FluffyMcNutter

1) to avoid the binges on the weekend, keep some healthier and portable options with you that will hold you over until you can make some good decisions. 2) I drink and go out on the weekends, so I always try to 'bank' a few calories through the week so I don't bust on the weekends. A couple days a week I do more exercise…

You'll be really surprised at how quickly your appetite adjusts to eating more. I eat all day and I'm only eating ~1700. I can't even imagine trying to go more than a few hours without food anymore. I love it, I want it all the time, and I eat it...and I'm losing more than when I was eating ~1500. It's amazing that %…

Good luck! And try not to get discouraged if the scale bounces around a lot while you're increasing your calories. It's ok and expected. Your body is going to need some time to adjust to everything new that you're doing. If you find that once you've been pretty steady at 1950 for a few weeks (assuming you get there…

It seems high because you are pretty close to maintenance and you exercise a lot. A lot of the point is to fuel your exercise and get you prepared for eating at maintenance. As for lifting, you might want to check out Nerd Fitness. I haven't tried it yet, but a lot of people seem to like it. ETA: I'm guessing you've been…

You don't have to jumpt straight up to your TDEE-x%. You can give yourself some time to get used to eating more food. Try adding 100 or 200 calories to your daily goal and hold it there for a week. The next week, you can add in another 100 - 200 per day. You'll probably notice that your appetite will keep up and you'll…

This is the same advice I was about to give.

you're probably better off drinking the water for skin benefits.

It depends on how you set up your TDEE. When you calculate TDEE, you use an activity level (sedentary, lightly active, moderately active, very active) that usually includes the amount you exercise. The only way it doesn't incude exercise is if you intentionally left it out so you can eat back exercise calories. So, most…

I just try to remind myself that I can eat whatever I want if I'm willing to fit it into my macros and calorie goals. If it's going to make me go over calories, I earn it through exercise first. If it's going to jack up my macros, I plan the rest of my food around it to get it to fit as well as possible. If I'm not willing…

MFP can't tell the difference between added sugar and naturally occurring sugar. Don't worry about going over if you're getting your sugar from natural sources (mostly fruit), unless you have a medical reason to track it. A lot of us just take sugar off the diary because it isn't all that helpful. I switched mine out with…

My best friend and I took pictures of each other, but lots of people take successful pictures using a mirror. Obviously full length mirror is going to work better than the one over the sink in the bathroom.

1700 calories???? Is that what MFP tells you when you log it? I'm guessing that's not based off a heart rate monitor... MFP tends to overestimate calorie burn from exercise, so no, you don't want to eat back all of those. Otherwise you'd be overeating. If you have an HRM that is telling you that's what you're burning, then…

Obviously, you're going to have to eat fewer carbs and/or protein if your goal is to get more fat in your diet. It's not going to be a 1:1 ratio either because fat has 9 calories and carbs and protein have 4 each. Fats tend to be more filling though, so it shouldn't be a problem of leaving you with too little food to keep…

There is obviously a margin of error when using calculators for BMR and TDEE. Eating under your true BMR (not the guesstimate) for long periods of time can be counter-productive because the body will figure out how to use less energy to function (out of necessity), which will lower your metabolism. Lower metabolism is…

I usually just use salt and pepper, a little bit of olive oil (tsp or 1.5 tsp) and then the juice of half a lemon. It's not as low-cal as some of the ones in this thread, but it tastes incredibly good with most salads. Garlic Expressions is really good when I'm not feeling the lemon juice. It might have more calories than…

There isn't one best macro ratio for weight loss for everyone. It takes a little bit of time and experimentation with your diet to figure out what works for you in a sustainable way. I would have a really hard time dealing with 20% fat as a macro long term, but other people seem to be happy with that. Unless you have a…

Kinda shocked no one's mentioned avocado.

It's incredibly helpful to log what you eat because you might be eating a decent amount more or less than you think you are, both of which can be a hinderance to weight loss. And how would you know unless you log it?

I'm not 100% sure what you mean about setting up your custom MFP, but if you mean adjusting your calorie and macro goals, go to Home, Goals, Change Goals, Customize. Then change whatever you need to. if you want to change what shows up in your food diary, got to Food, Settings. Since your exercise is included in your…

Avocado, nuts, protein bars/shakes.

I see you post this a lot. I love it. It helps to remind me that there are things that are worth the effort of fitting them into my macros and there are things that aren't. Apparently McDonald's isn't for me.

I'll put just about anything on a salad. I like to use a tsp or tsp and a half olive oil plus the juice of about half a lemon as the dressing. Two of my favorites right now are: chicken High Energy Trail Mix blue cheese crumbles or roasted or blanched asparagus proscuitto that has been crisped in the toaster oven grated…

If you don't want it, don't drink it. It's possible to drink too much water. Quit aiming for a certain amount and just drink water when you're thirsty.

This is probably a pretty silly question, but I've never frozen beans before. It seems like they'd get mushy, so how do you defrost and re-heat them so they don't do that? Not cook them quite all the way before freezing? Or do they manage to hold up pretty well with nothing special really happening?

I'm guessing you want an answer that is something other than, 'Eat them,' but I'm not really sure what you need help with other than that.

I agree with what most of the people here are saying - that you aren't eating enough. It's not scary to eat more calories. Really try to think about how the body works and not how so many of us have created weight loss in our heads. Our bodies don't know what our brains know - that we are trying to lose weight. The body…

Everyone fluctuates weight throughout the day. It's completely normal. Of course you're going to weigh more after you eat...even if you went to the gym. If you're doing any resistance work, then your muscles are grabbing on to water and protein to replenish themselves on top of the food addition. If it's that discouraging…

Try reading this. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/937712-in-place-of-a-road-map-ver-3-0 It's pretty much what Jessica was saying and it also addresses your concerns that your metabolism may have slowed down. It's almost a completely different way of looking at weight loss from what you've been trying, but since…

You don't need to redo everything. You just need to understand the concepts behind it and where your numbers come from. The whole point of the TDEE - x system is to get people away from having too large of deficits because those can lead to stalled weight loss/lower metabolism/loss of LBM. So, eating under your calorie…

That seems like a pretty big deficit. If they helped you come up with your TDEE - x numbers, then your deficit is already included in your calorie goals and eating very much under that would wind up doing the exact thing that this method tries to eradicate - eating too few calories. I'm also not sure if yours is set up to…