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  • My recommendation would be to hire a dietician to work this stuff out for you specifically. You can lift weights at your age. Just be careful of your joints, so you may want to avoid compound exercises using free weights and stick to machines (that's up to you). Your bones will thank you if you start lifting now.
  • Shoes help with ankle mobility which most people have a problem with. Be sure that you are staying over the middle of your foot. Most people when they lack the ankle mobility go on their toes. As others have said, there is a lot to evaluate. Knees tracking over toes is the big one for knee problems. Speaking of which do…
  • One possible source of error is that the 3500 calorie per pound rule is not accurate. While I don't think it's the worst thing in the world to use as a guideline, it's not going to work for exacting calculations. I'm not a dietician so I can't explain how weight loss works in the body (beyond the basic, you burn more than…
  • My understanding is that you are having trouble with being hungry enough to meet your caloric needs. So this is an issue with your satiety being too high. You may want to take a look at the macronutrient makeup of your foods. Personally I had the opposite problem, I ate too much. I could eat an entire bag of cereal and…
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