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2oz serving size? Hardly worth eating! Serving size in the UK is 90g uncooked weight/200g cooked weight. I love pasta and it fills me up so I don't restrict it particularly, though I weigh it and plan for this amount when considering my calories for the day.

I've just recently run a marathon and found that as my runs got longer I needed to reduce my deficit - for a few months before I went completely up to maintenance (+ ate back my exercise calories). Listen to your body, you will probably need to choose between training for a long distance and losing for a little while (I…

If you're up over 20k steps, that sounds about right (that's around what I get at 74kg), I'd eat them, especially if you've got your activity set to sedentary. I eat back all my Fitbit calories and lose at the rate I'm expecting. MFP has taken the deficit you need to lose weight into account, so extra calories from…

I like multi-seed wholemeal toast with butter and Marmite with a cup of tea, today I had a cinnamon and raisin bagel with butter. The cafe at work does a really nice cheese scone, so I quite often have that or a bacon muffin, or on days that I get in early I might buy a fried egg and bacon sandwich. Trying hard not to…

I would imagine that some, if not all, of your gain is your body retaining water to help you recover from your surgery. I'd go *up* to maintenance over the two weeks that your doctor has advised to rest, to help your body repair itself. You know you can sustainably lose when you go back to a deficit, so don't panic -…

I'm sorry, I don't have anything particularly helpful to add, but this confused me. The *best* thing to do is log accurately, not estimate high. I don't understand why you can't log your sandwich properly if you are making it yourself, which is what your comment implies.

I have paid, mainly because I wanted to have different daily goals, it does tell me more about which foods were highest for macros and stuff, but I am not so bothered about that. I'd rather fund a service via a subscription than ads, if I have the choice. It didn't break the bank.

Any ideas on how to do that, at a price that we'd be willing to pay for, while still keeping such a wide range of foods from all over the world?

I don't know how tall you are, but you've got the same starting weight-ish as me, I'm 5'6" and started at 14st 4.5lbs. I think you do need to be more realistic about how much you can sustainably lose. I tried to stay at 1200 calories, but was just too hungry - I took my rate down to about 1.5lbs a week and that has been…

I learnt during my science practicals at school to measure several times and take the average. No measurement is 100% accurate. I usually just hop on the scales once, unless the reading isn't what I expected, but it's not madness to measure repeatedly, it's good scientific practice.

To be fair, that wasn't what you said in your first post, "this is what works for me" isn't the same as "you mustn't do this if you want a ripped body"

I'm 1.69 m (5'6") and 74kg (163 lbs) and I maintain (or even lose slowly) at 1760 plus exercise calories. I don't need to do much over my 10k steps to burn 400 kCals, so I imagine there are lots of other women like me who can easily maintain on 2000 kCals.

If you want some ideas on how to eat more calories then you can check out my diary, I've been at maintenance + exercise calories while marathon training.

I'd make the effort to use the recipe builder, you only need to do each recipe once after all. It's a bit pointless tracking things if the calories you're tracking don't correspond to what you've actually eaten.

Don't forget to recalculate your calorie goal - as you lose weight you will need fewer calories.

Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness.

I eat all the calories that my Fitbit One gives me and have lost weight at the rate I expected to and am now maintaining. Most of my exercise is step based (running and walking)

This seems such an odd argument to me, it's an ingredient, like any other. The purpose of an egg is to become a chick, it's still a good thing to eat. What about seeds? Or anything.

No you don't need fruit, it doesn't give you anything you can't get by eating a variety of vegetables AFAIK. Sugar isn't inherently evil, but it is calorie dense.

Calories are most important for weight loss, but the entries in the database should have all the other macros, so you can look at these as you get used to the process.

Measure as in weigh your food in grammes. Packaged goods will tell you how many calories per 100g and quite often give you an idea of a suggested serving size. For fresh produce like fruit and vegetables look for an USDA entry, e.g. search for "carrots raw USDA". If you cook from scratch a lot then the recipe builder is…

Your question made me feel sad, you don't need to feel disgusted by your body - it's just done something amazing, and is continuing to grow another human, that is just incredible. Be proud of the job it's doing! This calories in calories out stuff does work, there's plenty of time to lose weight. 1200 kCals is definitely…

Don't bother with cups, get yourself a scale and use entries in grammes.

Feel free to look at mine, I try to be as accurate as I can, I weigh pretty much everything as far as is practical and eat back all the exercise calories that my Fitbit One gives me. I'm at maintenance at the moment until after my marathon and TrendWeight tells me I'm losing 0.2kg per week, so I think I'm pretty close to…

I lost 28lbs in about 4 months, just calorie counting and without huge amounts of exercise - I tried to get my 10k steps in every day and built my running up to three times a week (about 12 miles) over that time, so not excessive and allowed me some treats (wine, desserts...) I've lost another 7lbs since then and have got…

I like tuna, mayonnaise, a scant tablespoon of finely chopped onions, chopped capers, parsley, lemon zest, black pepper. Very nice in a tuna melt, too.

Mine is open, but I'm maintaining at the moment, feel free to take a look though!

No one is obliging you to use this free tool, mate.

By the way, England is a protestant country, the observance of Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Lent etc are not thought of as a particularly Roman Catholic thing here.

My pancakes (à la Delia) were 97 kCals each, including a teaspoon of sugar and lemon juice, they're not *that* high calorie (I had three