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I did just that. It set me at 1680 and if that drops too fast I will move it up to 1800. When I calculated my TDEE from that website it was also a high number... But I considered things like fetch with the dogs, walking them for potty breaks, housework (on our all tile floor), walking our university campus and the four…

The articles and websites have totally answered a lot of my questions. I feel better now, and realize I was under estimating my activity. A lot of what I consider doing absolutely nothing includes dishes, dinner, walking the dogs in the yard and playing fetch with them... I guess I am more active than I considered, I was…

APR thank you so very much. I will look into those... I think I would prefer not tracking my exercise on myfitnesspal... I thought it odd that when I put in weight training it would never count calories of that. Some of those sessions would kick my heart rate up more than anything, and my HRM watch would say I burned a lot…

Wow.... Well, I am still 212lbs because I lost a crap ton of weight within a 3 month period and also gave myself a binge eating disorder in the process. I then had surgery on both legs, couldn't work out, and still had my eating disorder. I was rapidly gaining weight. I tried to diet the only way I knew how, eating 1000 to…

Whew, so much to read. I just read some more of the responses... I have used myfitnesspal for a long long time off and on... My ticker and settings were not updated at all. I was working on doing all of that today, and that's when I realized there was an issue here I couldn't fix. I was 208 then I was 158 then I was 165…

Ok... I am 23 5'7 212lbs I recently had a career change. I was a server for many years and that is FAST past go go go... Now I have to drive a lot and sit in a desk at college 3 days a week, plus my job is not near as go go go anymore, although it is more "community" than "desk". I walk my dogs a couple days a week, a…