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You guys really know how to make a person feel amazing. Thank you so much.

Welcome to the family Marcy! Congrats first and foremost on the changes you have already made. Nothing is more encouraging than seeing your own ability to succeed, both pre and post op. the more you can incorporate the lifestyle change now, the better prepared you will be after. We as pre-ops live every moment for our…

Thank you everyone. Your support and encouragement is overwhelming.

Thank you everyone. Your support and encouragement is overwhelming.

Over is fine, just not under. The only thing over does is hurt your deficit.

No, actually you would need to exercise for the 746 before you would eat any calories back. You just don't want to create a deficit higher than a 1,000 before you start to deprive your body of what it needs. So, eat 1273, exercise 746, and your green number should be 1,000. The 254 is the deficit you create automatically…

Added to brag on my hubby...he's quite the inspiration as well. He's down 80 pounds himself, and can be found on mfp under Moonhowler15.

The skin is my demon. I did have a tummy tuck in 2006. The belly hang was unbearable. I still battle the loose arm hang and thighs. You can't lose that much and expect to bounce back. As you can see in my pics my arms are not pretty. And my thighs are bad enough I can only wear board shorts and long dresses. I would get…

Change your MFP goals to 1628....(BUT DON'T EAT that many every day) Your goal is to eat 1357. You have to eat that number minimum because that is what your body needs to function and prevent starvation mode. The difference will be your daily deficit. So, the number in green at the end of the day is how many calories you…

That's a personal decision. You know your body better than anyone. I know I work all day, and when I go home, I'm more likely to kick my feet back on the couch than start jamming out to my ipod cleaning house. So, for me...sedentary was more accurate. If you prefer lightly active, and believe you ARE lightly active, then…

Sorry guys, temporary problem with pics but looks like all is well now. Apparently I can't use spaces or they get replaced with %20 and you can't capitalize IMG. Talk about picky. LOL

Agreed....so I leave myself a note for the day on what my BMR and Maintenance calories were along with my deficit for the day. But don't look in my diary...I've slacked a couple of days. LOL Edited to say Okay...my diary is safe. I went back in and made my notes and was brutally honest. Now I'm not so thrilled with this…

Ditto! Eat your BMR calories. It's what your body needs to function with or without exercise. Don't send it mixed signals and tell it "you don't get to eat today" cause it will just suck up every ounce it can get it's grubby little fingers on and just say, "Fine, you wanna be like that, you can't have it back!" :SMILE:

The difference between the 1627 and the 1570 is just two different ways to calculate your maitenance goals. There is no truly scientific approach to it, but I find it easier to let MFP use my stats to figure it out and I would also rather underestimate than overestimate my deficit. Just me personally. So, you can either do…

I get it all the time now too. Buti realized I'd set myself up by saying no...I still have xx lbs to lose or try to prove I wasn't too thin by pinching an inch, but that's when they'd comment the most when they realized I had no intention of stopping yet. However I quit telling them I wanted to lose more and started lying…

I plan to recalculate after each weekly weigh in. I already did it once and found I was supposed to be eating about 40 calories a day less.

That's my hubby! Baby I am so proud of you. We started this journey on our own, but together we have come so much further than we ever did in the years before. You are my biggest motivation. I love you!

Bumping for my buddy! :)

Wishing you luck. But I know you don't need it because this is about will not luck. Hard work and determination are what will get you there! Now go rock it!!

Like others I'm not sure yet. I haven't pushed my exercise boundaries yet like I could be so my deficits haven't been huge. Increasing my intake was my biggest focus this week and now that my energy levels are coming back I am finding the urge to do more activity and also seem to be hungry more often. I've been doing…

1623 is the amount you would eat. Not less, and only 1-200 over. Now go into Goals and have MFP reset your calories goals as if you were now trying to maintian your current weight. Say Sedentary with zero days exercise and zero calories burned and in the drop down select MAINTAIN MY CURRENT WEIGHT. Now, when you stop at…

You won't be eating 2300, you will just have your MFP set to 2300, but you will actually only be eating your BMR, which is usually around 300-500 calories less than that. So, even on days you don't exercise you would still have a defiicit of that many towards your weekly deficit...and 500 calories equals a pound of week…

MFP will calculate it for you. Just got to the MY HOME tab-->GOALS-->CHANGE GOALS-->GUIDED. Scroll down past your weight info and select SEDENTARY (or lightly active if you have a physical job, but don't take exercise into consideration, only your daily routine) Then set it to do zero exercise and zero calories and then…

You would go to MY HOME-->GOALS-->Change goals-->Custom....then enter 1640 for your caloric intake. This is the number your body needs to maintain current weight. Now the trick is that you don't eat 1640 calories, you eat 1260. (If you have been eating 1600+ calories, you may not like this plan much). THat is the deficity…

Not totally. I shouldn't be eating less than my BMR regardless. It's what my body needs to sustain life efficiently. MFP had me at 1200 calories regardless of how much I wanted to lose because it just won't go any lower unless you manually override it. If I wasn't exercising, I wasn't eating enough to be healthy. My body…

Now, you will need to periodically recalculate as you lose weight to assure you are not eating too many calories.

You nailed it!

What she said. No way did you gain 2.5 pounds of FAT from one solid binge day.

You will set your mfp to 1625 but only eat 1305, maybe more but never less. So you have to burn 680 calories through exercise before you reach your max deficit of 1,000. When that happens you eat back the difference only. So if you burned 800, your green number would say 1120, and you would eat a 120 calorie snack to get…

A lot of the green number hype is just mental. It's about positive reinforcement. I love what Olivia said how we are no longer exercising to eat more, we are exercising to lose more weight. So true. For some this won't change how much they eat or exercise at all, it will just be a modified way of tracking...but for me, I…