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I don't log pickles, hot peppers, diet soda... it's just noise. anything 10-20 calories is margin of error anyway. if you think food labels etc are that exact you're mistaken.
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Review the calories you're recording for your food, make sure it's as accurate as possible. If there are two entries for a food I tend to pick the one with the higher calories. Are you being too generous with your exercise calories? Also possibly you're reacting to lower intake by doing less when you're idle - spending…
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It's not just the sodium working against you here, you were pulling in a lot of carbs (alcohol!) and your body is stashing that as glycogen. Good writeup on it here, this explains why you initially lose a burst of weight when you start dieting: http://www.justinowings.com/understanding-bodyweight-and-glycogen-de/ The…
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also unless you're eating that toast dry you need to be entering another 100 calories for a TBSP of butter
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check your packages - I'm seeing "Bread - White, toasted, 2 slice" listed as 129 calories. Bread is usually like 110 PER SLICE. you need to be entering the exact brand you're eating and checking the entry against the label and weighing everything. You're definitely under-reporting your calories here. 0.9 pretzel sticks?…
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start measuring and weighing your food. you're under-reporting your intake (or over-reporting the number of calories you're burning). there's no magic here, it's calories in and calories out.
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you might find the BMR calculator interesting: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmr-calculator it gives you how many calories you'd spend sitting perfectly still for 24 hours. anything above that is already counting your light activity.
