MelanieCN77 Member

I am married but I cook for one all the time as we have completely different tastes. For myself, watching what I eat, some of my meals this week were: Stir fried veg and rice with some frozen potstickers or meat Soup and a sandwich Rice, refried beans, avocado all smushed together with some kind of meat and street taco…

I'm at 1610 maintenance, active, 5'5 40 year old female.

I found a brand of kosher called "Masada" pita that is 116 cals for a regular large pita. I checked the ingredients to see why and it used no fats or oils and that's a huge saving in cals. They are quite dry as a result but a half a minute under the broiler and they get nice and chewy. Also go tto keep them in the fridge…

Why not build in some hiking and other functional exercise? Start carrying weighted packs and such, get a feel for it. I also think your cals are too low. What does MFP say you need to eat at for a 2lb per week weight loss? I bet it is way more. Edit: one of the reasons you may only be lasting a couple of weeks is this…

Canadian bacon, oil free pita bread, Laughing Cow cream cheese, eggplant, egg whites, 0% greek yoghurt, tuna.

If you're a lazy cook, the Green Giant bags of frozen "riced" cauliflower mixes are really handy. Plain cauli, one with broccoli, one with like peas and onions very low cal, and the one with sweet potato if you can spare some more. They are good sauteed up as sides or you can mix them into almost anything to add nice…

Learning to clean as you go changes everything!

I love to cook and am good at it, but approach each meal in a sort of overall perfect storm of speed, taste and ease of clean-up. If it takes more than 30 minutes, it's a holiday affair only. All hail the Instant Pot, for putting more foods in my weeknight dinner rotation.

So to circle back to logging - if you eat something packaged or store bought, how are you measuring a portion/serving of that? Like if you ate oatmeal, how would you know how much is the 190 cal serving?

Outside of MFP and the Apple suite (Health, Activity, Watch) I use Waterminder to bug me to drink up, and I have quite a few others that are used infrequently. Clue (period tracker), Activity ++, Sleep++, CaliCalo, Zones, the Fitbit app because I still use the Aria scale, Cardiogram and a programmable interval timer.

Weigh before you remove the excess and weigh after, subtract. I truly think that trying to calculate what's evaporated is the beginning of disordered thinking about food, and coming on the heels of "I wipe off the sauce" makes me go "hmmm."

Time of the month.

That's *kitten* crazy.

I'm hovering around goal weight but have been cutting cals a little this month to shave off 2-3 holiday pounds and I have been so cold. Are you under-eating?

What about bands? You really can do a lot with them and you're in control of the resistance. You can even buy a little doodad that enables you to loop it over a door frame and do pull down type moves.

Flour. What an *kitten*. Heavy cream - I mean yeah right duh but a cup has A THOUSAND freakin calories. That soup I'm making is cream of no thank you.

Girl I am at a good weight without excess skin and if I ever glance down my top while doing planks I am also full of disappointment :D How long have you been maintaining? I know diddly squat about it, but is it something that will rectify over time with a continued positive lifestyle?

I'm 40 and have it set to sedentary, and I add exercise from my Watch.

I'd say very accurate. Easiest thing to tare the scale with a bowl on it, and choose a good entry in the DB. I also make use of the recipe builder.

Absolutely. It won't solve any of your traditional life problems but it sure clears out the cobwebs and gives a chance for a calmer perspective to reign, sometimes. Also, being healthy and fit means one less nagging thing to add to the daily rotation of things to be aggro about.

Well, some of us don't find high in fat satiating for the cals.

Build some play type exercise into your time with your kids. Are they old enough to play soccer and run races with you and stuff?

If you're making it at home, just use the recipe builder. I made pizza last week using the TJ's pre-made dough. Throw it all in the recipe builder, call it 8 servings and cut into 8 slices. You could be more exact by using weights but honestly that would be such a drag for pizza and probably not achieve too much more…

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say mac and cheese goes with everything.

Mine is open to friends. Been in maintenance for almost a year and I log every day.

"I have no clue" - you can just go and look at what you set it as.

It is an amphetamine, so...

Yes ok! I wanted to add the numbers up to see if it matched what I thought, and it does. First thing to keep in mind is that silly MFP/Apple bug that erases your casual step calorie adjustments if you log a workout. So taking 1/22 as an example, Apple gave me a total expenditure of 2555 and MFP gave me 2280. MFP's 2280…

5'5 and 135. I've been hovering around 135-138 for the last 9 months. MFP gives me 1610 currently, and it seems right. I do a lot of deliberate exercise and eat most of those cals back, except for if I track strength stuff as I am suspicious of that burning as many cals as my watch says. For most of January I have been…

Definitely ask your doctor about it Thursday. Good sleep is a lot about habit and you have been changing things up, but best to make sure there's nothing medical. I do think your calories are too low, though. What does MFP say you should eat to lose 2lbs a week? I bet it's a lot more than you are aiming for. Under 1200 and…