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I’m currently weighing in daily. Right now the scale is generally moving quite well as I have a lot of weight to lose. I think I’d like to keep weighing daily just for accountability unless seeing the scale as I’m further along when it slows down becomes disheartening. But I also take pictures and I haven’t yet but I plan…

Thanks everyone. I'm praying it's weight loss haha. I can try to put some weights on it and see what my scale says but I know not all scales are calibrated perfectly (especially after 2 house moves), so I may not be able to totally tell, but maybe if it's close that can give me some peace

I'm down 20 pounds and don't really notice much yet. A pair of yoga type pants that were quite tight before now do seem to fit better but that's about the only change I've seen/felt yet. But I have 50+ pounds to lose yet so that makes a difference. Where as if you only needed to lost 30 pounds total then you'd probably…

Thanks for the great tips everyone. Today is a lift day so I will practice it!

Do you think it's a big deal at the weights I am currently doing, or is it more of a big deal once I get to bigger weights?

Thanks everyone! I will keep in mind what everyone said, but glad it looks relatively good. My shoes are running shoes. Do you think that's impeding me?

Thanks! I'm naturally muscular but losing the fat around it and doing my weight lifting routine definitely helps!

No critiques or help?

You are doing a new workout. That can easily equal water retention in the muscles. Ignore the scale till you get home then once home see what the scale says in a week or 2. If it still says you're up then adjust from there.

Thanks I will look into them. Any other suggestions?

Depends on what you are going for. If you don't want to lose weight/body fat, at just increase strength and fitness then yes, you are progressing. If you want to lose weight/body fat, then no you aren't progressing in that capacity. But that's an easy fix. You just simply aren't in a calorie deficit, despite thinking that…

I have a standing job, but even when I try hard to walk as much as possible I'm lucky if I can get close to 1500 steps by the end of the work day. I only take as long of a lunch break as it takes to eat my food so I can't do a 30 min walk at lunch. So to make it to 10,000+ steps a day I have to do almost all of them after…

I often eat chocolate (regular chocolate) as a snack. At times I eat it everyday. As long as I'm under my cal goal I eat it if I want it.

Your burn would be more but I think 300+ cals more a day would be pretty extreme. Are you sure all your info is correct on fitbit?

Your Fitbit cal burn does seem high. Here are a few of my days on Fitbit with the steps and cal burns. I'm 5'4 and between 140-145lbs 21000 steps 2460 cals 11600 steps 2000 cals 15000 steps 2210 cals 10500 steps 1990 cals 26700 steps 2770 cals

No. The 'streak' is not about actually logging food. It means that you have logged onto Mfp everyday without skipping a day, whether you logged food or no is irrelevant. So if I log on today, but not tomorrow, then log on again on Friday I will have lost my 'streak' If you lose it OP just have it reset. That's a legitimate…

Nothing, I ate like a complete and utter pig today (around 4000 cals) and feel like crap. Especially since I overate yesterday and another day recently. I've been maintaining instead of losing for close to 2 month because I will eat ok for a couple days, then over eat for a couple days, then eat ok, then over eat, then eat…

I went 10 miles a couple weeks back and MapMyRun gave me 1440 cals burnt which I assume is at least a bit of an exaggeration. I'm about 140 pounds. Fitbit (synced with MFP) gave me 795 extra exercise cals (I'm set at lightly active) I can definitely feel starved day of and sometimes day after if I haven't eaten enough.

I think what this person is looking for is a calculator that she can enter in a very extreme weight loss into a very short time frame (just not 30 pounds in 1 week) so she can know how very very few cals she should eat to attain it. Calories that will tell her what she's choosing is unsafe so won't tell her is what she…

I try to take pictures once a month. Usually try to take them at the same time as I weigh (first thing in the morning, after using the bathroom, before eating or drinking anything) that way my pics aren't thrown off by having a tummy full of food and such. I always try to take them in my bathroom so I get the same lighting…

Unsync whatever device you are using for steps.

Eat the cals mfp tells you to and you will lose roughly the weight you have chosen to lose a week (weight loss is not linear so some weeks you may lose more or less but if properly weighed and counted the cals given to you should average out to that weight loss)

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MINIMUM protein level means that they are supposed to eat AT LEAST that amount of protein and no less, so they agree with what you are saying.

Everyone always says that exercising will make you all energized and feel great. Nope, after I exercise I want to sleep!

I know how fitbits work, I was just asking if there was anyway to adjust this or to have a better idea of cal burn as I wanted to know. Yes I know one day won't make a difference etc etc. but that was not my question. (This is my second fitbit, I had the other for a good year at least, just washed it and didn't have it for…

Weight loss is a mathematical equation (though things like water weight and such can throw it off) I would have logged my eating as best as possible using as close of entries I could find in MFP. That would at least give some idea as to the calories I ate and a pound is roughly 3500 cals. Though the scale may not show you…

I run 5 days a week. between 5km-16km runs.

Go into fitbit and for the time that you are driving overwrite it by adding 'exercise' under 'driving' or sitting'. To my knowledge you want it on your non dominant hand or it will over estimate more steps. This is one of the reasons I'm glad I have the One which doesn't go on the wrist. Are you set at sedentary otherwise?…