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To echo everyone else, grams are certainly more accurate than pounds, ounces, cups, etcetera. I live outside the states and I find the imperial system bewildering -- why are there 16 ounces in a pound, for instance? The metric system makes perfect sense (1000 miligrams to a gram, 1000 grams to a kilogram; 1000 milimeters…

I've found it very useful as you can analyze trends over time, including, for example, how long it takes to go to sleep and how much sleep you actually get. If you're constantly waking up in the middle of REM cycles, you know something's the matter, for example, and if you know how long it takes you to get to sleep (for me…

Yeah, that's whack. Eat more.

A dear friend of mine had a mother who obsessed about health and left her daughter with a host of weight and body image problems. Let kids be kids.

You just need to want it. Not being motivated really doesn't work as an excuse, as only you are in charge of your feelings. If you want to be more motivated, actively be more motivated.

Like Nike. Just do it :)

This. My wife is overweight, but do you think that matters to me? Hell no. I love her for who she is, not what she looks like.

I'm writing a novel. I'm at 75000 words!

I used to play football, and our coach had an expression -- it's always 0-0. It didn't matter if we were up ten points or down thirty, the score was always 0-0. What this meant is that it didn't matter what we did ten minutes ago, what mattered was how we played. The same goes for MFP and your losing weight. If you overeat…

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See a doctor first. They'll be able to tell you if you're gluten intolerant.

Depends on the pedometer. The way they calculate calories differs vastly from how a HRM does, and if your pedometer miscalculates steps, that will have an effect, too.

Steak, bacon, sausages, and whole fat cream. Oh, and plenty of cheese.

I aim for mostly fat in my diet, second protein, and way back in third carbs. My gram settings for fat and protein are about the same, which still means I get most of my calories from fat.

It is so silly it almost hurts. To eat clean (re: dairy) would be to drink the milk unpasteurized and unskimmed, straight out of the cow. Which sounds delicious.

I try to avoid being obsessive. I got fat by constantly thinking about food. I don't do that anymore :)

I never like it when people talk about how being obese is "bad for your health." People do unhealthy things all the time -- what other people do -- whether they smoke or drink or eat in excess -- really is no one's business but their own.

Kind of. Misunderstood your question

Add away, guys. I've lost 60 with a bunch more to go :)

You can totally do that, but don't try to make it a habit. ie, two days ago I was 500 under, yesterday I was 600 over. So I'm 100 over. But you also have to remember your MFP goal already has a deficit in mind. Ie, if your goal is to lose 2 lbs a week, and you're 20 calories over every single day, you'll still lose weight.

It is pretty straightforward. Weigh everything, turn that into one meal. So if you use say a pound of turkey, a tablespoon of butter, a teaspoon of pepper, and a teaspoon of lemon (I don't know), that becomes one meal. If you eat 60% of that one night and have the last 40% for breakfast the next morning, the math is easy.

Hormones, water weight, etcetera. If you have a lot of salt, you'll hold more water. If you strength train, you'll hold more water. If you're... uh, backed up, more weight. That time of the month? More weight (higher water weight retention, etc).

Why would you join a food tracking website and not track your food???

You really want to crank up your fat in terms of calories, too. 4 cal for 1 g of carb / protein, and 9 for 1 gram of fat. I find my biggest gains when 65%+ of my calories come from fat. Atkin's mentions something called a fat fast, where (I believe) you get 95% of your cals from fat. I personally don't recommend that, but…

TBH, I'm a little unsure how this is relevant?

Sorry, how does being back at school make it harder to log calories? You're more likely to eat poorly at school (late nights, parties, etc), and updating MFP takes all of four-five minutes a meal, if you're working slowly. I do not recommend quitting MFP like that. If you do choose to do so, I recommend still logging your…

10 lbs in 5 weeks is pretty good. Odds are a lot of that is water weight but that's fine. What you might want to do is get your body fat % measured, before and after. Odds are you're shedding more fat than muscle, though.

That would be because you're 200 calories over your goal.

#7 - it's not at all calories in, calories out. If you're not losing, it must be a magical condition. Sure, you didn't log your food for a week here or there, but that can't be it.

Here's the thing, though: the OP has no problem saying we're all "dirty" eaters, but if you call them on it, you're suddenly a brute? It's so absurd that people think they can make pseudo-scientific claims and not have to defend them to proper scrutiny.