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I love them! But you have to either eat your TDEE- 20% or eat back your exercise calories. You also need to get some sort of liquid protein after to help with recovery. Lots of water too! Like anything, if you don't get the diet right, you wont have results.

just "save" 200 calories from the next few days. It will all even out.

You may just need to drink more water. Water follows salt, and your blood pressure is increased with a high sodium diet do to that phenomenon. I too have low blood pressure. If I don't drink enough, I stand up and pass out. You could also try adding things like deli meat or cheese to your diet. Do you track your sodium…

Say Hi and tell him your name. Then get back to your own work out. If he tells you his name, or says hi next time, maybe he is interested. Don't wait for him outside the gym or start showing up every time he is there. You don't want to ruin his gym time because he thinks you are stalking him.

I love my fitbit. I feel like it makes it a lot easier to know exactly how many calories to eat because it syncs directly with MFP.

Dark Chocolate chips and a TBSP of peanut butter!

I used to do WW, and I have been on MFP for the past year. Set your goals to 1 pound a week and eat at least 80% of your exercise calories!

I had cramps for the first few months, but other than that is was amazing. I had it for 5 yrs, but just took it out to get pregnant. best birth control ever!

Get something to track your daily activity like a fitbit or body bug. Then eat 500 calories less than you burn in a day. For example, if you burn 2200 calories in one day (including exercise) you would eat 1700 calories. MFP expects you to eat back your exercise calories. You could also try changing your macros to 30%…

I have tracked it with my fitbit. It was only about 25 calories for me.

wrong. it is the other way. Shock the eggs with cold water. It helps them pull away from the shell. Or just buy the pre boiled ones in the deli section.

72 hours, you should eat your exercise calories back if you are following the MFP recommended intake. If you have figured out your TDEE-20%, that takes your exercise calories into account so you don't need to eat them back. If you don't know what I am talking about when I say TDEE, then you should eat your exercise…

I always eat dinner about about an hour or two before working out and then drink a protein shake within 30 minutes of working out. Sometimes, I could then eat half a cow about an hour later, but sometimes I am good for the rest of the night (I work out in the evening). My protein shake does usually end up being before bed,…

Banana Ice Cream: frozen banana and PB2...blend away.

Chocolate PB2 + pure maple syrup = peanut butter fudge sauce.

Make sure you are set at 1 pound a week instead of two. It makes all the difference, and it is so much easier to work into a healthy lifestyle.

high fiber bread with chocolate better 'n peanut butter.

eat ALL of what MFP tells you and ALL of your exercise calories. That will get you much closer to the number you are getting from the other site. If your TDEE is 2729, subtract 20% or 545 to get 2180. That's what you should eat everyday. So 1800 + exercise calories isn't off at all.

Perhaps that is all they are medically able to do and for them it is a work out. Just because someone isn't running, doesn't mean they aren't working out. Perhaps there goal is just to get their 10,000 steps in per day.

my friend has the fitbit aria and they love it. It can handle multiple users and tracks body fat.

This. Everything in moderation. Yes, they are technically a legume and not a nut, but they are still delicious.

watch your fat intake

14 pounds times 3500 calories in 1 pound = 49000 calories extra. Unless you ate that many calories extra, there is no way you could have gained that much weight...unless you have a serious medical condition or where wearing a lot of clothes. I would weigh on a different scale.

Your MFP number @ -1 pound per week(Mine was 1460) + exercise calories usually = the TDEE number. If you wear some sort of tracker, just eat 20% less than your average total daily burn.

Just changing up the foods you eat and the types of exercise you do is enough. You don't need to fast, all you need to do is cause calorie confusion. Also, if you are worried about the whole "starvation mode" thing, that doesn't happen until after 72 hours.

If you have your activity level set to sedentary, and you do more than sit on the couch or lay in bed, than you should log it. I can earn up 300 calories (I wear a tracker) on a good cleaning day. Logging actives like cleaning or shopping gets me to a number that is more in line with my TDEE. Although, to be honest, I…

I would just assume I blew it, and eat light tomorrow.

This, this, this!!! This is why we need to call fat fat and not something else. If someone is too skinny people have no problem saying so, but we have use a polite term for fat? I am not saying people need to wear a scarlet "F", but let's be honest instead of just trying to ignore an issue we are are clearly aware of.

Can we just start breaking the curvy category into "Convex" or "Concave"?

Thank god someone said this. I hate when extremely obese women go on and on about how they love their curves. I'm sorry, but that is excess body fat, not curves. You maybe curvy under there, and I am not trying to fat shame anyone, but they are not the same thing. I have a 10 inch difference in my waist compared to my…