Angierae75 Member

My advice is always eat 75% of them, wait a month, assess. Are you losing weight? Then you're fine. Go up or down if you're too hungry/not losing fast enough.

Absolutely sodium. Give it a few days, drink some extra water.

My missing day never showed up, sadly.

Yeah, mine didn't fix yesterday either, but I just went by my fitbit calories and made sure I didn't eat over.

For me, a realistic goal was how much I could cut back my calories and increase my activity. I have enough to lose that 2# a week is reasonable, but for me, it isn't. 1# a week is sustainable, so that's what I work at.

You're doing great.

I fixed mine! In the iOS app, anyway - I went into More, then "steps" and I had to click on "Fitbit tracker". NO idea why, since it was working just fine before, but it added in today's steps, at least.

I can totally get this happening when you don't realize what portions are supposed to be like. So many times on my weight loss journey I've measured out a serving of something and realized that in the past, I would have eaten 3x that.

For me, unless my stomach is grumbling, I figure I'm just at "I could eat". I leave work at 5:30 and we usually eat dinner around 6:30-6:45, so if I'm leaving work and my stomach is rumbling, that's fine. I also space out snacks, though - I eat at 9, 11 (very small snack, usually fruit or veg) 12:30, 3ish and then dinner…

Yeah, I'm not getting updates today either, which is frustrating me as it gets closer to dinnertime and I need to know how much I can eat. :disappointed:

4k is a lot, but I look at it this way - everyone has special occasions where they indulge. If you go over for an event, it's fine. You might see less of a loss that week, or no loss, or even a gain if you eat a lot of high sodium food. But life continues during your weight loss journey. What you can't do is decide that…

When I'm going to be doing something like that where my steps aren't going to be super accurately counted, I just shove my flex in my pocket

I log my dinner first thing in the morning, save back about 100 calories for a nighttime snack (not always needed) and go from there. If I want some M&Ms, I have to have room for them.

I, too, plan for an evening snack. I don't always need it, but I leave the 100 or so calories available.

They aren't necessary, but they absolutely helped me with my 30# weight loss a couple years ago. I learned important things: I'm not as sedentary as I think I am. So I could have been eating more. Which is why I'd failed every other time I'd tried to calorie count. Once I was eating an appropriate amount of food, I could…

This thread is exactly why I have a Fitbit. It tells me exactly how much I should be eating, every day, based on that day's activity. In the last half hour I have logged 1000 steps at my "desk job" between running to the printer and taking stuff to my boss's office as she figures out what she needs.

I drink extra water the day before a weigh in and try to keep my sodium down to minimize water retention screwing up my numbers.

Because I've been busy at work, and busy means sit at my desk and don't get a chance to move around as much, I'm set to sedentary and my fitbit says I've taken 3300 steps today. It's basically telling me I've just basically hit sedentary (I have only "received" 20 extra calories today. Later tonight when I take a three…

I had a breast reduction five years ago and I still look at shirts and go "this isn't going to fit" and then it fits or it's too big. It takes time.

I don't pay attention to Fitbit's calorie stuff. I use my fitbit to calculate my burn via walking, and tell MFP, where I then log all of my food.

I put sugar free vanilla creamer and a touch of sugar into my coffee. Yes, it's calories, but I'd be less happy if I used those calories elsewhere and didn't put them in my coffee. My two cups of coffee a day are about 150 calories and it's an excellent use of "snack" calories in my opinion.

Pregnancy took me from 120 to 140. After that it was "well, I'm already fat, who cares" and I put on 10-15 a year for the next 6 years. I maintained for a long time, and now I'm losing.

This is my way of looking at it: thin people indulge occasionally, too. I am not going to spend a holiday or a birthday obsessing about what I eat. I'm going to a party tonight. I walked 3.5 miles this morning to make sure I got my steps in. I ate a reasonable breakfast and will eat a reasonable lunch. And then I will go…

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I try to eat healthy, but it's vacation. I eat what I want. Same goes with holidays, birthdays - just because you're losing weight doesn't mean you can't enjoy a special day or vacation. I'm not going to put all the weight I lost back on in a day. Or even in a week.

I actually eat less on the weekends because at work I'm always looking for an excuse to get up from my desk. At home, I'm busy doing fun things. ;)

I may jump on the scale every day but I only log once a week.

What irritates me about rice and pasta is that I *can't* measure it dry unless I cook my portion separate from the rest of the family's. So I'm always wildly guessing.

We actually have a food scale in our office "kitchen" because there are lots of us watching our weight. However, if it's something I can portion out at home, I just weigh it at home and pack it.

You should be eating the # of calories MyFitnessPal tells you to eat. It already has a deficit built in.