Hello. My name is Christi and I just started started. My goal is to lose 145 pounds and could use a lot of help and encouragement.

Hello Everyone,
My name is Kabira. I just joined em2wl again. I haven't been here for almost 4yrs. I'm 5'6" and I weigh 202lbs. I'm trying to lose 52lbs. I had a baby 11 months ago and I'm ready for a REAL change. I would like to be in the best shape I can be. I would like to find out what meal plan and exercise plan will work for me and not dopt the plan of another. I would like to love myself in my own skin again and not be so hard on myself.

Thank You
KABIRA

If you been in a diet with what turns out to be an unreasonable deficit (and eating 1400 in total for what you described would be) - a reset is finding your maintenance level of eating.
If this just started then that's not needed if you had been slightly maintaining weight prior to starting diet.

In which case quickly go log some past days as accurate as you can for what you used to eat - get a better idea of how many calories that was. That's maintenance if you were doing the same workouts.
If not, then keep reading.

Then you take a deficit off that - not a number that you created with MFP by selecting perhaps an purposeful underestimated daily Activity Level, and then an unreasonable deficit.

If you have over 50 lbs to lose - 2 lb weekly might be reasonable if you are decently active otherwise.
You got family and household duties you take care of, even with a desk job? Then Lightly-Active is activity level.
And 2 lbs may be reasonable if the base eating goal is around your BMR.

Then you log all your workouts, and eat to the newly stated goal so you don't increase your deficit.

Hey Everyone, I'm Jenn. I am 45 year trying really hard to get back on track after suffering a broken ankle last year. I currently weigh 208 lbs and ideally would like to get to 170 lbs. I need support and appreciate any and all advice I receive. Looking forward to learning lots.

You do all that for exercise and literally only eat in total 1200 calories?

Wow - your eating goal would totally suck if you ever got sick or went on vacation or family emergency and had to stop the exercise.

I'd be shocked if your body had not max adapted and very tired and other worse things you likely aren't aware of yet.
Part of that is increased cortisol and increased water weight due to the stress.
Body doesn't like being under that level of stress.

Of course your body can only adapt so much - so you could turn it into a game of how low can you go on eating goal. You will eventually start losing weight again - fat and muscle likely.
And then continue your yo-yo dieting for more years to come as you join the majority that fail to reach or maintain healthy goal weight.

Or, if really only eating 1200 daily - recognize this is another path to failure short and long term.
And change it.

Besides the fact it appears you are in a diet break for the last 6 months since maintaining - when have you even purposely taken a couple weeks off a diet and eaten more?

There is a topic in this group about refeeds - good info.
Unless your food logging is so far off you are accidentally eating much much more, this has happened to you.

https://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/heybales/view/reduced-metabolism-tdee-beyond-expected-from-weight-loss-616251

It may take even longer than this to recover.
https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/2004/05001/Weight_Gain___Marathon_Runner_Triathlete.705.aspx

Hi, I'm Trish, from Ireland. Not new to MFP but since I first started had some health issues to deal with and weight problem was sort of sidelined. At 53, I feel old and unfit, but young at heart so at odds with how my body is performing for me. I think it has taken me forever to get over the psychological hang ups that make me over eat. I am ready to change my eating habits for good. I can be very disciplined but struggle to actually eat enough good food now. A gum problem has my mouth very sore at the moment, but as I am only getting going this week I am trying to be kind to myself. I usually don't share much of myself on social media, and am not good at asking for help or support- ironic since that's what i do for a living. (I'm a psychotherapist) OH wait now... the walking wounded!! I would like to connect with anyone who identifies and is open to sharing their journey. I want to stay motivated and hope to finally succeed at reaching my goal weight and being able to stay there.

kdog223 wrote: »

Hi I'm kaitlin im down 100 lbs since 2017. It has been a long road. Now im trying to get rid of my last 45 lbs. I am very active and eat clean but I believe my intake was too low. I added this app to help me stay on top of how much im really eating.

So below 50 is more reasonable for the body to start slowing the rate of loss, 30-50 is good for 1.5 weekly.

A stressed body is going to stop cooperating with your efforts. If already doing less than that then great.

Great job on sticking to it.

Ever taken a purposeful week diet break - eating up around maintenance, to reset the hormones?

Hello everyone I am once again on the weight loss journey; currently I weigh 205 and I would like to loss about 35lbs. I do walk most days at least 4 days a week but my diet is not the best and I am currently working on that. We can do this everyone regardless of where we are we can do it. I have done it before and will do it again.

