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I will usually, when eating someone else's home cooking, look for the highest homemade entry. If I can't find one, I'll try and build it piece by piece. Last ditch effort, a similar meal restaurant style, because I'd rather log too many than not enough.

No. If you love your pet, spend more money to feed them than that! Purina is constantly in class action lawsuits for using ingredients that make animals sick, and/or kill them, including under their off shoot brand Beneful, which is anything but. Op - YES SAVE YOUR BACON FAT. I cook bacon on a sheet pan just so I can pour…

One thing you can do if you don't trust it is sit down and write down everything you would normally eat honestly. The amount of food you ate to get to the point that you need to lose weight. Total those numbers up as accurately as you can. 1800 will make more sense. I usually tell people to not change anything for a week…

Please, share links proving this.

Echoing all of that. At the minimum mama, it took 9 months to put it on, it's going to take 9 months to come off. And depending on how old you are? Shoot. I recovered from my pregnancies at 19 and 21 WAY FASTER than I did my pregnancy at 31, and I took much better care of myself this time. Babes is 8 months old, and even…

How much water are you drinking? How dark is it? Do you have regular follow up with nephrology or oncology? Probably a better question for your doctor, honestly.

Your calorie count is assuming you're not exercising. So if you do, yes you should eat. A lot of us like to eat back a portion of them to leave buffer for inaccuracies in either our calories in logging or calories out estimates. 50% is pretty common. Do you feel good at 1380? How far is always under? I recommend sticking…

If having a big meal makes you feel guilty, try instead building a smaller treat in each day. Having something regular to treat yo'self may help you get rid of the guilt. Think of it like this - you're trying to learn how to lead a healthy balanced life style in the long term. And in the long term, being 100% on point…

Really depends on where you started. At 270, It took me hitting about 230 before I saw it in the mirror/felt in my clothes.

I've found the intervals I'm most comfortable eating at - I have coffee in the morning, and then have a snack around 10-1030, lunch near 1, a snack between 3 and 4, dinner between 6 and 7, and sometimes an evening snack between 8 and 9:30. If I find myself hungry not near those times, I try and have a big glass of water…

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I used to. I would not log days I was "bad". I'd take whole weeks off of logging because I wasn't on track. It didn't work. One day, I decided to log it. Even though my goal was like 1600 and I netted 2200 that day, I logged it. And the next week, I still lost. A little less than expected, but I still lost! That helped put…

Nope, you just have to go into your diary settings and allow negative adjustments. Personally, I don't like them.

Echoing if you haven't seen Endo to get a referral. And on the bright side with type 2, once you find your balance and continue to lose weight it is very possible to manage it without insulin or other medications. Get your blood sugar under control, and then worry about getting the weight off. It can happen. It may be a…

The leggings I wore to walk the dogs last night with my husband were "falling off of you babe!", and I'm at the point where I can really consider switching back down to my medium scrub pants and large tops instead of the large pants and xl tops I've been rocking since back from maternity leave. One day, my pants and tops…

Yes, I did everything on both the mobile and the website.

Medical person here - we like under 100 fasting. I wouldn't blink at a 101 fasting reading one time. What did she have for dinner? Was it carbalicious? Are you 100% your teenage daughter was fasting? One reading is no big deal. Especially 2 pts over normal.

It's half your body weight (pounds) in ounces that is being thrown around these days. So for a 74kg person, it'd be about 81.5 oz of water. If you buy into it.

Big package of chicken breasts in the crockpot for a few hours shreds really nicely for sandwiches, tacos, salads, anything you can think of putting shredded chicken on/in.

Before I got my HRM, I put the exercise into MFP and manually overrode the calories to be half what MFP estimated. Then I ate most of those back.

I used to. I even had some ridiculous app that let me record multiple weights a day. It felt obsessive after awhile. Now I do it in the morning. And sometimes in the evening before bed if I had an off day, either food or activity wise, just for s and gs.

My pediatrician said that babies get gas - there is no real proof of correlation or causation of foods and gas with breastfed babies. Bottle fed babies get gas too! Once I quit worrying about causing gas in my nugget, my life was MUCH easier.

The general rule of thumb is 500 for exclusive breastfeeding - your baby takes in no solids, no formula, just breastmilk. Once you add solids or forumal, most women do 250-300 from what I understand. You can add it as excercise, or search the food database for breastfeeding and it will add negative calories.

The general rule of thumb I have seen is every 10lbs.

I started out obese, with the approval of my doctor, set about to keep it under 20lbs. I gained 15. I set my calories at maintenance for the entire pregnancy. If I was hungry and went over, I went over. If I wasn't hungry and didn't eat, I didn't eat. But I tried to keep my 7 day average right around maintenance. I walked.…

For me the scale didn't start moving until I stopped adding the BF calories. And even then, I decided to take it slow. I'm averaging about 0.5 a week right now. Any more than that, and I was compromising supply. It took me about 4 months to find the right balance for my Chunk and I, but we got there.

I wouldn't worry about it - if it was really elevated they would want to start you on something. I'm not sure about the link you posted, but I would keep doing what you're doing. You'll likely see better numbers as time goes on! ETA: Obviously, speak to the nurse about any thoughts/recommendations. But if the doc didn't…

Take progress pics! When I get discouraged, I love looking back at 270lb me. It reminds you how far you have come. And definitely get a scale.

Not so much a surprise, because I knew they were high calorie, but muffins. I can't tell you how many times pre-MFP I grabbed a muffin over a donut thinking it was the healthier option. They really are just ugly cupcakes.

I think this is a really helpful post! I have always kept mine at sedentary because I didn't really know if my activity level was high - I read somewhere that you're only "very active" if you're hitting 11k steps outside of purposeful exercise (please don't ask me to cite, it was years ago and just one of those weird…