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5'6 currently 249 down from 276. I eat 2200 a day, before workouts, based on what fitbit recommends for me. I have a very high activity level. (TDEE is usually around 3500-4000 according to Fitbit) This is set for 2 pounds a week but since I am usually(but not always) a lot less active on the weekends this works out to…

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Telling the man I loved that it was okay to go to sleep and that when he woke up everything would be okay. I knew that he was never going to wake up. Less than 24 hours later I had to make the decision to have him taken off of life support. I was 28 years old.

I had chinese for dinner last night. The restaurant is a family owned place so no nutrition data available. I still managed to log using best guesses from the database. No issues with my streak. Give yourself permission to not always be perfect. Getting mad and giving up is going to do a lot more damage than just logging…

The important thing is that you learn from it. Hopefully you learned things that will help you have success on this next try. You might even have some good advice for the rest of us based on your experience. :)

You can't access it on the web page but if you use the app on your phone go to the button on the top left and tap it. You should see a panel slide out that lists Home, Diary, challenges etc. Scroll down to steps. Check the box that says don't track steps.

How do you know your calories didn't change? Were you logging calories both before and after you decided to cut carbs? Personally I find that as soon as I decide to cut out some food that is supposed to be bad, I start craving it like nobody's business and end up binging on it within a few weeks. I love bread. I have it…

I felt the same way when got my charge. Now don't allow fitbit steps to count on MFP towards exercise. I use my steps to know how to set my activity level and eat what MFP gives me 7 days a week. Only adding logged exercise from my 3 evenings of aikido. I look at my Fitbit TDEE number at the end of the day and usually have…

I have been manually logging workouts in MFP by taking information from the detected workout on the Fitbit Dashboard. I select the exercise I did. Enter the exact start time and duration that Fitbit shows and then overwrite the calorie burn with the number Fitbit reported as my burn. Once entered Fitbit will overwrite the…

Maybe your fitbit IS giving you a legitimate reading. What are you basing your assumption ,that it is not, on? Just the number that is higher than you expected or did you somehow get tests to find out your actual BMR using a method that is proven 100% accurate?

They are really fun. I am working on the Valley Loop trail now and did Vernal falls first but was not really understanding how it works so I have to go back and do it and collect those badges again. Looking forward to the new trails as they add more.

You had days last week where you ate 2-3000 calories and you are here to lose weight. So you know how to eat more calories. You also have days when you didn't log at all or only partially logged. How seriously are you taking this?

If it fits. I eats.

I really can't say. My weekends are so drastically different in energy output that I can't do a 500 calorie deficit during the week because I can't eat low enough on the weekends to avoid negating most of it. I only use my Fitbit to determine activity level and burns for my aikido workouts. Many other MFP people who use…

Personal experience. My current average daily TDEE (based on Fitbit Charge HR readings) is 3500-4000 calories for a work day or work plus aikido day. At this activity level I was not losing weight because I was eating as much as I burned, sometimes more, rarely less. I was eating the same high calories even on rest days…

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I'm 46. I have not found losing weight any harder. If anything it is easier than it was when I was younger. Not saying it is fast but it isn't really that hard. Once I quit buying into all of the nonsense and BS that is being thrown around out there about weight loss, the fad diets and pseudoscience, and just started…

I still eat the same things. Just less.

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Vanilla ice cream with Aunt Jemima lite maple syrup and a shot of Kentucky Rye Bourbon. :)

As was said when you take away water weight you get more calories per gram serving than fresh. Make a recipe in MFP. Weigh your strawberries before you dry/cook them. Then weigh again after you dry them. Make the number of servings in the recipe. the number of grams total of the final product. Then just log using your…

I get about 15k steps a day at work. My HR also gives me huge adjustments and for a while I was eating all or most of the calories it gave me. That was about 2700 calories a day when set to sedentary. I was not losing weight. So I unchecked steps from my exercise so Fitbut can no longer adjust my daily goal. I do log…

You can freeze it for up to 6 months. You do start to lose flavor after about 3 months though. I like to batch cook and freeze in single serving containers for lunches to take to work. I buy food labels from Amazon that dissolve in hot water and mark on my containers the item's name and date and number of servings. I make…

I have found that any time I tried to cut out food I like I craved them more. I eat chocolate cake, pasta bread, coffee mate in my coffee, and pizza and can still lose weight just by keeping the portions within my calorie goal. I would far rather have a smaller portion of something I really want than a bucket full of some…

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When I was eating the fitbit adjusted calories I was having a hard time losing. I decided to uncheck the Fitbit steps so that they no longer count towards exercise. Instead I use the information I get from my fitbit to set my activity level. Then I log any intentional exercise in MFP but I use the calorie burn Fitbit shows…

My own poor decisions when it comes to how much I consume. But I am getting more proficient at making better ones. So the problem is slowly going away.

Eating fewer calories than I burn seems to work really well for me.

I was at the same weight in 2009. It wasn't until a year ago was really ready to work on my weight. Now I am at 249 and dropping. Once I got started with MFP I found that it really doesn't have to be that hard and you really don't have to give up any of the kinds of food you enjoy. All you have to do is the following: Buy…