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I am running into this issue as of Sept 5, 2020. I've submitted a Support ticket as well and noted I'm a Premium member if that might help. I created a food called 'Step Adjustment' and enter in half of the calories that the Google Fit Calorie Adjustment shows into my exercise diary. Not ideal, but it works. I still think…

Kudos man...well done!

Ok, Coach G-BO here and here's what you need to know: 1. Stop using the D-I-E-T word. First 3 letters are D-I-E and as long as you use that word, you will feel like you wanna die until you can eat "normal" again. WRONG! This is a new way of eating that can be a lifetime of balance...until you decide it's not worth it and…

All the above....and...borrowed from my WW Days: When getting to goal, have two weight goals. One is your absolute Target Weight number, the other is your Goal Maintenance Zone of +/-5 pounds. This accounts for those fluctuations that occur (Water, Sodium, Monthly Cycle, Food in the tubes, etc). It's freedom because life…

One option that hasn't been mentioned in your post is using a tracker that's connected to show you activity and balance. Maybe you're still losing because there is a calorie deficit still in play? The MFP maintenance number is a calculation based on a broad spectrum of people data, so you will need to tweak it for you…

This! "Method 4: Gradually Increase: Another option is to gradually increase your daily calorie goal until your weight stabilizes. Even if you have a maintenance calorie estimate from method 1, 2, or 3, but you want to minimize visible (though irrelevant ;) ) scale jump from glycogen replenishment and/or increased average…

Short answer is, it's depends on your emotional fortitude. If you read these posts, someone weighs on Monday and loses 1.5, weighs Tuesday and gains 1.0 and falls off the wagon because they "think" CICO doesn't work. The up and downs on the scale match the emotional up and downs....and that can get tiring and deflating. I…

I primarily track daily with an occasional off day....knowing what works and sticking with it...and it sticks with me.

Talk with your doctor...good source of guidance!

Truth vs Feelings matter here. Go with what is true regardless of how you feel because that will Keep You successful. The hard numbers say if you take in the amount of calories you need to maintain then you will maintain. It may take a couple of weeks to figure out what that number is but it works. It is natural to feel…

I got serious in 2009 and lost ~80 pounds by 2014. I still track food and activity....I love the freedom of CICO and if I can eat what I love and still stay in Zone, I'm doing it. Tracking is less of a pain than "guesstimating" and gaining weight. Worth it and part of my lifestyle...it's never a diet!

Howdy...checking in here! Kicking off June IN Maintenance Zone. Woo-Hoo! Name Glenn Age: 51 Height: 6'0 Total weight lost: 80 Time it took to lose:Started 5 years How long in maintenance: ~6 years Maintenance weight range: 195.9-204.9

Totally expected. This is why WW has the Target weight and then maintenance range because fluctuations happen...food weight, salt, exercise, carbs, etc all make the scale move a little. So take a breath...if you're still +/- 5 pounds, then consider yourself at GOAL.

My issue with AW & MFP is that any activity I do gets immediately added to my Food calories. I don't have to meet a basic burn goal for the day first in order to ensure I have my deficit for weight loss calories eaten vs burned. That's an epic fail.

I started MFP with FitBit....and to be honest, the syncing hiccups always happened at the worst times. The main thing is the use what helps you most.

I don't track veggies. Hailing back from my WW days...veggies are free. Aside from that, I continue tracking most days with an occasional planned no-track day. Really, it's about balance but doing it any differently will put me back where I started.....because I know me. Can't let up.

I was a FitBit user since the Zip and I really liked their ecosystem. What began to be a pain was when the sync between MFP and FitBit goes down and one blames the other, etc. Got an AW3 a couple years ago and love it...however, found that MFP really doesn't sync it right so I moved to another tracking app. The features of…

Use the Workouts app on the watch and it *should* feed back into MFP. While it may title it differently, the data should be accurate.

I sneak back in ever so often and see if anything has improved on the sync....and nope. To answer @GrahamUK72 you can use Apple Watch and Googgle Fit with Lose It! on the free plan. Premium is required for FitBit, Garmin, Misfit, etc. Sorry for the delay....

This is a great go-to. I like the single serving recipe because I know me....if there are more waiting, then it's a temptation I don't need.

Hope this helps.. Thanks to AnnPT77 (from another site) for writing this great piece. Edited & Shortened in order to fit. Four Maintenance Methods: 1. MFP calculation: Change your Profile weight loss goal from "lose X pounds per week" to "maintain current weight", eat to the new net calorie goal, handling exercise calories…

Kudos on the loss...that is incredible. Maintenance takes some tweaking and trusting, but it works. A WW tenet I kept is having a +/- 5 pound buffer from my target weight because, well, life happens and the body isn't bound to doing what we want all the time...HOWEVER, we need to give ourselves a little room to breath and…

Last Day and I'm in! Name: Glenn How long in maintenance: 6 weeks Goal maintenance range: +/- 5 Pounds Current weight: 202.5 Current goal:199.9 Recent success: Hitting Maintenance for 50th Bday

After years of yo-yo...I hit maintenance and stayed there for 16 weeks in 2014...and then fell right off thinking I could just lose it again quickly...roller coaster of up and down. FF> to end of 2018 and was looking at my 50th Bday coming up in March so my mantra became "Fit at Fifty" and hit maintenance range for my…

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." I'm back in maintenance zone for the second time....I learned a lot from the first time and thinking "This will be easy...I got this" and I was so wrong. I fell right into that thinking that I could goof off and get right back on. Nope. #1 So, on…

I'm in my maintenance weight range but won't turn back on the extra calories until I hit Target Weight. Depending on the craving, I will make my meals larger...or add REAL butter sometimes...or eat smaller dinner and enjoy a dessert. I worked hard...time to play hard...but within specs. :)

Ladies and Gents, this is the reason I switched to a different app/ecosystem. I was on MFP for almost 8 years. With the FitBit up and down syncing issues(but was great when it worked) and me going all iOS+Apple Watch, it was painful to realize the MFP doesn't "really" fully support or engage with the Apple Watch to full…

Graham, it did. I really sweated and stressed but in the end, I needed a whole system to work. Very pleased with my decision and haven't had one day of syncing issues since.

Thanks ThomasPM. I just posted an update on that thread...

I had to make a choice...either ditch my Apple Watch and go back to Fitbit (MAJOR downgrade of features), or find another calorie tracking platform that works with Apple Watch. Lose It tracks with Apple Watch on the workouts, steps, etc via the Activity Burn that is measured from the watch. Simple, yet genius and it works.…