MichelleSilverleaf Member

Easy answer is: whatever you want. Losing is a matter of eating less, not necessarily specific foods. A variety of fruits, vegs, dairy and meat will help you ensure you're hitting all your needs. Get a food scale and get into the habit of weighing everything; if it helps to make it easier, weigh and portion out all/most of…

10lbs in a little over two weeks is not going to happen (at least not in any safe way, and no one here is going to recommend anything unsafe to you). Have more realistic expectations.

If you're meeting your calorie goals feeling wiped shouldn't be an issue. Milk also is a pretty decent protein source. What's your calorie goal for the day? Sometimes people end up too low for themselves because they're going for too extreme of a deficit, that could affect energy levels. I can understand cutting down sugar…

Are you eating enough?

How are you tracking your food? If you're not weighing, odds are good you're probably eating at maintenance, not at a deficit.

The database is user created, so there are many incorrect or outdated entries. That's why you have to verify that the entry matches what's on the label. Also weigh your food, all food. Serving sizes on labels can and often are off.

Unless you're under doctor supervision you absolutely have no reason to be on a VLCD. You're setting yourself up for some very serious short term and long term damage (brittle nails, hair loss, muscle loss, etc)

Might need to try 0.5, it'll be slow but manageable. And the exercise will give even more calories.

If you got a flat 1200 your weekly loss goal is probably too much. With 20lbs to go you're looking at 0.5lb-1lb a week tops.

I wonder if seeing a physiotherapist or similar type person could help, in this case? Maybe they could give you a clearer idea of what you can do to get the results you want while being mindful of your conditions.

Could set it to .5lb, that should give you more calories. If MFP is giving you the same number even at 1lb that's a likely sign even that's too much of a deficit, and with only 20lbs to go I could see that. Small deficit, precise logging and patience seems to be the formula in getting the last bit of pounds off.

Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope. Starvation mode in this context is not a thing. And any trainer trying to tell you that you were not losing weight because of starvation mode probably needs to be fired.

You might have more luck in the Gaining Weight and Body Building section, I know you'll want to make sure your protein intake is good and that you're following a program of some kind (usually a lifting program).

Could be not enough sleep, too much too soon, not eating enough, or a combination of those. You definitely should not be exhausted but a little more info would help pinpoint.

2 is definitely too much. Try 1.5 like karahm suggested, or even drop down to 1lb. You don't have enough weight to lose to do 2lbs a week.

My guess is perhaps too low a deficit. Are you set to lose 1lb a week or 2?

Anything that can be done in bulk. Right now I have a whole chicken roasting in the oven, that'll be for dinner, a soup and wraps. There's a huge slab of ground beef that'll be for tacos and a meat lasagna, maybe also for a meat pasta sauce. A roast that'll be cooked and divided up into portions, pork chops will be done…

Maybe that's too aggressive? How much do you have to lose?

And with good reason. Example, I had a small deep dish pizza as part of dinner last night. According to the package 1 such pizza was 155g. It actually weighed out to 176g. If you're not weighing your food you have no idea how much you're eating. And while it can be easier to get away with that with, say, most veggies, you…

It wouldn't hurt to get recommended to a psychiatrist or someone with some expertise in mental health, they'd be in a good position to help you work through the whys. For me I found that when I was eating good it made it a lot easier to deal with my anxiety and depression. And I was doing, however small or big, something…

Then that's the number to aim to, since it already includes a deficit. You definitely don't want to go below it.

Going under 1200cal is not the way to do it though. Eat to the number MFP gives you, use a food scale to help you track. Dropping the weight is great but not if you're not setting yourself up for success down the road as well.

It's an idiotic crash diet that may result in an initial drop and then nothing. Don't bother. What sort of food do you actually enjoy eating? Eat that. But less of it. Use a food scale, figure out which macro helps keep you satisfied and go from there.

If you want an alternative to weighing every day, take a day or two to meal prep as much as possible. Weigh everything then and put it into containers. Then it's just grab-and-go the rest of the week. The closer to the goal you get the more important it's going to be to be super precise with your logging, weighing won't be…

I don't find cheat days worth it, it's the wrong mindset. There are ways to fit in calorie-heavy meals and treats on occasions, you can eat at maintenance if that helps or just go for it realizing that one day doesn't ruin the whole effort and that it's equally important not to let it get out of control.

Hope you're under doctor supervision.

You don't have enough weight to lose to have that kind of an aggressive deficit. 0.5 or 1lb a week would be better.

Anyone who doesn't feel satisfied on carbs could easily do low-carb long term. Ultimately for weight loss though it's always going to be counting calories that matter. If you're not counting calories you have no idea how much you're eating unless you happen to be very good at eyeballing. And even then you need some working…

To lose weight. MFP already factors in a deficit.

145lbs is already well into a healthy range for your height. What number does MFP give you (if it's giving you 1200cal, it may be because you're trying for too aggressive a deficit).