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I usually have around 800-1000 calories left for dinner & whatever; however, I eat ~2000 calories a day. If I want restaurant food for dinner, I really need about 1k calories available. And of course, since I usually exercise at night, that can add more calories into the evening availability too (but sometimes I do not eat…

Now, that is interesting! I do not think you have damaged your metabolism, but something isn't being logged or measured right. You need to do your measurements, calculate your body fat %, find your current TDEE, and then minus 250 calories or 500 calories (whatever you're comfortable with) off that. Or if you're doing MFP…

Also, consistency matters before you tout a claim. Pseudoscience on inconsistent data amuses me though. So, please! Carry on . . .

I have PCOS and borderline hypothyroidism. It's still possible to lose weight. However, my PCOS is being treated, which coincidentally led to some better thyroid results at my last physical. I cut 500 calories a day off my TDEE and that's it. I go for that net of calories everyday. I am lightly active and when I exercise…

Oh Geez! I don't know how to tell you this . . . the blue one isn't blueberry! *whispers*: that's grape . . .

I came to this thread for pseudoscience and funny gifs! Pseudoscience *Check!* Funny Gifs? There should be more! :frown:

It can be slower when you're not far from your goal weight, and you're not far. I dropped about 20 lbs in 2 months (65th day here I think), but I have more to lose so even though I have my goal set to 1 lb per week, it's dropping faster than that for now. I'm lightly active and currently net ~1800-2000 calories per day.…

I'm saying that I do not know if you are overweight for your height. If you are and choose to lose to achieve a healthy weight range, which you might already be at, you cannot choose where the fat loss will occur.

You cannot choose where the fat comes from when you lose weight unless you do it with lipo surgery. There's nothing wrong with different body types at healthy weights. At 5' tall I do not know how much weight you could afford to lose, so I'm not going to guess at it. BMI charts do not take your lean muscle into account,…

My answer is simple, choose calorie dense foods or something you really enjoy to fill in those extra calories; Cheese, fruit, nuts, wine! YES! Cheese is usually ~100 an ounce, red wine is ~25 calories an ounce (~30 mL), nuts can be ~160 an ounce, and fruit varies, but I like dried fruit and it doesn't take much dried fruit…

I literally saw this thread from another new person yesterday. Except her story was that she was SUPPOSED to eat 1350 calories, but got too full after only 1100 calories and burned 700 calories on her elliptical, so her net was also 400 calories a day. That poster was nearly 200 lbs. Her question wasn't why am I not losing…

Next time he's feeling romantical, you can tell him to just 'push down his sex drive' because you've trained your body not to react to it.

Welcome back and good luck! It's awesome that you didn't gain all the weight back, so kudos for that. You are correct, if using the MFP guided goals, your want to eat your Net calorie goal (if it's 1500, you should net that much per day). The only thing to be careful of is calorie burns are sometimes over-estimated, but…

OP: Not agreeing with you is not the same thing as attacking you. I called shenanigans on your claim of feeling sick at forcing yourself to eat 1350 calories, which is your currently recommended MFP net for your weekly loss goal. Neither you nor I became obese eating 1350 a day. We were packing in several thousand extra…

Cafe has some great advice there. Make sure you're getting a good amount of fiber when you DO have carbs. I try to get between 25-50 grams of fiber a day. Usually in the 30's. Fiber helps you not spike blood sugar/dump insulin. I don't sweat the Glycemic Index because I have proteins, fats, and high fiber choices when I…

You look amazing! Great work!

I'm a eat it if you have calories for it person, BUT if it's a 'trigger' for you and you know you could get set off into a binge, do NOT do it. Unless you're willing to exercise it off, just leave it alone. Trigger foods may have to be dealt with someday, but that's probably best handled on a calm day with a clear head,…

Well, if she wants to eat 1100 calories a day, burn 700 of it on her work out equipment and tell everyone she's not hungry, feels great, yadda yadda, whateva! How'd you gain 50 lbs? Did the magical weight fairy kiss your forehead and bestow glitter and starshine calories upon you? Dude, that's totally how I got fat. It…

Troll thread is trolly! Edit: But, before I decided to be mature, I already composed a parody . . . I see ‘em creepin’, the food logs I know they’re trying to see if ya’ll are eating dirty Try to catch you eating dirty Try to catch you eating dirty Ya know, they think you’re eating dirty! Okay, I'm done now. :tongue:

Eating TDEE/maintenance setting during a holiday event is a pretty darn nice way of coping, imo. You shouldn't gain any weight, so no damage done! My only hrmph is I do not know how to measure the calories of the food I'll be presented with at other people's houses. I use a kitchen scale for everything I make or look at…

If you need to eat more because you're hungry, you can re-evaluate if you're going for a 1000 calories a day deficit or 500 a day or whatever, and if you really ARE sedentary (most people set themselves sedentary when they're not). And after that, you can exercise a bit more to pick up an extra snack. It's not hard to burn…

I know, right? That's a great picture for this topic! *Feeds Evil Pancakes more butter and syrup* *Eats them!* The evil has now been contained. All clear!

Absolutely this! But mainly because I do not want to be food policed. The second a heavy person tells people around them they're working on their weight loss they'll come at you like white on rice. I don't tell anyone at work anything about it. Most people in your life will not trust you to handle your own business. Also,…

I say don't worry! I weigh every day. I stay within my weekly range of calorie deficit (meaning if I'm a little over one day, I make it up on other days so it balances out for the week). Some days are ups and some are downs. Sometimes the up trend will carry on for a week or more. Sometimes it's salt, sometimes it's…

Hell to the yes . . . will work(out) for booze. :drinker:

I think you'll be okay Reed; you already have the perspective you need. I just made ~the choice~ to eat 5 ounces of HK Anderson's peanut butter pretzels, which were kick-butt awesome, when I only had enough calories left for 1.5 ounces. And now I'm making the choice to do two, 20 minute cardio workouts in one night. It's…

Ha! I think some people just really like eyebrows, I've had that as a weird compliment from a co-worker: "I'm sorry that I keep staring at your face; your eyebrows are perfect." My response: "Umm, thanks, I pluck them . . ." wth do you say back? I dunno! I think my worst compliment was an ex from my college days who was…

I'm sorry that happened to you. I've seen it happen to a guy before, and it wrung my heart to see it. I tried like hell not to stare, and it made me angry to hear people snicker or laugh outright. I used to go to theme parks constantly (live in So. Cal.) I honestly have not gone to a theme park since I gained all this…

When a boy cares enough to hesitate before he answers you, take it a sign of consideration and kindness. I think males have a 'spidey sense' for the female catch-22, 'I do not know what is wrong. I'm not sure what I did. But right now, all I know is anything I say at this moment will be deemed the wrong answer . . . I must…

If you want to look like you just jumped out of an LMFAO video, rock that shizz! Pants style, no problem on you, pants print . . . is that what kids are wearing to the gym these days? I'm too old for these shenanigans!