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My MIL asked yesterday (she noticed I'd lost 15kg) "What can't you eat?". I said "Nothing. A better question is when can't you eat. The answer to that one is: About half the time."

Some people just can't be bothered reading or thinking about it. I've given up defending my way of eating, I just do it and it works. 15kg lost and counting. Managing a 20% deficit by alternating 500 and 2500 calorie days.

Need you to do a make up tutorial video. Beautiful. Weight loss amazing too!

I'm thinking that taking things in hand ourselves needs to happen before we expect MFP to actually, you know, moderate the boards. In any case, he's sending this stuff as private messages so I doubt they would do anything about that. I'd like to flood his inbox with similar messages but seeing that there hasn't been much…

This is all true... but the fast diet works on 2 fast days and 5 non-fast days. What @InfinityEleven‌ here is doing is every second day. If you do a fasting diet you have to do it safely. You are currently misreading your instructions and bending them to make it very unsafe. How does alternate day fasting relate to 5:2?…

Alternate Day Fasting means you fast one day (that's your 500 calories) and don't diet the next day. I can't stress this enough. You're not fasting and dieting. Think of ADF as a percentages game: you eat 25% of your TDEE on your fast day, and 125% the next day. That will give you an overall deficit of 25%. Any more than…

Sounds like you're already motivated. Don't waste energy feeling bad. Just get on with it - you have 364 days till your next splurge. Happy birthday!

Everyone spells lose as loose, but this thread proves you can make the mistake backwards as well. I'm sure people have replied on the other threads - loose skin comes down to age, speed of loss, general health and hydration. Others will say "lift! you won't get any loose skin!" but this is demonstrably false.

This is what I mean. So many recommend not weighing every day, but it seems to be based on a personal inability or refusal to apprehend basic realities about water weight and natural hormonal fluctuations, or they "get obsessed with the scale". What if you don't get obsessed with the scale? The reason I don't weigh weekly…

I had the same problem, Maggie. I now have a Withings wireless Scale WS-30 and I like it. Every now and then I get a bad reading from it but if I step off and wait for the display to go blank I can step on again and it's back to being consistent (even if I step on 3 times to check - a habit my old scale got me into!). A…

Why?

OP is female.

Yeah them's the rules. Obviously.

Being Australian I can't really help it :wink:

Geez even if I self-censor I get flagged.

You can change this in your settings.

You can have more than just a lemon or lime wedge in there - make a glass pitcher in the refrigerator with cucumbers sliced lengthways, halved strawberries, fresh mint or ginger, or add treats like grapes to your ice cube trays and add these into your water. You can also get your water through green tea, clear broth or…

One of the nice things about working at a large university is that these kind of comments (at least at work) have serious repercussions for the commenter. If anyone was to say anything about my appearance, complimentary or otherwise (be it about my weight, age, reproductive status, hairstyle, clothes, etc) the room will go…

You CAN and SHOULD weigh daily as long as you're not a complete idiot about it. Weighing daily will show you (...drumroll...) what you weigh every day! This includes water weight fluctuation and BMs on board and everything. If you're going to get upset because one day you're up a bit despite a downward trend then maybe you…

I'm okay with cups as long as we're talking about something that packs happily into a cup, like sugar or flour. It's when you're looking up asparagus spears in the MFP database and the units are in cups that I'm o_0 When I'm baking I find recipes almost exclusively use cups for dry foods.

I actually have a very accurate set of digital kitchen scales, but it seems weird to call it a "food scale". I've never come across it. Must be an American thing.

I keep seeing "food scale" on here. Is this a particular thing which is programmed with the calorie values of different food? Or is it in fact what I would simply call "scales" or "kitchen scales" to differentiate them from "bathroom scales".

If you're weighing every day (and there's NO reason why you shouldn't UNLESS you get hung up on daily fluctuations) you should chart the data you take so that you can see your own patterns of loss and gain. Weighing daily is rejected by people who "get obsessed with the numbers" etc but it can be great if you can use those…

Chicken and corn soup, with our without actual chicken. I keep homemade chicken stock in 500ml containers in the freezer. Thaw one in a saucepan with a can of creamed corn and a frozen chicken wing or two, or a thigh or a breast (if I have them). When it's simmering I add a raw egg and stir it through.

I've stopped logging (as much) on my up days, sometimes I log just till mid afternoon to make sure I'm tracking within bounds. I tend to eat very healthy at home (big salads, fish, chicken, not so much pasta, rice and bread because it tends to be a big calorie investment) and a bit more to fast food on up days at lunch…

@WalkingAlong I've loaned my Varady to a friend so I can't check up, but I believe she told her participants that if you're at 25% on your down day you can have up to 175% on your up day to break even on TDEE. She then accounts for a deficit by suggesting 125%, but found in practice that most of her participants never…

So at 1642 you'd be eating 410 on your down days and 2052 on your up days.

I'm currently 185lbs Have lost 25lbs in 4mths This is all there in my graph, of course. I'm 5"3 and 44 years old. My daily calories are based on what I weigh, so they change daily. I use the following formula in a spreadsheet to tell me how many calories I can eat that day:…

What's your TDEE? I'd look at eating at or over that on your up days.

You're respectively averaging 1050 and 750 calories a day. This isn't intermittent fasting or EOD. You're eating so far under your TDEE that you're stripping muscle off your body almost every day. You are on a fast AND a diet. @christinev297 considering all the reading you're doing I'm shocked to see you recommending this…