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I would say this has a lot to do with your exercise plan, goal, and starting weight. It's important to me to lose consistently, steadily---and not necessarily post some huge number all at once. I finally trained myself out of that mentality, and I KNOW this is a sure way to reach my goal. I'm 1/3rd of the way there!

If you like something sweet and chocolatey, I LOOOOOVE Skinny Cow Heavenly Crisp - Milk Chocolate bars. Salty, I like the Blue Diamond Nut Thins in either PepperJack or Ranch---very filling. Another good idea is to pre-pop some 100 calorie single bags of SmartPop Popcorn, and bring in a ziploc baggie. Easy to just reach in…

A couple of years ago, my husband got me a first generation iPad for Mother's Day. At the time, my daughter was 4. I downloaded some free preschool/kindergarten learning apps for my iPad to work on with her. She caught on SOOOOO quickly, and has learned SOOOOO much from these apps! She is now 6, and doing more advanced…

Thanks for the feedback. On the days where I played many games of softball, I tracked them, but didn't really believe the calories MFP said I burned. Even on days of high activity like that, I will do (and have done) just as you said---eat some back if I'm hungry. No matter what, on those days I still made sure to stay…

I did just decide to raise it to 1400---gonna try that for a couple days. Then, I figure that gives me the room when I need it, and I can still under-eat by a few if I'm not that active. Thought I'd try it out for a bit and see where it takes me.

[/quote] So let's see...first of all hello and go KU =) I'm in KC myself so you're just down the road! Okay so not knowing your height if you are between 5'3" and 5'10" your BMR is between 1480 and 1590. so 1200 is going to be too low. It will work at first to jump start your weight loss and then your body will jsut decide…

Thank you for this---I know it isn't really a plateau, just want to avoid several weeks without weight loss. I am going to work hard to reduce my sodium, and have added that to my tracker. Thanks for the input!

Thank you! This is exactly the helpful feedback I was looking for! Current weight, 180 lbs. Goal, 145. I chose 2 lbs per week---realistically and by calculations, about 1.5 lbs per week. That puts me at 1200 calories allowance per day. I stay within that, and TRY to stay within the other allowances for fat, protein, etc.…

"1 week is not a plateau." Yes, I realize that it isn't a "true" plateau. Please don't judge---if you're just replying to be snide, please don't. I am used to consistently losing SOMETHING each week, and this week was diff. Just really wanted someone to look at my diary and say, "aha---this looks like it could be an issue…

The 3,000 calories burned was 8- 1hour games of softball in a day for a tournament. Of course, I couldn't possibly eat that much back, nor did I figure that was entirely accurate.

I'm in TOTAL agreement with this---you can't be eating so little and expect to lose---you're body thinks you're starving it. More than a couple days in a row like this and your body will just hang on to the calories/fat and store it for fear you are starving it. Try making sure to net the 1200 calories.

I really like this idea, but want to keep my weigh-ins on Mondays. I'll see how that helps/hurts me to change my weigh in to Thursday---I'll try it. I just feel like my Monday weigh-ins keeping me from blowing it on the weekends. :)

Thanks so much to all of you!

I really like the Kellogg's Milk Chocolate Protein drink.