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8,000 steps is more than sedentary so yes, these are extra calories that you can eat if you want to.

What about an orthotic insert? It won't cure it but can change the weight distribution so that walking and standing don't cause pressure directly against the neuroma. Could help while you are waiting for surgery.

The Fitbit report tells you how much you were under or over your Fitbit plan deficit, not your absolute deficit.

My first thought too--isn't this bad for one's heart? You are eating too little. Please eat more. At the very least, you are at risk of fainting and injuring yourself.

I get the impression that where there are multiple entries in the database, you are choosing the lower calorie option. For example: Generic one banana (126 g) 75 calories. There are many other entries that say that a 126 g banana is at least 100 calories (assuming your banana is actually 126 g). You have Coffee mate at 30…

I use recipe builder, but honestly I usually eyeball the number of servings in the finished dish. For example, if I make a casserole, I will serve up four equal portions to my family, then look in the dish and estimate how many more servings of the same size are left, and make that my total number of servings in my recipe.…

Great news! I got a very similar result--like within 1% of theoretical. I actually wondered whether I had unconsciously biased my logging so that my calculated deficit would match actual weight lost, over a 14 week period. But that would be crazy, right? Or genius.

Best tell tale signs of diabetes, maybe, and might be present if one is on a low-carb diet, but not at all a general indicator or requirement for one to be burning fat.

The shelf stable kind has received more heat treatment than the chilled kind (longer time and/or higher temperature). So they will taste different but preference is a personal thing. Cashew milk is also good (Silk or Earth's Own), I think it tastes more nutty and more creamy/less gritty or chalky than almond milk.

There is no overlap. The Fitbit adjustment just reports how many calories it predicts you will consume that day. The activity setting in MFP doesn't matter, the end result should be the same. For example (these are my own numbers): MFP estimates TDEE at 1500 calories at sedentary. I choose 0.5 lbs/week, my calorie goal is…

Give yourself some time to get used to how you look. Your figure may not look like you thought it would, but with time, you may come to appreciate how it actually looks. Also, although some of us look at ourselves endlessly in the mirror and pick away at what we see as less than perfect (for me this list includes more…

I'm not sure what being Canadian with high taxes has to do with having to buy a scale that can read over 300 lbs. If you don't want to use scale weight as your measure, fine. But if you are serious that the cost of a higher capacity scale is the only thing holding you back, Walmart has a 400 lb scale for $19.96 and both of…

"Hey girl, random internet strangers don't care that I've gained weight, and their opinion holds a lot more weight with me than that of you, the person who knows me and presumably loves me. ".

I was just contemplating this myself. I got to the point of thinking about weighing the solids before and after, but worried about the water that the solids would absorb, then realized I was overthinking it, we are talking about something with 10-15 calories per cup. So I use a commercial low sodium entry. I'm pretty…

This does not negate CICO. If true, it means that your calories out has been reduced below the average. MFP and Fitbit use a formula to calculate CO for the average person of your height, weight, age and sex. If you aren't average, the formula isn't accurate for you. You have found a possible explanation for why the…

Better than bouillon is a very concentrated, salty base of beef, chicken, turkey, etc. It likely has a high concentration of glutamates, which make foods more satisfying and just tastier. I like them in small amounts to make gravies and sauces more beefy or more like turkey. Also they last forever in the fridge because of…

Deep fried cheese curds

Well, you can't be going over on all of your macros but not reaching your calorie goal. If going over one of your macros stresses you out, then change them to something that fits with the way you like to eat. I personally use 40 carbs/40 fat/20 protein. The macro split does not affect weight loss, but some people find it…

I recently tried a recipe from America's Test Kitchen (subscription site) where the potatoes were steamed instead of boiled before mashing. It brought out the natural potato flavour so well that they tasted great with a relatively small amount of butter añd milk (4 tbsp of butter and 3/4 cup of 2% milk for 2 pounds of…

Heck, even popped in oil popcorn is a great snack. 1/2 cup popcorn, 2 tbsp coconut oil, four satisfying servings at 112 calories per serving and the coconut oil is so flavourful you don't need butter.

Each bag is 3.5 ounces, and there are approximately 3.2 servings per bag. In other words, one bag is approximately 425 calories.

How much are you eating?

1. Stopped buying weekday lunches--it was so easy to rack up 1000+ calories. Lost five pounds in four months. 2. Got a fitness tracker and ramped up daily steps from 8,000 to 14,000 over two months. Lost another four pounds. 3. Started tracking calories on MFP. Aimed for 250-500 daily calorie deficit. Lost 11 pounds in…

Was it a nerve conduction study? The technician sticks electrodes on you and gives you progressively more severe shocks? (What a job!). If so, it wasn't bad advice, the doctor was ruling out a more serious nerve problem. I have idiopathic peripheral neuropathy in my feet and legs which is also very annoying at night, and I…

So you have an active lifestyle, plus exercise, eating 1200 calories a day, but have gained 8 pounds in 4 weeks. Water retention maybe? Which wouldn't be good either. Yep, see a doctor.

1. How long have you been doing this? If it's 3 weeks or less, be patient. 2. How do you sustain a 1000 calorie deficit every day? That suggests a minimum of 2200 calories burned every day. That is a lot for a 5'1" woman. Weight lifting and yoga aren't major calorie burners and the kickboxing is only twice a week. Do you…

I agree. It's not that your actual burn seems to be lower than what Fitbit is reporting, it's that the Fitbit calorie burn itself (which uses a estimation formula incorporating age, sex, height and weight) is just a depressingly low number. I'm 47, 5'7" and 122 lbs. Between my Fitbit and MFP logging, I've determined that I…

RMR is not your maintenance calorie intake. You multiply it by an activity factor to estimate your maintenance calories (total daily energy expenditure). For example, the factor for sedentary is usually given as 1.2, so for your numbers that would suggest maintenance at 1573-1880 calories per day. Subtract 250 for a…

You say you feel bloated all the time. Maybe you are intolerant to something in your diet. Is there anything you started eating for the first time? Have you drastically increased fibre intake versus what you were eating before?

You did not gain 9 pounds of fat in two weeks, so it can only be water and undigested food, and maybe the change in diet did cause it, or maybe that's your normal range of water weight fluctuation. For me, +9 pounds would be very abnormal (I weigh every day) and if it continued I'd be off to the doctor to rule out a heart…