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Make sure to net above your BMR, please. A quick loss is not worth muscle and organ damage.

Calculate your needs here and see where you end up :) http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

I can say with pretty much absolute certainty that 1200 is too aggressive if you have that much to lose. Fill in your info in MFP, set a realistic goal, stay healthy. Stay safe. And yes, eat back your true exercise calories!

Wait, just to check. Say your iPhone says your TDEE is 2500. At lightly active, MFP says 2500, too, with a 2300 goal (so 200 extra). At sedentary, MFP says 2000, with a goal of 1800 (so 200 extra)...? That... sounds off.

Okay, so, the body's energy expenditure has two basic values: BMR and TDEE. BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) is the amount of energy (calories) your body burns if you lie in bed all day and do absolutely nothing else but breath and push blood around. TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) is the amount of energy (calories) your…

I average 160 grams of sugar a day, most from fruit and dairy. I have no medical issues to stop me from doing so. I stay under my caloric goal. Happy me. Does this sound like you? Then go for it! I have stopped tracking sugar long ago. Sugar is not the enemy, unless you have some medical issue that forces you to keep it…

Uhhhh... Why? The advice actually differs according to the answer. Wheat/gluten are not the enemy. Most people tolerate them just fine. They are being demonized because most yummy things have 'em and these foods are quite calorie dense. Cutting them out (and not replacing the calories with something else) equals weight…

Hanging this here as usual... http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Faithful_Chosen/view/why-you-should-eat-to-your-mfp-goal-including-true-exercise-calories-763982

Just gonna hang this here as always... http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Faithful_Chosen/view/why-you-should-eat-to-your-mfp-goal-including-true-exercise-calories-763982

Okay, I would say to check with your doctor every once in a while for adverse effects but in general, fruit is good. Feel free to take a look at my diary to see for yourself but I am at about 2100 cal a day average as I am in maintenance and I would say that about 30 - 40 percent of those calories are from fruit every day.…

Small, calorie dense meals throughout the day should do the trick. Not saying that is the case with you, but for me, the physical reaction I get when I eat a big meal (or any meal at all) is mostly psycho somatic. Sucks but there it is. If you finish a pizza in the evening and eat regularly throughout the day, you will be…

Depends on when you weigh it. If dry then dry, if cooked, then find a 'cooked' entry...

...you guys all have big enough portions to have leftovers from? Just cook or order less! :smile: Truly, I think that is your solution right there! I know how much I can eat and I know how much my partner can eat. That I cook, not a morsel more. If it turns out not to be enough, there are lots of snacks in our home to top…

Big win! And well under maintenance too (assuming you are using MFP correctly) so you actually lost weight eating all that! ;-)))

If it fits into your calorie allotment for the day you can have a large meatlover's pizza with extra meat on top and you won't gain weight :wink: just stick to your deficit--and compared to that pizza, a banana is nothing! Especially if you don't heap on the peanut butter like I always do :sweat_smile:

This is me :joy: I rarely have one over 100 grams.

This thread is a breath of fresh air on the forums tonight and I needed it! You all win the interwebz! :heart:

^^^100% this.

Hanging this here as usual... Oh, and read the stickies! http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Faithful_Chosen/view/why-you-should-eat-to-your-mfp-goal-including-true-exercise-calories-763982

I don't think I could give up my fruit. As it is, I am over 50 grams on breakfast alone X'D

...of that list I only eat potatoes. And fruit sugars. Biologically/scientifically I get how it can be done, but I don't get why you'd want to, especially if you dislike doing it :wink:

*blinks* How do you only eat 50 grams of carbs...? I average 220 grams a day... :neutral: Fruit and veggies, little dairy, little meat. Some meal replacement bars because I struggle with eating enough calories.

^^^ Not how it works unless there is some medical condition involved and even then... Fat does not make you fat, going over your maintenance calories does. As long as your are under your calorie goal, crisps are perfectly fine!

Yes. Eat. I struggle to eat my calories every single day and I often have to eat to nausea/cramps. Eat. Your body needs it.

Yep, still active. If you have a big meal, the weight of the food and the added water weight from digestion etc are going to up the scales, but it's not fat. Log all your food accurately, log all your exercise accurately and you will be able to say exactly if you have lost, maintained, or gained--but for now, I think…

Sweetheart, you have nearly 2000 calories to eat every day, and that is before counting exercise calories! It should be entirely possible to fit anything in there you might like :wink:

Thank you for opening your diary :smile: First things first: you are eating at a pretty large deficit. There is no way in hell you are currently maintaining. Looking at your diary and reading your posts, I think it's safe to say you are struggling with body image issues/an eating disorder. Doesn't have to be a bad one, but…

Could you open your diary? That way we can give better advice. And hun? 'Maintenance' is not a number, it is a range. Especially while sorting things out, you may gain a bit. It'll come off again. At your weight (and zero judgement here!) you can stand to gain a bit for a while.

I should say that for me, cutting out grains completely has been fairly easy. I get the occasional craving but over all I eat really good food, with great substitutes, and I don't see it as a loss at all anymore.

You didn't mention you were maintaining before X'D Look, you can't cheat your body. If you maintain on this, upping your calorie intake is going to take you over. It does make me wonder how accurate your food logging is, though, because it seems to me you are 'eating away' the difference between 'lightly active' and…