harmar21 Member

I always eat after my run. I like running fasted. I tried running a couple times after eating a meal and I feel horrible

No it shouldnt because for people like me who had over 150+lbs to lose 1lb a week would take extremely long time. Heck 2lb a week was even too slow for me so I manually edited the calories to give me 2.5lbs/week.

sure it does now, so set short term goals. Hell I started at 350lbs and losing 175lbs seemed impossible. So I just set milestones. Now I am exactly 1 year in and down 105lbs. 70lbs still seems impossible, so my next milestone is <220lb by christmas. And even though I am still 70lbs short of my goal, I feel & look way…

hmm cool. But I drink about 1 gallon of water a day.

I've had it a couple times. The biggest one was a a couple months ago despite eating at a 1000 cal deficit I lost like 1 lb in a month. Then one day my skin felt incredibly soft, and the day after I was peeing like every hour. Over the course of 3 days I lost 7 lbs.

I still have a long way to go, I know I'm going to have lose skin. If I stand up straight skin looks ok, but if I bend over it looks disgusting. Skin and fat hanging. It sucks knowing I'm doing all this hard work, and I'm still going to look disgusting naked. However, with a shirt on you won't be able to tell loose skin…

I'm not sure the fruit part, but most veggies are very low in calories so hard to overeat on. Also if you obese the calories from fruit/veggies is going to have such a small impact. But has way bigger impact of close to your goal. Also they probably want people to eat their fruits and veggies so if they assigned a point…

A tip for you that I see a lot of people doing on my friends list while losing weight is log all exercise as 1 calorie burned, regardless if you ran for 30 min or 2 hours (i do this for 1 off activities such as sports, but not my running). Don't use the number mfp gives you. This makes it so it is easier to not be tempted…

ah ok. Yeah defeinitely not for everyone. I originally started with Atkins and didnt like it. I switched to keto and enjoyed it more. But after about 6 months of doing it I started finding it too much of a pain in the *kitten* so I stopped. But doing keto provided the benefit to me of having no more bottomless stomach…

I used to be like that. Figuratively, a bottomless stomach. The only ways I felt were hungry or stuffed. Never satisfied. Doing 6 months of keto completely fixed it for me. I stopped keto a few months ago and still no longer have that problem. Most of the time im either satisfied or just slightly hungry. I do sometimes get…

Yes, first go to goals, and do a guided to get the calories. Then go back to goals and do custom. There you can modify whatever you want for both macros (by percentage/slider) and nutrients (hard value)

I lost 90lbs in the past 10 months with another 80 or so to go. My tips are set MFP to lose 2lbs/week. Set to sedentary. Manually log exercise. When you log the exercise you think "oh I can eat so much more" please dont be tempted by that. If you feel you need to eat, then try to stick to <1/3 of the exercise calories, and…

start off by keeping it simple. Let MFP guide you. Set a realistic weight you want to lose per week, and it will tell you how many calories you can eat to reach that weightloss. So stick to under those calories, you dont have to hit the exact macros they tell you, but you may want to get somewhat close. Once you get more…

I love eating carrot sticks with a slice of cheddar cheese in fact I am eating that now as I type this in my bed lol

Sure it helps you lose weight -- temporarily. Essentially it just dehydrates you so you lose water weight. But you will gain it back by the next day as you rehydrate yourself.

my cheat meals are my birthday, christmas, thanksgiving, and easter. Now I still eat pizza and whatnot on weekends, but it fits my calories.

Im struggling to figure out a goal weight as well . I hear everything from 155lbs to 195lbs... which is a pretty big range hah. But truth is I am just not going to know until I am there or almost there... And sitting at 260lbs I still have a big gut, and big thighs, Originally I had a goal of 205lbs.. but then realized…

I have a protein goal of ~155g. I then fill in the rest of my calories with whatever I feel like of carbs or fat, but tend to favour fat more than carbs (most likely because I used to do keto), so I generally end up eating lowish carb. Im looking over my averages, and it seems to average about 20%carbs, 45%fat, 35%protein

Three weeks walking into a walmart, figuring what the hell lets try on a 2XL shirt... and it fit! Holy *kitten* I no longer have to go to a speciality store to buy clothes. I think that has been the most exciting thing that has happened to me since I started. I tried on an XL shirt knowing full well that it wouldnt fit..…

Yup I think realizing that being hungry isnt a bad thing. I used to never let myself feel hunger. Which is how I ballooned up to 350lbs. Now if I actually feel full, I feel like crap. I now hate the feeling of being full.

And I am one of those people. IMO it is impossible to log 100% accurately. You have a steak, how marbled is it, how much water content does it contain? Do you leave no fat trim around the edge, or do you leave a 1/4 inch. It could be extremely lean, or extremely marbled, and for most people they would log it the same, when…

I doubt want to be a slave to calorie counting either. Right now since I am eating at a 800-1000 calorie deficit, I dont mind if I skip a day of counting, or dont bother counting those carrot sticks I ate. Because if I eat an extra 200 or 300 calories than I normally do Ill still lose weight, just a bit less. I completely…

Well make sure you measuring the same too. I also realized when I was measuring sometimes it wouldnt be in exact same spot (especially thighs), or maybe I had the tape looser or tighter then the previous time. These variances can effect the measurement by up to two inches on me. Just try not to be bothered by it, as long…

I had the same problem where I lost like 20lbs but inches were still the same. It could be fat loss in areas you arent measuring, or it could be visceral fat (fat surrounding your organs) which may not show up in measurements. What was your starting weight? Because the first 10-15 lbs may have also been water weight which…

How about just looking yourself in the mirror. And grabbing your skin to see if there is a lot of excess flab. If excess flab keep cutting. Do you do weightlifting? If yes then you may be fine. if no, then you probably still have more to go.

ok so in may when you gained that 8lbs over the course of 2 weeks.. what did you do differently? I find it hard to believe you ate an extra 28,000 calories. I find pretty much every one of my plateus is actually water weight fluctuations. Back in march I went a full month with only losing a lb.. Then I lost 7lbs within 3…

I have been losing weight for 9 months. 3 times I have hit plateaus that last 3+weeks. I know it isnt a miscalculation as I been eating at ~1000 calorie deficit and eat pretty much the same 5 recipes.. When my plateau ends I will all of a sudden lose 5+lbs in a couple days. Look up "whoosh" effect. Essentially it all has…

learn to embrace hunger. Honestly, being hungry isnt bad. It is OK to have feeling of hunger.. you dont need to feel full all the time, however obviously dont let yourself get to starving. Drink lots of water. Drink like a gallon a day.. helps with hunger a lot. The thing that helped me the most was whenever I was hungry…

just remmeber, the fat is a ceiling. Dont overeat because you think you have to make that macro. Protein is only one you need to hit, carb and fat you can stay under by however much you want if you arent feeling hungry.