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Yesterday was my double Rip't Circuit and Speed 2.0 day as well (end of Beta week 2). I was hurting hard near the end of Speed 2.0, lol. You should really do those! You feel so incredible afterwards and it's great for your body and recovery.

Have you taken before/after pictures? This is fairly normal to feel this way, but if you have some "before" photos you will notice a glaring difference.

You're right about almost everything but Arya is an amazing character. I do agree with the side *kitten*, though. The last few episodes have really picked up but this one was a builder. I swear to god, we've seen the same god damn Dany speech about 15 times now. Shut the *kitten* up and cross the sea already.

Counting calories is very difficult without a scale. It's very easy to underestimate what you're actually eating (especially with very caloric dense foods such as peanut butter). It's possible you are not in a caloric deficit even if you think you are. A food scale is very helpful. It's a very wonderful investment for…

Right. You could weigh yourself three Mondays in a row, all weighing in at the same weight, but still overall be trending downward on weight loss (see second link I posted above).

Weight loss is typically not linear. Read this sticky regarding this; it's very helpful. Or, Read this sticky which has graphs that help show general trends with weight loss.

Yep, digital! That's a good point, I could make sure it's calibrated correctly. Didn't think to check that - thank you!

Yeah - I was reading that water weight usually levels out by the 4 week mark, so I was just a little bit confused. Still a bit sore when I push myself hard, but nothing like the first few weeks where I couldn't walk. I have always weighed multiple times a day (15+/week) and have always looked at the trend of my graph…

Well, they're just being ignorant then. If you know what you're doing is right (CICO), then just do you. Results will follow, and they will shut your friends up. You can lose weight without doing a second of exercise, given you're in a caloric deficit. You can lose weight by eating only junk food, just as you can gain…

You're clearly very misinformed about the whole process.

Great job!

We got what you were saying. What you were saying is false. Incorrect.

Are you weighing all of your food on a digital scale?

Great job on weighing, today, though! What weighing does is fully eliminates error. You're especially in trouble if you don't weigh and you overestimate how much you burned, and underestimate how much you eat. Keep up the good work. Weigh everything like today. And you should be well on your way! :smile:

Well, the thing is, if you can be 100% sure on how many calories you've burned, you can eat them all back. However, the main problem here comes to overestimating how many you've actually burned. So if you SAY you burned 500 calories, but only actually burned 250, that's when you get in trouble (if you eat it all back). The…

Are you weighing your food with a digital scale or actually trying to eyeball cups/tbsp./etc?

You can try adjusting your time zone to a zone that would alter your MFP "day" to what your work schedule is like? Settings > Change Time Zone. Figure out which time zone would work.

Are you weighing all of your food on a digital scale?

No, not true. Calorie surplus makes you gain weight.

What time do you eat during the day? When is your first meal? Me, personally, I CAN eat early, but I like to hold off until I'm ACTUALLY hungry (which isn't 'til around 11 or 11:30) to have my first meal of the day. I also love eating late at night and am usually very hungry then as well. By pushing off my first meal, I…

This thread was for micros - got slightly derailed. I'm just curious about minerals and vitamin intake.

It depends on how accurate you want to be. I personally skip on logging things like a leaf of lettuce which has almost negligible calories. However, if you eat a ton of veggies and don't weigh anything, those calories, although small individually, can start adding up.

Yes! I started this thread because I know for sure I'm missing out on micro goals probably way more than I'd like to be. Counting carbs/fats/protein and calories seems like the easy part in comparison. Thank you as well to haitch for the wiki link and to Cajun for the video. I will make sure to check out both.

Excellent. That you for your input! I will have to check out some suggested requirements on them.

Sure! Macros are carbs/fat/protein.

I hate cooking as well so I try to keep it to a minimum. I also work 3-11pm most days, so cooking dinner beforehand is a task I usually fail to complete. My go to is Wegmans (if you have one near you) $6 meal. Includes entrée (grilled chicken, tilapia, pulled pork, meatloaf, etc.) with two sides (roasted veggies, potatoes,…

Your body has natural daily fluctuations of upwards of 5 pounds. You need to stop focusing on day-to-day weight and instead focus on overall weight trends. You also need to drink water normally.

The bacon from my grocery store is 20 calories per slice. Just saying...

OP, do you like fish sticks?

I usually make mine as a treat: 170g peanut butter swirl icecream, two scoops of vanilla protein powder, and whole milk. Comes to 555 calories with what I use and tastes delicious.