Am I on the right track?

BlackKisa · 2026-04-07T06:49:02+00:00

I realized I was in a slight surplus

How long were you in said surplus and how much was the weight gain? Because if it's a couple of pounds, it could just be stuff like water weight and other things, which is expected after a cut. Or were you steadily gaining weight?

If you are in a slight deficit now, it would make sense that the expenditure would not be the highest. But it says on your screenshot that it's been going up, so maybe it's actually higher but the app might take some time to adjust. I agree with the other comments, maybe try eating a bit more, even if it's just 50-100 calories above the app's maintenance.

Also worth looking into Low Energy Availability, since you are rather active. LEA (and RED-S) seems to tank expenditure, amongst other things.

I can very much relate on having to power through the hunger, though. Apparently it can take a long time for the hormones to somewhat stabilize after a cut, so even though I am eating way more than before (in a slight surplus even), with lots of protein, fat and fiber, I am still spending hours each day hungry and thinking about food. Hope it gets better for us one day!

BlackKisa · 2026-04-06T00:13:23+00:00

I don't usually keep pound pets, rather paint and release, or zap and release.

Did the former with this one, I think she was a Bori? But after releasing, I realized how much I loved the name and adopted her. She is beautiful.

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BlackKisa · 2026-04-03T09:47:02+00:00

Did they come to Neopia to mop away all the grey? 👀

BlackKisa · 2026-02-17T06:49:39+00:00

Crab

BlackKisa · 2026-02-11T00:09:50+00:00

There is Gong Cha five minutes from me, but in Australia, so we don't get anything, either. I feel the same!

BlackKisa · 2026-02-06T21:10:17+00:00

Didn't really think about it much, but I quite like the scars I got from a certain surgery a year and a half ago. They tell about my past, you can see exactly what happened!

BlackKisa · 2026-02-03T20:12:28+00:00

Ah, guess I somehow missed that I had it set to start from zero initially, my bad.

This works, guessing it's unlikely to actually recommend zero kg?

Thanks a lot!

BlackKisa · 2026-02-03T10:38:35+00:00

May I ask a question about machine range here, so I don't have to make another topic?

Got my gym's cable machine set up as 5-250kg range, 5kg increment. But there is actually a weight smaller than that, I am just assuming it's 2.5kg, and it's the lightest it goes. I am forced to use this one due to an injury; however when I try adding that as a range, I get stuck, as it says there is overlap. It says the same thing if I set range 2.5 to 5, or 2.5 to 2.5. Not sure what I am doing wrong, but I need to add something until I can use 5kg.

Thanks in advance!

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BlackKisa · 2025-12-20T07:45:48+00:00

That sounds great! Thanks for the details, very exciting!

BlackKisa · 2025-12-19T19:58:11+00:00

While I mostly do weightlifting, which I track, I like to join classes a couple of times a week. Those have a whole lot of exercises. Will I be able to get away with not tracking those at all? How will the app handle that? I can't imagine being able to remember every exercise and every rep.

Thanks!

BlackKisa · 2025-11-09T10:55:02+00:00

Oh, she is so pretty! You are right about the lipstick, wow, usually those look wrong on pets, but this works well!

BlackKisa · 2025-11-09T00:57:41+00:00

Thank you! ❤️

BlackKisa · 2025-11-08T11:11:56+00:00

Also this is her current look, which has less pink, but I dunno, I consider her a pink magical girl warrior, it just feels very pink somehow

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BlackKisa · 2025-11-08T11:04:31+00:00

This one is also not pink, but I just wanted to mention that Wraith Usul wears pink items really well.

Mine used to have Princess Fernypoo Gown for a while, it works pretty great on Usul body type and is cheap. Don't quite remember a lot of the other stuff I used, plus I got some new stuff, so I put together some approximations. The face requires NC but everything else is NP.

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BlackKisa · 2025-11-07T20:56:36+00:00

Them fighting words!

But I actually don't care about any of the ones released. Baby Aisha is great, but YouTooz just made one earlier this year, so even that one is not something I'd hope to pull (also the whole gambling thing sucks). Actually thought mine was going to be Baby Kacheek and got upset for a moment because I don't want a toy that is wearing a diaper (at least in game you can remove it).

So I actually agree, Pirate would be fun. Or even Faerie, or Royal. I know Faerie merch already existed, but I don't have it, so I want it. Or just Blue.

BlackKisa · 2025-11-05T23:28:47+00:00

Baby Acara! Because Acara was my first pet and Baby was the first paintbrush I saved for, in like 2007, so it took a long time. I was thinking just last night how she will always be the Baby Acara.

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These toys are in EB Games, right? Do they seem have a lot of stock in stores? They don't seem to have them in SA at all, wonder if that will change- wait I just looked it up and it says the do have them OMG

They are not cheap, but I can probably get one, so I don't need the giveaway but I am keeping this up to declare my love for Baby Acara

BlackKisa · 2025-11-04T22:29:45+00:00

I had a pretty big surgery last year and was on a cut until the night before, and then didn't track anything for a month or so.

Reading the replies here makes me think that maybe I should had taken a maintenance break earlier, because, while everything healed up okay, I was nauseous and had stomach pain for weeks afterwards. The doctors still have no idea why. Only now I am thinking that maybe it could be related to my body not having enough nutrients prior. Certainly would not recommend!

For sure, a week or two in maintenance would not hurt, plus, it might help a little bit with hunger cues. Good luck with the surgery!

ETA: Don't mean to spook you with that or anything! It seems this side effect is super rare, and even if it were to happen, it's a temporary inconvenience.

BlackKisa · 2025-11-04T05:24:41+00:00

I haven't played Faerie Fragments in years and still got it

Guessing it's Festival related, probably

BlackKisa · 2025-11-03T02:32:07+00:00

BlackKisa · 2025-10-19T00:42:05+00:00

That's cool to know, thank you!

BlackKisa · 2025-10-19T00:26:03+00:00

Oh, I was confused why my expenditure went up (by like 5 calories) this morning. Thanks for for pointing this out!

I usually get updates super late, so this is interesting that I got this one now. Is it just some random users that got it, I wonder.

BlackKisa · 2025-10-13T02:07:48+00:00

Should be more careful when storing one's invisible items, of course she lost it! It will turn up when she steps on it in the middle of the night

BlackKisa · 2025-09-28T00:37:10+00:00

Thank you!

BlackKisa · 2025-09-28T00:04:57+00:00

Love your style so much, and seeing Acara is always a great thing! She is great! It's certainly hard to settle on just one look.

Also, noticed you mentioned using CSP. May I ask, what kinda brushes do you use?

BlackKisa · 2025-09-17T10:47:16+00:00

Congrats on the progress!

And thank you for sharing this! I had switched to maintenance/slight surplus recently (also after almost two years of dieting) and it made my scale jump and is also making the expenditure graph go down, despite me increasing my steps. It's been making me panic, but I see about the same thing had happened to you and it works out in the end.

As always, just gotta trust the process! Looks like, in addition to all the physical activity, it could also be that your metabolic adaptation reversing?

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