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It doesn't matter unless you eat back your exercise calories, and it dosen't appear that you do.

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Two tablespoons? That's a LOT of sugar - about 3 times as much as a serving of cheerios. And 6 times more than I'd ever use in oatmeal. I'd gag on that much sugar, and if you really need that much, I'd take it as a pretty strong indication that you just don't like oatmeal. Not that there's anything wrong with that. What…

If by flab you mean a higher body fat percentage at a given weight, then yeah, I'm afraid so. Strength training will help to minimize muscle loss as you lose the fat. If by flab you mean loose skin, I'm not so sure, but I can tell you from personal experience that excess subcutaneous fat drags down excess skin and makes it…

Yeah, but look at the list of ingredients. It's processed grain with added sugar, honey, oil, and a multivitamin.

Is the fat coming off evenly from all over? A lot of women lose fat disproportionately from the top down, which can make them temporarily pear shaped along the way.

It works out to 1476 for me. I lost 58 pounds on 1500-1800 calories per day, exercise calories included, and have maintained for 2 years on about 1900. That's more than Scooby calculates for my TDEE so I guess I'm doing alright. I have no history of yo-yo dieting and, because of my age, was too afraid of muscle loss to…

I weigh and log veggies but don't limit the serving sizes of the non-starchy sort. I eat however much I want and then log what I eat, so in that sense they're unlimited.

Do you leave the rendered fat behind in the pan or on the grill? The lower wastage of lean ground beef will make a big dent in the price difference if you do, and may cancel it out completely.

Don't be surprised if your weight continues to drift down at 1920. That's only 20 calories more than I eat to maintain at 123 pounds for a 5'7", 60 year old female.

My town is barely big enough for 2 grocery stores and a Walmart, and the Walmart counts as relatively high end. We definitely have a low end, though: a really trashy grocery store that smells like an open air meat market most of the time. Unfortunately we have the economically depressed neighborhoods to support it.…

That certainly tends to be true if you shop at the "cheap" grocery store on the less affluent side of town that sells mostly no-name brands of calorie dense foods. Such stores don't expect a fast turn-over on fruits and vegetables, other than maybe potatoes and onions, and that's often reflected in both the freshness and…

I'm 60 and lost 58 pounds a couple of years ago, mostly from my torso. I sagged initially as though the skin all over my torso was a size or three too large, but have tightened up almost completely since then. No obvious evidence of loose skin shows up in the mirror at all now, so long as I keep my still somewhat…

This is just a matter of personal preference unless you have digestive issues with eating too close to bedtime. I don't, and there's something about closing out my food log for the day that makes me hungry if I give myself too long to think about it. So I routinely have a bedtime snack.

That's been my experience too. Sleep is more restful when it isn't being continually interrupted by sleep apnea.

67", 123 lbs, 60 year old female maintaining on about 1900 calories a day. I use a slightly tweaked Scooby's estimation of my TDEE now, but back when I was still letting MFP set my maintenance calories, I had to set my activity level to "Active" and add my exercise calories on top to actually maintain. I lost weight at…

I'm 5'7, 60 years old, and have maintained at 123 +/- a few pounds since losing 58 pounds in 2011. Net 1500 calories is where I set my calorie budget when I find myself at the high end of my maintenance range. I lose slowly, but so far reliably, on that many calories.

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Brazil nuts should especially appeal to "extremely clean" paleo types, as they come almost exclusively from wild trees. It has never been economically viable to cultivate them because of their complex ecological requirements. That makes them about as close to a true "hunter gatherer" commodity as most of us are ever likely…

Not really, unless you want to make it harder than it needs to be. Not even an "extremely clean" diet is required to be low in complex carbs or fat.

I don't understand all this "haters" and "jealous" melodrama. Given that most of us are adults with the free will to set our calorie budgets at whatever level we think is appropriate, why would any of us waste one single drop of negative emotional energy on what anyone else is doing? Or on what other people think of what…

Do both. Weigh in often enough to spot any trend upward, or downward if you're the sort who can unintentionally lose weight. And monitor body composition by paying close attention to how your clothes fit. I developed the beginnings of a muffin top in my first year of maintenance, even though I hadn't regained any of the…

In my case the sluggishness induced by such a diet would probably cause the "calories out" side of that equation to fall.

I began the C25K program a week after my 58th birthday and ran a half marathon almost a year to the day later. Now at 60 I'm not very fast (30 minute 5K on a really good day) but my stamina is good. I still run 5-8 miles, 3 or 4 times a week.

I lost 58 pounds, total, and the final 10 or so pounds made a much, MUCH bigger difference in my appearance than the first 25. Keep going long enough and your body will eventually have to start burning off the fat from your "first on/last off" problem areas, after the excess has been pretty much depleted everywhere else.…

At her height she probably doesn't need to be an hourglass to get a 30" waist unless she has a very large frame. I'm 5'7" with a rather short waisted "ruler" type build, and at 123 pounds I have a 29" waist. That's thick enough that I have a difficult time finding pants that fit at the waist without being baggy in the seat…

I kick started my diet with a couple of weeks of a somewhat relaxed South Beach phase I, without counting calories, before finding MFP. For two weeks I ate as much meat and full fat cheese as I wanted and practically shoveled down non-starchy vegetables. I thought I'd been eating a lot, but when I began logging, I…

I was a size 10 in high school and wear mostly 2s and 4s now. Vanity sizing.

Size 2 or 4 was size 10... 40 years ago. I know because that's what I wore back then. When I was 20 I weighed about what I do now, though no doubt my BF% was lower. I wore 34C and size 5 underwear top and bottom, size 8 shoes, and was reliably a Misses size 10 in practically anything that came in Misses sizes. Now I wear…

I lost from the top down and needed new bras before I could go down a pants size. It took around 25 pounds to go from size 14 to size 12, and then another 33 pounds to go all the way down to 2s and 4s.