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I'm glad you found MFP, it has been very helpful for me and I hope it will be for you as well. The most surprising thing I've discovered is that I can easily eat every single food that I like and continue to lose weight while eating PLENTY of food (1800 cals). I focus on fitting each thing into my macros. For example: a…

I imagine it would be easy for me to start back up. I haven't changed much as far as the foods I eat, just less. I just realized that my goals are set to 1.5lbs. I though I had lowered that a while ago. I think I'm going to lower it first and see if that makes a difference for me. I'm on a roll and I'd hate to take longer…

Everything is always an estimate when it comes to calories since no two people have exactly the same metabolism. I am unsure of the best site to use, but I vote that you pick a site that seems realistic to you and start by eating back half of the calories you burn. See how your weight loss goes. If you're losing faster…

Coffee won't make you fat or prevent weight loss. Neither will the sugar and creamer/milk that you may add as long as you count it toward your calories and fit it into your goals. You should only cut back if you are worried about damaging your heart. If you add so much sugar and creamer that you have difficulties reaching…

Were you going for irony. . . or. . .???

Lady, eating that little will make your brain panic and think that you're starving. It will do it's best to make sure that isn't happening. . .which means it will make you want to eat ALL the food and unless you're a superhero, you will most likely eventually give in and binge and binge and BINGE. It is nearly impossible…

I don't think I understand the question OP was getting at then.

Have you considered cooking it in some broth instead and just pouring a bit of measured gravy on top after the fact? I know it wouldn't taste the same, but if it's that much of a concern for you, I think it could be one solution.

'Artificial Sour' duh.

Sure, but the OP's goal is weight loss not to build muscle. So .8-1g per pound of LBM is what she should ideally be aiming for to help preserve the LBM that she currently has while losing fat. Nobody is suggesting that protein is not essential for weight loss. Every reply I see in this thread is agreeing that she SHOULD be…

Cool? 1g per lb of body weight for somebody whose goal is to lose weight, NOT build more muscle is way too much. She should be eating .8-1g per pound LEAN Body Mass, regardless of how easy it is for you to reach your protein goal without supplements.

A bigger apple is about 100 calories, same for a medium pear and a medium-large banana. If you have those in a day, there's 300 calories that you aren't counting. Why not just plan ahead to meet your calorie goals or average out your calories as a weekly number instead of getting bent out of shape over being under/over on…

I prelog as much of my day as possible during the week and usually end up making a few changes around breakfast and/or lunch. By the time dinner comes around, I'm finished logging on most days. Weekends are pretty hit and miss for prelogging. I'm home all day so I don't always have to plan my meals ahead of time. During…

I wish it was a bit less sweet, but I do like it. If it WAS less sweet, I would probably eat way too much of it. I like to mix it in with greek yogurt to subdue the sweetness or spread some nutella and cream cheese on top of a bagel or toast. Yum!!

It should be per pound of LEAN body mass I thought? You need to know what your body fat percentage is then subtract that weight from your total weight. If I am 40% body fat, than I am 60% lean body mass. If I were 200lbs, I would take 60% of that (120) and eat that many grams of protein. You could probably do .8 per lb of…

You could absolutely maintain on the same amount of calories that you were losing on but it depends on the situation. Say my goal weight's maintenance is 1975 cals per day. Say I start at 300lbs and I've been eating 1975 cals per day while losing weight. Eventually, I would reach a point where my body IS in maintenance (my…

If there is room for changes, like on the weekend, I wait until I got bed. During the week, I prelog and complete entry around 4:30pm before I head off to school. My schedule doesn't allow for very much to change after that time. Every so often I change the snack I have though and it's no big deal to change it once you've…

You can replace anywhere from 1 slim fast shake to ALL of your slim fast shakes with whatever you want and still lose weight as long as you are in a caloric deficit. If you look around this site you will find a lot of helpful information about healthy and SUSTAINABLE ways to lose weight. Sustainability is important and a…

I log it just like any other food or beverage I consume. I log pizza as pizza, lima beans as lima beans and coffee as coffee.

The only possible way to be gaining weight while eating at a caloric deficit is if you're not measuring your food correctly or you are overestimating your calories burned from exercise. . . meaning you aren't ACTUALLY eating at a deficit but only THINK that you are. The body runs based on thermodynamics: energy in vs.…

I feel your pain. I work from roughly 8am-4pm and then have 45 minutes to drive home, shower, eat, get my uniform on and head to school. By the time I get home, I have 30 minutes to do the rest. I usually microwave a frozen entree thing and eat it as quickly as possible. It's gotten to the point where I microwave my food…

Have you tried 96% lean beef? Which ingredient has the most calories? Maybe you can substitute something else for it. Or how about half beef and half turkey? If you cook the turkey in some beef broth and mix it with the beef well, your mother may not even notice.

MFP??

Soak it in sriracha sauce and cook on the stove top. Super spicy and yummy.

I do this. It's the only way to get a decent caloric estimate. Otherwise you're just guessing.

I do not suffer from this, but I had a broken foot for a while and suffer from plantar fasciitis. You can lose weight without exercise just by eating at a deficit. It is slower going and you will lose more muscle along with the fat than if you did resistance training, but you will still lose weight. Look into shadow boxing…

When I was eating between 1200 and 1400 calories per day, I was ALWAYS hungry! I had a set schedule that prevented binging during the week, but on weekends I would eat EVERYTHING. So for me, it ended when I figured out that I should listen to my body and EAT MORE FOOD. I eat about 1700 a day now and I am active at work for…

I have lost close to 35lbs in 4 months. You can browse through my photos to see where I've gotten to. I've been eating all of the foods I normally do in smaller quantities. I've mostly eaen at about 20% under my TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) and I lose about a pound a week. Feel free to check out my food diary to…

This has some merit. I subsisted off of eating whole fat people. . . I turned into a fat person. :devil:

Eating any amount of food will get you to a healthy weight IF it is the CORRECT types of food. i.e. clean or healthy or organic, etc.