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Good for you, that's a good way to feel. You should feel better while losing weight. You don't need to feel like *kitten* to accomplish your goals. Rock on.
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I didn't see anyone suggest anything close to starvation mode. What was said is over restriction one day and over eating the next is not a healthy cycle.
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How long has this been happening? What you are describing doesn't sound like more energy it sounds like you are in a manic state, do you have anxiety issues? If you just started then it may just be the initial boost and excitement from getting proper nutrition and losing weight. I am bipolar, and when in a manic phase…
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Bah stupid quote system.
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Not eating after X time is malarkey. I do agree ita not the end of the world to be a bit under, but if being under one day is leading to you going over the next due to hunger, I would say you are better off being constant. We have been conditioned that losing weight is supposed to hurt, to be uncomfortable, a challenge of…
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You answered you own questing in your post. You said you eat well below your goal one day then they next day you go over because you are so hungry. With that statement in mind do you think it is helpful to be so low? Also with TOM you are going to retain water, that will mask some loses. If you are under 300 calories one…
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BMI is a good starting point for goals for a lot of people because it is simple to figure out. Getting an accurate body fat % is much more involved. Right now at my goal I will still be in the overweight BMI for my height, but I fought at that weight so I have an idea what I want to look like at that weight.
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Are you weighing all solid food on a kitchen scale? That's first number one. If you are not weighing your food and not losing weight, then you are eating more than you think you are period. The large initial loss is water weight, you might not have been retaining much water which means no big initial drop. If you have 25…
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Do you weigh it on a digital kitchen scale to the gram? Are you double checking the entries in the database? The less you have to lose the tighter your loging has to be. I have a lot of wiggle room because I am morbidly obese, so I don't have to be as accurate. Someone with less than 25 to lose has to be very tight on…
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Yes it is an exact science, a calorie is a unit of energy, nothing more. If YOU are accurate in your tracking, I.e. weighing every solid, loging every bite, then you will lose weight. Any online calculator MFP included is just an estimate of your actual calorie burn, you would need lab work and tests to give you your exact…
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Since the beginning of the year I have averaged over 2 pounds a week loss changing nothing but my eating. I started a few weeks ago at the gum and still losing at the same rate. I didn't start at the gym to aid in my loses, I did it because I feel better when I exorcise, I could lose all the weight I want just ACCURATELY…
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You are unlikely to build muscle while in a calorie deficit. To the OP a pound a week is a decent rate, if you keep that up you will lose about 36 pounds by the end of the year. We have been conditioned through diet adds and TV weight-loss shows to think we should be losing 10 pounds a week or more. Look up most of the…
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I just want to reinforce everyone saying to nor be too aggressive with your goal. I originally signed up on MFP in 2012. And in those 4 years I have gained and lost the same 40-50 pounds over and over. Every time I have decided to attempt weight loss, I go HARD. In the gym 5 or 6 days a week, very low calories, looking at…
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Some newer digital scales lose calibration if not kept flat. You said it stored upright, so that could cause issues with it. When I bought my new scale there was a warning right in the instructions to never store it upright, always flat. To your question, I would guess the first reading is off, if you got the exact same…
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The biggest problem I see with shakes used as a short term diet plan, is it teaches you nothing about how to eat at maintenance. If you want to have some on hand for when you are in a hurry and don't have time for a meal once in a while, IMO that's not too terrible. But if you plan on the whole shake for breakfast shake…
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If my math is right, you are saying you eat anywhere from 1200 to 1700 calories roughly. That's a big swing. Why not try eating 5500 to 6000 kj a day for 6 full weeks. Make sure you are using a kitchen scale to weigh ALL solids, no measuring cups, no guessing. If you feel tired/weak/ very hungry, then you need to eat a…
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Grams is more accurate. But for most things it's only going to be a very small difference. As long as the scale does oz with a decimal place or two then it should be fine. I mention that because I had an older scale with no decimal on the oz, so it would round up or down, just food for thought.
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1200 is the absolute min MFP will give a woman. How much do you have to lose? What's you weekly loss goal? If you have less than 25 pounds to lose a goal of .5 to 1 pound a week is going to be realistic. Weight loss does not happen in a straight line. Two weeks isn't long enough to give good data. Do you weigh every solid…
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They are talking overall burn throughout the whole day not just what you do in the gym.MFP should have given you a calorie goal based on your goals. Mine is 1930 calories a day to lose 2 pounds a week. If I went to the gym and burned 400 calories, I would eat around 2200 that day because exorcise calories are just an…
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Tighten up logging. Weigh all solids to the gram, don't use cups to measure anything that isn't liquid. You are averaging about a half pound a week, which isn't horrible. At your stats anything more than a pound a week is going to be difficult I would think. Also water retention from new exorcise/TOM ect. Can mask losses…
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I think it's part of human nature. The good/bad calorie argument is a way to make excuses for your self, I.e. I am fat because pizza is bad for you, not because I eat a whole large. We live in a microwave society, we want results in weeks not months. The more outlandish the claim the more desperate people will cling to it.…
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All of the people saying it is possible to outrun your fork ,I don't think you are grasping the heart of that statement. You say you outran your fork, then turn around and talk about still tracking calories. If you eat to your maintenance, and create a deficit through activity, you will lose weight. The trouble is two…
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I think the value of trackers is directly linked to how sedentary you naturally are. Are you like some in this post and super cool awesome self motivated fitness masters, or are you like me who is morbidly obese and the definition of sedentary? Before I got my Garmin I had no idea that an average day for me was 1500 steps…
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I don't think there any one clear cut answer. Sometimes I think ita because the vast majority of newer people on here are looking at being on a "diet". So if they eat that donut they are cheating at their diet, and it's natural to feel guilt when you cheat at something. Sometimes it's not fully having a grasp of how little…
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You just validated the opinion of every single person who spoke out against this diet on this forum. The fact that you "fell off the wagon" is exactly the reason people are saying it doesn't work. It is not sustainable for the average person to do this for the rest of their life. The fact that you lost weight is completely…
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Advocare is the reason I am still so overweight! Well not really, but I quit going to my companies free gym because the trainer is an advocate rep. I was doing great going every morning after work for almost three months. In that time he was always super helpful, put together a good full week program for me, always…
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I have just been ignoring the calories Garmin giving me. I have looked over the settings on both mfp and GC, and I can't find anything that changes the numbers. It seems to me that GC is taking my BMR and adding it to my MFP calorie goal. So mfp gives me a goal of 2060 and then GC adds like 4000 on top of that for a total…
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Are you talking about cutting weight? Like a fighter or wrestler? It is water weight. Bodybuilders look like they do because they are extremely dehydrated.
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I got a vivosmart hr last week, and it gives me over five thousand extra calories a day. Good luck figuring it out, I asked the same thing days ago and no one was much help.
