I am 60 years old and I am disabled and can't do any exercise I have cut my calories to 1,000 a day.

Congratulations on getting engaged! Try not to stress so much about it, just stay healthy, eat well enough to be energetic for the big day.

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Adding your stats will help improve the quality of replies. You are about to get a bunch of replies that you're not eating enough, but we don't have enough information to even know if you are truly eating that little. Are you using a food scale? Are you extremely short? Etc. So height, weight and if you use a food scale to weigh everything.

Buy a food scale, weigh and log everything.

Cheat meals that take you over maintenance will sabotage your efforts. Log the cheat meals too (falls under the 'log everything' rule).

Eat anything you want in moderation, keeping in mind that your diet will be easier to stick with if you chose foods that make it easier to stay under your calories without feeling hungry.

Also it would be a good idea to read some of the best forum posts such as:
Calorie Counting 101
Logging Accuracy, Consistency, & You're Probably Eating More Than You Think
A Guide To Get You Started on Your Path To Sexy Pants

+1 and same answer I gave to your last post. We need more information to give you good advice.

You are not eating enough. How are you disabled?

Weight loss starts in the kitchen
I dont think you eat 1000 calories...because you would have lost weight.
My guess is that you eat more than you think

So start weighing your food on a food scale..get accurate. Weigh ALL your food and log it.
Don't use cups and spoons or serving sizes this is highly inaccurate.

Nutritionist or dietician may be an option to explore, too- with so few calories it's important to make sure that your nutrition is up to par with your needs to keep your health in check (particularly since you have several challenges with your health... )

Being active doesn't always mean "exercise", either. I would say maybe work with your general practitioners and your specialists more- talk to them about your concerns and goals... and they can give insight on what limits may be with your conditions and what is safe or not for you in terms of physical activity, and diet wise too. For Ex: Post heart attack and bypass, my dad was instructed to do light physical therapy, but no real exercise yet... they recommended small weights. So we had him lifting small soup cans a few times during the breaks between the shows he was watching on tv.

Extreme diets don't tend to work well over time, mostly because people have issues with adherence. (You can also develop nutritional deficiencies because you're not getting the nutrition you need, but I don't think most people last long enough to really cause that). The majority of people can only eat at 1000 calories or thereabouts for so long before they binge, and weight loss is all about sustaining a deficit OVER TIME. Putting yourself at a huge deficit for a short amount of time won't get you to where you want to be.

If you plug in your stats and tell MFP you want to lose 2 pounds per week, how many calories does it give you?
EDIT: You only have 29 pounds to lose?? You should be trying to lose 0.5 pounds per week.

Weight loss is overwhelmingly about food and not exercise, so don't worry about your limited abilities right now. However...there are a lot of ways to increase your activity that might not aggravate your issues. You said you can walk, but not very far or for a long period of time? Walk to the end of the hall and back, or around the house. Try that every half hour, or on commercial breaks when you're watching TV. Whatever is manageable for you and is okay with your doctor. Once that gets easy, walk to the next house over and back, or to the end of the block.

Exercise isn't an all-or-nothing thing. Any improvement you make counts as a win, and everyone starts somewhere. Where you start isn't as important as whether you make improvements over the long run.

work with your doctor regarding what exercise might be advisable. there is plenty of activities out there but it's finding ones that work for you. walk what you can. try chair yoga. etc. youtube might have some ideas to get you started not knowing exactly what your physical limitations are presecriptive versus personal decisions