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A good scale is like, $15-$30. And I find it faster than measuring. I mean. You literally just set down your food. Not time consuming! Making a peanut butter sandwich? Put two slices of bread on the scale. Put your pb, put it back on the scale. Voila! No measuring, no guesswork. You know exactly what you ate (as close as…

Any food is okay to have, unless you have an allergy or something. Weigh it if you can, or flatten your spoonful if you must (to get 1 tbl), and log it. Don't eat like a heaping spoonful and assume that's 1 tbl, it could be like 3-4.

Some people feel sick if they workout after a meal. Some people feel sick if they workout on an empty stomach. So you may have to try different times and see how you do. Me, if I have to do it before dinner, I'll have a small snack, like a little greek yoghurt. Then I don't get sick. If I do it after, it's best if it's an…

I think using the time to work on some fitness goals is a great idea. I'd recommend things that have some interest for you -- like you said, logging how many push-ups you can do, and working to increase that as a goal. Set up some milestones for down the road. Say: 20 knee push-ups. 5 full push-ups. 10 full push-ups. 20…

You've doubled your time already! :) One of the best parts about being really not fit enough to do something the first time you try it, is how amazing you're going to feel when you nail it. Some day you'll be marveling that you started at 5 minutes, and be so proud at how far you've come! And I love your avatar. :D

If you *truly* were creating a 1000 calorie deficit EVERY single day for 5 weeks, and not just your logs SAYING you did, but ACTUALLY, then you'd lose 10 lbs. And if the scale was messing with you, yes, you'd "recover" them. And then loss will proceed, over time, on average, according to your ACTUAL deficit, 2 lbs a week…

Glad that trying some new things is working for you! I see you chose TDEE, which I think is probably a good idea for you -- moves some of your exercise calories onto your rest days, and stabilizes things a bit better. (Though your TDEE would be more than 1500 -- do you mean TDEE - 20%? TDEE is total daily energy…

Don't give up. Step up. Log your "binges". No one is perfect all of the time, but having the log is really useful! Don't do the quick add buffer -- I agree with the poster who said this could be causing you to overeat on other days. Eat back some of your exercise calories for the same reason. Your body does need fuel, and…

You have days not logged, quick add calories, a lot of round numbers when weighing (did you portion out round numbers, or just sort of guess/measure instead of weigh?). Like, all your bananas are 100g? How? (I really doubt your bananas are 89 cals.) Also, you don't have much weight to lose. So you may expect a fairly slow…

Do more when you feel like your current workout is not as challenging as it could be. And "more" can be any number of things -- longer time, or more intense, faster, more difficult modifications, giving more energy (like really pick up the knees, really swing the arms, etc). And probably don't increase in multiple ways…

imo, do the whole thing. Make that your goal. Which means you can't run yourself into the ground -- aim to stick it out, so you don't push until you want to puke. (I know she'll tell you to push, just remember, as a beginner, you ARE pushing, even with all my below tips, so no, do not push to puking in 5 minutes. Endure.…

This. And there are types of pilates, and different pilates instructors will have you doing different things. There are also pilates fusions. I do Blogilates, which incorporates a bit of yoga, bit of dance, and a lot of bodyweight exercises, even weights (light, but heavier than your typical video would ask for the pace).…

There's some great advice in this thread, so I'm just going to add a few thoughts. You can definitely work on these three goals at once. However, it's my personal feeling and experience that you can only work on either the weight loss or the fitness goals aggressively. If you want a 2 lb per week deficit, you may not be…

Try weighing everything, measuring only liquids (like milk). From your diary, I can't tell if you're measuring a lot of solids, or weighing them and choosing an equivalent measured entry. But for example: Stop and Shop - Light Rye Bread, 2 Slice <-- I measured my rye bread over the weekend and 2 slices weighed the same as…

Not aware of anyone who does want to lose LBM.

