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According to the Center for Disease Control and Health, your BMI and weight put you in the "underweight" category. The minimum "healthy weight" category has a 5'9" male at 125 pounds. Here's a link to that article: https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/index.html

Go slow. When I lost too quickly, my hair started falling out and I lost muscle tone despite using weight machines. Wasn't fatigued, but I did miss losing some of that hair!

Well, you probably could but when I lost weight that fast I started losing hair and muscle tone (even though I was using exercise machines with weights). Everybody's different and it doesn't happen to everyone. If you feel good about the weight loss you're already achieving, walk around with your head held high. I would…

You can't target weight loss to any particular area of your body. However, I've recently started going to a yoga class and my abdomen muscles have improved in strength. So my core is better and it seems my tummy has shrunk a little from that, just a little flatter now. In addition, this exercise has improved my posture,…

Congrats on your weight loss progress! That's really impressive. If working out isn't your thing, you don't have to do that. You've already figured out you can lose weight without exercising. Hitting a plateau happens, don't worry about it. If it lasts over 6 weeks, re-evaluate what you're eating or just take a break and…

Unless there's a 12:12 intermittent fasting schedule, I think IF is impossible with your work schedule. I'd just use MyFitnessPal's calorie goal and eat when you can. I could see you eating breakfast at 12 PM, eating a big snack in that teenie-tiny 30 minute window between 4:30 and 5:00 PM (half a sandwich, an apple, a…

I lost weight too fast the first time around. Lost muscle tone and my hair started falling out! I've gained back about half of what I lost, and this time around I've set my goal to lose half a pound a week instead of two, which was too fast for me last time. To stop obsessing about calories, I decided to learn some more…

Well... you managed 10 years without alcohol and I'm sure you can do that again! It sounds as though you are almost motivated and understand it's the thing between you and reaching your fitness/weight goals. Is drinking the only pleasure you get out of life and that's what's keeping you from giving it up? I stopped cold…

My thoughts: (1) walk around the church neighborhood while your son is at church class to decompress from your traveling and get in that low impact exercise; (2) make a number of re-heatable meals on the weekend so you don't have to do meal prep during the week; stews, soups, boiled eggs and vegetables to cut up for…

When I have the chance to have some time to myself, I go camping in a tent or stay at a hotel for 2 nights. First, it unplugs me from feeling obligated to clean my house. That chore can wait until I come home. Second, a change of scenery is itself relaxing. If I'm camping, I go on hikes and eat the foods I love, sketch or…

Aiming for about 1 pound loss per week, you should be able to lose about 30-35 pounds, I think. My personal experience was that losing 2 pounds a week meant I lost muscle tone (despite working out) and my hair started falling out. My advice to you is: slow and steady wins the race.

The answer to your question is: Add the exercise calories to your base 1200. So if you jog for 30 minutes and you burn 200 calories (or whatever), you add 1200 plus 200; you're daily goal for calorie intake now is 1400 calories. You'll still lose weight eating this additional amount.

I'm doing the 16:8 intermittent fasting routine. I feel it's helped me to stop snacking at night, which is always an issue for me. So if I have breakfast at 10 AM, I stop eating at 6 PM. But I'm still logging in my calories here and keeping to my goals. I drink herbal teas and water so my mouth and hands have something to…

I'm a night snacker, too! I've recently started the 16:8 intermittent fasting routine and found that helps. Basically, you allow yourself to eat only during an 8 hour period. So, if breakfast at 10 AM, stop eating at 6:00 PM. What works for me is drinking herbal teas and flavored no-calorie waters to help me feel full. It…

With regard to your toe hurting, I recommend you go to a running store to get fit for a new pair of tennis or walking shoes. At my store, they had me try on 3 pairs and watched me jog down the sidewalk before making a decision on which pair felt better. I chose a nicely cushioned pair and just that change eliminated my…

On my laptop, I log in and click "Check in". At the top left corner, there is a place to enter in your day's weight, then press save or enter or done. (I forget which). Once it's saved, you'll also see under that entry your weight loss or gain for that day.

I have insomnia. What I found is that I was over-restricting, and once I changed my weight loss goal to losing weight more slowly, my snacking mid-way through sleeping stopped. So, I changed the 1200 calorie limit MFP recommended to 1350. Still losing weight, but now I can eat an ounce of cheese or a protein bar without…

What a marvelous start to your day!

I'm average height, 5'6", but thought I'd tell you that at least for me the 1200 calories a day was not good for me. I was diligent about inputting the calories accurately. I ended up feeling great initially and so proud I was losing weight, but it started coming off at a 2-3 pounds per week rate. I started losing hair and…

I had a Garmin fitness pedometer thing, which calculated steps for my Zumba class. I'd eat back the calories I burned and still lost weight. I've also just relied on the MFP calculations (for instance, if I walk for 40 minutes and MFP says I can eat another 140 calories, I eat them). So I don't always rely on the Garmin.…

The best way I've found for me to decrease stress and lose a little weight is to take a 20 minute to one hour long walk. When I don't feel like doing it, I put on my tennis shoes and jacket and berate myself a little ("you're all dressed for it, get yourself out the door!"). Start with an evening walk around your…

I log in as accurately as possible (so a hamburger patty is something I'd weigh and enter into MFP, then the ketchup, mustard and tomato slice) but give myself some slack on other things I cook. If I make macaroni and cheese from scratch, or a beef stew, I use the general MFP estimates already in the system. I mean, I'm…

I don't know how old your children are, but is it feasible for you to put the youngest in a stroller to push and have the other 2 walk or jog alongside? Challenge them: "I bet you can't run to the next mailbox before me!" and you might all have a good time together. I know it doesn't replace the gym workouts that you wish…

As the others have said, you can enter the actual amount you eat. Tonight, I ate 1/2 cup of something but the only measurement offered by MFP was 1 cup. Easy to replace that with 0.5 cup and have a more accurate entry. Good luck!

The Whole 30 diet is not considered a good diet, but when I had to cut gluten, dairy and sugar, I found the "Whole 30 Cookbook" to find recipes that would be tasty and easy to prepare. It helped me figure out how to use ingredients I'd never tried before. Again: don't follow this diet exclusively. Amongst doctors, it…

When I worked part-time, co-workers seemed to think that they could phone me for help or email me asking for help ALL THE TIME. I talked to my manager and said that I would be turning off email notifications at 5 PM every night and would respond during normal business hours. My manager said that was fine, none of the work…

It's great that you're trying out different foods when you snack and have coffee! Small steps lead to big strides. My first thought was that depression/bipolar depression/clinical depression - they are all treatable with medication, counseling, a good sleep routine, getting outside to take walks. The challenge is that when…

It sounds like you just don't get to sleep the hours your body prefers. For me, this would mean a trip to my doctor to discuss whether my ADHD and/or ADHD medication is disrupting my sleep cycles enough to make it difficult to benefit from the sleep I do get. I take a medication that has changed the hours I sleep…

MFP calculated 1200 calories a day for me when I started, too. I was a stickler and consumed around 1150-1250 a day, depending on how well I was measuring my food. And the downside for that was 1200 was too low for me. I started losing 2-3 pounds a week instead of the 1 pound a week I'd plugged in for my goal. I lost some…

I like to have 2 scrambled eggs with cheese on top, maybe with a slice of buttered toast and/or 2 slices of bacon when I have time to cook breakfast. The protein of the eggs lasts longer for me than boxed cereal (which makes me feel less energetic around 10 am). I understand you don't eat lunch but grabbing a granola bar…