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I use the Hot and Savory and it is fine - but honestly needs more salt. I like thai green chili, yellow coconut curry (but I add more raisins to that one), and I thought the sweet and sour was sort of gross and I won't order that one again.

I just wanted to resurrect this necro thread because I have experimented with using Huel off and on for several years (and am currently using it again) and wanted to put another opinion out there for the next person that searches for it :). I have IBS type issues so traditional low calorie but filling foods are a nightmare…

5'5", 145 pounds, 37 years old, lightly active (walk a few miles a day) and essentially maintain at around 1500. 1500 is hard for me so I usually spend a couple of months eating around 1400 to try to lose, get hungry, eat around 1600 for a couple months and gain and start the whole cycle over again. Every 4 months, like…

@Linkero - good point! I usually drink my coffee with one measured tablespoon of milk (which I do not log - shame!) - but I did tally up the supplements my Doc has me take and that also adds up to almost 100 calories a day on supplements. Boo!

Thanks so much everyone! This thread really reinforces that my nagging health issues plus desired weight are going to be a point of continued negotiation. I think I have to decide if I want to continue to pursue my goal weight or accept a weight that is higher than I want but also easier to maintain for me.

Yes! you got it. Even if I'm eating an extra 200 calories more than I think I am, I am still physically uncomfortable with hunger by the time I go to sleep. If I eat until I'm comfortable I can't maintain. I will try to experiment with eating smaller meals at night. Maybe I'll try to split my dinner into two portions: the…

I do have another method of logging - I use a paper journal most of the time and only use MFP when I suspect my logging isn't catching calories accurately enough. I felt badly about the clafouti - but my husband made it and not eating it would have made him grumpy all day! I tend to eat veggies only once a day or so and…

I am not weighing my foods. It is honestly the thing I've been avoiding for a while that I know I need to do! I've had problems with anxiety and obsessions every since I was a kid and weight related stuff is a huge trigger for me. I've been avoiding it. I make a lot of from scratch meals. Tonight was breakfast for dinner…

Thanks guys - I'm not that worried about getting back down to 143. It is more that I am so hungry when I'm eating 1460 calories. I trust that 1460 will get me close to my goal weight, it just drains me going to bed hungry at night. I've never actually switched to maintenance calories because I've never actually hit my goal…

@TavistockToad - Sorry was misunderstanding you! I had excellent tracking from January 2017 until about June 2017. Then fell off for a couple months. Good tracking from August 2017 until May 2018. I started tracking again about a week ago.

hmm - I honestly can't remember. I think I started around 1500 calories when I started (starting weight was 155). but I've been at 1460 for well over a year.

When I'm tracking I don't have cheat days, other than I allow myself a single glass of wine or a beer on friday and saturday nights. I only drink water and coffee (other than the weekend glasses of wine) on a regular basis. An occasional cocktail is always logged. I sometimes use Huel as a meal replacement just because I…

I've actually seen this play out with my mother over and over again and it has changed how I approach weight maintenance as I move into middle age. She yo-yos every two years. Loses 60-80 pounds in about 6 months by cutting calories to the bone and exercising for hours a day, maintains for a year, stops exercising over the…

Good to know - that is super interesting! I don't generally track on weekends to give myself a break but I wonder if I also was a stickler on Saturdays and Sundays if I would see movement again. I do think I'm one of those people on the low side of the calculators (5'5.5", 142 and I eat between 1400 and 1500 a day - and…

I found that I just stopped losing. I'm still 1-2 pounds away from goal weight and have been for months, so I'm at maintenance for the weight I'm at. I'm actually still set to lose .5 a week in MFP but have been at the same weight for about 6 months so this is clearly my maintenance level. I think once you get close enough…

Yes! I have found that maintenance calories for my height and weight are much lower than I thought (and I'm always hungry) so I start drifting upwards IMMEDIATELY if I do not track.

I wonder if 5'6" and 135 is like a weird, magic, impossible number. I see a lot of us are right around it. I'm between 5'5" and 5'6" and also struggle to hit 135. I maintain around 142 but in my head am still trying to be 135 (and have been for the last 10 years.) At this point I chalk it up to young children and a…

I don't know your height/weight, but did want to say that it can be possible to just be hungry. I'm 5'5 (not quite 5'6") and maintain at somewhere between 1400-1500 calories a day. I'm rarely starving, but often still a little bit hungry at the end of the day. I really love a glass of wine with dinner, but some days have…

Protein is my big one for keeping full so I am always on the look out for high protein stuff. I like the Siggi's Skyr (yogurt) and I've been using Huel (food replacement shake/powder) because I also really like that it is vegan.

exactly! I said upthread that I think my DH and I are outliers in opposite directions (me low, him high) so in additional to the usual man/woman differences, I think we have about 5-600 calories on top of that. That is like he gets to eat an extra pint of Ben and Jerry's every night, on top of the regular "more for men".…

Meh- I'll bite. I avoided it totally when trying to conceive and while pregnant, I avoid when I think about it now, and I NEVER microwave "microwave safe" plastic. Here's a good article from sciencemag on the evolving thoughts on BPA: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/bpa-safety-war-battle-over-evidence

Sure - but I also suspect that I'm at the low end of the "normal" metabolic burn for my height/weight and he is at the high end of his. For instance I know, through tracking, that I need to eat 250-300 fewer calories than others to maintain (I'm 5'6" and I maintain 141 pounds at around 1500 calories a day). When I add DH's…

Yes! My older child takes after my husband and my younger child takes after me. I cook the exact same main meals for both children and when they are home we do all the same activities together. Oldest child comes home from school and his after school snack is basically an entire meal (large protein, fruit or veg and two…

My husband is "naturally skinny" and so is most of his family. And I'm with him a lot so I know how much he eats. I think the biggest thing is that he is tall and that he had a good metabolism in his 20s so he never gained in the first place. His whole family is the same way. They all start watching their food intake…

In the past I let myself eat whatever I want between Thanksgiving and New Years and then spend the rest of the year losing the 10 - 15 pounds I gained (sucks!). This year I'm letting myself have the holiday itself (and any surrounding family celebrations) and then back on the wagon immediately after. I gained 4 pounds over…

While I agree there is no scientific support for most of those things - has the gut biome thing been debunked? Out of the whole list that is the only one I that I thought still had some scientific support.

The only thing scientifically supported about (chicken) bone broth is that when used in Chicken Soup it is good for a cold. https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/the-science-of-chicken-soup/?_r=0 That being said - I'm a huge fan of homemade chicken/veggie broth when I have tummy troubles. Like someone above I also deal…

Speaking of the French, I read a really interesting thing about how the French frame eating dessert for their children. Rather than saying you must eat your veggies before you have dessert (thus implying that veggies must be suffered through to get a reward) they simply talk about the order that food is eaten. Salad comes…

y'all are inspiration! I'm having trouble maintaining 10 pounds above that.

^this is what we do too. Two full time jobs, kids with different school pick-ups and activities: I actually plan out my week's worth of meals in advance and usually find that I stick to it, if only because I don't have any energy to deviate from the plan by the time dinner time rolls around. We also try to balance…