Any advice trying to lose weight when you're already "thin"?

the less fat you have to lose, the harder it is to lose, so the more conservative you need to be with your deficit. If your deficit is too aggressive, you will lose lean mass along with the fat, which weakens you, makes your bones less dense and also is likely to make you feel weak and tired and prone to binge eating.... instead, get in the gym and lift weights... the kinds of changes women want to see in their bodies once they're already reasonably thin come from having a lower body fat percentage, rather than from weighing less. So forget weight, focus on reducing your body fat percentage. To do that, you need to do some kind of strength training (could be weights or a progressive programme of bodyweight strength training) and have a small deficit and lose the fat *slowly*... this does far more for improving how you look naked and also losing dress sizes/inches, than trying to be a particular number on the scale. Some women end up heavier, but a smaller dress size, because their bones and muscles are denser, but their body fat levels are actually lower.

Even if it is possible to lose weight, shooting for 2lbs a week is awfully high at 128lbs. If you are exercising regularly and cutting down a huge amount on calories, too, your body may have a harder time losing weight. Have you tried plugging your figures into the myfitnesspal calculators to see what it tells you to be eating? Try changing your expectations to about 1/2 lb per week, adjust eating and exercising to match that, and see what happens for a month or so.

I was in a similar situation about two years ago. I weighed a little more than I ever did and was sedentary but I was still at the lower end of a healthy BMI. Still, I didn't like how I looked or felt. So, I thought I'd eat little and drop 15 lbs and then I'd be good. Well, it worked but I was essentially starving and I got into a mindset where I never looked good enough. I finally started upping my calories after months of binging and mental anguish. I then starting strength training. I'm a little less than my "high" weight but I look and feel better than ever.

My advice is to save yourself the trouble and eat more and lift heavy. You can still do barre or cardio or whatever you like, too.

Strength training did it for me. I am 5'4 and 124lb, and my body shape has changed considerably since I started lifting weights - to the point that I dont want or need to lose any weight.
FYI - I maintain at 1680 (TDEE method)

This thread is five years old. Pretty sure she's figured it out by now.

1250 is what MFP has given me to lose .5 pound a week. I am 59 and have a desk job. I am 5’4” and 139. Some people need to eat at that level to create a deficit. It is not necessarily “ridiculously low.”

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1250 is what MFP has given me to lose .5 pound a week. I am 59 and have a desk job. I am 5’4” and 139. Some people need to eat at that level to create a deficit. It is not necessarily “ridiculously low.”

This thread is pretty old, but OP is younger than you and does (did?) regular exercise. She also got that goal because she put 2 pounds a week as her goal. I'm not sure why you would think this was a judgement on you because her situation was quite different than yours.

A calorie goal that is "ridiculously low" for one person may be perfectly appropriate for someone in a very different situation.