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Are you eating at the same deficit as non-exercise days and then exercising on top of that or are you exercising but also eating your exercise calories back? If you are eating your exercise cals back then you may be slightly overestimating your caloric burn and thereby accidentally going over your net goal food intake.…

Eat more food high in fiber. I hear that controls hunger better. Personally, and I'm on an aggressive calorie deficit myself, I find that you can make some fairly low calorie meaty stews with lots of chunky veg that can be very filling. Lastly, probably the best thing I discovered lately is the true benefit of running. If…

Wow thanks, SuggaD, that was a really helpful breakdown of what you do and great advice. I think I'm starting to get the picture.

Yes but 3000 calories of good food that I am supposed to be eating is a lot harder to figure out how to tackle than just stuffing chocolate in my face until I've hit my calorie count. You have a profile pic of a runner. Is that you? If so, what do you eat on days where you run high numbers of miles? What are your favourite…

Depending on your country, Sugarfree 'V' is my favourite. Otherwise just do what the others say and go with Coke Zero or something. That's my other favourite ;)

If you are eating all of this at once, then just add it into your MFP food diary. It will tell you how many cals it is. If you are only eating a portion of it, you can make it into a recipe. Try going to the "FOOD" section in the bar at the top, then click "Recipes", then "Enter new recipe". If you do that then it is easy…

I can hardly believe it but today I managed to run 10km. Eight weeks ago I was a sedentary couch potato and somehow this happened. I started walking to work every second day, that turned into walking & jogging... next thing I know: jogging 10km!

This may sound like a really nutrition-geek thing to say but I actually made a spreadsheet and listed brands of protein powders from my favourite online supplement store and then sorted them by pounds, cost, and then calculated the best bang for my buck. I managed to get an unflavoured protein powder for as low price per…

Hooray! I zombie-run too. I actually gave up on the training program but restarting running again with the main app and I've stuck with it and am now on Season 2! It's really motivating. I also have a new NSV from today. A while ago, I started walking to work every second day. When I first started it was so tough on my…

Hooray! Good job. This is going to sound unbelievable but there was this Stanford study on Willpower that produced some incredible results. They were testing the idea that people have that human willpower is a limited resource ("I'm too tired to do that now", "I couldn't possibly do that without my coffee", "I need a…

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Theoretically the only possible way to spread calories via a sponge would be to literally fill a sponge to oversaturation with something like orange juice and then drink the orange juice out of the sponge. But I'm with the others, normal household use of sponges to clean kitchenware does not spread calories. I use a…

Thanks for your thoughts, everyone. It's really helpful to hear what others think. How quickly does loose skin tighten up? I'm 33 y/o. I started at 108kg and I'm initially aiming for 80kg. Should I expect that I will have much loose skin from that amount of loss? I really have no clue about the skin issue. I definitely…

I went and got linked up to Trendweight. It's great that you can retroactively set a start date for the measurements. "You will reach your goal around June 6, 2015." Bring it on!

I had never even heard of that. I'll check it out. That image you showed has a surprising trend line. It appears to be hesitant to more closely track those drops in weight. If I were doing my own trend line I would try to make it sit more closely to the data. Can you vary the sensitivity?

Do it! :) That's about the same total fitbit use as me, it's definitely worth a little time and it doesn't take that long. All this exercise, calories, and food can get complex so I think it's a good idea to do it just to cut out as many unknowns as possible. Wow, that's genuinely surprising. I figured fitbit must run a…

If it fits your macros... and your belly... it's never too much.

I have been on a 75 day streak and so far have lost about 6kg. Most of that is with no exercise whatsoever. And I mean no exercise, when I got a Fitbit Flex I discovered that I had very low generic activity unless I was intentional about getting up and doing it. I have only recently begun to exercise by walking to work.…

:o That's genius! I'm definitely going to try that method. It sounds like a very easy way to lose some fat from the beef.

The pasta I just boiled with a tiny bit of salt in the water. Aside from the mince, there are only capsicum / bell pepper, snow peas, and mushrooms. Those veg were on special and I like 'em :smile: I really love pasta so I didn't feel the need to do anything fancy to it. That's a good question. I'm hoping to stick with it…

Yeah, my main problem was that I kept eating on the go and just grabbing whatever I needed for the day from the supermarket on the way past. Convenience isn't cheap!

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I eat as much meat as I need to fit my macros. Definitely not turning vegetarian here!

To create your own exercise and define its own parameters, from the home screen click the "exercise" tab and then choose "my exercises" followed by the "create exercise" button. If adding other template exercises isn't working for you then making your own personalised set of exercises sounds like a safe bet.

If you are preoccupied with the health merits of your food and what your next meal is going to be then why not try a different approach: remove the uncertainty and pre-prepare your food. You could always make a meal plan for the week, go shopping for that food, and then spend some time on Saturday bulk-preparing your food…

I think that the most important thing is whether you are healthy, not whether you are five pounds more or less than an arbitrary number. If your doctor thinks you are a healthy weight then you can always keep working out, eat at maintenance, and just stay the same weight but slim down and tone up by losing bodyfat and…

I'm in week two of a plateau after losing weight at the rate of around 1kg/week for around 4 weeks before that. I'm not going to let myself get discouraged. I know that I'm eating healthily. I know I'm counting my intake. I'm doing well by attending the gym as often as I wanted to (3 per week). If my goal weight-loss is…

That'd be my concern. A 100% discrepancy tells me that something is very wrong with this picture. I would initially guess that the gym machine simply hasn't been provided with the OP's profile properly but the HRM's calories also seem wrong in that they seem relatively high. I'd suggest making sure that your HRM knows your…

Building muscle through working out can make it easier to eat for maintenance (or weight loss) because muscle cells burn more energy/weight than fat cells do. Also, strength training can apparently increase your effective metabolism for some hours after you have finished your workout. But at the end of the day I think that…