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I try to separate out the ingredients and add in additional butter/oil - so perhaps I would call it an "educated Wild A** Guess" WAG is sometimes what you get left with when the food prep is done by someone else.

It will be a process where you gather data based on how YOUR body functions and adjust calorie intake accordingly. If you jump 500 calories/day all at once you will be retaining more water, too and will probably notice a pretty instant weight gain of a pound or two. If this is going to freak you out then up your calories…

I started maintenance at ~146 and picked 150 as the weight at which I would take "measures" if I hit (even once). That seems to be fine - my normal fluctuation was 146-149. I hit 150 once and started a slight deficit that is getting me back to 146. But I picked the upper third of "normal" for my height originally (I was…

If it's only occasional, and you are meeting your nutrient needs (vitamins, minerals, protein, fat) then I think it's ok to let it go if you aren't particularly hungry. And by occasional, I mean once a week or less.

You aren't doing anything wrong. My yogurt, for example, on the carton is listed as 1 cup = 227g and in the data base lists calories by the cup (same figures for nutrients). Just use common sense. :)

It's user beware with the food diary look-up. I always double check - even the so-called "verified" items have had errors. With hamburger, I enter "ground beef, 93/7" or whatever lean/fat ratio it is, & that brings up a bunch of options which I then look at before I log~

Consulting your primary care provider is a great idea and I concur. I can also tell you that when I started eating avocado regularly - like 75g a day or so (fit into my 1500 calorie day), my brittle nail and raggedy cuticle issue resolved.

Same here. I have two standard cooler weather breakfasts about the same calories (381 vs. 386) - one is one serving of steel cut oatmeal, 227 g plain non-fat greek yogurt and 150 g blueberries, and one is 2 large eggs fried in .5 tsp of butter with a half a small avocado (73g this morning) & 15g "simply" ketchup (not so…

You know what your maintenance needs are now, thanks to keeping data. So simply do a small deficit - no more than 250 calories a day since you are well within "normal" weight range - accomplished through eating fewer calories and/or bumping up physical activity. If it was me, I would eat 150 calories less and walk more but…

Divorced? Isn't that like losing 180 (give or take) of unwanted pounds right away? :) Just stay the course, you'll find yourself feeling better as you start feeling better physically.

If you don't get the expected amount of activity, then the negative calorie adjustment takes a bit a way, thats all.

I log. Maybe some day I won't. In that case, I will resume logging when/if my weight hits the top number of my weight range.

I track daily, update the data once a week.

according to most of the research to date, the answer is yes. Immigrating also leads to statistically significantly more episodes of mental illness. It's stressful all the way around.

Eat and log your food into and according to MFP. Log all your exercise and all into FB. Usually the small discrepancies between the two are insignificant by the end of the day.

I camped for a while once I lost about 30 # - then I added weight training and tightened up tracking and ended up slowly loosing another 12 or so. I would like to lose about 5 more - I am figuring it will take me until the end of the year just because I am now within healthy weight range (upper third - I could lose #18 and…

A half pound weight loss is actually reasonable even if it feels slow. My suggestion would be to go back to weights a few times a week just so that you maintain muscle - you will be happier with visible results, I think, too. Water weight gain is just water - not fat - don't sweat it.

You look great :) and thank you for posting. I am a few years older than you - I don't want to look too scrawny, either, and I think that will mean making peace with a bit more fat around my midsection (which is current within what the charts say is "normal"). I am 5-6 at 146 ish and I think I could probably be ok at ~140…

Chickpeas, lentils, blackbeans, dark leafy greens, plus citrus (Vit C helps with iron absorption). Then there are iron-fortified cereals if you eat cereal -

Add progressive resistance training now - 12 weeks will go a ways toward helping you with that costume.

Fitbit One that I inherited (not water resistant), and I haven't bothered using anything beyond simple step counting & flights of stairs climbed. All exercise is logged on Fitbit site and transferred to MFP - so the automatic synch is handy. I like that I can clip it on my bra and not have to worry about a wrist band.…

That is an excellent thing to be doing - park or not. My fitbit and my dog helped me develop a daily routine. Then you might think about incorporating exercise that you can do in the privacy of your own home (mirrors optional) - things like push ups, squats, lunges, planks.

My go-to discipline is starting a very small deficit the first day I hit the 1# beyond the top end of maintenance weight range. When I say small, I mean I aim for 250 calorie deficit daily but feel ok if I don't always meet that as long as I am still under. So this happened in July, and 5 weeks later I am back to bottom of…

Echoes - see your doctor. And eat more. I don't know what "keto chow" is but it may not be good for you.

Great work! And remember - weight range not absolute number :)

I imagine your appetite will perk up - if it doesn't then it's important to see your medical provider. In the meantime, make some small adjustments - add more fresh fruit, go for full-fat items over their fat-free counterparts, grab a handful of nuts from time to time, have more avocado (your skin will love you for that),…

I think the two main things are maintaining healthy habits (viz. Timothy's "you can't just quit doing something that is unhealthy you have to replace it with something that is healthy") and stepping on the scale regularly with the commitment to stay within your weight range.

That's me.

The timing of my walking messes with my FB/MFP as well - but it does synch up by night. It's annoying as hell tho to see a negative correction in the morning, or not "earn" as many calories after my morning 2 mile walk, just because my last walk of the night with the dog was before midnight the night before and not at 1 AM…

Well .... weight loss is also about losing lean muscle mass in addition to fat, and weight re-gain is often about gained fat and not muscle. So what I notice is that weight regains are likely to result in an increase of fat % overall - metabolic advantages (however small) one might have had as a young person cutting weight…