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A six pack won't last you long. I really like the Sam Adams Cream Stout, though Shock Top seems really popular around here.

I went through a tub of it once, but there's some (very thin, but still extant) evidence that it can potentially contribute to male pattern baldness. I have a full healthy head of hair and want to keep it that way. Any small, theoretical benefit in terms of gym performance isn't worth the risk to me.

Solid article.

I never recommended against exercise. I consider regular vigorous exercise essential to health. But it's not the reason for weight loss, nor does lack of it prevent weight loss. It's important to understand that weight loss or gain is a matter of calorie balance and nothing else.

Use leaner meat, for one. 80/20 ground beef tastes great but has tons of fat. 90/10 isn't quite as good but is better on fat. I wouldn't sweat the fat intake anyway. I treat fat as a minimum.

Why?

Don't talk about Richard Simmons that way!

Except you said she should see her doctor and have a sleep study done. Not blood tests. Look. It's premature to send this woman off to her doctor for blood tests and sleep studies. She's recently started exercising a great deal and combined it with huge calorie deficits.... and suddenly she's sleeping a couple more hours…

Oh so you're qualified to give advice because you had insomnia.... but the actual relevant experience is from when you slept 12+ hours and still had extreme fatigue. Well OK then.

Indeed, which is why I urge periodic reevaluation.

There are no words. Being an insomniac qualifies you to give advice to someone who is sleeping too much. Priceless and typical.

Sometimes, giving someone advice on how much to eat and how to combat fatigue covers more information than plugging height, weight, age, and number of times they exercise per week into an online calculator. FWIW, I think the online calculators are mostly worthless. The only ones I use are BMR estimators. From there I do…

Your goal seems to be "get really really skinny." Is that right?

This is false. Calorie deficit is literally the only way, besides surgery or some major medical disease that causes breakdown of body tissue, to lose body mass.

Well, that seems to be an explicit goal of the OP.

Oh Kaylee! :blushing:

And people wonder why clean eating gets bashed so often and thoroughly.

There's still JIF.

You're laughing, but it really is simply luck that her number was close to a decent best guess. If OP had turned out to be a nurse, factory worker, daycare worker, or some other job that has her on her feet for hours a day then 2086 would have been a dramatic underestimation. This is not a point you can argue, nor is it…

Congratulations to FFF for her lucky guess that the OP has a sedentary lifestyle?

OK. I estimate your average TDEE is around 2100 per day. I suggest that you manually set your calorie goal to 1600, and not log back exercise calories. Set your protein goal to 30%, fat to 30%, carbs to 40%. Hit those goals as closely as you can every day. If you're not using a food scale to measure portions, go get…

What do you mean by "strength" exactly? What do you do? And what are your ultimate goals?

It's also important to have appropriate goals. Hitting your calorie and protein goal won't matter if those goals are not appropriate.

Yes, I see those stats now. There's more information we need. If she's an ER nurse, she may be burning an additional 700 calories a day than if she's an accountant. This stuff matters.

Yes, I have something better to do: be helpful. It's not helpful to present something as fact or reality when it's a random guess based on zero data. OP's TDEE could be 2500 every day. It could vary from 1800 to 2200. We have no idea what it is. Your advice to eat a specific number of calories because her TDEE is some…

I must have missed the part where the OP told us enough information about her lifestyle and daily activity for you to calculate a TDEE and say "your TDEE is 2086."

Your BMR is in the neighborhood of 1500 calories a day. That's how many calories you burn laying down all day. Assuming sedentary lifestyle, that's about 1800 calories a day burned total. Add ~500 calories burned through exercise and your total daily energy expenditure, TDEE, is about 2300 calories. You're eating around…

Also: what is your height/weight/age? What, specifically, is your exercise routine? How active are you besides exercise? Are you a nurse, sit at a desk all day, chase around a 2 year old, what?

Those goals are there for a reason. Your main focus should be hitting them every day. The calorie goal is the most important one. Consistently hit your calorie goal. Don't leave 500 calories on the table. Eat those calories. This will help tremendously with energy levels.

You've only been logging for a few days, and every one of those days you came in several hundred calories under your goal. Why?