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Because that's not how the human body works, I'm afraid. 5 days is too soon to make a judgement about anything to do with weight as your body weight naturally fluctuates anyway. I would imagine that the dramatic weight loss you experienced at the start was water weight dropping due to the new diet. If weighing daily you…

The OP asks a simple question, to which there is a simple answer. Incodentally: There's often a false dichotomy set up on these threads. It is possible to eat "whatever" and maintain a good standard of healthfulness. It isn't "perfect clean eating like an actual saint or somesuch" on the one hand and "ZOMG twinkies and…

Right now I'm drinking a huge bottle of San Miguel because it fits beautifully into my calorie limit. The only difference between my eating now and before I started losing weight is I control the amounts I eat. (And I maybe don't have chocolate AND pizza AND beer AND ice cream all in the same meal.... Maybe.)

It's been three weeks. What you're doing wrong is likely to be lack of patience. Weight fluctuates naturally, read the "weight loss is not linear" post in the most helpful posts sticky. I'm sure someone helpful will link it in a second.

Not really. I'm choosing not to go over my calorie target, that's a neutral decision. If I choose to go over that's a neutral decision. Cheating to means getting something you don't deserve or winning by sort of sneaky means. I'm not cheating, the definition doesn't fit for me.

This is a game changer. Spectacular.

I prefer MFP to WW because I don't like arbitrary moral values assigned to "bad" foods in the form of higher points. As a grown up sometimes I just want some damned cake without being punished for it.

I don't call it a cheat meal because I don't think I have anything to cheat on. I'm not following a set of rules or a specific way of eating. I haven't made a promise to anyone. I'm just eating stuff, less than I was before. I eat different amounts every day and use a weekly calorie goal so I'm not even sure I could…

That I was "meant" to look this way, I subscribed to the setpoint theory of weight and I remember telling people that the women in my family were all shaped like this and for me it lose 10lbs would be a full time job because I'd have to put so much effort in. That eating to lose weight would trigger my eating disorder -…

My activity levels vary a huge amount, I also eat back all my exercise calories. However, I don't always eat them back on the day I earn them as I use a weekly overview - I'm always bang on my calorie target for the week but spread very unevenly.

I get it! I've lost 30lbs nearly and although I know that's half way to my goal there's still a little voice saying "omg, why am I not slim yet?!". Like I still can't quite believe I'm not suddenly three sizes smaller.

Checking out the cute girl at the gym out of the corner of my eye... and then realising it was my reflection. Total win.

My activity levels vary wildly by day - weekdays I usually hit 12-15k, closer to 20k if I do an exercise class or two. On weekends I can easily get under 1000 steps if I'm having a really lazy day (often feels necessary after a full on week). Setting to sedantary gives me a nice healthy bank of exercise calories to use…

Exercise more, eat more. Win. Also! Retaining as much lean mass as possible is one of my primary goals, strength training helps with that. Plus, Zumba is fun!

I think you need advice from a medical professional in this situation. I would advise booking an appointment sooner rather than later.

I'm up at 5:15, at work by 7:00, leave at some point between 4:30 and 7:30 (childcare depending) - gym time for me is strictly post work, and post evening routine. I train once a week in the evening, I do a double cardio class on another night and I do one early morning training session a weekend. I just make sure every…

My rest days are serious rest days, as in move under 1000 steps, barely move off the sofa, have a little nap because it's exhausting being me rest days. I also enjoy the increased calories so I eat slightly less than my allocation on my super active week days (I run around like a mad thing at work, and work out during the…

My goodness, how?! I had to stick to my 1220 the other day due to supreme lack of activity and it was mosterous, I was grumpy and hungry all day. I could hit 2000 calories in a single meal without really trying tbh, and often did.

I wake up at 5 and start my day with black coffee at around 7:30.... and most days drink only water until lunch. Largely because those are the two reliably available beverages at work. I often don't feel hungry before then, but if I do I grab something snacky at break time, usually with a hot chocolate. In response to the…

I genuinely can't see how an extended surgical procedure followed by extensive aftercare and a rigid eating plan is easier than eating slightly less....

Funnily alcohol makes me lose my water weight - every time I get major water retention it seems like a night on the red wine gets rid of it completely (it's not deliberate just a happy little correlation I've spotted). I'm a daily weigher too, overall trends make me much less bothered about a daily up and down.

12 mini eggs, 198 calories. Sod the macros.

From a quick browse at your diary it does appear that you are under eating on a regular basis. I hope that your inaccuracies in logging (using cups for solids instead of gram weights etc) mean you are actually consuming more than your diary shows.

How tall are you? I ask because I'm 5'3" and 54kg is my goal weight. Assuming you are not super short it doesn't seem likely that you have lots of weight to lose in which case .25kg per week (or roughly half a pound) is an ideal rate of loss.

I used to work with someone who would drink from a two liter bottle of water filled with eight green tea bags and cold water. It looked and smelled like the dregs of a stagnant lake. He was convinced it was a magical fat burning metabolism booster or something.

If laying with an ice bag on you worked to remove fat then I'm pretty sure everyone on earth would have done it already.

Today I have eaten exclusively fried chicken, bacon, cupcakes, mini eggs and red wine. Technically it fits into my calories but it sure as hell feels like a cheat day!

Nope, I save calories for gin. They are the best calories.

I eat my exercise calories on the weekends when I'm less active but have more access to food (and am more bored and hungry) means that my week over all is still in deficit but I don't end up feeling deprived. Win.

Agree with others that timing is utterly irrelevant. I tend to start my day with black coffee but otherwise skip breakfast entirely. If I know I'm going to struggle to fit my calories in for the day (like on a day I have a big cardio session planned or a class at the gym) I'll eat at break time. Otherwise most of my…