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First off, great job - you've accomplished more than most of us have, many times over. If you eat nearly the same thing every day, you could try shaking things up there. Many people (carefully) switch to good high fat food for a while to break through a plateau and possibly kick-start their metabolism.

If I was you, I'd just cut out the cheat days for a while until you get a better handle on how things work for you on calorie levels and rate of weight loss. You'll be better able to judge how much you can cheat down the road.

I switch to adding high fat stuff like nuts and berries to my diet when I seem stalled and it seems to do the trick. It might have nothing to the nuts or the fat itself so much as its some type of significant change. Lately I'm sick of chicken and letting my protien levels slide a bit and again I seem to have started…

Wow, impressive. I work with a lot of spreadsheets etc. and have known people to get utterly lost in them and become ineffective because they got bogged down in too much detail and lost sight of the real goal. Not saying its whats happening to you, just don't get lost ;)

Meh - fat is fat and burning more calories than you consume (whatever kind they are) is what you do to lose the fat. Doughy midsections and all the other sections are pretty much all lost the same way.

Once you get familiar with calorie counts I don't find I need to log much. For me I've gotten pretty comfortable with knowing about what I should eat morning, afternoon and evening to keep on track and am getting a good sense of how much and how often I can "cheat" and still keep the number on the scale slowly going down.…

If you've got your numbers right, ignore small variations on the scale - day to day the weight on your scale will move up and down a fair bit - the long term trend is all that matters

Just start by logging your food and getting familiar with the calories you are taking in. Once you become more conscious of how the numbers work and how it is adding up versus what your body burns in a day you will be able to make your own choices. No one can do it for you. The good news is that you can very easily change…

lol - first the dog knocks you off your bike, now he hijacks your thread! Sorry about your accident T-Fish. Get well soon.

At least you persistently keep coming back. Build on that.

6-2, 205, over 40, moderately active, mainly walking ~12,000 steps a day plus moderate home workouts / lifting - I'm set for 2200 cals per day and usually go a bit over, ocassionally way over a few times per month - initially when I stayed strictly on target I was losing 1+ lbs every week - I'm not as strict lately and am…

If you're at all like me, you might be losing some of the spare tire around the sides of your belly and probably a lot off your legs - areas you don't notice yourself much both before and after but others would

Your weight will vary quite a bit at different times throughout the week - pick a time for the week where conditions will be most consistent week to week (usually first thing on a particular day) and compare those numbers week to week to best measure your weight loss - after a while, even then, there are some weeks where…

Just checking in case you never power down your computer... you have rebooted it at some point? Also the CTRL+F5 command is a quick way to reset your cache when you are having input problems.

Nope - I just don't worry if I have a day where I use up all my deficit or even more for a half decent reason - so long as there are more deficit days than not, things keep on going in the right direction - for me that works way better than eating extra just for no reason other than it is designated treat day

You did it! / you're done! WTG

Don't try to be a victim. Educate yourself, make your choices and then own them. Don't like it, make better choices.

Pfft! Nonsense. Most people are just looking to get fit, not become body builders. You can gain plenty of muscle with a home workout of pushups, pullups, lunges and squats. A set of dumbells would help to add extra resistance for the squats.

wtg!

You'll never go broke eating soup and sandwiches. I've got family that think nothing of eating that for lunch and dinner every day. There's a 101 different ways to make both.

Ballpark I'd say you're probably burning around 3000 calories a day so you'd probably need between 3250-3500 to gain. The best calculator is your scale - do a weekly weigh at a consistent time with consistent conditions and adjust your intake based on the actual numbers you're seeing on your scale.

I "gain" over 5 lbs when I eat at or over maintenance for a few days, but it disappears again a couple days after I get back into eating at a deficit. Sort of like the difference between running on a full tank compared running it at or near empty.

In case if helps at all, we're almost twins numbers-wise, current weight and height and I lose 0.5-1 lb a week at 2200 cals a day, moderately active with 12-13K steps a day walking and a simple push-ups, DB b-o rows, DB squats, planks workout every other day. Even over the Christmas, New Year's weeks when I didn't log and…

Does it detox and cleanse too?

Soup and a bagel

Get up to walking 10 to 15K steps per day and it'll really help you melt away.

Just walking?! :) You can make a pretty good argument that walking is The King of weight loss exercises. Don't misjudge how awesome it is for you.

Each to their own - I think there is "bad food" - greasy, salty, low-grade quality, chemical laden fast food isn't good for you to eat regularly and the more you eat it, the more your palate becomes conditioned to it and wants it - addiction is too strong a word, but it obviously is a very bad habit that far too many…