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So much no. I am a grown woman I don't need anyone to scold me over my food choices. Are you also going to interrogate your entire friends list to be sure they are being completely honest and accurate? I mean, what if they're being "naughty" but not logging it?

I have been doing boneless, skinless thighs because it is easier to weigh and log, but I love the skin. I would cook 6-8 thighs and eat the skin off of all of them at once, because it wouldn't be as good the next day. Every day it becomes more clear how I ended up needing to lsoe weight. :p

I think using my scale has made me more comfortable in the situations where I am not in control of the food. I feel more confident in my guesstimating abilities and knowing I'm being as accurate as possible the rest of the week allows me to relax the one or two meals a week when I'm eating out.

When I started MyFitnessPal this time (yay second try!) I read all of the "plateau" and "Why am I not losing weight" threads and every single one of them told me to get a food scale and weigh my food. I don't think it matters so much while I'm at a one pound a week deficit, but I can see it mattering when I get down to…

I noticed that when I synced my phone (which counts my steps) I think it does it so it doesn't count the steps you do during the exercise period twice.

McDonald's cheeseburgers are a go-to for me when I'm having unsatisfactory bowel movements, maybe that's what did it.

I don't know the rate of change, but I just played with the TDEE calculator. I plugged in different weights and activity levels to see what it gave me for now and then as I get closer to goal. It was pretty exciting to see how much I could eat every day to maintain my goal weight.

Seriously. :s

This. I also decide the minimum I can eat of a treat and be satisfied. Less than two servings of ice cream is not worth it to me so I log two servings and have it when it fits. Doing this a container of ice cream (when did it stop being half a gallon??) lasted me almost two weeks, which was pretty much unheard of for me,…

I look at the menu ahead of time and try to figure out what I want and how it will fit. If I was going to where you were going I would probably eat all of the meat, and have a nice workout the next day where I sweat meat. It would be worth it. Enjoy the time with your family!

I will say tell myself that today is a maintenance day. That means I can go 500 over my goal for that day (I'm set for a pound a week) and still lose weight the rest of the week, just not as much. Once I tell myself I can't have something that is all I want, so I make it work. This makes it more sustainable for me, it may…

I go out to eat at least once or twice a week, sometimes more depending on the social calendar. It hasn't hurt my weight loss, but I don't think I have any weeks when I didn't go out to eat so I don't really have anything to compare it to. I look at the menus ahead of time, and the nutrition facts if it's a chain, and try…

Pretty much, and I weigh most of it, too. I don't measure the super low-cal stuff like mustard or hot sauce, but I record that I ate it. I like having a full record of everything. It also keeps me honest and makes it easier for me to turn down the mindless snacking and the nibbles here and there since I know I will need to…

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And now I want candied bacon. I guess I just live on the wild side.

I'm pretty impressed you remembered a thread you created two and a half years ago!

Just be aware that you are generally at your heaviest at the end of the day. I can be as much as five pounds heavier at the end of the day depending on how much food I have in my belly still, if I've gone to the bathroom, etc. So don't be discouraged if it is higher than you expected.

I never really learned anything about portion control in my first stint, but I was running enough to keep me covered. Once I was injured and unable to run my overeating allowed me to quickly and easily put on 20 pounds. I'm a 5'3" woman who wants to be able to eat the same as a 6'3" man and still fit into the same jeans.…

I have never heard that and I spend a lot of time on the internet reading random crap. I'm sure you'll be fine. It's water. You are like 50% water.

My fat, fat jeans were getting tight, and when I stepped on the scale I was five pounds heavier than my previous high weight. That was a good enough shock to make things happen.

Vinegar cleans everything!

I would treat it the same as eating out somewhere without nutrition info and log it something close.

Hahaha I'm sure you'll prove it wrong.

I pick them up and look at the calorie info and then I put them back. I do this every day when I go to the store to get my water for lunch. I'm pretty sure the people that work there think I'm crazy. I haven't bought one yet but if one day I feel it is worth the 250 calories then I'll buy it, most days it isn't worth…

I was told that women of childbearing age should take a multivitamin that contains folic acid , just in case of an unplanned pregnancy. I take a Nature Made Multivitamin, mainly because they are often on sale at my grocery store.

I tried weighing olive oil on my scale using the mL setting and it was way more calories than a tablespoon, like 3 times as many so I never tried that again.

I'm thinking whatever answer she was hoping to get was unrelated to her salads so she didn't see the point in giving details. Or she wasn't really weighing anything and just said that to get us to focus on whatever it was she really wanted to hear.

I have that happen, too. I just figure it is water weight that was masking my fat loss.

I think I'm just going to sit and watch this gif for the next week.

I'm sorry you felt attacked, but I don't think that was what was happening here. General advice doesn't work because the calorie needs can vary from person to person, depending on height, age, activity level, etc. Without knowing more information any "advice" would be wild guesses, as opposed to the educated guesses you…