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Once you're down to the last couple lbs, you should DEFINITELY set your goal to 1/2 pound. Also, make sure that you're logging everything very accurately, when you get down to the end accuracy is a lot more important than in the beginning.

I agree with everyone who's said to share the cheesecake recipe, it sounds wonderful! I'd say definitely just be more picky about who you're adding! My friends are all really supportive.

Are you sure that your BMR is 3414? How did you set up your profile with MFP? What are your weight loss goals set to? Since you only have about 30lbs to lose, I would suggest making your goal no higher than 1lb/week, to make sure that you're losing at a healthy rate and not losing lean muscle. Also, if you had 1186…

You look like a completely different person! Awesome job!

It will definitely get better! I started http://hundredpushups.com/ and could only do 5 in a row. Now I can do 11 in a row, after having done it for 2 weeks. You'll progress in no time as long as you stick with it!

The only thing I'd say about Subway, be careful about their sodium. They're WICKED high in it.

They depend entirely on: 1. What salad you're getting/what type of chicken (grilled or crispy) and 2. What type of dressing you're putting on them. You CAN make them not "bad" for you, per se (use grilled chicken instead of the crispy, etc.). They're still not as healthy as being able to make your own, fresh, but there are…

Don't diet! Find out what your maintenance calories are, and eat just a slight decrease from that to lose weight slowly. When you get to your goal, eat at your maintenance. It's probably somewhere in the 2000 calorie range, which means that you won't be depriving yourself or making yourself hungry all the time. When I…

I looked at those, and they're actually only 100 less, at 450 instead of 550. Makes me sad that those are considered lower sodium... :(

Meal frequency, by the way, doesn't matter. I usually only eat two meals a day -- I'm doing Intermittent Fasting, which means I eat between 12pm and 8pm, and fast the other 16 hours a day. Within that 8 hour period, I have two large meals to fit my calorie requirements for the day. If eating two times a day works better…

Once you get down to the last little bit, it's going to go slower. Make sure your MFP is set to .5lbs/week, and that you really are eating enough. Without being able to see your diary, it's tough to say for sure.

Also, this.

How much do you have to lose?

Yeah, I'm 5'6", so I hear that. I've never really been afraid of being jumped, though. Never been in a fight in my life.

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Bump, I've been craving bourbon chicken too, this is exactly what I've been looking for!

It... does, and it doesn't. If you set your goal to -2lbs/week, it will knock off 1000 calories, no matter whether that goes below your BMR or not. I don't have the handy list of what to set your loss per week at, but somewhere around the forums is a list of how many pounds you have left to goal and how much you should…

I usually eat about 1/2 or so back, MFP tends to way overestimate calories burned, so unless you're using a heart rate monitor, I wouldn't eat back all of them. But since MFP builds in your deficit, you should definitely eat some of them back, so you don't go too far into deficit!

http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/bmr/ Basal Metabolic Rate: essentially, how much food you need just to live. I'd suggest going and figuring out what your BMR is, and raising your calories up to that number.

Have you figured out your BMR? It might be that 1200 calories is too little for you, which is why you're now craving all kinds of food.

I usually weigh raw, and just make sure to log it as the raw weight.

Throughout the course of a day, your weight can fluctuate by as much as 5lbs. Sodium/water retention can also affect what the scale says. In order to have gained a true pound of fat, you have to have eaten 3,500 calories over your TDEE, which is highly unlikely. Give it a day (or a couple) and weigh again.

You want your NET total to be 1330, so yeah you would want to eat all of those exercise calories back. If you don't, your deficit is too high. Usually I would suggest eating back about 1/2 - 3/4 of your exercise calories, just to account for the over-estimation of exercise and under-estimation of calorie intake.

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According to the Military one, 32.4%. According to Covert Bailey, it's 28%.

I use Gold's Gym boxing, it's pretty good!

I LOVE the Vanilla Maple flavor. A couple of the others are pretty decent too... the coffee one is going to get thrown out for me, though. There isn't any comparing to real ice cream, but it's nice to have when I'm just craving that slightly sweet fix but don't want the overly sweet taste of ice cream. Or the sometimes…

I'm not exactly sure what the Slim Fast Diet is specifically, but if you mean you just want to replace the food supplements that they give you with real food, I'd say just make sure that the macros (protein, carbs, fats) are similar to what you end up eating. I agree with the other poster who said high protein, high fiber.…

These sound amazing. I may need to try them...