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Yay!!! Thank you! You're awesome!! I always really enjoy dancey cardio activities :D

That's cool, so we judge progress differently. For you, the objective of exercise is to get faster and stronger...for me, it's something else~ Hmm...well, I have heard that MFP overestimates exercise calories quite a bit...and how many calories we burn depends a lot on our respective weights, but if you're burning that…

LOL!!! A diet where we can eat that??? Sign me up! XD

If it helps, I can use my own statistics. If say I input myself as sedentary, anything above 1640 gets added to my calorie intake as exercise calories. If say I input myself as very active though, it becomes 2040 calories. That means anything above that gets added to my calorie intake as exercise calories. And let's say I…

Wait what? That's the point of my question...why does MFP allow one to lose weight faster just because her daily activities burn more calories? And the other one (person B), despite having exercised more (so that she ends up reaching the same TDEE as person A) be recommended by MFP to eat more due to MFP suggesting her to…

Yes, but we're assuming they both want to lose weight as fast as possible, so they eat the baseline 1200 calories and then plus the exercise calories. (I apologize for the confusion that I sort of had in the beginning since I wrote both "lose weight as fast as possible, and then, 1lb/wk...)

Whoops...I was thinking of two things while typing this...changed and fixed it now. Thanks!

That's something I don't get as well, the 1200 calories thing. Why is it that number? I'm somehow can't imagine our body thinking, "System consuming less than 1200 calories, error error...commence metabolic slowdown..." I mean, wouldn't a person who's burning 2500 calories daily, even if she eats 1200-1300 calories,…

Are these workout DVDs or in class ones? I feel like I'd really enjoy Zumba cause it's dancey, but I never really found a high intensity one that actually makes me sweat. I'd love to find the ones you're doing if they're DVD workouts!

LOL!!! DOUBLE WIN :D Save cash and burn fat~

I KNOW!!! But for some reason, I still burn way less calories with her compared to other DVD workouts despite being drenched in sweat for both.

Yikes, exercising till you PHYSICALLY can't go on huh...that's dedication. But it's stuff like that that makes us go back to it I guess cause I feel like we would only do those kind of things if either 1) Our life depended on it (ie: We'd literally die the instant we stop cause there's something chasing us below) or 2) We…

That's fine, same concept applies...the difference may not be as drastic as between strength training and cardio (where cardio burns double for same amount of time), but there still could be a 100 - 200 calorie burn more when you go all out on, say, the cycling machine, versus all out on the treadmill. Also, I'm guessing…

I have to respectfully disagree. Sure, if I put in 100% vs 50% on the same workout, yeah, it'll be obvious enough that I'll burn more when I put in 100%, BUT, let's say I put in 100% on the above-mentioned workout, versus 100% on some sort of strength training workout for the same amount of time. I will DEFINITELY not burn…

The gazelle!! I've always heard about it but never tried it personally. It looks very much like the elliptical though. Have you tried both of them? What are your thoughts on it? Although I only get a 400~ calorie burn for Turbofire and Body Combat, your burn may vary depending on your weight (ie: I'm around 130lb) How are…

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Don't really have an answer for your exact question (I would imagine those who are in their 30s/40s/50s may have a more legitimate answer for you), though personally I'm interested in your "don't lose more than 1% body-weight weekly" theory. Just out of curiosity, where have you heard that?

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I agree with the others that your Fitbit appears to have some sort of manufacturing error. Right now, I own a Bodymedia and it's been working pretty accurately. Personally, I don't recommend the calculators too much because I realized that I underestimate a lot when they ask me about my daily activity. Simply standing and…

Oh wow...that's really harsh...I don't really have any advice or anything, but maybe I can make you feel better by letting you know that I TOTALLY know how you're feeling. And yes, once you get your first bite, you become even more ravenous...all I can suggest for now is NOT to have that first bite. I feel that after a…

I agree that you will need to get in the right amount of nutrients and eat right for health benefits. But to lose weight, it is still necessary that the calories added up from those macros and micros sum up to be a deficit from TDEE. A person can eat a 100% clean diet but if it isn't at a deficit, I'm fairly certain that…

As much as I don't want to admit to this, because I don't want to encourage people from doing this, yes, it's true. If you return to your normal diet very slowly (for example, adding 50-100 calories per week until you reach a normal amount of calories that people of your weight and height usually need to maintain), then…

Yes, that's certainly correct...to an extent. To lose weight, you need to burn more than you consume...BUT (and here's the big but that many people don't know) you still need to eat enough so that your body realizes that you are not in danger of having very little or no food around. Once your body realizes that, it will…

Yes, I don't deny that I had a pretty unhealthy relationship with food. As for gaining weight from starving oneself (starving as in eating absolutely nothing), I can't say for 100% of cases, but I'm pretty much 95% sure that a person will not gain weight from not eating. Thermodynamically, it's just not possible. Yes,…

I like the fact that you are counting your calories in amounts per week more than calories/day. I definitely agree with you that weight gain, or a lack of weight loss is usually due to eating too much. However, seeing as you're 206lb and also exercising very much, I'm not sure that eating 1000-1200 calories really is the…

This was me today for lunch...SOOO good. Vegetable and shrimp tempura, shrimp tempura roll, katsudon with rice, and miso soup :D. I don't feel guilty cause I'm planning this to be my only meal for the day as this pretty much reached my calorie intake allotment. Now I just need to power through the rest of the day :/

I feel like so far, everywhere I've looked, losing weight is basically about calories in vs calories out. That said, when eating out, you have a few options...you can save your calories and eat more at home by only ordering a salad OR, make the eating out occasion a treat and just eat below your alloted calories...of…