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Playing the devil's advocate here, but even though a lot of stuff is as good as a sugar pill, the placebo effect is strong in all of us. Even when we know it's just placebo. Just going through the whole routine of "making yourself better" helps with overcoming the apathy many of us experience with exercise:)
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I've uploaded my excel file, if anyone is interested in giving it a try. In order to see the graphs, you need to download the file and open it with MS Excel / LibraOffice. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzJL1pqFDyG4cnRiRGduQWM5Y3M/edit?usp=sharing
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Thank you for this op! An extremely powerful image showing the effect of extra weight on skeletal frame and internal organs, not just the exterior as we often think.
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Another totally misunderstood article. And another pointless post.
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Update: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1111515-for-the-nerds-in-you-tdee-estimation-with-graphs?page=1#posts-17189225
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NO NO NO NO NO Oh man I wish there was a way we could sue guys like him.... But just to entertain the idea - this is FALSE because what we eat we CHOP DOWN and reuse no matter what. Fats are chopped down into glycerol and fatty acids. Glycerol is then transformed into glucose (which is a carbohydrate), plus fatty acids -…
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Your scales are broken. There is no possible way you can weigh the same thing at night and the following morning, unless you did not breathe in between. Get it repaired.
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I don't quite understand the problem. A TDEE of 2000 doesn't sound that far fetched for an average person - but you didn't mention your height/weight or what you expected your TDEE to be.
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If you're full, don't eat. If you're consistently under eating for weeks then revise your plan but I can promise you, your appetite will catch up! It takes a couple of weeks for your body to figure things out. And I can also promise you that you won't starve. That's nonsense.
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Hi! I'm 29, 5'3.75", started at 140lbs 3 months ago and now I'm at 125lbs. 15 down, 5 more to go (hopefully by the end of this month:)) Didn't do anything out of the ordinary - just stick to my calories and exercise every day (30DS and now Insanity). Worked like a charm!:) Also not a fan of posting pics here, but I have…
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Well despite the fact that I am a strong advocate for vaccines, I do see a bit of a problem with this logic. Vaccines nowadays target relatively rare diseases (rare BECAUSE of the vaccines and the crowd immunity they imparted). So the risk to catch them is rather minimal, especially in developed countries. If autism WERE…
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YES, YES, YES!
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The reason you took longer is because your deficit was NOT enough for 2 lbs/week. MFP has a cutoff at 1200 - so if your 2 lbs/week goal fell below 1200 (and it surely did according to your stats) you were set up from the beginning to lose much less. From what you're saying you should have been at a 500 calorie deficit…
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LOL this makes no sense! The hot button is ACTUAL cheat days, in which you go wild in fast-food land, and sometimes don't even log it. 3-4k calories that you can't "even out" with the other days. Just redistributing your calories over a week or two to fit in a slice of cake is not cheating, is brilliant!
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Yes it's excel. Yes I have a table with weight and net calories for the day from which i derive the net deficit for the day. For this example I used a fixed TDEE since I hadn't lost that much weight. Now I do have a "TDEE" column as well that calculates TDEE from the projected weight. But to be honest.. we're talking about…
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Thank you, and I definitely agree that choosing sensible goals is very important.
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Thanks! Previous weight is the previous "expected" weight. I don't take my actual weigh-ins into account for this calculation. Basically, I chose a "Start weight" which was roughly 1kg below my actual start weight (which was likely glycogen stores, full stomach and whatnot) and substracted, for each day, the weight loss my…
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Oh thank you for this, feels so good to see people interested! I'm about to finish month 1 of Insanity - I will make a small update after that (in about a week)!:)
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I'm still new to this, so I'm definitely facing this wall of doubt right about now - going through mood swings like a teenager. I've just hit my lowest weight EVER (since i was 13 or so) yesterday and after whining in my feed about wanting to fatten back up to get my old body back, I took some progress photos and compared…
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I see it like this - my boobs were part of a "fat suit". They weren't mine to begin with. Just that it was padding I couldn't remove.
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I know very well how you feel. 10 years ago I dropped from overweight to "normal". A still fat, flabby normal, but decided to stay there for the fear of losing my boobs. Now, a decade later I regret that decision because I realized 2 things: 1. I'm a person, not a pair of boobs - putting your whole identity around that…
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I eat and log them as next day's breakfast - this way I can't just brush them under the carpet. After a short while I started thinking very hard about wanting to snack at night knowing I'll pay for it the next day. I usually eat 5 almonds as a snack now - that's 35 cals.
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If you want to lose weight, strength training won't help - only a caloric deficit will. If you just want a hot bod though, TDEE+weights will do that! :D
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If your TDEE is 1750, you should try TDEE-20% = 1400 cals / day. That will put you at a 350 calorie deficit and you should lose a pound every 10 days. Go to 1300 to lose one a week.
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If indeed you eat 1600 a day then I'd recheck the math. You're not that big and might be too close to maintainance levels to see a difference. If you only have about 150 calories deficit a day (based on a 1750 TDEE) you'd take a month to lose a pound.
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Your weight does not measure your fat. It measures "normal" you + water + contents of your stomach. Things like the last time you went to the bathroom and where you are in your period are going to create fluctuations of several pounds daily, masking any change in your "normal" weight. The amount you exercise, the amount of…
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QFT
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For the first couple of months of working out I simply hated my life. But it got better, now I even feel that "high" sometimes. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that initially my cardio threshold was very low, now I can get through 40 minutes of cardio with no pain or gasping for breath. It's just a question of…
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I couldn't agree more. However, some people seem to be too emotional about the numbers to the point where they cannot take a step back and look at what they actually mean. It just makes them cry and despair... because they don't know what is actually happening, which is exactly why they SHOULD try to understand it... when…