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On the contrary, mine is definitely a motivator for me but it's personal, for you it may not be. Give it a try without the fitbit and see!

You also posted 2 threads that you think you have an eating disorder. Please don't give people advice and seek some professional help for yourself.

One hundred thousand or one million? There must be a technical glitch somewhere to get those numbers. Can you post a screenshot?

What's a form check? And where are you? This is a global site, not sure the answer is the same the world over.

You can track macros on the free version. What are you looking for from premium? Just worth checking so you don't pay of you don't need to.

OP, this can be an important part of the puzzle: how accurate is your food log?

This doesn't make sense - if MFP says you need 1650 calories to maintain your current weight, your TDEE can't be 400 calories lower than that. Your TDEE is all the energy you use in a day so if you eat at your TDEE, that is the same as maintenance.

How tall are you, how much do you currently weigh and how much are you trying to lose?

It could help, IF it put the person at a calorie deficit. Same as intermittent fasting, or mindful eating, every diet or eating approach only results in weight loss if you have a calorie deficit and end up consuming fewer calories than you burn. The problem with these methods is you are guessing how much you're eating and…

False. Your body is burning calories 24/7, and it doesn't just burn what you ate 5 minutes ago.

You're using Fitbit wrongly. Take the total number of calories it says you burned in a day - not the active/exercise calories but the total daily burn, don't subtract anything! - and then minus the calories you consumed. That's your deficit.

Told by whom? Based on what? Eating 2 or 4 or 6 times a day also makes absolutely no difference to weight loss.

This, no need to subtract your BMR

If you lost weight at 1600, then 1600-1800 can't really be maintenance (at least not the lower end). I think your own experience is showing that you can eat more to maintain, so try upping it a bit to avoid going to bed hungry.

What does not seeing much progress mean? How much have you lost over the last 4 weeks, and how much do you need to lose in total?

@frontline_freddy How are you getting on?

True, and on top of that I'm sure many on this side of the world (including me) have no idea what a "quart" or a "cup" is!

Are you in a calorie deficit?

Apart from beer and milk, in my experience in the UK most things are in ml, and even those in pints likely have the ml amount on the label too. If you're thinking about something like a beer served in a pub, you can add the word "pint" when you search and many options come up. Perhaps this works for milk too, I'm not sure.

Not necessary for liquids like drinks, but for food, yes.

You can also cut the same number of calories that would be in that meal at any other time of day and it will have the same result on fat loss. Simplified: if you are in a calorie deficit, you lose.

If it's just a latte, selecting a latte from a comparable coffee shop chain is probably close enough.

You've already asked this question and been told that it doesn't work like that, it's not one linear line of weight loss and you won't lose every day/week in a consistent, predictable way.

I understand the frustration, and as you said it may be that your body just needs more time to adjust to all the changes. How many calories are you aiming for and what kind of deficit does that put you in? Is it roughly tracking with the amount of weight you've lost over time (e.g. 1lb per week, 0 5lb per week)?

Not safe. Or possible most likely.

Better for what? Weight loss? Health? Energy levels?

No, this is totally wrong.

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