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It sounds to me like you are more active than my desk job. I work in ICT and rarely move from my desk, and if I do it's only a few desks up or down the office. I'm sedentary and the sedentary calculations are allowing me to loose weight. You sound more active if you are moving arround the school most days. What I would do…

This is another calculator which a lot of people use. Give it a try and see if you get similar figures to MFP. I've found MFP results have seemed about right compared to other calculators. http://scoobysworkshop.com/accurate-calorie-calculator/

Well the 900 calories sounds to low for most people unless you are really short. It depends on... Age Height Current Weight Activity Level Male/Female I'm on 1500 when sedentary, more when I'm more active. My hubby is on 2000 for similar activity levels, he is closer to your weight, but men can eat more) When we exercise…

When I eat something I've not recorded before I weigh and measure accurately, but after that I just judge it based on whether it seems more or about the same as the first time. I love roast root veg, the first time we chopped up the mixture of veg and laid it out on a tray to roast, every different veg was exactly weighed…

I picked the weight at the top end of the scale for 'normal' on the BMI scale. That's a 50lb drop so when I reach that I will be really happy (half way there). Once I reach it I will see how I feel about myself and decide if I want to adjust to a lower goal.

For your weight height and age you come out at a similar level to me. By my calculations at sedentary you should eating around 1870 to maintain and 1500 would give around a 370 deficit which could be a good level to work to (I'm on 1500 which is a 400 deficit for me and I'm loosing weight). You don't say if you exercise,…

All depends on which the person who entered it in the database based it on (or whatever other source you have for the calorie count). Many foods change weight due to loss of water during coooking. That changes the weight but not the calories. If the calorie count you are entering was based on the raw weight, but you…

Wow, looking great. Congratulations!

On mfp you can calculate a goal based on 'sedentary' which assumes no exercise, then stick to that calorie goal. I struggle to maintain an exercise routine so I've calculated based on that, then if I manage any exercise it's a bonus. I'm still loosing weight on weeks I don't exercise.

Yeah, so many people when they hear I am cutting calories say "Oh are you eating lots of salads now" or "Can you really eat that if you are cutting calories", but they seem to be used to the diets where you have to cut way way back on everything. I've found I can eat good size meals and even have a small portion of ice…

I'm trying to loose weight at a similar rate to you. Slowly and comfortably is best, it's the only way I've had success. I know if I tried to to loose faster I would just give up. It's easier to stick to if you don't cut calories too drastically. I've been told that people who go with slow and steady find it easier to keep…

How much you should eat below TDEE depends on how heavy you are. If you are only trying to loose a little it can be unhealthy to loose it too fast. Someone somewhere had a chart of how much you are trying to loose vs how much it's safe to loose per week but I can't find it now. 500 calories defecit = 1lb per week weight…

To loose weight you need to eat less than you using. TDEE means "total daily energy expenditure" and it's the amount of energy you use in a day. The calculations you can do give you an estimate of that. If you eat less than you are actually using each day you will loose weight and the estimates can guide you in knowing if…

This. Eating healthy but with a lot of calories (fruit can be really high in calories) will make you put on weight. In the reverse, while I try and eat more healthily than I used to, I find that weeks when I am lazy and eat more processed foods I still loose weight as long as I stick to my calorie goal. I try and eat more…

How much exercise did you put in the calculation? If you are exercising enough then 1750 to maintain sounds like it could be about right. I calculated 1524 for you based on no exercise, so 1750 would require you to exercise a couple of hundred calories per day. The website defaults to 20min cardio 3 times a week so I…

This! A switch went on in my head when I started playing with MFP figures and realised "this could be so easy, even lazy old me could manage this". I'm only 70 days in, but I've not looked back. I balance treats against either extra walking or against not having something else. I allow myself odd days when I go over but…

Really interesting.

I don't have any problem with most of the forum, seems similar to before with some extra formatting features. However not being able to see the threads I've posted in previously really sucks. Really had trouble finding one of them last night that I had posted on just a few hours earlier. Impossible to carry on a…

I sometimes have a couple of glasses of wine with a meal that is otherwise low in calories, and I log the wine calories and try to fit them in my goal. Doesn't seem to have affected my weight loss. I still loose in the weeks I've done that once or twice, same as weeks I haven't.

In the winter your body needs to burn more to keep warm. However our brains are also programmed to want more food when it's cold... to try and combat that need for more energy. So if you are not watching your calories it's really easy to eat more and cancel out any extra weight loss (or even go the other way and start…

It's not just fruit, I get a bit frustrated with anything that is entered in the database as '1 small...' or '1 medium...' How am I meant to know what someone else's idea of small/medium/large are? I go on weight for everything, except for ml for some liquids. Also don't assume a teaspoon, or tablespoon is always the same…

I've read in the past that metabolism can sometimes speed up after surgery. Don't know if this is right or not, but I would guess the healing process requires some more calories.

When I first started out I preferred the new one, and only used the old one when I created the recipe on my phone (where you only get the old one). As I've used it more though I much prefer the old one (which I can get on both the website and on my phone). The new one never finds the ingredients I want, so if I use it I…

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I think the key is to be consistent. People generally weigh less in the morning. I find I can be 2-3 lb heavier at night so I pick the morning because it feels better psychologically. I don't think there is a right or wrong time, but if you weigh yourself in the morning one week, loose 1lb then next week weigh yourself in…

I do have cheat days, but still log on those days and don't feel guilty. So I guess in some ways not a cheat, but I let myself go over, this Saturday was high because we went to my in-laws for dinner and they always consider days we are there as a special day to have all the indulgent foods they wouldn't normally have. I…

Really! I wouldn't touch the diet stuff. Horrid artificial sweeteners that taste awful and have so many reports of the dangers of the chemicals. Yuck! I've mostly cut out soda recently, but would still drink the full fat stuff when I have it. (And yes like many people in the UK I refer to it as "full fat" even though I…

Soda and sugary drinks like others have said, and snacking on whole packets of sweets. Found that most of the meals I like eating fitted in my goal easily just by cutting out the drinks. I still have them occasionally, but only on days I'm planning quite light meals, and with sweets I only have a couple of sweets instead…

My first thought was that I wouldn't trust the boots scales and you should use your own which you can check are properly zero'd before each time. Also weighing yourself the same time of day is really important. I see a big difference at different times of day (a few pounds). One thing to be aware of is not to worry about…

This is my understanding from reading this forum for a few weeks. Hope I've got it right. TDEE = Total Daily Energy Expenditure and it's the calories used by your body on an average day. As a weight loss method people measure their calories to eat that number (which should lead to no weight loss and no weight gain) or to…