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Disagree with this, MFP tells me to eat far too few protein grams. Research (Paper here and analysis of the research Here) suggests about .8g / lb of body weight (I personally do 1g / lb of lean body mass (LBM)) of protein. When losing weight eating enough protein is critical to maintain as much as lean body mass while…

Thanks for the info editorgrrl!

Good point with the overdoing exercise, I will have to watch that. My kids are still young, so our family exercise consists mostly of going on walks and tag and playing sports and that sort of thing. I am planning on introducing them to lifting when they are old enough, but to be honest I haven't done any research at all…

The daily treats are making all of the difference for me, I do not feel like I just want to finish so I can eat what I really want this time. Thanks for the encouragement! Thanks for your detailed feedback. So far I have seemed to have plenty of energy and have not been hungry much at all. I did an informal calculation on…

I had the same problem, and it took me forever to figure it out. I tried about 4 or 5 times and quit looking each time until the last. If you go to the check-in page where you enter your weight, there is a link to enter previous entries. There is a starting weight entry there. When I changed that it fixed my issue and all…

Fruit, dates, raisins and dried fruit all have lots of sugar.

I average about 500-700 of my typical 2200-2500 calorie day.

Yoyo plan is what I was talking about in my post, going up and down because your losses are not sustainable and you are losing a lot of lean body mass, and so after you lose the weight it comes right back. Basically you gain a lot of lean mass back and your eating habits, which weren't sustainable, go back to their old…

Any reason you want to lose that much weight by then? That is only about 14 weeks, and is over three pounds a week. That is likely not a sustainable goal, you will likely lose a lot of lean body mass and not just fat, and you will be very likely to gain a good portion of it back. I would highly recommend a much smaller…

Thanks heybales. SL 5x5 is still pretty easy I have started recently. Squats, dead and bench are all pretty easy still. Row and Press are already getting tough. I have not yet failed a rep on any of the exercises and have been increasing all along the way. In general I do not feel unrecovered nor tired or groggy with my…

heybales, thanks for that feedback, I will start logging my resistance training manually. So I just need to enter the time frame in mfp and it will overwrite fitbit's calorie burn during that time? My resistance training is typically about 45 minutes SL 5x5 and my heart rate in fitbit is usually oscillating between 95-115…

Thanks vorgas. I see what you mean on the OHP; I re-watched my video and was surprised to see how much my elbows are flaring and how forward they are. I think I need to work on my core strength and proper bracing, as walterc mentioned, to help with the back rounding in both my squat and deadlift.

Walterc7, thanks a lot for that feedback. Those videos are extremely helpful. I see exactly what your talking about in my videos after rewatching them. I think part of it may be based on my lack of flexibility, but I'm going to work on the concepts you described and the two videos you linked brought out. Thanks again.

Hi all, I filmed myself doing SL 5x5 workout B today, would appreciate if anyone has any advice on how I might need to improve my form. I have done squats and bench press for a long time, but I didn't do many presses or dead lifts in the past. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Squat: https://youtu.be/Jnrj_wwc2ws…

Thank you, I had no idea that existed.

I have a fitbit charge HR and set my mfp settings to sedentary and then let my fitbit adjust calories for me, so I do often eat a pretty significant portion of my calories back. I typically walk about 12000 steps including moderately vigorous cardio most days and resistance training 3 days a week. I also calculated my…

Exactly my thoughts, the positives seem to far outweigh the negatives to eating .8g / lb, so I think I will shoot for that daily even though it has me drinking a lot of protein shake to get there consistently. Thanks everyone for the lively debate and discussion!

Thanks rabbitjb and everyone who responded. I quoted the same article you did as the source of my .8/lb goal. I think I will just shoot for a minimum of 160g per day with 180 being my goal. for some reason even eating an average of 2200-2300 calories a day I seem to struggle to get to that 180 without supplementing at…

Thanks for the responses, even aiming for 180 would be a lot better than 200g as it would mean one less shake per day. I do some cardio, usually moderate intensity for about 45 mins 5-6 days a week and average about 12000 steps per day according to my fitbit. I also meant to post these in my original post, but the links…

I use trendweight integrated with fitbit, it works great for shutting out the noise. I was using an excel sheet I had created to track the 14 day moving average, but trendwieght is a lot easier and avoids me having to enter my weight twice (once in MFP and once in excel).

I struggled with the something similar to what you are mentioning. I wanted to lose weight fast so I could get back to eating how I wanted to eat (which was well above maintenance calories). So I had this consistent pattern of losing weight, getting to some goal weight I had set, and then gaining it all back within a few…

Hi Vismal, I am very impressed with your change, but even more impressed with your consistent and long running willingness to help people in this thread. I just wanted to say thanks and I appreciate the help you have given others which in turn have also helped me.

You may find this site helpful to determine eating levels http://www.1percentedge.com/ifcalc/

That is a really good point, I hadn't considered that my fitbit could be defective. I will contact them. Thanks for the advice!

Thanks editorgrrl, I have seen that FAQ, and tried most of the things it had suggested, with no success. I regularly manually check my heart rate and get between 150-170 while my fitbit is reading between 110-120, trying many different locations on my wrist. Nothing seems to work unless I keep my arm completely still for…