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Do you mean change to active and then increase your activity to match? All else being equal, more activity will burn more calories.

BMR formulas (and by extension, TDEE) are just equations of lines fitted to data points. Roughly half of the data is going to be above the line (higher than calculated) and roughly half below the line (lower than calculated). It might be unfair but it's completely logical. We don't see very many people complaining on this…

I have a One and I find the app and graphs very motivating to get off my **** and out the door. And this post is my excuse to brag that yesterday I tabulated my calories burned according to Fitbit and calories consumed according to logging on MFP over 14 weeks. In that period I lost 10 pounds and my caloric deficit was…

But, but, in this one the poster is 65 and used to be underweight and in the other one she's 20 and overweight. Totally different. Like opposites. Couldn't be the same. No way, no how. Total coincidence that both have landed on the idea that all adult humans need to eat at least 2000 calories a day for health. And how…

Okay, I'm sucked in. "An adult needs at least 2000 calories to adequately function daily in order to be healthy. Anything lower than that is considered starvation according the world health organization." Please provide a source for the "adults need at least 2000 calories" claim. Articles that state it as a fact with no…

This caught my eye too. I don't think 5:2 is supposed to be a license to eat all the goodies you want on those five days, just that you get to eat more than you would if you were applying the same deficit every day of the week. See what the math tells you, maybe you'll find that the higher/lower approach is easier for you…

I'm going to guess 2,000 calories: Could be even more, I'm assuming the bacon was "supermarket thick" not "super premium thick", the bun was a little more substantial than a Wonderbread bun, and that the sauce was similar to a hamburger sauce, which is like thinned down mayonnaise. Maybe 2500 would be safer as a estimate.

Your average calories consumed over the last week is 2200 per day. With your stats, your daily maintenance amount would be approximately 2350 calories assuming 3x per week exercise. So if everything is 100% accurate you have a 150 calorie deficit and it will take more than 3 weeks to lose a pound. And oh yeah, nothing is…

The short answer is that you do not have a 5,000 cal deficit per week. Your total calories eaten February 1-7 was 15804, or 2258 per day, not "1600-2000" (Friday really killed that). If you are doing "somewhere between martial arts and yoga" every second or third day, you are lightly active at best so you are mistaken that…

There is no difference to weight loss between eating 1250 five days a week and 2000 calories two days a week, and eating 1464 calories seven days a week (assuming that 10,250 calories a week is a deficit for you). You won't be tricking your body into holding onto all of the calories or reducing your metabolism or any of…

Some of us are major tea drinkers and six cups a day (I figured OP is prelogging the whole day) is being kind to ourselves. Nothing wrong with that, it's hydration and at this quantity the milk adds a decent amount of calcium to your day. My husband and parents are English, tea is the fabric of their lives, and they drink…

Yes because I'm interested in how my actual weight loss over time correlates with my reported calories consumed and calories burned.

Just a thought, have you updated your goals as you've lost weight? I just ran the goal setting using my own height and age and the difference in maintenance between 328 and 260 pounds was 380 calories a day. That magnitude could wreak serious havoc on a weight loss plan if one continued to eat at their original calorie…

Are you looking at this? In the Calorie Breakdown bar click on the "lines" icon to the right of the pie chart icon.

Yep, add more fat. Seems surprising that you are adding cheese to everything and eating lots of nuts and butter and can't reach 1200 cal, but sure, every ounce of cheese, tablespoon of butter or peanut butter will add another hundred calories or so.

I started at 141 and my goal was 128 because that was my previous lowest adult weight. Once I got there, I've lowered my goal to 121 just because I'd like to see how I look, and to be able to arbitrarily say that I lost 20 pounds.

You say you gained ".4" pounds. Is that really 0.4 lbs? As in 6 ounces?

I hope you mean milligrams. Back to the question, cholesterol comes from animal sources not plants. Did your salad have cheese in it? Eggs or dairy in the dressing? Some beef mixed in?

Two thoughts: one, could you be pregnant? And two, have you recently started or stopped any medications? All of these have caused sudden food aversions and nausea for me.

Tim Hortons extra large double double is 320 calories. It's not two sugar packets and two creamer cups. They meter in the amount to match the size so all sizes taste the same. And they use 18% cream. My sister told me and added in horror "I was drinking two or three of these a day!" Now another family member works there…

Hot tea or herbal tea with sweet flavours (dried fruits and such). 0-10 calories per serving, they take a while to drink, and the heat, sweetness and acidity linger.

Actually, MFP's calorie estimator says that at your weight, 51 minutes of walking at a very brisk pace would only burn 281 calories, nowhere close to 1099. And many people here claim that MFP overestimates calorie burn. If this is the kind of overestimate you've been entering since November and eating all the calories…

You might consider if your calorie burns are inaccurate particularly for walking. For example, on Friday the 8th you had 1099 extra calories from walking 51 minutes. This sounds very high, and you ate back all of them. I know I've seen calorie burn estimators for walking somewhere, you might try searching for one to do a…

You have to place your phone on a hard floor surface and then stand on it so it can record your weight.

In August I benchmarked existing activity and I was averaging 7,500 steps per day. Over eight weeks I increased that to 14,000 average (and increased floors climbed from 10 per day to 40 per day). In that period I lost 3 pounds without consciously changing my calorie intake (so I can't rule out that it was reduced or…

Lock up food at night with cupboard locks, tying the refrigerator door closed, etc. In your sleeping state, this may impede you enough that you give up, or the extra effort to get at the food may wake you up enough so that you regain control. In a similar vein, rearrange your bedroom so that it isn't as easy for you to get…

This is going to sound shallow but everyone has their reasons. First, last spring I couldn't button some of my summer shorts and I had never used "I'm too fat for my old clothes" as a reason to buy new ones before, and wasn't going to start now. Then last summer I visited a bunch of relatives and nine of them had gained at…

Roasted seaweed.

Me too. I just imagine that cold water sloshing around in my empty stomach. David's Tea has a lot of blended and herbal teas with acidic/sweet/creamy flavor notes that satisfy a need for "something", with few or no calories.

I agree that it sounds like a sedentary lifestyle, but your actual results are more reliable than any activity guidelines. Maybe you burn more calories than average. The formulas for calculating basal metabolic rate (Mifflin-St. Jeor and the like) come from fitting a line to data. The actual data, though, would be…