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I primarily walk and ride my bikes. Cycling is a great low impact exercise that also gets your heart rate up to a more strenuous level than walking.

It's pretty much legally prescribed meth. Yeah...people on meth typically lose weight amongst other things.

Motivation is a very close cousin to our various emotions. A motivation is a driving force that initiates and directs behavior, but it is finite...basically it's enough to get the ball rolling, but that's about it. The bloom always comes off the rose at some point. Healthy living is something that has to become…

Eat dinner? I've done various shift work at different points in my life and I always adjusted my meals to whatever the situation was. Most people have a meal sometime after work I'd wager.

Same answer as my answer in 2019. We picked up our tree from Roybal's Trees like we do every year the weekend after Thanksgiving. This was our 18th year (minus the one Costco year). We used to live right around the corner from the lot and I'd put it on my shoulders and walk home with it. We live a few miles away now so I…

I don't think desiring to be 10 Lbs underweight so you can just eat like *kitten* is a particularly healthy mindset.

It depends on what you mean by "results". It is one of those things that is a constant, gradual evolution. Most people running a good, well structured program will start seeing changes within the first few months or so...but again, it's a constant evolution of change over time. I started seeing changes within the first 90…

For changing body composition, hitting the weight room is the most efficient and effective. Pilates is a form of resistance training...but it really just depends on what your goals are. https://www.puregym.com/blog/pilates-vs-weight-training-which-is-best/

That is called normal bodyweight fluctuations. You're going to be needing to look at this as a trend over the long term, not weigh in to weigh in. This is what losing weight looks like plotted on a graph...the red line is the important one.

IF doesn't have some kind of magical effect on losing weight. It can help some people maintain a consistent calorie deficit...it's the calorie deficit that affects weight loss.

Bad advice...overly large deficits can do a whole lot of harm. If someone already has a 1000 calorie deficit built in and then does a bunch of exercise on top of that and doesn't account for it in some manner, that's a recipe for all kinds of nasty *kitten*.

The seat as well as the handle bars can be adjusted. You don't want either to be too low or too high. For the seat, stand next to the bike with your feet flat on the floor...the seat should be adjusted so that it's about even with your hip bone. The handle bars should be about even with the seat. When you ride and your…

In general, tracking micro-nutrients like vitamins and minerals with MFP is a crap shoot as the database is crowdsourced from other users and often, micro-nutritional information is not entered. Also, MFP only tracks those micro-nutrients that are required by the FDA to be put on food labels...magnesium and vitamin B are…

Well, words have meaning...the OP was looking up "stir fry" in the database and seemed quite surprised that all of the entries that came up had high sodium levels...because OP didn't make a "stir fry"...OP sautéed vegetables. It's not semantics at all when you're looking something up in a database and what you're looking…

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Dozen tamales from El Modelo for Christmas Eve

For recipes, pinterest is your friend. A few things though, make sure you're supplementing B12, keep an eye out for symptoms of anemia, supplement Omega 3, and you'll probably have to consume some processed food to get adequate protein (ie tofu, seitan, faux meats, etc). I would also suggest doing a lot of research on…

You need to adjust the bike to fit you

As long as you're hitting your calories, it doesn't really matter that you're over or under any particular macro. There's nothing magical about MFP's default macros. People customize them all of the time to meet their individual goals. For example, someone doing keto is going to have a much different macro ratio than the…

I'd never want to go back to high school weight...for one thing, I'm a grown *kitten* man now and not a kid. I was borderline underweight in high school and skinny as a rail. This wasn't by choice, I did everything I could to gain weight at the time but just couldn't. I was a competitive track and field sprinter and…

I've cut back from being a daily drinker to only drinking alcohol once or twice per week on the weekend. I'm going to do dry January...I have done dry months before and I think this time I might just not go back to having alcohol at all.

DOMS (muscle soreness from exercise) really only happens when you're unaccustomed to a particular exercise and/or you're increasing intensity or working those muscles in some other way. DOMS isn't an indicator of a good workout. I am never "exhausted" after a lifting session, but your lifts should be challenging to the…

I'm a Garmin guy through and through

The number on the scale is just one measure and BMI is a population figure, not an individual one. The mirror is a tools as well...so are clothes...so is BF%. I can look in the mirror and see if/when I'm over fat. At my very best I was around 180 Lbs which is about 6 Lbs over the high end of BMI, but I was also sitting at…

As others have said, you were eating maintenance calories...you just need to cut from that amount by 250 calories or 500 calories for 1/2 Lb to 1 Lb rate of loss. I don't know anything about Apple Watch, but my Garmin gives me total calories for the day...at rest and active...it gives me my maintenance, not a weight loss…

Looking at a picture is going to be nothing more than a guess. I'd just go with 500...it's probably somewhere in that ball park give or take 100 calories or so.

Yeah, Fitbit doesn't synch over calories specific to any particular activity or exercise or whatever. The adjustment from Fitbit is just to reconcile the activity level selected in MFP to the actual (estimated) activity level per your device. So if you're set to sedentary on MFP, but exercise and/or are otherwise having a…

Something else to consider as a possibility is untreated mental health stuff rather than normal life stressors. Over the summer I was diagnosed as bipolar 2 which is a mood disorder where I can swing between hypomanic episodes, stable, and depression or sometimes mixed episodes. I only thought of this when you mentioned…

You can check your scale with an object of a known weight...like a dumbbell or something. Your scale should also be on a flat, hard surface. But really, nobody weighs exactly XXX Lbs all of the time. Your weight at any given time is going to depend on numerous variables that have nothing to do with fat. Hydration levels,…

I pretty much do leftovers from the previous evening or two or sandwiches.