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About that knee ... get it looked at. The last thing you need with your current high motivation is to be sidelined with an injury. It might be something as simple as footwear choice.

There is one way to find out, which is to follow MFP plan for a month (that long to account for cycling hormones which affect scale weight). This includes weighing solid food and measuring liquids, as the "eyeball" method is notoriously inaccurate. Once you have a month's worth of data, you will have the answer to your…

So, some basic science. The body can only utilise so much stored fat in a day to compensate for what it is lacking through your food consumption. Once it has maxed out it will go after your lean mass. It will also slow down/stop non-essential bodily functions and divert that energy to the essentials. Which is where brittle…

What I do with pasta is weigh it dry, then cook it. I accept 2 oz as "a portion." I cook it then weigh the drained pasta (pasta minus the weight of the colander) and divide that weight by portion #. It takes about 5 seconds & I get a better measure than using "cups."

Here's some science-based info regarding your question: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/muscle-gain/whats-my-genetic-muscular-potential.html/

My maintenance level turned out to be higher when I was weight training regularly (because fit bit under estimated my calorie burn). Not weight training it turns out to be pretty much what MFP said it would be.

Hitting a "calorie lost" figure is still in the equation for me, 2 years in to maintenance. If I don't move beyond "sedentary" levels, I will gain weight if I eat out a couple of time a month even if my usual daily regimen is at or slightly under my maintenance goal. It's sad, but just a fact of life.

^^ this

I will echo that you are doing fine. Typically, the first couple of weeks weeks is a large loss due to water weight. Increases in water weight due to hormones can mask fat loss. Just keep doing what you are doing.

For what it's worth, as a 65 yo female weighing ~154 lbs @ 5'6" ( but short legs) I burn ~75 calories a mile at a 3.5 pace.

You will get a lot of anecdotal information about menopause and weight gain - here is a pretty useful exploration of the subject that includes science: http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/womens-health/in-depth/menopause-weight-gain/art-20046058

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17212793 Ghrelin and leptin are also influenced by other hormones. But basically the science behind what we think of as "appetite" include these two.

The difference in BMR (only about 250 calories per day) can mean 2 lbs a month weight gain, or 12 lbs a year, without changing diet ... this may be why aging related muscle loss can translate into weight gain creep over a decade.

I won't lie - if a reasonable deficit brings you to about 1200 calories a day, that amount of alcohol cuts into the daily allotment quite significantly, and if you are rigorous about not exceeding that #, you will not be getting proper nutritional support on days you drink.

Most people will lose weight fine just concentrating on a calorie deficit. For some folks (I am one), a small deficit (250 cal a day) means I have 1350 calories and that is difficult to sustain, and so adding exercise gives me more flexibility with what I eat. Strength training while in a deficit, and adequate protein,…

I was on vacation for about 2 weeks and gained about 3# - so that was approximately 11,000 calories above maintenance during that time, or about 700-800 calories a day extra. My maintenance number given my level of activity during this time was 1500-1600 calories a day (walking approximately 4 miles a day. I know. It's…

You say you have "gotten better about the frequency." What did you do different from your previous behavior in order to have less frequent binges? What have you noticed about how you feel? Those times where you have drunk to excess on fewer occasions, what were you doing instead? Getting curious about these things can lead…

It depends on the person, actually. I am one of those folks who requires very few calories to maintain - if I want to lose weight, I definitely need to increase the CO part of the CICO equation in order to maintain health.

In my personal experience, too-high a deficit can cause me to slow my non-exercise activity, which leads to a weight loss stall because the CO part of CICO is reduced even if my intentional exercise periods remain the same. So I am one of those folks who sometimes needs to consume more calories to lose weight - it's not a…

Loss of appetite (anorexia, the medical condition - as opposed to the mental health condition) seems to be correlated in your current experience with stress. Your stomach hurting may also be correlated with stress or perhaps a medical condition. In your shoes I would schedule an appointment with my primary care provider to…

I am easily able to get 130 g into a 1200 calorie allotment each day - nonfat plain greek yogurt, low or no fat cottage cheese, egg white omelets, chicken breast, very lean cuts of red meat, fish and shellfish, with the occasional protein drink as needed/wanted, along with unlimited green leafy veges, cruciferous veges,…

If this happened to me, I would do one of three things: Enter and leave with a workout partner; change the time of day I went to the gym as well as days of the week; find a different place to work out

My usual packed lunch - 2 apples, 2 5.2oz cartons of greek yogurt (usually plain non fat), a container with cut-up carrots and tomatoes and 2 TBSP hummus. One of the apples and yogurts is for "snack" whenever I decide I am hungry.

Eat what you already planned as a healthy, calorie-appropriate meal, log it, and plan better tomorrow.

Vigilance counts! I have taken time off from logging and weighing myself. First "break" I gained about 8 pounds and had to work for 3 months to get it off. Second break was shorter and I gained about 5. So I have learned (1) that I need breaks where I am not logging and (2) that they need to last no more than one month.

It might depend on your starting point - a stone in a larger person would be less noticeable than in a smaller person - hard to say.

Consider making your diary public :) Then folks can look at it and give you way more advice about it than may be useful, but at least their comments may help you make changes ... if you need changes .... if you are losing weight, maybe all you need to do is keep doing what you are doing!

Eating "all carbs" over the long term might result in insufficient protein, which over the long term might increase lean body loss (so pounds are still lost, but more muscle and less fat).

I use Pure Protein shakes these days for convenience - the chocolate one has 23 g protein, 2 g fat, 6 g carb of which 3g is fiber, and 120 calories. It helps me not eat my arm off in the late afternoon. I have also mixed protein powder with non fat, plain greek yogurt for "pudding" along with a banana for a meal (often…

If you live in the US, you can buy some shoe inserts - profoot makes some (look for the ones that target knee pain). They are around 8 bucks and made a difference for me.