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Echo to the other posters, save some calories for snacks at night. I try to keep around 300 calories free for some popcorn and fruit for nighttime snacks. If I happen to not eat them, it's a little extra deficit.

There is literally no way anyone here can know what's in that smoothie. Your best bet is to ask the people making it. They should completely understand your need to know the nutritional information.

My Fitbit One burns are accurate. If I don't eat back the calories it gives me, I lose more than the 2lbs/week I'm aiming for.

I lose from my shoulders, neck, and face first. I've lost almost 60lbs and I swear not an ounce of it has come from my hips/thighs.

Please don't drink 2.5 litres of water per minute throughout the day. Water intoxication is an actual thing.

Not only completely wrong, but also idiotic. If aspartame was proven to cause 'a host of cancers', it wouldn't be thrown into our drinks.

Skipping breakfast doesn't hurt anything. All you need is a calorie deficit to lose weight.

On days that I walk a lot, I eat back most of my exercise calories earned (usually around 400 calories above my calorie goal), and I'm still losing more than 2lbs a week. If you log accurately, eating back exercise calories is what you're supposed to do.

For what it's worth, I have a medical-type beam balance scale. It's very accurate and precise as long as it's calibrated to zero properly. I've had it for a few years and I've never had a weight change after getting off and back on.

I didn't look through your diary, so I'm not going to comment on that, but I do have some advice for weight stalls when starting lifting. When I started lifting moderately heavy (for me), my weight stalled for probably a month. And any time I would up the weights, it would stall again for several days. Starting a new…

I'm giving up celery for the rest of my life. It's a sacrifice, but I'll brave through it. (not at all related to the fact that the two times I've tried to eat it I wanted to puke at the taste)

Well, despite you being 'absolutely sure', you're actually wrong.

I'm not sure about the Charge HR, but I have a Fitbit One and have found it extremely accurate over the past two months. I've lost within a pound (in my favour) of what it reported that I should have lost.

Unless I'm reserving calories for a meal out, I tend to eat half my daily calories before dinner (breakfast, lunch, maybe a snack) and the other half for dinner, dessert, and a nighttime snack.

To everyone who helped, thank you! I have a few more weeks of data, and my losses match the math within a pound. I've included the sheets and graphs if anyone would like to see the numbers. Also not apologising for being a data nerd, spreadsheets are amazing. The first sheet is the last 2.5 weeks of data added to the data…

I wasn't talking about your goal weight, I was talking about your projected rate of loss. Which is unhealthy however you justify it.

A loss of 40 pounds in 2.5 months is not healthy.

Quick input here - exercise calories will not make you maintain, unless you are grossly overestimating them. MFP has your deficit built in the amount of calories it's telling you to eat. Not eating exercise calories will make your deficit bigger, possibly even too big if you're already eating the minimum amount of calories…

I don't agree that you should stop exercising. If you're not holding onto water weight then your body isn't in a caloric deficit. I'm the same age and almost the same weight as you, though 6'0" tall, and I eat anywhere from 1800 to 2400 calories a day depending on how much exercise I do, and I'm losing steadily.

I'm 6'0 tall and "severely overweight" at 320lbs. I've also been tracking my weight closely since buying the Fitbit and find it generally accurate. My deficit matches my rate of loss.

This isn't how it works, though. If you're set as Sedentary in MFP but take 10,000 steps in a day without doing a dedicated workout, do those steps not burn calories? To OP, I would advise you to eat back at least 50% of those calories. My calorie goal is the same as yours, and when I walk 6+ miles a day I can achieve…

Keto is not dangerous, there's no health reason to get off it after 3 months as long as you're watching your electrolytes and being smart about it. That being said, it's very restrictive and I personally found it non-sustainable because I like carbs. There are loads of keto-friendly desserts you can make, though! Just use…

By logging a number higher than the one shown in the food scale? It's not difficult. I do it as well, to give myself even more of a calorie buffer. Example: weigh apple, it weighs 134g. Log it as 140g. That's an over-estimate. It makes me feel more confident incase something was to be off somewhere else.

I just noticed the part about 2 weeks. If you've just started any new exercise routine, it can take several weeks (from what I've experienced) to start seeing results on the scale. Your body can retain a lot of water. Making sure you're drinking a lot of water can help with this, but you're still likely to retain a lot…

Do not drop to 1500 calories at your weight. With that out of the way, let me give you my stats for comparison. I'm 6'0" and 321lbs, down from 368, so almost the same starting weight as you. Even when I was completely sedentary (less than 2,000 steps a day) I never ate 1500 calories a day to lose. Your body at that weight…

You can lose weight eating carbs and fat, neither of which are bad for you or impact weight loss unless you've got some type of insulin resistance. All you need to worry about is portion control. Eat within your MFP calorie limit of whatever food is available to you. I'm in the same general food situation, and I can attest…

I'm in grad school now, and I spent my time as an undergrad losing and regaining weight due to stress eating. My advice is to plan ahead and set your mind on what you want to accomplish. You can usually make time for meal planning and exercise if you really want to (at least, I could when I had the motivation). But…

Eat smaller portions of whatever the rest of the family is eating, and add in walking if you need help staying under your calorie target. That's what I do, anyway, and it seems to be working.

I would eat too much, without a doubt. If you're sure you won't wipe out your weekly deficit, then you could try it. But I'd be careful. When I have a "cheat" day, usually Sunday, I still end up with a deficit because I can't stand the thought of eating loads when I log. If I didn't log, I would eat so much more.

Yes. I ate out last night, a lot of salty and fried foods. I still had a calorie deficit and was up 8lbs this morning. It's not going to stay, just like your water weight won't. Log what you eat and move on (and drink some extra water).