Hi everyone! Been lurking for a few weeks and trying to read up as much as possible. I am 5'5 and 131 lbs at 37 years old. I had been doing a bootcamp and diet program for moms and found that I was really struggling to both lose weight and eat as much as was prescribed by the plan. I started tracking my calories and was averaging around 1200 a day. It seemed like so much food. I have had years of under-eating. At one point a granola bar or 2 got me through the day until dinner. I have hypothyroidism/Hashimotos and just assumed that in order to maintain a "slim" figure that I couldn't eat much food. I thought I naturally had a really slow metabolism. I didn't realize the damage that I had done in my years of barely eating then sitting on an elliptical machine for an hour. I feel like a light has gone on! I have put my numbers in the Scooby calculator and am ready to up my calories. I am terrified of gaining fat but need to just let that fear go. Hope to make connections with some of you to help with the journey!