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As others have said, this doesn't make sense. You can't be in a significant deficit for 2 years and maintain weight. Do you mean you consume 2000-3000 calories? Not that your deficit is -2000-3000.

If you had a 3000kcal deficit 6 days a week, you would be losing almost a pound a day unless on day 7 you eat a huge surplus. Is there a typo there somewhere?

And we are telling you it doesn't work like that. Exercise doesn't cause weight gain. You need to be eating more calories than you burn, over a period of time. If eating more didn't work for you, you weren't eating enough for your activity level.

Are you weighing all food? Using cups? Estimating and eyeballing portions? Do you try to make sure you choose accurate database entries, not someone else's homemade recipe for "lasagna" or "soup" etc.? When you say weekends go off track, how many calories over? I know I can cancel out my week deficit if I'm not careful…

You also didn't answer this part yet, and it's really important: How accurately are you tracking your food intake? While you can create a deficit from exercise alone, it's difficult. You really need to pay attention to the calories you intake as well.

How many calories does MFP tell you to eat if you enter your stats and select "lose 1lb per week"? Note that the way MFP is designed, you should then eat back additional exercise calories, but as you have discovered using the fitbit heart rate monitor for weights will not give you an accurate number, so you'd need to eat…

How are you calculating your calorie burn? 400-500 calories sounds like it could be a lot for weights. How accurately are you tracking your food intake?

Cooking, as long as it's followed by eating the food in a way that puts you at a calorie surplus :)

Have you experimented with eating some of your exercise calories the day after your longer runs/on rest days when you are hungrier, rather than on the day of the exercise if you are less hungry then?

You can follow the MFP calories goal and macro split, IF you have set a reasonable loss rate. With 20lbs to lose, don't select the fastest weight loss rate but I would suggest choosing "lose 1lb per week". In addition, note that MFP is set up with the activity level accounting for your normal day to day life, excluding…

So you want to have a "casual attitude " towards calorie counting and not take it too seriously or accurately, yet at the same time you expect a large, quick weight drop? Honestly, I think your progress so far is good and it's just your expectations that need adjusting. 3lbs a week IS fast, especially for someone being…

Yeah, this is what I do too, it's much cheaper!

Provavly water weight, yes. And if you went to the bathroom... But these are really minor things, weight fluctuates all the time so you can't really draw any meaning from that.

What are you eliminating and why? Many of these diets give you lists of what you can and cannot eat. A dietician might also be helpful if you're trying to solve a particular issue by changing your diet.

How many calories are you eating?

No, it can't be that you're not eating enough, as you said you must be eating at least the same number (to maintain weight) or more (gain) calories than you expend.

2500 calories in protein shakes and toast would require a lot of shakes and toast.... Exercise is good for health but the only way to lose weight is to eat fewer calories than you burn. If you're not controlling your diet, you're likely eating too much. Try keeping track what you eat for a few weeks and staying in your…

Yes, there are several days with meals missing as well. Did you really only eat breakfast a few days ago and nothing else? Do you sometimes have just a hot chocolate for dinner? It looks like making your logging more accurate might be the first step.

Are you also logging your cheat days? How many calories over your goal are those usually?

If you're using MFP the way it's designed, the calculations are based on eating your exercise calories.

What makes you think you have messed up your metabolism? What does messed up mean, for you?

Sounds like this BA.2 version of omicron has been around for a couple of months but was just less prominent: www.newscientist.com/article/2306416-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-fast-spreading-ba-2-omicron-variant/amp/

We have told you this over and over and over and over and over again. I am reporting you as spam now, it's too much. If you're not a bot, actually read what people have spent time and thought explaining to you or stop wasting our time.

I have wondered the same...or someone trolling us.

Oh, now I really want a ginger biscuit!

Eat what MFP tells you, including at least some of the additional calories you burned by exercising.

You buy individually portioned packs of butter in the US? Usually we buy about 250 at a time...

What do you mean how it works? Fasting for 48 hours would mean not eating for 48 hours.

What is your MFP activity level set at and how many steps do you do on average? Maybe you're more active than the MFP baseline.

It sounds like you are counting your work twice: if you have already selected very active because of your job, you shouldn't then be adding your job again separately as 8 hours of exercise. It's giving you extra calories for the same thing.