It's just that weight loss follows your deficit. It's math. It may not come out linearly in short time frames, but over a long enough period, averaged out, it should actually be: Sum of Deficits on Each Day / 3500 = Pounds Lost in Theory. Number of Days / Pounds Lost in Theory = Number of Days to Lose Each Pound. Compare…

Do not cut your safe foods. (!!!!!) Get them all logged. Play around with the database to find the most accurate entries for the foods you do consume. If you need to, log them all in MFP on a day just to get them into your Recent Foods (and ignore that day, obviously). Look at the data. Play with portion sizes and…

You may be trying to do too much. You could stick to your calorie goal, but still be eating, say, chicken nuggets. You could up your calorie goal -- maybe 2 lbs a week (I am guessing here) is not sustainable for you. You could tell yourself you can't eat the kids' extras because you're on a tight budget with debts. You…

Right, but... since we can't lose significant fat in one day, the results you see on the scale on Sunday morning took you all week to produce. It's just Sunday morning scale wizardry that has it showing up then. (aka you are retaining less water then or you're more dehydrated then or you have more empty bowels then, etc)

You are probably at a deficit, yes. But the pace of your weight loss will follow your deficit. If your deficit is 100 cals a day, for example, it would take 35 days to lose 1 lb. If you want more help, you'll need to provide your stats (height, weight, age, activity level) and calorie target and if you'd be willing, open…

You go to high school and to a job? I doubt you are sedentary. I was fairly inactive in high school and I doubt I was sedentary... I walked to and from (though maybe 7 minutes each way at a good clip), I walked every, what, hour, to get to the next class, did whatever at lunch time, milled about a bit after school, did…

My 2 slices of rye bread yesterday were supposed to be 50g, 140 cals. They were 76g, 213 cals. 73 extra cals, almost like I'd actually had 3 slices! That said, it's a loaf style where the slices are varying sizes. They probably weigh the loaf and divide by slice number. If I ate the whole loaf myself throughout the week,…

What did you tell MFP your goal was? I am guessing 2 lbs a week, right? So that means that MFP decided that, even if you didn't exercise today, your body burns 3150 calories just existing and living your life (your job, etc). 2150 would be 1000 calories off, which would get you 2 lbs a week. When you exercise, and burn…

You could try Yoga with Adriene on YouTube. Start with her beginner videos. Use the foundations videos to help learn specific poses in a little more depth. And anything from her recent 30 Days series, once you've done beginner, should be fine. You may want to specifically go to foundations videos for balancing postures,…

Hummus. If need be, you can make your own pretty easily, which might also be way cheaper. Peas. Certain grains and therefore also certain breads. I think quinoa, but also bulgur, oatmeal, and couscous have decent protein counts (comparable to a lot of dairy). Edamame makes a nice snack -- check the frozen aisle. If you eat…

You can also try a less aggressive goal. Did you tell MFP something like 2 lbs a week? Try more like 0.5 lb or 1 lb. Yeah, sure, slower. But you can eat way more, and you only have 30 to lose anyway, so you don't want to cut too aggressively. And exercise! MFP gives you those calories to eat back. :) (Re: Exercise calories…

Undo some of your swaps. Whole eggs are great. Have beef sometimes. Have more almonds if you like them. Have more slices of turkey bacon, or go back to regular. Looking at your diary: - get a regular English muffin, not a light one - did you not have any moisture in your tuna sandwich today? oil? mayo? butter? - speaking…

If you use the Walking - 2.0 mph slow pace entry, what do you get? I get a pretty low number -- I get about 3.1 cals per minute burned. If it's similar for you, that might be an easy way to match what sofaking6 is suggesting, without having to change it every time.

Definitely good! Especially roasted. And now I want some.

Yes! Especially if it is bodyweight or nothing. I am doing Blogilates, and steadily gaining strength and the way my body feels (to touch and to wield) is changing dramatically. (I am overweight, so I doubt I'm changing dramatically in looks, but I think I'd be seeing changes if I were slimmer, and I have seen changes from…