shauner03 Member

I remember reading about this in Men's Health a while back and they cited a study on the subject. The calorie burn was significantly less than what participants thought it was though.

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I'm the exact same way. Those commercials on TV constantly advocating breakfast being the most important meal of the day for weight loss drive me nuts! I typically eat a very small breakfast or none at all. On days I have a large sized breakfast I end up hungry all day and overeat considerably. I guess we are just wired…

Catering to every possible consumer is rarely profitable. Wal-Mart is the exception and certainly not the rule. Catering to a target market and serving that market better than the competition is how to succeed. The definition of "average" size in the USA is a joke at this point. Average is obese now and those sizes…

Absolutely not. I am a certified ServSafe Food Safety Instructor and poultry is already a high risk food, but add to that the fact that it wasn't maintained at a safe thawing temperature of less than 41 degrees and you have a good possibility of bacteria growth. I'd also thoroughly clean and disinfect the area that you had…

And Dr. Atkins died of a heart-attack, go figure.

I'd guess somewhere around 10,000 calories in a day. Gotta love those gourmet buffets on vacation!

So this is an "I'll show you mine, if you show me yours" proposal? lol

I don't see how 12-14% BF is too low. I'd also seek a second opinion and maybe a specialist to address the underlying health concerns.

Fat does not magically turn into muscle... lol

If you aren't eating back your cardio calories, you are running a HUGE daily caloric deficit. That's only 4500 net calories per week! The problem with that is you're going to lose a ton of muscle mass along with fat on your last ten pounds you want to lose on such a restrictive calorie diet. I'd really recommend increasing…

cow's milk is for baby cows.

I should have said "burn through working out" in my reply. I think the OP is forgetting the calories that the body burns naturally through just being alive. But certainly aiming for a net calorie goal of zero (as was implied in the original post) is dangerous.

I'm not sure where you got the impression that you need to burn more calories in a day than you consume in order to lose weight. I mean, you will lose weight but you'll kill yourself along the way. Having negative net calories on a daily basis is not safe.

Why not start at 2000 calories? Your sedentary TDEE is around 2450 so you will lose on a 2000 calorie per day diet and thats before any exercise calories you may burn. Get used to the 2000 level and then start reducing a little more. Shocking yourself into a much lower calorie diet than you eat currently will make it much…

That's the beauty of at-will employment. No need to explain anything. Just do it.

20 more pounds by Christmas/New Years is my goal. That will get me to my goal weight!

There's a lot of us in your age group here! I'm 28 :)

yes please :)

Nah

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