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This does not look right to me. How do you have 2 mins of exercise, but 10k steps? Walking at a minimal pace counts towards exercise? Are you manually inputting workouts?

I’ve had problem sleeping for many, many years. I take Ambien regularly. I’ve tried many times to get off it using melatonin, 5HTP, tryptophan, Valerian root, sleepytime tea. Nothing really works. Maintaining a regular schedule helps, no eating a few hours before bed helps, limiting liquids after 7 helps, no tv or iPad…

Cronometer works great with Apple Health. Also, it’s food data base is cleaner.

You don’t HAVE to eat all the calories if you’re not hungry. Eat until you’re satisfied and maintain good energy.

I’m always the contrarian on this topic. I would start by eating ALL of your exercise calories back and start your lifting program. If you are feeling good and building strength and not hungry, keep doing what you’re doing. If not, add calories until you do. Your weight loss will slow down, so if you have momentum, keep it…

Hard boiled eggs = bad

Try it. What’s the worst that could happen?

I only eat white Smarties, but I don’t expect the candy hander-outers to separate them for me.

FYI - you don’t HAVE to use oil to roast vegetables. Low and slow on parchment works great without the added calories,

You look fantastic. Hope you’ll join us over on the maintainers thread shortly.

I also vote that MFP should let you clear out your food diary and start over once you’ve maintained for a year. It still pops up stuff like chocolate cake when I add broccoli, or peanut butter when I add bread. Would love to clear the cache of all the crap food and have a fresh and shiny diary.

OP- I’m the same exact height and weight as you, and for the record 135 is shown the be the “ideal” weight for us. That being said, I prefer 125 and am working to get back to that. I burn about 700 kcal per day through exercise and lose consistently eating 1800 net. Binges are the one thing that get me off track. Not only…

Nice job! Seems like losing an 1” in one year is a lot, guessing one year or another (or both) was a bit off. Shoes, no shoes? Less hair on top?

Not Keto but I had bacon once. Even tried bulletproof coffee. And here I am.

Put walking time on your calendar and stick to it. Even just 15 mins every few hours to and 30 mins at lunch. Take calls via headset while walking. If you need something from a co/worker, get up and go to their office. Take the longest route to water/kitchen/bathroom.

If you’re a research geek like me, google Lyle McDonald, he’s the leading authority on the topic. https://www.bodyrecomposition.com

I’d pick a way of eating you can stick with for a very long time and focus on whole, unprocessed foods to reverse your diabetes. Personally, I eat plants. Lots of them.

Blew the top off with this one. Salted caramel pumpkin pie

Beans are my go-to

Have you used the workout setting on the watch yet? I use it for things other than walking, where it can’t calculate steps. Like Pilates, lifting, calisthenics.

Congratulations and welcome. One thing o encountered..... when upping my calories, I add in some foods that I might have abstained from during my cut. I think the diversity liggts up my taste buds and I want more and more. I’m not hungry per se, just want to eat.

Ok. Maybe hamburger helper was a bad example. And it is delicious. Neither of my parents had time to cook and I was left to my own devices. Typically frozen pizza, TV dinners, spaghetti-o’s (my fave). So I never learned about cooking or nutrition. College thru my 40’s because of time or money I lived on fast food.…

Need a whole bottle of Mrs Butterworths to get that down.

Our nutrition education in the US leaves a lot to be desired. Many of us latch key kids grew up on hamburger helper, and didn’t learn to cook or eat properly, So the cycle continues. It’s downright dangerous.

Insert sound of needle skipping off record. Weight loss....on a cruise ship? That’s a complete oxymoron.

Then stay where you are!

Walk, stretch and foam roll.

Are you a new Apple Watch user? AW and MFP don’t play too well together. If you are primarily walking for exercise, you don’t need to use the workout feature on the watch, just let it log the steps and Port it over to MFP. Do eat back some or all of the extra calories it gives you. If you do workouts outside of walking,…

Stop drinking to the point of hangover and get wet.

First of all great job on ALL your accomplishments. I also gave up drinking for my health and still crave sugar. Good call to make a note of when it happens and specifically what you’ve eaten that day. Might be a simple thing like tweaking macros. Or could be that you just don’t react well to a specific food. You’re on the…