Hi All,

My name is Alan and I have struggled with weight loss all my life, I have twice taken off 6 stone and regained it as to do this I was going to the gym 5 nights a week and as soon as I stopped the gym I started putting the weight on again. My hope this time is to try and reduce my weight by more sensible eating and a lot more walking, since the start of July this year I have taken off 23 pounds and my hope by April next year is to have taken another 4.5 stone off. Is it usual for large amounts of weight to come off near the end of a month as I'm finding at the moment that I can go a month with no loss then suddenly I will drop 6 pounds or so.

Hi I am Jo from uk . I have been spending my money for years on WW and am now heavier than I was the day before having my 2nd 16 years ago ! So in fact the baby weight not only has shifted its increasing lol 😂. I have ADHD with more D than H and more hypo than hyper ! Looking forward to any support x

The more accurate name is too long to be catchy.

Eat more than bare minimum to sustainably lose weight.

Basically it's called not doing extreme diets which are major cause of 80% failure rate to reach or maintain goal weight.

Hey everyone. I'm just rejoining EM2WL. I was a member about 6 years ago, but my journey was sidetracked after we had a house fire. I was down about 50lbs then regained it all. I got back on the path last year, and I'm over 100lbs down. I brought my calories back up (was eating around 1500ish and now back over 2k) this month and now I'm concentrating on strength training. I am back in the gym for the first time since high school, and looking forward to getting this next step of my journey going.

MPyLP wrote: »

Hi there I'm MPyLP I'm a 38 yr old 5'4 mom of 3 who currently weighs 155. I want to lose or try to lose 30 lbs by late May I already watch what I eat workout and I'd like to add more protein and fiber to my diet. I've been diagnosed with Endo and my excess weight is a HUGE risk factor for me so I'm trying to reduce the excess and get back to how I was 3 yrs ago

Welcome.
I'll start out mentioning that time based weight-loss goals are fraught with aggravation and stress - don't even start down that road.
Because weight loss is not linear, but you up the stress and you can guarantee you'll gain water weight masking scale loss and likely increasing your stress then.
And body in that state will adapt making it even harder and making it fight your efforts.

30 lbs in basically 4 months is almost 2 lbs weekly - while that is a reasonable (as in not stressing body and making it adapt in negative ways) rate of loss if you have over 50 lbs to lose, it's ONLY when you have over 50 lbs to lose, then the rate should lower to not cause stress on body as you go below, and lower again and again as less fat is there.

The less fat you have stored, especially compared to prior, the more stressed the body is by undereating by certain amount.
And with a disease your body is already under stress - what is reasonable for others will not be for you.

I'd like to help anyone not become part of the 80% of dieters that fail to reach goal weight or maintain for a year, and repeat again next year.
Bad for the body and mind, develops a terrible relationship with body and food. Read the comments from those women on MFP in their late 50's & 60's who wished they hadn't wasted their lives away doing yo-yo extreme dieting.

Suggest you make it reasonable, which at this point is 1 lb weekly loss.
When down to last 15 if NOT losing 1 lb weekly, change to 1/2 lb weekly. If you were losing 1 lb weekly can wait until 10 lbs left to switch.
Use MFP correctly - don't put in sedentary when you are a mother of 3 "just to be on the safe side".
You are easily Light-Active outside exercise.
That eating goal already has the 500 cal deficit to lose 1 lb weekly, when you do no exercise.

Again to using correctly - if you do more you eat more to keep the 500 only deficit.
Log your workouts honestly, and if you comment what you do for workouts get some assistance on realistic calorie burns to log, and eat that much extra on those days.

This group is all about stopping the cycle of yo-yo dieting, and getting strong from workouts - both of which require stopping the extreme type diets that frankly 2lbs weekly would be.
Hope you can reread this info to balance out all the extreme diet encouragement out there available people get excited about.

Hey all,
I'm new and looking for friends to help motivate and keep each other on track. If you're looking for someone to check in with daily, send me a FR. A little about me: I'm 34, living in Ontario, and eat plant-based. I am getting married in 6 months and want to work on getting my diet aligned with a healthy lifestyle.

Hi My name is Tina. I joined the group to get motivation and assistance with changing my eating habits. I thought that this would be a great place to start. As I have gotten older, exercise isn't enough.