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Over the last 8 months, how many calories per day have you eaten (consistently) — or does it change all the time? How are you measuring that calorie count? Are you using a digital food scale? All signs point to you are not in a deficit. What are the rules for “how to eat while lifting” that you followed?

Sounds like enough complications that you should hire a personal trainer who knows a lot about your conditions!

if i am legitimately struggling and i haven’t been making a pattern of cheat days then i will simply eat at maintenance for the day. return to the plan the next day.

People add their recipes from home — MFP doesn’t add recipes. So if you cook specific dishes, add them in for yourself! Then you have pre logged all the ingredients so you don’t have to do it over and over

It’s really not necessary. Just reach your calorie goal that MFP gives you for weight loss. I would pay closer attention to macros once I was at a size I was happy with but wanted to start working on shape (adding muscle more intentionally, etc).

working on it. i was 153 and now 133. goal 125.

don’t get “all” the fruits and veggies each trip. for fruit you can decide “this week will be strawberries and grapes” and skip the bananas, etc until the next trip. same goes for veggies. buy a head of broccoli and a zucchini and let them last 4 dinners. the following week, switch to asparagus. it’s repetitive, but that’s…

you have posted about under eating a few times. i am assuming this is a new problem since you started counting calories? before you started you were either at maintenance or over eating, but since you started logging you can’t get yourself to eat the recommended amount?

there’s a lot more time left in the day for food…. edit: realized within about five seconds that people on MFP live all over the world 😬

I actually only weigh myself once a month and try to use the mirror and how my clothes are fitting otherwise

I have never been in a place to need to make that call. The people I have known who got a sleeve lost weight rapidly then put it all back on because they never learned to track their eating and have daily discipline / habits. It sounds like you are already working on that part though.

Did MFP give you the 1500 as a goal? I know everyone is different so I’m not making assumptions, but at 5’5” and 138 lb, because of my job that leads me to sitting quite a bit, my maintenance was actually 1600. So if you happen to have a lower maintenance like me, your deficit may be tiny.

i like to shred chicken in the crock pot and divide it between tupperware for lunches throughout the week. i also add black beans and have it with half an avocado (or a 100 calorie pack of guacamole). sometimes i will add half a cup of rice.

I keep counting calories when I reach maintenance. It simply doesn’t work for me to “trust my hunger cues.” I don’t love it but it’s fast when I go ahead and pre log my whole day in the morning or the night before.

When I need to get back into a deficit, I tend to feel more sluggish for about two weeks, then I adjust. Exercising to earn back more calories also helps!

There’s a difference between losing fat and simply dehydrating yourself, “losing” weight from food no longer in the digestive track, and putting yourself in a situation to lose muscle from severe under eating. How long are you wanting to “water fast?”

i eat out about once a month. what if you made larger meals but separated them into portions (tupperware) — then you can just eat the same thing for a few days before moving on to something else?

yes. if it’s just a little pour, i assume a tsp or half a tablespoon

Sometimes learning how to get your food tracking accurate and starting to commit to exercise simultaneously is too much at once. What if you spent some time feeling confident you are in a deficit first. Then — have you tried any apps or YouTube videos? You could look for exercise that is low impact (I am in good shape but…

The only tricky thing about smaller and smaller deficits is that we are all - in one way or another - inaccurate. So there’s less margin for error with an imperfect exercise burn estimate or imperfect meal estimate with a tiny deficit. Even when we log everything, things will be off. For example I know a slider bun by…

are you using a food scale and weighing what you do eat in ounces and grams?

here’s a piece of what i read, but i would love more details from other sources that provide math like this, even if it’s contradictory: According to the study, the lowest observed S6A concentration for genotoxicity—a type of genetic damage that is linked to cancer—was 707 micrograms per milliliter (µg/mL).2 Based on a…

If you study the full research on artificial sweeteners, you will realize you have to have like 25 servings per day (or something to that effect) to reach the potential risk. And the research never confirmed a link to humans. I will try to find the details. But I understand that we will hear about hundreds / thousands of…

1. are you trying to lose weight? is that why MFP gave you 1200? 2. how long do you estimate you have been eating at 800-900 cals? 3. have you been losing weight fairly rapidly? if so, then you may be right about how much you are eating. if not, perhaps you are underestimating your intake?

“understand the app” ?

1. digital food scale 2. free FitOn app for workouts. they have some that are 20 min which is a good start - can always add a second if you feel good

I would get closer to that goal, then decide! For some, maintaining that kind of cut is hard and not as rewarding as they thought so they are happier at 25 percent. For others it works!

I wonder if it’s more in the lungs from breathing heavily. Have you tried to keep your heart rate lower while exercising?