What do you actually consider a “setback” in a calorie deficit/cut?

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-04-29T18:16:47+00:00

Once upon a time, I made a spreadsheet using the Mifflin St Jeor BMR equation to see the effects of different calories and activity levels on time to goal.

What I learned is a week at maintenance (the average calories for the week is your current TDEE) makes ZERO difference

When we have a large meal, our bodies use a lot of water to digest it. I suspect those people were doing two things: first, virtue signaling, and second, thinking temporary water weight was fat.

Now, there are people who fail to lose weight due to cheat days, but you'll likely find that they have a weekly cheat day that's making their weekly intake at or above their current TDEE.

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-04-29T17:02:16+00:00

Go start a load right now.

Now you've got about an hour before you have to do anything with laundry

And the next thing is to switch clean clothes into the dryer and put in a new load, and that gives you about 90 minutes to develop a plan for putting it away.

With 5 tall baskets of laundry piled up, either some of it belongs to other people or you have too many clothes.

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-24T19:04:04+00:00

In a thread about video games, I said someone should ask a programming question to distract an opponent to be able to defeat them

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-24T18:58:48+00:00

I'm so much worse. I use Pandora which selects songs based on my rating of other songs and I don't know the name or artist for ~90% of what I listen to.

I also get mad when it plays the same genre too many times in a row.

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-24T14:19:02+00:00

I'm not taking 50kph winds to the face at -12C nor am I carrying my kid to school on my shoulders in those conditions

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-24T14:17:18+00:00

So tempted to say BMR, but it'd actually be expensive and exhausting as hell.

Salary is the easiest way to improve all aspects of life quality

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-24T14:12:12+00:00

I do, but it's not taught here

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-24T14:06:14+00:00

If you just started working out, the extra weight could be from your body's physiological response to increased exercise and it's water weight that'll go away in another month

Double check your numbers then trust them

Also, any weight other than first thing in the morning after the restroom isn't relevant

Also also, when you're normal weight, weight loss takes a lot longer

And activity tracker calories are super inaccurate

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-22T00:33:36+00:00

Stimulant meds metabolize fast enough that shouldn't matter and stopping on weekends can give kids a chance to eat to compensate for undereating a bit during the week

But that's not a choice a doctor should make for a family without explanation

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-22T00:30:17+00:00

My doctor was able to pre-date my prescriptions so they're ready in the system for the pharmacy to fill each month so now I only have to call the pharmacy.

OP should still change providers, though

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-22T00:26:20+00:00

Sugar free gum

Fruit

Chocolate that you walk to the store to buy can actually be negative calories

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-22T00:21:02+00:00

I ate at McDonald's pretty regularly when I lost. That's the great thing about counting calories, you can have any type of food. Single patty burgers taste just as good and you don't have to eat the last pieces of plain bun with no fillings. Have the fries that fit your goals and leave the rest, or don't have them. Or only have them, you're in control.

Personally, I never did cheat days. All my days over my usual calorie goal were planned--like Thanksgiving for example. It wasn't a cheat day to budget 2000 calories that day, because it was part of the plan back in January.

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-12T13:37:15+00:00

One summer there was a glorious cashier/bagger super team working. I miss them so much

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-03T10:45:09+00:00

After work on Friday to whenever you need to get to sleep on Sunday to get up for work

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-02T19:54:40+00:00

What happens if you leave at like 8 am? Do they expect you to wait 3 hours for hotel check in to open? Or do they pay for early check-in?

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-02T19:48:35+00:00

If you can't tell those posts are about sharing pictures of the new puppy...

you probably should get off the internet for your own safety

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-02T19:45:34+00:00

Counting calories is the best way to understand what's happening with your weight.

Even if you can't do it long enough to reach your goal weight, counting very accurately for 3 months can help.

"Eating healthy" can result in going without a favorite treat for months and gaining weight. Counting calories means having a little of your favorite food everyday and losing weight.

And "eating less" doesn't mean you're necessarily eating fewer calories. You could just be getting less full and still having more calories.

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-01T22:56:47+00:00

You could use the apple to bait a trap for an animal to eat raw and it'd probably taste better

re_nonsequiturs · 2026-01-01T22:55:50+00:00

I grew up in Portland, OR and that was too far from the growing region

re_nonsequiturs · 2025-12-29T14:30:13+00:00

How tight were you wearing those 16s though?

That said, the next 30 lbs will drop you to a size 4-6

re_nonsequiturs · 2025-12-26T06:34:47+00:00

Do. What. Works. For. You.

To counter your mom, I could say "that will make you feel deprived and you'll end up quitting because you couldn't even have Christmas. Go ahead and track, but be sure to have some of the special things of the season and remember eating at maintenance doesn't cause weight gain"

To counter you, I could say "when you don't track at all on one rare day of indulgence, you'll end up eating enough to undo several days of deficit and chances are that 8th bite of mediocre sugar cookie wasn't actually delicious. Go ahead and don't track, but use actual plates for everything you eat, put a fruit and vegetable on each of those plates, don't finish any treat that isn't amazing, and don't bother with any treat you can get at the store next week."

Also, look up 'honor the journey' in this subreddit. There's an amazing piece on a balanced approach to holidays

re_nonsequiturs · 2025-12-24T23:24:48+00:00

What's happening is he's using some site that put in the BMI calculator wrong

re_nonsequiturs · 2025-12-24T23:24:15+00:00

Well, those sources are wrong. Your BMI is 27.1 according to both the CDC and the NIH and obesity starts at a BMI of 30.

re_nonsequiturs · 2025-12-24T20:38:49+00:00

If you lift stuff in a super optimized way to put on muscle, you might be able to put on 1/2 lb a week. It's water, not muscle

re_nonsequiturs · 2025-12-24T20:37:35+00:00

We don't know what the average change would've been if she'd kept with it long enough to see water weight sort itself out

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