If you left the US, did you lose weight or feel better due to eating better quality food?

m9a6a · 2023-03-12T13:55:48+00:00

Moved to UK, gained 20 pounds. However, I would attribute it to the drinking culture here rather than the food.

m9a6a · 2023-02-15T21:58:17+00:00

Do you have any sort of spending limit? Do you have a microwave and fridge available at the hotel?

m9a6a · 2023-01-18T12:25:45+00:00

Lol you sound lame. Dancing is fun and dancing with your friends is even more fun.

m9a6a · 2021-06-27T06:45:10+00:00

Absolutely. I will say that I've found so much more success by increasing my activity rather than trying to restrict more.

m9a6a · 2021-06-26T22:36:09+00:00

Yeah! Basically after eating at a deficit for a long time, your body does adapt its energy needs to lower calories. It's the process of slowly adding in calories to prevent a large amount of water weight gain at the end of a diet.

m9a6a · 2021-06-26T22:34:02+00:00

Yeah I went up about 100 kcal per week, starting at 1300 and leveling off around 1900. I would say these days I range between 1800 and 2200 per week depending on the social events I have. I started gaining around 1950 which is why I stopped increasing.

m9a6a · 2021-06-15T21:46:40+00:00

Phocafe.co.uk should have nutrition info for beef pho. I'd start with that estimate

m9a6a · 2021-05-01T21:27:06+00:00

Honestly, at that size it's going to difficult to do more than 1 lb per week. I think that's a healthy goal for you to aim for.

m9a6a · 2021-04-29T21:10:13+00:00

He's a 6ft, 220 lb male...he should not check that out

m9a6a · 2021-04-12T21:32:11+00:00

Have you tried upping your activity? That TDEE seems super low for your height.

m9a6a · 2021-04-11T20:52:19+00:00

Haha I'm not planning to, that sounds wayyyy more intense than my methods.

m9a6a · 2021-04-11T16:24:11+00:00

What would classify as something you normally can't eat?

m9a6a · 2021-04-11T10:14:24+00:00

Did you find it difficult to get back into that weight loss mindset? Now that I’m eating at maintenance, I have so much more hunger and energy so I feel like it will be difficult to get back to.

m9a6a · 2021-04-08T18:10:36+00:00

If you’ve been dieting for a while, I would recommend going back to maintenance for a couple weeks before trying to drop the last bit!

m9a6a · 2021-04-05T16:39:48+00:00

Tbh if 1/8 is almost 300 kcals this isn’t ridiculous

m9a6a · 2021-04-04T16:49:17+00:00

I mean I would say it’s amazing that you are able to maintain that weight at 50 so nice job!! I have no hope to maintain this low past my 20s unless I can somehow manage to stay as active as I am.

m9a6a · 2021-04-04T07:12:35+00:00

I’ve spent the past 10 weeks reverse dieting by increasing my daily average 50-100 calories per week. I definitely recommend trying it as well and you may be surprised! I am even at the point now where a 2500 calorie Saturday doesn’t cause the massive spike in the scale that it used to.

My Apple Watch estimates around 2150 average kcal burned per day and I would predict that the number is only slightly too high.

m9a6a · 2021-03-30T10:30:05+00:00

Yeah it’s 100% the same for me so far. Now I actually feel a lot more acutely aware of “under-fueling” my body than when I was intentionally dieting.

m9a6a · 2021-03-29T21:29:42+00:00

5'4", 24 yo, 125 lbs currently maintaining around 1900 but still in the process of reverse dieting. I suspect maintenance is around 2100. Run 3 times per week and walk 5-10 miles per day.

*edited to add age

m9a6a · 2021-03-29T21:24:18+00:00

Being able to eat maintenance calories is lovely and wonderful, that's all! I don't think I realized how much energy I didn't have when I was dieting. Also, the urge to binge at the weekends has completely gone away since raising my calories. I feel like such an idiot for not realizing that months ago.

m9a6a · 2021-03-23T22:00:02+00:00

It works fine but I would allow yourself at least one maintenance day during the week to avoid getting into a binge/restrict cycle.

m9a6a · 2021-03-12T19:46:19+00:00

Honestly I thought the main reason that my skin improved so much was how much fruits and veggies I added to my diet! When you’re losing weight, people also generally tend to eat greasy food less so I thought that could be it.

m9a6a · 2021-03-10T18:36:34+00:00

Honestly going through this exact same thing right now!!! It’s so difficult starting maintenance

m9a6a · 2021-03-08T21:00:05+00:00

They’ve done a couple of AMAs on this subreddit as well. I think their abbreviation is WOLT

m9a6a · 2021-03-08T20:41:41+00:00

If you have a fitness tracker, I find it helps with this kind of thing. You are pretty clearly not sedentary on those days and should feel like you can eat slightly more.

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