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For me, maintaining hasn't been that difficult because I have continued to be quite active so have a pretty large calorie budget. I don't feel deprived. From what I have read about people who have maintained a large loss for a long period of time, most continue to do daily exercise and many continue to log what they eat.…

For the same reasons that weight fluctuates for people who aren't on a low carb diet. Yes, your body may drop a lot of water weight at first, but once it adjusts, you still have salt, food waste, hormones, inflammation that causes muscles to retain water, etc. A lot of people on very low carb diets get quite constipated,…

I lost 55 pounds in my mid-50s mostly through changing my diet, then we got a large dog so started daily long walks, then I started to run because it helped me handle stress and allowed me to eat more. Fifteen years later, I still walk and run regularly and have been able to keep the weight off. It is possible. A lot of…

I actually do use MFP's numbers for exercise and they are generally fairly close to what my watch tells me. I eat back every calorie. However, I burn a lot more calories than average for someone my age, so I have a lot of leeway. I also don't weigh and measure every bite I eat, for the same reason. I lost 55 pounds about…

I have a dog who needs to be exercised a couple of times a day, which makes it easy to get out. I do it for him when I am not in the mood to do it for myself. I feel better on days I exercise, so I do it regardless of my mood. Music makes it easier on days I am less motivated. Finding someone to walk with helps a lot. See…

You may have a fat belly because that is where you are genetically prone to store extra fat. Even if you lose a lot of weight, you may retain a larger stomach in comparison to the rest of your body. It also may be that you are bloated due to what you are eating (i.e. a lot of extra carbs or gluten if you are intolerant). I…

Hard boiled eggs or cheese make good snacks. Eggs for breakfast or lunch, with veggies. Meat and vegetables are easy. Stir fries are quick and the kids can participate in choosing and prepping the veg.

As long as your dog is happy to go out in the rain, go for it. Our previous dog had no problems with weather, aside from hail. We were out in all conditions. Our current dog doesn't like to get wet, and keeps trying to turn around to go back home, so I don't force it. I have been known to put him back inside and go walk on…

One option is to rely more on soups in the winter. A cup of hot soup before a meal will take the edge off your hunger. It also makes a good main dish that doesn't have a lot of calories. A cup of sugar free hot chocolate satisfies my sweet tooth with less than 100 calories when I come in from a walk or run in the cold.…

Congratulations! That is terrific progress.

I tried to become a runner a couple of times in my 30s and 40s, doing a walk/run progression for a few weeks. I'm not sure I ever got as far as 1 mile straight running. When I was 55, someone I knew on a dog forum said she was starting C25k and asked if anyone was interested. I decided to give it a try. I've been running…

I prefer switching up my routes, but don't much like to drive so I don't do it as often as I'd like. I always loved it when we would be traveling and I could explore new places on foot. One of the things I liked about marathon training was that I ran routes that I didn't usually run because they were farther from home. You…

I have my activity level set to sedentary, since a lot of my time is spent sitting, either on the computer, or reading, or watching TV. However, I also get regular and irregular exercise: long daily walks with the dog and running, yoga, or biking. Those I log as they occur. In my case, I burn more calories than MFP gives…

Besides carefully weighing or measuring everything you eat, pay attention to the data entries you use. They are user entered, and some are really off. Sometimes that is because the recipe for the product has changed (i.e. bread: my usual ww bread went from 100 calories a slice to 120 or even 130.) Some are also pretty…

Continuing to log my food, even after I lost 50 pounds. It helped me avoid calorie creep, since I log everything I eat. (I don't weigh or measure though. It hasn't been necessary.) Second is I made exercise a priority. I am retired, so I walk 3+ miles every day, and do an additional hour of exercise for about an hour 5+…

Of course, it's possible. I lost 55 lbs. at a rate of about 1 pound a week and have kept that weight off for more than 10 years. I log my food and exercise every day and try to balance them so that I don't regain the weight I lost. 20 pounds isn't that much. Aim for .5 to 1 pound a week. Losing more slowly gives you time…

Have you asked your doctor if there are limits to what you can do? Start there. The bike is a good idea. I find that my HR is much lower when cycling than when running. Weights and balance/flexibility exercise like yoga or pilates might also be an option.

An entry in your Food log? Just click the x next to the item.

How much weight do you have to lose? How long have you been trying to lose weight? Are you weighing and measuring and logging every bite you take? Usually when people say they can't lose weight, it's because they are guessing how much they are eating rather than actually weighing every bite. Or they try for a few days,…

Are you trying to maintain your current weight or continue to lose? Generally, it isn't a good idea to try to lose a lot of weight while doing heavy training as you need the calories to maintain or build muscle and for energy to get the best out of your workouts. I have run 5 marathons. When I was marathon training, I…

Congratulations!

Is your watch/fitness tracker synced to the website? It could be that your activity level says that you intend to be more active than your watch says that you actually are, so it is subtracting active calories. i.e. if you are expected to do 10000 steps a day but only do 3000, the program would deduct the difference.

Are you logging your exercise and eating back some or all of those calories? MFP is set up so your activity level is based on your life outside of deliberate exercise. So if you sit at a desk all day, then watch TV at night, you would be sedentary. If your job is more active, then you could be lightly active or very…

I'm a runner in my late 60s. I've been running for about 14 years. It is getting harder to do my runs lately, especially since I'm not racing any more, so in the past few years I have cut back on the mileage. What hasn't changed is my determination to continue to run 5 days a week. Since I'm retired, I mostly run in the…

If you really want to lose weight, it's time to start weighing and measuring every bite you eat to find out how many calories you are actually eating. You will be surprised at how it adds up, even if you are eating less than you used to. Walking every day is a good thing to do for your health, but it doesn't burn all that…

If you aren't losing weight at 1300 calories, odds are your logging is off. Weigh everything that goes in your mouth. Double check the data entries to see that you are using the right one. i.e. the bread I eat is listed here as having 100 calories a slice. That used to be the case, but now it has 120 calories a slice. A…

How much weight do you have to lose? If only a few pounds, it can take a while. How much of a deficit are you running? If you are cutting by 250 calories a day, a few mistakes can make a difference in your actual calories eaten. Do you weigh everything you eat? That is more accurate than measuring cups or guestimating.…

It depends in part on how many calories you are burning from your exercise and how many calories you're eating. Half an hour of yoga, it doesn't matter. That's only 50 calories or so. An hour of running, then it is good to eat back most of the calories or you'll be hungry and may binge or give up on weight loss entirely.…