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My guess would be that they're made up of more than just raw potatoes. (?) look at the package of tater tots where the ingredients are listed. i bet theres a lot more than just potatoes listed on there. That's just my guess. i don't have anything here to go by for reference..

i think this is very well said, and i relate so much to the part about 200 cal. before 11am, being hungry at lunch, and really hungry at dinner. sounds just like me :-)

i'm similar size and stature to you, and i started out doing 1200, and did great at first, but now my losing has slowed down tremendously, so i am upping my calories to 1400. i have a feeling i wasn't eating enough. I've not been here long enough to really advise you on the right amount, but most people on here will…

hitting 199 pounds. that was what i weighed in, on the day i had my kid. (not after having the kid, before). i never hit 200, and never thought i could. so i was thinking, omg, i weigh the same as i did when i was 9 months pregnant...wow.

my guess is that the purpose is to see if there are still a lot of decent people posting that agree about all the snarkiness, rudeness, etc. Just my guess. Seems to me that calling the rude people out on a particular thread, just causes a never ending arguing thread. I know i have stopped reading several, because after…

i don't think i have ever stayed within the sodium one. I don't really know what to tell you though, because although I have lost 15 lbs., my losing has slowed to a crawl lately. I'm trying to cut back on salt to see if that will help. I have noticed that I have to drink a lot of water to help counteract the…

totally agree with this. I joined MFP when a friend told me they had the best forums, and great people/support. Looks like a lot of people (not everyone. there are some really great, helpful people here too) only post to insult people and belittle them. So what if someone asks if a diet pill works? If you haven't tried it,…

oh, I didn't see that you had already lost a lot...congratulations on that. you must be doing something right. Try to be patient. I know how it feels to do good, then see progress come to a screeching halt. It's very discouraging, but hang in there.

is it possible that you are underestimating a lot more than you think? One thing that surprised me since I started tracking was that I was that my estimations were WAY off.

^THIS. there are some things though, that I just seem to think is just 'not worth' the calories anymore...but if I ever decided to give up some things, pizza would NEVER be one of them.

Giovanni's meat lovers pizza

Science Mama, i have tried it, and it didn't work for me.

I like Maxwell House International Cafe french vanilla. it's sugar free, and about 30 calories/Tbs., i think.

that's good to hear. makes it easier to take that big step, upping your calories, when you know it has worked for someone else. :-)

wow, that's great! i've been doing 1200/day, and was very successful...at first...lol. not so much, now. and from what i'm reading, i should up my calories some. i keep coming up with different numbers from all the different calculators, but i'm going to try 1400 for a while, and see how that goes.

sounds like i'm in the same boat. good luck to you. i'm going to be trying the same :-)

i drink at least 8 servings of water every day. sometimes i may forget to log a few bottles, but water is never an issue. on a random day, i may run out of bottled water and only drink 6 servings, but that has only happened a few times. did you look much past this past week? cuz normally i eat plenty of fruits.(but not too…

really? i can do ok on 1200. it was hard at first, but i can do it ok now. but it would be hard to do less. lol.

thanks so much! i know i had read that other people were losing no matter what they ate, as long as they stayed within their calorie goals, and therefore, i got a little lazy with my food choices... like tonight for example, i had a lot of work to do, so i told my husband he could pick up whatever he wanted for dinner. i…

hopefully that worked...sorry guys. :-P

ok, sorry, this is new to me. i'll try again. thanks!

i think i may have fixed the privacy thing... but anyway, i don't exercise a lot, but when i do , i eat back most of the calories.

seems like maybe a month...

oh, i thought i fixed it so that it wasn't private...i even said that in my post.... let me see if i can figure out how to do that...

anybody?

I've not been on here long enough to give much advice, but just wanted to say that I'm over on protein just about every day as well. I think the sugar, carbs, fat, etc. are more like limits than goals, but I could be wrong...

well that's good. i'm glad because it seems like I used to hear that you should eat more calories in the morning. But I'm just not very hungry in the mornings.

I appreciate the help,and sorry for being so dumb on the subject. I just want to make sure I'm starting with the correct information. So I do have a lot to lose (65 lbs. just to be in the upper range of 'normal' weight..) so is 2 lb./week still too high? And if not, is 1200 cal./day still too low? I'm just reading a lot of…

oh, I didn't know MFP would let me set the goal too high. is 2 lbs./ week too high? so i should eat 1550 calories/day?

even after looking at that link, I am still confused. mfp has my goal calories at 1200, but my Bmr is 1550. I keep reading posts where people say 'don't go below your BMR," but wouldn't that just make me maintain the same weight? So, just plain and simple, should I be eating 1200 calories a day or 1550? If I'm not…