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digital food scale! put everything on it. this morning i weighed my banana and peanut butter. tonight i weighed my beef right at 4 ounces before cooking it (burger).

I’d be careful about trusting the calorie burn posted on the machine. Today a treadmill told me my walk burned 140 calories but my watch said 63! Just a thought. I only say that because 700 calories in under an hour sounds like a lot!

I ignore macros and just aim for balanced intake - veggies, fruits, carbs, fats, proteins - without tracking those percentages

Skip workouts on busy weeks. But pre plan your food and even cook it ahead of time, portioned into baggies and tupperware, so you can keep your calories under control

Cook two meals on Sunday afternoons. Portion them out to be your dinners during the week. Then you can just microwave.

It’s a random estimate. For each of us it doesn’t just depend on accuracy of logging but also body composition and other things inside our body that make the number on the scale fluctuate. These things it cannot know. I ignore those estimates.

I will either do a biscuit with a morning star piece of “sausage” and cheese or a whole wheat waffle with peanut butter and banana.

grab that digital food scale!

We all retain water. We all have things in our body besides fat that changes the number on the scale because these things fluctuate. Sounds to me like you are weighing yourself too often — if you’re getting upset by the number not changing constantly?

How long have you been trying to lose 7 lb?

can you clarify why are you asking “do i need to lose more calories to lose more weight?” how long have you had your 1200 calorie goal and how effective has it been?

i think this will pan out over time. there’s a lot of psychology at play here too regarding your DESIRE to eat less.

I try to eat more at maintenance in winter to allow for comfort foods

1000 calorie limit with a 1.5 hr walk is already setting yourself up to fail and overeat!

You're concerned that you didn't gain in a period of three days?

When I need to cut, it takes about 2 weeks to adjust. If you're still starving at that point, I would add some calories back and see if you can still lose while eating a little more.

Are you sure that 100-200 over will mess up your progress? Or are you assuming? It depends on how early in the game it is. Wait 6-8 weeks before despairing. You may still make progress, just at a tiny bit slower rate than you could have.

Sounds like you need some new hobbies! Too much time on your hands.

Try planning your whole days food by the time you finish breakfast. Maybe the night before. Don’t make food decisions throughout the day when you are hungry. Make them ahead of time so you already know what is for lunch, dinner, snacks. Then no need to be impulsive.

What if you gave yourself 1-2 days a week to eat at maintenance and eat at a deficit the other days? Could ease you into success with fewer days way over.

It works for me to pick the setting worded closest to “sedentary” then track my walks on my Apple watch. It syncs calories burned to MFP if you connect them in settings. Of course plenty of people will say it’s not an accurate read, you shouldn’t always eat back exercise calories, etc. Hasn’t been an issue for me. If it…

Weight loss is not linear because so many “things in our body” have weight. (Water, waste, etc). You will see little spikes and dips. As long as it keeps trending down, you’re great. This is perfectly normal. It doesn’t mean you gained fat. It means something else in your body that “has weight” is up a little. Don’t look…

I say this because it has helped me tremendously. I got to 128 then moved from 1350 calories to 1500 calories. This is just about 100 calories under what I thought my maintenance was. I ate at this level for a month and enjoyed being able to eat more. Then checked my weight again. I actually kept losing, so I am enjoying…

If it was me, I would eat at maintenance for a few months and practice staying the same size before jumping back in.

what if you don’t use a timer in MFP and just enter what you eat within the window you allow for yourself?

agree with all these people. eat at maintenance and lift.

nice account name.

no phone / computer two hours before bed and no looking at a screen when you wake up in the middle of the night

That’s tough. I have a tear in my hip that according to orthos is “probably not” causing some of my chronic pain. So we are leaving it alone. I had to learn with both PT and ortho input regarding what was strengthening vs worsening. In the end my ortho wanted PT to stop certain standard exercises and pivot to others. I…

Got it. What does your maintenance seem to be based on your tracking?