watfordjc Member

Although not a motivational quote, it got me started and has kept me going. "You know how to do it." (best friend's response to "I should really lose some weight"). So, based on that, I think a quote I read when I was a teenager (can't remember where... Google says "Mind Power: Remote Influence Techniques", meh) may have…

If you were already eating at a deficit and your diet hasn't really changed (in terms of what you are eating) you probably won't experience an early scale loss from water weight. If you were at a deficit (e.g. a fixed calorie diet) and started using MyFitnessPal and started eating back exercise calories (i.e. a…

The Daily Mail never talk about dose when claiming something is dangerous for health, and when they do... "Eating one pack of crisps a day equivalent to drinking FIVE LITRES of cooking oil." Or as I put it: "Eating a can of tuna a day equivalent to eating A BLUE WHALE." So, off the top of my head the Daily Mail has…

Exercise has absolutely no effect on my depression (chronic + periods of double) or anxiety. It might leave me feeling neutral for a few minutes afterwards, however, if I have reached the point of having to force myself to continue (for walking that reached the point of a minimum of 15 miles, for running that is the reason…

A few pieces of fudge during my first few stretches. After stretching, depends on my calories and what I fancy. Although I've pre-logged a couple of boiled eggs today I might have a peanut butter and cottage cheese sandwich instead (or as well as).

How many slices/pieces are in a "container" of said cake?

Gluten caused my ASD? Given that recent research with eye tracking software, I find it hard to believe my parents fed me bread/doughnuts/pizza/etc in the first 3 months of my life.

What is unethical or dangerous about using a formula to calculate the caloric needs of a comatose patient? It is my understanding that RMR is what is typically measured for resting calorie needs, and oxygen usage for exercise.

Starting BMI 44.54 (3 pounds shy of super obesity). Starting waist size 54 inches. Body fat percentage according to Bod Pod after 4 weeks (and 20.5 pound mass loss) 46.5%. Unless you have a health problem carbs don't really matter. When you still have body fat the following don't matter when it comes to reducing body fat:…

All mammals drink milk from other mammals, and given the choice would also drink from bottles and cartons. Milk is milk, as long as it is digestible, doesn't matter. Here is a giraffe drinking goats milk from a bottle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GGD4YcKn20 Here is a tiger drinking what I assume is cows milk from a…

Since Dr Oz has been mentioned, it is probably safe to say the bubbles in the drink work their way to your stomach and the extra bubblyness of your stomach acid makes your stomach grumble more. Or if you want my serious opinion - if you were to drink water instead of eating you would probably also feel hungry after an hour…

My suggestion is log it anyway. On 16th September I had a 1,973 calorie surplus. On 28th September I had a 1,896 calorie surplus. Sure my Bod Pod results last week weren't excellent, but despite all the bad days and my calories being all over the place I still made progress. By logging everything and looking back I know…

OK, let's tackle the "will always fail" part. The body maintains a temperature of 36.8 degrees Celsius, adaptive thermogenesis lowers that target temperature, by going on a diet for a long time the human body will maintain the same temperature as the outside world purely by heat transfer (i.e. the body uses the skin like…

--Gerald Reaven Who is your source?

I wouldn't call it a hoax, although I would say it is being misused. BMI as an indicator of obesity is like waist measurement as an indicator of visceral fat levels. Correlation in sedentary populations, 60-85% of the planet is sedentary (WHO, 2002), apply it to everyone.

A crude representation of my weight since November 2008 and smoking status (red = smoker, green = vaper). Could not discern any correlation between smoker status and weight. I am, however, more active on sedentary days when I smoke because I go downstairs and outside to light up.

Yes, because my deficit is based on math and I want to minimise any lean mass losses (since December I have lost more fat than I have lost weight - ~106% of my weight loss between December and July was from fat mass, gained 3.66 pounds of lean mass and rarely lifted). Abs by Christmas and ripped by March was what the math…

I'm currently around 20.5% body fat if I haven't lost any lean mass since July. My goal for my next Bod Pod assessment in two weeks is 19.9% (25.9% mid-July, goal of dropping 0.5 percentage points per week which is considered achievable) and so far I have usually gone beyond that weekly 0.5 percentage points weekly goal.…

An increase in consumption and an increase in exercise would do it. I generally do one of two things: 1) Go back to what I was doing previously. The scale will start making sense for me again in 2 weeks (the time it generally takes for me to shift the majority of extra water weight). 2) Keep doing what I'm doing, call it a…

I wish it came in reversible jars. That way I could turn the 8 empty jars next to me inside out, consume every last gram, and not feel like I'm wasting half a teaspoon of peanut butter every time I wash a jar.

Subcutaneous belly fat: Calorie deficit and time. Visceral belly fat: Cardio. According to one study, the equivalent to walking/jogging 12 miles per week prevents the accumulation of more visceral fat, and the equivalent to walking/jogging 17 miles per week reduces visceral fat "significantly". "Specifically, those…

--Me, http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1089891-heard-of-this-garcinia-cambogia-60

Meh on the fruit sugar thing. I ate two whole pineapples Monday and 3 bananas. So, I had a calorie surplus of 1,943 and consumed 733 calories total from fruit. If every day were like Monday, it certainly wouldn't be the sugar in fruit that would make me fat.

It has been many years, but when I was on a very tight budget I used to get my chocolate fix by mixing 100% cocoa powder, granulated sugar, and water. Whether I added hot water and milk to the very thick paste and drank it or ate it as it was depended on how bad the craving was, but I think it still worked out to a lot…

High in sodium? How many of these meals are people eating a day? Going back in my food diary to the latest days my sodium was sort of high... Thursday 12th, 2,263 calories consumed, 2,478 mg sodium (of which 900 mg from bread, 640 mg from Marmite, 450 mg from ready meals, 174 mg from peanut butter, 162 mg sodium from…

A splash of milk, or a teaspoon of sugar if I want it black.

Mine is limiting my weekly goal to 1% of my body weight, although I am soon switching to 31 calories per pound of body fat mass because 1% body weight will be more than 31 calories per lb of BFM.

1 lb of body fat is not 100% fat, the same as 1 lb of muscle is not 100% protein. Hoping Google can stop me from looking for the research again... http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/816892-drop-10-pounds-in-30-days-the-math-behind-it Approximately 3,500 kcal per pound, so 3,500 / 0.454 = approximately 7,709.25…

After using up all my calories I have breakfast if I'm hungry. Sometimes I have breakfast before my dinner. I don't have a cut off time, I stop eating for the day wherever my sleep (if any) falls.

My first 14 weeks (98 days): 46.5 pounds. The next 14 weeks: an estimated 21.25 pounds (or it might just be 5.6 pounds, me weighing less than 176 lb is unknown territory).