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You might very well be burning over 2000 calories a day according to fitbit, since it includes both the calories required to keep you alive for 24 hours plus any additional step activity & what you log in FB manually. If you ACTUALLY consumed a caloric surplus of 3500 calories a week, you need to tighten up your tracking…

Olive oil or other fat in cooking and drizzled on salads; aforementioned avocados (1 a day - your skin will love you and vice versa); ground flax seed, chia seed mixed in with whatever; quinoa, amaranth (small amounts but it adds up)

This sounds a lot like the beginnings of shoulder impingement (http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00032) I would advise against any overhead lifts until you are pain free, and advise also some shoulder conditioning exercises found here (http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/drryan9.htm) I have no specialty credentials &…

I stopped drinking diet soda for no particularly good reason - just stopped buying it and stopped having it with meals when I was out, or at the movies, or for the occasional mid afternoon caffeine jolt at work. Yesterday I bought one (fast food place - demanded a purchase in exchange for restroom lol) and I was absolutely…

You may have a larger fat-to-lean ratio than you did 10 years ago. A pound of fat takes up more room. Weight loss involves loss of fat and muscle mass. When a person regains the weight lost"and more" without intentional strength training the gain will be fat.

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I would wake up hungry, too, and I solved that by having a snack before bed - usually greek yogurt. As noted above, eating in the evening will not cause you to get fat - just arrange your calorie intake so you have more fuel to get you through the night.

Eating at maintenance for a week or two might be just the break you need. Depending on the level of your deficit, if you go right from deficit to maintenance you will notice a scale weight increase (water, mostly) though, and if this is going to freak you out then don't jump right to maintenance - pick a spot below that,…

It's not surprising that you are hungry four hours after breakfast 1. I eat "second breakfast" frequently. Just work your fueling around your calorie allotment so that you eat when you are hungry. If you aren't hungry at 5, don't eat - have a cuppa with your husband and eat when you ARE hungry.

I began "maintenance" at the end of March - 147.5#. My average daily calorie intake has been hovering around 1800 (FWIW, MFP calculates my sedentary calorie maintenance @ 1540, and I eat my FitBit-tracked walking calories back). My weight this AM was 146.2. I am 5'6" and 64 yo.

Shortbread and fruit provide a lot of flavor, more to be had from local, in-season fruit than stuff that's been imported and has been designed to be able to withstand sitting around without looking spoiled. How I make it, the topping also includes grated lemon peel. It truly is delightful. Edited to include a link to a…

While I was eating at a deficit, there was 7 hours between noonish lunch and dinner ... I spread my calories out in such a way as to have a late-in-the-day snack - an apple, or fat free greek yogurt, or both.

Now is not forever. What I mean is, while you are actively working to reduce your weight, you will be making choices about what and how much of any given food to eat with an eye toward minimizing excess calories to continue at a deficit. This may mean saying "no thank you" to some things, or having just a taste, or…

Consuming 1800 calories a day should lead to a weight loss for someone of your size, I would think. And you say you don't want to cut calories further (which makes total sense to me if in fact all your tracking is pretty accurate). I guess the only answer really is to move (walk) more each day. And find some heavy things…

Those look AWESOME!

Awesome data, and awesome healing. WTG!

That's the spirit!

This is exactly what I do, and if I do intervals at the gym or lift for an hour, I log that separately. It all seems to work fine. With regard to the original question - I eat enough to fuel my day adequately - over a rolling 30 day horizon when I was still in losing mode, the average was 150-200 under the daily burn. Now…

This article is a couple of years old but there seem to be some suggestions from the pro tour guides :) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/travel/shoes-the-pros-use.html?_r=0

Why can't you log the day after the fact?

I keep it simple - all exercise is tracked in FitBit (steps that are automatic, and logged exercises which require start time/duration) and all food/water is tracked in MFP.

The issue I have with meal replacement shakes instead of meals on a regular basis is that they lack the minuscule nutrients found in real food, and vitamins and minerals are usually added and not in proportions that would be found in actual food, nor are they bio-identical. But I would say that MR are better than no food.…

It may be that your weekend maintenance eating is causing more water-weight gain that is masking fat loss.

When I eat cheese, it's full fat because I like the taste. I eat 16-24 oz of plain greek yogurt a day - 8 of those are full fat because it helps me meet my fat macros, and I drink a glass or two of 2% milk daily - I like it better than skim and as long as I am within my calorie allotment no reason not to.

I second the idea of a sports medicine doc - Also, make sure that you have proper footwear - if you have over-pronation that will put stress on both knee and hip.

Ah :) for me, the "fizz" was what I wanted!

You can worry all you want but it won't help. Saggy skin is a normal byproduct of large weight loss. The degree that it moderates over the following year really depends on genetics, and life-style choices that affect skin (such as smoking and sun exposure). Exercise will help with muscles which might improve the look, but…

To the OP, you probably shouldn't make a habit of it, but it's not gonna hurt you every now and again. And basketball, especially if you are playing with fast, competitive players, burns a LOT of calories, posters, so an active day that additionally includes a few hours of bb is gonna be a big-burn day.

You can take any kind of fruit juice and make a spritzer with club soda - it's not super low calorie but it's refreshing. Flavored carbonated water was my "transition" from soda - it's 0 calories usually (I liked Karbrunn or La Croix)

Just carrying around infants and toddlers will put a strain on you - maybe that is weight lifting enough for the time being. I think you are wise to stop "workouts" for the time being as well - don't underestimate that something as simple as brisk walking will be helpful in overall conditioning, and make sure you have…