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MFP does give the 1200 cals as a suggested max for me. If I enter food that would put me over, a reminder pops up and says "Your goal is up stay under 1200 calories". See how confusing that is? But on the day that I didn't hit 1000 calories the app also sort of "punished" me with a long pop up about the importance of…
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I guess I wouldn't count things that aren't just plain water toward my water goal because coffee and tea are diuretics, they'd cause more water loss than hydration if I understand correctly.
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I was like 600 cals under because work popped up and I couldn't have dinner. It's a fine line it seems-the app suggests no more than 1200 calories a day but most people here are saying don't eat less than 1200/day.
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I think this is what I was looking for. I hear someone else say today that if your muscles are inflamed, your body will retain more water. If this is true it makes a lot of sense about the jump upward, I definitely had too much physical activity vs. calories. I'm not trying to crash diet, work just forced me to miss dinner…
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Not that much. 8oz maybe. Recommendations on this?
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I am using a food scale. I'm definitely under the calorie mark, consistently, but probably didn't get enough water yesterday.
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Thanks for the advice everyone. @strong_curves I'm not thinking one workout=x lbs down the next day, but I have kept a consistent regiment of cardio workout at least 30 mins everyday, and I've seen a consistent decline and then yesterday there was a spike up, not a big deal but I didn't want there to be more upward spikes…
