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Since food is such a big part of your life, you and your boyfriend would benefit from discussions surrounding the MFP app and food and diet in general. My thoughts.

My plan is to log all meals except when traveling. The break during traveling is a welcome break and makes it easier to start again when you get home.

You already have lots of good advice. Start with small changes. My advice is to start by avoiding all fried foods. Than think about moving towards a more plant based diet. You're going to discover good tastes!

50% good carbs, 30% mostly good fats and 20% protein is reasonable. Your exercise routine will be key to adding muscle.

Accurate logging is the key. I always subtract my exercise calories. If not, it would be unhealthy semi-starvation. I think it's more important to be honest than to measure like a scientist. Welcome!

I would set your calories on MFP to lose one half pound per week and start logging and measuring. You'll be so relieved to lose the new unwanted pounds.

+/- 2 pounds. I'm small so I think that's why the fluctuation is smaller than others. The report feature where you see you weight trend for 30 or 90 days is extremely helpful in keeping you honest.

Are you trying to lose weight? If so, start logging and keep it up. Is there a support group or on line group for your condition? Or maybe a specialized cook-book? It sounds difficult, for sure. Most things are harder as you get started and then we all make new habits and it gets easier. Good luck!

You are in the right place to meet your goals. And welcome for the long term!

I can see how it is frustrating! Agree with above that water weight could be a big factor. Keep logging your meals. Maybe concentrate on improving the nutrition of what you're consuming. More plant foods, less salt etcetera.

Congratulations on your major weight loss. I'm glad to hear that you're doing the strength training. That is a key element in health. I hope you're enjoying getting stronger!

May I add my congratulations! I would suggest adding weight training to your life if you're not already doing it. Logging meals and exercise is so necessary. I eat back every calorie that I exercise. And I skip the logging on vacation since it's so inexact and such a pain on vacation. Logging is the key for me.

Most of the reasons have been mentioned here, in my opinion. Fast food to me is #1. The amount of calories is enormous and the quality of the food is the lowest; bad nutrition. My second reason would be the gradual reduction in activity level caused by changes in the daily life, e.g. less walking, leaf blowers instead of…

Another chocoholic here. I've managed to stay pretty close to maintenance while having dark chocolate every single day. It would be better to eat less of it but so far I'm incapable.

There is a very good dairy-free cream cheese. I think the brand is Tofutti. I like their non-dairy sour cream as well.

You do an impressive amount of exercise.

It's hard to know because there are so many responses, but has the subject of weight training come up? If you take a break, a new focus could be building some muscle tissue. This changes your body composition, of course, and probably will change your metabolism, calorie count etcetera . You have done so well. My…

MFP is adjustable. If you start with the proposed daily calorie allotment, weigh about 3 times per week and look for trends. Once it looks like you are gaining, adjust MFP to lower calories. If you continue weighing and along with your healthful food choices, you can read an equilibrium and maintain. It's not easy of…

It's very educational to try a vegan diet. For us, there were many foods we had never tried especially grains. Try some you tube cooking videos. The winter is a good time for some miso soup; homemade is much better than restaurant in taste and you can add whatever vegetables you wish. Also library has vegan cookbooks to…

The food database is excellent at finding low calorie foods. Fresh fruit and vegetables are filling and low in calories. Also look for lists of foods with "high satiety index " or some such title, i.e. food that are more filling. Stick with it. It takes time to figure it out.

Do you like fruits and vegetables? Do you like any kind of nuts? These foods are healthful so they are good foods to try. If you keep weighing yourself a couple of times a week, you can relax more since you will know when you are gaining or losing weight. Good luck.

In my case, about two pounds (body weight 113)(1.8%). I agree with summer skier who recommends adding 100 cal every other week to make the transition. Believe me, maintenance is hard to do.

Are you at your goal weight? If no, I would focus on getting to goal weight slowly and deliberately. If you are already at your goal weight, try to figure out if you have excess fat stores or just the normal amount. The fat has to be stored someplace on your body.

Thanks. I'm going to get some fresh salsa to keep in the fridge.

Hmmmm Never heard about Aunt Millie's 35 calorie bread. I think I'll look for some.

The main thing to do is to keep on logging your meals. I've been maintaining for 4 months. Just got home from vacation one pound heavier. I wasn't logging meals on vacation and I ate well! I'm pleased to be back on MFP and starting to lost the extra pound slowly. Congratulations to you on your weight loss!

Cooking with dried beans is so inexpensive. They taste much, much better than the canned. They freeze well so you can have frozen beans one cup at a time or whatever quantity you wish. They are used in so many recipes but are also very good just with some olive oil and parmesan cheese or nutritional yeast (for vegans).…

I hope that you had a good workout at the gym. It's such a stress reliever, so good for our health and even good-habit forming! keep it up!

I agree that sometimes you just have to go over on calories. Tomorrow is always a fresh start.

So many good suggestions! Thank you all!