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Nothing is guaranteed. You just have to want it. I had a burning desire to lose this weight once and for all. I obsessed over it. I learned everything I could about it. Don't listen to the compliments. Don't reward yourself with food. Stay focused on your goals. Take it one day at a time as cliche as that sounds. If you…

Thanks! Losing a pound per week is not too fast unless you're extremely lean already. Should be fine as long as your in-taking enough protein and doing some sort of resistance workout.

Yes, I have a bit of pannus in my lower abdomen region - my waist was over 60" around at my heaviest. It's not bad, and I have not given up up I can get it to almost completely go away with time and getting low enough body fat. There's still fat in there so until it's thin I won't give up to resort to surgery.

Start a bit higher? If you start at 1200, you have no where to really go if you stop losing. Unless you eat back your exercise calories - which I don't personally believe in, but is a whole can of worms I really don't want to get into. Most women can lose weight just fine eating 1500 calories per day.

Yeah - I'd aim for about 80-100g of protein per day 20-40g of fats per day and fill rest of calories with carbs.

I replied to your thread. -

The types of exercises you do is less important than your diet for fat loss.

This ^ (well, unless you wash your food, of course)

I can honestly say, my weight loss was linear. Never stalled, never plateaued. Remember, your body must get calories from somewhere. But at the same time, weight loss will slow down at some point. Just keep pushing yourself to tighten up everything you can control as time goes on. Basically, staying one step ahead is the…

Remember, calculators can only give you estimates. Ultimately, you should adjust based on your results. I always advocate eating at a calorie level for a couple of weeks before deciding its too many or two few. Just try to keep as many variables static as possible. (Intake, exercise, etc)

Did you check out the link?

I personally believe about a 1% body weight per week loss is okay - When you first start dieting, you'll likely lose a lot of water weight in the first few weeks, so expect a slow down of your weight loss. Sounds like you're off to a great start and keep up the good work! Macros seem pretty good as well. As long as you're…

Well, low intensity cardio is a great tool to add into a well balanced diet and does aid in fat loss. Matter of fact, if you lift weights, interval training could be interfering with your weight lifting recovery. I like walking and low intensity elliptical on my non lifting days. With that being said, yes, low intensity…

Double quarter pounder with cheese.

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Eat foods that you enjoy, learn how to fit them into your daily calories and macronutrient goals. You're not dieting when you eat foods you like every single day. :)

Is there something wrong with caffeine that I am not aware of? I can't recall one study I've read that said that caffeine was bad for the human body?

Carbs are not essential for life. Your body can get its required glucose from other sources other than dietary carbs. If they were essential, why is low carb/no carb diets so popular. (Hint, they wouldn't be if they were dangerous.. i.e. essential for life) Edit: I love my carbs, and I feel like they help me build more…

Yep.. I am cold all the time and I have to do 30 minutes on the elliptical just to warm up and get my veins pumped. Almost never sweat at the gym. Edit: I was a sweaty pig most of my life, so this is strange indeed.

LOL... Seriously.. It's just water weight/increase food in the GI tract (or you really dont know what you're doing)

This ^^ Also, might add it doesn't matter when you eat as well. Just worry about hitting your daily calorie goals and you'll lose weight.

If your 300 lbs and lifting weights and not losing weight over the span of several weeks, you're simply eating too many calories (whether you think you are or not).

It's water weight. Understand the difference between fat gain and water weight. Carbs cause you to hold water.

Which goes back to my VERY VALID POINT. :) Thanks for agreeing with me. I NEVER said that anti-depressants won't change your appetite, habits, lifestyle, and even RMR, HOWEVER, my stance is true.

Antidepressants don't make you fat. Over eating does.

What Joe said above ^ /thread meow!

Pretty much every study ever done with naturally thin people found they simply didn't eat as many calories as other people who had issues with their weight. There are exceptions - but that's the truth. Skinny people eat less food.

If you have calories - eat. If you don't, deal with the hunger. I also find that a diet soda (caffeine free) really takes the edge off of hunger at night.

%'s are silly, because everyone's intake calories are so different. 40% carbs for me is a lot, whereas 40% carbs for someone who only eats 1200 per day is not.

Yeah... you can't do both well at the same time.. As a beginner, you can have some serious strength gains, but not a whole lot of new actual muscle tissue being built. And it becomes even harder when you're a female, and not really obese. In short, I'd aim for a 1500-1700 calorie diet with at least 100g of protein and…