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Are you eating the calories back that you exercise? If not, start doing that -- at least the majority of them. MFP builds in the deficit, so that 1300 is to lose by altering your eating. Exercise gives you the benefit of getting to eat more and satisfying your hunger.

Looked at your diary. I see 1 day of exercise logged in the past week and overall <1200 calories/day average. I'd say you're not eating enough. Is your goal 1800 calories to lose 1 lb/week? Focus on meeting MFP goals and logging everything so you get a true-er picture of what you're eating. Give it a month or two and…

Today I bombed out on the 3 o'clock munchies (thank you stress!). Normally my lunch is enough to get me through to dinner, or at least I'll munch on carrots or tomatoes or other veggies. Since I ate all my lunch at lunch and the stress bug hit, that bag of Lays and a handful of M&Ms were gone in under 5. Yum, but now I'll…

Drink lots and lots o water. That 560 calories comes along with 1920mg sodium (80% of recommended daily allowance)

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Did you use the whole package? How many servings is in the package? Use that as your key. If it is 4 servings, and you ate what seems like half the soup, then you had 2 servings.

Starve? Why would you starve yourself. Eat more and check back in a month or two. See other posts in here about Roadmap 2.0, or do a search.

Chicken and spinach florentine with brown rice. Buy a box of Minute brown rice andon the back is the recipe, or see here. Instead of fresh baby spinach, I used a 10 oz package of frozen spinach. Once cooked be sure to dry it really well. All other aspects of the recipe I kept the same. Probably added more tomatoes too.…

Hang tough and you'll lose it again, probably in short order. LIkely causes? medicine/pain killers, severe water retention from laying down alot. If you're allowed, start moving -- get walking -- walk walk walk. Drink lots of water, continue healthy eating, watch the sodium intake and give it time. If you're taking any…

Feel free to look at my diary for suggestions on food. It's a mix of pre-packaged and home-cooked meals. Check out allrecipes.com for healthy eating ideas. You can also google healthy recipes to get more suggestions. Do you have health insurance that allows visits to a nutritionist? That would be a good start for learning…

medium, large, XL eggs all have different calories. Boiling doesn't add/reduce calories. Search for the egg size (large egg) 70 calories and add that. Or use mobile app to scan the carton. If you add salt or anything else, that would change the macros.

You continue to track your food and exercise on MFP. If you've linked up your FitBit to MFP then it will prompt you for the time you started the activity, so it doesn't double count. I've had my fitbit for a week now and it seems to pull the calorie count as displayed on FitBit from the settings in MFP. Thus, the better…

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I've tried it once and have mixed feelings -- mostly due to the instructor. Is it normal for instructors to say 'Your knees should hurt. " "Lock your knees" "Your back should hurt doing this...". Anything actually HURTing doesn't seem like good advice, or a good position, especially for beginners. Going to try a different…

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Nope. I know 2 people who've had it. Once lost 75+ lbs and is maintaining nicely and really getting fit. The other has gained weight I think, drinks alcohol too much and doesn't eat healthy. She can only eat a little bit but drinks up a storm (which defeats the purpose I think). She wants to lose, but doesn't want to make…

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Eat more. MFP builds in your calorie deficit, so you should be eating most if not all the exercise calories. Take off the exercise calories from what you've been eating and you're fueling your body with 500-1000 or less some days. Not enough IMHO. 138 is also a reasonable weight for 5'6" unless you're a small frame build.

Work yourself up to 45-60 minutes running by increase the time 10% each week. So if you're running 30 minutes now, for the next week try 33 minutes, then 37, then 41 and so on. In about a month you can hopefully run 45 minutes comfortably and likely even notice that your 30 min time is faster than it was.

A 5'8 woman with large+ frame is an ideal weight of 141-159. So you're close! Make sure you're eating enough. There are plenty of links/posts on here to determine your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) and your BMR (base metabolic rate) to help you determine what you should be eating. With so few to lose, it may take a…

I got a polar ft40. I had another monitor that never wore b/c the strap was uncomfy, but the polar strap is divine! I don't even know I'm wearing it.

I tried last week and did 10 minutes of level 1. Two days ago did all of it. Will do it again tonight. Hopefully in another week feel ok to do it every day but for now I'm shooting for every other day and mixig in other exercises.

Feel free to add me. 5'4, currently 183 and want to get to 140. Have yo' yo'd 25 lbs each way in the past year when I fell off the healthy habits.

Your calorie count to maintain is 2185. Your food eating is 400 calories under that -- about 0.8 lbs/week with eating alone. When you exercise that's an extra burn using up those 1700ish calories. So if you burn 500 and don't eat it back, you're fueling your body with 1200ish calories for the day. Is that enough? Probably…