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I ate back most of mine because I heard the transition to maintenance can be brutal for some people when you just switch. The last 5lbs took forever and a day but they came off and I entered maintenance. :-)

I had mine set for sedentary and realized I was getting 6-7000 steps a day in on my non workout days. So I bumped myself up to lightly active

you cannot get the XL in stores. it says on the box XL is only available online.

I just got mine today at best buy. they had it in stock and it is charging right now

You won't build muscle on 1200 calories. How do you know how much you're eating?? If you're not weighing, you're probably eating way more than you think.

That seems reasonable to me. I burn roughly 400 running 5 miles twice a week.

If all else fails I get the kids meal and skip the fries. Usually nuggets. If not, wendys small chili, a jr deluxe and a diet coke is less than 500 calories

sites say my maintenance is at 1530 before exercise BUT, i have found that to not be true. I can actually eat 1700 before exercise and not gain weight. I am in maintenance now and was actually still losing at 1530 + exercise calories. lol. at 1700 + exercise calories, i am not.

it depends on the exercise. It has been pretty accurate for me for walking and running. I know this because I lost 48lbs, reached goal and am in maintenance and ate back all the calories it said i burned for those activities. It does not work for strength training and I do not know about other types of cardio.

I am a military wife, and use the health and wellness center on base. A Trainer there told me that women almost always will have a small pooch "pocket" there. Some women can make it flat, but the majority of the time women have them. I don't know if he was just telling me that to make me not fret about it too much or what,…

I was hoping it was not true, but alas it is. You cannot spot reduce. Continuing to drop body fat is how you reduce your pooch. I hit goal weight recently and that was when mine finally started to go.

that is exactly what I do!! My whole day centers around what I am having for dinner! LOL!

I like to consume my largest meal at dinner.

probably wasn't fat! don't give up..your weight can change a lot, and if you start paying attention to the sodium you are taking in, you'll see that is probably part of your problem. Not to mention, waste products and normal hormonal changes.

you need to weigh it, not just use cups. Try and always go by the grams when measuring out a serving.

and I weigh meat uncooked and then again once it is cooked and try and log it with the uncooked weight.

I only weigh the stuff I eat. So no peel.

you do not want your intake to be less than 1200. You cannot count the 1200 calories prior to exercise as intake, because you burned some off. You will not be using MFP the way it was intended if you intake 1200, exercise and NOT eat them back. If you do not want to eat back exercise calories, then you need to account for…

You earn back calories from exercise you do. Mfp works with you eating them back because your 1200 goal is based as if you do no exercise. So you eat 1200 and burned 418..that makes your net intake at 782. To get your net of 1200 at the end of the day you would need to eat them back. However, most recommend only eating…

Eat clean and you don't have to worry about calories.

No. And I wouldn't recommend it or even try it. There is nothing military about it, either.

As someone who is "fun sized" my maintenance is low. However, I can get it above 2000 with exercise. On rest days though, it's 1530. I haven't lost any weight since I got to this point, so I'm pretty sure I found my zone.

You're not going to avoid going out with friends forever. Social relationships are important. This is for life and not a temporary thing, right? Just tell yourself that one night of friendship over a yummy dinner will not hurt you. One day simply will not. Try and eat something sensable from their menu, and just have a…

No. I log everything and stay within 100 of my calorie limit. I do take days off from exercising and on those days i adjust my calories down to sedentary.

You do what I do. I run 3-4 days a week, I walk the opposite days I don't run and then on my rest days I am still moving around the house so I can get my little green smilies on my fitbit. lol. I have really increased my activity level, in all ways.

I am 5'2 and my MFP calorie goal is 1545, I think. I never eat that though..I almost always get a calorie goal of 1700-2100 by the end of the day. So as long as you exercise you should not be restricted to just the 1500. :)

I have a fitbit and mine is pretty accurate. I have worn a heart rate monitor while I have worn my flex and the flex exercise calories burned for my runs is nearly identical to the hrm.

I went ahead and just did the recipe builder. it equaled out to being pretty close to what was was on the box before toppings. :)

The label on the box. When it scans it gave me two options for the calories, one when prepared with lean beef and one without.

2-3 times a week. The last few weeks it has been more. Both of my children are in sports so it's easy. I get lower calorie options and make it work.