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Food scale, seriously. That one tool opened my eyes to what I was eating and how much a serving actually is.

I say go for it. What you put in your body is no concern of mine, tbh. I see no health concerns and as long as you are eating a balanced diet you aren't doing any harm. You may find that you really enjoy it and I applaud you for that. You may find it hard to get around some preservatives though. Good luck!

can you share it for the rest of us? :)

^ this and I'll add that if you aren't weighing your food with a digital scale, you have no idea how accurate you really are. If you are ever in a position where you stop losing, there is a good chance that it is due to inaccuracies in your diary. That can be overestimating your calorie burns from workouts to not logging…

A lot of foods like rice or pasta will list on the nutrition label if it is cooked or raw. For Uncle Ben's white rice, it says 1/4 cup dry (48g) (About 1 cup cooked)

Scooby's Workshop can assist you to plan out a meal plan with your macro settings. http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

That's pretty much what I thought as well. I can get quite busy in the summer that waking up at 4am to work out isn't always possible and having the energy (and motivation) at 8 or 9pm can be a struggle

We really need a "Do not follow advice in this post" flag for advice like this.

My tip....weight loss happens in the kitchen, exercise is for your health. You will get more results by cutting your calories that you consume than exercising more. Example, 300 calories will take most people about 30 minutes of exercise. In the kitchen that equals about 3 cookies...easier to cut the cookies. Other tip…

MFP sets sugar goals really low and they don't differentiate between natural and added sugar. I ignore it and added fiber instead.

prelogging the entire day...or at least most of it. after a while you tend to find what works for you and what doesn't

mmmmmmmmmm Skittles

I cook for my wife and 2 kids and I just weigh out my own smaller portions. Really you don't have to eat 'diet' food. You can eat the same food that you always have, just eat less of it.

Agreed. Focus on calorie goals and weigh your food consistently.

I use T25 and Insanity Max30 workouts. I modify their schedule to fit into my workout routines. I would rather do the workouts than walk or run on a treadmill for cardio. I haven't finished a workout without dripping with sweat.

Don't beat yourself up. The calorie "goal" is simply a target. You aren't going to gain weight if you are over the magic line (if you set it at a deficit). Yes it took me quite a while to accept this. I use the calorie goal more as a target. I stay as close to the goal as I can but things happen, sometimes I'm more hungry…

@jamileed have you been weighing your food on a digital scale? If you aren't losing weight then you are eating more calories than you are burning. Weight loss happens in the kitchen, exercise is for your overall health.

My loses have slowed over the past few weeks just because I have been so busy lately with my business that I haven't had much time to work out. I'm still under my maintenance calories and I'm still losing, just not as fast as I was before.

Which probably means that the intake for all of the mice in their respective groups were the same. Not that all mice across all groups had the same caloric intake. It's a play on words and can have 2 different meanings upon how it's cleverly written.

Meh, I do what works for me and so far CICO hasn't failed me yet and I don't predict that it will. I have shifted my breakfast until later in the day only because if I eat when I wake up, then I'm starving way before lunch. I found that I was snacking before lunch just because I had about 7 hours between the two meals.

This isn't always the case. It depends upon how close your weight is to the default calorie burns that MFP took their data from. MFP calculates most of my burns pretty close to several other online calculators for my height and weight. So a blanket statement can be misleading a little. Just confirm through 2-3 other online…

A calorie deficit is all you need to lose weight. It's not necessary to eat low carb, high fat diet for weight loss (just saying for the record). 14 pounds in 2 weeks was likely mostly water weight and not sustainable long term. If you insist on being LCHF, then stick it out longer than 3 weeks. You can weigh daily to see…

If you have been using MFP for a bit, try this Excel Extraction Tool. It calculates your TDEE based upon your exercise and food logs. It's been pretty accurate for me so far. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/EvgeniZyntx/view/mfp-data-export-tool-the-overview-659927

I often do that so I'm not being a PITA with the chef and asking for half of everything. Works great for those places that only serve 1/2lb hamburgers.

I'm always surprised with large daily drops of 1+ pounds. I had one yesterday where I was sitting at 182.8 then 181.2 the next day...had to reweigh myself a couple of times just to make sure my scale wasn't messed up. :D

Three 10:00 Breakfast ~250 cal 11:30 Lunch ~750 cal 19:00 Dinner ~1000 cal sometimes I'll grab a snack in the evening after dinner, depending upon if I have any calories left over

I hope you enjoy your trip, it sounds like a lot of fun. Take a camera and bring back some photos to share :)

Good luck, looks like you have it sorted out

Remind me not to hit the HARD plateau. It sounds painful...smh There are two things that can be going on. It could be that you are eating more than you think you are or you are eating back too many calories. Since you were on WW and I hear that they have zero point items, it could be that those are throwing you off and…

I don't think anyone was trying to be rude. There are some people that may not know how to weigh something. As for your question. I would start by weighing what you are eating now for a few days (or a week) and get an idea of how much you are already eating. Then you just reduce the portions down to get them to fit in your…