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Coming from a fellow engineer, you might like watching your numbers with this excel extraction tool . You will have to log all of your meals and exercise in MFP but it's entertaining to graph out things. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/EvgeniZyntx/view/mfp-data-export-tool-the-overview-659927

My activity goes up and down quite a bit depending upon how much I lose. I watch my oTDEE and set the scale as high as they can go. This gives me the most accurate TDEE number based upon my calorie and exercise logging. I used to try and get my activity level as high as I could then I finally emailed EvgeniZyntx and asked…

I wish that they taught it as well. It's a shame that most will never know how to regulate their weight correctly.

mmmmmmmm Snickers....now I'm hungry >:)

According to IIFYM your TDEE is 1478 as sedentary. Your calorie target should be 1250 with TDEE-15%. This is before exercise and should be roughly about what MFP gives you if you use this site's calculator and then add exercise on top of that. If you are gaining then you don't have something set up correctly or your…

Easiest way is to use a cloth tape measure and find an online calculator and enter the measurements. That's the way that I do mine and I was within .5% of mine when I used an impedance device. Or you can get one for about $30 on…

Sounds like you need to recalculate your TDEE and calorie deficit. You probably won't be losing as much each week as you were the first 60 pounds. 1.5-2 pounds/wk is hard to maintain when you are near your healthy weight without losing a lot of lean muscle mass.

@SezxyStef hit the main points. Every time I seem to stall, I tighten my logging and it gets the scale moving. For some reason I tend to loosen up on tracking, thinking that I can have a handful of nuts or crackers. Then I forgot that I ate them and eat something else...etc. It happens to us all.

Have you been logging your food? Are you using a digital scale and weighing everything that you are eating? Are you staying within your calorie budget?

I would drink what you want. I haven't logged an alcoholic drink in quite some time and my losses are on target. Though I don't drink often, a couple of glasses of wine 1-2 times per month. If you drink a lot, then I would log it but if it's a one-time event, I would enjoy myself and go with the night.

There's nothing wrong with weighing daily. You will need to learn to ignore the small spikes if you do. Personally, I would rather see the fluctuations. This way I'm not waiting a week between weigh-ins and wondering what's going on the entire week. Perhaps when I'm maintaining I'll weigh weekly.

I tried that and I was fine with it for a while. Then I started having issues where I never felt full after my meals because I was tying 700-800 calories up in snacks. I moved my breakfast back until 10am (~250 calories), lunch at 11:30 (~750 calories) and that leaves 1000 calories for dinner and after dinner snack if I…

PB & honey sandwich. It will depend upon your bread & pb choices but mine are around 360 cal.

I always go by the grams on the label. I figure that they are adding the water weight in as well but I drain and rinse my canned vegetables.

@ncboiler89 you haven't tried a vegan one then :s

I have had issues like this and it really boiled down to me getting lax on weighing some food. I would grab handfuls of grapes out of the fridge and not log them...etc. Tighten your logging and weighing of your food and you will probably start seeing the scale move again.

Because you're now overeating since you lowered your activity level. You were, basically, using exercise to mask your eating habits.

Brian, I could have sworn you were telling my story. 4 years ago, I lost 50 pounds over a 6 month span. I kept that off without logging or needful exercise for 3 years. I slowly started eating the same foods that I ate before and I gained 15 pounds back. I stayed that way for about a year and when I weighed myself in…

I'm near my goal weight and my stomach is still lopsided. It's very slight and any person just looking at me probably wouldn't notice it but I do. It happens and as long as it's not a solid lump, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Great explanation and thank you for digging this up

First instinct was grilled chicken until I saw the Jumbo Shrimp....shrimp please and a side of fried okra :) I'm not a huge fan of fish. I was hoping that this was somewhat close to me but Texas is a pretty good drive from Western NC.

I saw that when I posted my reply. You must have a friend out there somewhere...

Thanks

When you guys are referring to grams of protein per pound of body weight, is that LBM or total body weight? Sometimes people use the terms interchangeably and they aren't so just making sure for my own sanity.

The Bro-science is strong with this one...

OH OH OH!!! I Know this one... All of them = Pseudoscience o.O

You might be surprised in how you feel when you workout if you increased your calories closer to your goal. You can always add some cheese or snack crackers in each meal. 100-200 calories worth for both lunch and dinner and you would make up most of those missing calories and probably add a little extra fat that your body…

I set myself with multiple goals and reevaluated at each. For me I decided to keep going. Now my goal is 170...not sure if I'll go lower as I'm at 179 right now and that is only 1 pound higher than I was in high school. I say, keep going if you want. Evaluate when you feel like it and see how you look and feel.

100 calories over your goal will not cause you to gain weight. Remember, the calorie goal that MFP gives you is not a line in the sand where if you go over you gain weight. If you go over, you just don't lose as quickly as you set your goal to. That was a HUGE mental barrier that I had to overcome when I started. It's ok…