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Whatever works for you. For me, I feel the best having 20-30 grams of protein with each meal. In the morning, that usually comes in the form of plain greek yogurt with fruit along with a serving of oatmeal (or when it is so hot, like now, just the yogurt and fruit).

I vote embrace your pallor, OP. Just wear good sunscreen.

It depends on you, really - what your TDEE is and what your deficit needs to be to meet your goals, and whether you can both fit in the calories of your beverage into that deficit. My personal experience is that when I am in a deficit, I need fuel from food not from alcohol in order to feel ok.

Eat what you can (is allowable per your doctor) and track it. Meats might include chicken, pork and beef loin/sirloin as more calorie friendly per oz than, say, lamb and ham and sausage type stuff (though you can eat all of that and still lose weight if you maintain portion control), for example. If other veggies like…

Yes :) http://www.builtlean.com/2010/08/03/ideal-body-fat-percentage-chart/

a trip to Costco for me adds almost a mile between where i park and the fact that its a HUGE store

It's only not a "lifestyle change" if a person is not interested in maintaining once goal is reached. Whatever you do to lose the pounds, make it something you can sustain. Sure, maintenance will have you eating a few hundred calories a day more but thinking that you can maintain going back to whatever lifestyle caused the…

That would be a question to probably ask on the FB boards -

Take a break as long as you like. Feeling tired and sluggish might be related to what you are eating (or not eating) or stress, or mental fatigue, or insufficient sleep duration, or poor sleep quality. See how you feel after a week or so. Still tired to the point that you could sleep pretty much at any time? Consult your…

Once a day

Consult your primary care provider, OP.

Fruit like pineapple, apricots, and peaches are great on the grill - you can cook them as "well done" as you need/want to. Or roast them along with vegetables that you enjoy. Most roasted veggies and fruit are also great after being chilled and "dressed" with a vinaigrette (you can use flavored vinegars and/or flavored…

Pre-logging is an excellent idea. Also, consider changing your mindset from focusing on restriction to focusing on becoming healthy - this lets you put mental energy into meeting nutritional requirements rather than putting energy into what you are not going to eat. Finally, remember that eating is also a social act and…

+1 OP, since you have data already that lets you know you do not do well when you restrict too much, try the MFP way. Keep data over a month - there is no need to feel like your weight loss journey is a race. You want to establish habits during weight loss that you can continue to maintain your weight loss. The number MFP…

You need more protein than that.

I agree with logging it raw. HOWEVER, spinach is so very low in calories (3 cups raw = 85g raw=20 calories) worrying about precision for calorie counting is pretty pointless. If you are tracking nutrients it might be more useful to get a reasonable measurement.

Watch portions and move every day. Set a maintenance range and return to deficit eating for a while if you notice bracket creep.

If you aren't supposed to do direct ab work due to being post partum or post surgery, then consult your health provider for particular guidelines - any full body exercise that involves body weight progressing to iron, and eating at maintenance, will help you out I think.

I have been using grapeseed oil just because the spray unit doesn't use any other ingredients in it. It also stands up to high heat fairly well. Olive oil has a comparatively low burn temperature so I don't use that. I sometimes use peanut oil, too - I buy the kind of peanut butter that has only peanuts and salt, and the…

You can put your stats into MFP & let it calculate for you - then see how the resulting figures work for you over a month's period of time. I am thinking you want to boost energy and not fatigue, right? :) Make sure you eat for nutrition and not just for calories, drink plenty of fluids, and get enough sleep (including a…

Weight loss is not linear. Sometimes you will see no weight loss and sometimes you will see more than you expected. Continue what you are doing for a month and see how it shakes out.

You may find that your breakfast holds you pretty well through the day :) Just move on from here - reasonable portions for the rest of the day, and a lot of water in case that breakfast had more sodium than you are used to :)

same here

I haven't seen that, OP, but I will be on the lookout for it now that you have posted!

I set mine to sedentary because my activity is so variable - 10,000 steps will give me around 300 calories (female, 64, 147#) and about 4.6 miles (I have shorter legs so stride length is shorter than many people's probably is) - I have negative adjustments set and I noticed I just "lost" 13 calories because my mileage is…

I just started making my own so I could put it in recipe builder and i actually likes what comes out of my kitchen better than anything I can get delivered. For a 14 in pie with 8 slices it comes out to 130 calories for the crust (edited - per slice) then whatever i build on it can be anywhere from 125 to 250 added…

About the only thing that will make skin more tight is time - you can moisturize to make it look better. Department store lights are so awful - that never helps either :) Edited to note that there are things like spanx to help you look smoother in clothes ... i don't think those waist belts do anything besides crush your…

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It's been great to see the helpful information posted here. I have found that macro content makes a big difference in terms of hunger pangs when I am in a calorie deficit, particularly that first meal of the day. So for me, that first meal consists of at least 20 g of protein (plain greek yogurt, e.g.) and a slow-digesting…

You can log interval training in the FitBit log area - it asks for the time of day and duration and makes an adjustment in the calorie burn. I log all my exercise in FitBit - steps are automatic of course - and let it port over to MFP.