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Metabolism Suffering With Low Cal Diet - Need Info..
After couple of weeks of low calorie diet, I heard that your body goes into some kind of starvation mode and your metabolism drops very quickly.. I am calculated to burn around 2200-2300 cal a day being extremely sedentary. I am worried that with this suffering of metabolism, I might end up only burning like 1800 cal a day…
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Chewing Gum At Night - Mitigate Craving?
Had an interesting conversation with my friend about chewing gum. Besides some limited studies that showed sugar+chewing action that can temporarily relieve sleepiness.. I was wondering if anyone chews gum at night on purpose to mitigate craving. Couldn't simple action of chewing and swallowing make your brain think you…
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I Give Up on Working Out
6ft, Male, 203lbs I just have no energy. And I feel like there is no point of me trying to eat 1800 cal or so just to have sufficient energy to burn another 500 off with work outs. I just found myself being easier eating much less and not working out instead. Basically, I am having hard time finding energy to workout and I…
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Taco Bell Doritos Locos 12 Pack = 0.5 LBs?!
I am trying to figure out if my calculation and logic is right... 12 pack Doritos Locos is around 2,000 calories, give or take. 7700 cal/kg of fat, that's around half a pound of "weight" if you just take into consideration CICO. I was just about to get me a dozen pack until I ran the numbers and stopped in awe. A 12 pack…
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Question About Calorie Absorption
Question about how calorie is absorbed in reality. If I consume 2,000 cal as shown on the label, is it fair to assume that entire 2,000 cal will be absorbed in my guts or is there a percentage that actually does not get fully absorbed? In a way.. if you look at rabbits, their guts are terrible with absorbing macro…
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What's Up With "Free Eating Day"?
I heard people talking about giving 1~2 days of the week to just let go and eat whatever you want. Of course, tough cal counting during other days. What is the purpose to this? And what function does it serve? Wouldn't it just undo everything from the week? I gave it a week a try, but ended up consuming 3500 in one day.…
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CICO - To Work Out or Not To Work Out, That Is the Question!
MTP apps wants me to "take in" 1400 cal a day for my target weight loss. So it I eat 2000 cal, I can just burn 600 cal by working out. (If my understanding of how this works is right..) My question is this. I understand that metabolism will suffer when I cut my diet. And that working out cardio+muscle can greatly help.…
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How to Lose 2kg/Week (4.4lbs/Week) - Advice?!
Currently: Male (Asian) - Age 23 6 ft Tall Weight: 100kg = 220lbs Muscle mass: Average person Goal: Losing 2kg/week (4.4lbs/week) Before you say it is impossible, etc, I wanted to get real idea/perspective on what I can try and should be doing. I lost weight before in extremely fast pace before, something I know my body…
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Weight Loss PLANNING App?
I am fairly new to MFP, but not new to weight loss.. I am looking for some kind of app/website/program that can help me set very specific weight loss goal based on diet & work out. As an example: I can set something like 1kg/week as target, but shows how I need to play around with diet and work out to meet that goal. MFP…
