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Thanks @Redordeadhead . They way that I ate for the previous week and logged food was the way I've been eating since October, though I didn't track it. I am one of those boring eaters that can eat the same meals multiple times a week. I'll give it go and see what happens.

@Redordeadhead Trying to lose weight. Obviously missing the part of not weighing food, but logging it as closely as I can (chicken breast 2-pack says X weight in package divide by 2, etc.). Will get a food scale. I am assuming that the chest monitor from MyZone that I use at the gym is fairly accurate (well the heartrate…

@RelCanonical cheese is awful for me - the smell and texture turns my stomach unless its light and melted in something. Thanks for the ideas on the other items like peanut and nuts.

@erickirb the first week of eating the same that I had for months and logging my food would leave me at a 800-1,000 calorie deficit after exercise - I did this for over 2.5 months and didn’t lose anything. This would tell me that at some point my body was storing food to burn later as I wasn’t getting enough energy. This…

Thanks @Keladelphia . I enter my own exercise values because we do circuit training full body workouts - some are reps and some are times - it’s easier to manually enter the values that they chest monitors give at the gym (MyZone). Good to hear that at least my trainers realized that I wasn’t eating enough. I’ll scale back…

Thanks - will work on using a scale. Good idea - didn’t think of that one.