DapperKay Member

This ... ESPECIALLY if their parents are so unbelievably obese too that you just KNOW are setting their children up for a complete disaster. I'm like just because you made bad decisions in your life, why inflict them on your kids. Education is paramount here as well.

Much better now. Now follows: MM/DD/YYYY. I'll just re-configure it to DD/MM/YYYY myself, thanks!

Thats pretty cool, thanks. Wondering if the dates are messed up on purpose? For example: Nov-13 - 01/11/2013 Nov-14 - 01/11/2014 Nov-15 - 01/11/2015 Nov-16 - 01/11/2016 Incrementing by years and not days?

Ok not sure if this is a bug, but on the 'Calc' sheet, the formulas for N3 & J3 are the same, however on the Graphs!I21 you are comparing if Calc!N3 is > that Calc!J3, which will always be false since the formulas are the same?!

Bumping for awesomeness. For a data geek like me this is incredible stuff! I am still confused about the observed TDEE though, can you explain a little more how that value is calculated? Sorry if you already mentioned this, but I couldn't find it. Particularly, it says TDEE is low, I am wondering this is low with respect…

You know what I'm talking about, you got to the frozen food isle, pick up a few chicken fillets form a brand that you don't quite recognize and then look at the back, you see a suspicious looking 100g nutritional value with one or two micronutrients and that's it. You wonder how and where they got this figure from! Its not…

I did 1200 kcals for a good 3 months. I slowly upped it to 1500 kcals and Im a grown man so it wasn't easy. The trick is to cut corners wherever possible. Everything that you can eat, try and find lower fat/lower cals versions off, from meat all the way to the morning toast. I found that eventually I actually felt pretty…

True. Let's be honest with ourselves, weight loss is (for most people) 70% about food and 30% about fitness, but maintenance is reversed, fitness can become up to 50% or more and food 50%. You build muscle mass and do strengths training so your metabolism shoots up and protects you from whatever depleted metabolism issues…

I used to do the 1200 calorie thing and used to do it well for a good 8 months, till I discovered that I can do SO much more with only a couple of extra hundred calories. Now on 1500-1700 and I lose weight more consistently, feel better and can actually see good results from the gym (muscles can now actually GROW, they're…

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Simply put it depends on your setting. If you live in a pressuring environment where eating is natural to them and food plays a big part of the culture and every day life, then you are in for a tough ride. If however, you live alone, have understanding friends and family where food isn't central to all social events then…

Possibly, whatever it was, it worked, never been more efficient and still losing like crazy, weeks on. Although, after reading up more on re-feeds, it really isn't that different, its not as structured or measured...

This. It is data science to me too. I have incredible apps that track my trends on a daily/weekly/monthly and yearly basis and I am able to adjust and tweak accordingly. It is liberating believe me, I wouldn't want the scale to own me, this way I own it!

I think Leptins, the enzymes that control when you feel hungry and whether or not to burn fat, basically relax and start to burn fat that it was storing efficiently due to your diet. It deems you now safe because of the re-feed and as you said, it guesses wrong, but it works, especially if re-feeds are very far apart and…

Possibly, I am on 1450 cals though, exhaustion is inevitable. At one point I was on 1200, back then it was REALLY tough. Next month I am going up to 1550, should start to feel more normal then. Slowly increasing it to 1800 by end of 2013.

Love/Hate relationship from my side. Here are what I find to be pros/cons - Pros: - Low calorie - Quick - Tasty - Helps us to get to goals very fast - Available in most shops - Lots of different meals - Add perspective - Their sizes are small and show you what small meals should be like - Easy to find on the MFP database…

It makes sense, get others to be fat while you site back, make money and enjoy being skinny. :) I guess you are right, you do get used to it. My home country is famous for amazing sweets for example, and shawarma and other great foods, but you never see people going crazy over it, its only the tourists, locals are moving…

No lovely Belgians on this board?! I found this link to be raising and actually answering this conundrum: http://www.edeneatseverything.com/belgian-women-dont-get-fat/

If you are having issues with clothes, I have one word : ebay. Sold all my old but honestly hardly worn stuff there. Bought lots of new cool stuff from others in similar boat. Full circle, money actually made! :)

I have to admit, when I started the thread I was thinking more along the lines of actual damage done to the body by weight loss, but I appreciate all the inputs, very interesting answers. It looks like the psychology factor is big among some of you, particularly the females :) In my case, I actually LOVE these comments…

Sorry to hear that. I was morbidly obese too, had a BMI of 39 at one point!! Made the shift to what I am now, BMI 25, smack on the normal range, so like you I had to deal with that rollercoaster ride of emotions. But it was all positive to me, the more I went down and looked better the more I now feel bad about who I USED…

I hear you! It was 100% in my case and it cost a fortune. But the flipside is that now that you spent that much on new stuff, you can't possibly have more of an incentive to continue losing/maintaining! :)

Gold advice! :) Surely just continue being fitter and leaner than you can ever imagine. To me that mentally is the only way to go, and the more you work out the more your body "forgets" your old size. We never lose fat cells, they just shrink, so the only way for us is to keep them shrunk using the exact method we used to…

Pre-raphaelites? Good choice!!

TOTALLY, I thought I was alone on this. I've lost ALOT of weight since the last time it was cold and now it is starting to chill again I am getting really cold, went out and bought some thermal undergarments. I live in London and it gets very cold in the winter. In the summer our office was air conned, it used to get so…

It should ideally shift as you progress. The theory is you should set achievable goals and change them as you get to them. But most of us don't, we put a long term target, put our heads down and just get on with it. This time last year I was 114 kg, the year before that I was 122, now I am 82 and 4 kg away from my ideal…

Thank you. It seems to me it is also about how strong willed and patient you can be. Because to go slow means you have to have a chill personality that doesn't panic if you go up the scales a little but can bring it back down over time. For those of us that get too anxious when something like that happens though, I would…

Too much to read, but disheartened by some of what I read. Can someone summarize if there has been any discussion for workaround to Adaptive Thermogenesis? My thinking is that surely if you maintain a reasonable calorie intake and continue strengths training then your muscles will continue to grow and thus extra calories…

I hear you. My food plan is very healthy too. Breakfasts involve fruits and high in fibre breads. Lunches are balanced, and I cook all the dinners myself using fresh meat and veg that I buy myself. This is why I earlier said I don't feel tired at all during the day. At the gym though, things get tiring after the hour mark.…

Thanks for your input, defo going to be upping the intake then!!