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Here are some things to try. They always seem to help me. First off, you have to try and fine tune the intake and calories burned as the guide set here is very generic. No two people burn the same way. Go into the history and find an era where everything was working smoothly. Compare your actual weight loss when you ate…

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The calculators are very generalized and will not zero in a number accurately. What you need to do it live a normal life and manually adjust calories weekly and try and dial it in that way. It isn't just your movements, your body burns it a unique pace. You have to find your particular number through trial and error.

One pound is an impossibly slim margin. I try and figure there is a 2-3 pound tolerance. Allow me to explain. A number of factors can be screwing with the scale. You could have more waste in your system this weigh in session than the last. You could be retaining more water right now. There could be more food contents in…

The only real tip I have is as you get comfortable with that mile walk, add on a little distance slowly. When I started I did a mile every other night. I took a break from the diet and regained some, but pushed my walks to 5 miles 5 times a week. It made a huge difference! The weight came off faster and I never hit…

I think I see a few problems that can be overcome, but will take time. For one, in losing mode we can just sort of shotgun blast the problem by reducing to any number below what we need. In maintenance, we need to actually figure out with time how much our particular bodies and lifestyles require each day. So that means…

I started a break last fall. I knew with holidays and such, I was simply going to eat more. I actually stopped the diet 100% after a few weeks of maintenance. I gained a bunch back, but it came off a lot quicker that time around.

I inadvertently fast once every so often. I will not eat for a day and it seems to do some interesting things for my diet. First of all, I tend to lose around 2 pounds, and if I was stalled before hand, the pace picks right back up. I am to a point now where when the day happens, I don't even miss the food.

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Yes.but it gets harder to do the closer you get to the goal. At first the weight will fall off as you are eating so much less, but then you will start to stabilize where the amount of food this place suggests takes you. It is obvious that even the bare minimum setting on the auto suggestion account for people that do some…

You have to continue to account for every calorie with a very level of accuracy. Maybe add walking to the mix. Start out doing maybe 30 minutes and slowly increase distance and frequency. Also pay close attention to all the details. Your body may not be in agreement with auto calculator. For many reasons you may require…

Reducing calories alone will do the trick. One issue though is the program is very generic. Each person and their persona level of basic activity a day makes their number somewhat unique. It can take some work to find out exactly what your body will need. First, log everything and be super detailed. Every gram, every ounce…

Like others have already posted, I too have found that usually MFP calculates more calories burned than the more precise equipment measures, but not all the time. Soimetimes it is under. To be safe I go with the lower amount.

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You must be from CT. I am slightly older than them. They started up after I had left the state. Watching some of those older videos of theirs, I see a ton of people I grew up with in them. I still have friends close to Jamie. If I had hung around another couple years, we would have been in the same circles.

The projections always been off in the short term, but fairly accurate in the larger picture. Week to week will be off, but look at it in months and it is pretty close. I also have to say that I had to add exercise to get the numbers moving. At first it was great alone, but not long after I wasn't losing that fast so I had…

Very cool! I was pretty much the same, but an inch taller and I am not sure what my starting weight as as I was afraid to weigh myself. I broke a toe and weighed 320 a month before I began dieting and was 300 when I found this app. I got tired of baked chicken and vegetables. I eat a lot of different stuff, not diet…

If you stay within goals, it is not cheating. A safe way to cheat is have a cheat day where you eat what your current maintenance calorie level would be. Don't do it more two times a month and you will pretty much stay on track.

My stepfather struggled with being underweight. He ate a lot, but he was very active. You rarely ever saw him sitting except for the first hour he was waking up. He was out doing yard work, splitting wood, biking, etc. he burned off every calorie he ate without trying.

I do not weigh daily. The reason is my body does weird stuff. An example being I tend to do this thing where my weight appears stable, then it looks like I gain a pound or two, then it drops out of Nowhere. I will end up a few pounds lighter than the stabilized weight. The time it takes varies. I know it often feels like I…

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Shoulder and chest size mean very little. I have broad shoulders and a large rib cage. But I also have small wrists and now I can see I have a very thin, tall frame. Trimmed down I have a very pronounced Y shape. Due to my shoulder width and chest size, I was always led to believe I was "big boned". The truth surfaced once…

I log everything but the unsweetened tea I drink.

It always auto adjusted every 10 pounds for me. I self adjust every 5 to be sure, so I am not sure if it still has been auto adjusting.

My rule of thumb with the database is, "If multiple entries exist, and I am unsure what the calorie count in the item is, go with the highest calorie entry." The desire is to grab the lowest entry, thinking we are hacking the system and sneaking a few free calories..but it really is going against the diet.

Yes, as I recall it left a fruitier aftertaste in your mouth. Similar to the aftertaste of 7Up.

start putting a little less in every two weeks or so. Eventually you will get used to not having anything in it at all. I was a spoon of sugar and cream guy. Now I drink dark roasts black.

I haven't had a soda in 6-7 years. I might try this for the hell of it. I loved it back the first time it was out. My buddies would say "it tastes like pool water"..It would be interested to see what I think of it now...lol

I have a cousin that did it. It worked great for a while . She lost a lot of weight..but it didn't change her eating habits. She ended up stretching things out and is back to her original pre- operation size. I factored that in when I came here a few years ago. I thought to myself, the surgery is mechanically making you…