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I use Greek yogurt in just about everything. I find it's a great way to protein boost a salad, I mix yogurt with a strong tasty vinaigrette and I've doubled my dressing without adding tons of calories. And cottage cheese is my best friend. Depending on whether I still need fat, I eat either 4% or 1% at the end of my day.…

My plans are to eat and enjoy myself.

It's worked this far, I'm gonna keep going.

Sounds right to me. I started at around your weight and I was eating around 2000 calories a day. I'm at 160 now and am still eating 2000 calories a day. I just have to move a lot more now to be able to keep my calories high. When I was in the 260s I could eat 2000, not move and still lose weight.

What worked for me: Learning to like myself the way I was. Not falling for some horrible fad diet. Not demonizing any type of food. I didn't try to cut out any foods I truly love. There is no such thing as a cheat day or meal. Life happens and sometimes I choose foods for reasons other than their nutritional value, this…

I'd just eat chocolate covered potato chips and call it good.

If you're getting 7500 steps I'd go with lightly active. I have my Fitbit connected to MFP and have my activity level set to lightly active and when I hit about 6000 steps it starts giving me more calories. On a side note, you need to fuel your workouts, you may want to consider eating some of those workout calories back.

I've never liked milk. I enjoy my cereal much more with almond milk.

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I can't sit for any length of time without my butt hurting. I'm told you get use to it. It hasn't happened yet.

The slow down is mostly caused by loss of muscle mass as you age. So, all you need to do to forestall this slowdown is work to keep the muscle you have and build more.

Why? Why do people do these things?

It is very hard to see changes in yourself when looking in the mirror. W are so focused on the negative things, we don't see the positive. That being said, I started with about 115 pounds to lose and I didn't see a difference until sometime after 40 pounds, but, others did. Like someone else said, focus on performance…

No such thing as a failure day and viewing less than nutritional sound days as failures is setting yourself up for failure. Use it as a day to learn something about yourself and why you make your choices. Call it a re-feed day (if you need to) and move on to tomorrow.

Dry. You can't get an accurate calorie assumption after cooking, because, how long you cook it will determine how much water it absorbs.

I, also, find my Fitbit to be rather accurate. I have MFP set to sedentary and have negative adjustments turned on. I eat back everything the Fitbit gives me.

I eat potatoes all the time. Cauliflower is good, too. But, it's not a potato. P.S. I eat REAL butter, too, and make my mashed potatoes with heavy whipping cream. Oh, and sometimes I drink whole milk. Down 100 pounds. REAL FOOD... I'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER!

Mine are: 127g-160g protein 75 g fat The rest of my calories go to carbs

Cupcakes, but, only because I don't like cake. Wish they'd had some brownies. That I would have eaten.

When I was on it, I never felt full until I was stuffed, think thanksgiving day stuffed. So, it wasn't that I felt hungry all the time, it was that when I ate, I never got the que that told me it was time to stop, thusly I overate, because I really wasn't paying attention to the amount of food I was consuming.

2500 sounds about right, for your stats. Maybe, even higher. While I'm female, when I first started I weighed about 275 and the MFP generated calorie goal was too low and I added about 400 calories to it and was still losing 2-3 lbs a week. Now that I'm slimmer, their calorie suggestion is much more accurate.

Kashi Go Lean and milk or protein plus soymilk.

I use chicken stock instead of water.

Sugar is sugar. Use what you like. Try lots of different kinds. Different honey tastes vastly different. You might find you like using different honeys for different things.

When people mentally categorize foods as "good" or "bad" they use their "cheat" day or meal to eat those things they like, but, have decided are bad. Usually, people on highly restrictive diets do this. Personally, I think this helps perpetuate people's bad relationship with food. I, for one, chose to eat consciously, if I…

I eat all my Fitbit calories and maintain my weight. Which is, usually, between 2100 and 2500 calories.

I eat all of mine and haven't had any issues.

With butter and Bushmill's

Personally, I think you're fine, eating as you are. Lots of people calorie cycle, between high and low days. 5 low days and 2 high days are fine. If you're not seeing the results you want, you'll have to tweak it a bit.

Carbs 35 Fat 35 Protein 30 But, I actually have a carb, protein range I shoot for. The percentage isn't that huge a deal for me. It was just the closest to where I want to be. When eating 2000 calories a day, I shoot for Carbs between 173-229 g Protein between 109-165 g Fat at 75g