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You can change your diary status by going to Settings > Diary Settings > Public

I think it's safe and probably advisable to start watching just calories. Macros are more of a guideline than a rule and people survive and thrive and lose weight on all kinds of different macro splits. As you progress, you'll be able to keep an eye on your macros and see if there are trends or if you want to adjust at…

olive oil, coconut oil, ghee, butter, seeds (chia, flax, sunflower, etc), peanut butter, cheese, whole eggs, fattier cuts of meat (if you eat meat), olives, higher fat dairy (cream, whole milk, cream cheese, yogurt, etc), mayonnaise, chocolate, hummus, tahini

It still appears closed or possibly set to friends only.

You can get an estimate of how many calories you burn per day by using any of the online TDEE calculators online and then you adjust up or down based on your real world results. Even with activity trackers and gym machines, it's all just estimates based on averages. You do the best you can logging and tracking and adjust…

Any chance you'd be willing to open your diary? Without solid information we're all just guessing. With three years of solid logging and no losses, the issues should be easy to spot.

Would you stand on the scale with a cup of coffee in your hand and expect the scale not to reflect that extra weight?

Are you getting 5,000-ish mg of sodium and have you upped your magnesium at all? Have you tried sports drinks to get your electrolytes up? I didn't think vomiting was usually a part of keto flu. If you've tried all the usual things and still have symptoms, you may have an actual illness that just happens to coincide with…

Just to be sure, are you weighing yourself at the same time of day or did you weigh yourself after drinking all of said liquid?

I want to get back to the OP for a moment. I just want to be sure you've set your activity level on MFP properly because I was under the impression that it wouldn't set a calorie goal as low as 1200 if you have an active activity level? It might be worth double-checking your settings just to be sure.

Accurate logging requires two parts: knowing what kind of food you're eating and knowing how much of it you're eating. Barcode scanning only tells you one half (and is not always accurate at even that). A food scale only tells you one half. You have to know both halves in order to log accurately and pulling a random recipe…

The OP logged a recipe from Allrecipes.com but when I search the site I cannot for the life of me find this particular recipe listed. Every other chicken stir-fry recipe I've checked over there has at least 350+ calories unless it excludes the rice.

The percentages are just for the food you've eaten so far. Base your decisions on the goals by grams and ignore the percentages until the end of the day. It's more for showing trends than for meal-to-meal decisions.

Soylent is a meal replacement shake meant for people who honestly don't like food/eating. I haven't tried them, but since you seemed dead set on wanting shakes instead of food then you might be interested: https://soylent.com/

Coconut oil would be a good choice if you like it. For my smoothies I almost always add yogurt, fruit, protein powder, leafy green veg (like spinach), and maybe some peanut butter or powdered peanut butter if I'm using banana as my fruit. If I were trying to up my calories I would also probably add olive oil to mine.

It's open. The OP is largely surviving on fruit and milk.

Looking at your diary, you are very low on calories, fat, and protein. I think you were linked the calorie foods list before, right? It doesn't look like you're incorporating any of those foods yet. I know the thread had a bunch of smoothies recipes in the latter pages. Any reason those didn't work for you? What protein…

The flowchart has been stickied for a while. I think the infographics thread has been nominated but hasn't reached sticky status yet. You'd have to check the nominations thread to be sure.

Did the OP ever come back to clarify what kind of fasting she was interested in? There are so many kinds and I'd hate to overwhelm anyone with advice that doesn't match their specific needs.

If you really would prefer shakes to food then maybe something like Soylent is your answer? Have you looked into any of them? If you're leaving and don't want any more advice, then fair enough. Best of luck with whatever you choose!

If you're certain you've been in a calorie deficit for three years straight with no compliance issues then it's past time to get checked out by a doc. If you have 3 years of solid logging then that should help. Print it all out to take in with you. Otherwise, it's tough to give suggestions with a closed diary and not many…

These are the things I wish someone had told me when I stalled out for 8 weeks: 1. If it's been less than 3 weeks or so, don't sweat it! Normal fluctuations happen and unfortunately sometimes we stall for a week or two even when we're doing everything right. 2. If you aren't already, be sure that you're logging everything.…

Strength training can be done without any weights. Look into You Are Your Own Gym or Convict Conditioning or other body weight programs.

Are you within a healthy weight range already? The last few pounds are hard and sometimes the right choice is to rethink your goals and look at something like recomp. If you've been stalled for over 6 months and don't want to recomp, I'd look at logging and adherence first. You'be chosen to keep your diary closed so it's…

http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/

For meat, I look for an entry that specifies it matches the condition I weighed my meat in. Preferably one that matches the form of cooking I used. For instance: "chicken breast, raw" or "chicken breast, grilled" or "chicken breast, baked" etc. For prepared foods I made myself, like omelets, I list the ingredients I used…

Ignore the people pushing orthorexia or trying to keep you from eating foods you like. A cheeseburger or sushi now and again won't kill you and they can certainly be included in a healthy and balanced diet. It is really over the top to compare them to cigarettes or a diet of nothing by Twinkies or whatever.

I'm not comfortable with the comparison between eating foods that aren't traditionally considered "healthy" and cigarettes. Cigarettes are a class 1 carcinogen with a host of known side-effects backed by causative studies. Unless you're comparing cigarettes and a diet of bacon every day, I don't see the correlation between…

Another question to ask is whether or not you've taken a proper diet break in this process. Losing over 200 pounds is an amazing achievement and if you haven't yet, it might be a good idea to take a few weeks at maintenance to let everything balance back out before diving back in.

You've chosen to keep your diary closed to us, so we're all sort of floundering to guess what might be going on. If you're willing to open your diary for a bit, it might help. Otherwise these would be my generic tips: 1. If you aren't already, be sure that you're logging everything. Sometimes people forget about things…