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MFP wants you to net your target. So try to net 1700 and see how you do. (Assuming 1700 is your target and not just what you typically end up eating.) If you like, when you enter the exercise, you can just change the calories. So set it to 450 instead of 900. That'll make it easier to see how many more you are *actually*…
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Yes. (Assuming you truly burned 900 and that's not an overestimation.) But maybe don't bank so many calories and see if that helps. The panic and binge thing is definitely related to your disorder. And I agree with others that no one here can help you with that. That said, hunger and cravings are only partially related to…
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If you don't want to do alterations: I think 5-10 would be a reasonable goal. 15 would probably be too aggressive (meaning: take a LOT of work and adherence, potentially make you miserable, maybe not be healthy). Wedding and amazing vintage dress should mean you spend the next 10 weeks all excited, not miserable, and…
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Have you tried setting it to the dominant hand when you wear it that way? (You can tell Fitbit which wrist you wear it on in the settings.) If not, that might help with it counting steps during other activities. Does it log a LOT of steps during other activities? Like, if it's 100 or something, and you really were moving…
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Log it under cardio.
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As long as you're over 1200, I'd say work on your logging first. Logging is more complicated than it looks, so you could be eating more than you think. (In which case, eating even more is not your best choice, since you say you're satisfied.) For example, you list your cereal in cups. Cereal is a good one to weigh, as it…
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I usually use tupperware, about the size needed and no bigger. But ziploc bags can make a lot of foods fit into spaces they otherwise wouldn't! If you make a lot, freeze whatever you won't eat in the next few days. Or, don't make more than you can store. (So if you can't store a huge pot of pasta sauce, make a smaller pot…
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One easy approach might be to cut your exercise cals in roughly half, bump your MFP target up, and log exercises as 1 calorie. So if you *think* you burn 400-500 calories 5 or 6 times a week, call it 200 or 250, and add it to your target every day (even rest day). So let's be conservative and say 200. Set a custom goal in…
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Did you make them yourself, and use recipe builder (checking each entry it adds carefully to ensure it's all correct -- I usually find errors)? If so, which ingredients were the culprits? Adjust your recipe. (Or don't eat them on the same day again.) Or did you just go looking for a database entry made by someone else and…
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You don't need exercise to lose weight (though I'd recommend it). So, you should be able to lose 100 lbs just by getting MFP set up correctly, learning to log as accurately as you can/are willing to, and logging consistently (even on the days you eat over your target, which will happen, and is fine from time to time, just…
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Loss of appetite is probably something I'd talk to a doctor or therapist about, as it can be a symptom of something you'd need to treat. "I just don't feel like eating enough to not starve myself for months" isn't really a thing to take lightly. A doctor might be able to give you some tests, just to make sure everything is…
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Veggies and fruits are foods, not macronutrients. But you can consider them sources of carbs primarily, in terms of macronutrients. The MFP default is fine, or you can ignore it entirely. There are plenty of ways to split them, with no one "correct" way. The link above should help though if you're interested.
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You can weigh every day and only bother to record lower numbers. Like if your weight range, with fluctuations, is 150-153, then you record 150. Over the next week or so, you see: 150, 152, 152, 153, 151, 150, 151, 149, 150, 149. So now you change your weight to 149. Then you see: 149, 150, 151, 150, 149, 148, 149, 148. You…
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You need rest or you will burn out. Your body uses rest to actually do what we typically talk of exercise as doing -- it's when/how you actually get stronger, build your endurance and stamina, etc. It doesn't matter whether it is running or weights or zumba, exercise is stress, the body responds by adapting so it can meet…
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Write it down and enter it in MFP later, when you don't have MFP handy. Even if you find out something was more calories than you initially thought, at least you find out, and can have the digital record, which can be really useful -- like to open your diary to others for feedback, or to look at your habits over time (in…
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Guessing you picked 2 lbs a week. And since it's 1250, you probably do get the 1000 deficit. So right now, you still have a deficit today of 765. If you eat <765, you'll have created a deficit today (just a smaller one than targeted). If you eat 765 more today, you'll have no deficit, but no overage either. If you eat even…
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Oatmeal using steel cut oats. You can add whatever to change up the flavours, make it interesting. There are plenty of nice recipes around the web. Similarly, quinoa or bulgur. Maybe couscous. If he can handle any of those, you could make up sauces, like you would for chili or pasta, that don't have big chewable pieces,…
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Yeah, I'm referencing the sense of "feeling" muscles differently (bigger, more pronounced, or more firm, less squishy, more... solid, etc). Especially in leaner areas -- my forearms, my lower back, certain parts of my hip/upper front thigh, etc, but also in larger areas, like glutes, especially when flexing. I don't think…
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I think walking is a great rest day activity. I also think it may be more important for sedentary people (who are able to) to push to get *some* form of intentional activity on a rest day. We are resting more than someone with an active job, just throughout the day. (But this may just be me/my experience!) I would make it…
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I totally know the feeling. But it's just one of those things, you know, where the worst that will happen is that you'll be uncomfortable, self-conscious. Surely you can push through that, because it doesn't stick around in my experience. Eventually the space is familiar, the classes are familiar, there are people you…
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Nope, your body can't do that. If you undereat, you are by definition underfuelled. Your body can't live on no fuel -- it will burn body tissue to keep your heart beating. Even if it stored every calorie, it would have to just burn it right after to keep you alive. And it certainly can't store it all, then somehow... store…
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My best guess? Since weight is not just fat, I think a lot of the "I didn't treat my body so well in order to get a bigger deficit, but didn't lose, and then treated myself better, with a smaller deficit, and started losing again!" things are related to the non-fat parts of your weight. If you are run-down and your muscles…
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Nope!
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Your rate is great. If you feel good and can accept this, I'd say, keep going! That said, if MFP is set to lose 2 lbs a week, and you're losing 1.5, then there are problems somewhere in your numbers that amount to about 250 cals a day on average. So you maybe are underestimating your eating, or overestimating your…
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Portion creep, probably. When you don't weigh and/or measure and log, your eyeballing of your portions does not catch that that over time, incrementally, very slowly, they are increasing. Especially with calorie dense foods -- a little extra peanut butter, say, can pack a significant calorie punch. You are probably eating…
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How I wade through it: Calorie deficit for weight loss. Period. There are no shortcuts or workarounds or exceptions. For health, wellbeing, energy, etc: Consider this to have no right answer / everyone is a snowflake in this regard -- similar but not the same. If you think you can improve how you feel by changing your food…
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Yep. My scale is ... well. I need a new one. So I will weigh several times in a row, always re-adjusting it back to 0 if (when) it pops off 0 when I'm not standing on it. (It's not digital.) I will probably see several clustered numbers, and 1 or 2 "crazy" numbers. Like this: 156, 155, 150, 157, 163, 156, 155 If my most…
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Nope! You're good. :) And I'm glad you're feeling better about it! Another way you can look at it is to average your calories. If I assume you ate 1200 all this week for six days, then 1590, it's the same as eating 1256 on each of those days. I did this with mine after Easter... it can help with perspective! Even if you…
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Keep in mind also that you can eat whatever meat you like, even if it's not high fat (and you probably should aim for a variety). Just cook it in oil.
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At <1600, you probably still ate at a deficit. If you are quite small, very short, very close to goal weight, etc, it might be a small deficit. But probably still a deficit, meaning, you still ate less than you burned, you will still lose weight. Even if you ate over, it'd be by, what, 50-100 calories? It takes 3500 over…
