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My biggest issue is I will eat any snack food that is in my house. My solution was to stop having snack food in the house. This is probably pretty difficult to do while in college, as you likely are in a dorm or have roommates. In that case don't buy yourself any snacks, and make sure you don't eat other people's snacks.…

Figure out your deficit with no exercise calculated in. This is the amount you want to burn. Then, perform exercise and add it in. As you add it in make sure you eat at least half of what's reported as "burned". Numbers regarding the amount of calories burned during exercise are HIGHLY variable, so I can't recommend ever…

I could eat a Dairy Queen blizzard (or three) every day for a year straight. Yay fast food! Taco John's on taco tuesday is pretty great as well, around $2 for three crispy tacos! As many have noted above, I eat what fits into my diet. Fast food vs. "non-fast food" vs. homecooked meal = the same food, it all boils down to…

A few of the ladies in my area have been doing the "designer belt" thing with slightly larger outer wear... in this way you could buy the more loose-fitting clothing, then accessorize once you drop the weight without having to purchase a new wardrobe.…

I try to limit myself, or I budget my calorie intake accordingly. I have a "friend date" on Thursday (it's a friends with benefits thing she and I do) and we'll be hitting up a martini bar where the dessert martinis are on sale. My normal goal is around 1400-1500 calories per day, most coming from protein. What I'll do…

If you think about a cheat day as a single day, and not part of a larger plan, then you might want to reconsider how you're representing your weight loss strategy to yourself. Your long-term goal should be to develop healthy eating habits to the point where you no longer need to "worry" or "think" about what's right and…

As others stated there's no such thing as "toning". If you lose weight and that weight is fat then your muscle will more easily show on your frame/body. If you gain muscle and your fat isn't in the way then the muscle will be more prominently displayed. If you ever see a guy/girl in the gym using a low weight and going for…

My weight loss has been pretty expensive. I went from a 48 waist to a 42 waist to a 40 waist to a 38 waist on my current jeans. Each time I had to buy 2-3 pair of jeans. Then I went from 3X shirts being comfortable down to 2X and now I'm at XL's, depending on the shirt's individual fit (not all XL's are alike!) I've…

I go with a protein shake in the morning. No stomach-expanding heavy carb-loaded breakfast for me! :) (NOTE: Stomach may not actually expand when eating carbs. See doctor for details or if you experience sudden blindness.)

Are you following any particular type of diet? If not then most of them are going to get the job done--as you noted try to find one with a low sugar count, otherwise for similar calorie counts they're all pretty identical. The difference is if you're on a low carb diet then you'll want to focus specifically on protein…

Consider this: - No surgery is going to remove your "love of sweets". You have to fix that yourself. - No surgery is going to fix you getting frustrated or impatient with slow progress. You have to fix that yourself. My parents both had a lap band installed, know why they lost so much weight? After the surgery they ate…

While not the case for everyone, many people in my gym (myself included) will go with a protein shake. Tends to get the job done until I can eat my next meal.

The big thing with coconut oil is that it's 100% fat, no carbs/proteins. For those who are on low-carb diets it can be a useful alternative, but I suggest using it in moderation. Fun note: Those Kureig K-Cups for Hot Chocolate? The "chocolate" you taste in them is usually coconut oil.

I don't know what I would've done if I had tried to diet while still living with my parents. They are both >200 pounds (my Dad was well over 300 at one point) and they both ended up having lap band surgery (my Dad still has his, my Mom eventually had it removed.) For me I do what most people would do: I remove it from the…

I quit drinking soda pop 15 years ago this week. It is a rough struggle! At the time I was observing Lent, which assisted me... sadly my religion may have fallen by the wayside but I still stand firm on not drinking pop! When I quit I originally started with 2-3 cans a day at work of the regular cola. After a few months I…

My BMR is calculated as ~2320/day. My Harris-Benedict calculation is ~2784/day. I currently try to consume around 1500 calories per day. I tried doing 1400 for about a month and saw moderate success, but found if I bump it up to 1500 I have less anxiety about what I'm eating and can enjoy a good meal when it comes along,…

My response to this is why have snacks around? Even if you have kids/relatives/whoever in the house why keep them where anyone can get at them? My solution to wanting a snack every night was to remove all the snacks from my house. Turns out if there's none around I can't eat them, and when I can't eat them my brain decides…

My diary should be open. I'm pretty hardcore when it comes to being low carb (unless there's little else at a reasonable price point while I'm out dining with friends.) I drink a protein shake for breakfast and have a vitamin, then for lunch I drink a "heavier" (more protein) protein shake. Dinner is almost always…

Since Lent doesn't have any meaning to an Athiest tomorrow is the day I make fun of people who have a black dot on their head. Just kidding, I don't make fun of them... but tomorrow will make 2 days in a row I go to work out, so I'm giving up on giving up I suppose?

I have zero portion control, so if I make more than one meal I'll inevitably eat both "meals" on the same evening. Rather than buying "in bulk" I purchase products that are pre-packaged to roughly the right size, then make one of those each evening. My daily calorie intake is proportioned at around 110 for breakfast, ~400…

My most recent annoyances: 1) Women (men don't do this at my gym) who socialize while on a piece of equipment. (i.e. on an ab crunch machine sitting on it, doing 1 crunch a minute while gossiping with the girl who's on the leg flex machine next to her, and sitting there for 15+ minutes.) 2) Women (never men, ever) who are…

I'm sure others will identify it as well, but you probably lost a lot of the extra food that your body had in the pipeline during the first week, then your body lost some of the extra body weight that was retaining water during the first and second weeks. Now that you've lost the "easy" stuff you'll actually start losing…

I weigh myself the same time every evening (when I am at home, sometimes I stay at the girlfriend's place and she doesn't have a scale.) I am logging that every day (I used to keep a sheet of paper with all my statistics on it, but now I log them in MFP.) I don't really care about short-term ups and downs, as long as the…

I'm cold all the time as well! I used to not care if my house was around 60-62 degrees, now it's gotta' be 66 or better, and I will have a blanket on me while sitting on the couch if it's under 70. There's days I want to gain weight JUST so I can stay warm without a blanket, then sanity kicks in and I go back to losing…

Each vodka and diet coke will be somewhere around 70-120 calories, depending on if it's a 1oz shot or a jigger being used. If it's a free pour then good luck losing much weight with that much alcohol flowing! Drinking a roughly 1000 calories of alcohol twice a week would've destroyed almost every diet I've ever been on, as…

Rather than losing the weight perhaps you could increase your muscle? 6 weeks is enough time to get a small amount of muscle definition while still losing 1-2 pounds per week.

Some people will say 400->200 is a great goal... I don't think it is. I think the numbers are too distant from one another, and will result in you getting discouraged because you won't feel like you're making significant progress towards your stated goal. Over on the FitDay forums folks try to set short-term and long-term…

What time are you going to bed? If you are hungry by 9-10PM perhaps you should go to bed rather than eat? This has worked for me in the past, and even worked fine for me last night. What also has helped me is I only drink water, so in the evening I'll down 16-24oz of water while watching TV. If all you are doing is…

I have had terrible "luck" with smoothies. My end result is the same as if I ate a bowl of ice cream, or drank a milk shake made at any restaurant--I get short-term appetite supression, but 2-3 hours later it's as if I never drink/ate it, and now I'm down 500+ calories. As a very recent example, I allow myself one…

I have had no luck finding a protein bar that isn't loaded with carbs. Good luck, hopefully you find one, and if you do definitely reply back!