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What do you think my TDEE is?
Just wanted some opinions. I've been considering myself sedentary calorie wise but this is my daily routine: I work as a Cna doing my usual fun 12 hour nights shifts. There's a lot of walking around, cleaning, lifting people (and do I include being smacked around by old people? Does that burn calories?) I try to get my…
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Vermont over feeding study: 10,000 calories a day?
Just wondering what you all thought about this on a scientific level. Apparently their goal was to make their volunteers can a certain amount of weight but for some people, even eating 10,000 calories a day, it was hard to make em plump up. http://youtu.be/P5Rv8JnFgw4
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NSV: I didn't binge like a crazy person!
I'm so used to having bad eating habits it's like my normal thing to screw up over small things, feel guilty and then try to get back on the wagon. Rinse and repeat. But this weekend I went over my calories by only 300 and I didn't use that as an excuse to go on a 3 day binge! Normally I would say "I messed up. I may as…
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How much do I weigh? My scale one tell me
My scale has a personality of its own and it's being a indecisive little brat. What the hell number do I go with? I weighed so many times just because it was fascinating how much it changed
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Top 10 myths about body fat
Just wanted to see what you all thought about this http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/health-myths/10-body-fat-myths.htm
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Anyone do performance based cheat meals?
Like "hey when I lose 5 lbs I'm gonna allow myself a cheat meal" type of deal. This is what I'm doing now and it motivates me to work harder for that meal
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Why did i eat so much crap yesterday? Knowing how i would feel?
Why, Marcus? Why did you eat so much crap knowing you would feel horrible for doing it? You weren't even hungry! You ate your calories and you were absolutely fine. And then you talked to an incompetent tax lady who didn't know her behind from a hole in the ground, someone backed into your expensive car and left a dent you…
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I can't afford healthy food!
http://imgur.com/a/JbgdX#qurnj19
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Taking pictures is the best way to shame yourself back on track
I can't be seen in pictures. I just can't. When I smile it looks awkward, so I never bother. But now seeing how fat and disgusting I am, it's motivated me to get back on track and stop screwing up. It's been so long since I could say I took pride in my appearance. Maybe Its my anxiety and lack of confidence talking, but I…
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Cravings are gone but still want to eat out of boredom? I make no sense
As i said in my last post in here about me feeling like my stomach shrank and "yayyy i'm full on 1500 calories!" and how amazing that was, i find myself just wanting to eat from boredom. Does that sound fat of me? I have the next 3 days off work and i'm sitting around the house and eyeballing this wicked good strawberry…
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Did my stomach shrink or what?!
Not too long ago I was having a really hard time sticking to my calorie budget. Like my cravings were so bad I could only count for a day before screwing up and bingeing on all kinds of junk food that would derail my progress a week or maybe more. I even kept upping my calories from 1800 then to 2000 then I decided "I can…
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Whaaat. Did a huge double take at this weight loss tv show (fat doctor)
So i just watched this on hulu plus thinking "i like weight loss shows. This should be cool!" ready to binge watch seasons of this thing after watching my 600 pound life. (Here's the youtube link to the fat doctor show http://youtu.be/-2fycNd4y7w) The difference between the two shows is astounding. On my 600 pound life,…
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Is this TDEE for me accurate? What do you think, guys?
I use this app on my phone called argus (that I freaking love!) and it uses my iPhone to track my movement. Steps and floors climbed and all that. It also takes in information from other sources like my weight and calorie information from fitness pal. I usually get the same amount of activity every day but therein lies my…
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So scientifically, when does the fat come off?
I need a science nerd up in here! When it hits 11:59pm and i just completed my day at a 1000 calorie deficit, did that 1000 calories worth of weight already come off by the end of the day? Or is there a delayed response and that 1000 calories comes off gradually over the next day or two? Would be great if my body was in…
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My coworkers do this diet and i can't help but laugh
Sometimes it's just hard to keep it all in. I just don't understand people sometimes...but ya know what. Enough about me. What do you all think? Overview and then link "The Omni Drops program includes consumption of the drops, Omni IV liquid vitamins, Nite Lite and the recommended menu. The first 2 days of the Omni Drops…
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Best step counting app that will calculate tdee like fitbit?
