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Active setting, eat back exercise calories. For comparison, my husband is 5'10", 175 lbs (which I believe is similar to your stats from another thread), has an active job, does cardio for an hour or so several times a week and lifts weights. His current calorie allowance to lose 1 lb/week is 2500 (and it works).

The last time I went to the doctor, I weighed in (late afternoon, fully clothed) 8 lbs less than my scale reading from home a few days before (first thing in the morning, naked). Meaningless. I wasn't even in a calorie deficit at the time. I also replaced our scale at home after losing a good 30 lbs only to have the new…

You seem to be stressing about a lot of things, OP (based on your other threads). If you want to try to level out your calorie intake, that's fine. Some track their weekly calories as opposed to daily and eat however they want within the course of a week to meet their goal. It really doesn't matter, unless it is causing…

Generally excellent advice, but why the mention of using the lowest activity setting this way as a buffer? Why not just use the system the way it's intended, and if a person's exercise calories prove to be inflated, to adjust accordingly?

When I've substantially reduced certain things in my diet (greasy foods, certain sweets) and then have an unusually large indulgence, I usually pay the price. Years ago, I could put away slice after slice of greasy take-out pizza no problem. Now if I have more than a couple of slices, I'm pretty much guaranteed to spend…

OP, didn't you post a thread yesterday in multiple categories? Did no one explain that's not allowed before they got pulled? Pick the most relevant category and post there :)

Which program?

OP, have you been using MFP for your calorie goal? What does it give you, at your current weight, for a 2 lb/week loss? You should eat that full amount plus your calorie burns. That's the way MFP was designed to be used.

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10481830/the-diet-break/p1

Just as an example, say you have an 1800 calorie day. If we say your 1200 exercise calories are a gross overestimate and just count half, that means you would only be netting 1200 calories. If we count it as 75%, that means you're only netting 900 calories. *shudder* 1500 net calories is the bottom floor for men. :( If…

Oh my... this whole time you haven't been eating exercise calories back? Over what time period have you lost the 212 lbs? Are you under a doctor's care?

Sorry to say, it's gotten worse: Known issue: https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2965822-myfitnesspal-app-and-site-down MyFitnessPal App and Site Down Wednesday, January 9th, 2019, 6:14pm PST Hello, Starting at 3pm on Wednesday we began seeing elevated errors across the MyFitnessPal program. To our…

Just the opposite... it dries out.

Judging by the data so far, if you had been eating your exercise calories, you'd probably be good to go. But 20 days is not a lot of data to go on, so keep an eye on your actual rate of loss. OP, there's a handy chart showing the ideal rate of loss depending on how much you have to lose. If I remember right, it's something…

Can somebody post the guidelines for choosing your weekly weight loss goal? :)

This actually does clear something up. Those first 3 lbs on the second day? Water weight. So we can discard that and confidently say you've lost 5 lbs of fat in the last 20 days, or a little over 1.5 lbs/week. That's still high, but not outrageous. The days you had a weight change are actually meaningless taken…

If I'm understanding this correctly, the days he is showing positive net calories are actually the days he was eating under goal. So day 1, his net calories were 198 under his MFP goal. Am I correct, OP?

This is the most succinct way I've ever heard this said. <3 Mind if I use this when the subject comes up?

Yes- they really are :)

It's a healthy range of loss for most people needing to lose weight. It depends on a person's current stats and the size of calorie deficit that person can support. Some people with little to lose can only support a rate of .5 lb/week loss (a deficit of 250 calories) before dipping into unhealthy territory. Some people who…

This is encouraging to hear :) You know, the long-time users here really want to see people succeed and many have personal experience with these issues. They aren't handing out advice to try to derail people's success. ;) Everyone wants results yesterday, we get that. You obviously have a great work ethic that will serve…

The 1800 is for an overly aggressive goal and already includes your calorie deficit. If you are exercising on top of that and not eating calories back, you are under-fueling. How a person feels, how full they are, or how much nutrition is in their diet has no bearing on that.

This is not a reply to the OP, but is for the benefit of lurkers. You choose your desired rate of loss on MFP, but that doesn't mean 2 lbs/week is appropriate for everyone. It's really only for those with >75 lbs to lose. The reason being, all weight loss is a combination of fat and lean mass, and when your rate of loss is…

Same here. I don't need to go to a gym because we have equipment at home, but if I had to deal with a crowd to exercise, it just wouldn't happen.

I wonder if people aren't setting themselves up for failure by joining the gym at this time. They probably get discouraged with the crowds & long wait times just like everyone else does. Even some long-time users avoid the gym for a while at this time. Too bad they can't make their resolution in April.

This reminds me, for a chicken dish, I will often just go with the bare breaded chicken and drizzle a small amount of sauce from the dish I like on it. Hate mushy chicken soaked in sauce.

I LOVE our local Chinese buffet! Fortunately, they raised their prices, so we hardly ever go there anymore, but generally, I only choose the same few things that I really enjoy, hit the veggies, and set firm limits on fried food. After logging a few times, I found my meals always pretty much fell at 1000 calories, and I…

Wish I'd seen this sooner... will be linking to a lot of threads, I suspect :)

You don't really say what this is about. Are you making changes for yourself and trying to make it agreeable for him? Does he have a desire to eat more vegetables, or do you just want that for him (because that might be a lost cause)? To answer your specific question, my kids accept their vegetables more readily in one-pot…

An idea or belief unsubstantiated by science. https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10623894/the-origin-and-meaning-of-woo/p1