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Stay away from foods that you have self-control issues with.

It's far easier to resist temptation by avoiding temptation.

PF is great. $10 a month and has lots of machines and duplicates of the same machines. Also has free weights and tons of aerobic machines. Dedicated area to circuit training. Way better than my old gym where half the floor space was taken up with Crossfit stuff and cost more too boot.

Eat less. Most of my 30+ pounds of weight loss was done with no exercise component. I find it much easier to not eat calories than to try and burn them off. Why suffer hunger and exertion?

Exercise is not required for weight loss at all. I lost 30 pounds with no intentional exercise. Exercise is good for fitness, and will help preserve muscle mass during fat loss, but is not required for fat loss. All that is required is to eat a caloric deficit.

Basically, that's how I know I'm losing weight. If I'm hungry, I'm losing weight. If I'm not hungry, I'm not losing weight. Scale don't lie.

It's a lot easier to get complacent when you aren't logging.

OK, but are you talking about people who have never had a weight problem or people who have overcome one? When analyzing people who have lost weight and kept it off long term, one of the characteristics of these people is that they have made weight maintenance essentially their "life's work". They focus on it all the time.…

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Do you know an almost sure-fire way to fall off the wagon and gain your weight back? Quit tracking food intake. That'll do it.

As my high school economics teacher used to say, "If you let a man sit under a tree and eat bananas all day, that's what he'll do." Most people eat what they want when they want to with no regard for the number of calories they are consuming. In today's food environment, this virtually guarantees you will be eating a…

I find it is the daily caloric restriction, not the timing of the meals, that results in hunger. Which means you're screwed no matter when you choose to eat. That's just the nature of caloric restriction. I only get 1500 calories a day. I eat half a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast, the other half for lunch, an apple…

Be aware that most weight loss happens in the kitchen. So disability is not a hindrance to losing weight. You "just" have to eat less. Yes, I know this is hard. I know being hungry is hard. There are a couple of appetite suppressants available by prescription you might consider with your doctor. The good news is at your…

Unless you have some legitimate medical issue, there is no reason to focus on macros for weight loss. All you need to worry about are calories in and calories out. Eating less carbs and more fats and proteins can help with hunger issues but at the end of the day it comes down to a caloric deficit for weight loss.

The prevailing wisdom around here seems to be that weightlifting while on a calorie deficit will not build muscle but will help you retain muscle while losing fat. But the weight loss comes from a caloric deficit.

There is nothing inherently bad about flour or sugar unless you have a medical issue like diabetes. The reason why people *think* they are bad is because foods with lots of flour and sugar tend to be calorie-dense, which makes it easy to eat a calorie deficit while not realizing it. You can eat cake every day and still…

Exactly. You could go read the warnings for ibuprofen and come away with the same sky-is-falling advice. Talk to a doctor, as you are doing to get your prescription. Be aware of the side effects and monitor for them.

Stress can derail diets. I think we only have so much ego and it can be depleted. If you have too many things to juggle you might not have the ego to support it all. First of all, until you quit for good, you haven't quit, even if you took a 5 month break. You are still down 46 pounds from where you started. That is…

I have not taken Contrave. I have, however, taken diet pills in the past. I took Redux back in the 1990's before it was pulled from the market, having lost about 60 pounds in 6 months. I later gained it back and then some. In February of this year I got a prescription for phentermine/topiramate. I found it mildly effective…

Worry more about the calories than the macros if you are trying to lose weight.

Well, I've only been a couple of times, so maybe I just got the wrong ones. But they aren't the nice air-filled warm ones like Krispy Kreme. I don't even think they make them in the store at DD? You don't see any machinery like you do at KK.

It is the logging that keeps you focused and accountable. Every day. Every food. It's when you stop logging that you start saying, "screw it" and the next thing you know you are eating a calorie surplus and don't even know it. Also realize that there is no such thing as failure unless you quit for good. Every day you can…

Nuts are quite good for you. The only problem with them is they tend to be very calorie dense. Last time I bought a package of nuts out of the vending machine it was only like a handful or so and it was 350 calories. That is like a complete meal's worth of calories for me. So for me, nuts are not worth it. I could have a…

Yes, you will probably lose more weight if you eat less "processed" food. Not because of anything magical about non-processed food. But simply because most "processed" food is an engineered product that has been designed to be very tasty, very convenient, cheap, and is usually calorie-dense. So cutting out "processed"…

4 days is not enough to really make any determination. That said, typically when I start a diet I lose the first 10 pounds pretty quickly. Make sure you are accurately logging your food. 90% of the time when people say they are not losing weight it is because they are eating more than they thought they were.

I lost 40 pounds without exercise. All done through dieting. If you only have enough willpower to conquer one discomfort, the discomfort of dieting or the discomfort of exercise, choose diet.

I love Krispy Kreme donuts! Light and warm and yummy! I hate Dunkin Donuts (cake donuts). But I don't eat them anymore. 200 calories is 1/8th of my daily calorie allotment and one donut is just a tease. When I go to Krispy Kreme it's three donuts minimum and I usually get the raspberry-filled ones. Easily 600-1000…

I suspect many people say that it helps to eat breakfast to loose weight because by not skipping meals you hopefully stave off becoming uncontrollably hungry. But at the end of the day all that counts is the calorie deficit, whenever you ate your food. Some days I don't eat breakfast because I'm not hungry. No biggie.

As has been said, most weight loss comes from diet, not exercise. Exercise helps make you healthy, but unless you are devoting a lot of time to it and/or very high intensity you just won't burn as many calories through exercise as you will by eating less food. Watch this guy eat 800 calories in pizza and soda in one minute…

Yup. BMI works for most people. Not gonna work for athletes.