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Week 9 check in : Fitbit TDEE: 2505 EM2WL Moderate TDEE: 2501 MFP Base: 2240 MFP TDEE (With exercise): 22477 Daily goal last week: 2550 Actual Calories eaten avg per day:2537 Starting Weight: 197.8 Last week 203.4 Today's weight 205.4 (Should be valid - may show monthly water weight gain). I do have inches around stomach…

Thanks Firefly :) I do actually have to have the surgery, but its only a 4 week recovery so that isn't too bad.

I think that eventually once she shes your more healthy - losing inches and eating so much food she may ask how you do it. Personally I just enjoy eating the food I like, while other around me stare and wonder hehe. I am dreading my first cut - which probably means its really close to time to do it LOL. (and HAHA Short…

Makes sense - ugh though, less calories! I am enjoying my food, hehe. I will know for sure tomorrow after some tests.

I've been teetering there for a few months now - can't wait to feel that - CONGRATS!!! Great job!

My weight is still going up... Cutting the TDEE goal a little more to about 2400 a day since Trendweight says I am 150 over my daily calories. On a different note - I may be facing some female surgery coming up soon and it terrifies me :( I don't want to be banned from working out for 6-8 weeks, which is what I hear will…

Plain Greek yogurt with some milk (to thin it out), protein powder and fresh fruit. I make it the night before and add the fruit before I leave. It tastes a lot like chocolate mousse when it sits overnight.

Actually the 1600 cal for maintenance seems a bit low for your height and activity range. But otherwise the plan sounds good. Might want to see what your actual TDEE is and plan maintenance from there: https://tdeecalculator.net/ or http://eatmore2weighless.com/weight-loss-calculator/ You would be moderate activity or…

Eat more protein. I was eating way to much sugar until I upped my protein to 30% - now I find that I can still eat sugar but I can stop and/or pass it up a lot easier. I also discovered that I don't go rooting through the cupboards for sweets anymore which was a common practice for me before. It was an eye opener for me…

Week 8 check in : Fitbit TDEE: 2503 EM2WL Moderate TDEE: 2501 MFP Base: 2240 MFP TDEE (With exercise): 2575 Daily goal last week: 2550 Actual Calories eaten avg per day:2650 - Estimated - didn't track well (or at all) for 3 days.. Had a couple of really intense workout days which should have burned off most of the extra…

Female 5'8" Highest (non-pregnant): 225 Lowest (adult weight): 170 Current: 200 Goal: 171

Welcome Penny and Josie!

I actually do that during the week - time to put it into play on the weekends too!

Those are some darn good ideas. Back to eating stuff I love but not the extra stuff. I tend to even eat stuff thats not that great if it is sitting there LOL.

Wow that is wonderful :) I am up about 7 lbs with no size changes - I would rather be up 6 and buttoning my skinny jeans!! :D Congrats!

I am already adjusting the weekdays to cover the weekends - which is why it will be torture once I decide to actually cut LOL. Lately it has been eating out and holidays and birthdays with my favorite goodies. Some from having fun - some from walking by the goodies too many times, or just wanting to try everything. All the…

I am worried that when I actually cut, it's going to be rough because I tend to REALLY over do it on the weekends lately. I need to figure out a way to get that under control. Planning doesn't seem to help much, I always break the plans.

That makes the idea of cutting seem much less agonizing LOL. Right now the thought of going back to lower calories seems terrible. But some days cut, some days at TDEE, I can do that in fact I did this past week and it wasn't terrible! What that would really involve is cutting out the days I go over TDEE and keeping the…

I had that same issue when I started out - some weeks busy some weeks not. I actually plugged a sedentary number into facebook, added in my exercise calories and compared that with my fitbit one numbers, the 2 numbers were really close. For finding my TDEE I started with the Fitbit number, but it turned out to be too low…

Week 7 check in (Wow has it really been that long!): Fitbit TDEE: 2457 EM2WL Moderate TDEE: 2501 MFP Base: 2240 MFP TDEE (With exercise): 2562 Daily goal last week: 2550 Actual Calories eaten avg per day:2540 - YAY finally hit my goal and my macros were right on track all but Sat and Sunday. Starting Weight: 197.8 Last…

I have spent the past 6 weeks trying to find what I really burn only to see that the Fitbit numbers are REALLY close if I accurately account for my workouts (fitbit workout numbers seem to be closer for me). I am 5'8 as well and moderately active and about 55 lbs heavier and 30+ years older than you and my TDEE is about…

Welcome Kylie! Read the pinned posts for getting started - that will help a lot! I also visited the EM2WL website and got more information and a really great TDEE calculator there. Kelly

I am actually adrenal insufficient - so my cortisol levels don't go up, I just crash with no energy. I have to supplement to even get them to adequate. :) I do stress dose a little bit to keep from winding up in bed, but just enough to bring me up to my normal level, not enough to cause the weight gain I have been seeing…

I am guessing MFP is pretty much right on that my daily regular burn is around 2250 so I actually start my diary there and then add in exercise, it does work out really well once I average it out for the week. I am just happy that I can eat over 2000 calories a day when I was trying before to stay at 1600-1700. No wonder I…

That's a really great idea - think of it as weekly instead of daily.

Seemed really low to me, so I plugged you into a couple of different TDEE calculators. At moderate (3-5 hours working out per week) They have you at 1900-2000 for maintenance. I would go up 50 cals a week and see how you do - keeping protein 20-30%. You can probably go higher and see some increases in your lifting as well…

Unrelated topic... Why on earth do I read the general forums - the advice people give to those struggling is so bad "Eat less" "You must be cheating or not logging right or not working out hard enough" " You are an adult you need to just stop eating" etc... It all seems to be so mean and judgmental, and wrong. I love this…

I was like that a lot for a couple of weeks until I hit my TDEE.

Thank you!

I like daily weight-ins, but I have to balance them with measurements or I start to freak out when they go up (as they have been for the past couple of weeks). I am doing really good with this philosophy of eating to fuel - though I have gained weight, I did not resort to cutting or overeating. I simply note that next week…