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Could be the supplements, but as I'm sure you know - given that you have long experience here - there are many other things that could cause unusual water retention, too: Minor infection or injury, allergies, etc. I'm sure you've read the scale fluctuations thread/article, which has a pretty good list of the possibilities.…

It kind of depends on what you're trying to achieve - you can decide on the method that helps you with your goals. Pretty much any non-alcohol fluid is hydrating: That's what our body counts. That would include water, tea, coffee, the fluid part of soup/fruits/other foods, soda/pop, most of juice, even the non-alcohol part…

I think so, but I prefer tempered glass like Pyrex or Anchor. They're more expensive to buy, but last longer and can be used in a regular oven in addition to microwave, including going straight from freezer to microwave without any issue. The ones with snap-on plastic lids are good for packed lunches, though I admit a bit…

@Mtaratoot's area is once again way ahead of where we are here. All my Spring bulbs are later than usual this year besides, because of late very-cold weather plus snow cover. Only snowdrops have shown up so far, and those just barely. Some years they've been as early as late January, usually sometime early to mid February.…

How long have you been at this? Water retention fluctuations can be weird for a while, especially for women who have monthly hormonal cycles. If you haven't stuck to your current eating/activity regimen for at least one full menstrual cycle - if not two - so you can compare body weight at the same relative point in…

If the Veryfit app that comes with the watch has food logging - however bad it may be - why in the world would they want to partner with a competitor like MFP? I don't understand. They'll want to build their own empires, not build MFP's. What individual users like you or me want doesn't much affect these decisions unless…

The app doesn't decide you're maintaining until you set your goal to maintaining. If you didn't change your activity level, here's my best bet for explanation: Somewhat recently, MFP changed their calorie estimation formulas to be more in line with recent research. In most cases, this would result in a higher calorie goal…

Hello, and welcome! I'm 69, lost weight at 59-60 using MFP, maintaining a healthy weight since. For me, losing around 50 pounds has been a huge quality of life improvement for me, more than worth the effort involved. While prayer may help, personal commitment to the goal is a key. "God helps those who help themselves"…

@pamelaory, there are several threads here and there where people have invited others to join in posting for daily accountability. They're spread around, but more concentrated in these two areas: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/challenges…

Some of what I'm about to write will seem complex and daunting. Be aware that it's now things I do, after a long period of using MFP, and I didn't do all of it every time from day one. Rather, my habits have gradually evolved toward greater accuracy but balanced with greater ease. For example, if I eat out only once a week…

Hi, Lucy, and welcome! One option you could consider for support or encouragement would be to join one of the motivation, challenge or accountability groups/threads here in the Community. The greatest concentration of those can be found in one of these two areas:…

Back to stationary bike. Pretty busy day, didn't get started until after 9PM, already pretty tired. The recent usual 60' ride + 3' cool down. Stuck with the usual moderate pace, this time averaging 93W or 15 simulated mph for 15.92 miles; a little over half Z3, remainder below. That puts me at 548 Garmin intensity minutes…

That's what I've gotten more often, too, about the weight loss: In my case "oh, it must be because of all of your rowing" . . . . even from people who know I've been rowing lots for 22 years, only thin for around 9. It's hilarious. Nobody wants to believe the truth no matter how many times I say it: I. Just. Ate. Less. :D…

I think I'm in a committed relationship with MFP, because it helped me be much healthier, and that makes me much happier. After a learning curve, small number of weeks probably - back in 2015 - it didn't take much time to log my food, and since I'm kind of a data geek and science nerd in other ways, it suited my nature.…

Hurt as in discomfort, or hurt as in cause injury? Probably mostly neither of those, but some people may be extra hungry during the fasting periods and find that uncomfortable (but some other people find it more satisfying to have one or two bigger meals daily rather than three or so smaller ones spread over more time, so…

Hello and welcome! Truth in advertising, I'm not a great accountability buddy candidate, being honestly kind of a flake, and at a different stage of the process besides (year 9+ of maintenance in my case). I did see your post, and wanted to offer some encouragement. First, I think it's very smart of you to be getting this…

