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Three weeks isn't really long enough to call anything a plateau, especially when you're so close to goal and should be looking to lose 0.5-1 lb a week. It's really easy to mask 0.5 lbs with water weight. As far as your energy issues, it just sounds like you're doing a lot of exercise. When you're doing 5 days a week in the…
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It's a personal thing. If you feel it would derail you from your lifestyle change, don't do it. If you can make it happen and still hit your desired weight loss, go nuts.
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Nobody is trying to be cool by telling you that you're doing it wrong. You have no idea how many people come to this board saying things like "calorie counting doesn't work for me" and "my metabolism is just bad" and "I swear I count every calorie totally accurately so that's not the issue". Everybody thinks they're a…
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That just means you: A) Have insulin problems or B) Ate less overall. Switching from white to any other kind of bread does nothing if the calories don't change. Just because you've lost weight doesn't mean it was attributed to a change in bread type.
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Not eating enough can cause any number of problems health-wise. Unfortunately though, none of those problems includes not losing weight. Meal timing is also largely irrelevant, so eating every 3 hrs is unlikely to make any real impact. If you've recently started hitting the gym hard again, water weight may be masking fat…
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100% recommend you ease up on all of the aerobic/cardio stuff and lift heavy weights while eating slightly above maintenance and getting at least 100g protein a day. If you're maintaining at 1800, eat 2000-2100 and lift heavy 3x a week. And for what it's worth, your stomach looked totally normal to me.
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Do you exercise? If not, 1400-1500 is likely going to be too much for you. For a sedentary person of your height and weight, it's suggested that you eat ~1270 to lose, or slightly lower than that if you want to speed it up a little. Hit the gym 4x a week and you could do 1400. Check out: http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/
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That's because your muscles absorb and retain water to aid in recovery. Totally normal.
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Protein recommendations vary an insane amount depending on who you ask. Personally, I mostly hit my personal goal of 145g every day which I'll be increasing when I hit my goal weight and transition into a bulk. I don't find it terribly difficult to hit my protein target, and I only eat 1650 calories a day. I have a protein…
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25% body fat for a female is not high. You're at the border between average and fit. If you want to lower your body fat %, eat at a very mild surplus and start a weight lifting routine. Pack on a little lean mass over the course of a few months to get your weight up, and then from there eat at a mild deficit to drop fat…
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Based on your stats and the fact that you aren't exercising, 1200 calories is right around where you want to be. You won't be losing quickly at all at that rate, so what you're seeing is water fluctuations. Assuming you have a normal metabolism, 1200 calories will have you losing around half a pound per week.
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How would you keep calories the same while cutting out fruit? What would you be adding in to replace the calories lost from not eating the fruit? Regardless, the answer is no, if you keep calories the same you're not going to change your rate of weight loss (assuming you have no insulin resistance/diabetic condition). Any…
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If you aren't currently losing, then no, don't eat more. Online calculators are less accurate for people who have already lost a lot of weight. Always go with what actually works over what a website says SHOULD work. And while I don't know your stats, 1950 does sound high. I'm a 5'11" 176 pound man and calculators tell me…
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I'm skeptical to think anyone has lost 140 pounds with zero loose skin. Skin will bounce back to a small extent, but it will not do so in the presence of remaining fat. For someone who was once very large like yourself, you shouldn't expect to see any meaningful tightening of skin until at very low body fat (8-9%). Once…
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If your only goal is to look decently muscular and not overly fat in a shirt, you should be tracking body fat % much more closely than just weight. Shoot for 14-15% body fat - nobody can say what weight that'll be for you as it depends on lean body mass.
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Will it hinder your weight loss compared to just not eating those extra calories? Yeah, of course. If you're asking if, at a given weekly deficit, it matters how you distribute those calories throughout the week, the answer is no.
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If everything you said is true and you are logging calories with even 80% accuracy, weight would be falling off you. Possibilities are A) You're eating way more than you think, or B) You have a medical condition impacting weight loss. Option A is far more likely.
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TDEE calculator has you at about 1900 calories for maintenance - this factors in a rough estimate of your daily activity. To lose 2 more pounds, you should eat at around 1600-1650 a day for one month and not eat back your exercise calories as they're already being accounted for in the TDEE calculation. 1600-1650 is just an…
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Do you believe there's any value to intermittent fasting in terms of helping to oxidize fat in more 'stubborn' areas or areas of subcutaneous fat in general?
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5:2 is based on caloric restriction just like any other successful diet. The only difference is instead of a mild to moderate restriction each day, it calls for eating at maintenance most of the week and cramming all of your caloric deficit into 2 days. You will not lose weight any faster than any other eating plan with an…
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Did you mean per 10 lbs of total body weight? 100 calories per 10 lbs of fat would be starvation for the vast majority of people. Either way, it's a rule of thumb at best. Things like body fat % and exercise will change your caloric needs.
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Here's my anecdote - I took a 2 week diet break after 6-7 months of calorie restriction. I upped my calories from 1600 to 2100 (still below what my calculated maintenance is) because I was starting to feel weak at the gym and didn't have any energy. I fully expected to gain several pounds from increased water weight and…
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"Eating healthy" doesn't really mean anything. A person could become obese eating only fruits and veggies if they wanted - it's about calories. If you want to lose weight, you need to eat less food - bottom line. No exercise program is going to make you lose weight without making the appropriate changes to your diet.
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Your body doesn't work differently than anyone else's. The majority of the 4-5 lbs you shed were water weight, and the majority of the 4 pounds you put back on were also water weight. Fat doesn't fluctuate that much in the span of a few days. Wait one full month before making any determinations about the efficacy of your…
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That's alright, it's just something you need to be cognizant of. It'll cause water weight fluctuations, so you need to not freak out if you're a pound or two heavier one day. Look at overall trends, and give it a full month of stalled loss before you move to change your calorie intake. It's important to have a solid…
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The problem here is that you're mistaken. I see no possible way that adding different exercise is halting your weight loss unless it's causing you to sneak in extra calories to recover. What is most likely happening is you're retaining water as your body adjusts, you see the scale not move for 1-2 weeks due to water…
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No suggestions in terms of meal replacements other than that eating whole foods will leave you more satisfied than any kind of shake/drink meant to replace meals. If you're asking about carbs, I think you should eat a lot less of them and replace them with mostly protein and some more fat as well. It won't make you lose…
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Actually, Wellbutrin is one of the only antidepressants that is known to NOT cause weight gain, and can actually aid in weight loss via appetite suppression. That said, I don't know whether a doctor would prescribe it to you in the absence of depression, and even if they would, I wouldn't recommend it. I've taken it…
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Depending on how much you drink, you can easily erase your entire deficit through beverage calories. 3 tbps of coffee creamer is not a lot at all - a lot of people use more for a single cup - and it has over 100 calories. 2-3 cups of coffee a day and there goes most of your deficit. An 8oz glass of OJ is over 100 calories.…
