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I get why you might not bother - 5 cups of spinach is basically nothing, as far as calories go... but it does have iron and other stats I'd like to track. Besides, enough of those "10-50 calorie veggies" over the course of the day...
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I've heard the question before, and it's not one that I really understand... think about it this way - what motivates you to be obese (or overweight - I didn't look at the OP's stats)? I'm correcting a problem, and that is the sole motivation.
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38 days, 30 pounds... roughly 3/4 of a pound per day, so you'd have to burn about 2625 calories per day in order to do that. That's not likely possible unless you're in the "400lbs to lose" club...
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I want to be ABLE to buy things that would fit from Abercrombie. BUT NOT do so on principle.
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The wraps work - so long as you're also controlling your food and maybe doing a bit of exercise... The wraps are incidental.
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If there's a lot of conflicting entries, each with plenty of user confirmations. Two items I've found are rice and movie theatre popcorn. The numbers vary, and not just a little - but by hundreds of calories. Of course, neither is something that you'll likely to be eating a LOT of if you want to lose weight, but it is a…
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Awesome advice.
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Ah, that makes sense. Even if you were eating butter on a stick, gaining 6lbs in 2 weeks wouldn't be easy, so you're right there. I'd say give it a another week, and make sure you're falling in between your BMR (Katch McArdle if you have a good LBM measure) and your light or active level TDEE.
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You started lifting, and you put on weight... are you certain that that weight add is fat / water and not muscle? Ie, if you're losing circumference still, then you're likely fine. Give it time. If you're eating just the 1800, you're also under your BMR based on the numbers you listed. I'm assuming you eat to the TDEE-X%…
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The calorie limit you're given is a target; if you're within 100 calories or so, plus or minus, that's where you should be. Aim to hit the target for 2-4 weeks, and see how things progress.
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It's not about "eating clean" - eat whatever you want or need, just control how MUCH of it you eat.
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Long Island is the most expensive place to live in the country? I guess those people in Manhattan and pretty much every other large city should just quit their whining... If you can't have "just a little" then it's your problem to deal with. Yes, your mother should support your efforts to lose weight, but I question how…
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Holy load of bull. Antioxidants don't do what you think they do - they certainly don't "perk up your organs" or kill viruses. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/antioxidant-hype-and-reality/
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They're as useful as the googles... they do nothing.
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I eat out for lunch nearly all the time - and I'm usually under 400. Jimmy The Greek or any other Mediterranean place - chicken skewer (NOT schwarma) on salad, no dressing, with cheese and side of tzatziki - likely around 300 calories if you get it like I do and fat mostly in the greek yogurt of the tzatziki. Adding…
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Not really your question, but I buy those Fiber One bars mostly for the chocolate - they're not exactly loaded with fiber. You'd be better off buying psyllium husk capsules or eating more veggies. http://thyroid.about.com/od/loseweightsuccessfully/a/highfiber.htm
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Cooked carrots aren't far off from butternut squash or baked yams. Worth a try. Don't over-cook them to mush (or do) depending on your texture issues. From green beans, sugar snap peas might be worth trying. Eat whole, raw, or steam or stir fry them a bit. Try out "asian pears" or actual pears. There are plenty of…
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Chicken or Beef Vindaloo seems pretty decent based on the recipes I've seen. No cream, no nuts, but some amount of oil in the base.
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Weigh it, and log it as "Butter, Salted" by weight. Might over compensate a touch... ;)
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I eat "mall Chinese" weekly for lunch, and I'm still losing. It's a potentially dangerous place if you don't come in with plenty of free calories in your day ;) If you're going to a real restaurant, you should be able to do even better if you talk to the waiter. As it is, the mall shop I frequent does special orders...…
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@p1ppers - I actually turned off my fitbit's recommendations and MFP integration... One day it would tell me that my 15000 steps were 200 calories, another day it would say they were 500 even though I went about the same distance in the same time. I even had one day where it said I could have an extra 40 calories after one…
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This.
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Flipping back through your diary for the last 10 days or so, it looks like you're routinely under your calorie goal by 200-600 calories a day... That number's a target, not a maximum. You should likely try to be a lot closer to sneak up a bit closer on it.
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Why wouldn't it count as exercise, unless someone's carrying you? Even a 2 mph walk expends energy, especially if it's 2 hours long.
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If you're only 15 pounds off from your target weight (I know it doesn't feel like only), it's going to take longer than someone who's 50 or 100 pounds away. Stick to it, visit the TDEE sites everyone else has recommended, and keep logging your progress in your diary.
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I don't know about that... my grandmother would come visit and tell me how fat I was all the time. It only made me resent her. Sure, she may have been RIGHT, but that doesn't help a kid.
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Tracking your food more exactly might help; you might be eating too much (or too little) of that 'healthy food'
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I'm also 42, and... had ~90 pounds to lose, and part way there thanks to constant logging and paying attention to what goes in ;)