*Deep breath* Please look at my food diary

Yep you need to eat more!

Hi there,

I agree with Londoneye but as well if you are going to have a larger meal, make it for breakfast. 97 calories for breakfast will not set you up for a good day, your body will more likely store the next meal than burn it up during activity; and the same goes for skipping meals - don't :-).

You will have more luck (IMHO) if you have three square meals a day, each about 300 to 400 calories each, and two snacks - one mid-morning and one mid-afternoon. I stick to fruit for the snacks, and make sure each meal has both carbs and protein. This is how people have been eating for hundreds of years, we just seem to have forgotten about it in the last 30 or so :-)

Hope this helps and good luck! You look great by the way :-)

Cheers, Christy

U dont look like you have a lot to loose. At a centain point you will slow down loosing weight. Just keep up your routean and you will start loosing again.

I'm going to go ahead and echo what others have said, mostly, but to put it as briefly as I can:

1. Your largest meal should be lunch, followed by breakfast, and dinner should be little more than a snack.
2. Try to stock up on lean protein; it releases energy slowly over time and helps you feel fuller longer, and helps rebuild the muscles you are breaking down with your workouts to keep your body from eating its own muscle.
3. Fresh vegetables. Frozen vegetables. Eat them. Lots of them. Crazy low in calories, roughage is filling, and they contain a cornucopia of vitamins and minerals you want to get in your diet that you can fall short on by trying to cut down your intake.
4. Twice a week, change your workout from aerobic to resistance. You don't need to pump heavy iron, but do things like squats, lunges, push-ups, dips, tricep extensions/pushdowns...basically anything that requires pushing weight. More and more research is indicating that a 45 minute resistance workout, done properly, has more overall benefit than an aerobic workout of similar length. The reason (briefly) is that you not only burn the "stage 1" calories that are actually consumed while performing the work; you also get the "afterburn" of your body's efforts to rebuild the muscle fibers strained during the workout. Think about your large muscles when you do this: legs, back, chest, glutes. Also, muscle cells require more caloric energy to maintain, which means that as you add more lean muscle, your BMR goes up.