MichelleSilverleaf Member

Just get back on track best you can. Maybe a couple days at maintenance and then ease back into a deficit. If it's infrequent, it shouldn't affect you too much in the grand scheme of things. Are you doing any kind of lifting or such? That will go a long way to helping you preserve your muscle mass.

Look up recipes, see if you find something you like. Weigh all your ingredients as you make it, and then weigh your portions, recipes will tell you how many servings it makes.

Hate to be That Person but it's a giant waste of money. The only thing it's going to cleanse is your wallet.

Depends largely on what you buy and where you live. I have one store near me that often has meats on for a damn good price, and often in bulk as well. I just bought a Food Saver so now I vacuum seal anything and everything I can. Also I use mason jars for lettuces and veggies. Sometimes storage is the trick to making…

You eat back half, or a little less of your exercise calories and go from there. Intentional exercise is more activity you're asking your body to do on top of your day-to-day activity, you have to fuel that at least to some degree.

5 pounds can easily be a fluctuation. 20lbs in one month is A LOT though. Are you weighing what you eat?

2lbs is probably way too extreme a deficit with only 30lbs to go. Might want to drop it to 1lb a week.

Except fats don't make you fat. Excess calories do.

You don't 'have' to do squats or jump on the bike for so little. MFP already accounts for a deficit, as long as you're not entirely using it up when you go over you'll be fine. Something like 78 calories over is nothing.

She shouldn't be eating under 1200 at all. OP, weigh ALL your food with a scale, give it a month, and eat to whatever number MFP gives you. And ensure that your deficit isn't too extreme.

It could be the eating habits, 3lbs a week is generally not a healthy loss unless you've got like 200lbs to lose or more. If you're losing 3lbs a week, it could be that you're under eating and your headaches could be caused by that. How much weight are you trying to lose?

I would stop the exercising, to be honest. At least until your GI issues are sorted.

Registered dietician. Not a nutritionist, their education is often not nearly as solid as a dietician's. Also you can 'hear good things' about chiros and naturopaths and all sorts of pretend doctors, doesn't make them a good option. I can appreciate that good professionals are hard to find sometimes, but they're worth…

Don't know if it's just me, but after googling the place this Dr. Kiellerman practices...sounds woo-ish. Naturopathic care for kids and IV stuff doesn't sound like smart medicine to me. Have you seen a family doctor about your issues? How did you come upon this center?

Tofu, tempeh and seitan are supposed to be good alternative protein sources.

It was a salad also - 3 different lettuces, chopped veggies, kidney beans, chickpeas, feta cheese and catalina dressing. About 1k because I just heaped it all on. Holy crap.

I meant a food scale, actually. Weighing all your food. When you're close to goal you have absolutely no room to guess portions and calories.

What is it?

You take it one day at a time. Habits take time to build. You could pre-prep meals and snacks as much as you can, including weighing everything as you do so and thus you won't have to think too much on what you're eating, knowing you're having X amount of calories when you grab this or that. A food scale is worth the money.

If you're losing weight, what you're doing is working. Plus you feel great and your clothes are getting looser, all great reasons to keep going right? How much have you lost so far?

If you're not weighing all your food, start.

From what I've understood, the closer you are to your goal the slower your loss is going to be and the absolute no room for error in your logging. Also water weight can hide small losses. So if you're weighing accurately all your foods and sure you're sticking to your daily calorie number, you may just have to be more…

^This. I know this may feel like we're picking you apart, but we're not. Very low calorie diets are not appropriate for the vast majority of people because they just don't have enough weight to lose at the rapid loss a VLCD produces. Usually reserved for people well over 300lbs, and they are CONSTANTLY monitored (think…

If it's only 6 pounds you have to lose, and it's not all water weight, it's going to come off slow. The days of 2-3lb losses are long gone. If it's water weight you may eventually have a whoosh and see it suddenly drop, but otherwise you're in for the long haul - but already 1lb down, so that's a good start.

Kind of bothered that your dr sent out a referral for WLS. I'm an inch taller than you and currently around the same weight, I doubt I would even qualify.

Stop seeing the nutritionist. Go see a registered dietician, who odds are good that they'll actually know more than the nutritionist. Unless you are on doctor supervision, are super old and tiny there is zero reason for you to be under 1200. If you're a guy, 1500 is the minimum.

Yes. However if fats are what helps keep you satisfied then you'll want to prioritize that as much as you can in your meals to help you stay full and keep at the number MFP gives you to lose weight.

A product that makes dubious claims based on a study that the creators paid for. Damn right people are going to warn away from it.

If she wants a meal replacement shake, there are far better and far cheaper options than a MLM designed to recruit sellers, not help people. Warning people away from such schemes is not being an *kitten*. And the op is free to continue wasting nearly $400 a month on an overpriced product if she wants to.

A few things come to mind. If you started new exercise it can hold on to water weight, so can too much sodium. If you're not weighing what you eat you may be eating more than you think you are. Keto is good for those who don't get satisfied from carbs, so if that's you keto may very well help you stay in a deficit. So…