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Hit the gym. It won't be enough for dinner, but it will limit the damage done for the day. You aren't going to "gain" weight if you go over your calorie goal a little, you just won't lose as much this week. Do better tomorrow.

You burn the same calories every day just living. Meal timing doesn't matter, calories do. If you stick to your calorie goal, you will lose weight, even if you eat all your calories in the evening.

Order some lacrosse balls, you can work the muscle that is tightening and causing your nerve to get irritated. You can do this laying or sitting very easily. I would also suggest icing it pretty regularly.

As long as you're netting at least 1200 calories you should be fine. The water retention from your muscles repairing themselves from your workout is most likely masking some weight loss, along with any hormones/extra sodium can completely make the scale useless for someone first starting out (yes 4 weeks is still very…

Another suggestion. There may be a Holistic Health Clinic in your area that does "pay what you can". They may be able to help break up scar tissue and encourage blood flow to the area in order in speed healing and lower your pain. Surgery can be scary and I do know people who have recovered from carpel tunnel syndrome with…

If you have insurance, I would highly recommend starting physical therapy right away. I'm shocked that whatever doctor diagnosed you didn't send you there right away. Your physical therapist can "prescribe" a proper fitting brace just like a medication and send a request for approval to your insurance company, if they…

I know how you feel, I'm an IPA girl myself and I love getting local craft beers at the pubs in Cali. Lucky for me, I don't have a lot of friends who frequent bars with me, I usually go 3 times a month and it's easy to just save some extra calories + work out and be able to have 400+ calories of beer out. Maybe you could…

This really stuck out to me inparticular. If you decide to do the TDEE method, then you'll need to actually subtract calories from your TDEE to lose weight. Most people start with 20% less than TDEE. If you have been eating your TDEE this whole time, that is why you haven't lost any weight. Plus if you aren't logging…

Net.

You don't need to cut any foods out to lose weight, it doesn't matter if you're eating chicken and fruit and eggs, your body cannot function on so few calories, it's starvation no matter how many vitamins you take. I'm going to say it one more time and then I'm not going to reply anymore. PLEASE set up your profile and…

As someone who has been in a deep pit of binge eating/drinking my emotions, I can tell you that I do not think your post is silly at all. I think, for me at least, the biggest problem was that just the thought of thinking about why you're doing something and what emotions it's attached to can feel very overwhelming. It's…

Might sound over simplistic but... If It were my bf I'd say, that if he wants to eat with the family (which I would make sure he understood that is what I would STRONGLY prefer) that he needs to be home by at the latest 5:30, otherwise you'll keep a plate in the fridge for him to heat up when he get home. I might also…

First thing I noticed is that it looks like your daily food intake is less than 1000 calories per day. Why are you eating so little? That is dangerously low, especially for a 26 year old male. You need to lose 31lbs right? Please use this website correctly, put in your information and log your calories, starvation isn't a…

I'm a strong believer in fueling yourself properly and that under feeding can result in a lot of weird human body chemistry that is complex and difficult to understand. It's all just a guess at this point. It's also entirely possible that you forgot about a few things you ate/drank here and there and once you started…

It is entirely possible that your body was producing stress hormones that helped keep your weight steady if you were under feeding it, it takes a long time to get to that point and it's pretty rare. Some people refer to it as Adrenal Fatigue. But seeing as you don't have any of the exhaustion symptoms, I'd say it's…

Okay the way your Original Post was phrased gave the impression that you weren't losing weight and were confused because you had been under the impression that you were under eating. I'm not sure what your questions is? You lost weight while eating more so... you want to keep doing it? I'm the same height and we have the…

Even if you are under eating, you should still be losing plenty of your lean muscle mass along with fat, not stalling out after 2 weeks. I think the most important question here is are you weighing all of your food, not just eyeballing it? Are you logging your calories everyday? Or do you use one day a week to eat whatever…

Sedentary. Log your intentional exercise. Eat the extra calories it gives.

MFP supplies a basic math equation for weight loss, you need to use your own good sense to determine if it's right for you personally. That is why it spits out 1200 when you put in 2lbs per week. Change your goal to lose 1lb per week and I bet that it will be a lot closer to your BMR.

Since MFP already gives you a calorie deficit built into your goal, you are suppose to eat back whatever you burn during exercise. Not doing so would result in a very low NET calorie intake, technically starving your body of the fuel it needs to even run properly. It also results in greater loss of lean muscle mass, which…

New exercise (sore muscles). Too much sodium in foods/not enough water. Hormone fluctuations.

I think his plan sounds healthy and very realistic. Maybe you should speak to him about wanting to lose 1.5lbs per week, at least for the first couple of months. I definitely agree that you should have at least some kind of calorie limit and staying at or very close to 1600 per day is a good idea. There is nothing wrong…

4-6 weeks is the general rule of thumb.

So BMR is what your body needs to survive if you were in a coma. TDEE is an inclusion of everything you do everyday that you need to maintain your current weight. It is not recommended to eat below your BMR, but it is certainly up to you. The risks include loss of lean muscle mass as well as other unpleasant surprises such…

Calories remaining means that is how many you have left to eat to meet your goal for the day. Your calorie deficit is already built into the goal amount, you do not and should not eat under it.

I calculated your maintenance calories and got 1771 per day to maintain. I think you may have calculated your BMR, which is actually what your body would need if you were in a coma to survive, not actually being up and about in normal life. So with zero exercise, your daily deficit could be as much as 571 calories per day.

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The main reason it feels like you barely ate is because you drank half of your calories. Ditch the shakes. Still hungry? Put your goals to 1.5lbs per week instead of 2. Still hungry? Move your goals to 1lb per week instead of 1.5 Still hungry? Exercise and eat the extra calories it gives you.

Just keep at it, the water retention will go away. It is not physically possible for you to have gained 3lbs of fat unless you are lying to yourself about your calorie intake in the last 2 weeks and have eaten 10,500 calories above your maintenance needs.

You've picked up a new exercise routine recently for the last 2 weeks? It's water retention. Muscles retain a lot of water while they repair themselves. Everything is fine.