Juicing

The thing about juice cleanses is that they cause you to lose a lot of water weight (which is temporary), a little bit of fat, and whatever is causing your stall will still be there when you go back to eating. I always think it's better to address the problem behind the stall rather than looking for a quick fix. But that's up to you.

LOL, I love that flow chart... but it's so true.

typaymommie wrote: »

Thanks everyone! I log my food, but do not use a food scale. I have one, so I'll start using that. It's just frustrating when you have been doing so good, and those satisfying results aren't there.

And there's the issue right there. Start weighing and measuring everything and give it a couple more weeks.

Kick starting your metabolism is not a real thing. Weighing and measuring is what you need!

I'll have to agree with weighing everything. Get a good digital kitchen scale and learn to use it. Weigh everything. Even recipes you make yourself, weigh each ingredient, create a recipe, measure the volume it makes and how many servings it makes and you'll know exactly how many calories you are consuming. It sounds like a pain, but it can be fun, especially inputting your own recipes. I've found a lot of mine that I thought were high calorie that were not, and some that I thought were low calorie that were far from it. My wife and I always tended to cook by taste rather than by recipe so ours were different every time. As long as we enter it we know exactly how many calories, and can even use the same recipe to re-make something the same way we did before.

The recipe function of MFP is probably one of the features that I like the most, and it's the most lacking in support (IMHO). MFP should allow us to share our recipes with other users but it does not. So even though my wife and I are both on MFP we have to enter the recipe twice in both hers and mine, and it's a big pain. I'm hoping they fix that some day, but with the problems they have with their databases syncing I am starting to have my doubts.