Take a look at my diary............Please tell me what exact

If your boddybugg is telling you that your daily calorie requirements are 2000+, your MFP calorie goal of 1290 seems way too low,

A healthy loss is achieved by subtracting 15-20% from your TDEE.

I only went back a few days and what struck me was the lack of 'real' food. Yes, you are eating some veggies, blueberries, etc., but in very small amounts (or at least as a very small percentage of your total calories). The other thing was a trend of "replacement" foods. I don't suggest you never eat them, but they should be only for 'emergency use'. I believe you are better off getting protein from lean meats and fish.

Try substantially upping the amount of raw veggies you eat. When I was really pushing to drop weight, I was eating 300 calories or more each day of fresh, raw veggies. A typical day (I was doing 1200/day NET) was:

Greek Yogurt for breakfast with a PINT (not a spoonful) of berries- 250 cal
Grilled Chicken on a Salad, chicken breast on a whole grain bun and fresh fruit, or similar meal around 500 cal for lunch
Grilled Vegetables and Grilled Fish, Chicken or Pork for dinner at around 600 cal
Between snacks at work and bedtime snack, I was eating enough celery, mushrooms, snap peas, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, radishes and carrots to fill a medium mixing bowl.
With an average of 45-60 minutes of cardio each day, I had enough calories left over for about 200 calories of roasted peanuts to round out my fat intake.

Reading up on the philosophies of Michael Pollen got me thinking about it and kept me focused.

A little taste....

Because most of what we’re consuming today is not food, and how we’re consuming it — in the car, in front of the TV, and increasingly alone — is not really eating. Instead of food, we’re consuming “edible foodlike substances” — no longer the products of nature but of food science. Many of them come packaged with health claims that should be our first clue they are anything but healthy. In the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become.

But if real food — the sort of food our great grandmothers would recognize as food — stands in need of defense, from whom does it need defending? From the food industry on one side and nutritional science on the other. Both stand to gain much from widespread confusion about what to eat, a question that for most of human history people have been able to answer without expert help. Yet the professionalization of eating has failed to make Americans healthier. Thirty years of official nutritional advice has only made us sicker and fatter while ruining countless numbers of meals.

Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words:

(... and here's the important bit...)

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.



Everyone should read Michael Pollan's book "In Defense of Food". Very thought provoking although I must say it conflicts with my current diet which is higher in protein. But I liked it just the same.

I agree with everyone that suggests the processed food is a problem. I find if I have power bars or protein powder I can't drop any weight, even when I am well within my daily caloric intake. Veggies with hummus or peanut butter is a great snack. I understand the plateau too and it can be so frustrating when people tell you to eat more because you are not eating enough - it seems so counter intuitive when you want to lose weight but it is true.

I agree with everyone that suggests the processed food is a problem. I find if I have power bars or protein powder I can't drop any weight, even when I am well within my daily caloric intake. Veggies with hummus or peanut butter is a great snack. I understand the plateau too and it can be so frustrating when people tell you to eat more because you are not eating enough - it seems so counter intuitive when you want to lose weight but it is true.

^ protein powder & bars do not hinder weight loss.. This is silly.

Edit to add: you don't have to replace protein bars in your diet. But, you can always find better bars that aren't filled with junk & sugar.

You have lots of processed calories, the health food kind. Meal replacement bars and scoops of stuff

I noticed this too...both the bars and scoops had high cals and high sugar
I use whey protein powder...but it only has 110 cals per scoop and no sugar