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Just be mindful that with only about 5lbs to lose you might have slow progress. The closer to goal, the slower it goes. Plus with the final 10lbs or so, I'm told it's less about the scale and more how you feel you look? If you're concerned with appearence, you might want to look into starting strength training.

It's a personal choice when it comes to booze and calories. I switched from beer to whiskey haha. If I can work it in my day, I'll go for it. If I can't, I don't. Of course, it took a lot of playing around with to figure out what I could live with.

What are your stats? If MFP gave you 1200 calories (which is often too low) you need to eat ALL of them as your deficit is already worked into your day. You should also eat back at aleast a portion of workout calories. I say a portion because it's very easy to over estimate a burn. I usually log about 75% of what I'm told…

I started out hating to cook and not being very good at it. I have a standby meal I can make in my sleep now (zuchinni, mushrooms, onion, chicken) for when I'm not feeling up to cooking something different. Honestly find one go to and it gets better.

You start one step at a time. It can be overwhelming to look at everything that will have to change by the end of the road, but that's because it's the end. The beginning is to take one step: Start logging your food. You'll be the most accurate with a food scale for ALL solid foods, but until you can get one, measurements…

It entirely depends on your stats. For someone like me, that would not be enough, but I'm an Amazon. For a shorter person, it could totally be. Height/wight/age? What does MFP have you set to and what are your goals?

Yeeeaaaahhh if you haven't workout out, and your body is hurting, you need a dr. It could just be an adjustment, but with something like that it's best not to mess around.

I feel you. I have about 88 more pounds to lose (down 40) and it's been slow going, so it's hard to be positive about it all the time. However, I am finding that with the slower loss, I'm having better energy levels, good workouts, and my skin is shrinking reasonably (Something I was concerned about since I had gained my…

Not to be mean, but I find that external reasons for making life changes, end up being fads and not actual...life changes. Unless a person wants to change for themselves, change will not happen long term.

I guess it depends why you're giving up coffee? If it's for calories or health, coffe in itself is close to calorie free..you can make subsitutions when it comes to sugar or creamer, and still get the kick. My bf drinks coffee with splenda every morning, less than 5 calories for his two cups. If it's for caffeine content,…

Ehh honestly BMI of any variety isn't super important. It can be useful in the beginning to help set goals and realize where you should be aiming for, but the closer to goal you get the less realistic I find BMI to be.

I feel like I have a hard time caring about her weight loss because it seems like every other year or so you hear about her losing 50lbs or whatever. Not that it isn't important to never give up, and she certainly never has. And she's keeping herself in the spotlight because of it. BUT at what point do we decide the yo-yo…

As someone who has had a variety of issues EDNOS and otherwise, there's not much you can do to help him unless he wants the help. You can be there for him, and love him, and support him, but pushing too hard made things worse for me, and could for your son as well. Having him do once a week counseling is fantastic if it's…

I try to hit it, but I've never gotten it exact. I'm fine with a swing of about 50 calories either way usually.

Well of course you're having a hard time staying under 1200, you shouldn't be eating that little. As a general rule of thumb, you should be netting at least 1200. What are your stats?

Your metabolism doens't need a reset and detoxes are a joke. If you've stalled, did you adjust your calories for a new lower weight? Are you being entirely accurate with logging food> As in, weighing everything and finding correct entries? When you log your workouts, are you logging the calorie burns from here (often too…

I'm about 6' and my bf is about 5'7'' but he gets more calories in a day than I do which sucks at dinner time sometimes. But he's lost 70lbs before we started dating and I've lost 40lbs since so we've got it down pretty good.

I started with 128 to lose and now I have 88 left (eek so much still). Of course my goal of 179 is simply the highest number in the healthy range for my height and I'm so far away I have no way of knowing where I'll end up and I'm more concerned with body fat than scale weight but everyone needs a goal. Holy mother of run…

I weigh a few times a week because otherwise I justify food to myself in a really negative way. Looking at the scale, fluctuations and all, helps keep me on track. But it didn't used to be that way, and I understand why some people can't or won't weigh that often. It was hard for me to learn that weight fluctuates a bunch…

So. I'm just shy of 6'; and I read the title and was like "THat's me!" but then I got my panties in a bunch because you're high weight is barely above my first goal. I've lost 40lbs and still am 267. Obviously this is because veryone is different. So if you want more tall chicks, I'm definitely one.

I'm assuming you mean half your weight, but then in ounces. SO I weigh 267 and should drink something like 16cups of water a day. So not happening. There's no magic number with water. Are you hydrated? Done. You get water through other drinks and foods, too.

The most common things I see for this exact situation on these boards: 1. you are not logging accurately. Weigh EVERYTHING and take the time to find the proper entries. It's easier after the first time, because things will start to show up in your recents. 2. You are over-estimating workout burns. Even with a HRM, the…

I log everything, even if its a whole 5 calories of a crap ton of spinach leaves because I have to hold myself accountable for everything or its too easy to start justifying "Oh I don't log spinach so I don't need to log ____ because it's low calorie" and that adds up so fast.

Of all the things to go over, Protein is really not a big deal. MFP sets the protein goal so low and really you probably want more than it suggests. Besides, as long as your calories are in line, going over on protein isn't going to hurt you.

If you're medically restricted due to your surgery that qualifies as a reason to just ignore the MFP setting for now, obviously DR orders override a website. *IF* that's what your DR says.The reason MFP does it is to try and disuade and cut down on the people with eating disorders or the tendancy to have disordered habits.

That's because you need to eat at least 1200 calories a day (barring health issues, you being extra short, etc). If you're not hitting that amount, make sure you're logging correctly first of all. i.e. weighing portions, finding correct entries. If you weigh EVERYTHING and use correct entries, then try to find calorie…

I love Quest bars. They satisfy my cravings, taste decent, and hit good macros. I got a variety pack from Amazon to branch out and try more flavors. My only issue is how expensive they are. I try to keep them only to days I lift or really am struggling to get protein in. To me it's worth it financially in those situations,…

It's impossible to know without also knowing your age and height, but unless you're extremely short, that level of activity I would guess gets you more calories. Since you want to have a goal and not log each workout, I suggest finding a TDEE calculator and inputting your stats to get a number to work with for your daily…

I'm still learning to differentiate hunger and habit because I don't trust my brain when it says it's hungry. So if I think I'm hungry I drink a bottle of water. If I'm still hungry in 15-20 minutes I'll eat something. I also have to eat a lot slower than I used to, to give my brain a chance to tell me I'm full rather than…

I have a soda stream and I use it to carbonate water. And then I do whatever I want to it. Sometimes I add fresh fruit slices, sometimes drops, whatever I'm in the mood for. I'm with you, I dig the carbonation, hate the calories.