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^ This!

I see where you're coming from, but IF is not strictly feast and famine. A lot of planning goes into making the 500 (or so) calories you have work out so that you can still function and go to work for the day and be civil to everyone around you! Having said that, I've never personally had trouble with binge eating. My…

Thank you! In June I started a new job which is at a large university campus so I spend a lot of the day walking (briskly) between buildings. 10,000 steps a day is an absolute minimum. I also lift and carry a lot of stuff on the job - heavy stuff like wall panels and tables - so I feel like that's really it for my…

I'm controlling my diet rather effectively. I just take 48hrs to get through 2 days of TDEE, not 24hrs to get through one. And sticking with it is easier for me than anything I've ever tried. However, if you can't imagine yourself being able to do it, you shouldn't try. It's not easy to succeed at something you've already…

Yeah the "I'll have it tomorrow" thing really knocks the long-term deprivation problem out of existence, and surely that's the number one reason stop sticking to their diets. It works for me too. Almost lost as much as you now - I'm 1.3 stone down so far.

The first couple of weeks were rough. I got headaches. I think a little pre-planning goes a long way in those weeks - have a simple chicken and vegetable broth ready in 500ml containers in the freezer so you can have that when you're hungry. Keep the water up, especially on fast days.

I'm doing alternate day fasting, so I guess that's 1:1? I've been doing it since mid August. I eat 25% of my TDEE on even numbered days then 125% on odd numbered days. I work out my TDEE and allotted calories daily with a spreadsheet I made, so as my weight goes down so does my calorie limit. It's working really well! I…

I needed to take a screen shot of the most perfectly awful thing I've ever read just in case she changes it. It is fractally terrible. The closer you look the more wrongness flowers off it in ever exponentially intricate forms.

The person with this profile picture just said this thing. I made a picture to celebrate the most horrific thing I've ever read on MFP forums. Then I posted it under her comment. And it'll get deleted, and I don't care. I am jubilant.

Debate? I wasn't debating with you. I was calling you mean.

Hang on, I need to know the exact fat content of this particular pork mince! Where's my lab. Hmmm.

I had pork mince in my dinner tonight. There was 232g of it. How many calories in that? MFP has more than 10 wildly differing entries.

Unless you have a lab set up for such things, none of us know exactly how many calories they eat. It's best guesses, trying to get the most accurate picture possible. Do you weigh your eggs? Do you separate the yolk from the white then weigh them separately just in case you got a big yolk? We're all doing our best.

You're the sort of person who gets on these threads to cut someone down. Well played, you won. You're awesome, everyone else is doing it wrong.

This articles explains why you might have stopped losing weight. http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/of-whooshes-and-squishy-fat.html/

Really mean spirited, dude. Give him the benefit of the doubt. He's lost 50lbs.

Fantastic advice, Miss_1999! Once you've started, take about 6 weeks to get settled in a good groove. Pay attention to your cravings and work out where they're coming from. Once you've settled in, remember that what you've been doing for 6 weeks is as hard as it gets, and it doesn't get any harder. Then keep it up! Lots of…

Oh also congratulations. Amazing job!

WHERE DID YOUR BUTT GO!!! :D

Your activity is "built in" to the TDEE so you don't need to add it and eat back the calories. Only if you do some extra activity over the top of what you've already accounted for in the TDEE.

PS don't listen to anyone who tells you how many weeks equals a plateau. It's a totally arbitrary figure. If you were losing weight consistently and now you're not, you might reasonably feel it's time to change something you're doing regardless of whether you meet their armchair expert criteria for plateau identification.…

It's pretty hard to sustain 2 pounds a week. It comes off quicker at first.

Yes, your TDEE would increase if you started exercising again. In the calculator you'd switch "sedentary" to "activity 3 times a week" or whatever the closest match for your activity level would be. Most weight loss experts (even the ones who DON'T use MFP, lol) recommend TDEE -20% to lose weight in a safe manner.

2800 - 20% is 2240.

I don't think jade2112 was saying you're imagining that your mother said those things. Rather she's saying that you say them to yourself because your mother has "gotten into your head", so to speak.

No, I haven't been.

Your self esteem is pretty poor, I guess your mother calling you "a monster" and "deformed" isn't helping. Those are really nasty things to call anyone, and saying that to your kid is pretty f%@&ed up. You're going to have to get your own act together on this, because it doesn't sound like anyone's willing to support you…

Would you say you were doing the same thing (diet and exercise wise) during the minor ups and downs as when you have the whooshes? Would you categorise the time you're not losing weight as times when you were slacking off on the logging or not exercising as much?

To previous posters, yes I'm Australian not American, and I'm 87kg, not 87lbs! That's 191.8lbs.

Yeah I also don't eat back my exercise (and because of this I don't bother logging it) so your maths is going to be out.