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Deficit if we are defining it as=losing weight you then need to define the time frame of measuring the weight loss=? If I step on the scale today and lost weight am I at a deficit=? If I step on the scale tomorrow and gain weight and I did the exact same thing as the day before am I not at a deficit=? Day to day activity…

I agree with the above post. I used MFP in the beginning of my journey but you have better data than any general calculation can give you. Simply put your data into an excel spreadsheet and if you can get back you exact maintenance. Remember this though are bodies are always changing so that maintenance will be forever…

your weight can move up or down for a variety of different reasons and one is you ate to much. the trick is to get to the truth and you do this by looking at your averages. I use healthsidekick to calculate because they give me all my averages so it is easy for me to differentiate the truth from the false and what it I ate…

Weight is only one metric. Body Fat Percentage is an important tool. what was your average done over the last week, 14, 30 days and so on. You can have fluctuation for a variety of different reason. For women monthly cycles are a big one and why for women averages are so important. If you are not good at math and…

The BMR equation that MFP uses is general and should only be used when starting to log and you have no data to go by. Once you have a week worth's of data you have more valuable data than a general equation can give you. You can answer that question and wont have to ask it again. I understand why people constantly ask this…

Bottom line is you can put together a spreadsheet that will give you back better data that is available on most sites and if you cant go to healthsidekick because it takes out the bad equations and just simply tells you what you are doing and how it relates to weight loss. It is a much more accurate way to equate how…

People fail because they focus on food and exercise instead of a real mental or spiritual program. Weight loss is a short term fix. Yee haw I lost 20 pounds. What is your average weight over the last year? Two years? 5 years? Chances are you will be back to your 5 year average without keeping your mental and spiritual…

Go to healthsidekick and start logging your food. It will give you an exact equation based on what you are eating and the exercise you are doing. It takes a few weeks but the good thing is you wont have to ask this question ever again and it dynamically updates so as you change it will constantly update it for you

Nice Job. There are as many ways to gain health as there is people in the world and to try to stuff everyone in a box is ridiculous.

Go to healthsidekick and start logging your food. It will give you an exact equation based on what you are eating and the exercise you are doing. It takes a few weeks but the good thing is you wont have to ask this question ever again and it dynamically updates so as you change it will constantly update it for you

The best thing you can do in my opinion is look at your averages. You will get more data back from averages then any calculators that use BMR/TDEE.. Your averages will calculate in your even your logging habits for example. I use a different site to track. BMR+ TDEE is a good starting point but not the easiest way to…

Only you can figure out your equation to weight loss. I personally like having steaks and eating ice cream and cake. I know I can eat more calories if I eat leaner protein and limit some of my sugar calories and some days I do just that (change my macros). For the most part I really don't give a crud about eating what some…

You are not alone in trying to figure out your equation to weight loss. If your main goal is weight loss it is easy to do: Calories consumed-calories burned+ mental+spiritual =weight loss or gain U can track all your averages yourself or have a software program do it for you. If you are using MFP alone to figure out your…

I guess I am the anti fitbit and other tools like it. The idea of relying on something like that bugs me. I want less things to worry about. If I lost my computer or phone tomorrow I can maintain my weight. Do I really want to wear something like that the rest of my life. Not for me. When I look at my program I look at it…

I don't believe that all calories in are = I know that for example if I eat less sugar and more protein I can eat more calories. I know this because I know my equation to health, but my equation to health is not eating some stringent diet. The only person that can figure out your equation to health is you and it is done by…

Although a lot of people may know this already. I certainly did not and the idea of losing weight always looked awful. To start looking at food to as to whether it translated into weight loss was an important switch for me. Not if someone else deemed it good or bad. I don't know if something is good or bad for me unless I…

Point Nutrition and Weight loss are not synonymous.

You can Nosy on mine but I don't log on this site.

The physical part of the calculation is the easiest to figure out. The mental and spiritual is the tough side of the equation. The physical side is calories consumed- calories burned = net calories= weight loss, gain or stay the same. Inside this equation there are variables the foods I am eating and the activity I am…