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It's my favorite too! When we feel like going to the pub but I don't have the calories for a beer, we pick a country pub to walk to and walk there and back to earn it. I've lost over 30 pounds without giving up anything I like because of these walks!

Different bodies hold on to weight and size in different places. My hips and butt have always made shopping difficult, no matter what size I am! Even several sizes down from where I was a year ago I have to wear the same type of shape as I did then as I'm the same shape, just a smaller version of it.

I never shower at the gym. I walk to and from the gym and never go anywhere right after except home, so there's no point. I tend to have one shower in the evening. My hair doesn't love being blow dried very often so I shower in the evening before or after dinner and let it air dry. I also prefer to go to bed clean. (If I…

4 weeks is also all within one menstrual cycle, usually, and this can affect water weight and whatnot. Over time patterns may be more noticeable.

I have a similar level of activity to you and was advised to change from sedentary to lightly active. Even though this is more calories, it is much better and I have lost a number of pounds on lightly active where on sedentary I was stalling. (Honestly I think it made me more lethargic and I wasn't moving around very much!)

I always find that if I don't eat some of my exercise calories back I can last a week and then get super hangry and want to eat everything in sight--there's a reason the MFP formula gives you those calories to eat on top of your normal ones!

I don't work in a gym myself but have had chats about this type of thing with my trainer. At my gym (lifestyle fitness) they don't have that break in the middle of the day, the PTs who work at the gym have either the early shift or the late one. My PT doesn't really have any days that are 9-5 because the gym opens early…

When I started strength training I gained a few pounds even though my logging was really correct etc. Eventually I did lose them, although they came off in a couple of whooshes at first before going back to an expected rate of loss per week. Right before the whoosh ironically was when I really noticed that my clothes were…

I don't worry about fruit sugar at all (and not even really about sugar in things like chocolate bars and alcohol, as long as I can fit them into my calories!). In fact I have almost 300g of strawberries to snack on this afternoon with me. I've been doing this for a couple of weeks (English strawberry season is the best!)…

I LOVE the cookies in the OP, but now I live in the UK and they don't seem to really exist here. Speaking of pineapple on pizza we are having pizza tonight, and it will be pepperoni, pineapple, and jalapeno like the photo: with the cheese already on it you get all the different taste areas, so good!

I stayed at 1 per week but changed my activity level which is a little easier calorie wise!

I wanted to follow up to update that I did have a small whoosh (almost but not quite 3 pounds down overnight). So whoever said that would happen, was correct. I'm going to try to remember this going forward as I had been doing the right things but holding on to some spare water weight.

I've been on the pill (reclipsen but there are a few names for it) for 6 years. When I first went on it I lost a few pounds of water weight overnight. Since then, no impact on weight loss or gain. I am excellent at remembering to take it the same time every day. If you are like me then it is a good option. I didn't…

I have done it every 5 pounds for the current weight. Until I was 167 it worked (not in a linear way necessarily but would lose weigh regularly enough I didn't worry). Interesting--I hadn't thought of this.

Thank you everyone for your replies. A lot of people are saying to lose .5 a week. If that's the case it would be nice because I could eat a little more and be less hangry all the time, but it makes me worry to add calories when the scale has been the same for 4 weeks. It's interesting that a lot of you consider me to not…

I am logging consistently and weighing everything. Eating out happens but is rare and as I mentioned above, I leave a healthy amount of extra calories in the budget for estimation errors. 1350 doesn't sound like maintenance but I truly am logging everything and using my food scale. If that is maintenance what is the darn…

On weekdays I work out after work, and I generally don't have a snack, so it's usually been about 5 or 6 hours between lunch and exercise. On the weekend I go early ish and usually have a little breakfast first. (If we are planning a big breakfast, like eggs, I just have a coffee or banana before and eat after though.) I…

Is the machine calibrated to your weight? If not, start by eating back half of the ones from your heart rate monitor and see if you lose as expected over the next several weeks. If you lose faster than expected, eat back a higher % of your exercise calories.

I don't restrict my carbs at all, just make sure they fit into my calories. Down 26 pounds so far. A calorie is a calorie. The caveat being that some types of carbs (GARLIC BREAD UGH) can make you hold on to some water weight and make the scale look higher than it should be. Don't mistake water weight for fat gain, as long…

Garlic I noticed in the recipe builder a while back, actually--thank you! Luckily it is easy enough to fix before logging. Although the recipe builder can be hilarious; I tried to log 200g of apple in a recipe and the calories came back really high. It took me a while to realize that it had logged 200g of apple strudel!

Yes, I do this--the .9 of 100g lined up with what it should have been. But does that mean that several people think that less than 100g of strawberries equal over 2000 calories??

I usually have small ish breakfasts and lunches. For example, yesterday my calories per meal were: Breakfast 308 Lunch 307 Dinner 907 Today: Breakfast 276 Lunch 264 which leaves me 1212 for dinner--although a few hundred calories were from exercise. So I probably won't eat all of that* 1212 but I'll have 1000-1100, most…

I set my first goal to be 5 pounds below healthy weight on the bmi. When I get down there I'll see how I feel about it I guess. I was once at the bottom of the healthy weight range and I was hangry and blacked out when I stood up so I won't aim for the very bottom of that range again.

You could weigh the finished amount and see how many grams it makes, then say that it makes that many servings. So you can say it makes 168 servings and then log 15 servings.

I looove spicy things.when I make chili or similar I know it's the right amount of spice if it turns my husband purple.

My eating habits weren't too bad although sometimes got a bit too happy to snack and havechips and dip before dinner etc. But I had an injury that meant I spent all of last spring taking it easy and not doing anything active, and didn't change my eating habits, and gained weight. I've now lost that weight plus ten pounds…

I'm 5'6 and lose 1lb/week on 1390, plus eating back exercise calories. I'm close to being a 'healthy' weight and when I hit that I am going to drop to .5lb/week until I get to where I want to maintain though.

The package will likely have the calories per serving and often calories per 100g uncooked. Weigh your uncooked pasta and you can use this information to accurately log--some database entries are different so it is good to check!

Oasics with inserts are what worked for me, for the gym.

I thought this one month. Had my waist going down then nothing. Then I saw a photo of myself from before and realised it was coming off my upper arms. Could be possible for you?