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If water weight and daily fluctuations bother you so much, just don't weigh yourself for a couple of days.

I just got back from a 2 week vacation. I did pretty well, in that I still attempted to log every day (you can do this with a pen and paper if there is no internet) but I also didn't deny myself having fun. In the 2 weeks I ended up going over my calories on about half the days, and being under the other half, which was…

Yep like the others have said it looks like your exercise cals are pretty off. For comparison, I'm your height and around 61kg, and I log around 200 calories per 10000 steps (I estimate on the conservative side to account for error) and I often only log steps if I go over 3000 anyway as I figure even a sedentary life would…

So it sounds like the weight increases can be attributed to water retention from exercise, but if it's been three months bouncing around the same weight then you are likely to be eating at maintenance. Do you weight all your food with a food scale? Or do you use cups/spoons/estimates? Do you eat back exercise calories? If…

Do you use the MFP phone app? If you click on the 'nutrition' tab then click 'weekly' it shows you a graph of calories over the last 7 days and tells you how many weekly cals you have left :)

I log about 150 exercise calories for 10000 steps. If I wasn't weiging my food, I could easily make up that difference in error.

Does your machine have a heart rate monitor? I use the shapesense calculator to estimate net burns based on average heartrate.

Is there a reason not to, if it fits into your calorie limit?

Yep, absolutely. I make sure I eat at least 1200 during the week and usually bank my exercise cals for the weekend :)

Have you been losing and gaining the same 3-4 pounds during the 3 months, or have you lost weight overall?

I used a couple of different online formulas to estimate how many calories I might burn with walking (using my weight/height, speed, steps per km etc). I came up with an estimate for calories per 1000 steps, then cut it a bit to account for possible overestimation. I then entered it as a custom exercise where 1 minute…

I can't post it from my phone for some reason, but there is a more recent version of the flowchart where I fixed some of the typos and bolded some of the more important bits :)

You haven't lost weight because you are eating too many calories.

In your case, replace the question 'how Yeah, it isn't always possible. But you can do things like preparing meals at home to bring to work, or choosing restaurants that have nutrition information on the website. Once you've been weighing and logging accurately for a while you'll learn to estimate a bit better for those…

Yeah, I know that in the US they're allowed to say '0 calories' if it's less than 5 calories. Which is cool, I guess, as 4 calories is negligible. But it gets a bit misleading with things like '0 calorie' spray oil that is actually 4 calories per 'serve' (a half second spray) so you get people using like 4 times that and…

Ok- so that way of interpreting BMR is thrown around these forums a lot: "It's what your body needs JUST TO SURVIVE!!" Well no, the more correct way of looking at it would be that BMR is the amount of calories your body would need to MAINTAIN your current weight if you were in a coma. Say a hypothetical 6ft, 250lb man with…

Just so you know: targeting legs for weights workouts does not result in 'skinnier legs'. Unfortunately you don't get to choose where fat comes off, you just have to eat at a calorie deficit and continue to lose all over. As the previous poster has said, for weight loss you need a calorie deficit, and to ensure a deficit…

Set your weight loss goal to lose half a pound per week. For 'toning' what you're after is reduction of body fat while retaining your muscles, to do this you don't want an aggressive deficit. Look into a heavy lifting program. Understand that you can't target specific areas for fat loss: genetics and body type determine…

How many calories are you eating each day? ETA with the amount of weight you have left I would say you could healthily lose a maximum of 15lbs in that time. But it will depend on how accurate your logging is.

How about: Decide how much exercise you want to do each week and stick to it Eat whenever you want Stay within your calorie allowance (weigh and log everything) Drink enough water Do a squat challenge or whatever if it's part of your exercise goal Post results :)

At your height and weight, your maintenance calorie intake should be around 1350 at sendentary (source: iifym.com). Eat that, at least. Are you exercising?

I hope you haven't already ordered them. Save you're money, they're BS

So you want to be thinner, but you don't want to put in the hard work. Welcome to the club, haha :P Might I suggest that rather than focusing on the long-term goal, maybe just take it one day at a time? Figure out a way you can reward yourself for reaching small milestones, for example if If I log under my calorie goal…

...It's been 12 days. If you're doing everything right and nothing is medically wrong, you beed to just chill out and give it more time. Water retention from exercise, TOM, or sodium could be masking weight loss. Also, it's been 12 days. Weight loss isn't always linear.

I'm not sure what it is you want to hear- either you want to be half a stone lighter or you don't. Maybe you're ok with your weight currently? Nothing wrong with that. Maybe 1200 is too few calories for you- perhaps you could set MFP to lose half a pound a week and slow it down a bit. Or add in some cardio to earn more…