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The answer to the original question is easy. Water weight is repsonsible for the majority of daily fluctuations. Beer is a diuretic so drinking a lot of it still means you're going to pee a lot out. Sodium and carbs affect water retention, as does starting a new workout regimen or something like that. Therefore it…

It depends on the specifics about how good people are about counting their calories and what they are using their HRM for and what HRM they use. I'm pretty religious about logging my food and I weigh whenever I can. I use my HRM to record my exercise when I go for a run or a long walk with my dog. I eat back all my…

Amber, "Calories in" is what you eat and drink. The more you measure everything on a scale and use good entries the closer you will get to accurate measurements of what you consumed. "Calories out" is what you: 1: Burn just being alive (BMR) 2: Burn through your normal activity level of non-purposeful exercise (NEAT) 3:…

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I doubt we will be able to add anything a doctor hasn't in this area. That being said, those symptoms sound similar to what some people experience with a really low resting heart rate, because it takes the heart a second to pump the blood back up to your head when you stand up. But alas, I assume your doctor would have…

The calories burned estimates from HRMs are only useful when doing cardio exercises, not even strength training, much less every day life. You've started a lot of threads with really basic questions, I'd suggest reading the sticky/important threads and use the tool as intended. Nobody can tell you how many calories you…

You can ask the waiter at most restaurants some detailed questions that can help you to log the food. How much this cut of meat weighs, how much pasta is used, what kind of fat this is cooked in, etc.

One week is not a plateau. You can drink a bottle of 16 oz of water and gain a pound right now.

I have to echo what everybody else has said. You can't use him or anybody else as an excuse. YOU have to put the work in to benefit YOU. if you're going to lose the weight it's going to take a long term commitment and you need to be honest with yourself that it's nobody else's responsibility but your own to stick to it.…

I eat way too fast. I don't think it's affecting my weight (since I plan and count/weigh everything), but acid reflux or indigestion.

You know why CICO works? The conservation of energy, a fundamental principle of physics. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. If your body burns a certain amount of energy, and the energy content of your food is less, your body must make up for that some how. Luckily, your body has ways of converting fat and muscle into…

I'm doing the same, eating 2000 calories a day, which according to my exercise routine gets me 1.7 lbs per week (which I've been averaging). However, I know that will only be 1.3 lbs/week when I hit 200 lbs and so on.

Calories are all that matter for weight loss, but the kinds of calories can have a big impact on how full you feel. Protein and fat take longer to digest and fiber also is filling. The rule of thumb is to eat 1g of protein for every lb of lean body mass, at least 30g of fiber. Honestly if you also eat a full 5 servings of…

It's just calories. You can "eat healthy" and workout and still gain weight if you are eating too many calories. Sounds like you need to tighten up your logging and diet to see results. Weigh and log everything that goes into your mouth.

It may affect your weight in terms of water retention, but it does not affect your fat loss.

Avocado, oils, butter, nuts -- pretty much any fat. Carbs and proteins are 4 calories per gram and fat is 9 calories per gram.

This is the extreme example to show you that, yes, it really is just CICO for WEIGHT LOSS. However, as others have stated, there's more to health than just your weight. http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html

When you are this close to your goal weight, fat is notoriously stubborn. 0.5 lbs per week is a typical reasonable goal. The problem is that hydration fluctuations are many times greater than the expected fat loss trend, so it can be very hard to see over daily or even weekly measurings. Keep doing what you're doing, take…

It doesn't really matter what you weigh, as long as you weigh yourself on the same scale in the same spot at the same time of day after you wake up then you should be able to see trends OVER THE LONG TERM. You can test it by stepping on and off with known weights (16 oz of water is 1 lb) to see if it's calibrated right.

Don't diet and avoid sugars. Adopt a sustainable way of eating that keeps you at a deficit. If you can enjoy small portions of sweet things within your calorie goals, then you will lose weight. It's unlikely you'll be able to avoid sweets forever, so you just have to manage it and not make it a binge event.

Doesn't go lower than 1,200 for women and 1,500 for men. But yes, you need to recalculate every so often because your TDEE will be going down but your goals are not automatically adjusted

The walking is good, but you can out-eat any exercise routine. You could not walk at all and lose weight. If you're not seeing the results you'd expect after a long time, I'd take a very close look at what you're consuming, trying to weigh everything and use good entries.

I was 4/10 low risk for prediabetes. Joke is on them, I tested positive for prediabetes at my physical like a month ago. On the low end though, 5.9 A1C

Fiber and sugar are carbs and are included in that weight Not everything that has weight has calories. See: water.

If you picked up a 16 oz bottle of water and drank it, you'd gain a pound. It's nothing but noise. Focus on long term trends with weight, progress pictures, and measurements. 15 pounds in 5 weeks is very fast and not sustainable. You likely got a big whoosh from starting a new plan, but expect things to slow down.

I like Extreme Makeover more than Biggest Loser. It does a better job of addressing the grim realities to losing weight, like injury, plateaus, regressions, loose skin, etc. Biggest Loser would hide all of that stuff. Also, his weight loss goals were once a quarter and usually the goals would go down every quarter, so only…

Run as much as you like, but you'll need to eat enough calories to keep up with it if you want to gain weight. How much is enough? Try using this tool to get your TDEE based on your activity level and set it to gain half a pound a week (+250 calories a day NET). Then, log all your running. Ideally you'd have a heart rate…

Is candy and milk a common combination? I'm struggling to see how one enhances the other!

First, I think the majority of the animosity is towards people who say things like "CICO doesn't work for me so I do Keto". Secondly, I think there are a lot of people who come here and say, "Gosh I'm really suffering with this Keto diet" I think people probably go overboard in making it clear that there is no magic recipe…

The macro balance isn't going to make you gain or lose weight. Just be very methodical about accurately measuring calories in from weighing everything, even on "cheat days" or "cheat meals" or alcohol days. If you are eating back exercise calories and getting them from MFP database or gym equipment you may be…