DeguelloTex Member

I wonder how I lost weight eating 500 grams of carbs a day.

Did I miss the explanation for what happens to the extra energy you consume but don't store?

Let's say that's true. That's a 272 calorie burger that's going to lose very little weight when cooked. That's pretty feasible even on 1200 a day. If you go protein style and lose the bun, or cut a bun in half, you've knocked off a big chunk of that extra 120. Lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion, jalapeño, and mustard have…

100g of 93/7 ground beef is 152 calories. 100g of chicken breast is 120 calories.

I don't plan to, but I don't plan not to. I'd rather not, but if I need to, I need to. Sort of like vision correction.

Bulking for a couple of weeks and already cutting? I'm not sure Armold in his prime with elite roids could bulk much in a couple of weeks. Maintain or even increase protein. Cut carbs if water weight concerns you. Imo.

Eat a medium-sized, or small, juicy hamburger. It's not really a question of the "right stuff."

So what happens to all the extra energy you consume but that isn't stored as fat?

There aren't. It would be nice if there were.

I'm not suggesting that you eat unhealthily, but weight loss is more about how much than what. Too much healthy food isn't going to result in weight loss.

You could consume the heck out of some caffeine, but it isn't much and almost certainly isn't worth it. Almost certainly your metabolism is just fine, though.

But what about... yeah, what he said.

You can almost definitely lose weight eating more than 1200. 1500 might not be an unreasonable range with that amount of exercise.

It sounds like you have a handle on it. I'd focus on making sure you know how much you're eating because that's likely the bulk of the issue, if there is an issue.

Sounds like measurement error to me.

Pick one. Probably the carrying infant one, I'd think. Otherwise you're double- or triple-dipping the core bit of the exercise.

Even if it is, all you can do is adjust goals, expectations, calories, or exercise to balance how your body burns calories with where you want to be. That said, obviously the more accurate your logging is the more you can isolate any variances to other factors.

Probably so, yes. Even so, something like "It wasn't a plateau, it was a stall and it makes perfect sense that the weight would start coming off again, even in the absence of any change" would be seen by some as discounting the OP's eating more as a "solution" and would still be seen as negative in that I didn't say, "I…

I lost 124 pounds and I'm virtually certain that I never got as low as 100 gram of carbs per day.

BMR, you're basically using a formula or getting tested. TDEE you can get very close once you have enough data on what you eat and how much your weight changes over a reasonable period of time, but there's no way to know it ahead of time without at least some guessing.

It gets good reviews at Target and Amazon. It looks like a pretty good one.

Digital. Weighs in grams. Tare/zero function. High enough capacity to weigh cooking dishes, if that might be a thing for you. Ideally, the display is such that it's easy to read even with a plate on the scale.

Maybe it's pointing out the way (I think) the word is used here, and the implications regarding non-linear weight loss, that's "negative." Surely, it's not the lack of something like "I support you, OP. 100%."

I don't use it in place of mayo, but it's pretty fair in place of sour cream. I still prefer sour cream, but it does add the cool, tart, and creamy that sour cream does.

Good point. I always forget it and I always tell myself I'll remember it next time. This time I really will. Really.

0% Greek yogurt. I'd never had it before at all and now I am using it very often as a snack and to fill in protein gaps.

Most people here, the ones who are overweight, aren't the "average" person used in the calculators, though.

Six to eight weeks would be in the ballpark. What's negative about pointing out that what you experienced isn't a plateau, exactly?

Even for walking and running, MFP is at least 15-20% higher than my UP2 or HR Charge for the same exercise. Sometimes more.

That treadmills might be off by more doesn't mean that MFP is accurate. Afterburn is relatively minuscule. Your body doesn't really horde calories; it burns what it needs to burn. It's not really complex, no, unless you're striving for some unreasonable and unnecessary -- for 99.999+% of people -- level of precision.