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I just use a pen and paper if I need to remember numbers to put in the app later.

I’ve always done pasta as dry / raw on a digital food scale but rice as cooked in a measuring cup and it has worked out fine for me.

Oh my! What resources did you use to find out about your allergies? Any specific tests?

Lots of things inside our body “have weight” - and its weight that shifts up and down. Just keep in mind that some of what happens on the scale has nothing to do with amount of fat.

Today’s a banana with peanut butter. Coffee.

Try cutting all screens two hours before bed. No scrolling on phone, no computer.

Try planning your day early each morning! I like to decide ahead of time what all my meals and snacks will be and go ahead and log them into MFP while I drink my coffee. That way nothing is impulsive. You can also decide during breakfast whether exercise is realistic for that day, what you will do, and when. There’s…

Most people here will tell you that starvation mode isn’t real. What are your calorie goals set by MFP? Low carb is tricky since even fruit and veggies have carbs. Good luck!

more like a maintenance day

Patience patience!

What tools do you use to calculate calories? Are you eyeballing?

I’m 43 and maintain at 1600. I lose weight just fine at 1350! Just take it slow and try not to overthink the numbers. Take 200-250 off your maintenance and try it for two or three months. Then re-assess.

I like to eat only 3x because I get more full. Other people prefer to eat more often but a little less each time, more like grazing. Total personal preference.

my standard response is to buy and use a digital food scale. i weigh my bananas, cheese, peanut butter, raw sweet potato before i cook it etc etc

daily movement around the house and around town is related to ACTIVITY LEVEL setting. if you want to include your exercise in the activity level setting, just make sure you don’t double dip and ALSO record it as exercise for the day. i prefer to set myself to low activity level then record my intentional cardio movement as…

a digital food scale is the key to my success. i use it for almost everything - weighing raw sweet potato in grams, peanut butter, bananas, cheese, etc

What do you mean by continuously? Can you give us a list of dates and weights?

diet. get a digital food scale!

Another question that comes to mind is this: What does it look like to be a polite guest in someone else’s home? I believe that if we accept a dinner invitation, then we need to eat what the host is serving. I might would refrain from putting one of the dishes on my plate (like a macaroni or a giant roll or something) but…

I agree with the posters above. In addition, if bodies and food are a sources of tension between you, don’t eat together. Find other ways to spend time together besides meals.

When you calculate how many calories you have eaten, what tools are you using to get the right number?

^^yes this! you already gave the info you need. trust yourself.

It sounds like what you are doing isn’t working for you. Could you drop to 1500 calories but train yourself instead of using a coach? Then eat back SOME of the calories you burn each day (MFP will credit them back to you but calorie burns during exercise are often over estimated so some of us prefer to eat half back )

It takes practice! I’d celebrate a 30-60 day streak with ice cream out instead of 4 though. It’s soooo easy to undo our deficits when we reward ourselves with food!

Agree with previous response. We will always weigh a range and not a specific number. Sounds like you’re a little hyper fixated on a number that’s literally going to change every day anyways.

I can relate to the number that is your goal, although my friends don't bug me. I prefer 125-130, and even putting on five pounds makes my pants too tight and makes me feel fluffy. Do you have a lot of social activities that center around food? I do not, which is why my friends have no idea when I'm counting calories or…

i only weigh once a month! at the same time of the month hormonally.

That’s what I focus on too! If my work pants fit, we’re good. The scale really varies depending on age and muscle mass and water retention and hormone cycles. Different ages I’ve needed to be different weights in order to be the same general size.

pre log the whole weekend on saturday morning — or on friday

Are you asking if anyone has lost weight at what MFP calculates to be our maintenance calories? If so, I’m sure that has happened because these calculations are estimates / averages and: we’re not robots we are all going to be off by some estimating how many calories we burn each day and how many calories we eat. even our…