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I haven't chosen an ultimate goal weight for that reason. I know I want to be somewhere within a healthy BMI range and that's mostly what I'm aiming for, and I figure I'll know when I'm there based on how things look.

I would suggest hormones as others have. I have similar sleep issues and it's related to hormones (and I have kids who keep me awake on top of it). I sleep with a sound machine and it helps a lot because I'm such a light sleeper. Any little noise will wake me up. I've tried a sleep mask and it did help but I had a hard…

Oh and I'm a mom to five kids. I know what busy is and I've used every excuse in the world to talk myself out of doing what I needed to do. I used to think I could exercise my way out of too many calories. For a long time, I convinced myself that exercise was the way to lose weight so I didn't have to focus on my diet…

You sound a lot like me 4 or 5 years ago. I knew what I needed to do but I convinced myself it was too hard. I just knew it wasn't possible to eat less. I just knew I had to be eating the right amount and wasn't losing weight and I needed to just resign myself to being overweight forever. I too lost a little weight on my…

It seems you already know the answer. You were doing fine just counting calories, why would you intentionally make things harder by following recommendations you don't need? You already know you shouldn't aim for rapid loss, so why not just stick to a modest deficit and eat in a way that better fits your goals and life?…

Chugging along here! I've been busy and haven't been checking in as much but I'm reading along and seeing how you're all doing. I set myself a second goal of 130 and getting into a healthy BMI (I think that's 131 or 132) and then seeing how things look there. I have a hard time envisioning myself any lower than that…

If you go into the Fitbit help forum you'll see that they frequently experience problems on their end with proper syncing, so it isn't necessarily MFP. Mine is working fine today.

If you're active in your day-to-day life on top of exercise, then absolutely. But that all depends on how accurate you are with logging food, as well. The more accurate you are (using a food scale and verifying database entries) the easier time you'll have of eating as much as possible and still losing weight. For…

This. I'm not tall, but I recently saw this exchange amongst a group of people who insisted they would look completely skin and bones if they weren't overweight (or even obese). I used that group mentality to give myself permission to not lose weight for a LONG time. I had a friend (who is the same height as me) say she…

5'1" and 139lbs. Losing on 2070 while breastfeeding an almost one year old. Not sure what my maintenance calories are, but they're likely more.

In this like a classroom snack? Grapes, raisins, dried fruit, apple or fruit sauce pouches, fruit leather, cereal bars.

I love this! Isn't it wonderful when you have that revelation and it just clicks? Keep up the great work!

It took me almost a full year to lose 55 pounds of baby weight. And I have more to lose on top of that. I stuck with my calorie goal, weighed and measured everything I ate, and I got there by giving it time. If you develop a sustainable plan and you stick with it (if you can't stick with it and continue to see results,…

And seriously, you just had a baby. Nobody snaps back immediately after having a baby. Nobody. Trust me on that one.

The weight that you lost in the beginning was extra fluid throughout your whole body as well as amniotic fluid, a lot of blood since you increased your blood volume by 50% during pregnancy, plus the weight of your baby and placenta. If you were breastfeeding at all during that time, you probably also lost some fat stores.…

Also keep in mind that if you try to drive your deficit up, you're going to drive yourself into the ground and it's not going to be pleasant. The demands of infants have a way of sorting us out real quick when we try to push ourselves too hard and expect too much too soon. Too few calories means a lack of energy and that's…

The production of breastmilk requires additional calories from the nursing mother. I lose a pound a week (and have lost 55 pounds) on 2070 calories while breastfeeding and I'm 5'1".

Because you're breastfeeding, that makes it more difficult to determine what your calorie needs for maintenance and loss are. They won't correspond to a calculator or whatever Beachbody is telling you. The calories necessary for breastfeeding will fluctuate from day to day, even if you're only breastfeeding a few times a…

MFP gives you pre-set macros to aim for according to your stats. Weight loss is completely dependent on a calorie deficit, not what you eat. If you put your stats into MFP and selected a reasonable rate of loss per week depending on how much you have to lose, and you stick to the calorie goal it gives you, you'll lose…

I've lost 55 pounds and counting by eating what I want. I'm losing weight eating the exact same stuff I ate while gaining. Sure, I'm more creative about meal preparation and more thoughtful about what is satiating and nutritious, but I villainize nothing. You figure it out as you go along. I ate a donut with my coffee and…

Coffee is flavor enhanced water.

Hit my first goal weight! 55 pounds down! I'm still not sure what my ultimate goal will be but I guess I'll know when I see it. Height: 5'1" HW: 195 April 2017 SW April: 141 Ultimate goal: 130? April goal: 135-36. April 1st: 141 April 6th: 140.2 April 10th: 139.6

You can do it! I know you can! Once you settle into something sustainable, it will just hit you that you can keep going until you see it through. It won't be torture and you KNOW you'll keep making progress if you keep going. For the longest time I convinced myself that the scale could never go below a certain point and I…

I'm 5'1", 139lbs, and losing a pound a week at 2070 while nursing an almost one year old who definitely isn't taking 500 calories a day from me like a smaller infant would. So my actual maintenance is probably higher. I lift heavy 3 or 4 days a week and I'm like the Energizer bunny. I don't do any cardio. I just like…

Thanks! Pretty much never on the protein powder. I'd rather chew my calories. I'm sure there are blends that are safe while breastfeeding but I wouldn't know which.

Get pregnant and have 5 children in 10 years. Breastfeed all of those children. Pretty much breastfeed and be pregnant non-stop. If you're like me, you'll lose a little volume but not much. I was still a 32E once I hit a healthy weight. Nevermind, don't do that. Just keep the smaller breasts and buy some expensive bras.…

I just have a Fitbit. Nothing fancy.

Absolutely! I lost the rest of my 70 pounds of baby weight after my youngest turned two! I definitely wasn't willing to deprive myself of food to lose weight. The food scale is the key to knowing how much I can eat. There's no reason to underfeed myself because I know exactly how much I can eat and lose weight. No guessing…

Thank you all! One of the first questions I had when I lost weight was whether my stomach muscles/skin/stretch marks would improve so I wanted to post about that for any mamas wondering the same thing. In the white dress above, my baby was about 6 months old and I still looked very pregnant. After lifting heavy and doing…

There are lots of breastfeeding moms here. I'm sure you know that breastfeeding creates a deficit for you, so it isn't necessary to create a deficit on top of it usually. I recommend setting your account to maintain your current weight to start with, and aim for a pound or less of loss per week. If you find that you aren't…