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I weigh daily and sync to trend weight. I highly recommend it. It has a sophisticated algorithm for giving you a moving weighted average of your weight loss each day. Your weight can fluctuate from day to day but trendweight tells you your "actual" loss - i.e., you can have a day when you gain scale weight but trend weight…

Over the last 30 days, I averaged 2110 calories per day. I burned 2742 per day on average. Would prefer that to be more like 1,900-2,000 calories eaten and 2,900 - 3,000 calories burned, but either way - yes to plenty of calories please. I honestly don't know how I could do this on less food. I know that means as I get…

I weigh daily and use trend weight. I also like to look at the week over week average weights in my Fitbit and judge if my averages are dropping. My day to day weight bounces all over the place but my overall pattern is a pretty steady gradual decline - shown visually in my trend weight trend line. Even given that, the…

Wow, on very little information, this woman just got a pile-on of judgment. And then when she clarified, she still got a pile-on of judgment. I think she has every right to feel dissatisfied with her marriage and it is completely understandable that greater self-confidence would make her feel more able to confront her true…

Another variation of this is that I've lost about 16 pounds and just waking around you can't really see it. No one has noticed that I'm losing weight. It can be really frustrating to be honest. I can see it when I'm naked because it all seems to be in my tummy which definitely is shrinking. But that's a part of my body I…

I find Runkeeper to be the most accurate for calorie estimates. I run with both it and a fitbit charge HR, which bases my calorie burn on heartrate, and usually the fitbit estimate is about 20-50 calories less than what runkeeper estimates. So it's pretty close. I go with the fitbit numbers.

Wow - you look amazing. How tall are you? I feel like you have a very similar body to mine (very similar at different weights) and I find that really inspiring. I started at 222, am now around 210 (also use trendweight) and would like to get down to 140. To be honest, your photos at 194 and 170 make me feel so much better…

I've got a lot of emotional stress right now. Some days have been really bad and I come home at the end of them and really just need to eat cheap chinese food and have a couple of beers. I don't beat myself up over it. I eat probably half to 2/3 the portion of chinese I would have in the past and I make sure that I get up…

Read The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf. Keep up the therapy. Do exercise in a way you enjoy and that makes you feel good and gives you time to clear your head. Try to think about yourself and what you need and want - and what besides being thin and having your boyfriend back would give you real pleasure. Think about what you…

Take care of yourself. Thinking of all of you in Syria and all those fleeing and hoping for your safety.

Over the last 30 days, I've averaged 2,000 calories per day and I've lost just under 8lbs - so between 1.5 and 2lbs per week. I'm 5'5 and currently weigh around 212 (down from 220 30 days ago). I do couch to 5K (20 minutes of run/walk intervals) 2-3x/week. I've just added heavy lifting but that's really recent. I try to…

I use trend weight and I've noticed this very interesting pattern where the scale weight will go down each day for 3 days and then up a notch and then down again three times and then up a notch - it's continued that basic pattern for about 3 weeks. It's a fascinating thing to see now. My trend line is smoothed by the…

Gap is a regular store that does a great job of offering larger sizes - they go up to size 18 and usually have a good selection in those higher ranges. I weigh around 212 and wear a size 16 - have been wearing them since I was about 220 though it was borderline getting them on at that point. But they're jeans are nice…

PS - if you have a fibit charge hr then you can rely purely on the fitbit adjustment that MFP does and not worry about logging exercise separately with the apparently inflated calorie burns. Fitbit (especially with the HR function) is remarkably accurate for most people - and even where it's not, you can use its…

I highly recommend getting a fitbit charge hr. It will give you a more accurate sense of how much energy you're expending each day and you can then determine how many calories to cut from there. At your height and weight, you should definitely be eating more than 1,200 calories. If you are sedentary, that can be hard to do…

Wait, I'm confused. That's not how my weekly progress report looks. It tells me calories in and calories out and then calculates my total deficit. The dashboard on the website each day acts as you say and tells me how much I was off from my planned deficit, but not the weekly progress report.

I am pretty sure that if you want to record your walks specifically you can use the Fitbit app's mobile run function as long as you bring your phone with you. You click on exercise, then the little stopwatch icon in the upper right corner and then hit track and it will use your phones GPS to measure steps, actual distance,…

Sure does:) And if you can incorporate more activity into your day then that will increase the deficit. Even if you don't do structured exercise, just more movement makes a huge difference.

Yes. That was my point. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Ah, but it does care if you get the regular, premium, super premium or diesel. They all interact with your car differently and when you get the good stuff, your car can use it more efficiently, cleanly and with less maintenance and repair. I agree with the general emphasis here on not obsessing over carbs vs protein etc…

But it's all calories in calories out. IF people are struggling they just need to weight their food and be more accurate loggers. Sarcasm of course. Obvious point being that people were no more likely to accurately log and use a digital scale in the 80s either

As I said, PART of how it works is by making your body unable to absorb a PORTION of the nutrients - not just by passing quickly through the stomach but also by bypassing a section of the small intestine. It is the COMBINATION of enforced portion control, malabsorption and changes in the gut that affect hormones…

See, again you are displaying your ignorance. Weight loss surgery is not simply mandated portion control/calorie deficit. Part of how it works is by making it so that your body is unable to absorb a portion of the calories you consume - it bypasses your stomach, thereby not being digested and thus not part of the calories…

And btw, I haven't closely looked at MFP guidelines but I find others to believe that some of the heart-sickeningly cruel things that have been said here aren't user violations. This whole thread is just more proof that suffering through painful life experiences oneself is by no means a guarantee of empathy or even basic…

People here are astounding. CICO is indeed a fundamental principle - one that has worked quite cleanly (if not without effort) for me personally. But people's bodies are complex organisms affected by a range of factors and will react differently. For example, people who have always been extremely obese my have a glitch in…

Wish I could love this like 1,000 times.

This end part is the big misconception here. It is NOT the case that people who lose weight with weight loss surgery would still be able to do so if they are willing to "eat at a calorie deficit to lose, and to eat at maintenance to maintain weight" without surgery. The whole point is that there are people for whom obesity…

Also, ifyou can mentally handle it, I find weighing every day helpful. It may seem obsessive but actually it helps me NOT obsess over any individual day's weight but to see the averages week over week and the overall trend. I sync to trend weight, which also helps to focus on the trend.

Even if the Fitbit numbers are off for you, they still give you a baseline from which you can develop usable data. You can do the same exercise I did to determine the daily variance (eg, you seem to be burning 300 cals less than Fitbit says) and the you can create a food called Fitbit adjustment and enter those calories or…