souji5

Congrats on breaking through your plateau, scottc561! :) .. I lost about 20 lbs. in 3.5 months and have been on a plateau since mid-December 2001 :/ I stayed on the same deficit # of calories until May 7th, when I moved to maintenance calories to see if I can get back on the deficit # soon and get the loss jumpstarted…

Thanks so much for your response. I've been exercising for the last couple of weeks only, and I haven't seen much weight loss the last month, I'd say. My current BMR is 1628 calories. MFP tells me to eat 1610 calories (for 1.5 lbs loss/week). If I workout burning 400 calories a day, then I should be eating 2000 calories?!…

What about if I'm eating 1600 calories a day (for 1.5 lbs. loss a week), and burning about 300 - 500 in a workout? Should I be eating those workout calories? Or is it ok for me to leave the workout calories out because I'm already hitting 1600 (much more than 1200, which is the absolute minimum one has to be eating,…