Mr_Knight Member

TL;DR - If you have a lot to lose, run a 20% caloric deficit on your TDEE, eat a bit more on training days, a bit less on non-training days, make sure to eat at least one whole chicken or a dozen eggs a day. Is this the 30/10 thing that swept through the Leangains community a few years back? If so it's pretty…

Restaurant numbers are notoriously inaccurate.

At the stage of the awesome journey you're on, there isn't really a "better". Pick whatever you're most likely to actually stick with for six months, and whatever that is, work it as consistently and as hard as is safely reasonable. It's all good at this point. Later on, after a bunch of weight has come off, is the time to…

Love diet coke. Drank several litres a week while losing 100 pounds. It's not your enemy.

Here's the thing about gyms. The only people who spend any time at all looking at anyone, are those that staring at themselves in the mirrors. You'll be fine. Nobody will care, or notice. And experienced people tend to be perfectly happy to help, if you have questions.

No. They're snake oil.

Start logging everything. Everything. Ask again in a week or two.

Not one of those links supports your claims. Literally not one.

Set a calorie goal consistent with your training, make sure you get enough protein, the rest can fall to personal preference.

Nope. Mo' money, the more motivated I am to be fit.

All the calculators are approximations. The further one is from average, the more error in the approximation, and at your size you're a good distance away from "average". *If* your logging is as meticulous as you say, and you're not losing weight, then your deficit isn't where you think it is. Which means you're using an…

Hmmmm... https://imgur.com/a/7DqIv

What are you entering to get a TDEE of 1300? I had to select 90 pound, 5'0" sedentary female to get a number that low. Is that an accurate description of you?

You got your answer - there is no such thing as "starvation mode", as you are using the term.

Your breakfast of 1 cup frozen fruit and 1 cup OJ is, on it's own, 400 calories. And that's assuming you actually used an actual measuring cup, which most people using volume measurements don't. If you want meaningful help, you're going to have to open your diary.

Doesn't work that way. People who stay in starvation mode end up looking like they're actually starving. You're eating more than you think, relative to your daily burn - suggest opening your diary for review. EDIT: Saw your sample day above. Punching that into the food tracker gives about 1800 calories - well above the…

Really depends on who you are. Just like there are people for whom one beer is an inevitable spiral back into alcoholism, there are people for whom one cheeseburger turns into a multi-week binge. The important thing is to know yourself and your tendencies - take the path that works best for YOU. If that means blowing off…

They're both 100% fat. Use the one whose flavour profile is best suited for whatever you're making. Use an amount consistent with your dietary goals.

I don't try to "make up for it" - what's done is done. Instead I plan/prep the next day's eating down to the last detail.

I would be extremely careful eating them back. Using rough averages... 10k steps -> 7km -> 4.3 miles 4.3 miles * 150 pounds bodyweight * 0.3 calories/mile-pound -> 200 calories Adjust for your own weight etc.

Sure there have been. Singing is in the MET compendium. Singing while standing has a MET of around 2.0, for comparison, or about 1/3 the net burn of walking at a moderate pace. For two hours, at a weight of 200 pounds, that comes out to around...130 extra calories, or about half a Snickers bar.

Going up 0.5 miles a week is actually pretty quick, from where you are. If you also have body pain doing it - listen to your body! Pull out a couch to 5k program - doesn't matter which one, they're all basically the same - and start from a place that doesn't bring you any pain at all. If that's Week 1, then so be it, start…

Eggs. Rice. Beans. Whatever veggies and fruits are in season.

You can. There is a limit to how many calories can be ingested before your gastro-intenstinal system starts sliding into "bypass" mode. It is possible to burn more than that amount, but you'll need to be somewhere around a marathon and a half...a day...every day...

If you shouldn't be eating something, don't eat it.

Go with lightly active, or lower.

There's no such thing. Using an HRM for that kind of activity is the calorie tracking equivalent of living in a state of mortal sin, and you will get ridiculously over-estimated numbers. Unless you're in really really bad shape - in which case it'll over-estimate even worse. If you absolutely *have* to use a number, put…

You don't need to be vegetarian to be healthy. You sure there isn't something else going on, underneath this?

Nowhere did I tell them to do this. They asked what it would take - that is what it would take. Very few people can be successful on this path.

I running step is worth 2 walking steps or 3 fitbit steps, calorie wise. The rest of daily activity takes care of the rest.