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How have you controlled what you are eating? You have 471 calories logged for yesterday, nothing for Tuesday, 685 for Monday. Something else I can see is that your coffee's calories is wrong - two spoons of sugar and 2% milk and a cup comes to 13 calories? This is clearly wrong!! A spoon of sugar alone is more than that.…

I log EVERYTHING and weigh just about everything. Things I don't weigh/measure: my morning coffee (I checked it a few times and the way I like it is actually a few calories less than the one I use), some fruit if I feel a bit lazy (I know, a big banana can be significantly different to a small banana) and lately, things…

Well you don't seem to be sure if this is related either. I'm trying to be helpful here and show you how your response has probably caused much of this, because even another response, you say "it's just a headache, not exactly life-threatening" or something to that effect. If you want your husband to take this seriously, I…

+1. That and the fact that the parents are setting their kids up to be overweight they grow older because they love the over-processed, convenient food where you don't even have to get out your car to get. Then the kids will grow up and blame all their weight problems on genetics. First time I had McDonalds, I was 17 and I…

The topic seems wrong? It should be "A diet where you will either die of starvation or boredom".

Apologies if this comes across as rude, but I've seen this now way too many times to keep quiet: In six weeks time, you'll be on here complaining about a plateau, not understanding what caused it and go "but I cut my calories and I've been losing all this time, so it can't be that, it must be something else". Of course you…

Fully agree with that statement. I'm a male, less than an inches taller and slightly younger and my current NET calories is 1990, however, I eat back pretty much all of my exercise calories, so I eat around 2200 to 2400 a day and I am consistently losing weight. I've had no problems with plateaus or low energy and I pretty…

How much do you have to lose? Have you done any body fat calculations? If you don't have anything to lose or very little, then it won't budge. You really should look at increasing your calories to just below TDEE - you don't want to permanently slow down your metabolism!

Probably or definitely? Also, your symptoms don't sound like a wheat allergy, rather a wheat intolerance.

Not sure if you will read this, but this is my take on things: 1. Change your mindset - this isn't a diet, it's a lifestyle change. That's why I haven't done things too drastically, because it is something that has to fit in with the way that I do things. Diets are things people do for a limited time and when it's over,…

I think the biggest problem is convenience and living in a big city, I think I'll probably always have to use MFP or at least just be mindful of what I'm eating. I could always eat whatever I wanted without picking up any weight. But, there's a catch. Until I started picking up weight, fast food and takeaways wasn't…

your stats: age. height. starting weight and current weight. goal weight. how long you've been on your diet. rating of self-esteem: on a scale of one to ten, where was your self-esteem before you started your journey? on that same scale, where are you now or has it not changed? AGE: 29yo male HEIGHT: 180cm STARTING WEIGHT:…

As someone else also said, consistency is the key. How consistently do you stick to these calories and how truthful are you to yourself about it? I went for years, not understanding why I was getting fatter and fatter, when I was being diligent, made the healthy choices, yet my weight just went up and up. (And this was…

I'm 5'11 and my goal was a healthy BMI - I reached that about a month or so ago. Now it's to get down some more so to really "cement it in". My initial weight-loss goal was to get down to 172 lbs (from 200 lbs) and now that I'm "here" and all's well, my next goal is to get down to 158 lbs. My daily calorie goal is 1990 a…

You are eating a bit below your BMR and even when you adjusted your calories up, it was only to BMR level. Are you eating back the exercise calories? You should try upping your calories to somewhere between BMR and TDEE and preferably closer to TDEE if you don't eat back your exercise. I have been worried about increasing…

As you are nearing your goal, you should also consider increasing your calories (and decreasing your expected weight loss).

Exactly - how much body fat do you have to lose? Don't let the number on the scale rule your life, look at your body and how it responds. The number MFP gives you assumes that you still have loads of fat to burn, it doesn't take into account whether you are building muscle or any other factors other than a generic equation.

You should eat more. With any diet, the first few day is when you lose the most (and also the reason why people incorrectly think that after that they can weigh themselves every day and see results). Weight-loss will slow down as you progress, but as long as you're losing the weight then that's fine. Otherwise you are only…

I always say to myself how much better my results will look next week once everything evens out - that's of course if you stick with it!!

Agreed, you should eat some of it back - maybe not exactly all, because MFP can be inaccurate with estimating calorie burn, but I would definitely not exercise and not replace some of the lost energy. The fact is, your body needs energy to burn energy and it's easier to get some sources of energy than others. Think about…

I weigh everything religiously, except lately I haven't been weighing bananas, because it's a bit messy peeling it first and then weighing it. Other than that, I weigh EVERYTHING. Even the oil that goes into my wok for stir-fries (if I use). EVERYTHING gets weighed exactly. If I make 81g of rice, it gets logged at 81g, not…

If your body fat % is low to start off with, you can't burn fat that you don't have, so make sure that your goals are realistic. Rather than focusing on a number on the scale, maybe do measurements, decide if you want to tone somewhere etc. Also, your calorie intake seems really, really low - your body needs energy to fuel…

It's just a week. There are so many external factors that could influence weight that I think you are being completely unrealistic basing your experience on a single week. Do four weeks and then make up your mind whether or not it's good or bad and whether or not it works. Personally, I would NEVER go on a low carb diet -…

It takes some time. I didn't see physical changes until I hit around 10lbs (but then I'm a guy). There's also things like visceral fat and other things which could make a difference. Also depends on how much you have to lose - if your body fat % is low to start off with and you have an unrealistic goal, it might be that…

In addition to one of these: Could also be down to timing of weigh-ins or dehydration at initial weigh-in.

So what's the point of this?

I'm sure it would. It just takes whatever comes from food labels and on food labels, fibre is included in the total carbohydrate count. So same thing if you had sugar showing, it would show in sugar as well as be included in your total carb count. (So it just shows you how much of the carbs you are taking in is sugar or…

Oh so it's too much fruit that made me fat. Not too much bacon, not too much pasta, not too much bread, not too much wine, not too much beer, not too many burgers. It was that stupid fruit I had... I wish I knew this secret before and I would have just stopped eating fruit!!

I suspect the junk food eaters (not the ones who go to the extreme) will probably have better results in the long term as it's easier to maintain in the long term. For most of my weight loss, I had wine and chocolates throughout (only in the last few days I decided to calm it a bit as I'm upping my calories). It's what GOT…

Wow!!! What an amazing transformation! Congratulations.