Hello, and welcome! I'm wishing you success, because IME reaching a healthy weight and staying there is a huge quality of life improvement. One thing I'd suggest, since you've tried 20 :wink: times: What did you learn from attempts one through nineteen that will help you make a more realistic and achievable plan this time?…

Y'know, maybe it's just that I'm hedonistic and kinda lazy (because I am), but personally I would never add tactics that make things harder. (I lost weight fine anyway, maintained the healthy weight for 9+ years since, BTW.) Faster loss isn't necessarily better loss, and making the plan more difficult to follow makes it…

The idea that an average person needs X calories, for a single specific numeric X, is just nonsense on the surface of it. We're different sizes; we have jobs ranging from deskbound reference librarian on phone duty to bricklayer's apprentice carrying hods of bricks and mortar all day; we have different hobbies, from…

One thing I want to underscore from comments above: Once you have 4-6 weeks of results data, or if a woman who has menstrual cycles at least one full cycle so you can compare body weight at the same relative point in at least 2 cycles, your best estimate of calorie needs comes from your results. - Add up all the calories…

Whey protein is about the most bioavailable, if dairy sources are acceptable to you. Unflavored, it tastes mildly milk-like, which may or may not be OK depending on how you want to use it. Soy is probably the best plant source, if it being plant-based matters to you, and most people find that to taste fairly neutral in…

I don't know your body size or goals, but that's an unusually big number, 243g daily. 40% is also an unusually big percent, and implies that at some point, you deliberately increased your protein goal to double MFP's default value. I'm not saying that's wrong, not at all. I'm only saying that I'm assuming you must've had a…

If you're talking about searching your own MFP recipes, the closest thing is to act as if you're going to log the food in the phone/tablet app, which will let you put in any text string that may be in the recipe title and find the recipe that way. That's not good, that's not enough . . . but it's the closest thing we've…

Did the loss slow down then stop, or stop rather suddenly? If I look at that as around 3 months, you'd averaged roughly 2.5kg per month, roughly 0.6kg per week. (For other USA-ians like me, that'd be about 16.3 pounds total, 5.4 pounds per month, 1.4 pounds per week, with some rounding in there.) That's a pretty reasonable…

Rowing machine, keeping it pretty moderate, focusing on technical corrections from team practice. Total of 6801m, 3x2K as the main pieces, plus some row in/out and CD using the 2' between the 2Ks. 2:34.9 average split and 19spm average on the 2Ks, about 20% of the time low Z4, just under 60% Z3, remainder below. Took about…

For weight loss alone, macros only matter to the extent that a certain macro mix keeps your appetite manageable so you can stick to a sensible calorie level, and/or keeps your energy level up so you don't drag through the day burning fewer calories because of fatigue. Fat gain/loss alone is directly about calories. Macros…

Yeah, maybe - that's very extreme, probably not health promoting, quite possibly not appearance-enhancing. Two pounds a week might be possible, but if you're under 250 pounds, you're heading into a loss-rate range where 6 weeks out is often about the time hair starts thinning from sub-par nourishment, and a vivacious,…

There were actually several items like that, where one quantity was insane calories. There may still be some. I think they were all entries that came from MFP's initial load of the food database from USDA at start-up, since generally they had multiple serving-size types in the drop-down, like both weight and volume types…

Here's an additional tip: If you're taking something out of a jar (like peanut butter or mayo) or cutting off a chunk of something (like cheese or meat), put the whole jar or chunk on the scale. Zero (tare) the scale. Dip out or cut off the amount you want for your serving. The negative number that appears on the scale is…

Fiber is tracked in MFP based on the fiber data in each food entry. It can be found in the Nutrition tab in the phone/tablet app, or the Reports tab of web browser MFP, or the Full Report option near the bottom of the food diary page in web MFP. If you like, you can also customize the columns in your food diary page to…