struggling to find inspiration.

If your diary is complete you're eating well under 1000 cals per day. It's not surprising you're losing motivation.

Reduce your settings to lose only 0.5 or 1lb per week and enjoy more calorie allowance and you'll be able to enjoy more of you're beloved bread while still losing.

Christmas really threw me off too. Still feel worn out because of it lol. It's frustrating but at times like these I just do my best to keep my plan in mind so I don't completely fall off the wagon and look forward to my determination returning. If you want to exercise when it returns then you can find the time. Take the kids out for a walk/jog at the park or stick on a short workout dvd. I have 5 kids each 2 years apart with the youngest just 1 years old and I can find at least half an hour most days. Quite often the kids like to try and join in too. You can do this!

You have done great! Be proud of your accomplishment! Look at some "before" pictures or pull out some before" pants. I keep a pair of 3x jeans in the drawer that I use for inspiration.
For me, dieting is harder in the winter since I spend more time in the house ( where the food is) . But we can do this! I have lost 149 pounds. I wish I could say I never had a gain or a slip-up but that isn't true. I am human. But I am not willing to go back! Back into the 3x jeans and back into the wheelchair.
As for bread and highly processed carbs, regardless of the weight loss I just feel so much better when I don't eat them. And once I start letting them into my diet I have a hard time kicking them out again. Can bread be addicting? So for me, the best strategy is no bread, pasta, chips. Just find what works best for you. Hang in there, girl friend. Spring will be here and life will get easier.

You can absolutely do this!! Try reading some articles here daily and also in increase your friend circle-introduce yourself to a few people on every article you read. The more you see on your newsfeed the more it motivates you!! Hang in there!

the only exercise i have done consistently is walking, so what i advise to you is join endomondo, it's a free sports tracker i use it to track my miles, you can either do it on certain phones via gps (although not always accurate it once said id walked 289 miles in 42 mins and was stood in the middle of the north sea lol) or draw the map yourself on the site.
once youve got the hang of it (really takes no time at all) challenge yourself to do x amount of miles/km in a month, i try to join a 100 miles a month challenge or 1000 miles in a year, i dont always manage it lol but so far ive walked about half way from london to new york
also go onto scoobys workshop and accurately answer the questions about activity levels etc and get your correct calorie consumption (mfp tends to give you to few) and make sure you eat them, too few calories=misery=falling off the dieting wagon
above all dont lose hear,t we all have set backs, most people fall off the wagon at some point, if you have a bad day/week just brush it aside and start again
good luck x
edited to add.... the point of doing the whole endomondo thing is to show that actually just doing your everyday walking about, your more active than you think you are x

Congratulations on your 19 lb loss so far!

Just to add to and echo the great advice so far:

1. If you aren't getting enough calories to make this a long-term proposition for you, then do slow down. There's nothing wrong with losing 0.5 lb a week - that's over 20 lb by the end of 2014. If you make this sustainable, you'll have the rest of your life to enjoy your healthy weight.

2. Try thinking on longer timescales than just a week at a time. Use milestones from your future as big targets. It's cool to think you could be 2 lb lighter next week, but it's way more inspiring to think you could be 14 lb lighter by the time the kids go back to school in September, for example. To give you an example, my big milestones are my birthday in March (want to lose 10 lb by then), my summer holiday in August (35 lb), and a Christmas fun run in December (55 lb)

3. Throw some more intense cardio into your walks. The easiest thing is to mix some jogging into the walk. Even if it's only 15 seconds at a time to start off with, you'll be upping your calorie burn.

4. If hunger is a problem, try a 'caloric drip' approach for a week and see how it suits you. Just eat a balanced 100-200 calories whenever you get hungry. A quarter of a peanut butter sandwich works incredibly well for me and stops me feeling deprived at all.

5. Bread - you didn't specify which kind you're hooked on, but I found switching to wholegrain seeded bread from my previous 'white death' has made me eat less of it and it actually tastes and feels better now.

6. How about sharing your goal weight on here so we can keep cheering you on?

Sam

Hi Everyone ! New here.

Something to also consider is your vitamin and mineral levels. Mine were low and adding supplements helped revive me. I was acutely anemic and low in B12 and vitamin D. Get your doc to run some labs. It could be a very simple fix. And a huge congrats on your weight loss! 12 pounds is a lot of bread!!! Think of it that way!