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I've got to keep an eye on the numbers to see if this bears out for me too. I've been waiting to hit 86 for weeks... every time I get close I bounce back up.

Thanks, I needed to hear that :smile:

I am surprised my average is so low. There was a dinner I didn't log on the 13th and I can't remember what caused that. I am always surprised by how little you need to eat to feel full when you've virtually fasted the previous day - that's what a shrunken stomach will do for your capacity. I'm not deliberately trying to…

Are you talking about the time I was getting over gastro? See all the Hydralyte in there?

Cool, here's mine. The plateau is the last bit. I like to throw a trend line in there.

500 calories one day and your TDEE + up to 75% is how the Alternate Day Diet is done. If this starts a rash of ill-informed "opinion" on ADD then I'm SMDH.

Ok I've said I'm fastidious with logging - ignoring all "it's logging" suggestions.

I had a sore ankle last week and was taking 25mg of Voltaren in the morning for three days... you might be on to something.

My diary's open. Go nuts.

Thanks, this is VERY tempting advice! :smiley: Yes plateaus DO exist. Clearly for the twinkie forgetters amongst us there are other explanations but body chemistry is more complex than some might have us believe. I think a little jog into the caloric badlands might be just the thing if I'm still stuck out here in November.

Interesting article! The biggest change or red flag I've noticed is that no matter how much water I drink I rarely have (please look away, sensitive souls) clear wee. It varies from pale yellow to OH GOD OH GOD WHY IS MY URINE ORANGE. Would thisbe at all indicative of water retention in the fat cells?

I've got to say I'm punctilious with regards to logging. I don't trust the food database on MFP unless I have no other choice. You can't read the calories on the back of a cucumber. I've been at a deficit of 3850 calories a week for the last 10 weeks, and in the first seven I steadily lost 1kg per week. If you think I'm…

The OP posted this in April and her ticker shows a 3lb loss. Either she's gone, she didn't do it or it just didn't work. Nothing to see here.

It's bizarre that you lost weight so rapidly (a pound every 2 days!) to start with and then stalled for a month. If you're doing exactly the same as before it's really too weird.

It's hard to imagine a world without men *stares wistfully into the distance* but I think I'd still be wanting to lose weight in that world. My extra weight feels like just that: extra. Surplus to what I feel my basic self consists of. The fat acceptance movement is important but neither the patriarchy nor the subversion…

It's pathetic that "I'm just trying to understand" could so often more accurately be expressed as "I don't understand so please unsuccessfully explain your untenable position to me so I can explain where you're wrong". Idiots spend a lifetime carving a rock solid worldview they can dogmatically pass on wherever the…

There are two kinds of fat people. There's the kind that decide they don't want to be fat anymore and do something about it. And there's the kind that stay fat. How that got that way is completely irrelevant and none of your business. Don't make someone's type, past or genetics another hurdle for them to deal with. It's…

No. Facial tightening creams make your face look and feel tighter by being made from a substance which contracts as it dries. It lasts until it's washed off. It doesn't do squat for the underlying tissue.

:laugh: "Why are people who get strung out by people who DON'T EVEN LIFT always thinking of what they really should have said two days later and then posting it in a forum?"

Is it flab (extra fat you'd like to lose) or loose skin (which no amount of working out will erase)? Describing it as "flabby skin" is somewhat confusing.

Reviving this thread because boobs.

Sometimes logging is a pain in the *kitten*, but we do it because it helps us to know where our calories come from and track what we eat. I think it's pretty rich to take photos and get others to guess your tracking for the day. You can't estimate it yourself because why?

SMDH at this comment.

Bad Photoshop happens when you lift anything too heavy?

This is unbelievable. Maybe when you're "extra strong" you'll see he's got a major problem.

I'll give it a try!

Read the nutritional information on the back of the packet rather than looking it up on MFP. Then enter it in the food diary with COOKED or UNCOOKED in the description. You could spare someone else the confusion you're experiencing now.

I get a little vague at the end of a fast day as I tend to save my 500 calories for dinnertime so I don't go to be hungry. BUT. My mind is sharper on fast days than non-fast days. This is borne out by MRI studies on people who are fasting as the primal motivation centres of the brain are activated.