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Oh course I do but I also fit them in my calorie goal. My point was that if you feel that you must have an "all you can eat" meal then you are restricting yourself too much the other days. I will occasionally go over my goal but that's usually on a special occasion and I have only came close to my maintenance calories once…

I don't believe in cheat days. If your calorie reduction is so severe that you need a cheat day to feel satisfied then it's too much. Reevaluate your goals and find a good calorie deficit that leaves you feeling satisfied at the end of each day.

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YOU CAN DO IT! did that help? ;) 9 pounds in a month? Congratulations, that's a great loss and yes I'm serious. Most people should aim around 1-1.5 pounds per week. Much more than that, for an extended time, can cause you to lose muscle. I suspect that 1200 calories is too low or too aggressive of a weight loss plan. Take…

Sometimes I swear you are replying to a completely different thread

Is this what you guys do at 4am while I'm working out, arguing about grammar? :D

I don't count cleaning as exercise for a lot of the reasons above. I do count push mowing my lawn though. It takes 2 hours to mow and it's all at a considerable incline (20°-30°) because I live on a spine of a foothill.

Then I apologize but you need to eat more. Your maintenance without exercise is 2400. As others have suggested, I would eat at or very close to maintenance and start some strength training.

Either we are dealing with someone that has a thick skull and wont' listen or a troll...I'm leaning towards a troll at this point.

You need to fuel your body. I'm an inch shorter than you (and 17 years older) and losing 1.5lb/wk while eating at 2000 calories. If you aren't losing then I suspect something is wrong with your logging or weighing of your food.

Your maintenance, according to several calculator should be around 2700, assuming no exercise. Here's what I would do. I would put your numbers into MFP's calculators and set your goal at 1-1.5 pounds per week. Eat to those calories for 3-4 weeks and gauge your weight loss from there. If you are on target to your goal then…

I follow my TDEE and log my exercise. Reason? I have an Excel calculator that extracts MFP's data and does all kinds of things; like make charts, graphs and nerdy stuff. It also calculates my observed TDEE over the past 30 days when I include my exercise. FYI, this is not my calculator but you can find it…

Sorry but this isn't true. Meal timing has no effect on your metabolism. I was the same way as the OP. I now push my breakfast off until 10am. I drink black coffee in the mornings until then and it has helped eliminate a snack that I was needing to get through the mornings.

nice, i was looking on amazon today and they have some relatively cheap large scales. Their accuracy isn't great but if you are weighing that much food it probably doesn't matter too much

How big of a scale do you have? I ask because my kitchen scale only weighs up to 4 pounds. I usually cook in a very large crock pot and I think the ceramic bowl easily tops 5-7 pounds without food.

Have you looked into 5/2 fasting or Intermediate Fasting? Sounds similar to what you are trying to do.

great job and glad that you are down today :)

49. You have 5 tabs in Chrome open to the threads that you are following so you don't have to use the bookmark function on the forums.

53. You can mentally add your calories in your head and know that the PB&J sandwich that you just made is 360 calories and 120 calories for the 1 ounce of chips ;)

^ This. Without retraining yourself on portions and making lifestyle changes, you will constantly go back to old habits of eating too much. We've all been there. The only way to really keep it off is to take it slow and build new habits. Those new habits should be to weigh and log your food to ensure that your portions are…

59. When you go through your pantry looking for food to fit in the remaining 100 calories that you have left.

1 gallon of fluid really isn't that much. You probably already drink this if you are counting drinks other than water. Coffee, tea, cola....all count toward your fluid consumption. Plus we get most of our fluid through our food anyway. Don't drink a gallon just because someone told you to. If your urine is the proper color…

I'm glad that I'm not the only one not adjusting my weightloss/wk when I get closer to my goal. I'm 10 pounds away as well and I'm keeping my 700 calorie deficit. My plan is to slowly increase my calories when I get to my goal but I'm doing a hard switch to full strength training and looking forward to dropping the cardio…

I used to and then I had to break a few habits. First was how early I ate breakfast. I would wake up at 4am, exercise 30 minutes and eat breakfast by 5am. Now I push breakfast back to 9:30 or 10 because I was snacking between breakfast and lunch because I was getting hungry again. My breakfast was about 250 calories and…

True but a lot of people that are lightly active use sedentary because it's easier and it gives them more room for error (or more chance for a loss). Especially at the beginning when you have no idea what your TDEE actually is.

I do this too. I think some people can't wrap their heads around the fact that some of us measure out 1 serving exactly and log it as a cup or tablespoon.

Just remember to record the weight of the dish. I never remember to do this until after I cook it and ready to serve...

I've never really been a big cola drinker so cutting it out wasn't that difficult. Now if someone were to take my coffee there might be a beat-down o.O

I've been doing this recently as well. You want a reward for your hard work and want a little break. Best thing to do is jump back into your routine. I started to slip mostly because I got sick and couldn't workout for a week or so. Then the excuses started back in as to why I shouldn't exercise (need to work on…