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What kind of scale? Food scale or body scale?

Be flexible. Pre-plan, leave a couple extra calories, and if you think there is something else you might want to eat, give yourself time and do not eat your next meal until you've decided whether or not you want to eat what you planned at the beginning or the day or whatever food came up. Plug the food in, see if it fits…

Also, starvation mode does not stop weight loss, let alone make you gain weight. It just means your metabolism slows down. It 100% does NOT erase your deficit, and eating less calories will IN THE LONG RUN make you lose weight faster than eating 3000-4000 a day. Initial weight gain was probably water weight/body's…

Exatly. Plenty of drugs have multiple uses. It's not dangerous. People in this thread are fear-mongers.

Potatoes are also mostly starch. When I say veggies, I mean things like spinach, lettuce, asparagus, bell peppers.

It's not "super calorically expensive". Most research puts you between 100 and 200 calories extra on the days right before and a couple of the first days of your menstrual cycle. Some women hit a whole 300 calories more burned. But it is not "super calorically expensive". It's a small difference.…

It's very frustrating that vegetables in general are expensive, when you can get things like potato chips and other junk food for so cheap.

If you're not hungry, you honestly don't *have* to eat all 1200 calories. Honestly, the "magical 1200" number is not at all applicable to all people and it doesn't make sense to assume everyone will be sick if they go under 1200. Nothing happens unless you are consistently malnourished, which if you are eating healthily,…

I am 5'4, most places put me at a "medium frame". My goal is 125-130 lean, then get up to 140 with muscle.

I eat this way too. It helps keep me extremely satiated at around 1400-1500 calories a day, something I never could do when I ate mostly carbs and "low fat" foods.

I log it raw. I have no idea what standards they were using when they "cooked" it to get the lower calories, but I assume it's letting the fat drip off. Since I cook most things in a pan and I don't intend on measuring whatever leftover grease is there, I'd rather overestimate and assume I ate all the fat calories than…

I would just suggest putting "active" (whatever option is above "lightly active") and not necessarily eat back exercise calories.

reddit.com/r/ketogains Plenty of bodybuilders do it fine. They eat smaller quantities than people who eat carbs, but make sure to eat foods that have high levels of fat and protein. It can be cheaper than normal eating as long as you don't overeat.

Your diary says you ate 1000 calories at dinner and near 1000 calories in snacks a day ago. You could knock off about 400 of those calories by dropping the coke (switch to diet if you like).

"starvation mode" doesn't work like that. How recently did you change your macros? Don't worry about increasing calories right now, that's a later resort. How often are you weighing yourself, and are you doing it at the same time of day consistently? Fluctuations are totally normal. If you're strength training, you could…

Definitely think about hydration issues. Make sure you have your electrolytes. A very bad headache could be hunger...it could also be stress. Or over-exerting yourself; constriction of the blood vessels to the brain causes headaches. Having someone massage your neck might help.

I never buy anything low fat if I can avoid it. I do, however, have no problem with sugar-free stuff using artificial sweeteners, as long as it isn't sugar alcohols. Maybe I'm not as sensitive as you guys, but most artificial sweeteners taste just fine to me.

I have actually found the opposite that this thread is saying - my fiber count has been lower than usual lately (not more than 10g a day) and I've managed to have no digestive issues, very regular. It might be the fact that I've increased my fat content some, or maybe my body just got used to eating keto? Either way, fiber…

Not eating enough protein, probably also not enough fat, probably way too many carbs, if he's hungry and weak.

Read closer, and read what I was replying to above. "Net negative" is what people are calling "eating less than you burn with your BMR + exercise". Everyone above me was saying "You can't eat less than the calories you burn in exercise or you'll die" or something like that. That's what I was saying was ridiculous. Like,…

There's absolutely no problem with running a negative net...that is 100% fine. That is how you do weight loss, guys. More calories burned than consumed. All these weight loss myths are making everyone struggle - "don't eat below bmr!" "eat back all your exercise calories!" "don't net negative!" those are just ways of…

That's not actually the issue. MFP calculator is not accurate with the extremely obese. It assumes you have a lot more lean mass than you actually do. OP, you can drop the calories down to 2500 or so and still see a good healthy loss.

I'm keto, I eat around 1400-1500 calories daily, add me as a friend and you can see my counts :) the biggest contributors to the difference between 1200 and 1500 in my box are "treats" anyways, lol.

If losing 1000 calories is easy for you, then MFP or whatever app you're using is DRASTICALLY overestimating how many calories you're losing. If you eat back all the exercise calories you "lost", you will probably gain weight.

I find low carb helps with discipline. Low calorie can turn into "I'll have a cheat day" which turns into "I'll have a cheat week". Low calorie usually means "a couple extra calories isn't bad!" Low calorie is "I ate all 1500 calories I'm supposed to but I'm STARVING!" Low carb, for me, avoids all that. Yes, I actually…

If your goal is to be fit and not skinny-fat, I would aim at being around 10 or 15 pounds higher than when you were happiest, and when you get within ~30 pounds of your goal weight, start strength training. It would be fine if you wanted to start now too! But usually when you have 100 pounds to lose, exercising in public…

Generally speaking, the "1200 calories" rule is arbitrary. You are much shorter than usual, and you said you were sedentary. You won't have any health problems if you go below 1200 calories.

This board in general has a VERY bad understanding of BMR and how it applies to weight loss. Eating below your BMR will NOT be dangerous or deadly. BMR is how many calories your body uses at it's base. You know, to make you breathe, pump your heart, etc. Then TDEE includes your activity. When you're losing weight, your…

This thread is taking the cautious route, which is fine, but wrong. If you really have 150 pounds to lose or something, you would very likely be able to lose 20 or even 30 pounds in a month and experience no negative side effects. Plenty of people experience that without health issues. This is usually because, if you're…

I just want to say - I don't log every single bite, taste, etc. of what I eat, because it isn't worth the effort to me. More importantly, if you're "tasting" and "biting" so much that your weight loss is affected, you have a problem with self-control.