Mokey41 Member

You didn't say eat at maintenance, you said eat what I want and from experience I know that can be 3 or 4,000 calories at a holiday dinner. I'm also well aware there is a week between Xmas and New Year's. I'll try harder next time to give the answer that you want rather than the truth.

Why do you need to totally go off your diet for the whole Xmas period? You can still eat mindfully during that time. Even if you figure out your maintenance level and stick to that at least you won't be gaining. It's not like you lose the weight and then can go hog wild and eat anything you want without gaining it back. If…

We're right back to the beginning. EVERYTHING burns calories. That's were the term Basal Metabolic Rate comes from. The calories you burn every single moment of every single day just existing. The very fact that you move around a bit during the day burns more calories. Every move you make burns a few calories over your…

Caffeine is a stimulant so yes it gives you more energy and can make you feel less hungry.

You don't have to gain anything back. You should be able to quite easily adapt to eating what it takes to maintain your current weight or even lose more if that's your goal. No one is starving on 1,000 calories a day. You are still alive, right? Eating normally doesn't mean eating too much.

With 20 lbs to lose you shouldn't be at more than the 1 lb/week level. Eventually you'll need to get into maintenance so you might as well start working toward that. It isn't realistic for most people to eat 1200 calories at any time which could be why you go off the plan and have your no counting times. Don't make life…

I got lost in there somewhere but first off your metabolism isn't changing as you lose weight. Your metabolism changes very little over your lifetime unless you have some disease factor effecting it. Also MFP will adjust your calorie intake budget based on you logging your weight loss. It doesn't look at what you want to…

It's part of the endless search for more calories to eat without actually doing anything to earn them.

And they didn't eat half their meals at fast food places or binge on bags of potato chips and junk. It was considered slovenly to be overweight back when I was growing up.

It tells them all the same because you're all putting it too great of an expectation for the amount of weight you have to lose. I bet you've all input the max of 2 lbs/week because you are impatient and want to lose as much as possible as quickly as possible. MFP just does math, it expects you to have the common sense to…

Everything burns calories. By virtue of being alive you burn calories. Now what you want to define as exercise is something else again.

Using online calculators for BMR only works if you fit into the "normal" category. When you get outside the norm on either end the numbers start to get wonky. You don't need to feed the fat and while lifting will help you maintain muscle mass it isn't a huge calorie burner. If you're maintaining where you are then drop a…

All of the above and it's probably giving you false numbers for you DVD's as well unless you maintain a steady elevated HR during the whole thing. HRM's are really meant for runners, etc who want to monitor their heart rates during exercise. It's the diet industry that has made it an essential tool for the dieter as a…

No, they use barley malt as a sweetener. Same with Rice Krispies. A simple change that no one wants to make.

Don't mention your diet. No one wants to hear about your diet. A polite no thank you with no offer of explanation is sufficient.

It's mostly mental. Just will yourself past that point where you always stop. If you aren't going to faint, puke or die then just keep going. If you have to you can slow down to a "wog" but keep going without dropping to a full walk and you'll find you can do it.

Gluten free bread products contain so much sugar and crap to make them taste decent they generally aren't worth eating plus they are outrageously expensive.

Gluten can cause so many issues that if you think it may help then I'd give it a try. I've had digestive issues and been diagnosed now as gluten intolerant. I always thought it was just a gut thing but I can't believe how many other issues I've had went away with the elimination of gluten. It's really not that drastic of a…

Are you weighing and measuring all of your food? Are you stuffing yourself on lettuce, broccoli and steamed fish? 1200 calories is not hard to achieve if you get out of the mindset of diet foods and with 75 lbs to lose it's doubtful that you are gaining weight on 1200 or 1300 calories. More likely you're under estimating…

You can go with whatever you want but most of those types of entries were made by users so you use them at your peril.

If you aren't diabetic there's really no reason to follow a diabetic low carb diet. Eat the foods that will keep you out of pain. I have IBS-D so my problem is opposite and is partly from a gluten intolerance. I'm just (hopefully) getting past a flare and when I'm in pain I'll pretty much eat anything if it helps!

Yes, you'd need to do some calculation of exercise calories burned and eat back some percentage. A good idea would be to figure out your BMR and eat at least that much.

I'm assuming you mean that you chose the 2 lb per week level on MFP and you actually don't have much to lose or you've entered your data incorrectly. I would bet your BMR is much higher than 1200 calories. Do you realize that when you under eat like that your body starts eating muscle to supply fuel? MFP only does math, it…

No adult male should be trying to live on 1200 calories.

Total broscience. Your body doesn't care when you eat or how many calories you eat at a certain time. If you have a 1500 calorie budget you can eat 3 500 calorie meals, 2 750 calorie meals, 5 300 calorie meals or eat the whole 1500 calories right before bed. It won't make any difference to your weight loss. A lot of people…

Well, to start with meat should be weighed raw, there's too much variance in cooking methods for a cooked version to be correct. Generally the entry without an * will be the more accurate because it isn't user entered.

Start eating at least 1200 calories. Full fat dairy, eggs, meats, nuts, oils will add calories without adding bulk. You may gain a couple pounds back as your body replenishes the glycogen you've depleted with your VLCD but then it should be fine again once your body finds it's balance.

The almighty Dr Oz strikes again with one of his magical fat cures! All hail the great and wonderful OZ!

If you have 100 lbs to lose and are eating 1600 calories then burning off 1,000 there is seriously something wrong somewhere. No one with that much to lose can exist on a net of 600 calories and not lose weight. Either you're under estimating your food or over estimating your exercise. With no exercise you would lose…

Are you eating at a calorie deficit or just assuming that eating healthy is going to melt off pounds. If you are eating at a deficit you aren't putting on muscle so it has to be one way or the other. Quitting smoking really doesn't have any noticeable effect on your metabolism. Weight gain is usually because people replace…