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There is a sticky that says most helpful posts I find to be helpful. The best tip I can give you is to enter your goals on MFP and eating the calories provided.

First off ... know what it is you want to achieve, and why. Those will become the foundation for keeping you moving forward when you grow tired (burn-out?) of doing the work.

Second ... No matter if you are trying to gain or lose weight, or just recomposition your body, it will take time ... so don't try to rush it, and don't feel you need to make all the changes all at once. You will have a better level of success if you build on your changes to your daily routine regarding "diet and exercise" continually over a long period of time.

Third ... Find resources that will help you gather the knowledge you don't already have regarding your goal with the "diet and exercise" thing ... you can use this app, you can google, you can search YouTube, you can seek the advice of a dietician or nutritionist, a physical therapist, a physiologist, an educated and experiences trainer at a gym, at the local library via books and such.

Fourth ... Make it pleasurable. That might mean creating a new hobby that works with your ultimate goals ... could be hiking, bike riding, weight lifting, boxing, swimming, moving dirt. Could also be learning to cook, either basic cooking, or something more grand, like a specific style of cooking, or a style of eating ... for example, I have taken to cooking from scratch and fermenting foods.

Good luck.

The closer your eating is now to the way you mean to eat when you reach your goal, the likelier you are to maintain. In other words, while there might be some foods you choose to cut from your diet because you 'can't eat just one', unless you're planning to never eat cake/meat/dairy/gluten/mom's tuna casserole/peregrine falcon again, don't cut it out on your current plan.

Actually... don't eat the peregrine falcon. I think it's on the endangered species list.