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" I researched reasons why I would be hungry - upped my water intake with electrolytes significantly, made sure I was getting enough fiber and protein, not filing in calories with junk - still hungry! I" That seems to be missing the main cause of hunger - eating too little. Most of the strategies to cope with hunger when…

Welcome to MFP - a few questions..... How are you implementing your carb manipulation days / carb cycling? Is this for sport / exercise or some other reason? Is it the low days or the high days you are most concerned with tracking closely?

You need to put it in context of your entire diet rather than look at items in isolation.

I'm guessing you are not making a true comparison there. 1900-2000 on a TDEE calculator to maintain weight already includes an average of your weekly exercise. In your goals set up set MFP to "maintain current weight" - that will give you a weight maintenance estimate for a day with no purposeful exercise. I'm guessing…

Here is a link to a very informative guide to macros in plain English. https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/819055/setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets/p1 But do agree with above poster you don't need to do or understand everything all at once - calories are king for weight loss! Keeping it simple has a lot…

You need to use more words! No-one knows which platform you are trying to use or which parts of the site/app you are trying to navigate.

Remember no-one knows anything about you so if you want personalised advice you need to tell people about yourself and your situation. Have you found the Help section? Here's the using the app guide. https://support.myfitnesspal.com/hc/en-us/categories/360001951372-Using-the-App Put a decent amount of thought into choosing…

There are "must read" sticky threads pinned to the top of each forum. If you go to the Gaining Weight and Bodybuilding forum you will find a beginner's guide to bulking.

You need to explain what "better" means to you, people train for different goals and your exercise should align with those goals.

Nope to the bolded. Getting to the "fat burning zone" quickly or not is a function of exercise intensity and not if you have just eaten or not. Remember it's not glycogen first and fat second it's both fuels being used at the same time 99.9% of the time. The proportion of fat to glycogen being used during is also…

Use your recent food intake and weight loss data and not what is a pretty basic TDEE calculator for a decent initial stab at maintenance calories.

Normally daily but today three times! First thing in he morning (OK second thing...) lets me keep an eye on my weight trend and it's the trend that gives context rather than individual data points. Today I was a couple of pounds up which puts me mid-point of my maintenance range but that 2lbs was most likely due to a salty…

Is it normal that digital scales show more weight than a regular, old fashioned one? Domestic bathroom scales are not scientific instruments - it's normal for two scales to be different whether they are old-fashioned mechanical ones or digital but with a higher probability that digital will on average be more accurate. I…

"I know excessive cardio can burn muscle mass" No that's a horrible myth. An inadequate diet and an excessive deficit can mean muscle has to be used for fuel but that's a last resort. It's a very good reason not to rush your weight loss.

It wouldn't be my answer but I did suspect that you really crave consistency. Of course this time next year it will only matter that you got to goal and maintained there, it really won't matter if you lost in a series of stalls and whooshes or a nice regular pattern. BTW - my wife had a very sudden menopause 30 years ago…

What platform are you using? Here's what a (pretend) meal looks like in the browser version....

"I want to be able to see my macro breakdown per meal." But you can log all the foods in your meal and see the macro totals of that meal with the free version. It won't give you a percentage but not seeing why that matters as managing macros by percentages isn't a great idea anyway. Had a free trial of Premium and didn't…

"1000-1200 calories a day" No wonder you are struggling! Perhaps if you picked a far more reasonable eating goal you wouldn't make the process so hard? Doesn't it strike you as concerning that this site will not give you a goal below 1200cals per day plus exercise calories but you are choosing to significantly undercut…

" Is it possible I need to up my caloric intake? " Yes! Your weight loss is out of line with what you think your actual deficit is. Maybe you picked the wrong activity level, maybe you haven't been accounting for your exercise calories, maybe you simply diverge significantly from average. " It was working before without…

OK thanks that's much clearer, wasn't seeing that timeline. Just about halfway to goal in five weeks. Your recent resumption of strength training could well be responsible for some soreness/inflammation and resulting water weight retention/addition masking fat loss on the scales. If you are confident you are in a deficit…

So are you saying you have lost 4 - 5 pounds total in three weeks while aiming for a just over 1lb/week weight loss goal?

That big number on your home page (browser version) that says "calories remaining" - that is the number of calories available to eat to meet your daily calorie goal. The big number that says xxxx remaining on the home page of your Android app - ditto. Assume it's the same on iOS too. No interpretation is really required,…

"However, my triglycerides have been slightly high for a few years, and nothing seems to change the number. I need to lose weight." It may not be the whole solution but it's very clear you have a major risk factor to address and one you can and should address for your overall health and not just your triglyceride numbers.…

Your weight doesn't just fluctuate when losing weight, it's fluctuates all the time - it's normal and should be expected. The majority of your body is water and all sorts of factors affect it day to day. What does the "some time" that your weight hasn't been trending down actually mean? A timeline and some context about…

@Gymladmatt Yes, not just possible, really quite normal for the general population. People in gyms have been simply "getting in shape" for generations long before it got called recomp. It's really not at all remarkable assuming you aren't:* Very highly trained and near your genetic peak. * Already very lean. (Which is why…

Your solution is exactly what I would do. I actually preferred not to link my Strava account as it seemed to cause more problems and didn't work out to be any more convenient than just adding my exercise myself directly into here. BTW - I found Strava's calorie estimates for walking dreadfully generous. I use the net…

Gave up cycling age 16 when my bike had to be sold to help fund the purchase of a motorbike. Short break of 37 years (!) but then bought myself an urban hybrid primarily for fitness. Dabbled in some longer distance charity events and one I did in memory of my Mum got me into road bikes when a friend persuaded me riding a…

What I was asking was what makes you decide it's time to do the same exercise but increase to 6kg, 8kg or whatever. One of the foundations for increasing strength and muscle mass is progressive overload. Doing the same exercise with a weight that doesn't stress you doesn't achieve much at all. 2kg - about the size of a…

Your dumbbells are very light for someone who has been training consistently - what is your trigger or prompt for increasing the weights used in your lifts?

"Eating more kind of seems crazy." Maths is all about logic - you need to take the emotion out of your eating goal. "Was it difficult to increase calories?" Not at all, I like food. I lost at 1lb a week so when I hit my goal I simply bumped my weekly calories up by 3500, eventually needed to eat more than that to maintain.…