Need Exercise advice- ANYONE PLEASE !!

I am by no means an expert but what I would recommend to you Is to make sure you are staying in your recommended calorie intake level and to cut down on the amount of time you are putting in for exercise. if you are so tired that you cannot perform your job duties then you are probably doing too much. vary the types of exercises you are doing to mix it up a bit to keep your body guessing. as long as you are eating less and moving more the weight will come off. you don't gain weight overnight, it won't go away overnight. it is best to lose slowly and gradually over time anyway to help prevent lots of excess skin. good luck, stick with it and you will reach your goals. make it a goal to lose a little at a time, when you succeed, it will motivate you to continue on!

"What one man (or woman) can do, another can do."

If you eat right & exercise, then you should lose weight. But you have to decide to DO it. When you tell yourself things like it never worked before, I'll never do this, it's too hard....those aren't good things to be telling yourself. Instead you need to tell yourself that you WILL make the right food choices, that you WILL exercise, that you WILL lose weight...and take the steps to make that happen. I'm not saying you'll never have fails, but that's what the restart button is for. But don't tell yourself that you'll start over next week, next month, on Monday, tomorrow, or whatever...start over as soon as you realize you're off track. Don't say, I've already blown it today so I may as well stuff myself & start over tomorrow.

Now, just looking at the info you've provided...I'd say your calories are too low. If you go too low your body wants to conserve the calories & it makes it harder to lose (this is a controversial topic, so there will probably be posts countering it). At your weight you should be getting at least 1600 calories/day. It's also very hard to stick to a diet when you're not eating enough calories. I'm guessing that 1450 is NOT what MFP recommended for you. Just try to increase your calories to 1600 for a couple of weeks & I think you'll see that you'll end up losing weight, probably more than when you're at 1450. Also think you'll feel better & have more energy for work & exercise if you up your calories.

On the exercise...some is better than nothing, more is usually better. Instead of using the incline on the treadmill, I'd try to increase your speed at no incline. Pyramiding or intervals is a good way to work things up. For example, start w/3 min at a very easy level, then each minute after that for 4 min increase the speed just 0.1 mph...so say you're doing 2 mph warm up, after 3 min, do 2.1 for a minute, then 2.2 for the next, 2.3 for the next, 2.4 for the next, then drop back down to 2.1 & start over again. Keep doing that for the hour (or however long you want to do it). Each day start 0.1 mph more than you did the day before. Whatever speed you're walking at now would be your warm up speed. Doing things this way, you can remind yourself, if it gets challenging that it's only for a minute or so more, then you can drop it back down. Walking is a great way to get into workouts.

Most important thing is to log your food, whether on MFP or some other way. I'm the co-leader of a First Place 4 Health group (sort of like a Christian Weight Watchers) and over & over again, I see that the ladies who are the most successful w/weight loss are the ones that are recording what they eat. In fact the last 12 week session we did, the 4 ladies who had the most weight loss were all logging on MFP.

Remember you CAN do this, if you CHOOSE to do this...no excuses, no rationalizing...just making the right decisions each time they come up. All the best in your journey.

I lost over 60 lbs, but did it over a year or so. I did it simply by counting calories and exercising (cardio). The more I lost, the easier it was to do the cardio, so now I'm at my goal weight and training for a marathon. But I'm still using this website to track my information.

The only suggestion I have besides continuing what you are doing is that you can manually adjust the calorie goal that MFP gives you. If you go a week or two counting calories accurately and exercising, and you find that you are not losing weight, drop the calorie goal by 100. Now that I'm in my "maintenance" phase, MFP calculated that I need 2300 net calories a day. After some experimentation, I found that 2300 net calories per day made me slowly gain weight, but if I stuck to 1900 or 2000 per day, I stay steady.

Everyone's body is different, and MFP is good, but you may have to make adjustments.