Jayme2787

I eat at a deficit. With my activity level I should be eating around 2000 calories a day, but I limit myself to 1300 or 1400. I haven't seen any downward movement on the scale in months, it just stays the same. It's hard to stay motivated to keep trying when nothing is working.

There's no medical reason behind this, I've just known some people to do it either by choice or necessity, and it's worked as a good kick-start for them. I haven't been doing what I should for my diet as much lately, so I'd like to get myself started and really motivated again.

Whenever I try eating more salads in order to eat healthier I get bored eventually. Maybe I don't know how to get variety in the flavors in the salad, but eventually they just start tasting the same to me. There is variety for pizza, which helps, plus I don't always eat pizza at work. We do sell other things, they just…

Ditto. I lose really slowly, so as long as I'm not starving myself or feeling any negative effects, I stick with my calorie goal and don't eat any of my exercise calories. I don't even track my exercise on here anymore just to keep from confusing my extra calories with what I usually allow myself a day.

Cauliflower pizza crust is a great idea! I've seen some ideas for using cauliflower for things like substitute wings on Pinterest before, and I am a huge fan of it. I will have to remember that next time we make pizza at home!

Thanks for the info. The people I know have only done this for one or two weeks at a time, I don't think I've known anyone to try it for a longer term.

Bringing my own food would work, but I still feel at a bit of a loss as to what to eat. When I think of cutting down on carbs all I usually can think of is salad, and I've been making some really good salads lately at home, but I know I get bored of them really easily. The chicken/rice bowl I mentioned in my first post is…

I've always had trouble losing weight, and I think a little bit of a kick-start when getting back on track would just help motivate me, show me that I really can lose and then I will have an easier time motivating myself to keep going.

At most when calculating my calorie needs I usually use light exercise. The longest I work out for is an hour, and when I'm not exercising I'm usually on my butt since I have a sit-down job and am a student. I always feel hesitant to go higher then that. Thanks for the links, I'll check them out.

I've been feeling the same way lately. I work out heavier early in the week, and lightly over the weekend (based on time I have outside of work), but nothing too heavy. Is there some way to figure out more accurately then MFP does how many calories per day I should be eating? I've been relying on what this site says since…