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This is how I worked out my figures. I sit at a desk and don't do a great deal until I get home, I have a fitbit and it is linked to MFP with neg adjustments on. So I put my stats into MFP with activity as sedenatary, I set my goal as lose 1lb a week. My current weight and height gives me a little over 2090 a day (500…

Lost a few years ago, then stopped logging and crept up. Back on it again now with a long way to go. Happy I can lose the weight, but planning for the future and how to keep on track. Have a year to figure it out!

The one thing I am finding is that if I hit my numbers I feel OK the day after, if I am a bit short, either by eating too little or working out, then the next day I want to eat the plate as well as the table. Hitting my goal +/- 50 makes the next day soo much easier ETA. I am in this for life, so I need to make this my new…

It is a big change of mind set, you can eat carbs/sugars/fats/booze/pizza in fact anything you like, as long as the numbers work. There is no bad food or good food. Losing weight is not the same as eating healthily. (Doing both is good), but I had pizza at lunch, just restricted the amount and had 2 slices with loads of…

Six weeks into my journey I had a look at what the MFP figures suggest i should have lost and what i actually lost. (looking at the net calorie reports and not the "in five weeks") In the six weeks I lost 15lb and MFP figures suggest I should have lost 13lb That is close enough for me to trust the figures, my logging could…

One trick that I use in this mind game is to look at my daily figure and compare it to my goal.... Then compare it to my daily maintenance figure. I wish that MFP would not go red when I go 1 cal over my daily goal. I am still in deficit, (500 if set to 1lb per week) If I am over my maintenance figure I look at my weekly…

Reading your post I think you are in the same boat as I am. I was 294 lost about 80lb, took my eye off the ball and put about 60 back on. So this time I am really focusing on the maintenance, I can lose weight, I know how to do that. I just dont know how to keep it off. BUT here is the best bit, I have a year to figure it…

Weighing at night and weighing in the morning will mess with your head. Mornings before breakfast. As a bloke I have a slightly easier time as I dont have monthly fluctations, but suggest trendweight or similar app/web site to track the trends, then you can stop worrying about the daily figures. The next suggestion is to…

Have a thought for you next time you go out for a run, put an 18lb load in your back pack. Then try your c25k session. (Well done on doing the dreaded week 5 day 3.... I have just passed that one as well) A number is just a number until you have to carry it! You are making great progress!

Silly question for you, have you reset your goal and numbers after your fantastic loss? (If you are new to the running then it could be just water)

Hey Charlotte, Plug in the number into MFP and eat to this number. Record your exercise and eat some of them back. (Lots of info about eating, or not eating exercise calories) An interesting thing is to set your goal as maintain, eat less than this number to lose weight. (1lb a week will be 500 cal less than this maintain…

I've just bought a soup maker and a flask, chop veg, shove it in and 20mins later soup. Heat in the morning and put in flask. Today I am having a mint and pea soup with some added ham and maybe a bread roll

There is one way to lose weight, Calories in should be less than Calories out. However there are lots of ways of getting there. I log on MFP, my wife uses Slimming World with the concepts of free food and syns. To lose weight you have to be in calorie deficit. If you eat 5 apples in a day that could be 500 calories. If I…

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Mine stops linking from time to time. I have to unlink it and start again. Usually works then. I think there are some threads for this let me go and find them

CI<CO is simple, that is not the same as saying it is easy. Everybody has their own daemons to fight and get in order. Now I just need to figure out how to keep my daemons from making CI>CO

I tend to recalc my goal every 10lb or so, but I have a long way to get to goal so dont need to worry about slowing down my rate of lose yet.

I started on MFP back in Jan (Strange that) and have logged food and exercise (via fitbit and manually adding) So actual weight loss in the 6 weeks I have been playing this game = 15lb Looking at the daily average for Net Calories (In-Out) and taking this away from my MFP maintenance figure gives me my average daily…

That is a true NSV, dont know what it is about 20 mins nonstop jogging, but when you pass that it gets a whole lot easier. I have just redone the c25k and my NSV is completing a 5k without walking.

For me yes it is a must, I have been here before and when I stopped it all went amiss. Can I see a time when I don't have to weigh everything? Yes for some of the time. Logging though is here to stay for me, though it might be estimates on low cal stuff

If you are under your calories for the day and have room, then none what so ever. If you are over then it is not going to help. I don't look too hard at macros, but wine is just empty calories. I drink at a weekend if I have the room, and in the week but don't tell anybody (Though I weigh and log it, always).

I lost my first wife back in 2000, I know it is not the same, but there are many similarities. I walked and did a lot of walking, Headphones on and stomped around. This gave me time and space to process. I know you have kids so not as easy (not sure how old), but if possible I would get out and walk. For me it was an added…

Are you losing? If so then eat some of them back. I use them as a buffer, I eat up to 50% of mine, depends how the day is going though. I agree it feels odd eating them back. Try it and see how you go

I like you have lost a chunk of weight and put it back on (Luckily for me not all of it) So this year I am planning on losing the weight, getting to my goal and seeing if I can learn how to maintain. My goal is not to do this for a third time! (Request sent)

I ran first time round this health fitness loop, and got up to being able to run a full 5k run, let me let you in on a couple of my thoughts. C25K is a great program, starts really slow and steady. Uses a run/walk approach If you can not breathe you are going too fast, slow down. I am back up to being able to run for 15min…

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Look at this in another way..... Assuming you have MFP set to lose 1lb a week, then this will give you a 500 Cal deficit each day, so let me rewrite your original post and see if this makes you feel any better:- Today I ate at maintenance. I had a family meal, and I relaxed a bit, it was giant. No harm done as for the rest…

Weight lose is all about calories in v calories out. If the Calories In is less than out you will lose weight (There are other factors, but for most of us this holds true) I use MFP and log my food, my wife uses Slimming World (same thing as WW), we are both losing weight. I prefer trying to change habbits and retraining…

HW: 294 lbs CW: 265 lbs STG: 250 LTG: 200 then plan from there! Height: 5'11" Age: 46 Exercise preference: Walking, running, swimming then weights Exercise goal: Try and do something everyday, even if just a walk at lunch Diet: Omnivore Fun facts: My great great great great uncle Dick married Florance Nightingales sister.…

I have just popped the recipe into the recipe builder, and after a few tweeks for mis-matches this gives a per serving of 600ish for 1/3 of the dish. Looking at the method I am sure you could roast the veg with fry light and cut the oil down to 1 tbsp. I start with a recipe and then see where I can adjust and amend to keep…