shaunshaikh Member

Yes, you CAN

I just try to eat appropriate portions of the calorie dense stuff I like so I don't miss them and feel tempted to binge. I think part of this experience should include learning how to eat, say, 2 oreo cookies, during a normal day and workign it into your overall diet so it doesn't sabotage you OR make you feel guilty.

I see your 30 gained and raise you 70.

I think that this whole process should be about building sustainable habits that set you up for success. From that stand point, obviously you got through the whole dating and engagement period living a certain way that you and your husband both preferred or enjoyed, but it wasn't balanced in a way that allowed you to…

Sodium doesn't really matter for fat loss. It contributes to water weight fluctuations, but so does exercising and drinking water.

if you're drinking a lot more water than you need AND eating a low sodium diet that could be contributing. You probably don't need as much as you're drinking, you get a lot of fluids from food and stuff. I might say different if you did a lot of vigorous exercise.

It’s to stop people from undereating. I don’t see much value in the red letter weights anyways. It’s simple math, 3500 calorie deficit equals a pound of weight loss.

You'd have to eat 3,500 calories over maintenance in order to gain one pound of fat. Unless you're a professional eater one day isn't a big deal.

Yea pretty sure if you're synced with Fitbit you can just set to sedentary and MFP will adjust your calories based on the number of steps you get

Eat less, move more, log everything on MFP

Add strength training and take a full week approach to maintaining your deficit so you don't wipe out your progress in one day

Whether or not you're losing belly fat has little to do with diet and more to do with genetics. You really just need to keep focusing on body fat loss and eventually your body will get there

If this is just about weight loss, your daily lifestyle and a mindful diet should be plenty to sustain calorie deficits and lose weight. The freight tram job sounds like a lot more exercise than most people get anyways!

For weight loss, it doesn't matter if you maintain the deficit. You are likely gaining weight from increased water weight due to sodium and/or carbs. Remember you have to eat a surplus of 3,500 calories to gain a pound of fat.

Should be the least of your worries at 18

I'm confused by some of the things the OP has said so I will just say this: First, tighten up your logging by weighing and trying to get more accurate on what you're eating. The Roti and Curry to me seems incredibly low especially. Secondly, you didn't get here because you're physically incapable of eating more than 1,000…

It's not unusual to experience a sudden "WHOOSH" when you first start a weight loss program, especially if you started unhealthy. If you've switched to eating less food, eating more protein and less carbs, eating less sodium, and eating at a deficit, your body will respond by dropping a lot of water weight in a short…

I plan out my eating for the day, including snacks, so that if I'm tempted to eat something or on the plan or in budget, I don't do it. I like to snack, so I just build the snacks into my calories for the day.

The best male gymnast in the world does this. He's going for world title number 7 in the all around.

You want to stop yo yo dieting? Stop dieting. Change your habits to sustain the body you want.

I just want to get down to a healthy body fat percentage, around 15%, and I want to better understand the science behind how to adjust my calorie deficit as I get closer and closer to that ideal body fat percentage.

Why do you keep picking on the details in my posts? I just picked 7% as a random low body fat percentage.

Yea, I guess what I think is fairly well accepted around here is that I cannot lose 2 lbs a week all the way to 7% body fat. Therefore, there must be some tapering of the deficit that goes on as you get lower and lower in body fat. There are guidelines floating around about what that looks like, I was wanting to understand…

taku, This is very important -- it is self sabotaging to take one "bad" choice and decide that the whole day is blown so no decisions after that matter anymore. Eating a slice of cake is no grave sin. Log it and move on.

Because I know the formula for BMR, I know my body fat % and lean mass calculations. I know the adjustments to BMR that are used to get calories burned for a sedentary person. I would pick a goal weight at around 15% body fat, which I was at previously at around 170 lbs like 4 years ago. Your BMR does change significantly…

Goal weight maintenance calories for me would be 1920 based on my activity level, before purposeful exercise. I've been maintaining 1,500-1,600 a day from 241 down to 219 where I am now. Eating maintenance right now would probably equate to me losing a about .8 lbs per week, which feels a little bit low for how much weight…

OK, that's kind of obscuring the point. My BMR is going down as I lose weight. At a constant activity level and constant calorie intake, my deficit is going to go down naturally. In fact, I worked it out that my rate of loss when I first started was at 1.8 lbs/week, and if i just kept the same NET calorie intake, my rate…

It's debatable whether any dietary fat has any negative effect on the health of your arteries. If anything, the "healthy" fats make it better. Saturated fats seems to be a current point of debate. ... ... .. Damnit I got roped in.

For example, @leggup recently posted this in another thread: I've seen other people make the same chart with BMI. I'd like to see what people's rules of thumb are that are structured this way, but more importantly what they're based on. Is there some source or research behind these? Is this just some person's personal…

How is this thread still going on?