I'm taking a break from fitbit for awhile and letting my phone and it's little co processor replace it. I tried argus and it seems pretty accurate as far as calorie burn but I'm not a big fan of the layout. Is there anything else worth trying? Something that'll count my steps and similar to fitbit, use it to calculate my…
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Success request: fat guy turned really fit
Are there any guys out there that were really fat then got really fit? I'm not talking just thin. But like a 6 pack and everything.
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Who has lost weight with little or no exercise?
I think people just starting out get the wrong idea that to lose weight, you have to hit the gym every single day for hours at a time and only eat lettuce and carrots. And the second you don't, you've failed. Time to binge eat! I think it's important they see that yes, diet and exercise is important but even if you have a…
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Is anybody else tired of eating sometimes? I'd rather be doing something else
It's such a weird complaint after not that long ago, having serious problems with over eating. Now that i've stuck to my calories for awhile, i'm just kinda...full on less and the idea of eating is like "ugh. I have to eat AGAIN?" like taking time out of my day to eat is such a drag. I could be doing other things! Eating…
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How do you stay motivated when the scale doesn't like you?
I got on the scale yesterday fully expecting to see a certain lower number and I'm 2 lbs heavier! Same today. Not seeing any loss even though I know mathematically, the numbers work. I know I ate at a deficit numbering in the thousands but I'm not seeing the results. How do you stay motivated when you see crap like this?…
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Fall/winter is the best time to lose weight and I'm excited
Seriously. You go into the winter a fatty mc fat fat wearing jackets and sweaters and all kinds of baggy stuff and then (after a few months of not seeing yourself) you take all that off and notice "hey. 40lb lighter spring me looks damn good!" I'm day dreaming about this right now. About the day I realize "it's warm…
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Anybody surprised how well calorie counting works?
Man. Another week and another 2 lbs lost doing absolutely nothing besides a little walking and counting calories (and wearing Fitbit) and i was just remembering back to before I started using fitness pal and how hard I thought it was to lose weight. I seriously starved and dehydrated myself because I thought it was the…
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Why do they make calories so confusing? Help!
So me and my girlfriend are trying to figure out how many calories are in a bag of popcorn and we...yeah. We had a hard time for a second there lol why the heck doesn't it just simply say how many calories popped per bag? Craziness! How many calories is it for just a bag? I think stuff like this is easily responsible for…
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Why do people have weight loss surgery?
Just wondering. I was watching some show on tv about this person eating whatever they want because they're planning on having weight loss surgery later anyway, so they figured screw it. Won't try to eat healthy. The surgery will fix the fatness! Then I watched something on YouTube about someone having a lap band put in and…
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Is 1500 cals ok for a dude?
Just to throwing this out there, I'm a 30 year old dude that's 5'8 weighing in at a hefty 232lbs. I was eating 2000 cals a day and getting my 10,000 steps for awhile and losing weight just fine and then all of a sudden, it stopped producing results. I was doing what I thought was everything right for a couple weeks and my…
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Does lack of water make you weigh more?
This could just be my imagination, but it seems like when I'm actively drinking a bunch of water, my weight loss is pretty linear. If I think I'll be so and so weight on the scale, most likely I'll be so and so weight on the scale! But when I wake up and haven't had anything to drink all day and it's 2pm, I weigh myself…
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Anybody having weird bugs with their fitbit flex?
This is the second or third time this has happened to me. I wake up after doing a whole lotta nothing all night and it says i have like 7,000 steps and burned 3,000 calories. Whaaaat? Makes no sense whatsoever because when i go into the graph that shows the steps i took per hour through out the day, it says i only took…
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I failed so hard but am back. Help me! (Video included)
I've struggled this past year. Oh boy have i struggled. My fitness pal could have been the thing that helped me turn it all around but it turned into just another excuse i would use daily to keep going on the way i was going. I've had my issues. From work, home, family, anxiety and past issues, i tried simply counting…
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Has anyone ever used this excuse to screw up?
Gets on the scale. "Oh look at that! I've been counting cals for a few days and lost a pound. Guess this counting cals thing really works! Since I know it works and it's easy to lose weight, I think I'll have a cheat say RIGHT NOW since I know I can burn off those calories anyway" Eats everything in sight and goes on a 3…
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Does family/environment have an affect on weight loss?
There is no good way to word this without sounding like blaming someone else. So I'll just put it out there and y'all can tell me how wrong i am. Cool? It's amazing to me how the feeling of being with someone or being in a certain environment affects how hard I am able to fight temptation. Really. It's the strangest thing.…
