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Initial D, good point I will have to look into that when I get home. I never thought of that. I want to really go by the deficit on my Link and not my balance on MFP. I just want to make sure it is right.

Thanks CCather, so if you find that you are over your deficit do you eat more? I am suppose to have a 1000 calorie deficit but yesterday it was like 1175. Should I have ate something else. I just don't want to under eat and find that I am not losing weight because of it. I am so excited about the Link. This is only my third day wearing it.

It completely depends on what I've been up to in order to create that deficit, what my eating looked like that day and what the day before and the day after will look like. If I do any distance running in a day, say 8+ miles, my calorie burn will start to add up. Sometimes I can't eat them all back (if I'm making super awesome food choices that day!) but maybe I'll eat a little more the day before in anticipation or a little more the day after. As long as my average is about 700ish over those three days and I'm not starving, I'm cool with a one off high deficit day. As a rule, however, I would not have a huge deficit consistently.

Generally, I have found my sweet spot to be eating around 1500-1700 calories and maintaining about a 7-800 calorie deficit. That's enough food to keep me happy with what I'm eating (AKA maintainable!!) and enough activity (boot camp 2xs a week, soccer 2xs week and run/bike/swim training for whatever race I'm working on...oh and I work and have 3 kids. Always going!

What are your calorie goals set to? What kinds of activity are you doing?

So I want to lose 1.5 to 2 lbs a week. To do that MFP and the Band say I have to eat about 1200 a day. I spend most of the day sitting on Mon, Wed, and Fri as I work from home so I don't have to walk to work, around the office to get to the bathroom, out for lunch, and back to the train etc. On those days by the time I get home I have like 7000 steps on the other days I am home I have like 3000 at the end of the day. I work out like an hour on those days to make sure I hit my 10,000 steps. I am just getting started with the whole eating right and working out thing so I suspect it will change (I am trying to get in 4 days a week). However, I do feel like the 1200 calories is unrealistic and I am starving most of the time so maybe I should up that on days I am working out. I come from a WW world and had some success in the past but wanted to try something new with the LInk and MFP. I was never starving on WW but since that was a points system I have no idea what 30 pts is in calories. With WW all fruits and veggies are 0 points. However on MFP everything counts. My 1 point smoothie is 230 calories, lol. So I will try what you said and see if that helps me. I guess everything is about finding what works from you. Thanks sooo much for your help.