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1905 seems high for a BMR at 158 pounds. Are you sure you didn't mean maintenance calories? Your mfp needs to be set to maintenance goal and you should only be eating your BMR amount. That's usually around 300-400 calories less than maintenance. BMR can be determined using the calculator located under tools.

Yeah I was down yet another pound this morning making a loss of over 7 pounds out of nowhere since Wednesday. The only other thing I could even remotely attribute it to was this new spinach protein smoothie I'm drinking every morning for breakfast. I started it around the same day.

BMR is how much you will eat, now just change your goal to "maintain current weight" at either sedentary or lightly active accordingly instead of at lose 2 lbs a week.... and try to get your green number between 500-1000 daily. Just remember 1340 is what you have to eat for this to work. Don't eat less in order to create…

Yes, you track as normal, including exercise. If your BMR is 1688, that's the minimum amount you eat....now just go into goals and using the custom setting tell it to recalc your calories based on sedentary (unless you have a physical job) and zero exercise with zero calorie burn and goal is to "maintain current weight".…

1. set your MFP calorie goal to 1570 through MY HOME...GOALS...CHANGE GOALS...CUSTOM 2.Eat only 1208 calories a day (maybe 100-200 more as hunger guides you) 3. Exercise to burn 638 calories a day to obtain the max 1,000 calorie daily deficit (THE NUMBER IN GREEN from MY HOME...log calories) Note: NEVER EAT LESS THAN 1208…

We'd all be glad to help. Where's the confusion at? You don't have to do the math. Let MFP do all the calcs for you. Get your BMR cals from the TOOLS calculator, and set your MFP goals to Maintain current weight rather than lose a specific number. Then eat only the BMR cals instead of what shows available in green, and…

I'm with you. When I upped my calories, my body started responding more efficiently. I get proper hunger signals now right at the appropriate times when I should be eating again. I can tell when I've worked out too hard and need to eat, and I can tell when I ate something not so good and my body gets cranky. We really are…

This was a great week for me even though I didn't start until Wednesday. I started at 160.0 and as of this morning weighed in at 152.4....losing a total of 7.6 pounds in 4 days. Because of the big drop I decided I had better recalculate my numbers too, and sure enough they changed. My BMR went from 1450 to 1407 (43 cals…

Here's just a general quck calc option you can use for macros if you don't want to be toggling back and forth between settings. Take your fat grams and add a zero to the end (25 grams becomes 250) as long as that number is less than a 1/3 of your total calories you've eaten, all you have to worry about is your total carbs…

1.3 is just a generalized factor that Olivia's nutritionist used. It's a step up from sedentary, which is probably the average person....whereas if you have a desk job sedentary will be more appropriate. I chose and encourage using the maintenance goal setting in MFP to do the math for me. I think it is bit more accurate…

First go to TOOLS and calculate your BMR calories. This is what you need to eat for your body to function daily. Breathe, sleep, digest, etc. It's what you would burn if you were bed ridden pretty much. Write that number down or memorize it or something because that is how many calories you will eat every day with maybe…

I'm a daily weigher. It's an addiction. But I accept the fluctuations that are normal and also track my measurements so I don't get discouraged.

Don't eat less, but maybe do some extra cardio....and try to remember we're human. This isn't about being perfect all the time or a race to the finish. Weight will fluctuate, calories intake will fluctuate. Chalk it up as a lesson learned and for the record about the weigh in...sometimes after a bad day, I weigh less in…

Yay! Congrats! I'm excited. Like really excited. Like about to head over to the General Weight Loss Forum and brag about Olivia kind of excited. I have lost 6.6 pounds in 3 days after a 3 week plateau.

I did the one I found that includes body fat percentage in the figures and was only 11 calories difference from what MFP told me....so I'm good with that.

Did you set your calories at maintenance number? I'm looking at mine right now and it shows 5,229 net calories under weekly goal with one day left in the week to be tracked. When I add my green numbers manually from every day since Monday I got 3,249, which if I add an entire day's worth of maintenance calories (tomorrow)…

Continued at least another day. Down another 1.2 on the scale since yesterday.

The only sugar in my diet is appearing naturally in fruits...which are good in fiber and nutrients, but I'm still going over just trying to get my recommended daily fruits. Why is MFP Sugar goals so low?

I just thought she was really really really really excited! :laugh:

This recipe as is gives you about 23 grams of protein. I have also considered adding an additional scoop of Unjury unflavored protein powder to it as well. Won't alter the taste but will crank it up a notch to a heck of a post-strength training session recovery drink with 43 grams of protein.

If you have the app on your phone, you may not even have to track it by hand. My app gives me the current weeks deficit.

You won't be dissapointed. Enjoy!

You got to goal so you're one step ahead of many of us already, but if you would be open to it, you could make your diary open for us to review and provide feedback. 1600 calories seems reasonable. Perhaps it's just your body adjusting and coming out of starvation mode and the gain is only short term. Perhaps it's just…

Thanks Olivia for sharing this plan and making sure we really understood how and why it works. You've been very selfless and helped so many and I'm not sure you realize quite how much. Hopefully our results can be some satisfaction for you. I already can't wait to share it with all my friends stuck in the 1200 calorie trap.

Bump because this is exactly what those of us who are trapped in MFP's 1200 minimum calorie nightmare need.

Thanks Olivia. You've become an instant icon!

I have been told 40/40/20 repeatedly by books and trainers that it is what I swear by.

I would prefer a group. It's so much easier to follow without having to search down a weekly thread.

Oyyy, thank you. Stand corrected on the 650. Not sure what I was thinking....but makes sense now.

If you are going to do 1750 to be safe (which is what I did too) and not eat under 1400 (which you shouldn't because that is the baseline nutrients your body needs) you DO need to burn an AVERAGE of 650 calories a day to achieve a 2 pound per week weight loss. That's a Maximum amount of weekly weight loss to be considered…