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Long-term persistence of adaptive thermogenesis in subjects who have maintained a reduced body weight.: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/88/4/906.full.pdf There are also numerous papers that have documented an attenuation in weight regain among subjects who engage in vigorous exercise on a regular basis. Also, please note…

There is a confluence of factors that make maintaining weight loss very difficult for many people. First of all, when you lose weight, your metabolism slows a little; this is called adaptive thermogenesis - it is permanent, it is inevitable, and it is generally proportionate to the total amount of weight lost. This means…

This is basic physics.

This is true on a very superficial level, but it's misleading. Yes, the total amount of *work* required to walk a mile is identical to running that same mile (although *power* output is greater). BUT because you are stretching the length of the workout over a longer period of time by walking, you are actually burning fewer…

I've done a 30 day juice fast. There are pros and cons. Pros: 1. totally resets your taste for food and teaches you to recognize genuine hunger vs. boredom hunger, thirst, etc. 2. provides a lot of good micronutrients 3. the weight did not come back (obviously because I didn't eat enough to gain weight after coming off the…

1. I love to eat. A lot. 2. I bought a full-length mirror from Ikea.

You can do anything you set your mind to! For me, it wasn't so much about the number on the scale as it was my body fat percentage and how I looked. I wanted to be lean and toned, not skinny.

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If you're logging your exercise calories and you're not overly active outside the gym, I would definitely leave the activity level at sedentary.

If you have inexplicable weight gain, it would be wise to: 1. limit sodium intake 2. drink more water 3. do you already weigh all your food on a kitchen scale? If not, you should; it's very easy to underestimate how much you're eating without it. 4. do you have a heart rate monitor with a chest strap? You need to get a…

It really depends on your body composition. I am 5'4" and I was consistently in a size 2 at around 120 lbs and 21% body fat. However, that weight at a higher body fat percentage would equate to a larger size, since fat is less dense than muscle. It also depends partially on the size of your frame. I have a small frame…

You need to seriously up your fruit and vegetable intake.

Solution? Don't fight it - eat chocolate every day. But I only eat a little bit. I buy 65-70% dark chocolate chips. For my desert every day, I weigh out 10g of chocolate chips and eat them very slowly, savoring each one. I don't feel deprived and I'm still on track with my weight loss.

When going out to restaurants, I usually stick to restaurants who make their nutrition information available. I use that information beforehand to plan my restaurant meal, and save up some calories for it. For example, I just ate out last night. The meal I planned had about 1000 calories, so I pretty much spent my…

Seriously, your body does not go into "starvation mode" after a few hours of not eating. Actually, there is a slight increase in metabolism for the first day or so of a fast.

I don't believe that what time of day you eat has any scientific bearing on weight loss. Biochemically, your body just does not care - calories are calories. That being said, there are some practical reasons why it still might be a good idea to stop eating earlier in the day. 1. When you stop eating earlier in the day, you…

If you're not losing weight, it means you're not creating an energy deficit. As you lose weight, your body requires fewer calories to sustain itself (it requires less energy for you to move around because you are composed of less mass). So, as you lose weight, you need to either up your activity, or lower your caloric…

I have a New Balance chest strap one. I see a lot of people on MFP raving about the Polar HRMs as well. Personally, I almost never eat my exercise calories, although you'll find people pretty staunchly divided on MFP about whether or not you should. Also, are you logging things like house cleaning, and other general daily…

That's a great workout schedule, but I still wouldn't expect 1100 calories burned for that. If your HRM doesn't ask for your gender, it might be time for a new one. The amount of calories burned is going to be partially dependent on your body fat percentage. The more lean muscle you have, the more calories you will burn…

Two things stand out to me immediately. As I think others have commented on, you appear to be eating quite a bit of sodium, which can contribute heavily to water retention. The even bigger culprit, however, may be an overestimation of calories burned during exercise. I have no idea how much you are exercising, but when I…

If you go to Nordstrom, they have a few different brands of underwire sports bras in a huge size range that you can try and they will fit you into one. The underwire is actually so much more comfortable than you can imagine. The underwired ones also tend to give a better shape (i.e. no uniboob).

Freya Active underwire sports bra. Best there is and available in a full range of sizes. Also, if you're having to wear two sports bras just to get enough support, you might want to go down a band size, i.e. trying a 34DDDD/34F (bearing in mind that when you go down a band, you must also go up a cup). If your sports bra is…

Pumpkin is high in beta carotene, which is pro-vitamin A; absorption and conversion of beta carotene to vitamin A is dependent on your body's current levels of vitamin A and beta carotene. The negative side effects that you are referencing are from eating too many vitamin A supplements. I don't believe you can get too much…

I think they're both problematic; that being said, I do think that there are greater health implications with obesity than there are with "size 0". For people with the appropriate frame size, size 0 can be obtained healthily, whereas obesity is necessarily unhealthy. Science has shown repeatedly that regular, long-term low…

Personally, I would stay away from phentermine, simply because it, like all prescription medications, has some untoward side effects. That being said, in order to jump start my own weight loss, I invested in a digital kitchen scale and a chest-strap heart rate monitor. I weigh every single morsel of energy that passes my…

As long as you're still eating enough fiber to push the protein plug through, you'll be fine.

I have lost weight through intermittent fasting and regular exercise. I do the following: 1. a combination of ESE and leangains, meaning I currently do a full-day fast twice per week, and the other 5 days each week, I do a condensed eating window of 8 hours and keep track of my calories on these days so I don't go over my…

I'm pretty sure it's probably not diabetes mellitus, which is what people seem to keep suggesting here (also known as type I or type II diabetes). If you are not experiencing blood sugar problems, then diabetes insipidus fits your symptoms as you've described them. Diabetes insipidus is a completely different disease than…

First thing that comes to my mind is Diabetes Insipidus. It is an inability of your kidneys to conserve water; you wouldn't necessarily see any wild fluctuations in blood sugar. See a doctor ASAP.

There are benefits to both. I personally am a vegetarian (for 15 years), and I'm quite happy with it. Vegetarians can have a harder time getting adequate nutrition, which is why you'll see so many unhealthy vegetarians. I would advise avoiding all refined soy products; I don't consume any processed food at all - only whole…