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I was the opposite. My band size stayed the same, but the cup size went down to an A or B. There's nothing left.

I was a yoyo dieter most of my life, starting when I was about 12. I'd lose and regain 20-30 pounds, over and over. Because I was active, hiking and long-distance backpacking, I got in the habit of eating a lot without worrying about calories or nutrition. That didn't work well when I was working full time and less active.…

When you find the exercise and enter the amount of time you did it, make sure you put a check beside that exercise, then at the bottom it will say, "Add checked". Click that and it should be part of your diary. After a while you may have a list of the exercises that you have done (so you don't have to search the data…

I have learned that if I go to bed hungry, I don't sleep or I will sleep a couple of hours and then wake up and stay awake the rest of the night. So I eat a snack around 10 pm and if I'm still hungry when I go to bed a couple of hours later I may eat another. Despite this, I have maintained a 50 lb. weight loss for many…

Go into Goals and do the guided set-up where you give your age, height, weight, activity level outside of deliberate exercise, and goal (to lose, maintain or gain). To lose 1 lb. a week, you need to eat an average of 500 calories a day less than maintenance. Easiest is to let the app figure it out for you. Then be as…

If you are seriously overweight, losing weight can bring your glucose levels down. Consistent exercise will also help. If you lose weight slowly, you are more likely to keep the weight off, so focus on making sustainable changes to your diet, not getting it off quickly.

You can exercise at home, either with online videos or dancing to music you enjoy, or even walking in place to music. I get cold too, especially my hands, which have Raynaud's. In my case, I'm hypothryoid. However, if I am moving fast and continuously, I can walk and run outside below freezing without too much problem. It…

Probably part of your weight gain is water weight, since the body can retain water to help repair muscle. OTOH, people often overestimate how many calories they are burning when they start an exercise program and think they can eat whatever they want. Not so. A restaurant meal can easily have more calories than you would…

It's also possible that some of the 'steps' aren't actually steps, they are movement from your arms. I.e. I got injured a few years ago and had to use my left hand for everything. That is the hand I wear my watch on. Petting the dog would register as steps. So would driving. Your watch will only register calorie burn if…

Often when people stop losing weight, it's because they have become careless about weighing and recording everything they are eating and double checking that the database entries they are using are accurate. Estimating quantities is often wildly inaccurate. You may be overcounting the calories you burn with your exercise.…

Orthostatic hypotension can be caused by dehydration. I get it a lot in the summer when it's hot and humid and I am exercising hard. Since you are on blood pressure pills, you may need to decrease or eliminate the pills. Talk to your doctor.

I did the app several years ago and went on to do some races which led to me running 5 marathons. I started running at age 54. Fourteen years later I'm still running, about 30 miles a week ATM. So yes, the app does work. Best advice for starting out is to run slowly, really slowly. Some people say they walk faster than…

Did you set it to lose weight or maintain it?

Get an appointment ASAP with your GP. They should have copies of your records from the Urgent Care. If not, go to the Urgent Care office and get them. Then ask what you can do as far as exercise. I had surgery on my hand a couple of years ago (avulsion fracture) and the surgeon told me he didn't want me to sweat until the…

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I lost 50 pounds in my late-50s and have maintained the loss for several years. I lost the weight eating about 1200 calories. That is the lowest that MFP recommends since it is difficult to get adequate nutrition on less, and it isn't generally sustainable for long. My maintenance at 125 lbs. is about 1600-1800 calories. I…

Calories are based on your current weight, not your goal weight. Figure out how many calories it takes to maintain your current weight. If you consistently eat 500 calories a day less than maintenance, you would lose about a pound a week.

I use the generic yoga entry in the database. You will burn some calories but it is hard to be exact because yoga can vary so much, from mostly breathing exercises to flow routines. If you don't want to count the calories, just change the number burned to 1.

Ask your doctor when you can start walking for exercise again. Also whether you can increase the time you're on the bike.

It may be that you have set yourself as more active than you actually are. i.e. if you tell MFP that you are lightly active but only walked 3000 steps that day, it could take away some of the extra calories you were given at the start of the day. I'm not sure of the actual breakdown, but I seem to remember than even…

Generally, yes, since that is the way MFP is intended to work, but really it depends on how much exercise you do and what kind. You don't want to be eating too few calories as it can impact both health and energy. I don't think Pilates burns a lot of calories, so it may not be worth logging. If an hour of exercise burns…

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If you are sedentary aside from your exercise sessions, then you can either say Lightly Active and not eat back your extra calories or say Sedentary and log your exercise separately and eat those calories back. It sounds like you may be double counting. Unless your lifestyle involves a fair amount of time on your feet…

I had the same fear when I started running, largely because I was in my mid-50s when I started. I thought people would stare and I would look funny because I have never been athletic. The first few months I only ran on a treadmill at home. Then I decided to do a 5k for charity, so started to run outside because I knew it…

@PTAnn77 - I'm sorry to read that you were injured. I hope the head heals quickly and completely. Being inactive must be hard for you. I'm glad you can still do the bike.

I also burn more calories than expected at my age (67). I do about 2 hours a day of exercise: walking the dog, running, biking, etc. The rest of my lifestyle is sedentary. MFP and Garmin both say my net calories should be 1400 plus exercise. I actually need about 1800 plus exercise calories to maintain my weight (123 lbs.)

Agreed. I am hypothyroid as well and have been taking meds for 20 years. In my mid-50s I lost over 50 lbs. and have kept it off, in large part by a consistent and fairly strenuous exercise routine as well as logging everything I eat on a daily basis.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Watches are not that accurate for heart rate and can be higher or lower depending on how tightly you are wearing it. Stress, lack of sleep or fighting off a cold can also raise your HR. Pay attention to how you feel during your walks and runs. It should feel easy. If it doesn't, slow…

For encouragement, I also lost 50+ in my mid-fifties and have kept it off for the past 10 years. Being retired meant I had the time to devote to physical activity in a way that was different when I was working. There were also a lot fewer restaurant meals, so I had much better control of what I was eating every day. Eating…

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