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Either work it into your budget or just quit eating it. They say it takes 3 weeks to break a habit or form a new one so maybe 3 weeks is your magic number.

Polar seems to be the most reliable brand and a lot of people have one. An FT4 is a basic model, there are lots more expensive but the FT4 is good for someone doing the things you described. It doesn't have all the fancy bells & whistles that you don't need.

Oatmeal is gluten free if you get a kind that hasn't been processed in a plant that processes wheat. Most health food stores carry it. Chex has some gluten free varieties you can have with your choice of soy, almond or rice milk. Eggs with some cheese, bacon, ham, veggies. Make smoothies with the above milks. Learn to bake…

The OP is under age and trying to lose 4 lbs. I don't think our advice is really relevant.

Not likely to find one that cheap that would be worth buying. Your best money spent will be a Polar FT4. They're on sale often.

There are no good foods or bad foods. Just eat within your calorie budget. If you can fit ice cream into your day then eat ice cream. You don't have to live on chicken and steamed broccoli to lose weight.

If you want to be gluten free then just eat gluten free. You don't really need meal ideas, just a lot of package reading or only eating whole foods that you know what they are. Gluten is found in wheat, rye and barley so avoid those in any form. Then sneaky part it a lot of foods are made using those grains as thickeners…

An adult male should be consuming about 1800 calories minimum. Eating less is stressing your body out trying to maintain function. All you lose by under eating is muscle mass and that isn't what you want.

I get having positive thoughts about yourself but I don't get accepting that this is just the way you are if you are overweight. It's becoming the norm to accept obesity in our society. That's not OK. It's unhealthy and the next generation is the first expected to not live longer than their parents. Accepting fat is not…

I have the Zip. I just clip it to my bra and forget about it. I find it quite accurate as far as steps and the calories seem pretty close too. It's a great motivator to just get moving more.

I'd go with 1 lb. You may actually lose more but at least it gives you a decent budget to work with. 1200 calories is hard to stick to.

Be really conscious of your food intake. No guessing and unless you get some major calorie burn going for exercise I'd quit eating it back just to allow for errors. There's no magic jump start to weight loss. If you truly eat at a deficit you will lose.

It's basically an elliptical machine. It has no magic weight loss properties. Eating at a deficit will cause you to lose weight.

Really what difference does it make other than starting an argument? If you aren't one of these magical people that can eat all they want, do nothing and stay thin then you have to count calories and exercise.

It's probably some frankenfood but it really doesn't matter. Fat doesn't make you fat so no need to worry.

Don't do it. It's called willpower. You had to consciously make toast with Nutella. Get the candy out of the house if you can't leave it alone. There's no trick to it.

If you make a decent shake that will provide nutrition and keep you satiated it's going to be as many calories as having a decent lunch plus it teaches you nothing about learning how to eat properly. Are you going to live on meal replacement shakes the rest of your life?

Wii Fit is just a game. The EA Sports Active program is very good and so is Gold's Gym Cardio Boxing. You don't need the fit board for either one.

It's just another MLM marketing scheme like Beachbody and Body by Vi except they've got cosmetics. Best story ever: My daughter in law was selling it and I got talked into going to one of her parties. Morbidly obese woman pipes up and says she's been having one of the shakes every day and hasn't lost any weight. She goes…

Wow, what a lot of spam and back patting all in one thread. I love it when dealers reopen a really old thread just to promote themselves.

^^^This. All exercise does not need to be rewarded with food.

I'm a *****. If someone sat it near my desk, I moved it away and it came back, I'd dump the whole thing, dish and all into the nearest garbage can.

Very few people have bad knees. A lot of people have weak leg muscles and are overweight which causes their legs/knees to ache when they try to use them. The answer is usually to lose weight and start working on building up those leg muscles. Start out doing 10 squats, 10 lunges, etc until you can do more.

Move it. Problem solved.

Your body doesn't care if you eat clean calories or not. A calorie is a calorie. If you don't know how many you take it then you have no idea if you're at a deficit. It's just as easy to overeat while eating "clean" or "healthy" as it is eating whatever the opposite of those is.

Eating "clean" is one of those terms that means different things to different people. If you mean not eating processed foods then sure you can. If you mean eating non processed organic foods that you only grow yourself then you probably can but most people wouldn't. I don't regard store bought foods as clean regardless of…

I'm lactose and gluten intolerant. I read every label from top to bottom but mostly I avoid packaged foods and prepare my own from scratch.

A Fitbit is a fancy pedometer. It would be totally useless for strength training because it's tracking is step based. I have a Zip and it's not bad for running but it's still off from my HRM because it only knows how many steps you took in a certain time, not the intensity of your run. Before you ask the next question, no…

Your body will replenish some glycogen stores if you've been under eating but with 100 lbs to lose you are not in starvation mode even if there were such a thing. You have to weigh and measure all your food and log it faithfully. Every single bite! Cream in coffee, candy stolen off a co workers desk, nibble as you cook,…