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We don't have access to weightlifting equipment (can't afford home equipment or a gym membership), but we do strength training as bodyweight exercises and as part of aikido training. Perhaps we should step up the amount of strength training we do.

Thank you for the advice! Perhaps we'll try maintaining weight for a while... although we seem to be doing basically that anyway, even on our low-calorie limits. I'll check to see what our maintenance limits should be. (There seem to be so many tools for this; do you have any recommendations for which ones are more…

This is great information. Thank you so much! Both of us are already on pretty minimal calories (one reason I was worried they might be too low), so we can't reasonably drop them. Although we don't have bikes, more's the pity, I'll look into what we can do to ramp up exercise. We do five minutes of full-intensity cardio…

My partner and I are doing MyFitnessPal and weight loss together. He's the one who decided he wanted to lose weight, but he doesn't like the fiddly details of tracking or the time it consumes. As I do all of our cooking, he's totally happy to have me track and doesn't mind updating me if he has a snack or anything like…

Thanks for this; it made me feel better! Do you think the hunger-after-eating-more effect will fade away again if we are careful about our goals for the next few days? And do you think we should raise our level of exercise to push through it? I don't know much about intermittent fasting - what does that entail? (I'll…

We do weigh everything we eat at home, and do our best to estimate (and overestimate, if necessary) on the rare occasions when we eat elsewhere. I didn't know about dropping the deficit when close to goal weight, though. Is that true even for my partner, who still has 10 lbs to go? And would adding in more exercise be a…

We do keep an eye on re-evaluation, and we're both eating on what should be the right calorie limit for our current weights and continued weight-loss goals. I didn't think of giving our bodies a "maintenance break," though. Have you tried that sort of thing? Did it work? This is a good point. We try to eat a diverse diet…