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It literally just happened today. Once the period is over, off it all comes!! The stinky part is the rest of the month it doesn't move!!!

Exact same situation for me!! About 2 weeks before my period starts, I completely stop losing and remain the same weight, literally to the 1/10 of a pound and as soon as my period is over, off comes the 1-3lbs I should have lost from those weeks. I have not even the slightest understanding of why, but it's that way every…

Mine is my drivers license weight, from when I was 16. I'm only about 9 lbs. away now!

I live in Italy right now, the land of amazing coffee and sometimes I just miss my plain old American drip coffee. I have awesome friends that send me over coffee creamer, since it doesn't exist here and I ration it out, tablespoon by tablespoon. Believe it or not, when I first started doing that, I was amazed at how many…

That is exactly me too!! 28lbs in 6 months! It's going just fast enough to keep me motivated but not so fast that I'm starving myself all the time. Good job!!!

Thanks everyone!! Such kind words!! It was just a nice perspective-giver to me that even though the scale is sometimes discouraging, we keep pressing on!!!

I want to be a good example to my daughters. We live in a beauty obsessed culture and I want to model a healthy body and make smart food choices for them to learn by example. Plus I really like feeling strong and seeing what my body is capable of!

I had a 9 week plateau after losing 22lbs and it turned out, I wasn't eating enough. I stuck with 1200 calories religiously and it worked for a while but as my body got stronger and I started exercising and lifting harder, I needed more fuel. The only thing that broke the plateau for me was finally fueling my body!

Is it bad to wear it on your ankle??

I feel your pain on this one! I am at 1lb a week goal, starting with 1400 cal and fitbit added another 1219 calories on top of that, to have me eating 2619 calories today! That seems nuts!!!! Now, I did an hour of hard core weight lifting, and have walked over 13,000 steps already, but even then, it seems excessive! I try…

By insane, I meant that I always get at least 800 calories back. Sometimes as much as 1200. I'm a 15000 a day stepper (but I live in Italy where you HAVE to walk everywhere), I do heavy lifting and a kickboxing class 6 days a week. So even though I'm active, sometimes this still seems like a lot of calories to get back. I…

Kidominos, what did you have your activity level on mfp set on? I keep seeing people saying I should trust my fitbit, but it's giving me back an insane amount of calories!! Do you log exercise too??

I do have a hrm and I wear it for every workout. When I log in my exercise, I enter the calories that my hrm says. So if you wear your hrm, do you enter your exercise into fitbit after? Then what do you have your MFP goal set on? It seems that on every level I've set it on, fitbit has still been giving me back a ton of…

That's what I mean about so much conflicting info! I am a fitbit group member and there are so many threads that talk about setting the activity level as sedentary. So, I tried it. And no one in their right mind would eat back that many calories!!! :smiley:

Thanks so much everyone for the ideas!! The food that you see that isn't measured, is either a specific recipe that I entered, product for product, gram for gram, or something that is already pre-measured (like the protein powder). The serving for that is one scoop, which is what I use every time, to the gram. The cake was…

My goal is currently set at 1lb a week and on sedentary. I have no idea if I should set it on sedentary when I'm not, but I read several posts that said to, so I thought I'd try it. Should I change that?

Yes!! I live a bit further south but it's the perfect city for a day trip!

Some of the food is in Italian though so beware!! :smiley:

I did.

If I'm doing TDEE -20%, that puts me at 1709 cal a day. Even if I don't put in my exercise calories, I'm still getting around 7-800 back from fitbit. There are some people that are adamant that you need to eat back your calories, because that's how MFP was designed, but then others say not to. What's a girl to do??!!

I have a food scale and weigh everything religiously!! There are no surprises there. As far as 1800, that's me eating back maybe half of my calories. My net calories are almost always in the negative. So should I just ignore all of my fitbit/exercise calories? I'm honestly not sure that I can do that much physical activity…

Thanks! I had a feeling that I was probably depriving myself, but it seems so counterintuitive to eat that many more calories when your body is used to eating less. It seems like so much! Today already, fitbit has given me an extra 733 calories back. That's crazy!!

Hi everyone! So from what I'm reading, I am to only enter my activity into the fitbit and food into mfp. Correct? The amount of calories that my fitbit is telling me to eat is a LOT extra and it seems like too much! I lost 22lbs. pretty quickly by using mfp and starting to exercise regularly, but now I have been plateaued…

I started doing them in October, too. I especially love the Livestrong series that she does, because they are all different lengths and intensities, for days when I have more time or less time. Plus I love how I feel afterwards! Are you still enjoying them??