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Update: May results ****************************** Love this thread because the timeline matches up perfectly with my goal. I'm on my anual yo yo train. Doh!, did it agian: I put 20 lbs on between September and end of December (third year in a row). SW Jan 1 - 182lbs Goal Weight -160lbs Goal 1/31 - 177lbs (176.8 actual -…

Update: April results ****************************** Love this thread because the timeline matches up perfectly with my goal. I'm on my anual yo yo train. Doh!, did it agian: I put 20 lbs on between September and end of December (third year in a row). SW Jan 1 - 182lbs Goal Weight -160lbs Goal 1/31 - 177lbs (176.8 actual -…

Feel free to add me. On here daily and would love more MFP friends.

I gave you a "like" for the title of your post alone. :smile: That's me.......

Awesome transformation! Nice job.

I'm voting for the ice cream...........

I subscribe to this method now also. I've been through a few weight loss cycles over the years on MFP. I used to weigh only once a week on Friday mornings. I'd invariably would go through frustrating plateau weeks semi-frequently. Then I switched to weighing daily and recording the average once a week. What I found is I…

I use Optimum Gold Standard Whey, Extreme Milk Chocolate. It's so good I have some at night as my desert. It totally keeps my chocolate cravings at bay.

It could just be a random fluctuation that hit on your weigh in day. I used to weigh once a week, but then switched to everyday just because I couldn't stop myself. I end up recording the average for the week. My fluctuations usually are inside of a 1lb up or down from day to day. But every so often I get a spike of…

I can see how frustrating that is to not show results after being so good. Give it another week to see if the scale gets moving. You said you logged to the T every day but you didn't mention what your calorie goal is. Do you know what your maintenance calories are in relation to your daily goal?

I"m one of those boring black coffee guys. But my once in a great while treat drink. Is a mocha frappiccino.

Google tdee calculator. That should help you get a ballpark.

It was a good week. I'm getting in way more than 15 minutes per day. The chord transitions for the song are different than what I've done in the past so I've just been practicing them over and over and over. I feel like it will probably take a month just to get that muscle memory down. I'm going on vacation next…

It's not rocket science folks. There's no absolute rule that apply's to everyone. WinoGelato pretty much nails it. The scale will tell you what to do. If you are eating back all your exercise and not losing then adjust and only eat back 50%. If that doesn't get it moving, then eat back less. If the scale is dropping faster…

Think of it like this. Let's just say at 1280 net calories your deficit is 500 per day resulting in 1lb per week loss (your's may be different but go with me here). You told MFP your goal is 1lb per week (500 deficit per day). MFP took you at your word and is holding you to that goal. No more of a deficit than that, no…

Welcome Clare.

I'm curious. How do you know you are consuming 1200 to 1500 per day and burning 2200. How are you measuring that? I agree that your weight loss seems too low for those levels.

Nice job. I just came across this thread. I have my own pushup goal this year but no where near as ambitious as yours. I'm 51 and go to the gym three days a week and decided to throw some exercise into my non-gym days. I do pushups, knee bends, and planks now on non-gym days. My pushup goal is to work up to 100 per day.…

My rule is accepting hiccups but not allowing a hiccup more than one day in a row. I have a hiccup and then right back at it the next day. I don't dwell on it too much.

I was over my daily limit probably by 2pm today. I had already given myself permission coming into today to let it go. I'm going to top it off with a little ice cream later tonight then back on track starting tomorrow.

I've had issues on my laptop last two days. A lot of "server errors" when trying to add food. Been trying to add a picture today and same thing.

Update: March results ****************************** Love this thread because the timeline matches up perfectly with my goal. I'm on my anual yo yo train. Doh!, did it agian: I put 20 lbs on between September and end of December (third year in a row). SW Jan 1 - 182lbs Goal Weight -160lbs Goal 1/31 - 177lbs (176.8 actual -…

It took just a little over two weeks but I'm happy to report my calluses have finally started forming. Makes practicing my acoustic so much more enjoyable. Up till now I've been getting re-familarized with my chord progressions and finger patterns. I started on my first song project this week - Dust in the Wind by Kansas.

This is spot on..... I think the "won't add any muscle in deficit" is one of the most mis-interpreted sayings on MFP. Most people that say they want to "add" muscle are really saying they want to add some muscle/tone to their physical appearance. Just as you pointed out, if you lift during deficit you won't gain new muscle…

My layman's understanding of your questions. There's truth to the adding muscle will burn more calories at rest however, the amount is negligible (not much). Timing of working out doesn't matter for weight loss. Cardio burns more calories than weight lifting. I do both cardio and wieght lifting, but I eat back my exercise…

I weigh daily. But keep in mind if you do it daily expect fluctuations and don't emotionally react to them, the scales going to jump around a bit. I record once a week though based on the average after tossing anomoly's.

I started the year at 182lbs with a goal to be down to 160 lbs by June. I've lost 14 lbs so far. My advice is continue to use the app religiously and log accurately. It's ok to have a "slip up" day, dont' beat yourself up. My rule though is I don't allow two of those in a row. It's worked well for me.

I'm similar to you in that I pretty much eat the same things everyday but still prefer to log as I go. Once I finish dinner though I log my evening snack and beverage ahead of time and close out my entry for the day.

Good week of practicing guitar, got in each day this week. Can still only go short stints because fingers are so sore. Medium gauge steel strings are a painfull way to break back into it. Hopefully in another week or so calluses will form...........

I think it's a psychological thing with people familiar with you. They are mentally comparing you to your old self so you do look skinny and gaunt compared to before and it's startling for them. But I bet if you were a stranger they were meeting for the first time they wouldn't think twice. You'd just look like a normal…