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Stick with it! Don't get discouraged if the loss slows down dramatically over the next week - there's frequently a rapid loss of ~5-8 lbs and then it's often slower going from there. You got this!

It doesn't matter, truly. Weight isn't a truly objective measure, it's a function of gravity - you weigh more at sea level than you do at 12,000 feet*; you'd weigh 16% of what you do now on the moon; you'd weigh less than half of what you do now on Mars and you'd nearly triple in weight if you were on Jupiter. You weigh…

There are a few things there. Fat%, impedance, FFM (fat Free mass) and TBW (total body water) are all calculated by the scale's bioelectric impedance measurement mechanism, which you should be skeptical of. Your BMR is what the scale estimates you burn just existing, without factoring in exercise or what you burn just by…

It will hang on to about 9 days worth of steps, provided it has the battery life. You don't need to sync at midnight, the next morning is fine. I've had a fitbit one for about 2 years now and find it to be incredibly accurate.

Daily-ish. I weigh in every day I'm home. That isn't very often sometimes.

This is GREAT advice. OP, what's your plan for maintaining at your goal weight?

I've read some theories that suggest as fat cells are depleted of contents, they fill temporarily with water before dropping that a few days later. It would explain the plateau-plateau-loss effect, but you can take that with a giant mountain of salt because I can't recall where I saw it, so its basically unsourced. That…

Yeah, the husband is out of line in this scenario. If I were the wife, and he wanted to stay married to me, he would end the 'friendship' and get his *kitten* in couples counseling with me. I strongly believe men and women can be platonic friends - my best local friend for years and years was a dude, and now that I've…

That was really cruel of them to do, and you're a really nice person.

Nope. Dropped 25 lbs and maintaining there without giving it up a beer (or two) with dinner.

Totally possible, particularly if you had caffeine, alcohol, cold medicine, or any other kind of diuretic yesterday. I once lost 5 lbs overnight thanks to a bottle of white wine! It's best to weigh yourself at the same point in the day every time you weigh though. The weight of the clothes you're wearing (sweaters weigh…

1290 is on the low end for me, and I'm a 5'4" 135 lb lady. You may want to try upping your intake some.

I am not a fan of the new style. So much wasted whitespace, and the sharper contrast of black on white vs black on grey is harder on the eyes. Dislike :(

Most women retain water just before their periods. (It's why Midol has caffeine in it - to act as a diuretic). I usually gain 3-5 lbs overnight that disappear by the 3rd day.

I have found Fitbit + MFP to be incredibly on point for me.

Social media can be both a good thing and a bad thing. I'm in my early thirties, and so when I was in my teens there was no Facebook or Twitter, and social media was limited to instant messaging clients and early early chat rooms (I remember Yahoo chat rooms in HTML where you'd have to refresh constantly to see what other…

https://www.myfitnesspal.com/apps/show/33 You don't need a tracker for a Fitbit, just a Fitbit account.

The sugar recommendations are for added sugar, not naturally occurring sugar found in fruits. In my opinion they are far too conservative. You're fine.

It will, and if you connect your accounts MFP will adjust your daily calories based off of how active you've been to maintain a daily deficit of -250. If you haven't already done that you can do it here: https://www.myfitnesspal.com/apps/show/30

That's a suggested stretch goal. You can revise it to something more attainable if you want. (Click on the gear on that tab to update that goal). I would advise leaving it for now, figuring out what your average daily burn is for a week or so, then setting it for 100-300 calories above that. It's a goal, after all. Your…

If you are panicking over eating this 'much', you aren't eating 800 calories a day (you are way under), and you aren't in recovery. Please, seek help for this. Eating disorders can be fatal.

I've never been ridiculed, nor seen ridicule at my gym. Mine is actually next door to a physiotherapy place, so they get a lot of 'graduates' from pre or post surgery/injury, as well as the usual assortment of gymgoers. Knowing that people really aren't ridiculing you isn't enough to stop insecurity, though. In my…

Every day that I'm home. The more often I weigh, the more in-tune I get with my daily fluctuations, and the less emotional weight I put on the scale weight. It gets easier to correlate the minor ups and downs with things in my diet/exercise regimen that might cause them. Then that info gets fed into a spreadsheet that does…

Need more info before weighing in (ha). What do TDEE calculators like Scooby return for you? What are your goals? What is MFP recommending you eat?

Eh. I get what you're trying to say with this, but the image doesn't feel intuitive. Sorry OP.

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Yeah, that's the hard part. I like a beer with dinner and am VERY good at justifying things I want to myself, which is how I wound up here in the first place, haha. Since I started tracking I've probably eaten my bodyweight several times over in grilled chicken caesar salads...