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I lost 75 before getting pregnant, at which point I had a gain of 17, and now am back to just a butt hair short of 70. I did take the first year of my daughters life for maintenance, as my breast milk supply did not agree with any deficit at all.

I didn't see anyone else address this, but I just skimmed through replies. The "if every day were like today" is trash. It's intended to be fun and motivating, but in 3 years of logging every day, it's never been right. Many people don't complete their diaries, it's not something you have to do.

I agree with this - in fact one of the things that led me to initial success was learning in Anatomy and Physiology how quickly our taste and smell senses adapt - nothing will taste as good as it does the first bite. So if that first bite isn't everything I want it to be, I give it to one of my kids and find something else.

If you are plugging the information into the app, your deficit is already calculated for you. If you're using MFP correctly, you've plugged in your age, sex, height, weight, and goal. If you gave a goal of 2lbs per week, that's a 1000 calorie daily deficit. Which means MFP expects that going off of the activity level you…

T25, Leslie Sanson, Pahla B fitness. I just looked up some beginner buti yoga videos on youtube I haven't tried yet but look fun.

Every summer. I combat this by eating 2 meals - early breakfast and late dinner. Sadly I live in the Inland Northwest, and it's more like April around here - windy, rainy, 70!

I don't find it too big/bulky. I think that I definitely do not use it to its potential, and probably should have just stuck with my alta hr. I like that I can tell it what kind of activity I am doing, and I like that it tracks my cycles so I don't have to have a separate app for that. I think it's definitely for people…

I used to work in Endocrinology and it was not uncommon to hear of patients passing them whole... this was 3 years ago so I don't know if they've changed anything. But I definitely would not want to take a medication that I just sent on a tour of my GI tract just because it might help things that are already okay get…

If your TDEE is 2600, 2100 is a 500 calorie per day deficit, and you'd loose 1lb per week on average, if all your maths and logging is correct. The energy has to come from some where else if its not coming from food.

I took phentermine for a month. At the end of that month I had lost 20 lbs, and my resting heart rate, first thing in the morning without even sitting up was 150bpm. I stopped taking it, gained back 12 lbs, and then found MFP. 62 more pounds down.

There are so many threads. So many. How long have you been at this? How are you measuring your calorie intake and output? Are you weighing all solid foods? Are you eating back your exercise calories, and if so, how much? Weigh your solids, measure your liquids. Eat back 50-75% of your exercise calories. Weigh under the…

2nd brushing your teeth, that almost always helps me.

MFP works great as long as you tweak it to work with what your goals are. You can set it to maintenance or gain 1/2-2lbs per week. First, talk to your provider about what your calorie goal should be and then set MFP from there. I used it all the way through my last pregnancy, and as I was already obese, kept my weight gain…

When I got pregnant with my youngest, I was 190. I tried to eat around 1900 calories a day, which was maintenance for sedentary me. If I was hungry, I ate more. If I was not hungry, I did not force myself to eat just to eat. I walked, did yoga, and swam. I kept my weight gain at around 15lbs.

Sounds like OP was putting a whole bunch of peanut butter, likely using slices of bread that were more like 120cal a slice (so 240 just in bread), and all nut butters add up quick. Using a 100 calorie sandwich thin, and weighing out your nut butter (aren't most 2tsbp servings 190?) and weighing out your jelly... sounds…

My husband likes the Sarah Lee 45 calorie. I usually prefer the wider varieties and fold it in half. Sometimes, an english muffin, sometimes sandwich thins, sometimes pitas.

This will be my 10 year old as an adult.

Maybe now is a good time to take a break and find maintenance for a little bit. Get an idea of how much food/activity you're going to need long term to stay where you want to be. I haven't been where you are at, but I lost 70lbs, got pregnant and gained 17, and then maintained for a year while breastfeeding. I still had…

I have no solution for you. Anecdotally, my co-worker used to have a FitBit, then got the Apple Watch, and now complains daily that she misses the FitBit app and says its much better, and considers being that guy who wears one on each wrist.

We recently tried Chilly Cow, and it's my favorite of all the brands. I hear the bars are garbage though. We tried the Brown Butter Salted Caramel and the Chocolate Brownie Batter and enjoyed both. https://chillycow.com/?gclid=COPQl__8_doCFYiHxQIdkYYATw&gclsrc=ds ETA: Instead of pints, they come in 2 realistic serving size…

I don't follow any rules, I joke that I do "modified" intermittent fasting. Most days, I just drink a couple cups of coffee with creamer until noon. This helps me stave off my hunger until lunch. It may not be IF, but it helps me stick to my calorie goal, which is my only purpose for it. If you have others, that might…

Regardless of whether you think it's quite a lot or not, it's really not. Safe, sustainable rate of loss is considered 1% of your body weight per week. And sure, your doctor may have told you a higher percentage is okay, but in general doctors weight management training is pretty abysmal. Sure, you can hit your target…

The number MFP gave you goes based off of your activity level. If Fitbit adjusted it, it means you moved more than you told MFP you did. So you should eat back at least some of those calories - 50-75% is the usual recommendation.

How are you measuring those 1300 calories? How long has it been since the scale moved?

Late to the party. Back in my rebel kid days, when I smoked, I was out on a break having a cigarette and a rando nurse I'd never seen before said "those things will kill you" as she walked by. I dropped my jaw to the ground and threw my cigarette on the ground, dramatically stomping it out. "WHAT?!? NO! WHY HAS NO ONE TOLD…

Agreed. Just because they aren't talking right now doesn't mean it won't get caught up. When I first started using a tracker and MFP, it would frustrate me. My solution would be to log my exercise into MFP manually, and then delete it once they caught up.

If you're truly burning 4000 calories a day, yes, eat 3000 for a 1000 calorie deficit. The only way to know for sure that this is actually what is happening is to try it for 4-6 weeks and see if you're losing faster, slower, or staying the same.

After talking with my OB and agreeing that less than 20lbs would be an appropriate goal, I calculated my sedentary maintenance calories and set that as my goal for each day. If I exercised, I ate every calorie back. If I just wasn't hungry, I didn't force myself to hit calorie goals, and if I ate my goal and was still…

Mine is syncing again, appears to have resolved. At least for now

Think long term. This is forever. So whatever changes you make, make sure you are ready for them to be forever.