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Hit your protein goals then eat whatever you like. When i bulk, I simply hit my 180-200g protein a day (a little more than i need but who cares), then eat whatever. Ice cream, peanut butter sandwich, pizza, bbq, whatever. If you're eating pretty healthy through the day, it doesn't really matter, just get those calories.

Always weigh raw and log as the raw weight. A 7oz raw steak is going to weigh a bit more cooked to mid-rare as opposed to well done.

34. Started off November 2014 at a mushy 199 lbs, cut to a lean but thin 155, bulked to 185, and now cutting again to 170-172. Long term and short term goals keep me motivated. I don't go with a partner but work in with lots of people and have met a lot of good people over the last 20 or so months. I can't say i have a…

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I'll go with this. thanks for the replies.

If you say the start of summer is June 1st, yes it's theoretically possible. This app will give you guidelines on how many calories you'll need to eat/day in order to lose at a given rate, and a format to track your intake against those goals. It works very well, but it's only as good as the data you put into it. For it to…

This. Fitbit will continue to update cals burned up until midnight, even if you've taken the unit off and are sleeping. That's why I used completed days earlier, and why I don't like fitbits method for calorie burn tracking. It's a lot tougher to hit a moving target. Check your last 10 days on each. For the mfp number use…

Just for giggles i pulled my last 10 complete days off each app. MFP, synced with fitbit consistently showed 31-34 calories less total daily burn (goal+excercise) than total daily burn reported in the fitbit app. Not a huge difference, but very consistent. As for how i use the two together...I have the fitbit synced with…

That's about it. I lost a sizeable chunk of weight...about 20-22 of my 44 without MFP, a scale, or fitbit, they just made it easier to stay on track.

I find that the MIO drinks are OK.

I'm dealing with the same quandry myself. Switching from the iphone as my steps tracker to the fitbit represented a step change in the data i go off of...as in, the iphone would record a TDEE of around 2500, while with the same activity level the fitbit allows for 2800-3100 on most days for me. I don't trust that number…

It will log calorie burn from step based activity. You'll have to log stuff like cycling. It will add calories back to what you can eat and stay at/under target based on steps taken. Based on your settings, you can set it up for negative adjustments (taking calories away from what you can eat) or not. I wasn't sure about…

First time, or first time back, you're going to be sore from that first workout for a while. Regardless, do not use soreness as an excuse to not work out. You'll feel better if you hit it again while sore. As far as rest goes, i try for at least 48 hours between working out any specific muscle group again. My routine has…

There's many things i wish i'd done and known when i first started my diet. The most important one, weighing and logging all food.

Yes, protein shakes are fine and great for helping you get adequate protein. Personally, i went from 2/day to 4/week (only post workout), as i found out i'm getting plenty without them and would rather eat my cals than drink them.

Agreed. log em ahead, and make them fit your calorie and macro goals. I find it a lot easier to meet goals when i'm eating to a plan than eating followed by logging what i ate.

correct, if the iphone and MFP is calculating steps and calorie burn, you do not want to double count it.

I've been using my iphone6 as a steps tracker for several months. I tried changing to a misfit shine and found them to be close in regards to steps. They were within 500 of each other over a couple of 12k step days...not too bad. However, the misfit software was VERY generous with calorie burn vs. MFP+iphone. iirc misfit…

four times/week now, on workout days. I take an average of those 4 to compare week to week.

400? Holler back when you hit a couple thousand.

Not logging bad days is denying yourself some pretty good data. i.e. what effect on the scales and your weight does a bad day or 4 have? Log it all, so when you have questions on why you were losing or gaining during a period of time, the answers will be right there.

I used a flash (same hardware guts and software, different housing) for 2 days. Calorie burn reported was nearly 1.5x higher than my prior method (.045cal/step vs .031cal/step) so i discontinued use immediately. regardless of which counter/calculator was more accurate, the difference represented a step change in my data…

Just going to throw this out there on the misfit now that i have a couple days worth of data...iphone tracker shows an average of .031cals burned/step recorded based on my data from earlier this month, misfit shows .047 cals burned/step over the last 2 days. That's kinda huge. Can't really say that one is accurate and the…

Been using a misfit flash link (nice price at a whopping $20) for a day now so i can de-tether my iphone from my rear. It's doing fine so far...steps are more or less in line with what the iphone is recording, it's just a little more of a pain as i have to use a separate app to sync activity from the flash, to the flash…