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I don't buy fruit juice but if I wanted to keep OJ in my diet because I loved it, I would probably mix it half and half with sparkling water, to cut the calories and sugar. Some of us don't have the TDEE to drink our calories.

Excellent point. When I want to work on intuitive eating, I log my food at the end of the day and see how I did. I don't think I've ever seen anyone else post that they do or have done that here. It seems like the vast majority feel like it's all or nothing-- you either eat 100% right intuitively or you completely ignore…

Also, the reason you see it here every day- someone early on in their diet having trouble eating ENOUGH- is not because they're all liars. It's because when you shift your focus to your eating and your weight loss, and quit mindlessly eating all the time without regard to the consequences, you just DO get full faster. Not…

Eating fiber before a meal can slow digestion, keeping blood sugar more stable afterward, which can help people avoid between meal snacks. So while it's not true that you burn more, it might wind up helping some people eat less overall. Though you'd probably fare better taking a low cal fiber supplement instead, since the…

Someone made a Chrome extension that puts the option to include/exclude user-created entries in your MFP search. It's called MyFitnessPal Search Filters. I don't know if they made one for browsers besides Chrome. It's a nice thing. I have no idea why MFP itself has never added the option. It would be simple to do. Maybe…

I think what he's doing is fine and what you're doing is fine. If everyone had to make sure they ate enough by using an app, we would've been extinct long ago.

It's a skill like any other. You're generally born with it and lose it over time. There are ways to hone the skill. But if you don't think you can ever relearn it, you can't. Argue for your limitations and they're yours. :)

I'm guessing it's probably about 7" across.

Not everyone, or even most people, or even most food bloggers, is on the 'everything in moderation' diet. Most prefer to focus on eating foods that have more nutrition for the calorie buck. It doesn't mean they eat the whole low-cal cheesecake, but they eat a slice and don't have to log calories all day because they're…

Most authorities would say AIMING for 2 lbs/week is fine, and achieving anything from .5-2 lbs. (or 1% of your body weight, if more) is considered safe, conservative weight loss.

What calorie level are you eating at now? You're just within healthy/normal BMI now so it's going to be hard. If you don't like feeling hungry maybe try an intermittent fasting protocol, for a change. If you don't learn to adapt to the low-eating days, you will at least feel real hunger and recognize it's not going to kill…

Were your climbing steps on a stair climber or something where your actual elevation wasn't changing? The floors count comes from an altimeter so you need to actually go up to earn floors. 'Active minutes' is based on some proprietary threshold they choose. Your own idea of 'active' might be entirely different.

I think the article's stance was that none of them are essential for weight loss.

Congratulations! My only tip is be kind to yourself. The first year is hard, I don't know if I'd choose food logging during it. But you know yourself best. Good luck!

The first diet book I read was Body For Life. It said exercising first thing in the morning was four times more effective for fat loss than later in the day. So I didn't exercise for years because mornings weren't going to happen. Generally it's a positive when myths are busted. There are probably a lot of people who think…

I haven't read the article but I like it when magazines refute diet myths based on research. Maybe their stance is that small changes do add up but big changes add up faster and have more visible short term results, which helps make people really commit to the changes. We generally respond best to immediate positive…

Hey Ethan- This is offbeat advice but pay attention to your self-talk. In your post above, look at all the negativity- "hate", "very poor", "bad", "harsh", etc. You can limit your own success by saddling yourself with a disabling story. Consider stopping the blaming and hating and viewing yourself and your health in a…

There is no reason to make yourself eat at your estimated RMR level. Give it time and expect the scale to be bumpy ride and a poor indicator at first.

No but the research was published in peer reviewed medical journals. The popular press often re-reports scholarly research, in laymen's terms.

This is a good one. For me it means not thinking of it as a journey. It's just daily life and sensible, healthful eating. Which to others might mean "journey". To me, journey implies a destination or arrival at an endpoint, where you stop, and a linear progression (ideally).

I think when we eat at a lower level for long periods, our TDEE lowers in response (adaptive thermogenesis) so you wind up at less of a deficit than the calculators say you are. I also think our bodies when overweight don't insist we take in every calorie we burn in a day as food. We do fund that deficit with body fat.…

I think doctors know people are human and that means they underestimate their intake by large percentages and when the scale doesn't move, they quit in frustration. Whereas the MFP intake goal assumes you're going to be 100% accurate and 100% patient, like a computer. Personally, I think you get what you pay for.

Her diary does indeed say 600 is her intake goal. Hm. Locking MFP to new users probably wouldn't help, since OP said she's had this account for 10 months. Fitbit will just do the flat math and spit out whatever the result is, I believe, unless they've changed it. I've seen it tell me to aim for 600ish calories per day,…

I've never used either app in KJ units but in calories, manually logging activities without the Fitbit on (or with it on) is supposed to work fine. If the sites are linked, I think you can enter the activity on either. For swimming, you manually enter it like any other non-tracked activity. I don't know if yours is acting…

I tried on the desktop site and the iphone app and can't get it to go below 1200 calories a day. How are people doing it? Is there a chance they're reading their goal wrong?

Yes, but the guidelines aren't talking about scale numbers, they're talking about mortality. Which was probably your point as well. :) We are not talking here about recommendations for the total amount of calories you should eat. These recommendations assume you’re eating the proper amount of calories, and seek to govern…

The books by Mosley, Varady and others have good info about health benefits of intermittent modified fasting. I did ADMF for 3 months late last year and have mixed feelings about it. It was a good experience at the time but I'm not in a hurry to go back to it. I prefer long term to try to eat around 80% 'healthy foods'…

I agree with 'give it time'. You can't do the math on a short sample time because water weight doesn't have a caloric value attached and if your exercise level is new, water weight levels can be all over the place.

Ikea sells several cheap desks that convert from 'sitting height' to 'counter height', not with the switch of a button but by manually extending the adjustable legs. At counter height, you can work standing or use a counter height chair. I can work at my treadmill but never do. I can also leave and go outdoors all I want…

This is pretty close: "...rapid loss can include more lost lean body mass..."