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If you're active I would recommend eating at least some of them back. For me personally I can't imagine not eating my exercise calories, I wouldn't have the energy to workout otherwise. I have my calorie intake set to 1500 a day, I weigh and measure carefully and track everything. I wear a garmin HR monitor. I subtract out…

And this, I regularly body block my husband or slap his hand away when he tries to snag some already weighed out food

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Yup. I always eat a little less Mon-Thurs so that I have some "banked" calories for the weekend. I keep track of my weekly calorie average rather than the daily. There are apps that will roll calories over for you, and there is an excel spreadsheet posted on MFP somewhere. Plus, I've found that I lose more consistently…

I agree with other posters that said to get measured and buy a pretty bra that fits. It will make you feel a little bit better. If you haven't been measured at a Victoria Secret in the last few years, go there. I'm pretty sure they do vanity sizing, which for me helps, even though I know what they're doing. I went from a…

Scale has moved down and I'm only 3 pounds away from my theoretical goal weight. I'm between pant sizes right now, one size looks a bit big, but the size down is a bit small. My actual goal is to fit well into the size down and then maintain, otherwise I'll be spending a ton of money on alterations!

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I agree with the above. It might not be a kickback situation at all. Many psych meds are used off label. For instance, Trazodone (antidepressant) is great for sleep, but not very effective for depression. It's also much less habit forming than benzodiazepine based sleep meds such as ambien. That said you should always…

Literally eat it daily and sometimes twice a day, down 17 pounds.

Didn't lose last week and probably won't this week, but I still feel like I'm making foward progress.

Rough weekend for the diet, good weekend for fun. The scale stayed the same this week, which I was happy about. I was worried that I might have gained after the weekend. I'm traveling home on Friday - Sunday, so my challenge this weekend is to not eat everything my mom puts in front of me. When I went home for Christmas I…

I've never understood the pizza= bad mentality. We make homemade pizza about once a week. As long as I stick to two slices, I lose weight just fine. Depending on the toppings we have lying around, some of our pizza's are healthier than others, but I don't think any of them are terrible in terms of nutritional value.

I've found that I take all the things I learned in WW such as portion control, weighing and measuring, eating back exercise calories and eating what you but in moderation, but now I use MFP to track calories instead of WW to track points. I feel like WW gave me a foundation for healthy eating (whether I'm counting points…

Yup. Eating out and/or hang out with friends at events invoving food and alcohol occur almost exclusively on the weekend for me. I have a weekly calorie goal that I keep track of outside of MFP. I try to stick to 1300 plus exercise calories Mon-Thurs so that I can eat what I want within reason on the weekends. When I was…

Going to be a busy week at work, so my goal is to not use it as an excuse to skip morning workouts. Plan to go to the gym at least three days (one down two to go) and walk the other two days. Fell off on my water drinking a little last week so still working on that this week. Maybe work on getting a little more fruit and…

I alternate between Kroger and Publix, I find that Kroger actually has a better selection and price for store brand organic. I use southernsavers.com to figure out what's on sale at each store (she also does sales for Aldi, Walmart and Target), and based on the weekly sales, I decide which or both stores I'll go to. I buy…

Friday is usually homemade pizza night. Assuming the dough thaws out in time (forgot to take it out of the freezer before work, ooops), toppings this evening will be roasted red peppers, goat cheese, caramelized onion and I'll probably throw last nights leftover chicken breast on there as well. Oh and cheese can't forget…

Tuesday wasn't the greatest. I worked late and missed my afternoon walk. I realized at around 5:30 that I hadn't had any water. When I got home, the chicken I had pulled out for dinner was still frozen, didn't have much in the way of groceries, so my calorie count for the day was too low. Monday and Wednesday were great.…

I'll also give a plug for the polar heart rate monitor. Love it!

Drink more water Make it to gym classes Mon (done), Wed, Friday. In Wednesday class do all 10 rounds of 22 jacks, 13 pushups, 13 situps. I've been keeping up with the jumping jack rotations, but haven't been able to keep up with all 10 rounds of pushups/situps. Hopefully this will be the week. On Friday try to push myself…

Hi Everyone, I'm 38, 5'8", 152 pounds. Work has been busy, and I end up taking a lot home on weekends and evenings. Eating healthy and exercising had fallen to the wayside over the past 2-3 years. I gained about twenty pounds and was pretty frustrated with myself since I had lost 50 in my late 20's early thirties and had…

I've got 5-8 to go so I'm in. I'm keeping myself at a .5 to 1 pound loss per week (more often at the .5) and working on going to the gym regularly and gaining some muscle.

This is exactly how I manage weekends, and it works very well for me. There is an excel spread sheet on this site that keeps a rolling total for the week for you. The link for it is in this thread. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/937712-in-place-of-a-road-map-ver-3-0?hl=road+map&page=14#posts-14331640

I eat slightly lower calories during the week, so that I can have a couple higher calorie days during the weekend or have wiggle room for going out to dinner after work. I just try to make sure that at the end of the week my average calories per day are where I want them to be. I also eat all my exercise calories. If I go…

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My interpretation was that it doesn't take BMR into consideration. I use this calculator to make the adjustment http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/net-versus-gross-calorie-burn-conversion-calculator.aspx I actually use the same website to calculate calories burned based on my average heartrate as…

We have similar age, height and end goals. age:38 height: 5'7 SW:165 CW:153 GW:145 ish

Age: 38 Height: 5'8 Start weight: 165 Current weight: 153 Goal: 145 ish and increased muscle/strength

age:38 height: 5'8 SW:165 CW:153 GW:145 ish (also aiming for a size 8) You can add me. Similarish goals