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My guess would be that you're retaining water since you only started these workouts two weeks ago. Anytime I start a new workout, I tend to hold my weight steady for a few weeks before normal weight loss patterns start.

I generally just say "No, thank you".

This probably doesn't sound like help, but honestly you just have to make time. I worked full time during my undergrad chemistry degree, as well as had an hour commute each way. It was tough. Now I'm working on a graduate chemistry degree with an hour commute, it's even tougher. But I make time. My "relaxation time" is…

I set mine as sedentary, because if I didn't purposely exercise, I would walk less than 2,000 steps a day most days. My non-active day (Sunday) always ends up with my Fitbit taking calories away because I'm not active enough even for the sedentary setting.

I'm 6'0", looking to get down to 168. That's just an arbitrary number right now as I've never been under 270 as an adult, so it might go down more once I get closer to goal (still have 145lbs to lose, down 55 so far) and actually see what that weight looks like. I hope to get stronger as I lose more weight. My goal isn't…

A Fitbit can help if you want it to. It only gives you data. If seeing numbers will help you want to move more, it may help you. Mine helped me go from sedentary to walking 30+ miles a week because I like seeing my numbers go up. It all depends on how you use it.

I tend to grossly overestimate, and eat lighter for the rest of the day.

I always eat breakfast as I'm usually starving after my morning walk. But you don't have to eat it if you don't want it, meal timing doesn't matter.

Please ignore this post, OP. I'm sure the poster meant well, but it's full of misinformation. The timing of your meals doesn't matter. Eating before sleeping doesn't matter unless you find it affects your sleep. Losing 8lbs per month is not going to 'crash your metabolism', it's an acceptable rate of loss at your weight.…

I'm your height, weigh about 30lbs more, and am a woman. I lose between 2 and 3 pounds a week by eating up to 2500 calories on my most active days. So yes, you should be eating more. The clean/dirty eating part is garbage, though. Just get the macros you need to fuel your health and workouts.

I'm walking the same as I was before, usually between 5 and 7 miles per day, but this game is really making it more enjoyable. I just took over the gym in my town, still holding it a few hours later! #teammystic

I've collected data with my Fitbit for 3 months. I've tracked my calorie intake (through MyFitnessPal), my calorie output (through Fitbit), and my weight loss (with a physician's scale, weighing daily). It matches almost exactly, I'm losing slightly faster than predicted within a margin of 1lb.

I consider myself a food addict. Restricting foods (when I did keto for 6 months) made it so much worse. When I finally had a non-keto day of eating after 6 months, I was never able to get back to that way of eating. I kept telling myself "just one more day of eating normally and then I'll start keto again", which led to…

I started out with 200lbs to lose. I'm down around 55 now. Feel free to add me!

I eat most of my exercise calories back because I'm already at a 1000kcal deficit. If I didn't eat calories back, I would have had a 2000kcal deficit yesterday. I don't enjoy the light headedness and fatigue that comes with doing that several days in a row.

When you have enough of people considering themselves superior simply because they don't play a game it gets annoying rather fast. I've never really understood why some people have to express their distaste repeatedly for something they don't like. Instead of saying "Oh hey, it's a thread about Pokemon Go. I'm not…

Or that's just your ignorant opinion. I just went for a quick mile walk with a group of friends, we were all talking and laughing while catching Pokemon and stopping at the Pokestops. We were talking business the entire walk. Don't inflict your ancient outdated views on everyone else just because you can't hold a…

I purposely save half my calories for dinner + nighttime snacks, which are usually around 1000 calories together. It doesn't matter when you eat the calories as long as you stay in your calorie allotment.

Everyone gave you great recommendations, I'm just going to throw in that you have to make the time to do these things. I got through a BS in Chemistry while working full time, and am now in grad school working on my PhD. It's super easy to just accept that you're too busy and not do the prep (at least for me it was), but I…

I have the Fitbit One. I can say that it 100% motivates me. I like numbers, so seeing the data I get from it makes me want to walk more. I've went from sedentary to walking at least 3 or 4 miles a day for the three months I've had the Fitbit. Also, it helped me to see just how much I wasn't moving before. I have negative…

Is Fitbit showing your calorie intake as a different number than MFP shows? Because when I pre-log, Fitbit says I'm over my calorie intake because at that certain time of the day, it thinks I've eaten all the things I logged and so I'm "over intake". But at the end of the day it's fine, as long as it's not duplicating…

Your opinion on what is and is not attractive has absolutely no bearing on what another person wants for their body. That being said, OP, I second the fact that you're in unhealthy territory. Wanting to be underweight because of your friends tells me that you need better friends. If they're comparing you to themselves,…

1. Put your stats into MyFitnessPal. 2. Eat the calories they recommend by weighing all your food and being as accurate as possible about what you eat. 3. ??? 4. Profit (you'll lose weight)

I want to jump in on this part: Foods don't make you fat, unless you eat too much of them. All foods can be fattening if eaten in excess, though granted some make you fatter easier than others. Case in point: I had a Chick-Fil-A sandwich and waffle fries for lunch. It's fast food, something people usually term as being…

I actually have an easier time on the weekends. I'm at home all day so I can go walking every hour or two, which ups my calorie allotment. And I tend to not eat breakfast unless I get up and go walking, so that helps as well. When I'm not active it does get tougher, though. My Fitbit has taken away 200+ calories some…

I've taught general chemistry university students how to measure this in a low-tech setting. You burn a piece of food under a test tube full of water and measure the degrees of temperature change in the water, which correlates mathematically to the calories the piece of food contained.

I have a Fitbit One. It's pretty spot-on, based on over two months of accurate tracking of intake, expenditure, and my weight. The numbers match almost perfectly, I lost slightly more than the Fitbit's numbers said I should have. But I have my height 3 inches less than I actually am, as I was afraid of the Fitbit…

If you eat it, you count the calories. It doesn't matter if it's 100 calories of chips or a 100 calorie banana, the calories still matter.

I know about the 1% body weight per week loss, I experience a 3lb loss most weeks as I'm still (barely) above 300lbs. But hoping for a 3lb loss every single week from now until New Years isn't realistic, which is why I stated that the OP should instead aim for 2lb/week and be happy if it ends up being 3 instead.

You're trying to lose 74lbs in 24 weeks. That's 3.08lbs a week. And while, yes, it is possible at your weight (I started at almost that exact weight), it isn't really recommended. Why don't you set your loss at 2lbs/week, eat the calories MyFitnessPal recommends, and be happy with possibly being down 50lbs by the end of…