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True true More info: https://bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/3500-calorie-rule.html/

Have you had anybody look at your form when lifting? I'd suggest doing that, whether it's in person or by taking a video of yourself. If you need to progress more slowly, do that. Don't focus on not being able to increase at some point. That happens. Linear progression doesn't last forever. At that point, assuming you've…

It's 3555, which rounds up to 3600 but we round to 3500 because then it's easy to say cut 500 cals per day to lose a pound a week. In short, who cares. Big whoop. Conspiracy of the century omgicantbelieveweliveinatimewhenyoutubersmaketonsofmoneyforsuchstupidstuff.

Figure out an appropriate calorie goal for weight loss, eat to that goal using good nutrition info, raise or lower calories if weight loss is too fast/slow (usually I say if you haven't lost weight over the course of one menstrual cycle drop calories but with PCOS I'd change that to 6-8 weeks.) Your weight loss *might* be…

Completely normal. Don't fixate on minutiae. It's not healthy.

Weigh pasta before. Here's a pasta hint. If you usually cook pasta for more than one person, weigh out one serving, boil it by itself, drain it, and then scoop it into a measuring cup to get a visual of how big it is. In the future, use that cup to measure out your portion from everybody else's. I did this a couple of…

I like my Kraft mac 'n cheese lukewarm and partially congealed rather than piping hot. Also, and I believe I've wrote about this before, when I eat tomato soup I like a little soup and so many crackers that I can only describe it as dry soup.

Yes. Even if you've never trained, you still have muscle and it is still at risk of being lost if you do nothing to retain it.

I work in A/C (that's why I had the little cardigans.) I wear the pants/skirt each twice and the dress once. I wondered at first if people would notice the constant black but I ended up with probably 8 different black t-shirts at any one time, with a couple of different necklines/sleeve lengths, and nobody ever seemed to…

I don't shop at thrift stores because I've yet to find one whose prices are lower than what I can find on the sale racks elsewhere and that have clothing I want. I lost 50 lbs and went from size 18 to size 6. I bought clothes all along the way. My method was to buy a pair of black dress pants and a black skirt each time I…

I lost my big hunk of weight eating in the 100-150 gram of carbs range. Towards the end of that big weight loss I had some serious problems with feeling energetic in the gym but at the time I didn't know enough to consider that my carb level might have been causing it. Now when I cut I average around 200 carbs per day over…

Well, and the other part of the conversation is that even if 31 cals/lb of fat was accurate, even if 1% of bodyweight per week loss is accurate as far as being "safe", it doesn't mean that either one is necessarily optimal. What is optimal for a person is what is sustainable. For some people that could be 1% of bodyweight…

Can't really speak much on the 1% part but as for the 31 cal/lb of fat, Lyle McDonald has said that he does not feel that it is relevant to dieting in an optimal manner. I can't give you direct links but he has a Facebook page on which he has repeated this several times. I would completely ignore the 31 cal thing.

There's always a debate around how much protein is needed. What the RDA recommends for normal everyday people to meet their base needs vs what is recommended for people losing weight and wanting to retain muscle differs. I'd rather err on the side of caution, plus I've never had a problem meeting my protein goal (currently…

So you eat 1200 during the week and don't count on weekends?

Let me back up a little and rephrase my first post to say that "Two pounds is really for women who are heavily overweight/obese." It could be different for men; I don't really pay attention since that doesn't apply to me.

I see nothing wrong with it. I drink about 3 cups per day and often include other dairy in my diet as well.

I don't try to convince anybody because I don't care what other people think about calories or dieting. It doesn't affect me at all so I don't spend time or energy on it. Life is much easier when you stop caring about stuff that has no effect on you.

Thoughts about milk? It's delicious. I drink a lot. I barely drank any when I was younger but love it now, especially Fairlife . Not sure what else to say about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One half to one pound per week is a good goal for you. Two pounds is really for people who are heavily overweight/obese. You are *just* outside of the healthy weight zone so your goal needs to be more conservative.

This is a fair bit of reading but I think you would benefit from it: https://www.aworkoutroutine.com/the-ultimate-weight-training-workout-routine/ If you follow the link, you'll be taken to a page that has several subpages that lay out the basics about lifting. Start at the first link (How To Design An Effective Workout…

"Ideal" is a bit of a specious descriptor, but 60 kg is within the bounds of healthy for a woman your height, as is 67 kg. In other words, there's a healthy range of weights for your height, not one specific ideal weight. If you prefer to be lighter, it is okay. You don't have to stop losing because your family disagrees.…

I believe that you are setting yourself up for future issues in a roundabout way. My train of thought: - having "less muscle" and doing nothing to attempt to increase muscle means that you are likely not doing any resistance exercise - resistance exercise (e.g., lifting weights, bodyweight exercise, etc.) increases bone…

3 weeks is a drop in the bucket. Just keep at it and be patient.

When did you start lifting?

Usually 600-700 cals per breakfast. It's my favorite meal though. I tend to go big at breakfast, go light at lunch, medium dinner, and then have an evening snack.

I think you're making too much of the PCOS wrt lifting. Follow a solid lifting program and you'll be fine. Women and men can use the same lifting programs, albeit there may be differences with how much weight is added or speed of progress. Having PCOS doesn't change that. PCOS can come with higher than normal testosterone…

No, it's not healthy. However, the 5 week estimate is usually wrong. How long have you been dieting? If you just started, you can drop quite a bit of weight the first 2-3 weeks because there's an initial water whoosh. After that, 1% per week should be your max, and many people find it more comfortable to aim for a lower…

My advice would be to treat the two weeks that he is home as practice for life once you hit your goal. It sounds like you can kind of isolate yourself a bit while he's gone, which makes it easy to eat and work out exactly how you want to. At a certain point, you'll hit your goal and will want to be able to go out, see…

Wait, what? If he has legs where his arms should be are his arms where his legs should be? Was he doing leg curls or arm curls? TGIF!