Need friends to help motivate me!

Congratulations on the 5 pounds!!! Will send you an invite!!

Great job!!

Congrat's on your first 5th!!

Just like you, I just lost 5 pounds with MFP in less than a week, so I know it works!
My goal is also to eat no more 1200 calorie each day, and I managed to do it so far by following those 3 simple rules:

1) Breakfast > Lunch > Dinner
I ate almost 700 calories during breakfast, then about 300 for dinner and 150 for dinner.
Breakfast should be the strongest meal of the day, as it will give you a strong fondation upon which develop your activities.
Try to avoid eating too much sugar (juices, jam, etc..) as your energy will run off quickly and you will feel exhausted before noon, so you're better with carbonate fibers (cereal, bread, etc..)
Typically I have a continental breakfast (cereal+milk, coffee, orange juice, fruit and toasted bread), then a light lunch (chicken + puree or vegetables), then a toast with turkey and a tea for dinner.
The immediate benefit of doing this is that you will sleep better and longer, and you will not wake up feeling tired anymore

2) Be active but don't over exercise.
Find an activity that feels right for you and google it for finding how many calories you are burning by doing it. It can be as simple as going for a 20mn walk every evening. Keep logging in the calories you burnt through it as it will give you a reward (e.g you burnt 100 calories when going for a walk so you can eat a little extra at dinner or have a light snack between meals (kellogs stila bar for instance). Avoid to over-exercise as you will feel very hungry after it, and you might risk to over eat and ingest more calories than you should.
My activity is yoga. I'm doing it principally from home, one hour each day. I started at beginner level as I had no flexibility and a bad back, and now I've progressed little by little at intermediate level. It helps me to feel calm and energized, but not exhausted as I used to feel normally after going back from gym.

3) Keep minerals and vitamins at recommended levels
In the MFP home menu on the Ipod app, you will have the summary of the amount of calories and food composition you ingested each day. Make sure you keeps minerals (sodium, iron, potassium, calcium) and vitamins (A,C) as close as the recommended values as possible. That will allow you to lose weight while keeping an healthy and balanced diet. It will also keep you away from most of side effects you can get when doing a too drastic diet, such as feeling tired or having headaches.

Et voila!
Those are the 3 rules I follow in order to lose weight, witouth feeling hungry or feeling like I'm starving all the time.
I hope you find it helpful! huh.. and I forgot the most important : keep it fun, relax and enjoy life!

I'm need friends as well for support and encouragement. I'm wanting 2 lose 175 pounds. So let's support one another and lose these pounds.