton balls. Similarly, a cup of ground meat will weigh more than a cup of lettuce, or whatever. Always weigh your food, don't rely on volume measurements. And definitely don't try to…

From the actual paper: So clearly your friend needs to buy a bunch of cell phones and carry them around 24/7, since cell phones extend life...

Have you tried eating less?

285g protein, 84g fats, 475g carbs. I'm always a little high on protein, sometimes fats, too (at the expense of some carbs.) I picked the fats number to be at .35-.4g per pound of body weight for no other reason than I've heard Drs. Mike Israetel and Layne Norton say that should be your minimum. The protein goal started at…

I'll get right on that. LMAO! DYEL?

The common recommendation is 1-2lbs (.5-1kg) per month.

All this hating on sugar and I'm sitting here eating 450g of carbs a day like...

I second the idea of 100 calorie increases every 1-2 weeks. Just monitor your weight as you go and adjust things depending on your goals. You can google "reverse dieting" for more info on this approach.

There's an article today on Biolayne.com talking about this: https://www.biolayne.com/articles/nutrition/paleo-made-fat-pop-tarts-got-shredded/

If you're eating the whole thing, don't bother weighing and just go by what's on the label. Just make sure you're actually logging the whole thing and not just one serving!

243 Calories. http://www.runnersworld.com/peak-performance/running-v-walking-how-many-calories-will-you-burn

OP, while starvation mode is a myth, metabolic adaptations to prolonged caloric restriction are real and may be at play in your case. You could try a reverse diet for a few weeks and see if that gets your TDEE back up so you can restart your cut and lose more weight. Bear in mind, however, that it probably won't make that…

Worst haiku ever.

Optimum Nutrition. Their Gold Standard whey and casein powders are pretty good.

Pizza is always the answer.

Gallon of milk a day.

You don't need a workout, you need a program. You also don't need all that isolation work given your current strength level. Google "starting strength" or "stronglifts 5x5."

So just eat less than that? An online calculator is going to use models regressed from large population data sets and is never going to be more accurate than the actual data you've collected about your own body.

If you've spoken to your doctor, I think he or she would be in a better position to give you advice about what and how much to eat in order to get down to such a low weight safely...

Moderate caloric surplus, heavy compound barbell training, progressive overload and above all CONSISTENCY. I second the Starting Strength or Stronglifts suggestion.

Didn't you just say further up the thread that they're not losing weight on 1600 Cal/day? Wouldn't 1983 Cal/day put them at a surplus, then?

Metabolic adaptation is definitely real - you restrict your calorie intake and after a while your body starts to fight back to keep you alive. But after you increase your calories back up, your metabolism recovers. There are things you can do to minimize the negative effects of these adaptations (moderate caloric…

So Sorry, MFP sucks on mobile...

I don't know... How tall are you? How old? Where are you in your SL5x5 progress? Do you know your 1RM's? How long have you been lifting? Has your weight loss rate been pretty steady, or have you had to cut more and more calories over time to keep losing? The more muscle you have relative to your body weight and height, the…

First of all, you're using a BIA scale and skinfolds to measure body fat - two of the most inaccurate methods available. Second, you're comparing measurements taken within days of each other, so the measured change is not enough to get through the noise inherent to the measuring methods you're using. And third, you're…

HRM's don't work like that - they're not accurate at all when your heart rate is below a certain (relayively high) percentage... The best way to figure out your TDEE is to monitor your weight and your calorie intake and see how they relate. I made myself a little spreadsheet that does it for me:

That is precisely the point: by weighing yourself every day and looking at your average weight over the last, say, 7 days, you get a more accurate idea of what your body is actually doing, without having to worry about artificially low or high readings.

Cardio? Is that Spanish?