Hihi. Glad I remembered about this group! After recovering from a lifelong ED for the past few years, I feel I'm finally ready to pursue reasonable health and fitness goals in a sane way. My goal is to steadily change my eating and exercise habits to support myself at a lower weight. I realized at this moment in time my body, at its higher weight, is a perfect result of my current habits. The last thing I want is to go on some "diet" that I'll someday get off and return to these habits. Hopefully this group will help me do just that. Thanks.

It took me a while to grasp the concept of eating more and I will lose weight. So now I eat four meals a day instead of my meals a day only. I make better food choices. I cannot stomach diary, gluten and sometimes red meat but i have worked around this and have successfuly lost weight. Happy to be here.

eamcguire67 wrote: »

Hi all. I'm new here. I'm trying to loose weight, but I find that I am never hungry. This group makes sense, but I stuggle eating today. How does one eat even more often, when trying to get in 1200 calories a day is tough enough.

Since it is likely impossible that you gained enough weight to now have to lose it eating 1200 - you of course know how to eat more.

You need to re-examine how you have changed your eating habits, perhaps what you consider healthy. Fat for instance is needed in diet, not to be avoided.
There is more than just extremes of broccoli or donuts, there is a wide range between that is perfectly fine food.
And even in moderation, donuts are fine.

cecezo wrote: »

I am new to the group and trying to lose 30 pounds. I see terms such as TDEE, RMR, BMR and more. I am so lost, I do not understand a thing. Please help.

Did you read the stickies, several on exactly those terms and how to start.

New to the group and excited to find a group that may actually help me get my head and body sorted. I'm in a binge/restricting hole and my weight has shot up to 71.8kg / 158lb (I feel awful about myself) I want to get back down to 57kg / 125lb. I'm hoping if I change my mind and thought process and how I see food it will stop this distructive cycle!
Please feel free to add me - I really would like the spport and advice. Eating more and regular (and mainly the right foods as I, like most, make bad choices) this is the help I need!
On to read the information above now on how to get started - I need to do this.
Thanks guys and dolls. x

I SERIOUSLY need some help. I always go over the calorie budget but I know that its because my food choices are empty calories. So I want to EAT more healthy choices to WEIGHT less.

This is an interesting group find. I need help. Having difficulty keeping my calories within the mfp guidelines for loss and my body keeps trying/succeeding in regaining any weight lost. Exercise (mainly cardio) almost daily. Midfifties female

Hi there, new to the group from Holland. Losing weight since januari. And already eating more than the last years. Glad I found this group , can use all the tips I can get

I just realized mfp had groups (shrug) and the group title caught my attention.

I've learned in the past when I eat more I lose weight, but somehow I keep forgetting and listening to these doctors and nutritionists who tell me cut my calories.
I would wonder how do you cut 0? Literally some days I wouldn't eat just because I forgot it was busy or just wasn't in the mood.

I've been cooking and eating like a fiend and I am down almost 10 lbs in the past almost 3 weeks. And I feel great. Will definitely be following this group closely.

Everyone no matter how much to lose can pick a reasonable deficit rather than extreme, and lose weight eating more than bare minimum.

You'd probably find your workouts can be better without such a big deficit.

Minimum input sooner or later leads to minimum output from your body.

Or are you correctly following MFP method and non-exercise day is 1360, but you correctly log exercise and eat more on days you actually burn more?

And intense every day is not good either. Intense needs rest and repair and recovery time, you do intense the next day with same muscles, you'll soon find yourself doing mediocre workouts because muscles are always tired.

And heavy is for you. If by the end of your desired rep range you barely hold good form, that is heavy for you.
If by the end you could do 20 more reps easily - ya, that ain't doing much with your time.

With 60 lbs to lose you could probably warrant a 20% deficit, until you hit 50 lbs left, then back to suggested.