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That's a great achievement - you deserve to feel proud of yourself and it's definitely motivation to keep going. Good for you!!

What was being tracked? That may help, in order for people to recommend alternatives.

Like yirara, I have some easy-to-prepare meals that I eat regularly (baked fish or baked chicken mostly), to intersperce the things that take longer to prep. Every so often, I batch cook a whole load of curries (beef / chicken / seafood / Indian / Thai / Malaysian), stirfries, stews, savoury traybakes, bolognese, chilli…

Firstly, congratulations on such a phenomenal weight loss. To re-lose 10kg, the obvious answer is to do whatever you were doing before - but also ask yourself why you have re-gained. Did you lose motivation once you'd reached your goal? What do you need to do to re-motivate yourself? A picture of you looking your best,…

If you binge eat and have an eating disorder, you need to speak to a doctor. You describe yourself as 'ugly' - you need to see a doctor. It's highly, highly unlikely that you are ugly and I very much doubt that any family or friends think so either. Until your eating disorder and dissatisfaction with yourself is resolved,…

Enter your details into the Guided set-up on the home page, be honest about your typical daily activity level (you track purposeful exercise separately) and set a reasonably weight-loss target (with only 20lbs to lose, don't try to do 2lb a week as it's unlikely to be sustainable - better to aim for 0.5 to 1lb a week to…

So is MFP showing you only have 600 calories for the day after the adjustment??? That seems very odd. I can't explain it, as I don't have a fitness tracker, but I'd be inclined to manually add in your exercise using a conservative estimate of speed / time walked and downplaying how long you spent in the garden. (the manual…

I get colder a lot quicker now. My food shopping is cheaper.

Presumably you weigh yourself at home with those clothes on - if not, your clothing could easily be 2lb. I'd be inclined to start weighing yourself at home, even if you track it separately to your 'official' log, so that you can see if there are fluctuations / whether you have a general, but very very very slow, trend…

Congratulations - that's a great achievement. Assuming you got your calorie goal from MFP, go back in to the Guided Setup screen every so often and 'Save'. Even if you're logging your weight regularly, MFP doesn't auto-adjust your calories downwards as you lose - so it's still giving you the calories you were allocated at…

I've always eaten mine and managed to successfully lose 14kg whilst doing so. I've been maintaining for a few years now and I still eat my exercise calories.

Could you buy your own scales and weigh yourself, every morning? That way you'd see any fluctuations between weekly weigh-ins at your doctor's surgery. Also, although it still seems odd that the figure is exactly the same, do you wear the same clothes each week? Do you get weighed dressed or undressed? Do you eat before…

I'm so glad you came back and added more updates. Congratulations on getting under 14 stone and even bigger Congratulations on your wedding - I hope you and Sadie had a lovely day. I'm a couple of weeks behind as I took a road trip (with multiple ferries involved) up the Scottish west coast and wasn't logging on to MFP,…

I certainly have. After 20+ years of maintaining the same 'overweight' weight, despite going to the gym multiple times a week, I came to MFP, logged everything I ate and drank, tracked my exercise… and slowly got down to a healthy weight (middle of 'Normal' BMI). I've been in Maintenance for several years. I set my macros…

I'd been overweight for years, despite going to the gym multiple times a week. I wasn't gaining, but I wasn't losing either. Then, in 2018, I got told I was diabetic. I didn't want to take medication and told my GP I'd deal with it via diet - she gave me 6 months to prove I could. I wouldn't say I'm obsessed nor even 100%…

As above - it's how MFP is designed. Just don't be surprised when you find that the amount you've burned isn't nearly as much as you expected it to be. I'm short and older and therefore didn't get a huge number of calories to start with - I'd be very hungry and eating everything in sight if I didn't add in my exercise…

A diabetes diagnosis was all the motivation I needed. I was horrified. Yes I was overweight (and had been for years), but I was stable at my weight and not obese. Tracking my food intake on MFP not only helped me lose weight (and now maintain at a healthy level), but it also enabled me to get my blood sugar numbers right…

I initially switched to artificial sweeteners but then just went cold-turkey and ditched sugar / sweetener, for health reasons. I'd been told it takes about 3 weeks to adjust, so stick with it. That was at least 25 years ago - I wouldn't be able to drink tea or coffee with sugar in it now.

How long have you been eating at that level? Did you include your daily walks when you selected your Activity Level? If not, are you also tracking your exercise and eating at least some of those calories? Have you been logging / tracking for 4-6 weeks to see if you're actually losing at the selected rate? I'm assuming…

1200 cals a day is far too little for someone of your height and current weight, so I can't think of any way that you'll stay satiated, motivated or healthy for any length of time. I'm 5'1", 10 years older than you and weigh 127lbs - and 1200 is how much I eat if I do absolutely nothing all day. If I do any exercise, I eat…

Same as Jthanmyfitnesspal - I probably do a loose version of 16/8 IF, although it's not a conscious decision. I almost never have breakfast, as I go to bed late and prefer to get up at the last possible minute, have brunch a little before midday (most days) then my main meal is at around 7.30pm. But I'm in Maintenance and…

Your calorie goal for the day is the amount you're supposed to eat, not a random figure to eat 'less than' and certainly not 'well under'. How old are you, how tall are you, how much do you weigh, how much are you trying to lose and what rate of weight loss did you select in the Guided Setup? How many calories did MFP give…

That's a great result and will hopefully spur you to keep it up until the big day. I hope you're checking every so often that your suit isn't going to be baggy! Just be aware that most people (and certainly those who have been on here long term) would say that's a rapid weight loss rate for someone who probably needs to…

For the ones that I use in the UK, 2 medium-sized, free range eggs, gives me 132 cals and 13g of protein. Presumably the rest of the calories comes from whatever oil was added to the pan - 9ml of vegetable oil plus 2 eggs would get me to 206 cals, which is pretty close to the 203 you quoted. For two fried eggs to only be…

If you're using MFP as designed, and this is separate, deliberate exercise over and above whatever you selected for your normal daily activity level, your supposed to enter your exercise and eat back those calories too. You can manually add an exercise of 'walking' and select the appropriate speed (this assumes you know…

If the medication actually caused the weight to go on, you'd assume it would come off again now that you've stopped taking the meds. Have you double checked your database entries are accurate? So many are wrong. If that's all good too, you definitely need to talk to someone medical - as you say, you should be a twig. Or in…

Start by going to Goals / Guided Set up and entering your details. Don't select too aggressive a rate of weight loss as it's harder to stick to - suggestions I see a lot are to aim for 0.5%-1% of your current body weight, per week. Assuming your 90.8 is KG, that's a goal of losing 0.5kg, maybe 0.75kg, a week. MFP will give…

It's unlikely that you gained 30lbs in 3 months by not eating. If you're not losing then what you're eating now is 'maintenance' and you need to cut x amount of calories from your current figure to lose weight. 500 calories a day will (should) have you losing 1lb a week, 250 cals a day = 0.5lb and 1000 cals a day = 2lb a…

As above. If your logging is accurate, you should lose at (or roughly at) the rate selected. The caveat to that is if you don't weigh a lot / are short; if your maintenance calories are not high to start with and knocking 500 / 1000 cals off would take you below 1200, MFP will allocate you 1200 (I'm assuming you're…

It may be too soon to tell but, assuming you've lost a reasonable amount of weight over those 3 months, have you ever gone back in to the Guided Setup screen and clicked Save again? Your lighter weight needs fewer calories to maintain, so a deficit to continue your rate of loss will mean few calories than previously…