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I know she is certified in training but not sure nutrition.

thank you so much! Looking forward to getting even more answers on this thread. Thanks!

great to know. I plan on custom setting my macros to 30/30/40

This is exactly what I plan on doing. setting to sedentary and a 2lb a week loss and eating back all exercise calories. I hope it works. I just get so hungry.....

thanks guys...I am so happy you guys have been so successful. and again, for the record...I am not publishing anything anywhere, lol. I am doing this research myself to see what the most successful people do. I hope to get more answers but thank you to the people who have answered so far, it helps a lot! I have 70-80 lbs…

Sorry...I am doing the research for myself because I want to lose weight and just wanting to know what has worked the best for everyone. I have not really set up my profile yet because I am just getting started on this journey. I figured getting tips from the most successful people on what they have done would be the best…

I think it is really unheatthy to eliminate an entire food group....just balance your meals. Kegogenic is just low carb which is NOT healthy.

oh I see, that makes sense. so you put your calories at TDEE level or something or on the MFP settings. what do you set it to?

okay so most people here on MFP say to eat back exercise calories...when using an HRM should one not do this? so confused now.

mmm. thanks for the long explanation. But everyone I have talked to, and I do mean everyone said Polar is the most accurate one...I am so confused but you seem to know what your talking about so I will not argue.

Yes I have the same question. Why do you only log 85% of it again? do you eat back your calories? confused???? Do most people here using the polar HRM eat back their calories or not?

Oh wow really? I had no idea! I went to a fitness spa a few weeks ago and they said that Polar was the most accurate one there was (within a 10% error). Why would it matter about somebody female or male with the polar...it asks for the gender when you set it up. Strange. I also so amazing ratings for it on amazon, where I…

Thanks for your advice everyone. I do plan on eating 3 meals and 2 snacks daily, drinking tons of water too. Most heart rate monitors are extremely inaccurate . I agree. I used to have a timex one and it grossly overestimates my calories. Polar is the most accurate one on the market and sometimes I feel like it…

Good idea! Thanks!

Possibly but for so many years I tried to do the same thing over and over with no plan or accuracy and it never worked so sometimes you have to try something new

I thought the polar watch (I think I have the F7) is the most accurate HRM out there. It never seems to overestimate anything I am doing...actually quite the opposite

sorry if I confused you. I was talking about the TDEE thing I keep reading about all over this site. Thanks for you advice...good ideas on snacks and planning meals. I always eat very clean.

Well I am trying to net my BMR because my TDEE at sedentary but eating back my exercise calories seems like too much food...am I wrong? I have been researching this stuff all weekend, lol.

Oh yes....my personal trainer takes measurements weekly for me. but why not eat back all the exercise calories? seems like everyone here SAYS to eat them back....especially if I am using my BMR as my net....is that not right?

I am not new here but I feel your pain. I have been struggling with my weight for about 7 years now since I started on fertility treatments and had several miscarriages and this past year my husband was diagnosed with colon cancer. He is now in remission (thank god!) but I am now a whopping 213 (down from 224) but on my…

thanks everyone. I have never heard of the TDEE method before until the past couple of weeks but I still like to use the MFP system (tracking exercise and eating back calories as it motivates me to work out more) so I hope this will work for me....sort of scared but we will see.

you can do this on sparkpeople...but their website is just too much...I like the simplicity of MFP so much more however would be great to have a vegetable tracker, I hope the websites APP developers think of that sometime.

cool thanks....so this is basically the same thing as eating at TDEE - 20% right?

I am terrible at reading these type of graphs but if I am reading this right it looks like you have lost 7lbs in less than 4 weeks...right? so, what should I do....just custom put in my BMR as the calories? I have also noticed if I set my activity on MFP to sedentary, and choose to lose one lb a week it puts me around 1500…

sure I can see it no problem, I just still would love to have some type of tracker for it too...I am just one of those who needs extra reminders "eat your fruits and veggies". anybody who has been on weight watchers probably knows what I am talking about, the check boxes they have are GREAT (even though I do not like their…

I am not asking for a free category...I know fruits and veggies are not free on this system nor do I want them to be (stupidest thing about WW IMO is the free fruits and veggies...how misleading is that!) I just want a way to TRACK how many servings I am eating daily , like a check box or something so I do not forget to…

you can see your fiber intake on the macros daily summary anytime you want. I just want a way to track fruits/veggies intake like I can track water. I would like a way to see "oh, I only ate 3 servings of fruits/veggies today....I need to eat more" . I know you on Spark people you can add these type of thing to track…

I am trying to make my MFP setting most like it would be if I ate like TDEE so that is why I am trying to figure out how to set it up. My exercises is too inconsistent to give an accurate activity level on the TDEE calculator. I thought maybe I should just set it at my BMR (1600) and net that but not sure that is accurate…

okay nobody is going to help me with this....:(