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It sounds like your indulgence day every 4-6 weeks is fitting well with your overall plan. If your results are where you want them to be then it's working. Don't stress over it.

You can create a calorie deficit through reduced intake, increased exercise, or a combination of both. You've tried a 500 calorie deficit and that hasn't worked for you. It's perfectly reasonable to try a 300-400 calorie deficit to see how that fits your desires and lifestyle. Weight loss is a marathon, not a sprint.

Apples get about 80% of their calories from sugar.

If you're truly all-or-nothing, then you'll have to go with nothing. Log everything before it goes into your mouth. That gives you a chance to decide if you really want something and, if so, how much. If snacking is the problem, then cut out snacks. All snacks. Only eat at meal times.

If your TDEE is 1500, my suggestion is that you set your calories at 1350 and settle in for the long haul. I lost the majority of my excess weight without exercise. If you are truly sedentary, you don't have wiggle room to exercise a little more to make up for high-calorie excursions. You need to be persistent and…

My instincts lead me to one of two things: creeping weight gain or rapid weight gain. Why would I worry over each bite when I can take 10 minutes out of my day to log so that I know my calorie intake so that I can relax? Once you learn the ins-and-outs of the process, calorie counting is easy. Why would I pass up an easy…

It takes practice to move past all-or-nothing thinking. Each moment is a new decision. You can't change past decisions. Don't borrow trouble by worrying over future decisions. All that you can control is what you decide to do right now. Log everything before it goes into your mouth. That gives you the chance to decide if…

I got more brown bits in the final product that way, even with it covered for that first hour. The water on the bottom of the pan helped mitigate the brown bits sticking. This was just an experiment and I liked the outcome. Someone asked for the recipe in a different MFP thread and so I posted it here.

Give it a shot. This is just a "toss things together and see how they turn out" recipe that I enjoyed. If it were me with these exact ingredients, I'd cook the cabbage and soup together and then add the tuna when you're ready to eat since, IMO, this tuna doesn't stand up well to much heat.

It doesn't have pasta. It's a moderate calorie, high volume meal. It could also be split into 4 or 6 servings for a side dish. You could add pasta but that would, of course, change the Nutrition Facts for the recipe. You could certainly do it in a pot on the stove but I like the browning that occurs with baking.

Here you go @corinasue1143 : Coleslaw Casserole with Tuna and Cream of Mushroom Soup

My evening meal is all about volume. That helps me feel less deprived when I'm in a calorie deficit. Last night I had a casserole made with one pound of raw coleslaw veggie mix, one can of condensed soup, and 2 pouches (about 150 grams) of tuna. The whole thing was 410 calories and took me about an hour to eat.

Serving size is how much the government thinks people should/do eat of an item at one time. Portion size is what someone actually eats. One of the great revelations of my weight loss experience was that I was in complete control of how much I eat of any one item. Suggested serving sizes are just that - suggestions. I view…

MFP uses the information found on US Nutrition Facts labels. Those labels don't differentiate between simple and complex carbs beyond specifying how much sugar is in the item.

If you tap +, the bottom item is Create a Food. That's where you'd enter the info for your item so that you could customize things like the item's name and the unit that you use. I find it easier to use the website to enter items into My Foods.

You have to type item information into My Foods yourself. If you enter the Serving Size in grams, you'll be presented with the option to use grams when you log the food.

The easiest thing to do is to create your own entry in My Foods that uses grams. This also lets you customize item names. It takes some time to enter your own foods initially but saves time in the long run. I don't share with the general database to avoid cluttering it and so that no one besides me can edit my items.

The maximum number of meal slots currently available is six.

I do find seeing my consumption times to be useful. You can do this in a general way by renaming your meals. I have the six available meals named for four hour blocks, such as 4 AM to 8 AM. If you have Premium, you can add precise times if you log in the app rather than on the website.

If a student athlete were in class all day and only active during training, they might set their Activity Level to Sedentary. Activity Level only includes movement that you do outside of intentional exercise. Exercise sessions are added as they occur in the Exercise section. As an example using traveling in vehicles: TDEE…

You could enter 70 servings of 1 gram or 0.7 servings of 100 grams.

I use My Foods as a personalized database. I don't share with the public database and no one can go back behind me and edit. I can do custom names and I start those names with the category by putting that in the "Brand" slot.

I've been severely nearsighted since 6th grade. After my vision mostly settled, I couldn't see clearly at a distance greater than about 9 inches. In my mid-forties, that moved out to about 12 inches which still isn't very helpful. The only time I take my glasses off during the day is to clean them. I use Progressive lenses…

It's not healthy to eat 1500 fewer calories per day than your body uses for 7 months. Weight loss is a marathon, not a sprint. It's far more important to figure out a way of eating that puts you at a comfortable deficit that you can keep doing over time than it is to lose quickly. If you want to lose weight and keep it…

It's a "diet" in that it's a way of eating, not that it's a weight loss method. Weight loss comes from a calorie deficit over time. Eating in an holistic manner can be done at any calorie level. You can lose, maintain, or gain weight using that way of eating.

Do you have specific questions? If you want a general overview, searching on Google for "holistic diet" gives websites with the basics.

Even with accurate database entries, calories and calories-derived-from-macros won't line up exactly because of things like rounding and how manufacturers report fiber. If there's a big difference, chase it down to see which food entries are causing the variation and fix those.

Mrs. Dash Lemon Pepper doesn't have any sodium. I enjoy many of the Mrs. Dash products.

It might be worth it to you to buy a cheap Android tablet or phone to leave in the kitchen just for entering MFP data into the app while you are doing your weighing.