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We all know how water weight works your weight can vary several pounds throughout the day, I can't imagine the amount of sodium that you would have to eat to gain 4-5lbs of water weight in 1 sitting. More likely is having issues over several days.

It is impossible to gain 4-5lbs from a meal. January was 8 months ago, how much weight have you lost since then? Don't cheat, build whatever you want to eat into your daily intake, and eat a reasonable amount, no need to pig out and consume 3500 calories in 1 sitting.

The only hard and fast rule of weight loss is you have to eat less calories then you expend. It doesnt matter if you spread those calories out over 5 meals or 2, the sustainability of different habits is another topic onto itself.

Actually it is 1200 for men as well. My current goals are to loose 2lbs per week I'm 5'9" male and I have 24lbs to loose, it has me at 1300 calories, and does the little thing saying you will be xxx lbs in 5 weeks as long as I eat 1200 calories.

I try to only do it 2-3x a week to make sure Im keeping on track. I weigh naked and after going to the bathroom in the morning.

None, you look good.

So I don't understand where you got your BMR? Additionally, from my experience with my fitbit, yours is functioning properly. Your beef seems to be that the treadmill and MFP claim your burn is much higher then your fitbit does. The reality is the treadmill and MFP both tend to wildly over estimate your burn. Fitbits…

I read the bolded part quite often on this site, are you repeating what you have heard or did you actually read that from a legit source? My experience was that eating back exercise calories led to my not loosing weight as easily. So I'm curious to see if someone can post up an article about it or not.

You can do whatever you want, getting snippy online with someone won't help. It's like you are seeking everyones approval for weighing your food out, the reality is no one cares if you yourself weigh your food everytime you go out to eat. I try to make the healthiest food choice possible when I go out to eat, this usually…

Sorry I guess I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I feel the numbers themselves are fairly inaccurate, and I don't see the point in using them at all. If someone is starving yeah you should do something different and eat a little more, but you shouldn't eat them simply because the app on your phone says you can.

I don't think that is anything to be ashamed of, but it isn't really all that practical. At home you know the ingredients, how they were cooked,etc. when you are out and about you don't know what is in the sauce, how it was cooked etc. so the weight doesn't mean quite as much.

Im 38, level set to sedentary and at 9970 steps my fitbit adjustment to myfitness pal's calories shows 520 calories. I don't worry much about the calorie adjustments, just something to keep in mind if you ask me, they are usually over stated anyway so unless you are trying to gain or maintain weight, I don't think I'd…

But I am using it as designed. I'm a male and with a sedentary life, loosing 2lbs per week, it suggests 1500 calories, most of the other calculators suggest 1400 or so anyway..regardless exercise calories are rarely ever correct and almost always significantly higher then the actual burn amount. Recommending to eat them…

I do what BBQ sauce above suggested. I order a lean protein such as chicken, after 4 months of weighing food I can pretty well eyeball 4ounces of chicken breast, a 1/3 cup of rice, and 2/3 cup of veggies. When eating out, which we do maybe 1x a week on average, I try to order some sort of chicken based salad, that way I…

However you want to do it is fine. When I first started out I was eating about 400calories at breakfast, then I about 300, then 175, now I find about 65 is all I need to get me through to lunch, then I eat about 300 for lunch, and that leaves me enough for a big dinner and late night snack. Everyone is different, if I ate…

IME eating back exercise calories is a mistake, it will slow your weightloss dramatically.

I do what the others have said, find the closest equivalent and log that. I can usually fit in a couple of decent sized slices and a salad or veggies pretty easily in my daily routine. You can't not eat the things you love, thats the fastest way to fail and revert back to unhealthy eating patterns. Instead eat an…

My charge gets caught on something and falls off at least a few times a week. That said it is accurate with all my step based exercises. It helps me stay accountable to myself because I can easily see how inactive I am being. I don't see the point of the HR monitor for myself as I don't eat much of my exercise calories…

I have the fitbit charge, I like being able to know how many steps or miles I have traveled in a day. It helps keep me accountable to myself for my activity level. It is really acurate as far as distance traveled, but thats about all I find it useful for. Personally I'd recommend sticking to your caloric plan, and just use…

Weigh your food and don't plan on eating back your exercise calories, if you happen to go over a bit thats okay, planning to workout so you can eat that piece of cake isn't real productive and doesn't help you change your eating habits in the long run.

2000 calories is really quite abit of food, if your eating clean anyway. I'm a male, 5'10" and weigh in at about 209lbs and I am living on 1500 calories. I eat a lot of leafy greens, like for lunch I ate 2oz of turkey on wheat bread and a whole bunch of spinach, yesterday for lunch I had a taco salad, it had 4oz of…

The only thing you are cheating is yourself, if you're cool with that go for it. Personally I find that when I splurge and eat more then I should it makes me want to do it more frequently. I find it much more productive to make room in my daily intake for the item Im wanting. I may not be able to eat half a pizza, but I…

I don't even get credit for stairs on a stairmaster machine from my fitbit, much less an elliptical. Fitbits are nothing more then an expensive pedometer, I use mine for keeping track of my daily activity, and like all the machines and even MFP app the "exercise" calories are usually way over stated. I have my fitness pal…

I would avoid all surgical options you can. I used to make all kinds of excuses, snack and not count it etc. but I started MFP and vowed to be completely honest with my journal and log every single crumb of food. When I did that, followed the routine(suggested calorie intake, and focused my calories in healthy foods, I…

I totally get what you are saying, believe it or not I am a man and feel the same way. I look in the mirror when Im in my undies and Im like dang still got a ways to go...

awesome and way to go!

Surely 2 pieces of pizza won't wreck your numbers for the night? We have pizza a couple of times a month and it doesn't seem to be any higher in calories then a regular dinner. I usually use about 700 calories or so for dinner anyway...

Can I ask what the quick ads are? Are you sure those calories are accurate? I pretty much always eat the same thing for breakfast, oatmeal, a routine can be nice. What about exercise, doing any? Stopped doing any? 18lbs in a month is a great start if you ask me, I wish I had started taking pics of my body as it changed, as…

I like a serving of oatmeal and on heavy lifting days I will add a scrambled egg to my breakfast.