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This is the beauty of My Fitness Pal. It really opens your eyes to how much you are eating.

The Costco protein bars are pretty good with decent macros.

Not for weight loss but I take: Multi-vitamin Vitamin D Calcium Fish Oil Creatine

I have the opposite problem. My legs lose and lose and there is nothing left to them, but the belly fat is another story. If I stay in a deficit I fear my legs will disappear entirely :D But that stupid belly will still be there

2 pounds in 2 weeks is great progress! That's exactly where you should be. A 1 pound a week weight loss is perfect. Congrats!!!

One week is not nearly enough time. Give it at least 4-6 weeks and then reassess if you are weighing and logging your food correctly. If everything is 100% correct, then lower your calories by 100. Keep doing this until you start losing.

I just moved to maintenance for the week of Christmas/NYE and lost 2 pounds. I guess I wasn't at maintenance :D

You're quitting because you're eating in a way that isn't sustainable to your lifestyle. Stop looking for the next best diet. Eat what you want, weigh your food, log it and eat at the calorie limit My Fitness Pal gives you. Aim for .5-1lb of weight loss a week. It will be slow. It will be frustrating. But it will work to…

That is awesome! You should totally post this in the success group.

Do not count exercise. It's all about your job. Active would be a construction worker or a mail carrier who walks his route. Desk job would be sedentary

I eat 1650 calories a day and aim for 130g of protein. I eat: Chicken (lots and lots of chicken) Greek yogurt Babybells Protein bars Cottage cheese Protein pancakes (omg these are delicious!) Protein bagels (I use the 2 ingredient protein bagel recipe. Very good) Nuts Eggs (eggs and more eggs) I usually don't have much of…

[quote= Try to consume less carbs while increasing your protein consumption. A higher protein intake boots your metabolic rate, which can increase the number of calories you burn by 80-100 calories every day‼️😁👍🏾 [/quote] OH! And lower your carbs to anywhere from 20-50g per day.[/quote] Carbs have nothing to do with it…

For a solid year I tracked my weekly calories. Your body doesn't know the time of day and as long as you're still hitting your calories it doesn't matter

6 years and still going strong

Weighing daily will show your fluctuations and if you log in an app like Libra or Happy Scale you will see your progress. Weighing daily or monthly will not give you the information you need to determine if what you are doing is working. The scale is just one tool in a whole tool bag of things you should be using to track…

I've had my thyroid removed--so hypo too. As long as your meds are right, then losing weight is no easier or harder than anyone else. Weigh your food, count your calories, log correctly and you'll be good.

I so wish you could burn belly fat! It's the last to go on me. Always.

I've been on the macros bandwagon for two years and love it. It has become a part of my life now. I wouldn't want to eat any other way. Good for you for hitting your macros!

I would weigh all of the ingredients and put it in the recipe builder

Every day. Sometimes twice a day. I log it and make sure I am hitting my calories. If I can't hit my calories with it, I don't eat it and that is a very sad day for me :(

No pictures but here is a list: Babybell Protein bar Greek yogurt (sometimes with granola depending on my calories for the day) Nuts apples banana But honestly, I will eat anything if it fits in my macros. Lately, I've had a Ghiradelli brownie each night

OP, if you're eating your calories back, I would eat at the most half of those back.

Might I suggest going to the gym? It's unbelievable how many people suffering from depression, etc have benefited from the gym. Also, are you eating too little? A lot of people binge when they eat too little. Set your weight loss at .5-1lb lost per week. It will be slower, but at least you'll have more food and won't crash…

Cincinnati here - but don't do Keto either :)

As an avid gym-goer, I never look at others around me and never judge them. I'm too busy doing my own thing. And I have never seen anyone ridiculed for being at the gym. If you're there, then I commend you for working on yourself. If you're stuck or have a question, I'm more than happy to help. Most of us are like that. We…

Good luck! I've been here 6 years, lost the weight and am now into weightlifting and shaping my body with the right food and weights. My suggestion is to not give up on yourself. Get rid of unrealistic expectations, like losing the weight quickly. Don't quit if you don't see progress right away. Get back up, dust yourself…

Just throwing this out there. Keto is very strict. Macros is much more flexible. If you couldn't stick to macros why do you think you'll stick to Keto? I'm just curious. You don't have to eat to your macros. Macros just ensures you are getting the correct amount of protein (for muscle maintenance), fat (for hormone…

I used to be a hard core night person. Then I started waking up at 5:30am to go to the gym. That was four years ago. I get up at 5:30 3 days a week, 7am, two days a week and on weekends I get up whenever I feel like it (usually 9:30-10:30am). I don't feel I needed to "train" anything. I just did it and eventually it became…

Did you gain 30 pounds fast? No. Then you won't lose it fast. If you do, you will lose muscle mass, you will probably not get the nutrients you need, you will probably feel tired all the time and you could start losing your hair (due to loss of nutrients). There is also a very, very good chance you will gain it all back…

I read somewhere that diet is the driver and exercise the passenger :)