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I would encourage anyone to learn how to cook healthy food. It is a proper life skill. Like being able to put up a tent.

I've sent a friend request.

People find this site because they have chosen to count calories in order to change their bodies and their lives. MFP is not out there on the web promoting itself as 'the only way' to combat the obesity problem. Wouldn't your ebook be more suited to people who haven't yet settled on a method?

If OP isn't fat, and sees no value in the idea of calorie counting as a tool to help people who are trying to lose fat, or to gain muscle, why is he / she here?

Anyway, in crude terms, 3500 calories burnt = a pound of weight lost. Therefore 900 calories burnt = 0.25 pounds of weight lost. Over a week, it adds up, but on a day by day basis, water / sodium / general digestion factors win through.

5.5 pounds in 3 weeks is a great rate of weight loss. You are clearly getting a reasonable deficit in. If you want to learn more about the process, and how your body responds in a deficit, then you could try to log your food with a little more accuracy. Personally, I weigh myself way too regularly, but I don't get too hung…

As far as weight fluctuations go, they are rather normal. Similar to me anyway - my weight is up and down by around 3 pounds. It would probably move more if I bothered to hydrate properly. As I said before though, is it working - are you losing weight?

Can we not just agree that DirtyCurvesAh is right, as it appears to be her superpower to always be right. What I'd really like to know is whether OP is actually losing weight under this current set up. Why is she worried about fluctuations when the trend should be a (fairly unhealthy) 3-4 pounds a week weight loss?

The fact is, something is up with these numbers if OP isn't losing weight. Assuming an average height of 5'7'', she has a TDEE (couch potato) of 2084, so a daily burn of 2984, against a daily intake of 1300, giving a daily deficit of 1684 and a weekly deficit of 11,788 calories. This should equate to 3.4 pounds of weight…

Yeah! You tell that moderator!!

The most important thing, in the first month, is to be patient and to stick with what you're doing. Tangible changes will take you by surprise but it does take more than a week to feel different about food. Buy an electronic food scale and log everything you eat. Consider breaking your calories up over more meals per day -…

I eat more than a dozen eggs a week. Some weeks approaching 18. This week we have duck eggs - they're monsters, so I won't have as many. We have boiled eggs as snacks, or eggs at breakfast - poached, scrambled, omlettefied or in pancakes. You don't feel hungry after eggs at breakfast. We've bought egg whites in a carton in…

That's me - 1818 kcal and 0.5lbs a week. Feel free to add me, I'd love to see what other people are eating for 1800 kcal/day.

It looks to me as though you're logging fairly accurately. Are you weighing your food and finding accurate entries in the database / adding your own recipes when you need to? Your calorie target seems to be appropriate (although I haven't worked it out). You have a decent amount of weight to lose, so if you stick to those…

Well I guess to make it worthwhile / meaningful becoming friends with someone. Although my diary is open because I'm a tart.

I've dislocated my knee a couple of times, more than 10 years ago now, and I still live in fear of ever doing it again. It sounds like you have an expensive knee on your hands (not literally a knee growing out of your hands, that would be horrible).

You won myfitnesspal well done!

Wow well done to the surgeon, and most of all, well done to you.

FR sent. Although I'm not great about detailing my workouts.

You are the same height as me (although you're 14 years younger). I'm on my way down from just over 100 kilos (220 lbs). I hit a stall over Christmas at 79.5 kilos (175 lbs). In an attempt to respond to this, I've done a few things. I've slightly reduced my daily calories, become even more accurate with logging, eaten back…

That's exactly the sort of thing I meant (although he does say 'intermediate to advanced'). Is there a Yoga or Pilates group you could attend as well to practice some of these positions. You also might want to think about getting a pullup bar.

Yes but did you have a BMI of 19?

I just found the page where some of the bodyweight exercises are described: http://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/basic_exercises Gaining muscle without entering a gym is certainly possible - you will need to learn to use your own body weight. Research and trial and error are the names of the game (name of the…

Have a look over at reddit - bodyweight fitness. They have a very useful FAQ over there, and some home routines for people with very limited experience linked from here - http://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/comments/1lhaos/routine_selection_guide/

Those figures you give compute to a BMI of 19.1 - this is at the bottom end of 'healthy weight', teetering towards underweight, at 18.5. Certainly a long way off a BMI of 25. For what it's worth, your Basal Metabolic Rate for those figures is 1353 kcal (the calories you would consume if you were in a coma) and your Total…

I've been at the same weight for around a month now (admittedly over the festive season), after fairly consistently dropping one or two pounds a week for the last six months. There's no mystery behind it, my food intake has been a little higher, and my logging a little laxer. A little multiplied by a little equals a lot! I…

Two large pizzas. In my defence, it was buy-one-get-one-free. Probably north of 6-7000 calories. Another awful moment I will never forget - I had been to a supermarket, and bought some bits, rounding it all off with a pack of two cream cakes. Cream and jam scones I think they were. There I am, sat in the car, devouring…

Isn't it quite common for babies to lose weight in the first couple of days? Anyhow, you can't be hard on yourself. Look how hard you tried. As far as the user blundering into this thread shouting off about what a mother should and shouldn't do for the sake of their baby... well I think I've seen it all now. Heartless.

I am starting to feel a little weak. I often get coffee at McDonalds drive throughs, and I feel extremely smug when coffee is all I drive away with. I did clock the Big Tasty on my last visit though. Must be strong!

Ah, it's probably a UK thing. They are pure, liquid calories. They come and go off the menu. http://m.mcdonalds.co.uk/food_single_item.php?item_id=10120