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I think most of us have had success eating the things that we love in controlled amounts. I lost 70lbs by eating what I wanted in reasonable amounts. I feel better when I eat nutritionally dense food, but that is not going to stop me from having ice cream at night or a burger now and then. Balance. And yes, my husband and…

Sounds like you should be checking out some of the threads on recomposition.

With my youngest, I started obese and really wanted to keep weight gain to a minimum. I started like you, having a plan of set calories to eat each day and found myself thinking holy cow, this is so much food. What I ended up doing was figuring out that my maintenance pre-pregnancy was around 2000. So, I made my goal a set…

I will add you - my nugget is 4 months old, I'm breast feeding (more pumping now that I'm back to work) and am one of the 40% Lisa mentioned. I'm really just going through the motions of what I would do when I'm not breastfeeding so it doesn't come as a shock. I've lost and gained the same 3lbs for the last month and a…

I don't consider the calories I get from just moving around - only those from intentional exercise. I eat back - if I'm hungry - what I earn from that. The 100 or so extra calories garmin gives me from moving around some days doesn't seem to make that big of a difference. I also do not look at the calories garmin connect…

Aside from being incredibly boring, at least its one of the more sensible bull *kitten* diets I've stumbled across.

Net 1800. Eating around 2000. I can't go lower than that or my breast milk supply drops. I walk and do t25.

skinnytaste.com is a favorite around here. budgetbytes.com is one I love for being cost effective. She doesn't include the nutritional information, and that doesn't seem to be a priority on her end, but I often enter the data in myself the night before so I can adjust my day accordingly.

Edit: I skimmed at first. Looked at it again.

That's the easiest way to do it, starting out. Be honest about your activity level though!

You're not losing slowly at all. Guurl, I've lost 2lbs in the last 4 weeks and I'm stoked about it. And I'm over 200lbs.

Oh man, that's so rough! I'm sorry. If you're gaining at a rate that your provider deems appropriate, I would just log what I ate, and not worry about what makes its way back out. The body is interesting during pregnancy - if you're missing a nutrient or calories, it will tell you loud and clear.

I definitely recommend using the app while pregnant - it's helpful to keep track of your intake to make sure you're not "eating for two" and to make sure that you and baby are getting enough! I gained 17 of 20 recommended lbs my last pregnancy and I logged every day. I did it mostly to make sure that I didn't get out of…

I used MFP to limit gain. I was 190 when I got pregnant, and kept my gain to 17lbs. It's been the postpartum loss that's kicking my a** though. I'm one of the lucky ones who dip in calories even a little and see a dip in breast milk supply. Oh well. Lost the weight before, will again, and I won't be nursing forever!

I haven't checked in since week 1! Starting Weight (1/1): 210 Today's weight (2/17) 204 - one lb off of goal. Goal Weight: 145 (158 at the end of the year for 1lb/week) This weeks successes: We figured out a system for getting a work out in together without a screaming baby - at least until the last 5 minutes. This weeks…

Highest recorded, 262. I'm guessing I hit 270 somewhere in there though. Lowest adult weight, 184 the morning I got my positive pregnancy result. Current, 204 as breastfeeding and weight loss aren't working well for me! Goal, 145.

There are a couple of ways. You can manually change your calorie goal to reflect that - so say MFP says 1600, manually change the # to 2100 in the settings. I don't like this, because at the end of the day it says you'll gain weight in 5 weeks. Which, every day of that, gets rough to look at. You can add it as cardio…

I either plan to eat lefties for the week, or on Sunday batch cook chicken or turkey and eat it with black beans and steamfresh veggies. And second to having a few lean cuisines in the freezer for days that nothing is going to plan.

I eat 5-6 times per day while breastfeeding, 4-5 when just losing. My husband can't eat at a deficit this way, and prefers to eat a light lunch, snack, and big dinner. It's whatever works for you and is easy to keep up with!

Adding you. I'm having a h*ll of a time with it - any time I dip too low my pumping out put drops. So far so good at 1/2lb a week.

I used MFP to track my intake through my last pregnancy. I didn't cut calories, I just kept up the habit of logging I had built losing weight during the pregnancy to make sure I was eating enough, and to not fall out of practice for when it came time to lose the baby weight.

Seriously, the best popcorn I have ever had. The black pepper one is ridiculous. As far as the subscription, it wasn't worth the $8 a week to me. Found a few yummy things - when the snickerdoodle pretzles pop up for $1 a box I buy them - but we cancelled after 3 boxes. Edited because quoting was wonk.

Similarly, I heard growing up that eating anything sitting down causes you to gain weight in your thighs. Because gravity.

It deletes 200 from what you have eaten. If you add all your cals up yourself, you should find that the number you get is 200 higher than the number MFP is showing. Other ways people do it is to manually add the number to their goal, or add it as cardio.

No, not if you didn't want to. Being active will help you keep the weight from coming back on. For me, I'm 5'4", and my goal is 145. At my current age, a sedentary activity level would mean that I can eat around 1720 and maintain without exercise. You would just need to figure out your numbers, and eat accordingly.

I'll add you too. I started at 262, got down to 190, had a baby, and still have 12lbs of baby weight to lose before getting back on track to 145 and recomp!

Figure out what your TDEE is, eat that. The same way you lost the weight, just a little more food.

After blood work, all of this is a no. And personally, I would only pay for lab work if logging accurately doesn't yield results.

The first thing to do is buy a scale and learn how to accurately track your intake. It doesn't matter what you're eating, if you're eating too much, you'll stay the same or even gain. Then make sure you're only eating about 50-75% of the calories you earn through exercise. If tweaks to your logging don't pan out, the next…

Second the carbs. I call it a carb coma. I used to work for a doctors office that had catered lunches often, and Qdoba was brought all the time. If I had rice and tortilla, I was dead the rest of the day.