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Thanks so much for the insights! :)

This is all so interesting! Thanks everyone! :) It's been hard resisting, but the fact that 10lbs hasn't come back has been a pretty good incentive to keep away from it for a while. I've never heard of glycogen storage before - will have to look more into that! Thanks again, all! :)

Totally agree! The FB has totally changed my life! Don't know if I've lost that much because of it, but I do think I haven't gained much because of it! :)

Interesting...do you enable negative calories adjustment or not?

Oh wow! That is crazy!! What the heck is going on?

Very interesting. So the FB gives more calories if you complete your steps earlier in the day rather than later? This isn't making sense to me - if you've been allotted 443cal for 12K steps and I've been allotted 90cal for 10K steps. I just don't understand :wink:

Very interesting. Active seems like a whole different kettle of fish! :) I do have another question now though...I've been doing the recommended setting we talked about "lightly active" and "enabling negative calories". What I found today though in the morning is that it showed 1,750 for goal - 0 for food but then -173 for…

Hey all, I've been doing the recommended setting we talked about "lightly active" and "enabling negative calories". What I found today though in the morning is that it showed 1,750 for goal - 0 for food but then -173 for exercise for a total of 1577. So it took away calories in the morning as I hadn't started walking yet?…

Thanks so much all - your advice is much appreciated :smiley:

Thank you all so much for your advice - it is most appreciated! :)

Thank you both for your responses! I apologize but I'm so simplistic at this that I'm still not quite getting this... Could you possibly recommend for me, based on these facts: 1. I walk approximately 8km per day, every day - no days where I don't do this. These aren't always done briskly though - often just gained…

Thank you all for your responses! I apologize but I'm so simplistic at this that I'm not quite grasping the best way of ensuring I am setting things up properly. Would you all recommend for me, based on these facts: 1. I walk approximately 8km per day, every day - no days where I don't do this. These aren't always done…

Thanks Rabbit - so I understand, you recommend being sedentary level then? :)

Thanks so much for your reply, Jane! So do you recommend enabling negative adjustments? Honestly, I have never been able to understand exactly what that "means", so I've never done it. :)

Good points on the "vigourousness" of the walking, all! :) That makes sense. I've also wondered if time of day has anything to do with it as I find if I get the steps earlier in the day, I get more "calories" from it allowed vs. later in the day.

Really? So if I'm allotted 1200 calories per day and I walk 15,000 steps which "allows" another 400 calories, i'm still only able to eat 1200 calories vs. 1600?

Thanks! By playing around, do you mean setting it at different calorie levels and seeing if I gain weight or not? How do you ever really know when the scale is so different each day without any particular rationale behind why it is what it is that particular day - water weight, "that" time of the month, unexplained +/-?

Could you please tell me what the "net 1600" is about? I think that's what I'm not understanding. Thank you! :)

Stats? My weight is 136lbs and my height is 5'5.

Fantastic ideas, all. Thanks so much for your input :)

Very interesting! But if one changes their weekly goal to 0.5 lbs, it automatically ups the daily calories to 1350 or 1400, so that would mean eating more which in turn would probably mean needing to exercise even more to burn off those additional daily calories, no? My only other thoughts on why weight doesn't change is:…

This is a fantastic idea! :)

You can do this!! It's so hard to deal with the weight loss of younger years vs older years, but you can totally do this!! It does seem like once you take the pressure off and stop watching the scale, it seems to come more naturally, I find. Best of luck! :)

I'm not understanding this 2lbs/week vs 0.5lbs/week. Like you said - both 1200 calories. Hmmm...why is that? B)

Thanks so much. The goal is pretty set in stone - I want to hit it by the end of the 2014.

1. I am thinking now that they are not. Other than weighing chips and candies, I don't ever measure coffee cream, peanut butter, butter, etc. 2. I will try this! 3. No gallbladder and Thyroid removed for thyroid cancer (both not helpful for great metabolism ;) )

I shall definitely try that. I find in the late evening though that my junk food snack is literally what I've been looking forward to all day long, so to forgo it for veggies (when I'm still under my calorie limit) is pretty hard to do ;)

Just tried that and you were absolutely right - thanks! :)

Good call on the peanut butter!! I just measured it and it turns out I was eating 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 tablespoons each morning vs. the 1 1/2 I have been logging. That would account for an additional 80 or so calories a day. Thanks for the idea!

I should mention I also don't have a gallbladder nor a thyroid, so maybe that could have something to do with it, too? :)