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Yes, weight is more accurate. The OP should buy a $20 digital kitchen scale. You can overeat anything.

Yes, you have to watch trends over time, not day-by-day.

This seems like an extraordinarily rigid plan. Although tracking food helps tremendously, remember that the calories stated on food packages are estimates and can be off as much as 20% up or down. This is not a precise, mathematical process. I would weigh it cooked unless the plan states that food should be weighed…

"S'mores" is a misnomer. I don't want any, much less some more. Homemade marshmallows are nothing but huge clouds of sugar cut into cubes. Hot cocoa is hot chocolate for losers. "Milk" is milk from cows, sheep, and goats. Products made from soy, almond, and oats are liquid you put in your coffee. If you need to use them…

More for me! :)

I would look at Spandex House and Spandex World in New York for fabrics. Sewing Patterns Review is a good site because it has a database for pattern searches and a forum in which you can post questions.

I'm 61. I've never been clinically overweight in the sense that I'm "normal" on the charts, but over the past 11 years my weight has crept up in part because of a sports injury and my environment (too much junk food around). I'm at the highest weight of my life and am considering seeing a nutritionist for accountability.…

If I'm serious about maintaining my weight or losing, I need to weigh myself almost every day. Logging is helpful, too, but it can get frustrating because the calorie content of food is not always available. But when I do log, I weigh my food.

I love how I got Flagged and Woo-ed for responding sharply to someone who was rude to me. Too bad.

Omelet, blinis, crêpes. These are all great, but they are not low-calorie dishes.

A cup of good coffee, ideally, a latte with skim or almond milk.

Track your food, including weighing it. It will give you a better idea of how many calories you're consuming. Start by doing it for two weeks without changing anything.

You don't have to count calories if you stick to foods and portions whose calorie content you know. If you gained weight you didn't account for everything, or, less likely, the calorie estimate on the package was incorrect. There is a margin or error of something like 15-20% allowed by law.

--Not everyone can stop at just one. It's better to be realistic than pretend this time will be different. --Not everyone can afford extra calories. For some, even an extra 200 calories is too much. --Not everyone can commit to an eating plan in advance and stick to it. --Why should you have to budget for food you don't…

We're all familiar with the person, often obese herself or himself (although it's usually a woman), who guilt-trips people into eating food they either don't want or know they shouldn't be eating. Structure is as important to weight loss as willpower. A setting without unnecessary food temptations is healthier for…

Baking is not part of her job. She doesn't have a "right" to bring in food that others may find difficult to resist. They may be eating out of obligation or boredom, not enjoyment. There's nothing wrong with imposing restrictions on how often she brings it or where she serves it. We're not talking about settings in which…

I had a passive-aggressive "friend" who kept undermining my weight-loss efforts by offering me Kind bars even after I explained that I needed to watch calories. She was overweight, possibly obese. I'm so glad she stopped talking to me after some other petty nonsense. Some people take it as a rebuke that you are trying to…

It was a reasonable question, especially in this section. Cut the attitude. If you have nothing useful to say, keep your opinions to yourself.

Every day if I'm seriously trying to lose weight.

LISTEN TO YOUR DOCTOR. If s/he says to rest, you should rest. Don't you realize you could injure yourself, causing a greater setback? Ordinarily, a person who is not exercising should consume fewer calories, but that's not true of someone who is recovering from surgery. Eat healthy meals within your normal calorie range or…

Height 5'2" Weight 112.4 BF % 30.6 LMM % 26.4

Week 9 Starting Weight: 112.6 Current Weight: 113 Goal Weight: 107.6 (more would be great, but let's see what happens if I'm realistic) Too many temptations last week.

To lose weight while being sedentary I can eat only about 1,000 caloreis a day. I'm 5'2" and older. I had a bad injury several years ago and haven't resumed active exercise.

Just saw this. 10 Weeks Until Christmas Week 10 Starting Weight: 112.6 Current Weight: 112.6 Goal Weight: 107.6 (more would be great, but let's see what happens if I'm realistic)

Longer tank tops. I recommended them to a company called Title IX years ago but they never came out with anything. I recently bought a tank from Lululemon but it was ridiculously expensive. I'm mature now, but even when I was young I was always turned off by the tight, skimpy high-cut leotards and leggings look. I always…

Some people do IF in conjunction with a Protein Sparing Modified Fast (PSMF), which promotes fat burning. It requires a lot of planning and is quite strict. There are threads here and a good amount of info about it on the web. The Cleveland Clinic PSMF diet is on the web.

I've read that it works as a timiing tool and because of the hormonal effect of not spiking insulin.

Some people do it every other day: that's the Alternate Day Diet.

I'm trying it again. For the last two weeks, I haven't eaten before 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I'm not overly concerned with my eating window or calories for now, I'm focusing on creating the habit. There are several threads here. You also can Google: * Intermittent Fasting (IF) * Leangains * Fast-5 * Alternate Day…

Thanks, but why should I have to become a Premium member to escape useless information? I like having Google Fit connected to MFP for other reasons, for example, my weight is added without my having to input it twice.