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Trying to reduce water retention due to sodium intake is pointless unless you are doing a bodybuilding show were you need to look your best for 1 or 2 days. You can try some sodium de-loading practiced by many bodybuilders before a show which will reduce your water retention for a few days. However, this will only last a…

Good job on your weight loss so far. Just some question to see if we can troubleshoot your stall. 1. Do you have a food scale and weight everything you eat? 2. Do you eat your exercise calories back from horseback ridding and ripped in 30?

In general, you are on the right track, I think you just need some fine tuning. You got Information overload (some good some bad) with all the advice here so, I'll try to narrow it down best I can. Calorie intake and Macros: 1300 calories is a good starting point. Provided that you accurately count your calories AND eat…

Yes, in effect I am suggesting her to up the calories. But, only after analyzing her diet / exercise regime. The problem I have with everyone telling people to up their calories is that 90% of the time, they are not even tracking their calories intake. People here are constantly preaching the danger of "metabolic damage"…

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Ok looked at your food log for the past month. It looks like you definitely log everything. You do need to get a food scale if you want to be precious though. Measuring cups is fine if you are measuring liquids but everything else should be weighed. Would like you to see more protein in your diet but, that's another…

1. Open up your diary so we can take a look. It's much easier to help out if we can see what you are eating. 2. How lean are you? (It gets tougher and tougher to lose weight as you approach a low bodyfat) 3. Are you super accurate on your food intake? Do you use a food scale?

Everybody needs to stop telling her to eat more. What is up with this forum? As soon as someone ask for help, 100 people jumps in and tells them to eat more.

How long have you been at a "standstill"?

I would bet that you do indeed have a 2000 calories error. Just by looking at your log, you are very inconsistent with logging in your food. You need to log in everything everyday. Even the cream in your coffee has to be logged in. Do you have a food scale? If not, get one. Unless, it's "packaged food" with the nutrition…

I hope you are not serious. You gonna take the "General Consensus" advice. Use some logic man. Your problem isn't because you are not eating enough.

Awesome pics. Great size. Look thick. Solid. Tight. Keep us all posted on your continued progress with any new progress pics or vid clips. Show us what you got man. Wanna see how freakin' huge, solid, thick and tight you can get. Thanks for the motivation. Good job you sick kent.

What part of eating 100 calories less a day for a year and you'll be 10 lbs lighter do you not understand? 100 calories x 365 days = 36,500 = about 10-1/2 pounds.

It's doesn't matter if you are eating "good food" or if you eat at McDonald's. If your goal is to lose weight, you need to count them calories and make sure you are in a deficit. In general., good food (What ever that means), tends to be more filling so you get full easier. Still you can easily gain weight eating "healthy".

It's probably closer to 5 lbs if I had to guess. Depending on how "Carb" depleted your muscle are. Just being on a very low calorie diet in general will indicate that you are probably very depleted. For me, I gain around 8 lbs on a carb refeed after going on a carb restriction diet. But, I am a male and fairly muscular.…

I forgot what this topic was about but anyways, I have been staring at your pictures speechless and in awe for the past hour or so. That deep gaze in your eyes, your perfect long hair, all of your features just seem to all come together so well, almost angelical in a sense I suppose. The reason I am writing this is to let…

At this point you should go by measurements. Just measure your waistline and monitor that instead of going strictly by the scale. Like mrsbigmack said, you are probably in a state of glycogen depletion so you WILL gain weight (It's basically added water in the muscle). Adding 100 calories a week is also very sound advice.…

They lose weight because they have a calorie deficit.

Marathon running, no thanks jeff

Damn everyone is just complicating this. You are not losing weight because you are underestimating your food intake. Get a food scale and your problem is solved.

Runners are going to defend to the death that running is going to help you lose weight. Running will make you better at running. Running will make you more fit. Running will do little to help you lose weight. Also, running will not really make you more aesthetically looking. Marathon runners look pretty weak and anorexic…

1. Breakfast 2. Lunch That is about it.

good point. The other way you can do it is to put yourself in the "sedentary" category (in the calculation) and count burned calories for all exercises.

^^ this You have choose to get more muscle or get more lean. You can do something like go on a bulk for 3 months and then cut for 3 months. Just pick a time phase for each and stick with it. There are some small exception such as newbie / Muscle Memory gains but, that will only work for a short time. Someone mentioned IF…

^^ This seems reasonable. Although, I would go ahead and eat back your calorie as long as you are not over-estimating calories burn (Those exercise machine have a tendency to over estimate your calorie burn). But, I beg you to get yourself a food scale. I guarantee you will surprise how small "1 serving" is. That is why…

You are training for a marathon and only eating 1200 calories? The obvious answer is that you need to eat more. However, something is not adding up. If you are running 9 miles in a day (-900 calories) you are living on 300 calories a day? Doing this for a few days and you probably wouldn't have the energy to run, Are you…

IF (Intermittent fasting) is not a magic bullet. It can be helpful but not necessary. No hate on IF ( I do it myself) it just that OP needs to master the basic of losing weight first.

No it is not exactly this. It is obvious that she is not tracking calories correctly. If she wasn't eat enough calories, she would be losing weight.

I would do around a -500 calorie per day deficit (1 pound a week). If you input that you wanna lose 1 lb a week, MFP will accurately calculate a -500 calorie deficit. If you want a 100% fool proof way to lose weight read this: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=129247741 ^^ basic truths about losing weight…

You must have a food scale. If you don't have one, you are not accurately counting calories. The reason you are not losing weight is that you are not at a calorie deficit. It is simple as that. Tons of people on this site likes to blame "Metabolic damage / Starvation mode for the reason they aren't losing weight. Very very…