You can change your goal to what your individual target is, but that will not remove the lecture (or the fact that it won't post the Completed diary automatic status update. If you go into goals and create custom goals, you can get the targets to say whatever you want (both calories and macro percentages).

If the automatic status update is important to you (it was to me), you can manually add enough calories to get you to 1000 calories (for a woman, 1200 for guys), complete the diary, then take the manual entry out.

Rob

Pennysteed, I am 4 months out from VSG and have had my share of plateaus too. I think that you have to accept them as part of the process and not worry too much. I have had weight loss in numbers never reached before. I took 6 months to lose 35 lbs before surgery. That was without the vsg tool but I was highly motivated to lose in order to "qualify" for the surgery. Since the surgery I have continued to lose. Total loss is 80 lbs since last November when I attended the first surgeon's appointment. I started MFP then, so it keeps that number in front of me. When did I ever reach an 80 lb loss before? and in only 9-10 months!!! Try to look at it from that point of view and a slow down of a few weeks will not matter so much. During this last stall, I have had more people tell me that I am looking good, or that they can really tell that I am losing, and my clothes are starting to irritate me because they are so loose on me. All of these non-scale-victories (NSV) really add up to keep me motivated. I also set pretty low level weight goals of 15-20 lbs at a time so that I can reach more of them more often. My final goal is still so far off that it discourages me to attempt that all at once. I want to reach that 100 lb total loss next.

My second paragraph is the trick to use to get your status update back. I used it because I like the automatic notice on my newsfeed.