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Typical for the most part. Eating light on Saturday due to photographing a wedding and rest while editing on Sunday.

I eat a late breakfast of granola and yogurt around 10am because once I eat something I will be hungry until lunch. That's usually just under 300 cals. A moderate lunch around 700 calories and then about the same for dinner. Then I have some extra for a snack or if it's a weight day, I'll use the extra to fill in more…

The times that I have had to do this were at weddings and I left over 1000 calories in my day for dinner and left it blank. Yeah you end up having a low calorie day in your diary but I didn't gain anything and ate pretty light those meals...plus wedding cake. One of the best benefits of being a wedding photographer :)

The reason why you lost 14lbs in 3 weeks is because you are low carb. Most of that weight was water weight. 3 days isn't long enough to be a plateau. Plateaus tend to be over 4-6 weeks. Give it some time and you will lose the weight. This isn't a marathon, slow and steady is the way to go.

Scale and tape pretty much sums up my measurements. I weight daily and use the tape weekly. I don't see the justification to buy an expensive impedance BF measurement device when they are so inaccurate. I seem to get fairly accurate readings with my tape for now.

Best advice I have received..."Look at the overall trend over the past week, 2 weeks, month...etc. If you are losing, you are on track" I was focusing too much on the daily fluctuations and needed to look over the past month's trend to see that I was losing consistently.

err sorry had wrong numbers. 159/334=0.47 Enter 0.47 into MFP (brain broken...can not math today) :D

I would wager, after looking at your diary, that your deficit is too much. Your daily goal is 1600, why do you have days with 900 calories? That's the reason, your body is screaming for fuel.

I will probably be more strict about it as I get closer to my goal and once I start maintaining. As for right now, I don't log everything unless it's over 50 calories. Veggies like carrots, celery and lettuce I usually don't log. I will log fruit like cantaloupe if it is in enough of a quantity to add to my day.

I log mine daily here

You have it set up correctly at sedentary. The reason that most people will say to only eat back 50-75% of the exercise calories is because exercise machines and MFP overestimate your calorie burns. By only eating back 50-75% you are fairly certain that you will stay on track to lose your 1.5lb/wk

Congratulations :)

5'11" 185 Losing average 1.5lb/wk and have about 15 pounds left

My advice, buy a food scale and use it every time you eat something. It will save you a headache later if you are going through all of the effort of logging your food with inaccurate devices or worse guessing. Oh and food scales are less than $20 on amazon. Find one that's rated high.

You can get a bigger burn on a treadmill by walking on an incline than you can running, well depends upon how steep you make it. I walk on mine at 10% incline at 3.5mph and can burn 400+ calories in 30 minutes. Much more than running on no incline.

Didn't you start a thread on this a few days ago that was removed?

mmmm bacon

Height: 5'11" Starting Weight (4/6):188.6 Goal Weight (4/27): 183.0 4/6: 188.6 4/13: 186.8 4/20: 186.4 4/27: Loss/gain for the week: .4 lbs Loss/gain for the month so far: 2.2 lbs Struggles or successes of your week: Weight loss has slowed down a bit. Changed from NEAT to TDEE method and not eating back calories. Seems to…

I use the recipe builder the best that I can. At the end of the day, we can only be so accurate. Just do the best that you can and if you can't avoid it, estimate to the best of you ability.

I was a slightly concerned about my potassium levels as well until I read this thread, thanks everyone. Taking everything into consideration, I can breathe a little easier knowing that I'm more than likely getting my recommended levels, or at least close to it. MFP has my average about 1/2 of the recommended and I don't…

I just set my current calorie goal 2000. My maintenance at my goal weight without exercise will be 2150 so there's not much difference once I reach my goal. I still plan to do cardio, just not as regular as I am now once i reach goal. Trying to be realistic...

Personally, I don't eat mine back though I'm not using the NEAT method, rather TDEE

I would wager that they also believe that 10 tons of feathers weighs less than 10 tons of steel.... *smh*

You'd be surprised. Look at fast food places like Wendy's where their mediums are 32oz and large are 42oz (or something close to that). This is the reason why I order water with all of my meals now. 32oz of water is the same as a 12oz :D

I agree, but it's not just in America. All industrialized countries are having weight problems.

It's a personal preference. I'm a breakfast person. I like a cup of coffee with my granola and yogurt in the morning. Some days I get up earlier than others so I'll pack my bfast and eat it at my desk later in the morning that way I'm not starving at lunch and over eat. So sometimes I'll eat around 6am and others 9am. Just…

But are you under-fueling your body by over 2600 calories/day? BTW, congrats on your weight loss. 100 pounds is amazing

With your goal of losing 130+ pounds, you will eventually run into a wall of fatigue at some point. It may be tomorrow or a month from now but you will hit it because you aren't fueling your body enough. I don't know what your current weight and height is but plug your numbers into MFP and go by what it tells you. Just be…

I didn't notice any difference for quite a while, at least until my pants started feeling loose. Then I was tightening my belt until I needed a new one :dizzy: Re: weight loss, are you weighing your food? That is the most common area where people make mistakes and end up eating more than they think. If you aren't, I would…

104 days (almost 15 weeks) and 20 pounds