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If you plan on logging your workouts in MFP and eating back any of the exercise calories, go with sedentary. If you do not plan to log your exercises, and will be eating just your baseline MFP calories, go with lightly active or moderately active.

I was down to 108 ages ago. I think I looked like a stick. :-) I know some women look great at that weight. I didn't. I'm aiming for 125, maybe 120. Mainly aiming for strong, lean, fit. Everyone is different and the number on the scale translates differently on each person. You seem like healthy and fit is more important…

5'2, 128 pounds, losing half to 1 pound a week on 1450 (plus about 75% of my exercise calories).

Yup, just medical, not personal, because of your BMI and accompanying health issue. Hey, when I was pregnant at 36 my chart said "advanced maternal age." Ha! Medical terms don't sound nice but they're really nothing personal!

No, that sounds good. Since you don't weigh your food you may have been closer to that number than you think. The 1636 number, your tdee -20, includes exercise so you wouldn't eat back calories. I'm 128, and I'm eating 1450 plus exercise calories (so total around 1550-1600 calories) & I'm losing. You don't need to kill…

Generally if you're hungry your body is telling you to eat. So eat. Takes planning sometimes to make sure you will have the calories but that comes with experimenting and tweaking as you go. There are low calorie foods if you find you're out of calories but are hungry - air popped popcorn, carrot sticks and hummus, yogurt.…

What are you doing that you're eating thousands of calories more in two days? Are you going out with friends? Drinking lots? Ordering take out? It'd be easier to offer help if we knew how you're going over. Without knowing any of that, i'd just suggest that if you won't eat less during the week, then perhaps just plan out…

Just fyi, ovulation occurs well before your period begins regardless the length of a woman's cycle. The variation in cycle length comes from the first half of your cycle (first day of your period to ovulation....not from ovulation to beginning of period). But that aside, weight gain a few days before a period is totally…

Stop focusing on this idea that you can't eat sweets or pastas. Instead, focus on logging every single thing you eat, every single day. Log exactly. Weigh each portion. The reason you aren't losing weight is because you are eating way too many calories. That's it.

You should really lay off critiques and monitoring of her eating and her weight. I know you're thinking of her health but what you're doing will backfire and may give her eating issues/body issues, which of course isn't your goal! Puberty growth does happen in irregular ways.... this means that some girls gain weight…

Yes he has a point. That fight hijacked a thread. I'd bet most people don't want to wade through that argument.

Unfiltered apple cider vinegar does have some probiotics in it, so a small amount added to water could be helpful (not a magical weight loss cure though, sorry!). Some people also do like the taste when added to water. A friend of mine can't stand water and will drink it only with unfiltered apple cider vinegar in it.…

Long-term effects of eating too few calories (& 800 calories is absolutely too few): Nausea, diarrhea, fatigue, constipation, dizziness, headaches, gallstones, and hair loss. So if you are weighing your food and know you're eating only 800 calories, eat more. If you're not hungry then choose calorie dense foods- peanut…

Just want to point out that a quick Google search turned up plenty articles that debunk the cardio-in-women-leads-to-T3-and-thyroid-issues idea. Doing a little more digging, it seems pretty clear the author of the article you read seriously misunderstood pretty much every study he claimed to read. So it seems doubtful that…

I'm in that position. But I'm the one who cooks, so I make things I can eat. (Yes, I know, I can eat pasta- but for me the calories are too high for what I get for it). There honestly are plenty of dinners that are okay for people trying to lose weight but that don't have "low calorie!" written all over them. Tonight we…

Of course you can be over what MFP gives you and still be in a deficit. You just won't be in as much of a deficit.

For the first two weeks of my weight loss, I stopped feeling hungry. I made myself eat regular meals and made sure I ate 1200 calories anyway. Week 3 my appetite came roaring back. Maybe the same will happen for you. Just make sure you're getting good nutrition!

If you get any lower than 105 you'd be underweight, which is why MFP has you at maintenance.

Actually you seem to understand the basics. :-) It's a good idea to eat back some of your exercise calories so that you're giving your body the fuel it needs to be active and not lose lean muscle. Some choose to eat back only 50%-75% of exercise calories, just in case the estimate of calorie burn is off.

I have it enabled because I don't want to inadvertently eat into my calorie deficit! I'm set to lose .5 pound a week, so if I have a lazy day I could actually wipe out that day's entire calorie deficit without realizing it, if I didn't have the negative adjustment enabled. It's a handy tool to make sure you're really…

If you DON'T log, and you just eat and eat and eat, you could erase your calorie deficit for the week without realizing it. So you'd be working all week for nothing. Better to log so that you can check to make sure you don't eat your way back to maintenance calories for the week. Have you thought about doing a…

Just FYI jawbone just updated its software this week so you no longer have to switch between activity and sleep. But yes, no looking at your wrist to see steps. You have to check the app.

I'm happy with my Jawbone. I don't have the heart rate version, just the more basic UP2. It's helped me get a handle on my activity level, works as a good motivator to get moving. I think it's fairly accurate (though I don't eat back many of the extra calories).

I don't understand this attitude. It's not healthy to eat so little. What's your goal? To lose weight so you're healthier? You won't be healthier if you're malnourished. To lose weight to look better? You may not look better if you lose weight so quickly you lose too much lean muscle mass.

You are talking as if you have 2 choices - lose weight or gorge; lose weight or give up all the healthy habits you have. That's just not how it works. Do not try to lose weight. Do focus on eating reasonable amounts of nutrient rich foods. You can make it your goal to gain 20 to 25 pounds overall, and to gain it by eating…

Yup. Sleep deprivation is unavoidable for me. My son has nursing care 3 nights a week so I get 7 hours of sleep those nights. But the other 4 nights I'm lucky if I get 5 hours. It's hard to lose weight when you're exhausted! Possible, but hard.

You cannot be talking about losing 10 pounds over 12 weeks AND losing 10 pounds in the first trimester. ...you're 6 weeks along. You've got just 6-7 weeks left in the first trimester. Fyi. But no. If you're really worried about losing weight after baby is born, then simply focus on gaining a smart amount of weight…

Ha. I hear you on the c-sections. Trying to find out the same for me. So then relax about the water weight. You could eat at maintenance for a week to give yourself a break. Or go for slower rate of loss and up your calories in general. You may be hungry simply because you should be eating more. I'm also 5'2, and 42 years…

I don't know, if you're stressing about water weight ("dreaded"?) then you need to take a step back and examine yourself. It's not healthy to get so worked up over temporsry, meaningless water weight. It seems as if you're so tied to the scale numbers you're missing the big health picture.

So you've lost 39 pounds so far, and if that picture is a recent one you must be close to your goal weight, right? Everything I've read says that the last few pounds are slow to come off. Your logging is filled with entries that say "kriss's personal entry" so seems they are recipes you've worked out and weighed. If that's…