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Ran for 30 minutes straight today and yesterday!

Get fitted for shoes. I don't mean the sizing (i.e. 9, 9.5) only. Your running gait and pronation will dictate your shoe type/style. have it analyzed at a running specific store that carries multiple brands. What works for me probably won't work for you. Also, its possible that you are over-doing the running with too…

Calories burned is an estimation of your weight, speed, and time. Someone larger will use more calories to move their body slower than someone lighter moving at a faster pace. With that said, its all a guess. If you are a data geek, maybe average the two numbers together. It doesn't really matter if you aren't eating all…

5'11" 225 and XL shirts are baggy on me most of the time. Pants are a 38 or 36 waist depending on the cut. At 176, XXL shirts are just way too big unless you have shrunk them (my laundry skills can do that!) or you just like them baggy.

You can exercise to increase weight loss, but you can't out-exercise a bad diet. Count calories and work out.

The exact model I have had for 3 years! Great flexibility for the coffee needs of the morning.

Several days is a bit vague. If it's a week or so, you might pack on a pound or so. The additional water weight will go back down and the maintenance number of your original weight will get you back to it. Considering the human body fluctuates a few pounds every day, it's pretty much just a rounding error. Sustained…

I had my first comment a couple days ago and I have dropped 19.3 lbs since the fourth of July. It makes me wonder if I either A: carried the weight well or B: people think I still look overly big (I still have a ways to go on losing).

plug your stats and goals into MFP and go from there.

You likely won't lose 5KG in a month. You can make progress towards it by tracking your calorie intake with the tools available to you through this site and helpful posters on the forums. You don't need diet foods, you need to track the foods you eat. It's usually cheaper to lose weight as you don't consume as much. You…

Go for a walk, skip a hard exercise if you need to. Sometimes you fall down (over-eat calories, not exercise), but you always get up. No one is perfect in the journey. You just have to remember that steps in the right direction get you to where you need to go. You don't need to do it all today, just a little bit of it.

The first time you lost 3-4 pounds in a couple days, it was water weight, which you have gained and lost a few times. You cheated "a lot" for 2 of the 7 days you have been trying to use MFP and you are frustrated with the program??? Try it without cheating for a couple weeks, then evaluate the whole calorie in calorie out…

Make sure you measure your food with a scale and you might be eating more than you think.

Just count your calories you eat/drink and the ones you burn. MFP does a great job of doing the calculations for you if you input your stats and then track your intake. For 30lbs lost, shoot for 1lb/week loss and then adjust it to 0.5 when you get to about 20lbs from your goal.

Not sure what a refeed day is, but it doesn't make sense to me. If you are weighing your food accurately, not overestimating your exercise calories burned, and logging everything, you will not be stuck at the same weight for 5 weeks. maybe you are close to your goal and the numbers give you less room for error than…

Definitely possible, following the math. You might be under-fueling yourself in the mean time though without knowing what MFP says you should net per day. Also, maintenance numbers might leave you less room for error in your cal count. I am 230lbs and goal is under 200. I have a 1770cal/day goal, if I go over once in…

Totally possible. It could be water weight adjustments, or your body catching up to the progress you have made. Just don't get discouraged if it jumps a pound or two randomly either. Great work!

the body's weight loss isn't linear... I don't know the exact reason behind it. You could put on 2-3 lbs in water weight and lose the fat over the week and it wouldn't show on the scale. then the next week, you lose another couple pounds AND the water weight goes away... WHOOSH, a large drop in weight. Thats how I…

The fitbit app will compare what you have eaten compared to what you have burned up to that point in the day. It adjusts as time goes by in the day and it's calculated burn rate. On the MFP app, it will give you exercise calories burned by importing the steps you have taken and the right side shows what you have NET. My…

I put on 3lbs from eating more salt yesterday according to the scale. Its water weight and normal. The best way to gauge progress (IMHO) is to weigh daily at the same time/place and look at the weekly average. You look for a trend, not specific numbers.

Just a heads up, the weight loss may be slower as a pound a week is aggressive with only 10lbs to go. 1/2lb is probably more accurate. And please remember, water weight due to retention can hide weight loss overall pretty easy when you are within 10lbs of your goal. I "put on" 3 lbs from yesterday eating higher sodium…

I am a 230lb male, on a 1770 cal/day goal since I started at 247lbs about 90 days ago. I haven't been perfect with the goal, going over sometimes and under others, but overall: I totally get what he is saying. Its not a medical definition for everyone to follow. Its a guideline for people to gauge their number. I…

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I am netting about 1570. Generally eating back half of exercise calories at the moment. The reason I looked at adjusting my goal was the low calorie total. Once I realized that I could stick with this whole thing (counting calories, tracking weight, etc) I read through a lot of the message board posts and the cals seemed…

Every step of the journey is important, even the little ones. If you don't take that step, you can't take the next.

Greek Yogurt instead of sour cream.

Hi! I hope you find this to be a great resource for you! There is a lot of information in the message boards.

It happens. I am usually around my goal but not dead on. Just don't under shoot it by a lot constantly.

You won't lose every time you hit the scale. You might never cross the calorie limit, but could retain water by extra exercise or increased sodium that day. It will happen. Don't get discouraged by it. The general trend over weeks is what you want to see. I steadily went down from 247 to 237, then up to 241 then 243 then…

I feel you. Sometimes I work my butt off, but it doesn't go anywhere. Stick to the calories counting. It will work. You may be underestimating your actual calories; weigh your food if you aren't. I don't all the time but with my needed weight loss I have bit of room for error. As you have less to lose, the weight is…