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Bodies naturally burn weight just by us EXISTING. This is called your Basal Metabolic Rate or (BMR).

Think of a pound a 3500 calories. By cutting 500 calories a day you would lose a pound a week. So if your body naturally burns, lets say, 1800 calories a day. In order to lose a pound a week you should be eating 1300 calories a day. If on top of that you burn 1400 calories a day, then ideally you'd be eating 2700 calories a day.

Living off of -300 calories a day is not only starvation, it will literally kill you.

Try making an account on http://www.myfitnesspal.com/. This will ask you how many pounds you want to be losing per week and then will calculate a caloric intake number for you to lose that weight in a healthy way. It also has a BMR and BMI calculator you can use to check out your own.

I built an app called Poundaweek on the Google play store, it's a free smart calorie counter that automatically adjusts your calories for you every week to lose at least a pound a week, using your activity information from Google Fit. Sounds like it could help you out.

I use the USDA food database for whole foods (fruits, vegetables, grains, etc) and just go by the package label for any packaged or processed foods that I buy. Cronometer is also a good source (they have data from USDA and NCCDB).

Depends on exactly what ingredients are in your pizzas and in your salads, but most likely you are not meeting all of your micronutrient needs with such a non-diverse diet. Try logging a day of eating on https://cronometer.com/ and see if you're hitting all of your RDIs.

Great article! I've thought this for a while now and it looks like more and more research is showing connections between food addiction and drug addiction. I wonder if emotional eating is similar in some ways to self-medicating?

These are 70 calories for 3. So about 20 to 25 calories each: https://www.amazon.ca/Peppermint-Candy-Canes-great-value/dp/B09L5JXNX8/ref=sr_1_6?crid=1ISULPF5BY598&keywords=mini+candy+cane&qid=1670604332&s=grocery&sprefix=mini+candy+can%2Cgrocery%2C112&sr=1-6

Not sure about annie’s in particular, but this cheese powder on Amazon lists 2 tbsp of powder at 70 cals

You can find white cheddar cheese powder on Amazon for like 25 a tbsp

After you log a food one time, it will always come up as a recent food so when you search for it, it will come up very easily. I would suggest giving Cronometer, it's most streamlined than the other options that I mentioned.

Try using this calculator: https://www.omnicalculator.com/sports/steps-to-calories

Keep in mind that this is just giving you a very rough estimate though, it's not going to be accurate at all.

My doctor told me last week that a supplement should be enough, but I would ask your doctor about it.

I do eat more and work out down to 1200. I'm much more fulfilled that way and I get more nutrients.

I've been doing a superfood diet that seems to fulfill most of the nutrients and it hits about 1300 calories a day, so it is possible. Lots of raw vegetables. I use Cronometer to measure, which is a free website. https://cronometer.com/ The diet I use is by BodyBoss, but I think it could be replicated just by eating a lot of salads, a good dose of protein, berries, some whole grain carbs (they like quinoa), and adding nuts and seeds like chia.

Activity level is heavily dependent on your exertion level. This fat burn zone is calculated here. I recommend a fitbit or similar to know how much your heart rate stays elevated during the walks. We also become conditioned to an exercise if we do it in a predictable way without pushing ourselves for a while. That will mean your heart rate might be significantly lower effecting the calorie count. You burn calories outside of that zone ofc and a way to calculate that is here. Fitbit would do all this math more precisely since it checks your heartrate a ton and the average it takes will be more accurate.

It's still a wildly imprecise calculation without lab equipment though and is the biggest reason people will say to avoid eating back those activity calories.

Protein shakes? I like the Optimum nutrition double chocolate and milk. Yeah anything with milk, cheese, nuts, oils, bacon... lol more bacon? What's your goals? Just gain? Gain muscle?

If you are going to gain try to gain from healthy'ish choices. Oatmeal in mornings is a good microwave snack you can add milk to.

Most databases will have calorie counts for meats prepared in different ways. That's the best you're going to do. Things like "fried", "pan fried", roasted (or often they just say "dry heat").

The USDA database is pretty extensive (often too extensive, with seemingly conflicting numbers), but there are others, such the one from MyFitnessPal or fatsecret.

See the example below. I just googled "chicken breast, roasted".

https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/generic/chicken-breast-roasted-broiled-or-baked

So I looked online for you, and apparently 1/6 of an average pizza crust has 182 calories.

So if for some reason you scrape all the good stuff from your pizza and only eat that, you have saved yourself 1092 calories.

Source: https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/generic/pizza-crust

I like Fatsecret. It has an online interface as well as phone apps for both apple and android with no ads at all (in the android version, I'm not sure about apple).

You can input your own data or use the data by members. When inputting data for foods, there's two boxes, one for serving size (slice, scoop, cup, basically anything) and one for either oz/g/ml. As long as the oz/g/ml is inputted by the user or you, you can use scale measurements. For example, here is the web interface and you can see that the serving size is 2 tbsp and also 28 g. So when logging your food, you can choose to do it by either method: serving size or grams.

either THE tdee spreadsheet or try using calorietracker.io. It links to myfitnesspal and can help you easily calculate your TDEE. don't worry too much about the initial activity level

I use this sodium free "salt" on my food and far surpass my daily potassium. There is also a purely potassium version but the taste takes some getting used to. I've been using these for years and sometimes even put a bit in my water bottle after a workout for electrolyte replenishment.

This is not my picture, but looks pretty similar to what I had. I believe my container was probably around 22oz in volume, similar to these containers, for reference.

I’ve heard gummy vitamins aren’t super effective, so I’d try a capsule vitamin if you decide to get Biotin supplements.

I don’t take Biotin supplements, but I do have a hair treatment with Biotin as one of the main ingredients. it also has Vitamin E, Manila Honey, and Almond Oil. if you’re looking specifically for help with your hair, I highly recommend this! I have bleached hair, and it went from being super dry to super soft, and my curls are coming back! Idk about the hair growth aspect, but my hair is long anyway and grows fast on its own, but I’ve seen some reviews of other people saying it helped with hair growth. here’s a link if you want to check it out—it’s a pretty good price: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TRP5W59/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_nRzKFbX4TG9HE

I don't know if you're interested, so sorry if you're not. But I found a great app called lose it (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fitnow.loseit) it lets you add your own food, and it's pretty good for fast foods and just everyday products.

I would recommend buying a scale. It's not 100% necessary, but it makes it so much easier to measure things vs. relying on volume measurements like cups, tbsps, etc. I have the Amazon Basics kitchen scale which is only $11, and it works great.

In terms of apps, I use "MyFitnessPal" and would recommend it! It is the most user friend app in my opinion, though there are other good apps as well as they're all relatively similar.

Amazon sells a lot of good ones! This is the one I use, and haven't really had any issues with it. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QC628PK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I like the customer support for the company that makes it! They helped me very quickly when there was a calibration error popping up with it but it's only happened once in about a year of use. Doesn't need batteries often.

Do you use a calorie tracking app like My Fitness Pal or Lose It? They both have options for free accounts (I prefer Lose It!) and you can make and save your own recipes in there and it's pretty handy for keeping better track of stuff like macros.

>MyFitnessPal

similar to this one?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fourtechnologies.mynetdiary.ad&hl=en_GB&rdid=com.fourtechnologies.mynetdiary.ad