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Automatically every set number of pounds. 5? 10? Not sure. You can always trigger it though. Just rerun your goals -- you don't even have to change them, just go in, click guided (or manual or however you have it done), look it over, save it. Your calorie target will change if it needs to!

lol! Exercising can get me emotional. I think it puts me in this really cool state where I'm more pliable -- if all goes well, I get a nice high, or at least an energy boost and a sense of accomplishment. If all goes not well, I get a nice mood swing into the low and start yelling at my video instructor that I hate her.…

Your diary is closed for me. Do you have it open only to friends maybe? (Closed to all is the default, I think.)

It's a huge change, that's actually made up of a lot of changes, both physical and mental, so I do think it's common to have emotional reactions. Will depend on the individual what that actually looks like, how long it lasts, etc. Since it's been a few weeks, it's probably not the initial adaptation to the deficit. Do you…

You gained because you ate a bunch at once. Your body is used to 1200 calories (or whatever it's used to) which will have a certain macro range for things like sodium and carbs. If you ate, I don't know, 3000 calories yesterday, you didn't put on 2 lbs of fat, you just mathematically did not. Not even 1. But your carbs and…

Well that sucks. I was hoping we'd discover your TDEE was higher, to make things a bit easier! If you've been reducing carbs, that might contribute to a drop in energy. (Which you might adjust to, or you might not.) Also, if you used to be eating over maintenance (slowly gaining weight), then keep in mind that your body is…

Think of it like this: Your body needs energy to live. (Heartbeat, walking to the kitchen, etc) Your body needs energy to train. (Go on a run, lift heavy things, etc) You are trying to eat enough to fuel living and training (if you're training), but actually less than your body needs, so that it has to take some of that…

Are you sure you calculated your TDEE and not your BMR + lifestyle calories? Did you use a calculator that estimates lifestyle calories only (how much you move around while going about your day) or did you also factor in exercise burns? Basically: BMR (existing) + lifestyle (moving around, working, showering, making food)…

I wonder about the physical changes that happen when we strength train in a deficit. I know I'm not building muscle mass -- especially as I am not lifting heavy, I am doing bodyweight exercises. I do feel changes in my body (especially in leaner areas, where there's less fat over the muscle) though. These changes persist…

You can slow down your metabolism -- it is not enough to prevent weight loss. If you starve yourself, you will lose weight. But it can be enough to mean that when you try to stop, your BMR is not where it would have been otherwise. Your body tries to operate more efficiently -- it's starving, so it stops doing certain…

"Not really hungry though" and "I have time to eat three meals a day but not, like, enough calories in those meals" are not valid reasons to starve yourself. You do realize that you're likely to seriously, potentially permanently, harm your body, yeah? You do have the time, and it doesn't matter whether you're hungry or…

I am going to guess water, especially if I take you at your word that you weigh and log all your food and know what you're doing (as you've done it before) and have been sticking to your target, etc. You are larger than I am, and I can see fluctuations of like 5 lbs, so I assume you can see larger fluctuations than that.…

Can you not have those foods around for right now? Or label them someone else's -- ex "the kids' chips" meaning, they do not belong to you, you are not free to go eat them. Start exercising / exercising more? Pick something you'll like. Shift your thinking. Things are difficult right now, so you have to work HARDER to take…

If you eat 1200, then go and burn off 200, it's not terribly different from just eating 1000. It's called net calories. MFP wants you to NET your target, not eat it, and then burn half your target off! (And netting below 1200 is considered unhealthy, so MFP will always warn you if you do it.) If you didn't exercise even a…

If it helps, you can think of your eating in bigger chunks of time, like weekly. If you think you didn't get enough to eat on the weekend, maybe not enough protein, you can eat more throughout the week, spread it out! If I had 1000-1500 extra calories, I would probably not spend them on a shake, but you can spend them…

I think you're over-complicating this. 1. It's possible to lose weight eating any food. So questions like "can I have bread / how often / can I grill / are hamburgers terrible / etc" are a waste of time and energy. All foods are fine, it's fine. Should you eat a burger every 5 minutes? No. Should you eat consistently over…

It won't put your real name or anything public... just what "pwh300" is eating.

You add extra exercise time? If so, that's the opposite of being cautious (the way that trying to overestimate your food is). As it is, many of the exercise burns from the database are inflated for many people. As for not weighing/measuring, it's fine if you're getting results. As is losing weight without counting at all.…

MFP doesn't know whether you will exercise or not, or how much. So, when it tells you how much to eat, it has already given you a goal that would get you your weight loss. So if you told it 2 lbs a week, it will give you a target. Stick to that target, you should lose 2 lbs a week. (If you log accurately, etc.) No exercise…

Start with the smallest steps you can identify. Maybe just logging your food. Or just getting out for a walk each day. Pick one small thing that you can focus on. Do it, no matter what. Allow yourself to feel awesome for doing it. And, when it starts to feel easier, pick another small thing to add. You'll start to feel…

Crunches, push-ups, etc should not cause back pain! Do not do anything that is causing back pain unless you're being supervised by, say, a physical therapist. I don't know if your scoliosis affects this, or if it's just bad form. If you think it's bad form, you can try to work on form, but if you get pain, stop. It's also…

I think when you exercise regularly, you get used to feeling sort of firm and trim... I think it's probably an effect of muscles doing some adapting, maybe holding onto a bit of water, that sort of thing. Sometimes I feel thinner and tighter even immediately after a workout (I'm not, I'm talking about ~feelings~). And when…

Usually pretty low energy, tired, fatigued. I also sleep really poorly leading up to my period, which doesn't help. If anything, I look to exercise to maybe boost me up a bit and "treat" the symptoms, rather than looking to perform my best. Sometimes I do surprise myself once I get into the workout though!

Most workout videos would fall under one of these: Aerobics, general Aerobics, high impact Aerobics, low impact Calisthenics (I use the "light/moderate" one, as I think it's a really conservative estimate) Circuit Training, general (I think this comes out the same as the vigorous calisthenics entry?) There's also stuff…

Love Billy! I really like his Bootcamp series, which I think fuses Tae Bo and various bootcamp-style calisthenics stuff (burpees, push-ups, etc). Never tried the straight Tae Bo workouts though, I should, now that a bunch are likely on YouTube. I think those videos, which were my first attempts at "working out" ever, were…

Jessica Smith on YouTube has some walking/jogging based videos with other things added in for interest, balance, strength, more intensity, etc. Once you get going, you could probably construct your own similar routine while watching your shows! (It's just good to practice with instruction first, for form and such.) You can…

Home. Settings. Diary Settings. Scroll to Diary Sharing and choose Public. (that's for the web. Not sure if you're on mobile, sorry.)

Try doing an active rest day. So maybe just walking on the treadmill, no incline, enjoyable pace. Or go for a walk or leisurely bike ride outside, if it's nice on your rest day. Or do a nice long stretching or restorative yoga video (don't push the stretching too much, just enjoy it). You can still get the psychological…

The sugar column on MFP is based on the guidelines for *added* sugar. But I don't think the column can actually differentiate -- so if you eat sweetened yoghurt (which would have dairy sugars and added sugars), the column would just show all the sugar. So, in addition to what janejellyroll said, I don't think the sugar…

If you are going to go low carb, then... you are going to be high fat. Look up LCHF. And since the default MFP macros are not set up to assume you ARE doing LCHF then the default fat macro is low. If you want to stay low carb, you'll want to do some research and figure out where your fat macro should be, and set a custom…