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Sounds good, congratulations! Do you do more/less or the same amount of exercise as when you were losing?

It's wild that some people think that Canadian bacon is better than bacon :-P

I don't know why my whole response didn't show up, but it was basically - I agree that a calorie is, of course, a calorie. I think the area of dispute was whether that's the whole story, or if it's a bit more complex once they hit our bodies. I'm off to go blow past my calorie goal, happy Memorial Day! P.s. Not saying it's…

Ok.

We don't currently have a definite way of determining the net caloric value, we simply count them using the Atwater system (1 unit of energy=1 calorie). Basically, "a calorie is a calorie" is how they're determined now. And while a calorie is of course a calorie, how much is absorbed is what really counts. Look, I'm…

You're right. The amount of calories absorbed by the body can differ depending on the food. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/on-food-labels-calorie-miscounts/?ref=health&_r=1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22760558

You're right, it's the hottest trend right now, it's food marketers biggest focus. I'm a little leery of the reccommendations on these boards for everyone to change their protein setting (while decrying falling for other fads), when it is in fact the biggest fad right now.…

Personally, whenever I've been active enough, I've maintained whatever weight I'm at without focusing on food. When I'm not, weight creeps up (slowly but surely). But to try to lose - I have to focus on food intake primarily. It's uncomfortable to eat below maintainance no matter what, exercise just makes me that much…

That's interesting, too, thanks. It seems like, while we can lose weight without it, exercise is key for sustainability and maintenance (and being able to eat!). Besides regular exercise, I've been trying to fidget more (by "fidget" I mean salsa dance while waiting for the microwave, for ex. ☺️).

Interesting study. WT group also lost no lbm, on 800 cals per day! (Brutal ugg).

Yup http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/on-food-labels-calorie-miscounts/?ref=health&_r=1 I'm not saying people need to eat "clean" to lose weight (I certainly don't). But it's a gross oversimplification to say all calories are equal (for weight loss).

I got the zip, I was driving myself crazy trying to decide which one so just went with the cheapest to try it. I love it, it seems very accurate. Damn thing's got me pacing the yard when I should be relaxing, though (my sister's on there, too, so I can see when she's catching up with me).

Yes they did. I bought 3 different flavors, they were expensive, didn't taste very good, and they made me nauseous. I think it was the sweetener.

Enjoy that produce while it's coming!! I'm out in California (which supplies a sizable majority of fruits, veggies and nuts for the country), the farmers use 80% of the water. One more year of this drought and and something will have to give (we're bone dry, it's bad).

How do you do 2 very low calorie days per week without burning too much muscle? If you can only burn so much body fat per day?

Modern humans showed up about 200,000 years ago (mid-Paleolithic). That's just what I heard, I wasn't there...

Please be careful giving chicken skin to the dogs, too much fat is very bad for them. I knew someone that gave their dog too much meat from the table and she got pancreatitis and died. http://dogcare.dailypuppy.com/can-dog-eat-skin-chicken-2631.html

I would buy something like this: http://www.bitbelt.com/Bitbelt-JR-for-Fitbit-Flex-flex.htm

That's probably close if you've selected sedentary in mfp's activity setting (depending on how quickly you were walking, hills, etc...). If you selected lightly active close to 10,000 steps are factored into the calories you were given already.

The current system simply counts a unit of energy as a calorie. So, since they're not adjusting for how certain foods are digested affecting how many calories are utilized, a calorie is a calorie is the "accounting error". I guess until they change the system we can just say some calories are more equal than others.;)

Yes I've been running around the yard and driveway every so often. Everyone's laughing at me but the dog, he gets it (and is loving all the random action)! I'm psyched, I just put on my headphones and danced around the house, making sure to move my feet a lot, and got 800 steps for one song.

It would be nice if they would correct the calorie info if they know these things. Maybe too complicated or they're not too sure (or no one wants to bother, lol).

I didn't see anybody in the discussion mention a diet of only cake. I agree with "sure, have a little cake". You can eat such things and still lose weight, all you need is a deficit (and that makes dieting more sustainable and enjoyable, etc..). But I imagine that there are people that eat enough processed carbs, that it…

It's not so much an issue for people who tend to eat the same things and know what to expect weight loss-wise based on real life results. An issue for these boards would be if people are being told "a calorie is a calorie" or "100 calories of cake = 100 calories of almonds (for weight loss purposes)" if that is wrong.

It estimates what your whole day energy expenditure will be based on what you've done so far. When your activity slows down it starts taking calories back. I think you get a more stable count if you set your activity as sedentary in mfp, then all activity is gravy after a certain number of steps. I just got one, so I'm…

Try eating 2500 until you're back up to a healthy weight. You can probably maintain at around 2000. You sound pretty active. How tall are you? If you're weight lifting you'll be able to put on more muscle with the extra calories. You should have an idea of how much you can eat to maintain by looking at how much you were…

Those examples sound like idealized (and unlikely) versions of either a cut or a bulk. In 1) you would gain weight, and in 2)you would lose weight. Whereas, recomp is staying roughly the same weight, but losing fat and gaining muscle. So i was wondering about losing fat in unwanted places because - I've been skinny enough…

A lot of interesting information in that thread, thank you! (The link didn't work, I did a search for it).

Ok. It was a question because I was wondering, I haven't studied it much. I was assuming the time limit on fat store conversion was based on some evolutionary reason (protecting the body).

Wow, usually the vaccine gives you the flu a lot sooner! ;)