jonnythan Member

MFP stopped syncing my Fitbit data yesterday around 5:30 PM. No syncing since then, despite my Fitbit.com account being up to date.

No matter how much you exercise, you will never lose a single pound if you eat all the calories back. However, you can lose weight with zero exercise due to the fact that your body burns calories at rest. Diet is essential for weight loss. Exercise is not.

Like it's my job!

I love when people say "go do research" but have clearly never, ever even read a scientific journal article, let alone done any actual original research themselves. That's cute. Really. But it's time to stop reading diet books and listen to people who actually DO do research.

Jesus doesn't want you to starve yourself.

Go to med school. You'll never be bored again. Guaranteed.

It wasn't harder for her. She just had to consume fewer calories.

Forget about it and move on. You're still under maintenance for the day, for cripes' sake. Also: guesstimating on calorie-dense things like peanuts is a recipe for disaster. You really need to weight those.

Saying "age affects weight loss" implies that it's harder to lose weight with increasing age. That's 100% bunk, and people use it as a BS excuse.

Yeah, and going through menopause is associated with massive changes in hormone levels that have significant effects on eating patterns and activity levels. Age does not affect weight loss. At a given calorie deficit, you will lose weight at about the same rate no matter how old you are.

Age does not affect weight loss. Calorie delta does.

No. 1200 is too low unless you're very small and very sedentary, no matter how old you are. You could be 85 and 1200 would still be too low unless you were very small and very sedentary.

Well you have since closed your diary, but it is a huge red warning flag to me that your goal is 1200, and you think that you "went over" your goal by 500 calories on a day you logged 1700 calories of food and 600 calories of exercise. That is dangerous, and not the right way to do this.

Metabolism does decrease with age. This is a well-understood fact, and the reason that BMR calculators ask for your age in addition to your height and weight.

Again: how does that seem to be working for you?

Your diary says you've eaten over 1700 calories today and you're still under your goal. No idea what you're talking about.

1200 is too low unless you're very small and very sedentary. What is your height and weight?

Yup. How's that working out for you?

I don't think it would be very effective for that. Maybe if you were grinding a fairly large quantity of almonds...

PhDs are "doctors" too but they're not physicians.

You are either eating more than you think you are, or you've been at this for a couple of days and haven't given it enough time.

Your doctor is an idiot, and that WebMD article is stupid.