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Here's what I did to keep it simple. Ignore all of MPF fitness settings and use the custom settings to set how many calories you want to eat. (click on Goals - Change Goals - Custom - Continue - change calories & macros here - click on Change Goals at the bottom to save) This is what my home screen looks like w/out…

Fantastic!! keep up the good work!

My diary is open and feel like I eat pretty "normally".

Here's what I did to keep it simple. Ignore all of MPF fitness settings and use the custom settings to set how many calories you want to eat. (click on Goals - Change Goals - Custom - Continue - change calories & macros here - click on Change Goals at the bottom to save) This is what my home screen looks like w/out…

Inspirational!! Just what I needed to read today. :flowerforyou:

Congrats!!

Rebekahgo.... use lower case img and your pictures will show.

I'm famous!! :drinker:

I've heard and agree with this too. We are a society that wants things 10 minutes ago and and sadly people will do what ever they need to to give people that result.

It's absolutely normal to put on a little weight at the beginning while your body gets used to the extra calories. Once it's trusts that you are not going to starve it again and will consistently feed it the same amount it will start letting go of the "extra weight".

Keep up the good work!

Correct. If you have to eat to get back to your BMR constantly, you should bump yourself up to the next activity level. The goal is to have consistent eating so your body will learn to trust that you are going to feed it and thus is will burn off the extra fat it doesn't need.

Here's what I did to keep it simple. Ignore all of MPF fitness settings and use the custom settings to set how many calories you want to eat. (click on Goals - Change Goals - Custom - Continue - change calories & macros here - click on Change Goals at the bottom to save) This is what my home screen looks like w/out…

Wow!! I hope I can look even half as good as you. Amazing transformation!

After I read your post I thought exactly the same thing about your activity level. Because if you're only "moderate" then I'm definitely not doing enough. :tongue: Maybe you need to bump up to the next level and see what happens? You seem crazy active to me. (Which is a good thing!!)

Caveman style. I love it!! Comparatively, I'm only eating about 2100 calories a day. But there are some days I feel the same way. That I'm constantly going back to the kitchen to eat more because A) I'm hungry again or B) It's been 2 hours so it's time to eat again. Keep up the good work!!

I couldn't have explained it any better! :flowerforyou:

Inspirational!!

Great post!! :flowerforyou:

I'm sure it's not the right thing to do, but for right now I'm just worried about keeping my protein up. I started with getting it over 100 and now am trying to get it over 120 every day. According to MFP it should be a lot higher but I'm trying to take the whole process in smaller steps and celebrating the wins when I…

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Here's what I did to keep it simple. Ignore all of MPF fitness settings and use the custom settings to set how many calories you want to eat. (click on Goals - Change Goals - Custom - Continue - change calories & macros here - click on Change Goals at the bottom to save) This is what my home screen looks like w/out…

Way to go!!!

I'd vote at least moderate too.

Oops!! I think I was eating too much too! :blushing: With how hectic my life has gotten, I don't really fit in the 1-3 hours or 3-5 hours of exercise category. So I'm going to take the average of the two and try it for a month. Hopefully it'll get me back on track.

I'm about 5 weeks into eating more and thought I had finally turned the corner. But over the last week I've gained a couple pounds and I can feel myself hitting that mental wall of just wanting to give up. I haven't been able to exercise at all and I've been going non-stop with life lately. It's gotten really hectic and…

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I just recently upped my calories another 150 and just went through the "OMG... I need to do everything right now!!!" energy burst and ravenous appetite where I have no clue how I can survive on 2000-2100 calories a day. This morning I am dragging so hard I can't even concentrate. But thankfully the continuous hunger pains…

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