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This. OP, you said you know it's not a competition. Keep repeating that to yourself until you actually believe it. Have you ever heard the expression "Comparison is the thief of joy"? Because it is. Also, for whatever it's worth, as a former very obese person I'll just throw this out there. It used to make me pretty mad…

What I think people mean by questioning how you are assessing your intake also means: "how are you measuring your PORTION SIZES?" Many, many, MANY people on here who claim that they are eating < 1200 calories / day but not losing are guessing the size of their portions because they /think/ they know exactly what 1 1/2 cups…

Step 2: work on getting emotionally "fit and healthy." Your body is fine, but your attitude needs work.

Foods with calories have ... calories. If you are relying on calorie counting for weight loss, there are no free calories. Vegetables are good for you -- eat them, but log them. Truly, it's hard to make them add up to much trouble in your plan, though some starchy ones are higher in calories than leafy or watery ones. I'm…

I lost about 170 lbs over two years. My diary is open and feel free to peek at it, but here's all I've got to say: it's not really about what you eat, it's about being accountable for how much you eat. Having peeked at your diary, I suspect (but do not know) that you may be eyeballing portions rather than measuring them.…

Psht. I work out every day and run about 18 miles a week, and I sweat like a glistening badass in a gatorade commercial. I have medium-long thick hair. I just rinse my hair with water and conditioner 2x a week (swim days, can't avoid it) and I use shampoo a 3rd time. Every Saturday -- whether it needs it or not lol. Blow…

For me the issue is that the way most "clean eating" propenents talk and argue, there are two states: 1. Nothing you deem "unclean" passes your lips 2. You stuff your face with pop tarts all day. The truth to me that's concealed by this kind of arguing is that for the VAST MAJORITY of people, life is somewhere in between,…

Slow learner, then?

If you are newer to exercise, then the concept of absolutely NEEDING rest days probably does not apply to you, but only because it is extremely unlikely that you are working hard enough that your body can't recover sufficiently each day. Soreness is not especially related to a need to recover (again, especially if you are…

Agree. It puzzles me sometimes that more recent arrivals in the US equate what they find in mass-market fast food chains and truck stops etc. with all the food in the US. I mean, the food I've found in European chain restaurants and roadside food is utterly VILE, poor quality, and if I'm LUCKY, tasteless. But that's…

CO-SIGN x 1000 I mean, awesome sandwiches are AWESOME, but 9 out of 10 sandwiches are meh. I lurve me some prosciutto and roasted veggies (say, peppers, zucchini, eggplant) and cheese, slathered with pesto on a great roll. OH GOD I WANT ONE RIGHT NOW.

No, not surprised at all. In fact I'm more surprised at the number of people who equate vegetarianism with lower calorie diets. I mean, it can be done of course, but with my protein goals getting enough protein on a vegetarian diet would require me to eat a lot more calories than I do. As it is, any meal I eat that's got…

I also took a quick look at your diary and -- while I'm not certain -- it looks to me like you don't measure your portions but are just eyeballing and/or using "standard" portion sizes from the database. If that's the case, while I'm sure your intentions are to be accurate I also GUARANTEE that you are eating more than you…

OP, honestly I can't tell if you're expressing frustration at the sandwich (specific sandwich! you are absurd with your calorie count!) or at the process of counting calories (Sandwiches seem unexciting enough that they should not be worth worrying about calorically). If option 1: yes, okay. Some sandwiches are cuh-razay,…

When you eat fewer calories than your body uses to get through the day ("burn"), you will have a calorie deficit and lose weight. When the calories you eat are in balance with the calories your body uses to get through the day, you will be in calorie balance and you will maintain your weight. When you eat more calories…

Again, speaking as a formerly obese individual who practiced yoga as an obese individual, NO. If there were a kernel of truth to this scientifically (and this is a "citation needed" moment for sure, I have NEVER heard that fat tissue "pokes through" to peek out from under lean tissue, even if you're not talking about…

Okay, as a former 340+ pound person (who lost half her bodyweight) I have a couple of hopefully helpful points. I had already lost a big chunk and was probably about your weight when I took up yoga, and for a while I loved the heck out of it and I look back on that time fondly. So first of all, if you are still in the…

I resisted cauliflower rice for so long because it sounded so sad, but once I tried it I started kicking myself that I'd been missing out all this time. I get to eat a big giant plate of food for half the calories of a sad little portion of rice lol. I LOVE THAT. You can do anything to it -- it's terribly forgiving. Toss…

My "trick" is that I plan my meals around protein. Especially while maintaining a deficit or really anytime you're on a calorie budget, it's helpful to look at the foods you commonly eat in terms of a protein g :: calories ratio. While I generally don't think much of getting anxious about meal timing, protein is more…

Some people are going to "comment" -- however you're interpreting it, they might actually be "criticizing" you as you think they are, or they might just be trying to engage you in conversation on a topic they assume will be interesting to you. In either case, it's entirely up to you whether to argue with them about it, or…

Why are you under the impression that Olive Oil is a less healthy option than other oils? I have only heard that olive oil is a particularly healthy oil rather than the opposite. In terms of calories, oil is oil. 1g=9 calories, they are all the same. If you want to reduce calories, use less of it, or use a product that is…

I've heard good things about the garmin Forerunner too. To be clear though, that's more of a runner's watch (and a core part of Garmin's business for years), not really an activity tracker (although I understand they do track steps all day and base a calorie estimate off that). It's useful to track data for your runs and…

Wall of text here, sorry. It really depends on what you want to get out of it. I currently have a Vivosmart and kind of hate it; I used to have a Fitbit. 1. Just in general, I think fitness trackers are better for relatively sedentary people who want to become moderately active than they are for active people who want to…

If you're only allowed to spend it on ONE food, pizza, obviously. I mean, I lurve sweets like cake etc. but eating 1000 calories worth at once would give me a tummyache for real.

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You can also do most of your breakfast prepwork the night before so in the morning you can grab and go. Faster than waiting in line somewhere. * Hardboiled eggs (I don't like these cold, but some people do so it goes on the list!) * Baked egg muffins (eggs + vegetables + maybe meat + maybe cheese) in muffin tin -- sooo…

I suspect a lot of the sports nutrition-specific meal timing advice really applies more to people who are at a reasonably-high competitive level in their sport. Those of us who work out recreationally, for general health, to stay active etc. aren't going to get a big performance benefit much from agonizing over it, and I…

Your insistence that you're just a blameless victim in all this would hold more water if: 1. You hadn't kicked this whole thing off soliciting ideas for sarcastic things to say to people 2. You hadn't called people "douches" for bringing unhealthy food in 3. You hadn't suggested that "good people" eat healthy (I guess…

THIS, OP. Is your objection about what people think of your diet, or is it really what you think of their diet? Other people are not being douches for making different choices for themselves. Other people are not being douches for eating food you don't want to eat yourself, or for offering you a piece of whatever they're…

Honestly, most people won't GAF if you just do your own thing. Being sanctimonious about it is what tends to trigger comments and eyerolls.