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Wait, so coffee is a magic weight loss agent too now? Because, I don't know about you, but my energy reserves are glycogen and fat. How many calories worth of fat does one cup burn through?

I heard if you smother it in custard, it neutralizes the toxins.

Why do you want to detox lemons? Lemons wont kill you. Or am I missing something here?

Hypertrophy means growth. One can grow the muscle fibers themselves (myofibrillar hypertrophy) and/or the sacoplasmic volume (sarcoplasmic hypertrophy). Increasing the amount of myofibrils in the muscles tends to occur maximally when the muscles are damaged by repetitive high loads of stress (i.e. heavy weights in the 5-8…

Muscle is optimally gained while in a calorie surplus: fat is optimally lost while in a calorie deficit. Generally, the advice is to chose one or the other and do that first. The third option is called a body recomposition, where you eat right at maintenance calories (so you don't gain or lose weight) and slowly build some…

So where are you that women are running topless? OP: wear what you are comfortable with - both temperature-wise and skin-wise.

The MFP setting is at the low end of the recommended DA values. Take it as a minimum! For optimal results, you want 1-1.5 g per pound of lean body mass. 150 seems like it would be in there somewhere. Strength training while on a deficit is a great idea, as it will, at the very least, help you retain the muscle you have,…

Psst - that's 1 g/lb lean body mass, or about 0.8 g/lb total body weight if you are not obese for protein (likewise for fat - lbm not total weight). 230 g protein is almost certainly more than enough protein! Using your numbers, she'd be getting 1748 cals just from protein + fat. Other than, yeah, I agree! (eta: except…

Set a reasonable calorie deficit. Set your protein at ~1 g/lb lean body mass, and fat at ~0.4 g/lb LBM. The rest can be carbs or more fat/protein. Losing weight is about a calorie deficit. Cutting carbs (like bread and pasta, soda etc) is usually a fairly simple way to help achieve that deficit.

MFP doesn't give you a TDEE. TDEE is Total Daily Energy Expenditure, which includes everything - walking, driving, breathing, exercising... If you ate exactly at TDEE, you would maintain. The MFP number is the walking, driving, breathing number WITHOUT the exercise BUT also with a built in deficit, depending on how much…

Steph - I think PCOS is something outside the scope of these articles. Low carb diets are often suggested for people with insulin resistance, due to blood sugar issues. Since protein is as insulinogenic as carbohydrate, if you really need to keep insulin levels low because of hyperandrogenism you would need to eat low…

I got rid of my 40 lb beer belly by drinking a little less, eating a little less and working out. He could do all the core strengthening exercises he wants but they won't help with his belly. Seriously, it is all about the calorie deficit. Eat (or drink) less; move more. Of course, he has to want it too...

As an adult female, you should be getting at least 46 g or protein per day. You need this much to replace the normal amount of protein that gets repaired/replaced everyday. This is the recommended amount for a "typical" person not exercising or dieting. http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/protein If you are in a calorie…

"Find Members" up in the blue bar... http://www.myfitnesspal.com/user/supaman/status

Um... fat makes you look fat, not muscle!

OP: Sorry for picking on your English. My PostDoc was lipid biochemistry, and now I run a protein lab. So seriously: 3 days of this won't kill you. If it gets you to eat more veggies, then that can't be a bad thing. And I do know how hard planning, shopping, cooking etc can be: I have 3 kids and keeping them fed with food…

http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/knee-pain/runners-knee http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chondromalacia-patella/basics/definition/con-20025960 I had this many years ago when I ran competitively. No happy ending for me though: I gave up running (partly due to the knee, and partly due to going off to…

Not going to put that in and count the calories, but it looks way too low for your wife, let alone you! Plus, if she is looking to maintain muscle, is it enough protein? Is she doing resistance training? Are you? Neither of you have much to lose, so why not just eat near maintenance and lift some weights?

Thing about water is that it fluctuates. Gained 2 lb over the weekend? Unless you ate 7,000 calories over maintenance, it isn't fat: it's just water. Me? I want to lose fat, retain muscle and ignore water. Now, hand me a smoke!

Your ticker says you have lost 42 lb, so something is working. Have you just hit a plateau? How long for? What has changed? Without being able to see your diary, my first guess would be that you aren't logging accurately and are actually eating at maintenance.

Yes, they may be weight vs volume, but one cup of flour is always going to give you about 125 g of flour and a cup of lentils is going to be about 200 g of lentils. Sometimes, using a cup is more convenient than getting the scales out, or maybe the recipe calls for cups, and he only has scales...

If you are going to do a program like NROLFW, then you need a barbell, a bench and some sort of rack to hold the bar in position. A "standard" bar has a 1" end, and can only hold a certain amount of weight (usually like 2-300 lbs max). The bar itself is something like 18 or 20 lbs. If you are serious about lifting, then…

Functionality over form any day, although if it looks good, that is a bonus. I have two digital food scales. One is silvery plastic with a glass balance pan, and is designed for smallish weights. I use it for weighing hops. The second has a pull out part where the numbers are, so it kind of separates from the weighing bit.…

To maintain, one must first get to a reasonable weight for one's size/gender etc. Then, simply don't eat too much or too little. Weigh occasionally. If the scale is trending in a direction you don't want, either add or subtract calories by adjusting portion sizes, number of snacks, amount of cardio etc. This has worked for…

Please provide some links for the bit I bolded. Most people here I have run across say there is nothing wrong with sugar as long as you don't overdo it (fit it in your macro and calorie goal); not simply have as much sugar as you like.

"Control" and "+" together in Windows. "Command" and "+" on an Apple. You are welcome!

Healthy is such a subjective word. Also it should be applied to the diet as a whole, not to a single food/food group/meal. Did you come in close to reasonable calorie amount for the day? Did you get your macros roughly balanced? Did you get some micronutrients? If so, then you are good. If not, try to get a little better…

Listen to what people are saying here. You are down to 151 lb. I don't know your height, but for most males, that isn't overweight, so eat more. If severe calorie restriction is possibly contributing to this condition, or complicating it, why keep on doing it? Go up to maintenance calorie levels while you figure this out.…

Maybe he leaves the ice cream alone because it has melted? I leave my ice cream in the freezer. :laugh:

I lost 40 lbs in about 6 months before I found MFP not counting calories (and not eating paleo/primal). I've maintained for 2 years now without counting calories, other than odd periods here or there. So I know it is possible. Bu the claim I was referring to is that it is impossible to eat too much while on paleo/primal to…