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It's a combination of: 1. Sometimes finding what food makes you feel full. It's not always about size of your meal but satisfying your appetite. Some foods, bread for example, I can eat like I'm a bottomless pit. I could sit in front of a mountain of toast and sandwiches and demolish them without touching the sides. But…

I remember working this out a few months ago and if memory serves it was something like 11k-12k calories. While I'd like to say that's an extreme outlier and happened infrequently that's just not true. It probably happened once every month or so so not that infrequent and even a "normal" weekend would typically consist of…

It took me a long while to come to the conclusion that much of my success this time round is that I began to view it as 'weight management' rather than 'weight loss'. This has had a few really positive impacts. To begin with it makes what I'm doing a lifelong thing rather than just a thing I'm doing to get to a goal.…

This is something I've found from personal experience. I'm not sure if this is a common thing but it definitely applies to me. The size of the treat I have doesn't matter as long as I get to eat all of it. I seem to be just as satisfied eating a little 15g fun size snickers as I feel after eating a full size 70g snickers.…

If you've got calories left over at the end of the day and you're not hungry, you have a few options. My favourite two are: 1. Save em. Keep those calories aside to be used the next day, or later in the week or on the weekend or whenever you need to have a few extra calories up your sleeve. 2. Eat cake (or chocolate or ice…

In my experience anything with a duration of less than 1 hour doesn't really matter much so comes down to personal preference and how you feel. I've had people tell me that can't stand working out if they've had something to eat so go fasted and others who say they feel uncomfortable exercising on an empty stomach so will…

The very purpose of MFP is to give you daily calorie in take. You've signed up for a tool so my advice is to use the tool you've signed up for.

That sounds great. What specifically do you need to do?

M/44yo/183cm(6'0") - Started in Jan 2018 at 160kg (352lb) - Passed the halfway mark 120kg (264.5lb) this Jan. - Currently 116kg (255lb). - Expect to pass my next milestone of under 100kg (220lb) towards the end of the year (probably around Sept - Nov) - Expect to get to my healthy Height/Weight target 83kg (182lb) some…

1) I'm still in the reduction phase of managing my weight. I now refer (or at least try to remember to refer) to what I'm doing as weight "management" rather than weight "loss" as I understand that there really isn't a finish line after which I can just stop but rather something that I will (and should) pay attention to…

Eating out is always a best guess scenario no matter what. Most people it seems just search the food database for something that's close as possible then pick an entry that's on the higher side just to be safe. It also depends on how often you eat out. Being off by a few hundred cals for 2 or 3 meals per week likely isn't…

A salad is easy, just weight each of the ingredients as you put them in the salad bowl. Soup would be the same if it was a single serve but if not it's not too much harder. You'd still weigh each of the ingredients as you're preparing the soup. This will tell you how many calories are in the whole lot. You then weigh the…

Yeah. I feel ya. I'm not the biggest fan of lifting either which is why I struggle to stick with it long term and usually go back to activities that I enjoy more (swimming, cycling, running, etc) but the benefits are undeniable so I get myself back into it as often as I can. The thing I'm liking most about the Greyskull…

You get what you focus on. You're entire post (so I'm assuming your focus) is on working out and exercise. Working out results in improved strength and fitness which you're seeing but not necessarily fat/weight loss. Pay closer attention to your calorie in take and you should start seeing the results you're looking for…

I've always been of the opinion that any reading you get from a home scale other than weight, is little more than a gimmick used to either make the scale seem more 'high tech' so you'll buy it over a more simple scale and/or to justify charging some pretty hefty prices.

If there's an MFP feature that has to be at the very top of the development list it has to be appropriate deficit limits. When you enter your height and starting weight it should calculate how much weight you need to lose in order to reach a normal weight range and limit the available rate of loss options to only those…

I do tend to pre-log my food but I just tested it out for you (android app and website) and I was able to add food items to yesterdays diary.

Lifting heavy is what will get you toned. That's high intensity (heavy weights) low/med volume, about 5 reps per set. The best way to do this is to use a compound movement linear progression program where you start with an empty bar and add small weights after each successful lifting session to achieve progressive…

I'm a night eater. No matter how much I eat during the day I'm always hungry at night so rather than fight my natural tendencies, making myself miserable by denying my cravings and generally make things difficult on myself I just eat my calories when I'm hungry. Light breakfast (10%-20% of my calories), usually skip lunch…

I noticed things at different stages. I started at 160kg (352lb) - At 10% lost 144kg (317lb) I noticed weird things like my wrist were smaller and I had to adjust my watch band and that my shoes were loser. - At 15% lost 136kg (299lb) I started to notice that my clothes were slightly (and only very slightly) loser. - At…

Summer is 9 months away. I'll worry about summer in December =)

When I started out and until fairly recently I was always poo-pooing my indicated healthy height/weight ratio as ridiculous, no way does that apply to me, if I was that weight I'd be sickly, it's just a generalisation anyway and not realistic for me. Now I realise I was kidding myself. The fact was that I dismissed the…

Add me to the chorus of voices saying they lost significant weight (44kg / 97lb) while eating pretty much the same stuff I ate while overweight. I live alone and can't/won't cook so pretty much everything I eat is "fast" or "packaged" and I feel like a million bucks compared to when I started. I'm making huge fitness gains…

I tend to find accurate entries that provide a '1g' serving increment. This way if I have say 238g of chicken thigh I can select the 1g entry and enter 238 servings.

I like to think of it less as water retention and more of water fluctuation. Think of it as the tide. It comes in, it goes out. Sometimes there's a king tide and it comes in more than usual and sometimes there's neap tide and it goes out more than is the norm but generally it ebbs and flows in a normal range. The biggest…

I'm so pedantic about scale placement I know which specific bathroom tile each foot of the scale should sit on for consistent placement =)

Man. I've never seen a food go back and forth between hero and villain like eggs. One minute they're the secret to longevity and the next they're a demon spawn that will kill you in your sleep.

Again, you're focusing on the wrong things. Go back and read through the responses in this thread and (unless I missed it) no where does anyone mention cutting things out of your diet, sticking to any particular foods or restricting carbs. Go back and read the advice that people are giving you and you'll find one common…

My advice is to stop looking for "the fix" and keep it simple. It sounds like you're looking for the magic bullet or the one secret that will change everything. Low fat, low carb, crash/starvation dieting, radical changes, etc. There's no fix, there's no magic, there's no secret otherwise everyone would be doing it and…

It's a calorie tracking app, not a consumption tracking app and I can't imagine any medication that would have sufficient calories in them to have a tangible effect on calorie intake. The closest I ever came was at one stage I was logging the fish oil capsule I was taking but even then I decided that the 10 or so calories…