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^ this also second the comments on picking something I can do for the rest of my life. I never intended to be needing to lose 100 lbs for the rest of my life so I never saw why I should need to pick something I can do forever. Things are always changing.

I've been set at .5 or 1 per week for most of my time on MFP this past year (I skipped out March- September and just ate whatever so it wasn't a full 12 month effort). I have lost 50 lbs so far during 2014 and I typically eat all the calories or over. Sometimes I go down to 2/week but I usually don't stay there, I like to…

I'm confused by the question/terminology. How is it breakfast if you are eating it after you get home from work and have been up and eating for 8-12 hours at least? What fast are you breaking exactly? Anyway it seems like night shift would have the same eating timing issues as day shift, unless you are up for 24 hours on…

You are having some awesome NSVs! I worry about losing my rings in the upcoming lbs lost as I am just now below my weight when I got them. Good problem to have I guess! This past week I thought to try on some clothes I had put away, things I didn't think would fit yet. I was amazed at how much I can wear now! I have jeans…

people will probably tell you that this number is likely an overestimate. If you eat back 100% of your exercise calories then that exercise will have done virtually nothing to speed weight loss. What's that common phrase "you can't out exercise a bad diet". Exercise is a LOT of work for relatively little payoff…

I like this advice. I love all kinds of foods so when making changes I just opted for the less calorie dense of the stuff I love. Though I do eat a lot of apples now, even though they are not my favorite, but that's more for their portability than anything else. When deciding between 2 different food choices I equally want…

I put my veggies in the bowl I am going to eat them out of and into the microwave

I got a job that is active (and also a lot of fun). I am getting paid to lose weight! I even stopped paying much attention to what I ate and stopped logging for a few weeks and still kept losing. Super easy!

Has your research shown that tuna is safe? I LOVE tuna with lettuce and some vinegar, but seems to me somewhere I read about it being unsafe to eat a lot of (I think for mercury too IIRC) but frankly I was too lazy to research it further and just chose to eat less tuna. I am guessing if you eat it every day that you have…

The little campbells cup o soup or soup at hand should be around 50/60 cals each and have a good shelf life apples also keep a LONG time if you leave them whole. Carrots (even the baby/peeled kind keep good as well as far as refrigerated foods go) I may be odd in this respect but I actually really enjoy a can of green/wax…

one of the things that I have loved about this challenge is that it has been acceptable to change/tailor our goals along the way (which I have done about 3 times now). I also love the milestones, check-ins and spreadsheet. When you have a LOT to lose it can get discouraging but things like this help you focus on the little…

I finally lost enough weight that no matter how much I eventually end up wanting to lose, from here it will definitely be LESS than 100 pounds! Now if I say I "need to lose about 100 pounds" it will be an exaggeration and not an actual statement!

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This was me earlier this year. Total mental blockage. I spent a lot of time reading and commenting on the forums and just kind of honing in my focus on little goals that kept my interest, and the sticktoitiveness just kind of happened. Yes there are still plenty of days where I eat 6,000+ calories. No I do not regularly…

Yes, that is what I meant by "operator error" (me being the operator, that I likely entered info incorrectly). So it sounds like you are basically suggesting using TDEE instead of the MFP presets. That makes sense, thanks for suggestion.

I am not entirely certain my brain can backwards engineer the information given by those calculators into the MFP categories. I think I may be too stupid to figure that out. But thanks, calculators are handy I guess. Though the first one seems to think I need to eat 4,500 calories a day to maintain my weight. :/ Guessing…

Agreed on the points made in the replies, but I will say that for me for a long time not letting things go to waste often lead to eating things I didn't want (and didn't need the calories from). I did need to change that habit. Now I just freeze a crap ton of stuff. I think I have 2 loaves of bread in the freezer from…

thanks guys! I started dropping weight too fast again and am trying to figure out if I need to up my calories again or if it was maybe just that water retention was masking previous loss and it's just now showing up on the scale. Sounds like it is possibly the retention, I'll give it another week or 2 and adjust…

That comment alone makes me think you will find this easier than you thought and you will find success. Learning to log properly is key and the fact you are reading the stickies on the boards is HUGE. You clearly need some more education as you seem to have the will and the dedication just not the knowledge. For me the…

you'd validate it according to the rules of evidence same as anything else, up to the jury to decide how much weight to give the evidence. Jury is free to believe or not believe any of the evidence presented, same as anything else. Perjury is perjury, people do it all the time, the fact finder just has to pick how much…

I don't think any counter is fully accurate as they are all based on estimates. From your diary it does not appear that you are weighing your food. If you are going to try to stick to 1200 may I suggest you weigh everything to make sure you are keeping to your tight target? I was eating this thing the other day and it said…

yes what everyone else said! and hormones do affect too, which if I count your days correctly you have arrived near ovulation time so that's another big fluctuation for a lot of people. But since no one else seemed to mention and in *case* this might pertain to you, be sure you are weighing all solids with a food scale…

If only calories had some actual consistent equivalent effect on hunger! Sadly, they don't. I can eat WAY under the calories I need in a day, under my BMR even, and not be hungry or wake up hungry. Or I can eat that way and wake up hungry. Or I can eat at maintenance and be hungry or not be hungry. Or eat over and be…

LOL that was my first thought too- more sex! HA! But seriously, I'd say to try out whatever you find the most pleasant. I don't think anyone disputes the best exercise is the one you stick to. My recent personal experience leads me to suggest you start slowly and don't take on too much at once. You don't want to…

excellent progress! congrats!

Where did you look up that told you your maintenance calories was only 1300? That's crazy low, and sounds way more like your BMR not your TDEE. You might want to check that out again, it sounds totally wrong.

SW: 249 CW: 218 GW: 213 Weigh in Dates: Start of Month (11/01 Saturday): 218 11/08 Sat: 218 11/15 Sat: 214 11/22 Sat: 212 11/29 Sat: End of Month (11/30 Sunday): Total weight lost: 6

every time I have researched this moo goo gai pan has been one of the lowest calorie options. Though obviously a dish without sauce would be your best bet, or sauce on the side.

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OMG that gif made me laugh so hard I am sure I burned at least 1 calorie. Plan to open that at least 3,000 more times today, then I'll be skinny right? OP, I could look at this gif and laugh once and it'd probably be a better weight loss plan than any pill. So so many of us have lost successfully with no pills and no extra…