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I think that might be on you. Incredible claims are often the ones that require evidence. I was a vegan for five years, worked out and exercised every day on a protein deficient diet and while I was "healthy" I looked like I had AIDS and or was undergoing cancer treatment. Not sure I could jump into the camp of protein…

I just use Endomondo and turn on the auto pause feature. It feeds the rides info back onto MFP so by the time I get inside and press record the whole this is done for me. The pauses really do not matter much to me though, the estimates are just based off average speed and duration. You actually burn more calories starting…

Personally I would just start adding a little bit of body weight stuff into your routine if you are close to a good weight for you and don't want to get hooked on spending days in the gym. When I was skinny in my twenties, I used to just get up and hit the floor for push ups, sit ups, dips and then jump on the bar for a…

My limited experience suggests that eating when hungry is probably a good thing. I shoot to keep things in the 1700-1900 calories a day range for myself but if I'm hungry I just add a meal in there. Yesterday I added two meals in there because I went on a long bike ride. I'm not sure how much this helps but for me I've…

Wouldn't a low carb vegetarian basicly just be the definition of an eating disorder? I was a vegetarian who didn't like vegetables for a while and I'm pretty sure I had an eating disorder.

The Red Neck is strong in this thread...

I'm sure lots of folks on here will be willing to help. It's not that horrible of a problem to have. I did the same thing in my twenties, lost a bunch of weight but still had a bit of fat around my belly that I could never get rid of. For me, the answer was just adding more protein to my diet and lifting some weights. I…

Yeah having a plan is about the only way to go. Easy to drive by McDonalds when you know there is good food waiting at home. Also I mostly just toss the snacks and eat a meal if I am hungry. Surprisingly, I get much less hungry when I need to fire up the stove to make something vs. just grabbing some easy junk to shove in…

I don't normally worry about "muscles" when doing cardio, aside from some soreness whenever you move a new body part, the real workout is for your heart and lungs. So whatever you can do that you want to keep doing is best. I do enjoy the rowing machine more than most of the other gear but I think it's all just preference.

Personally I'm an anti-capitalist revolutionary so I think we should just go full on socialism. Not sure I get the logic of an advanced civilization that has one guy collecting a bunch of green pieces of paper in his mansion while others sleep on park benches and starve to death.

I think what a lot of people are alluding to is Planet Fitness is great as long as you plan on quietly doing cardio. If you want to lift weights you'll need to go somewhere else. My only tips are to check and see if you have a local YMCA as they tend to be pretty well rounded facilities that lack the glam or pretence of a…

I've kind of given up the protein shakes and just shifted to more lean protein meals when I can. The shakes never really got me that "full" feeling I would get from actual food. Obviously though, they are convenient for the schedule. If you want to mix things up a bit and sort of round out the calories, when I made them I…

I've never heard anyone be especially critical of it except for the INSANE amount of sodium in it. The low sodium V8 is still pretty edible so if you keep them on hand for the occasional veggie fix that might be a good middle ground. I've been trying to add more carrot juice into my life to sort of mix up all the fruit…

Not sure if this helps but for actual walks (where I go to and from someplace) I use my phone and an app called Endomondo. Tracks everything with GPS and pretty accurately. I still find the calories it says I burned to be painfully over estimated, but that's sort of par for the course. If you use the app, you can set it up…

Don't let the detractors trick you, 1200 calories totally rock. This is a shot of me when I did that in my twenties. I especially like the collarbone definition and my elbows were especially pointy. The neat thing, even though I was stupid light, I still had a roll of fat around my midsection because of my total lack of…

Take a treadmill next to the girl of your dreams... look extremely confident... smile as you put on your head phones... bob your head a little as you listen to the music... set the treadmill to 16 MPH at a 10% incline... when the ambulance arrives try to regain consciousness long enough to ask for the digits. 9 out of 10…

Don't stress too much. You're doing something wrong and it's probably an easy fix. Open your diary if you want some advice or log your food properly for a while and then come back if you still need advice. It's a pretty helpful crowd here but most folks don't believe in magical weight gain. You either have a rare metabolic…

I eat between 1700-1900 most days and seem to be losing... I try to get 120 minutes of cardio in a day though so that helps. I'd rather work out and not be hungry all the time then try to go down to 1400-1500 and likely feel like a caged animal ready to kill for a burger.

Also, most folks don't eat back all their exercise calories. I tend to ride my bike for 2-3 hours a day and that comes in over 2000 calories which is about a pound of bacon a day I could snack on. The calorie estimates for the food we eat are often lower than reality (FDA allows for a 20% variance between labels and…

Eat the candy bar! I get it though, totally grazed a single jelly bean out of the grocery store bulk candy section and am still debating if I should log it. It was... extraordinarily good.

I guess it depends on what people are looking for. In general I don't hop on internet forums to get medical / training advice. I like chatting with people about the ups and downs of trying to lose weight and get / trade ideas for what's worked well and hasn't. Plus, in general, I do my best to be somewhat positive about…

I never tried to run a marathon. I used to jog all the time when I was a kid and doing twenty plus miles on a long day out wasn't all that unusual. Honestly if you just enjoy running you'll figure out if a marathon is right for you and as others have mentioned, injuries are sort of the big wild card. I think most folks are…

I just smile. Unless the person offering advice happens to be a registered dietitian or practicing medical doctor who I have intentionally sought advice from I just assume they are insecure with their own selves and projecting that onto others so there's no need to validate that by trying to make them feel bad. I used to…

For me not at all. The defaults for exercise calories burned are FAR too high for me and the food calories I've eaten are not EXACTLY measured every time. If I weighed every bit of food going in me and used something like a heart rate monitor to estimate actual calories burned it would probably be closer but even then an…

The difficulty with calculating calories burned from weight training is that there really is no standard way to lift weights. Some folks might go somewhat fast and move from muscle to muscle with no breaks while others work on a given muscle while breaking between sets. There's no real constant. Cardio on the other hand…

This will sound a little sadistic but if I am hungry at night I try to eat an actual meal. Turn on the stove. Cook the food up. Sit down and eat it. Helps me tell the difference between hungry and just craving something sweet. Every now and then I will buy a bag of rice cakes but I notice I am almost always "hungry" if…

Yeah I think no matter where you are there is someone willing to tell you that whatever you are doing is bad and then use a lot of fancy words to describe why they are so smart for pointing it out. It's fruit. In a blender. Life is good.

Yeah, I just don't have enough fats in my diet right now, drinking too much fruit juice and not eating enough ice cream.

What are you stuck with? Sounds like a great, if slightly ambitious, plan!

It is a pretty big contributor to calories though. I keep mine tracked because I eat hardly any fats and it's gonna have to be a sugar for fat trade in my diet eventually.