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And just for the record, I lost about 80 lbs in 2012 on a very low calorie diet (about 1500-1800, just like you), got down to 180 of pure flab, and I'm now at 200 with a mix of flab and muscle. I have the weight pretty close to the right spot but I don't look good ("skinny-fat") due to my lack of weight training and…

Have you gone in for metabolic testing? If you are logging accurately it isn't the carbs, flavored creamers, or anything else...chances are that your very low daily intake has slowed your metabolism down quite a bit. Eating carrots instead of bread isn't your problem - it's that you aren't eating enough. If you don't want…

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Define "gaining"...are you 2 lbs heavier all of a sudden? If so, you aren't gaining - it's water weight. If you start eating more it takes a few days for your body to adjust. Everyone needs to stop freaking out about a pound or two here or there. You aren't going to see meaningful results, positive or negative, over a…

You're not eating enough. With a TDEE of 1999, and the small amount you have to lose you should not be eating below about 1,750 calories per day. Eat more. It works.

I lost over 60 lbs after getting my fitbit, and I consider it to be invaluable in my weight loss journey to this point. Wearing it has helped me more accurate estimate my activity level so that I eat enough (even on non-workout days), and it challenges me to climb more flights of stairs and take more steps than I would…

They are as effective as fat burners, yes, in that both of them effectively separate your money from your wallet. That's about where the effectiveness of both stop.

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I highly recommend a fitbit or a heart rate monitor...anything else is just an estimate. Regarding Endomondo, when I use that site it is very close to my fitbit and MFP (if I check it). Is it possible that you did not set up your profile properly on Endomondo (or one of the other sites)? You have to enter height/weight/age…

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1. I wanted to lose 90 lbs total...bought it when I was about 20 down, and it has been vital to helping me eat the proper amount (i.e., avoid plateaus and consistently lose) for the next 46 (and counting. 2. Since March or so of 2012 3. I dislike how it can come unclipped from your jeans...as it did once and I had to…

So Coconut oil kills HIV? You mean we've had the cure the whole time?? Completely ridiculous claims throughout absolutely kill the credibility of the writer (and call into question any of the other claims in the article). Glad I didn't bother reading most of it.

No ongoing fees, just the $99 (or so) initial cost. I was previously set to sedentary on MFP (like most, I think) but quickly realized that I should be at ACTIVE based on my burn per day....and I have a desk job with a 45 min commute both ways. You probably are burning far more calories than you think and are simply not…

It's not the sodium or anything else...you're not eating enough and your metabolism has slowed down. I know you probably don't think this is true but if you eat 75% of your exercise calories back for 2 weeks I can practically guarantee you'll start losing again with your routine. Try all the other stuff first if you want,…

More likely that she snacks randomly throughout the day because she's so hungry from not eating for hours. It doesn't matter when you eat, and breakfast doesn't "jump start" anything. She's either eating too little (killing her metabolism) or too much throughout the day. It's as simple as that for 99% of people.

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Maybe that's what the words say, but I recommend that you wear a fitbit, heart rate monitor, or bodybugg for a day and then tell us that you were "sedentary" even when you sat most of the day at your office. I am an office worker that sits quite a bit (I will get up to get water/use restroom periodically, but normally…

Thanks for the input. Your last sentence is especially interesting since I was on the treadmill, and you can get a similar effect from that. Very sensible idea to just do some experimentation with both places and see how it works out. I'll give it a shot!

There is no way a 21 year old has any idea what you're talking about.

If you're getting a big adjustment every day without doing any exercise, it means that you have underestimated your daily activity level. Most people are NOT sedentary - I work at a desk all day and sometimes only get 4000-5000 steps in a day and still burn 2600+ calories (6'1" 218 lb 30 yo male). I have my activity level…

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I think it's funny that the people that start these threads have almost always joined MFP in the last 90 days...they preach about how eating less = losing more weight and not eating back calories because it's easy to have success like that in the beginning. When they plateau, feel like crap, and lose their muscle tone they…

Our stories are amazingly similar, right down to when we started and our approximate starting weight (I was 6'1", 270 in January 2012). I did the same thing as you - started at 1,200-1,400 calories per day and dropped a ton of weight at first. After about 30-40 lbs, though, I plateaued for a few weeks and didn't lose again…