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You're welcome :) I'm truly the most stubborn person I know and I've tried it all. Using a food scale was all it took. I gained A LOT of weight with my second pregnancy in 2009, over 80 pounds, and never managed to lose much of it. I've done a lot of extreme yo-yoing with three more pregnancies since then. I'm 15 pounds…

When I started MFP in 2014, I was really resistant to the idea of weighing food for the same reason. I thought I could do just fine figuring it out on my own. I made almost no progress because I wasn't measuring correctly. I returned later after losing a little weight on my own and started weighing food. I dropped 70lbs.…

I'm chronically sleep deprived and it doesn't influence my weight loss, but it does make workout recovery more difficult and it does make me feel like garbage in general. A great night for me is 8 hours with about one hour awake throughout the night. I can get one of those usually once a week. A bad night is less than 5.…

In the next 6 weeks the vast majority of that weight will drop off without you doing anything. You still have a lot of blood volume and extra fluids to lose at 9 days post-partum. Re-evaluate where you are in 6 weeks and you'll have a better idea of what's left of your fat stores.

This is what I would advise as someone who was obese during pregnancy (the most I gained was 85 pounds in my second pregnancy, for the other four pregnancies I gained between 33-55lbs). Focus on gaining a healthy amount of weight. Whatever your doctor advises. Think about it this way. You have your starting weight + all of…

You were told in your other thread to eat back exercise calories.

Please go back to your other thread and re-read all of the advice that was given to you on how to lose weight safely. You're under-eating. I suggest you see a doctor if the advice given to you here isn't enough to deter you.

This was already explained to you in your other thread. You're starving yourself and trying to lose too aggressively. This is bad for your health.

It won't let you save it because you aren't eating enough and this app discourages under-eating. You shouldn't be going below 1200 calories a day.

Since you're not going for body building gains, you can probably stick to the macros that MFP gives you. Don't overthink it. Most people who lift heavy stick to .8 to 1 gram per pound of lean body mass. I usually finish out the day anywhere between 100 and 118 grams. It's the one macro I tend to neglect if I don't…

Ask for nutritional counseling would be my suggestion. The general recommendation is to gain a healthy amount of weight, and that typically depends on mom's weight at the start of pregnancy. Pregnant women have special nutritional needs, especially protein, in order to help grow a healthy baby and prevent maternal illness…

The only macro I focus on is protein.

Have you consistently been eating 3500 calories over your maintenance? That's what it takes to gain one pound of fat. Bloating can stick around for a long time. For some women it can stick around for weeks and weeks and mask weight loss, especially if they don't have much weight to lose. Tighten up your logging if you…

Please see your health care provider ASAP. None of us can or should be advising you about this.

Still making good progress. No complaints here other than wishing my kids would stop teaming up and conspiring to keep me awake at night. Height: 5'1" HW: 195 SW March: 148.2 Ultimate goal: 130 would be outstanding. March goal: Nailed my first goal of 145. Maybe 143 or 142 to finish out the month. March 1st: 148.2 March…

Honestly, you just seem bloated. Eventually it will come off as water weight. 11 days is still too soon to be completely adjusted to the pill. I wouldn't be too concerned about it causing weight gain if you have some awareness over how many calories you're eating. How are you measuring body fat? If you want to change your…

Having fewer options and learning how to rotate through them and use ingredients in various ways can help a lot. I love huge bags of frozen broccoli, cauliflower, and stir-fry vegetables to bulk up meals. I also make carrot and cabbage slaw for stir-fries and soups. Meat is never the superstar of my meals but it's always…

If it doesn't have added solution then boneless, skinless chicken breast would be 120 calories per 100 grams. You can always double check entries on the USDA food database website and create your own entry.

I am! Depending on the age of your baby and how frequently they nurse, it's likely that all you'll need to do is set your account to maintenance and track all of your calories that way, and your baby will create the deficit. I recommend that over trying to guess how many calories breastfeeding takes from you since it's…

He's married and cheating on his wife and a liar. Guys with a clean conscience don't sneak around with another woman on their lunch break. Also, think about yourself. Do you really think so lowly of yourself that the only man you think you can get is one like him? Why do you think you don't deserve more than that? He's…

It does require some prioritizing of yourself but it's not as hard as you think. Starting out, people have a tendency to think they have to do everything all at once. They need to completely change their diet, start a new exercise plan, track all of their food, etc. That kind of mindset is overwhelming and easy to give up…

I think (and there are various reasons for this) MFP users tend to underestimate how many calories they can eat and still lose weight successfully. If you can eat more while still losing, stick with that. You can go in and manually change your calorie goals for the day from the estimate MFP gives you. I'm 5'1" and like the…

I have a few things on rotation. Flavored greek yogurt, two eggs or egg whites scrambled with a bunch of sauteed veg (spinach, zucchini, onion, asparagus, tomatoes, etc), some kind of cereal with low fat milk, or I'll make a breakfast burrito. All depends on what I feel like. And always coffee.

Another vote for the Torani sugar free syrups. Mix with skim, froth, and make a latte or cappuccino with it.

Nothing topical or ingested can restore collagen at a molecular level.

I use the recipe builder through the app. It does all the work for you. I have five kids and a spouse. No way I'm cooking something separate just for myself. You can't get too precise about making sure you have an equal portion of everything in the pot obviously, but it should be close enough. I've lost 50lbs. and counting…

Every one of us with breasts, if we're lucky enough to reach old age, is going to experience some degree of sagging. It's a natural part of aging. It happens due to pregnancy. It happens when we lose weight and we lose the fat tissue that once filled our breasts in. There aren't any exercises that will reverse sagging…

A cheat day for me consists of eating in a way that won't make me gain weight, but won't necessarily make me lose weight either. In others words, maintenance. I still count, but if I have days where I eat more, I just make sure it's not enough to matter in the long run. I just don't eat with wild abandon and without…

Checking in again. I've done a lot of bouncing around this week but I was down again today despite eating a whole pizza and 4 pints of ice cream over the course of the week. I did well and haven't eaten any take-out or fast food and that made it much easier to track, but I will probably have some take-out tomorrow after my…

I stick to a deficit throughout and at the end it drops off along with any weight the extra water weight was masking. Don't get discouraged. Fluctuations are totally normal. Just keep going.