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  • The proper thing for the manager would be to give both parties a warning. Either behavior will be a problem, if unchecked.
  • I'd like to steer this in a little different direction . . . With your heavy workout schedule, you seem like the ideal person to just ignore exercise calories and eat toward a TDEE-set goal every day. Your TDEE is around 3400 (it could even be higher if you are really pushing yourself in strength training), so eating…
  • This isn't going to be a straight line. Think about it this way: you are down 11 lbs in six weeks, which is about right. Over this short of a period of time, anything could be causing this "mini-plateau." My advice: eat 2200-2500 calories per day, don't eat back exercise calories, and see what happens in another few…
  • A few thoughts: - Congrats on your weight loss! Losing 60 lbs is awesome. - If you are legitimately consuming 1200 calories per day, then you should be losing closer to 10 lbs / month for your TDEE. - With all due respect to your doctor and MFP's goal calculation model, I think your intake goal should be higher: closer to…
  • I'm not all that good at math, but if you were 266 lbs on January 1st and 251 lbs roughly 42 days later, I think you're losing 2.5 lbs / week, not 5 lbs / week. For just starting a program, that kind of weight loss wouldn't really put up a red flag to me. Given your calorie intake, I'm almost surprised you're not losing…
  • No problem with that. It's really not even an issue to be a little over on calories on a daily basis if your weekly calories come out OK.
  • SW: 269 GW: 250 1/1: 269 1/6: 267 1/13: 264 1/20: 264 1/27: 261 January weight loss: 8 lbs. 2/03: 260 2/10: 254 2/17: 258 2/24: February weight loss: 3 lb. Well, as good as I've been the last two weeks, I was bad this week. Add in a day where I consumed a LOT of alcohol and I end up with a gain. Back to it this week.
  • Assuming the strength training is somewhat rigorous, you're probably in a moderately active category. That being said, a lot of people using the MFP system put themselves down as sedentary, log their cardio activity, and eat back their calories. That's probably what I would recommend.
  • 1. As other posters have correctly pointed out, the MFP suggested target of 1200 calories/day was due to your requirement to lose 2 lbs / week. If you had done some reading on weekly weight loss goals, you would know that probably wasn't your best choice of goal. 2. If netting 1200 calories / day for 3.5 weeks caused you…
  • I do believe that most people who are in that "green" zone on BMI would benefit from a heavy lifting strength program, such as Stronglifts 5x5 or New Rules of Lifting for Women. I'm doing it right now, but not getting the full benefit because I am eating so far below my TDEE. I really believe that once I can go into a…
  • I think this is really good advice. If you are at a healthy weight, it's absolutely OK to get off the hamster wheel for a while. I think so many of us having to lose weight all our lives - and now that we're succeeding we can't imagine stopping. I would really consider going into a maintenance program, eating to maintain…
  • ^ This You are eating at just under 95% of your maintenance calories. At this rate, you will lose 10 lbs / year. If you're comfortable with losing at this rate, this goal "should" work for you. The main issue being that it is impossible for an online calculator to be so close in determining your maintenance calories. If…
  • SW: 269 GW: 250 1/1: 269 1/6: 267 1/13: 264 1/20: 264 1/27: 261 January weight loss: 8 lbs. 2/03: 260 2/10: 254 2/17: 2/24: February weight loss: 7 lb. Kind of a crazy big loss this week. I've been very good for the last two weeks, with the exception of Super Bowl Sunday - so last Monday's number was thrown off by water…
  • We should beat 90% attrition in this group. The last challenge was longer and slogged it's way through the holidays.
  • How physically demanding is your construction job and what kinds of muscles are you working there? If you're working 80+ hours a week at a physically demanding job, it might not be a bad idea to give your body a break on Sunday.
  • Good work with the steps!
  • What was the original number?
  • Same here. I was headed for a nice loss going into last weekend before blowing it. I'm in the same position this week, promising to do better over the next few days to preserve what I've already achieved. It's probably getting close to the time where we clean up the spreadsheet of non-loggers. I think the next weigh-in is…
  • I think looking at it on a weekly basis is fine, in fact that's the basic idea behind TDEE: you calculate your TDEE, set a calorie intake goal based on that, but you don't eat back your calories from exercise.
  • I've done a good job so far on both exercise and food. Should be poised for a nice loss this week.
  • I'm not an expert, but I think hydrostatic weighing is usually considered the best value/accuracy trade-off. http://www.fitstop-lab.com/bodyfat.htm
  • SW: 269 GW: 250 1/01: 269 1/06: 267 1/13: 264 1/20: 264 1/27: 261 January weight loss: 8 lbs. 2/03: 260 2/10: 2/17: 2/24: February weight loss: 1 lb. My eating wasn't great this week and I didn't even try to resist at the Super Bowl party. I was good on exercise, though and did manage to drop a pound. Looking forward to a…
  • My ex wanted to try the bench press, but couldn't lift the weight of the bar. We used fixed weight barbells, which are available in most good-sized gyms and go as low as 20 lbs. They look like this:…
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  • Thank you for your thoughts on this.
  • I haven't really paid much attention to monthly change - I just track mine by week. I'm mostly just hoping I don't have a gain on Monday due to Super Bowl partying.
  • Very much interested: Shaky44
  • If you're doing Insanity 6x/week, that puts you into an active category, I would think. I am assuming your walk to/from University is only uphill in one of those directions, although my Dad always insisted he walked to school uphill both ways :)
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