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@heybales How do you find the 5 minute graph? And is it only online not in the app? Thanks

Ok thanks. I will try contacting them

I'm 5'7" and currently 134 and maintaining. I usually eat 2000-2300. I normally get 12-13k steps on my Fitbit, including roughly a 2 mile walk each day. I do a 20-30 min workout with weight machines 2x a week.

Seems healthy enough but a bit boring. I manage to feed 3 of us, including a 17 yo boy for just at or under the thrifty level. I try to match up coupons with sales (but I don't do coupons in a big way. Most trips include a few coupons, not huge amounts). I shop primarily at Aldi, which has some really great prices, but…

Granola is dead simple to make (and much much cheaper than buying it as well). I make mine loosely based on a recipe, but it's not the same each time. Basically old fashioned oats are the base. An oil (vegetable or coconut) and a sweetener (honey usually, but others would work - and you can sweeten to your taste). Then all…

Complex carbs (veggies, brown rice, whole wheat flour, etc) are supposed to cause less of a blood sugar spike, so maybe try to shift the carbs you are eating to less white flour, sugar, pasta. If you need to, go half whole grain , half white at first. Good luck!

I don't know how often you like to weigh yourself, but I found using a trending weight very helpful to see if I am basically maintaining or whether my weight is trending up or down. I'm using Trendweight now since I've got a Fitbit, but before that I used happy scale (for iOS). There is also one for android (libre ?). I…

I had the same issue of being so used to the smaller number of calories that eve when I reached maintenance, I kept losing. Another 13 pounds actually. I've been very slowly trying to add weight. I'm Almost back up to my lower limit now. One thing I found helpful was to set my goal to gain 0.5 pounds/week (even though I…

Walking is mostly what exercise I get. About 30 min (2 miles) a day. Sometimes a bit more. Has worked wonders for increasing the calories I can eat and I really enjoy walking through the neighborhood and listening to podcasts.

When my younger son was a toddler, he was very underweight and I added heavy cream and cream of coconut (I think that's what it was) to anything I reasonably could. I also got some sort of pediasure type drink that wasn't milk based. Sort of more like high calorie juice/koolaid. I thought it would be more appealing in the…

You should definitely be able to eat more than 1200-1350 to maintain! I'm also 5'7" but much older, 50, and I'm currently maintaining around 130-135 for the past 6 months. I'm eating 2000-2200 most days. I walk about 2 miles (30-35 minutes) every day with total steps including that walk of around 12k a day and strength…

Remember that what you say you are going for is low carb high fat. You set your target macros for low carb high protein.

Wow! Yes, I think you really should be able to eat more. I'm also 5'7" and trying to maintain at 135. I'm eating 2000-2200 most days (and if I have too many days closer to 2000, I start slowly losing again). I also don't do near the amount of exercise you do and am probably older (50). I do strength training 2x week and…

It's really up to you. That said, I average probably 12000 steps a day with a very few at 10K and several days a week at 14-16K. I have my activity level set at lightly active and always earn extra calories. Usually 250-500 extra. Yesterday I had a busier day and had 15,750 steps and got an additional 660 calories. I'd…

I am no professional, but it sounds to me like you need more calories. You also really need to see if you can talk to a professional- maybe a walk in clinic at least. All I know is, I'm 5'7" and 50 yo and I'm eating 2200+ per day and not managing to gain any. I'm also trying to gain a few pounds, but I'm way heavier than…

Somehow my Fitbit and MFP together don't work this way. I had negative calories around 11 pm last night (but small, like -11). I walked upstairs, brushed teeth, got ready for bed. Nothing strenuous. I was figuring I might break even or be less negative this morning, but I had +41 calories left this morning. I'm not…

My iOS app tells me that negative adjustments are not enabled also, but clearly they are as every morning I have negative calories, until I have moved around some. I also have a charge HR. I have my activity set to lightly active, but usually earn my way from around negative 100 to positive 3-500 extra calories a day.…

I'm 5'7" and 50 years old. I've been maintaining for about 6 months. It wasn't until I got a Fitbit for Christmas though, that my gradual downward trend stopped and the real maintaining happened. I'm eating 2000-2200 most days. I walk about 30 minutes/2 miles daily and workout 2x a week. So, I would guess that you are…

I don't have any experience with this, but maybe you can still do some lower intensity exercise sooner than your full gym workout.

It really varies a lot by person and personality. I find I still need to count calories or I tend to not get enough calories. I've been basically in maintenance since late last August, but I continued to lose. I have eased up on my logging. I don't weigh most of my fruit and vegetables anymore, especially the green…

We really need a little more information. What calorie intake are you currently eating? And are you currently gaining, maintaining, or losing weight and how much per week?

You need to start upping your calories now. If you are thinking about maintaining, but still loosing 1.5 lbs/week, you are way low for maintenance. I would jump immediately up to no more than a 250 calorie deficit. That will still have you at a deficit, but at least get you used to eating closer to maintaining. You may see…

I got a Fitbit charge HR for Christmas and I'm really enjoying it. I used to think they weren't worth the money, but then decided I really wanted some better handle on how much energy I was expending a day. Plus there wasn't much else I wanted for Christmas and the deals were great for Black Friday. I really wanted a wrist…

I found I really didn't like going over the calories I'm allotted, so after continuing to lose once I set my goal to maintain, I finally have changed my goal to gain 0.5 pounds per week. Now, I don't really want to gain that much (or at least not that fast), but I do want to gain a few pounds very slowly. It also seems to…

Darn! I was hoping I could get it to remind me. I thought I had gotten my movement each hour, but I missed 4 pm (and then again at 8 pm- I had no steps that hour, but got lots done on my taxes. I'm ok with that trade off.)

I also have the charge HR, but I didn't know you could get it to remind me to move - and I know it isn't doing it because yesterday I missed an hour. How do you get it to remind you to move @shanna7787 ?

Thanks for that info. I hadn't found the longest stationary period yet. Now I am more motivated to try to move a little bit every hour.

I would suggest some sort of activity tracker. You can get an app for your phone to count steps (but then you have to be carrying your phone all the time). I tried a couple of the cheaper trackers before getting a Fitbit charge HR for Christmas. The others worked, but I really liked the Fitbit challenges and the ability to…

I find the amount of salad dressing they give you with salads really ridiculous. I usually only use 1/4-1/3 of the packet of dressing if that. Once I factor in my actual dressing amount, I usually find the salads fairly reasonable calories for me. OTOH, I've gotten a good bit more active since I started MFP and then…

Did you set the steps device in MFP to Fitbit? Also, yesterday my charge HR wasn't syncing for some reason. But it's working again today.