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Me too. All of the above. IF also changed my reaction to hunger. I used to feel an urgent need to eat as soon as my stomach rumbled and it would distract me from the task at hand. Now I just note it and resume the task until it becomes more convenient to stop and eat. I note, though, that some can't and shouldn't try to do…

Just thinking about weighing a full pot of food... Couldn't you weigh it on your bathroom scale if it's too heavy for a kitchen scale? Would that be too gross?

I have the Charge HR synced with MFP. The calorie burn seems to be about dead on based on my rate of loss.

OP, I read your whole post but I went back to your first paragraph about the emotional eating. Each of us has had a different path to becoming overweight. I believe that our unique path holds the clue for solving our problem. I'm an emotional / stress eater too. That's the thing that led me to obesity. I know that it…

I can tell you that just what you describe worked very well for my husband. He ate a low carb breakfast and lunch then a normal balanced dinner that included starchy carbs. He did not keep track of his calorie intake, but obviously he managed to eat at a deficit and was not bothered by hunger. I know this must be…

After watching the Olympic cycling last weekend, I was inspired to take my own bike out to the trail for a ride. I started out normally, then picked the pace way way up. Ten miles out I was ready to puke and I still had to ride 10 miserable miles back to the car. I had intended a 30 mile ride, only did 20 and was sick the…

I ban in my head the foods I consider to be disappointing in some way. My calories are precious and I only spend them on foods that please me and that are served in a place that pleases me. So banned are "diet" foods and drinks and sugar or fat free anything. Fast food is banned except in desperation because the food isn't…

I've noticed that with bicycling too. Do you have an explain or theory about that? Cycling is the only exercise I really like to do, but it's to the point that I sort of dread seeing the water weight gain and the days it takes to lose it. But that's just in my head...I still ride as much as I can.

For most people, scale weight is the main thing they are interested in. But a long while back in one of these forum topics, a woman mentioned that she uses "test shorts" to gauge her progress. Periodically she would get out the test shorts and try them on. I loved that idea because I have shorts that are too small in every…

As of this morning (Wednesday), I was up a pound and a half from yesterday. Obviously it's fluid retention based on what I ate. But when I looked back to last Wednesday's weight, it was the same as today. If Wednesdays were my weekly weigh in day, it would look like I had lost nothing. But if I looked back a week from…

I log my weight daily in fitbit because I prefer the way the loss history is displayed there. I allow it to transfer the data to MFP. The only problem I have with this is when my weight fluctuates day to day, my friends see only the drops and don't realize, for example, that of today's loss, only a quarter pound of it is…

You're losing weight at a faster rate than is typically considered healthy around here. If you are morbidly obese and need to get weight off fast, then follow your doctor's orders. Otherwise, yes I think it would benefit you in the long run to eat more.

I'm one of those that was fortunate to be slim throughout my youth and young adulthood. After the age of 30 I began to gain very slowly, maybe 2.5 lbs a year. Hardly noticeable. Now at the age of 61 I find myself 75 lbs overweight. How could I have let that happen?

I weigh every day too and my weight is down then up then down again with no seeming logic. Rather than get disappointed by a weight increase on any given day, I look at the average of my daily weights at the end of each week. It's a better indication of the trend. I changed to daily weighing from weekly because of this…

It seems that hunger is a highly individual feeling. Just as pain is. For myself, between meal hunger is something I can just ignore unless it occurs on top of other stress. Some people's blood sugar issues make them have to address hunger without delay, though. Consider whether your calorie deficit is appropriate for you.…

I believe you are correct about needing all those few 1200 calories to be nutritious for optimum health. Maybe 1200 calories isn't even enough to get the best possible nutrition. What I question is how necessary it is to be optimal in all things all the time. I think our bodies are pretty resilient and can tolerate less…

I have a friend who had retired a year or so before her husband, but returned to work after he retired to preserve her marriage and sanity.

Also hanging on by my teeth! I just had a "crying in the dressing room" experience while unsuccessfully trying to find workout pants. Rather than sensably resolve myself to even greater efforts to lose weight, I drowned my sorrows with an ice cream bar. What was I thinking? I'm falling off!

I don't set aside calories for treats. I don't feel like I need a reward for suffering through a diet all day because I'm not suffering. I feel like if I have to restrict calories, then each calorie is precious and needs to be super delicious. For example, I'm not going to have a salad for lunch because I'm not a big fan…

I think some people regain weight previously lost because they revert back to old eating habits after they've finished losing weight or when difficult life events happen. This means that the new ways of eating that led to weight loss never became a natural habit. Their default setting remains the old way of eating. I…

I retired only two months ago. I'm still loving it. I had to leave a job I thought I loved, but only now do I realize how much it was sucking the life out of me. I have time to go to the gym or ride my bike every day. I had time to watch the full live broadcast of the Tour de France. I have time to prepare and eat proper…

I also live in Florida and if we waited for comfortable weather to exercise in, we would only get out maybe four months out of the year. However, I do my bicycling as early as possible in the day and only go for about two or three hours at the most and try to find the shadiest routes. I bring as much fluids as I can carry…

When I first got my fitbit I was surprised by how sedentary I was. The default goal of 10000 steps was so out of reach that it was actually demotivating. I can only break 5000 steps if I get purposeful exercise of at least 30 minutes a day, so I reset the goal to 5000 steps for now. What is most motivating for me is the…

Me too. My dream body is the one I had years ago. The sad thing is that I was so concerned about insignificant perceived flaws back then, that I didn't appreciate what I already had. To paraphrase Steven Stills: "If you can't be with the body you love, honey, love the one you're with."

Hah! My husband said to me that he would be ok with any reasonable surgery I might want after I reach my goal weight. I answered that I would like a breast reduction on one side for better symmetry. He, of course, suggested augmentation on the other side instead.

Eating my proper portion of food every day is just normal self care, not something extraordinary or praiseworthy. Like brushing my teeth. No reward is necessary. Motivation is the thing that gets you started working toward a goal. After that it's just persistence and discipline that keeps you going. How much do you want…

Do you find the difficulty to be with compliance? Or is it that you don't lose the amount you should, going by the numbers? I'm 61. My post menopausal self is a depressed insomniac who craves sweets. I'm taking medication that is helping me to stick to my eating plan. As long as I log consistently, I lose pretty much as…

I've been lurking here for the past couple of weeks. Very inspiring. Just when I needed it. Thank you.

Oh! Thanks for that. Much easier.

I also noticed that fitbit doesn't have a minimum calorie budget the way MFP does. When I set fitbit to lose 2 pounds per week, it gave me a target of around 875 calories, but MFP gave me 1200. That may be one reason why they show different amounts.