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<<< drinks diet drinks daily. Lost 130lbs.......enough evidence to me that tweaking my calorie intake was the only factor that made this happen.

well like i said accuracy is the key for a lot of people I weigh it all! But when you are doing good just keep going :) i just wanted to point out that many people fall into the logging error entrees here and the inaccuracy :) btw make your own entrees solves the problem of not finding the right ones... winks

i see a lot of cup entrees in your diary @AlisonH729 maybe you eat more calories than you think Like the peanut butter granola a 0.33 cup 160 calories ...i bet it is more. And i see a lot of these kinda entrees in your diary. Most of the time you have to tighten up your logging... I know when i started i had to get used to…

Right on!!!! I also eat a lot of vegetables and fruits ( about 500 gram daily in veggies and lots is lettuce....each) When you work with a very small deficit like me ( about 100-150 calories daily so i can eat a bit more in the weekends) than those "only couple calories for lettuce" wipe out that small deficit. I drink a…

Slowly upping calories over weeks is the best way to find out. A lot of people have a higher maintenance than they thought. But up with a 150 or 100 and do this for a week than up again. etc etc till your weight loss completely stopped. Work with a weight range and an average weekly calorie allowance. Keep track on your…

Keep in mind the link given is about a disease that is very....very rare. what are the chances that OP has this or any other rare disease? Because 99.99% of the forum posters here that have the problem of " i tried everything and can not lose weight" is often because of too much calories IN. No deficit for whatever the…

I think that MFP should try to do a better job in letting people understand their system. Like when you choose your goal you get a pop up saying.... ********************************************************************************************************* You chose the option of losing 2 lbs a week which means your…

i am maintaining since November 2015 And i am in the habit of prepping my food for some days a week. Which means for me that on Monday i make meals and snack bags/tubs for work and school. This covers the week till Friday most of the time because of this i count on Monday the calories of my food during the week. I know my…

Kudos to you!!!! You can do it, kick it girl Life is to valuable to waste it!

Never really decided I was thinking of 140 to 135 lbs But once i was at 145 lbs i was feeling great and happy with what i saw. i lost a couple more pounds unintentionally I didn't want to look like a teenager so i really tried to keep it around there. I work with a range of 10 lbs. I "gain" easily water weight of 10 lbs…

i eat every night a huge bowl of popcorn since 604 days. lost my 130lbs pound in 400 days and now for 204 days maintaining fine too much calories above maintenance level is bad for weight loss.

OP it works We were with a group of people losing weight...some did indeed what you are talking about. And they lost weight just fine. But in the closer to goal weight it slowed down. For the people who were very accurate they kept on losing weight. I know 2 of them lost till there were at their goal weight. They eat their…

you have to eat 3500 above your maintaining level to gain 1 pound. since you net every day hundreds negative with only a weight of 110 lbs and still want to lose 20 lbs i doubt that motivation is your biggest problem here.

Looking at your "one meal"....and if you indeed eat that meal..... that is about 1000 calories in sausage links ( about 250 calories a link) ad the sauce and rice and huge amount of fries and you have there a meal of over 1500 easily ( close too 2000 calories) So that is reason number one...you eat more than you think…

bamm..spot on

well looking at your calorie intake over the last days if the logging is correct ( which is hundreds in the negative netting) i would say eat more. In my weight loss journey i didn't deprive myself at all. Eat what i wanted but controlled it. Lost in 400 days 130 lbs and now since November 2015 maintaining. So the feeling…

I lost 130 lbs in 400 days by eating less and moving more. I counted every single bite I am maintaining now since a half year and goes good. I do the lazy logging method but weigh myself every day. And yes i count, but dont log everything. And some days i still am very low in calories while i know i have to eat about 1000…

i also re-did this one for the fun of it :) And 5% off. I am now the smallest ( first) on the left while i thought i was the second one. But seem to be catching up ;)

If you eat 1100 and burn 500 you NET 600! But 800 is even far to low 1200 NET is the minimum for women. Why deprive yourself when you really dont have too. But good luck to you. :)

So you NET at 600 a day?

Everything has calories except water and air lol So yes that 0 oil spray/butter and even stevia has calories But when it is under 5 calories a serving they can list it on the label as zero Now a lot for me makes no difference but when you drink a lot of coffee like me, and eat a lot of herbs and i only have a deficit of…

coffee is about 5 calories a cup and i drink about 14 a day

looked at your diary @Trinique34 and whee you log like half an apple or 1 large egg or half a protein bar or the cups of veggies and tbsp of peanut butter is that weight out as well? I know my tbsp of peanut butter were never the 190 calories ( one serving) but almost double lol So when i started weighing everything ( yes…

For 235 calories left the day i would go for a steam veggie dinner...big one lol When i would worry about it. Some celery, tomato, snap beans, spinach carrots etc wok them or steam them and walla a huge dinner for around 200 calories But most of the time i just dint worry about it the deficit was calculated over the week.

I do see things as starting or not starting. Or on track not on track I still count my calories ( in maintenance) so i just eat my allowed/allotted calories. Some days more some days less. When i would want to lose another 5 lbs which i think i want to try..there will be no starting. I just eat 100 to 200 calories less and…

I too have sometimes a low calorie day. Sometimes i take it...and eat the next day more. Otherwise i "solve" it with ending the day with a bowl of ice cream ore peanut butter or both. I dont "allow" myself to many of the days to just leave it low because i noticed that it has effect on my exercise ( faster tired) or daily…

I could be wrong, but your diary looks far from accurate. steak beef dinner 143 calories?? And some other entrees there that i have my questions about. Now dont get me wrong dont say you are not doing it right. But when i see a diary like that i think your logging is off and you eat more than you think. Plus indeed getting…

Are you gaining losing? maintaining How much calories are you eating And why do you think your metabolism slowed down? Symptoms? And this are more questions for your dietitian than a board.

must be 150 lbs

Malnutrition can take months or years to recover. search here the forums and you will find some ( horror) stories about people who had or still have a ED or just didn't eat enough nutritions