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Mine seems a little high to me as well. I've had a Charge 2 for about 2-3 weeks now and it estimates I burn 1800 calories a day (most calculators put me at 1600-1550, 1400-1350 for BMR). However, I do seem to walk a lot (average of 8,000 steps a day, 5 miles a day). I just changed the handiness on it though to see if that…

I weigh 4-7 times a week, but I only log if the weight has dropped since my last weigh-in. I'm considering just logging all my weights though so I can reassure myself that when I've been stuck at a weight in the past, I always lose it. It's just so difficult to watch the scales not do anything for 3 weeks and then have it…

I know mine is in the middle (66-ish) but my brother's is like 30...I don't know if he just has a weak pulse and can't be easily read or what but it's weird. Neither of us are obese but I'm overweight. He's slim (used to be slimmer!) and this was taken when he used to do P90x so I'm not sure if it's gone up now. I would…

I was having this problem a couple of days ago. I see some people saying you don't have to eat many small meals and that may be true, but I would suggest that from your first meal to your last you should eat an even amount of calories in your meals. I was getting dizzy, hungry, and cranky and all I needed to do was even…

You know what's weird? Food is much more expensive in my hometown because there's only 1 grocery in town. When I was in college, the food was cheaper because there were three major grocery stores, plus some small ones, plus a farmer's market. The fast food in my current town is way cheaper than my college town and it's why…

I think I was eating about 2000-2300 calories a day before. My bad days now are 1900-2000. Before they were probably 2500. I dunno a lot of my weight was packed on as a kid so I've been eating 2000 since my childhood which puts on a lot of weight for a 7 year old but less so as you get older. It's probably why I hit a wall…

I am about 3-4 days away. Could explain a lot. Except I don't ovulate because I take birth control pills. Wouldn't that lessen the effect?

As much as I love my Baxter and my Coco, they're not very good for exercise (but Baxter is great for lazy days when any amount of work seems insurmountable! Coco the English Bulldog does not even want to hear the word "walk". Baxter the Basset Hound loves walks, but 1/2 a mile at a snail's pace is a workout for him. He…

Sign me UP! But seriously, are we the same person? My starting weight was 155 and now I'm about 147. I'm 5' 2" 22 years old! Also, anyone else in this group, feel free to add me. I'll support you by making any choice you make look way better! And you can look at all the times I fell off the horse and had to get started…

Yep! I drink 64 oz a day usually and more if I'm hungry. I've also found for today that distributing the calories evenly is helpful. I eat anywhere from 200-300 calories for breakfast and 200-300 for lunch leaving me quite a few before dinner...I think I'll start trying to get to 400/400/400 as much as possible. I'm not a…

I know this is an old thread, but I would log as lightly active depending on how many classes you have. For example, if you're only going to and from one or two classes a day, that's not a lot. But if you're doing that 5 times a day plus walking to an from campus or something, I'd put lightly active. That's what a I did…

Yeah, I thought about it after I said it and realized that's probably the case. Although, I saw another thread saying that sedentary on mfp isn't bedridden, it's desk job + normal household chores. Is this true? By the way, I ate right after I posted this thread and man did I feel better instantly. I felt more awake, I…

It makes me mad that mfp would even include that. Like who literally doesn't even go to work or school? As for the other things, yeah, I agree I could eat better trade-offs, but I ate like that last time on 1,200 and I felt okay. I'm just trying to figure out the sudden change. I was looking some stuff up online about how…

I actually just updated it now (last time I checked is when I was at 155lbs). It says 1720 to maintain, 1470 to lose .5lbs, and 1220 to lose a pound a week. Also, to clarify again, I haven't actually stuck to that 1200 goal, I've been averaging 1448 over the last month.

I'm 22F 5' 2" and currently 147lbs trying to get to 115 Mfp gave me 1250 to lose a pound a week. I've done 1200 before though and haven't had any trouble with hunger before. I was at 1400 in October and I felt pretty satisfied there, maybe even full, but I wasn't losing a pound a week. I'm mostly just confused as to why a…

That you can gain muscle while losing fat

I had gained a bit of water weight because of my thyroid and as soon as I started taking the meds I lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks. I didn't look much different, still wore the same pant/dress size, but I was less bloated. Can't say I felt a big difference in energy because I'm bad at getting enough sleep. My skin and my hair…

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Not nitpick you, but I didn't even know the difference between a protein and a carb when I started dieting and I thought all fats were bad. Yeah, I knew vegetables were good for you, but I thought that meant I should only eat vegetables and that meat made people fat. It wasn't until I did some research that I even figured…

This group looks fun! I'm 22 from Connecticut and work as a substitute teacher for a high school (and will hopefully become an English teacher soon). I don't really do much outside of work--I'm usually keeping the house all good for Mom :) I write a little bit, usually watch comedies and YouTube. I love makeup! It's like…

I confess I'm afraid that when I lose all the weight, people won't see ME anymore and will only comment on how much weight I lost...and I only feel that way because I've been just as shallow before.

Same though. Same.

5' 2" SW: 155. I used to hover around 135 in middle school and 140 in high school. Gained 10-15 after college (hooray booze!). CW: 148. This is probably my 5th or 6th time trying to lose weight. I'm "back on the saddle" so to speak. I was cutting calories at 1450-1400 (my maintenance is 1670-ish). Today I decided to drop…

Depending on how tall this person is and what their metabolism is like, I wouldn't say 1,000 is that bad (although it's not sustainable and I'd only do it for a month at a time max). And given eating a little over or under my goal, I'd eat over. I'm 5' 2" with an underactive thyroid and I've found 1200 doesn't make me lose…