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I don't have any. I think focusing that much on daily readings is a very poor mindset. You should be looking at general weight trends over an extended period of time. The difference between x.2 and x.4 pounds is meaningless in your grand scheme.

LOL. Not this.

How are you not familiar with "onederland" yet on this site? :smiley:

Meats do it for me. When I'm very hungry and don't want to eat too many calories, I'll go straight to chicken or pork tenderloin. I mean, 3oz of cooked marinated bourbon pork tenderloin is only 100 calories. 6oz of that personally fills me up good enough and is only 200 calories. Same with chicken which hovers around the…

Tip: go to the weight loss board.

I can do all things through myself. Congrats on your weight loss.

Log your food. You got bored of it, stopped, and the results stopped. You're probably overeating without realizing it.

This thread is a cluster *kitten*.

Whereas if you use the Scooby calculator linked above, that will give you a number based on your activity levels, so you wouldn't have to worry about eating anything back or not.

Exactly. At some point, it's unhealthy not to eat back exercise calories if you're using the MFP approach. If you have your goal set to 1500 calories (1lb/week deficit) but run a full marathon and burn 1,000 calories, netting 500 calories on the whole day is very bad.

If by 1600 calories in this example you mean TOTAL calories burned in the day (aka TDEE), and you were looking to lose weight, 20% deficit is a good spot to start, or 1600(.80) = 1280. 1600 TDEE seems very low though. What are your stats and activity levels?

It worked for her before, likely because when you are larger and have more weight to lose, you have a MUCH HIGHER margin of error. Meaning, being inaccurate when you have a lot of weight to lose doesn't hinder your progress as much as when you have very little to lose. If she's not weighing everything she is probably…

Your package will say something like this: Potato chips Serving size: 15 chips (20g). You weigh out 20g for one serving (which is much more accurate than just eating 15 chips). If you weigh out 50g, you had 50/20 servings, or 2.5 servings.

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In progress! About two and a half months in (first picture was a little bit into the journey).

Great job! Next stop: half way mark! :smile:

My goal is 2130 to lose 1 pound a week. However, so long as I'm at maintenance calories or lower I'm fine with the day. So I can eat up to 2630 calories with no problems. I try to limit the days I hit my maintenance to keep my weight loss up to a fast enough pace. I am in no rush in getting to my target weight (24.2/50…

Since your allowance is at 1,200, I'm guessing you probably maintain at around 1,700. (This is just a guess, but what follows will be relevant either way). That's a 500 calorie deficit a day, or exactly one pound (3500 calories) for the entire week. To put in perspective how little your +400 was today over your goal, if…

LOL @90 day juice fast.

I can't see your diary as it's set to private. However, what is your calorie goal set to? -2 pounds per week? (AKA 1000 calorie deficit a day?) If you went 400 calories over your DEFICIT goal - you are likely still below your maintenance calorie goal for the day. As long as you're at maintenance or below - you won't gain…

It's only two weeks. Even if you did eat at a surplus, and gained a LITTLE, it's just a small hiccup on your journey. Just continue counting as normal.

On 6/23 on her diary she put: *You've earned 1,741 extra calories from exercise today. I highly, highly doubt that's accurate. She's definitely double dipping from standard daily energy expenditure and combining that with actual exercise calories (I'm pretty sure). EDIT: I will say that she didn't EAT all of those back.…

I'll give an example. Your daily calorie goals are set at 1,300 calories. You log and weigh everything 100% accurately. However, for your burned calories from exercise, you enter 1,700 - when in fact, it was way lower (let's use 500 as the number here). Let's say you eat back all of these "exercise calories" (3,000 total…

I was on fluoxetine for depression and anxiety while losing weight. I found that as long as I weighed and logged all of my foods accurately that nothing else mattered. If I was feeling too miserable to go for a bike ride or walk, so long as I weighed everything and ate at my calorie goals for the day, the results followed.…

Great job! Quite a change for only 6 months. Well done!

The 2007 vs 2015 pictures really say it all. Truly remarkable. Skin looks way better. You look way younger. Way healthier. Way happier. Great work!

I agree with this under most circumstances, but OP is, on some days, putting 1700 exercise calories (more than double what her MFP calorie goal is). So if she's doing 1300 calories and entering 1700 exercise calories when it's in fact, say, 500, it won't matter if she weighs or not.

Yeah sexymom04, it's just a combination of: not weighing all your food (AKA probably underestimating food intake) and OVERESTIMATING by a fair bit on calories burned. Address both of those issues and you should be on your way!

Step on the scale at 8am. Step on the scale again at 7pm. These numbers will very likely be very different. As much as 5 pounds or more difference is possible. This is not "weight gained". These are normal body fluctuations. Same thing applies on a daily basis. Some days it'll be higher. You need to focus on how your…

Annette! Crazy to see you on here. I was a huge fan of your poker back before "Black Friday". I used to watch you all the time on Full Tilt Poker. I remember videos like you playing and winning a tournament without looking at any hole cards. You were a huge poker inspiration to me. Great work on your weight loss! I know…