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If I'm being honest, I don't pay all that much attention to macros for losing weight. The calorie deficit is what matters in this regard. If I'm struggling to keep my calorie intake in check, then I increase my Fat intake and reduce my Carbohydrates. It helps me feel satiated longer.

I think I'd discuss it with your child and expand on the topic with them. If there are specific points that you think were erroneous with the documentary that your child retained and is using as a talking point, then refute them with other factual evidence. I'd leave the teacher alone unless there's a very concerted and…

I had to cut caffeine out of my lifestyle about 2-3 years ago due to a minor, benign, but super annoying heart condition. Switched to white sodas and root beer. Four months ago, I decided to limit added sugar intake to 10g/day average, or 70g/week. Diet, caffeine-free soda? Only if you lobotomize me first. So, no more…

I cut out as much added sugar from my food as possible. Goal is to keep it under 10/g per day on average. Helped cut out a lot of "empty" calories and I feel reduces my overall appetite.

I'm currently practicing 20/4 TRF, after doing 16/8 off and on for a few years. I do think it can help some folks maintain their CICO goals more easily. However, IF/TRF is not a magic weight loss bullet by itself. Studies, controlling for calorie intake have demonstrated this a few times now. I would be curious how long…

I've been practicing IF/TRF off and on for a few years. Over the past 6 months, I restarted doing 16/8. In the last 6 weeks, or so, I've been on the 20/4 schedule. I'm flexible with it. Usually, once a week I'm closer to 16/8, poor whatever I'm comfortable with for that day. I don't practice for weight loss, but for the…

Go with the USDA numbers. In the United States reported calories on a label can be skewed to make the food look better. Third Group nutrients include calories, sugars, total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium. For foods with label declarations of Third Group nutrients, the ratio between the amount obtained by…

Your Garmin and MFP are messing up your exercise calories severely. Something doesn't always work correctly between MFP and devices. Could be a setting in one or the other. Could be a flaw in the software that exports the data, or MFP's software that imports that exported data. Happened with me when I synced up my…

Rock on! I bumped from 202 to 207, but I expected and accepted before I left. Not sweating it because the homemade fruit pies and the Boston cream pie were delicious!

My new profile picture is me outside the Stewart tunnel outside of Madison, WI. Hit that one day on the way back.

This was an actual week off with travel back to the home state. I tend to hit a lot of restaurants with family and friends. There also seems to be a lot of liquor sampling... oh, yes. Lots and lots of drinks... I made friends with some new scotches. Did manage to cycle 140 miles while I was in the home state. There are…

I'm on vacation this week, and it is a "maintenence +" sort of week. I'm choosing to log as best I can, but I'm in no way worrying about hitting a calorie target. Too many restaurants and too many scotches to sample ;) Next week I'll get resume my new (past two months) regular eating habits.

Activities: Cycling and Aikido Barring those: Cherry Garcia >:) o:)

I was leaning more towards having other data points over time rather than only the scale. This lowers the significance of the scale day to day.

Excess sodium does tend to make you retain slightly more water. If you are consistently eating a higher amount of sodium, then the water weight directly caused by the sodium intake would in theory remain more constant. However, if your sodium intake varies day to day, then your scale weight may fluctuate up and down from…

It has to do with the amount of adipose, or fat, tissue that is lost versus the amount of lean muscle tissue that is lost. A person with a lower amount of body fat composition tends to lose that body fat more slowly

What are your stats? Is your deficit too great? Give us an idea of how you are yesterday and today.

I can't narrow it down to one, but my top 3 are: Australia - Great Barrier Reef and Great White Sharks. Sweden - My grandmother immigrated from there and it would be awesome to visit a place of heritage. Scotland - heritage, scotch whiskey, and for the history.

I would have rather gone with the S7; however, AT&T suckered me in with a huge chunk of store credit with the S8, which allowed me to get the upgraded USB-C cables and chargers. USB-C appears to be set to become the next "big thing". S8 have gone with it and in a few years I suspect standard micro USB will dwindle. I think…

That's not something I want to hear. How long have you had the phone?

@WendyLeigh1119 suggested Swiftkey in another thread. I'm testing it out and liking it a bit so far.

I'll still take my Android over Apple. I'm just annoyed with the curved screen.

Business phone. Can't root it.

I've been considering that. Samsung's stock board is significantly different in the symbols and shortcuts than Swype, which is what I've used on my last two phones.

more :# Ahh well. I'm turning into my dad. "New fangled gew-gahs! Where's my trusty cordless phone? I remember when cell phones were proper bricks, and counted as a self defense weapons..."

In other news, I'm seriously going to throw this f'ing phone at a wall... The autocorrect is so god awful random. jabbing b5? WTF?

Thank you. I did misread that she was eating at a deficit to begin with and losing already.

First, sorry you are jabbing b5 some difficulties in your personal life. That's no fun. Hope things work out for the best for you in the long term. Human being tend to drastically change their normal habits under extreme stress. As we either acclimate to the stress, or the stressing event ends, we typically return to our…

You are getting more **positive/additional** calories at Sedentary than at Mildly Active. Which is the way it should be.