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Yes! :laugh:

according to guessing from the mfp database and my exercise this morning I netted 2150

GREAT TOPIC! GOAL: 192 by graduation (Dec. 18) By: 1. Staying positive 2. Keeping up with my current exercise & food plan!

I haven't really, maybe back in high-school, but I love this song!

Dad's African American (so African descent and probably other things somewhere along the line), mom's half White half Mexican.

I LOVE mashed potatoes. That's probably what I'm looking forward to the most. That and pie. Also, my grandmother's green beans are freakin' awesome.

I have a droid & love the app. On the app you still have access to friends, but not msg boards. And a bar-code scanner!! Awesomeness.

My heaviest weight and weight on the day I started are the same, so it wasn't an issue for me. I would say use the weight you were the day you started, because if you were pregnant that shouldn't count against you!

Yup I'm also A2 (didn't specify in the first post). GO BLUE!

Depends on your activity level. If you put your info into MFP correctly then just do what it says and you will be fine. :)

:) 100 cals isn't a big difference. Every calculation varies a bit. Keep doing what MFP says. I use MFP's guidelines, which are also about 100 over what I would get with the equation I posted, and I am losing steadily. I put my whole-hearted trust in the calculations of this site.

Great - thanks for sharing!

:blushing: Aww shucks.... I'm no expert, just trying to help by sharing what helped me!

Seems great! You should be right on target. But if you're not losing, you might try lowering to "lightly active" and letting MFP calculate it for you, because your 4-5 exercise sessions per week SHOULDN'T be counted as part of your baseline activity level.

TDEE = Total Daily Energy Expenditure. Your BMR (which you can figure out using the BMR calculator under "tools") is how much your body would burn by just being alive and laying there. Your TDEE is how much your body therefore needs to maintain its weight when taking into account your normal daily activities. Your TDEE is…

Yeah that would make sense for 2 lbs (your 2,300 TDEE - 1000) . If you have it at around 1700 you should lose about a pound a week!

Correct.

Glad I could help! To change your settings go under "settings" --> "update diet/fitness profile" and put in your info. See if what it recommends once you put in everything is similar to what we figured out. I'm curious.

Alright. So if you are sedentary and your BMR is 1869, then your TDEE would be 1869 x 1.2 = 2,242.8 This means to lose 1lb/week you should be eating 1742 cals per day. Then eat back whatever you burn. If you are lightly active, your TDEE would be 1869 x 1.375 = 2,569. Then you would eat 2,069 cals per day. It just seems…

Sorry. By "formal exercise time" I meant anything outside of normal daily activities (whatever you do at work/home on a regular basis). What is your activity level set to now? What do you do daily as part of your job or at home activities, apart from your exercise?

Assuming that is accurate, then you want to take 500 off of that (for 1lb/week) and eat back your exercise calories. The only other thing I can think of is that your activity level might be set wrong. If you set it too high you might be getting too high of a TDEE. You shouldn't count your formal exercise time as part of…

Trust MFP - eat back those calories. I do strength training 2-3 times a week, always eat back what I burned, and I am losing weight steadily.

I am thinking that the TDEE may be high

OMG it's the part of the movie where he realizes that Ellie filled the rest of the adventure book.... :sad:

Raised in A2 and still here, in school at U of M

I'm in Michigan too! Whereabout, SassyCaly?

Yes I did when I saw it in theaters and tonight also. :sad:

I saw "Ides of March" last night. It was amazing! I'm watching "Up" on the disney channel right now. Great movie!

Proteins are great for making you feel full. Try turkey burgers with a side salad instead of hamburgers - You can make this at home (it takes like 10-15 mins on a grill) and take it to work. :-) edit: CONGRATS on the job, btw!

It is doable for sure and much easier if you educate yourself about what to look for. It is still tricky though because to the untrained eye many things that seem good aren't. In Chile it was much easier for me because those things weren't even sold in most stores.