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Did one bad meal cause you to gain weight in the first place? Will one good meal cause you to lose it all?

Figure out what fills you up. A big plate of veggies, and I'm stuffed for hours. My husband needs protein. I could make him a mixing bowl of salad and if it doesn't have chicken or steak, he's ready to eat his hand 40 minutes later. For those just starting out, I think it's best to not change anything. Just log everything…

MFP thinks that running for that long at that pace burns x amount of calories. Then, garmin chimes in on how much you have burned that day and if it's more than MFP thinks based off of logged calories, you get a greater adjustment. How many steps are you averaging a day outside of purposeful exercise? Make sure its…

My coworker, who I have watched eat larger portions than she is logging, eat out and not log, throw a whole week away over one bad day etc etc, has been maintaining the same weight for about 5 months. Today she has a free consultation here: https://spokaneweightloss.info/ and I am SO EXCITED to hear what crap they feed her.

Everything DomesticKat said. The guidelines I learned were 500 calories a day for exclusive breastfeeding, 250 once your baby starts solids or any other form of supplementation.

I'm only this accommodating because I don't want my 10 and 12 year old daughters thinking they have to eat stupid or skip meals to be healthy. And the paying for his entirely separate meals on top of feeding myself and the 3 kids in the house. If it were just he and I, I'd let him torture himself. In reality... this will…

I realize that his way is cost effective. However, when you factor in meals for 4 other people that don't only want to eat chicken rice and veggies, that's where the budget issue comes into play.

Measurements besides the scale will help. As will progress pics. Some times the number on the scale isn't changing while other things are, and it's helpful to see progress in places other than the scale. Weight loss takes time. You're not going to see consistent change every single day. There are many things that impact…

Since you say you're skinny fat, you may be better served by considering recomp. Less focus on cardio, more focus on picking up heavy things.

The bread and butter. I remember being too good to eat it, and would make myself toast. Because, toast. Also, to sugar sandwiches, you guys don't even know until it was cinnamon and sugar toast. My mom always made spaghetti with the bread and butter, and a can of corn mixed in. My husband used to (and still does) eat milk…

You lost 25 pounds in the first couple of weeks because you weighed 355lbs. Talk to just about anyone who started out morbidly obese, and regardless of the means, they lost a significant amount of weight in the first month. I lost 20 at 270 in the first month just by paying attention to what I ate. I didn't even change…

We still go out at least once a week, and I employ all of the strategies above. Sometimes I chose a lower calorie option and enjoy it all, sometimes I get something calorie dense and take half for lunch the next day. I drink diet soda, water, or coffee.

I weigh daily and on Saturday the average weight is what gets updated in MFP. But I agree that if it's from some sort of score or bet or something, I would probably stick to lean meats and veggies the two days before and drink lots of water.

Before my fitbit, I'd find something comparable from the MFP database, and then I would take the number that MFP gave and cut that in half, and log that. I'd eat it if I was hungry as an extra snack or a glass of wine before bed.

I don't weigh prepackaged single portions. I figure any error there is made up for with me doing things like weighing a banana the night before with the peel, packing it for lunch, and then peeling it and not weighing the peel later.

I love budgetbytes so hard. We have yet to make something that wasn't a hit.

You can search the database for negative calorie entries, or add it as an exercise. There isn't a setting for breast feeding though. Depending how much your toddler still nurses, it may not even be worth it. My 16 month old nurses twice during the week, and maybe 4 or 5 times on weekends when I'm home. I don't count it at…

Finally broke the medium scrub pants and large tops out of the closet this morning. They'd been up there WAY too long.

Don't be frustrated. Here's the thing - you're getting really good advice from people who have done what you're doing and know where it ends up. Sure, you had an easy question you got an answer to, but you also raised a lot of concerns with things you think are unrelated. I have learned SO MUCH from these forums, and asked…

I eat my lunch at my desk, and have a loop that takes me just under 30 minutes to walk on my break time. I also have the t25 program I bust out sometimes, I do free videos on youtube, and every spring I do couch to 5k. I do plan to join a gym again as soon as it's feasible with our work schedules and our baby so that I can…

When I'm delaying a meal, I utilize water, black coffee, raw veggies, 100 calorie popcorn bags, and mints to help curb my appetite. I work days, 7:30 to 4, and my husband stays home with our 16 month old, and works 11pm-7am. They take an early afternoon nap, and then he goes to bed as soon as I get home, and it's important…

When I was just logging without a smart watch, I cut the number from MFP calculations in half and entered that. Then I ate all those calories.

I was just thinking I should have added that I weigh all the ingredients raw, and then weigh the entirety cooked to determine servings. But it seems to be working for me!

Okay, so don't up your activity level. Keep it sedentary. When you work out, eat back 75% of your adjustment from fitbit. So on an 1100 day, that's an extra 825. When you're actually sedentary, don't eat back anything. Or adjust your activity level when the kids are on break back to sedentary. At the end of the day, you…

I usually weigh after it comes out of the oven (I know how much my pans/pots weigh and subtract that), then I put the # of servings as the weight in grams. Then, when I dish it up if it's 267g its 267 servings.

Do you normally hit upwards of 10k steps without purposeful exercise? It may be helpful to re-evaluate your activity level. Seems like that is the first place to start. For example, I used to keep my MFP set at "sedentary" because some days at work I pretty much sat, and some days I ran and it seemed safest to do things…

If you think it's fat gain, do the math. So say you see a 3lb bump one day. Figure out what approximately your TDEE was for that day - lets say it was 2200 and you accurately tracked 1800, but in that 1800 you had more salt than usual. Or maybe you accurately tracked 1800, but it's about to be your TOM. For that bump to be…

Tracking my cycle helped me a lot when it comes to this. I know when I can expect a change in appetite, and learned ways for me to combat it - for me and many others, I just eat at maintenance those handful of days (2 for me). Usually accomplished by eating the dang cookie I crave.

I lost my first 50lbs without meaningful exercise. Now? I still CAN lose if I don't, but it's much harder. I find that when I work out in the morning, especially, I'm more inclined to make better choices during the day and feel better overall.

I try and updated every Saturday.