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MFP builds in a deficit regardless of exercise. When you use more energy, MFP gives you the ability to eat more because otherwise you might make that caloric deficit too large...and in the long run, that will sabotage your progress.

There isn't a whole lot proven on the whole 'diet is worse than regular soda' argument. If you want pop, have some--just in moderation! Listen to some of the advice people gave you about taking small steps to get your nutrition figured out. Don't get overly worried on the minutia just yet(face it--sweeteners are trivial…

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hahaha, ok...replace sugar with...sugar?

It's obvious that food needs time to digest, but seriously, the food mass will be processed and expelled about 24 hours later. My point is, the food mass is in your system the next morning--so it'll count into your weight. Then whatever is stored as fat comes from the food itself...so there is a 'gain' that is immediate…

3 days? That's the first I've heard of that...

You have to track trends over time. If you wake up one morning and the scale says you are a few pounds heavier than the week before and you didn't binge all week, just stick to your diet and be sure to drink lots of water and see what it says the next week. I can put on a few pounds overnight...of water. I know it's water…

I eat egg whites mostly because they have a lot of the protein with far fewer calories overall. 1 egg + 3 whites just about every morning! Where does this "It's natural so it must be good for you" idea come from? All mushrooms are natural...but are all of them good for you?

The idea behind WW giving people free fruit and veggies is to encourage responsible eating. Instead of debating over a 100 calorie apple and a 100 calorie pack of cookies, WW would rather you eat the apple...so it costs 0 points. And to whoever asked, yes WW has a system for exercise. And to the other person who said you…

Going cold turkey can be really, really hard--but if you do, the headaches fade after 2 days or so (not much help when you're suffering through them!). I've cut caffeine that way before, and it sucked. Try this---just have half of what you'd normally drink, then just phase it down in quantity until you don't want/need it…

And strangely enough, that is pretty much what the link posted in the OP says...so I'm not sure what they were confused about.

The interesting thing about that study is that they had two groups...1g/kg and a 2.5g/kg. This study suggests that increased protein intake is ideal to maintain LBM, but they even state in the paper that they can't show what the optimal intake of protein should be...just that the higher intake group lost less LBM.

From the abstract, it seems that they have found that ideal protein intake should really be ~0.9g to 1.2g per kg per day. This is 40% greater then the current RDA. Edit: I am a scientist who works in a research hospital, but not a biologist or medical doctor.

What are you eating? I find it hard to NOT have 1200 calories in a day!

It's a federal law too, but the effective date was not specified at the signing... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/business/24menu.html

Probably water weight, especially since you said your diet hasn't changed much. I know I can vary ~8 pounds of water (either that, or my scales are incredibly defective, which is unlikely). Monday morning I weighed myself after a workout and that was 7 pounds less than today while at work...and I know I didn't gain 7…

I've always done a bit of cardio for warm-up (5 mins or so), then weight lifting, then a full cardio workout. If I do the cardio first, I push myself too hard and I don't feel like I have enough energy for a good lifting session. I hope that helps!

This might help a bit with the tofu (and maybe the rice...) http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/GuidanceDocuments/FoodLabelingNutrition/FoodLabelingGuide/ucm064904.htm#container

They probably mean 'fluffed' rice...I eat those every so often also, so I just divide the packet in half for a serving.