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Ah yes - I HATE that so much about many meat items. I'm often to be found in meat aisles with my phone flash on awkwardly trying to ninja read behind the label as passers by wonder if I've got nuts. It's not that I rely on that so much as apart from the major common meat cuts, I don't have a clue how many calories/fat they…
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Maybe you can try to start by doing your own pizzas. You can cat the cals/fat down by up to 50% this way. Use low fat cheese, low fat passata (which is already low fat anyways), chicken breast, that sort of thing. If you don't know how to make a pizza base you can buy these ready made or buy ready made dough. It will take…
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Sugar addiction/love/cravings/guilt trips, whatever you want to call them, are obviously a problem for a big portion of us. Whether or not the body does predispose to treat sugar as an addition neurologically is another debate, but what is certain is that the reward factor is true, we treat sugar as a reward that makes us…
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Actually it takes more than 2 years for the body to "adjust". It all has to do with fat cells. And if you gain a fat cell, you don't lose it for a long time (upwards of 10 years). Unlike other cells in the body, fat cells do not get destroyed. What happens when you lose weight is that the cells that held the fat just…
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Thats a little different dude - your shirt fits you well - mine used to, now is tight even though the scale says I am going down. I'm baffled. Maybe it was just the wash - but I have been generally feeling "bigger" than usual. I'm thinking water retention of some sort.
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Convoluted overall. See I want to answer 'yes', then you know it will be followed by a 'but' which logically means 'no'. So the answer is 'no' and I will it follow it with something more logical 'because: 1- when you eat what you want you will diminish your ability to self control 2- eating what you want puts significant…
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OMG - Its like you just told my story. My family are ALWAYS saying this to me. UNTIL .. wait for it... I saw them in person. And then I realized it is because skype and photos are just so unbelievably deceiving and they make the face look much narrower than it actually is. I wouldnt worry about it - give them time -…
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Good point - I think if we approach it that way then maybe it does make more sense. Because let's take a cup of OJ for instance - this has around 20g of sugars. If WHO are right, then you are left with a mere 5g of sugars for the rest of the day, a mouse needs more than that. I do wonder though if we had MFP say 50 or 60…
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Right on - until you read this serious bummer of an article (25g - you gotta be kidding me!!): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26449497 I paid no attention - but was wondering if I was overdoing it. Over the past 2 months I'd averaged 50g (which I thought was okay - given that I am in maintenance and I am not gaining or…
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Good answer - I still think that physically speaking, it takes the same amount of energy, regardless of efficiency. The concept of efficiency stipulates that you can do something burning less calories than you would have done if you were less efficient (relatively speaking). That I get, but surely once you are efficient…
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TBH - it could be excess skin or just that you don't have a strong enough muscle base to give you a flat stomach. It took me FOREVER to get this concept. I was on the lower range of normal and still had a bulge that I coudnt get rid off. It wasn't anything like a beer belly, but it was there. So I just work on my abs as…
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Interesting question. On the back of some supermarket bought steaks, especially the expensive cuts, they always put the raw on the back and the cooked (in the most preferred) method on the front. But I always think this makes no sense, since I am likely to cook it differently, or use a different type of oil or grill it…
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Pretty much this for me too- In my head A- Old me: Ate till satisfied BUT ate anything that tasted good and made me feel better ==> ate junk 90% clean 10% (normally when I'm at my parents). B- New me: Ate till satisfied BUT makes sure I eat fresh vegetable, fresh meat, minimal processed food, etc. ==> clean 70% junk 30%…
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I used to have that fear when I started out - and it was difficult since I normally go out at least twice a week with friends to restaurants. Eventually you'll just get to an intuitive point where you can estimate what you are eating, to the nearest 100 or so and just work it from there based on whatever you are trying to…
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Slowly up it though so your body can adjust - hit your maintenance and continue doing the good work in toning and exercising. I am surprised you can do all of that work at 1200, thats not easy!
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Haha is that your attempt at trash talking? What are you, 13?
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Cut back on gluten for a while and see if it makes any difference. The think about being GI is that it takes a little gluten and symptoms kick in. Doc can do a couple of blood tests and figure it out. Thank your lucky stars if its not GI and just IBS, that was the best news I ever heard, tried doing the Gluten Free thing…
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Haha only thing is I am a 26 year old man who is very active :) Unless you meant OP? He too is a man, 22.
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Hey OP, Im on 1700 and I am not hungry but I get sugar cravings in the evenings. 1700 is plenty if spread out properly and with the right macros. But I plan to keep bumping it up fortnightly till I get to 2100-2200 (my TDEE is 2450 when active, 2100 when not) and stick there for a good 6 months to help ease my body into…
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Hey! I have IBS :( The good news is that it gets better - so long as you understand the food that flares up your IBS and stay away from it. In general roughage, especially beans et al are not good as they put a lot of strain on the digestive system. I personally find popcorn kills me - one bite and Im in for a long night.…
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Good example of bro science which adds no value... Anyways OP as others said all what matters is total energy intake over a 24 hour period. If that is in a deficit then you will lost. It doesn't matter if you have all your calories in Mars bars and Twinkies or you have them in oats. However, weight loss is not everything…
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Yes you can be addicted to sugar - I have suffered with that addiction since I was a teenager - and you know its an addiction when without access to sugar you shiver, shake and lose complete focus of everything. I didn't properly start losing weight until I tackled this problem - like a drug addiction I just tapered off.…
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If you've been on a restricted calorie plan before Christmas for quite a while, it is highly likely that most of the weight gain you are seeing is just glycogen replenishment, your muscles have been deprived of glycogen because of the constant dieting, your body filled its reservoirs again for you to burn through over the…
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But isn't time of day important? Doesn't metabolism take a dip at night? By that logic a person can have 1700 calories 5 minutes before bed?... I do get the gist of your post though, but forgetting the physical aspect, how people space their meals and what they eat in them is mentally important.
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You guys are right to say that you cant say because it depends on what you ate that day and your own allowance. I suppose I should have added that you should think of this in % terms. So in a 1700 calorie diet, 850 cals is 50%. I'm around that for my main meal, which seems to me as a large number. But I am still losing so…
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Thanks all very helpful responses. You know after around a 6 months roller coaster ride of wrongs and rights you start to lose sense of what's happening around you. My friends have Dominos and Burger Kings for dinners, so I can't rely on them as a reference. Glad to know I'm on the average side then!
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Ah yes, the art of the office snacks. Took me years to master this one. :P Na, really we are all in the same boat, particularly those of us that are stuck in this rotten place for 8-12 hours a day. Snacking becomes one of the few things that gives you a mental break of sorts. It also gives you momentary happiness which not…
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FAQ - do I lose weight if I breathe more - Answer: bla bla bla ... no Ending statement: to lose weight, eat less, move more and ,,, wait for it ... *breathe more* Mr scientist, are you smoking some of that liquid nitrogen? Other than that, awesome lecture.
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I did 1200 for a good 3 months and it worked VERY well ... BUT I felt like crap most of the time, got lethargic and couldn't do much in the gym. Luckily it was the summer warm months but when autumn rolled around I felt FREEZING, I was eating hardly anything. I am a 26 year old man who goes to the gym 3 times a week and…
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I always wondered why MFP was so low too compared with TDEE calculators. But then I realized that MFP works on the assumption that you will eat your workout burned calories back (which you are supposed to track). TDEE just assumes you are doing that. So if you plan on working out 3 times a day burning 1500 calories for…
