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You need to confront that which is making you emotionally unstable. Remove it from your life or come to terms with it. There is no simple answer, but therapy may help you understand your emotions better.

It's not too hard to sneak in some nut's or a protein bar. My friend has snuck in whole box's(and I mean more than one) of cheese it's before when we were in our teens, so sneaking in a healthy snack shouldn't be too difficult. Who want's to toss money in the garbage buying over priced food that's going to make you fat?

I find the timing of calories/nutrients is mostly about how it makes you feel. For me for example after I eat a meal high in simple carbs i get a rush of energy. If I sit down my legs will bounce up and down for an hour or two so I tend to eat these meals in the morning before I workout as I get the biggest pumps when…

There are a lot of frozen meals that cost a buck and have a calorie content between 2-350 calories and are of a decent proportion. at 300 calories a pop you could eat 4 a day, that's one extra one you can eat when you're randomly hungry. Normally I eat 2 of these frozen meals and use the 5-600 calories to make myself…

I carry a protein bar with me and eat it any time I get cravings. I normally don't eat much because it tastes like crap. If I don't want to eat the protein bar it tells me that I am not really hungry and thus do not need to eat. I think about what my future body will look like if I continue to make healthy choices and only…

Well if you are going from being sedentary to being moderately active your cells will increase their water content so that they can more efficiently produce energy via the krebs cycle. Since you are staying the same weight I would suggest not eating back your calories burned from your 1-2 mile's of exercise and see if that…

Say that your current BMR is 2500, and you are eating 1k below that at 1500. If your goal weight BMR is above that say 1750. Then I think you could just keep your daily intake at 1500 for the entire diet until you reach your goal weight. As you loose weight your BMR will drop so your deficit decreases naturally over time…

From what I've seen it's pretty good, but like anything you get out of it what you put into it. I would go as hard as possible and then just take short breaks when you need to and jump back in when you can. I've done this approach with the P90X ab routine and I've gone from completing about a third of the exercises to…

Open your diary. I am guessing you don't eat nearly enough vegetables and thus don't get the soluble and insoluble dietary fiber you need. Every now and then I hang out with my vegan friend and go to town on some vegetables and suddenly i'm 5 lb's lighter the next day.

I try to eat around 100g of carbs a day(I tend to be around 150g a day) and have the majority of them come from vegetables. Like others have said, someone in your position should consult a dietitian.

No. Many athletes eat 1g of protein per lb of body weight.

Seems pretty accurate and correlates with my personal experience. I have read some research on long distance athletes who over time increase their bodies ability to efficiently metabolize fat by performing low level activity(walking) on a fast. Both sets of athletes were restricted to the same overall caloric intake and…

You would have to be a child to live off of 400-600 calories a day. A dietary calorie is: Is approximately the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. So if you weighed 100 lb's(aprox. 45kg) 60% of which is water, that means you have 33.7kg of water in your body.…

That's the basic idea. I have been reading some good research recently on how different types of carbohydrate can mess with your metabolism which mostly revolves maintenance of blood sugar levels. It seems the general consensus of the research is that a high influx of easily digestible sugars(wheat, soda, candy) can cause…

I've been eating 1k under my BMR, I lift for strength 3 times a week and do 3 two hour cardio sessions a week. I've lost 3 lb's a week consistently for the last 4 weeks. That said I am near 25% bf and want to get to about 10% bf. The only issue i've notice is that my recovery times from my strength training days is about…

I've consistently lost weight doing 1-2 hours of cardio 3-5 times weekly. I routinely beat my goal of loosing 2 lb's a week, I have seen my track times slowly improve, and my energy levels are up overall. HIIT is great for individuals trying to put on muscle, increase their VO2 max, and those with limited time.

When I started I went down 8 lb's and then right back up 8 lb's the same week. Its been 4 weeks since and I've lost a total of 12 lb's. You need to look at long term trends and not day to day weight values.

Do you think it is easier to make a healthy choice when you are hungry, or not hungry?

I generally weigh myself daily to observe the fluctuations and then take a 3 day average and post it to MFP.

Thanks for the info 3dogsrunning.

Well if you were 250 lb's of muscle with 6-12 % body fat it wouldn't be too far off. The problem is that most calorific expenditure studies are done on collegiate or Olympic level athletes(mostly male) with low amounts of fat and high VO2 max's weighing around 160 lb's and then scaled to your weight. If you get a good…

Absolutely correct. When doing weightlifting it isn't uncommon for my heart rate to reach it's peak as I push myself hard. But you must keep in mind that I am only working a few muscles in my body. When a single muscle in your body is depleted of energy it sends a signal to your brain that tells it that it needs more…

In general it's better to trust the equipment than MFP. I don't believe that MFP scales exercises to your weight and it certainly can't track your heart rate. If the machine asks your body fat percentage, weight, height, gender and tracks your heart rate its probably accurate within a margin of 10%. If it doesn't account…

In general my strength training routine is too intense to take breaks to log my weights. If you really must do it the best thing is to bring a pre-printed paper with the workouts you plan to do and just write your weight/reps since that will only take 5-10 seconds to do out of your 30 second rest period between exercises.

I would lower your cardio, unless you are training for a marathon. In general if you are at your target weight it's better to push yourself harder rather than longer, try 20-30 min of HIIT instead of those extended cardio sessions. Also make sure to get a regular sleep schedule and get 7-8 hours a day. Sleep is the most…

From the years of reading research, to university nutrition and fitness classes, and from personal experience what I have found is that your body metabolizes energy at a certain rate. Normally at rest if you are eating your TDEE your body burns fat at the same rate that you body builds it so you stay the same weight. If…

I was just in your boat, sprained my ankle doing a back flip 3 weeks ago. I still managed to loose more than 10 lb's over the past 3 weeks since I sprained it. Your focus is going to be on your diet, at least until you can walk on it without pain although you might still have a limp. During my 2nd week after the sprain I…

My friend eats every 2 hours and he weighs 378 lbs. I know one person with a high metabolism who is 5' 11" and weighs 137 lb's. His metabolism is high because of a combination of drugs he takes for his heart. He can't put on weight for anything although with my guidance I got him up to 147 lb's while he was eating 3 times…

Yeah it certainly will shrink/stretch/fade over time. That's something you should accept if you plan on getting a tattoo.

The first time I saw 199 it felt amazing. You probably should post your start weight and height if you want people to tell you what goals sound reasonable. That said at a reasonable pace of 2 lb's a week I am sure you can calculate whether you would hit your goals or not.