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I'm currently eating about 1800 calories, minus 300-400 calories 5 days a week for exercise. My goal is to get to 2400 for maintaining. I'm adding 100 calories a month. I've been working up from 1200 calories. I still have weight to lose but I'm in no rush, I'd like to lose about 1 kilo per month.

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anything gluten free...a loaf of bread here is $6!!! 3 coeliacs in 1 house.... :neutral_face:

I'm on a 1600 calorie diet and love it!!! I can lose weight, I feel amazing, I am not hungry.

I have been playing with my calories, my maintenance is 1800-2000, to lose weight it is 1600. Since doing this I have lost 1 kilo (2.2lbs) in a week, before I was maintaining :)

country SA here :)

I wondered the same... some inflammation issues can be greatly helped by going GF. I'm GF from coeliacs

Chill babe, everyone has a starting place...focus on you, not them :)

I wish I had it, I am looking at buying it :) I agree too many are restricting then wondering why they gain the weight back later. I want to be able to do this for a lifetime not only today.

Country SA!!!

When I was being I had an extra 500 calories a day

Breastfeeding is under exercise :)

Because 1200 calories is not enough. This should be more than surviving.

I too needed to up my calories AND cut out down my exercise. Which has been really hard for me. I also know that something had to change because I knew what I was doing was not working. It is hard, but together we can do it. a journey we can together.

How do I do a reset? I've put it down to 15% which gives me 2400. I love nuts, so I had 600 calories to go to meet my TDEE and had had bunch of nuts for dessert (400 calories) i love peanut butter and all things nuts, so that works for me. I use nothing low fat. I know your right, I used to live on less then 1000 calories…

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/Original_Beauty my food diary :) be nice please!!!!

Any advice on how to to get my daily intake from 1600-1800 to 2200? Can I add 100 calories a week until I'm at goal? I'm nervous what this will mean for my weight, but I'm trying to look at the bigger picture. I'm trusting you both because I have nothing to lose (hahahaha!) can I add you so you can give me some advice on…

Thank you for your amazing help, I'm beyond grateful :heart: Right now eating more than 2000 calories scares me so that is something I need to address. Today I didn't go to the gym, so that was/is a little shocking for me. Over the past 6 weeks I have been increasing my calories from 1200. I'm currently around 1800 (-…

I never thought HIIT would work against me, then again I didn't think I was doing HIIT. I think I need to change how I go about the gym and take it down to 3-4 times a week? It's really hard when you are in the all or nothing mind set. I'm trying to change this, it's scary to me actually. I'm doing quite good keeping with…

I am 5'3" and the last time I weighed in I was 92 kilos (200lbs) I'm currently a stay at home Mum. Soon I will be working as a personal carer in home care. I think I do it most days a week is because I enjoy it. I think you are about addiction disorder, if I do not go to the gym and burn x calories I feel nervous and…

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I'm in please.

Short term no, long term yes...is it something you can do for a life time? We know the answer, no. This is a journey, there is no rush. Take your time...

Some ideas to get extra calories Breakfast: add a piece of fruit, or yogurt or a piece of toast. There is an extra 100 calories For a snack try adding some nuts there is an extra 100-200 calories (hahahahaha I just saw your snacks lol) What are you having for dinner? Dessert?

I have about 44lbs to lose, if you need a new friend add me :)

She has tried things like that here is a sample of her day, today: Breakfast: 1 piece of toast with peanut butter 1 small bowl of cornflakes 1 tub of yogurt 1 glass of juice Morning tea: 1 banana and peanut butter smoothie Lunch: Chicken, cheese salad roll 1 glass of milk 1 Apple Snack: 1 cup of nuts Dinner: Steak, green…

stop weighing yourself daily!

Try a b12 sub lingual (spray under the tongue) I have PA (A type of anaemia) and I need to self inject monthly. Since taking the sub lingual it has made a huge difference!!! I spray 3 times a day, twice each time, now I can do 2 times daily and sprays. Do you use nuts, seeds, yeast flakes? I was vegan for a couple of years…

We have the same mentality. I feel the same. I am following IIFYM and on a 2000 diet. Re: tdee. I want to focus on the quality of food and not only the calories.

I have just started using IIFYM :)