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Establish habits that you can continue for the next decade. Like what you eat while on your weight loss journey and continue to eat those things in maintenance. Figure out how to move every day so that you are "lightly active" more hours than "sedentary," at the least. Have a goal "range" rather than particular number.

Figuring out your actual TDEE level will require your keeping data over a couple of months. The calculators are a starting point only -

Some foods are naturally diuretic - asparagus and dandelion greens, and the lacy greens that you find with carrots that haven't been packaged come to mind.

My scale is wonky like that - I just go for the range - it's never more than 2# different.

I agree. However, it will be possible to gain pounds in six week. Get a grip, one meal at a time.

Raw weight.

I did WW for 9 months last year - it worked great. The point "allowance" is actually a few (or more) hundred calories below what MFP would set for moderate weight loss - this is why the 0 points for most fruit and vegetables works for most people. The literature notes that 0 points does not mean eat 22 bananas (lol) and if…

Add a handful of nuts (28 g) twice a day (your hair and skin will thank you) for a quick and nutritious way to get more needed fuel. Try to hit your protein macro every day. These two changes will begin to move you in the right direction.

"my fellow women" :smiley:

You are logging all your non-step activities manually on the FitBit site, & letting all the step and non-step activity information port over from FB to MFP, right? And you have your activity level set at sedentary?

You can set your MFP to "sedentary" and then let FitBit import your steps. Add any non-step exercise to the FB site and let it port over.

Same thing happens to me. I don't have an explanation - the only thing different is heat and humidity levels. This tendency was part of the motivation to lose weight - feeling bloated in the summer is much more tolerable weighing 50 pounds less.

It might be a problem depending on your total body weight, the amount of your deficit as well as the total amount of calories you are eating, what your macros are set at, and whether or not you are exercising.

2 pounds is awesome. Keep up the good work!

I agree - get it checked out. If it turns out to be impingement, it might help you to see a physical therapist. Turns out I have "loose shoulders" and dealt with impingement in each of them. The physical therapy was so helpful. I had to modify my lifting some but I feel like the weight training still has been doing me some…

Yes, OP, I had that experience recently at a baby shower - had a generous piece of chocolate cake and it didn't sit well. I don't eat concentrated sugar like that very often. Prior to the cake I'd had bacon and eggs for breakfast, and tabbouleh, fruit, veggies at the shower. I am sure the cause of my post-cake malaise was…

I couldn't see your diary, Red, but if I were you I would be eating around 1800 c a day and paying extra attention to the nutritional quality of food (vitamins, minerals as well as protein, fat and fiber). Hopefully, you are consulting with your medical provider about the low blood pressure and iron deficiency. It is…

If it's still this bad a week later you need to see a doctor. I would not push through the pain. Once you get a diagnosis and are on the proper mend, check your footwear - it may not be supporting you adequately (if your ankles over or under pronate, that will stress your knees majorly). Good luck.

I don't weigh slices of bread. Variations are more likely due to moisture content not product.

Body Fortress whey isolate - chocolate - it's affordable and grams/protein to grams/product is 78% which is not excellent but it's not just awful. I am for a 28-30 g serving which is about 100 calories. I like chocolate so I add 10g of unsweetened cocoa powder to it :)

I always chalked it up as a "win" if I still maintained a deficit over 7 days - depending on the "overage" in any given day, sometimes I was just less hungry the following day & so might not eat as much. But in any case, I didn't sweat it & I know for sure that there wasn't a day that I ate less than 1400 calories.

Way to go, releasing 32# into the wild! :smiley:

Last time I was vacationing, a couple of places I was staying had fitness centers so I took advantage of them a few times. Except for the high mileage travel days I was walking quite a bit. I ate what ever I wanted (logged everything to the best of my ability). My home scale showed me still within the maintenance range…

Sitting on my new screened in porch, drinking an iced coffee, looking at a lush garden, all relaxed having come back from the Y where I hit a new personal record in my DL. Oh, and spouse is fixing supper (ok, maybe that one is too much even for wishful thinking).

I have been using an OXO for about a year and like it a lot. Push a button to tare, push one to toggle between lbs/oz and kg/g, it has a pull out display so you can put a dinner plate on it and still see the measure, 5 lb capacity (there is a model that goes up to 12 lb capacity which I wish I would have gotten). It takes…

Me, too.

Since you are within a normal weight range already, I would suggest a smaller deficit (not 20%) if you are dead set on reaching a scale number. Whether you eat in the evening or not is up to you - from a shedding fat standpoint, the only reason to put a "window of opportunity" onto meals is because it's easier to eat at…

You might find the South Beach Diet cookbook useful - as others have noted, your VLCD leaves you plenty of room for adding nutrition that your body needs.

Being off on the values for a tomato is pretty different than being off on values for something calorie dense. I don't sweat it on fruits and vegetables - if logging is consistent (even if it's consistently off) one can still adjust food intake up or down to achieve desired results.

500 calories for me would be a third of my total daily allowance lol. But I understand the concept :)