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I keep mine plain but make it with a chunk of butter to give it more flavour. My housemate experiments with different Philly flavours, pretty cool since you can get all those different flavours now like the grilled pepper/chives/etc.

Yes, I usually balance out what I eat over the week to accommodate restaurant meals/nights out. It works fine :)

Save up the calories and have a few treats at the end to balance out.?

I guess the calories in my head and don't bother logging, I'll just knock off the calories over the next day/next few consecutive days. So my journal looks all over the place at the moment but hey, whatever works!

+80lbs from what I am now I was an E, now I'm a DD/sometimes can just get away with a D.. I wish I could reach C but I don't think it'll happen.

50 carbs, 25 each for fat/protein. Gotta have my carbs.

I never count it as 'falling off the wagon' - if I want pizza/chocolate (and I can put away a fair amount when I'm craving it), I'll knock off calories the day before/after. So long as everything balances I don't feel guilty and the weight loss carries on. Also feeling my clothes get looser on me is great motivation :)

I tend to plan in advance, but if it's something I wasn't planning on eating then yes, I'd put it in the day after and just knock the calories off the rest of my daily goal.

I think I overcompensate with how many calories I spare for drinking; I always knock ~300 cals off my food (covers predrinks in my mind, I stick to vodka/flavoured fizzy water) and then we go clubbing for 4-5 hours, more than enough moving about to cover anything extra I buy in the club. It's tricky if it's a house thing…

How tall are you? 2100 sounds pretty high to me for weight loss, but then again it depends on how intense your workouts are. I'm 5'7 and I eat between 1200-1500 depending on what exercise I've done in the day.

These days I'm always extremely close to my net goal, I just add on a few grams of veg here and there to creep up to the number if needs be. I find it satisfying to see I'm within 1 or 2 calories (don't like seeing that number turn red though!). Must be a psychological thing.

I look up the menu nutrition online and try to fit it into my calories/macros for the day.

Spend your calories how you like, so long as you hit your daily goal there's no problem with when you eat them.

I used to love big bowls of cereal in the morning until I joined MFP and found out I was eating 700-800 just for breakfast.. crazy! Now I just stick with a bowl of porridge and a bit of sweetener, fills me up til lunch and only 184 cals.

Yeah, I know that, it'd be the 1500 every day - but that adds up to a lot more than just logging what I'm doing and eating back exercise calories. And yes the cardio I do is quite light so it only adds on a bit more to my weekly intake, which is why I think the 'lightly active' activity level might be pushing up my…

Yeah, I really hate this because my housemates love cooking, especially sweet treats like cookies/cakes. I feel so rude turning it down because they've actually gone to the effort to bake them. Sometimes I skip a meal to compensate (which is awful, I know!).

I haven't tried bumping up my calories but from what I've heard on here from the people who have, the initial weight gain was followed by loss and broke through their stall. I don't think it would work for me because my sedentary TDEE is 1700 anyway, and I want to lose 1lb a week, so I want to keep that 500 deficit. What's…

Get a gym induction, they'll show you how to use all the machines :)

In the past I've always weighed myself weekly, then once the scale stopped steadily going down I switched to once every two weeks (always on Sundays). Normally then I continue seeing the number drop and feel better all round.

1200 as a base limit. Eat back all your exercise calories. I don't know why this infuriates people so much. Edit - if your TDEE is 1700, of course. If it's higher, your base limit should be higher too.

Work out your TDEE using a calculator (http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/). Take 500 off your TDEE - consume this amount of calories each day for 1lb a week weight loss (for me, my TDEE is ~1700, so I eat 1200). On days you do exercise, log it in, eat back those calories (so on some days I'll eat 1400-500).…

Pizza, especially stuffed crust. Which is weird because I never liked pizza before I started dieting! And anything and everything related to chocolate..

I'm not sure if walking will do anything for toning, I just regard it as cardio. It's all I do for weight loss but I've been told to incorporate strength training in order to tone my stomach/legs. I might take up pilates at some point..

I would say go with your preference. Track what you eat on an average day and see where the divides lie. Don't be afraid to up your carbs if you have a lot of them in your diet - 35% is too low for me, I'm currently at 50%, but prior to MFP I'm pretty sure my carbs were even higher and I lost a lot of weight on that.

I reply to people who aren't losing on 1200, often because they don't eat back their exercise calories so they're actually netting less than 1000.

The rate I want to lose is 1lb a week though, which is why I keep the 500 deficit and eat 1200 (and eat back all exercise calories of course).

To lose 1lb a week requires a daily 500 calorie deficit though, which would be 1271.

This calculator gives me a TDEE of 1900 but all others I've used give ~1700, confusing..!

If 1200 is your normal intake, make sure you log your exercise and eat back those calories as well - if you're burning extra hundreds then you may be netting less than 1000 which isn't good for your body and might be slowing down your loss.

Don't panic, one week isn't a plateau. It's probably nothing more than natural fluctuation, just wait until next week and the number should go down, it sounds like your weightloss is pretty consistent.