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I'm 5'3 and weigh 155 and I typically eat around 1450 calories and am still losing (slowly but losing). I exercise 6 days a week and burn between 425-550 calories a day through exercise and I do not eat back those calories. Are you sure 1200 is enough calories? Eating things with fake sugar can affect weight loss. I cut…

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I've lost about 20 lbs but have lost well over 30 inches. Inches come off so much faster as you can see by my profile pic.

I have a Polar FT4 and love it. It was around $70 I think from Amazon with free shipping. It's been very accurate. No complaints whatsoever!!!

I used to way weekly but switched to daily because I feel like it tells me if I've had a bad day of eating or not. I weight first thing in the morning and if it's more then the day before I know the day before was bad for eating and look over what I ate and I think that helps me a lot. Granted I've only only lost like 4…

Thanks for all the responses. I haven't been good at logging all my food lately so that's why you're not seeing all I'm eating for dinners and such. I have not cut out carbs by any means. I normally eat around 100 grams of carbs a day and I'm not losing that way. When I add more food (even healthy food) to my meals/snacks…

40g is definitely not enough. You could get 40g in just having 2 apples!!! I would go with what MFP tells you. For me I have my settings to lose 1/2 or 1 lb a week (can't remember which one it's at right now) and I am allowed 148 carbs. I try to keep it under 100 though. I used to work with a personal trainer and she told…

I think you need to eat back most of the calories you burn because I think you're not eating enough even if you don't feel hungry. If after you exercise you still have 600 calories remaining you need to eat at least 75% of that I think. 1200 is fine but that means you need to eat that many calories not including your…

I do agree that the HRM is more accurate. I'm seeing a difference from MFP, the machine and the HRM too.

Thanks so much, we'll see what it does from here on out.

Thank you, I sort of thought that was the case but didn't think it would slow down so quickly considering I barely worked out all of December. Thanks again!!!

I just read Bob's book from Biggest Loser and he says to take a multi vitamin with folic acid and omega 3. I've also heard of taking B12. I took B12 for a while but never noticed a difference.

I try to stay under my calorie goal, and I workout 5 days a week. I alternate my plans from varying weight training/cardio, workout videos, my Wii EA Sports active, heavy cardio, lots of variation and it's worked. There have been times I've gained a inch or 2 back but I get back on track and lose it again. I hate that the…

Just wanted to say I feel your pain. In January it will be 1 year since I started watching what I eat and working out. I've lost only 5 lbs but I've lost 25 inches over all!!!

Week 1 is done, not sure if I'll go to level 2 yet, I have a few days to decide. I start up again Monday.

How many days do you work out. You should have at least 1 rest day a week.

Day 2 completed for me!

I'm 5'3 and I know what you mean. I'm currently around 161 lbs and that fluctuates a few pounds either way. I've lost more inches then anything so I'm trying not to focus on the scale. I've only lost about 5 lbs but over 25 inches since January. I'm currently in a size 14 and I started in a size 16 in January. I would like…

I'll be doing it later this afternoon.

I did 1 week of Ripped in 30 and tried level 2 but it was too hard. I decided I'll do the shred first since it's not quite as hard. I'll start it tomorrow.

Thanks. I'll stick with 1 for a while. I didn't do 30 day shred. I have it and I did it like 6 months ago but never finished it. Heck maybe I'll just start the shred now and do Ripped when I'm done with that.

Thanks so much that really clears it up for me.

With EA Sports Active it shows calories burned. With Wii Fit it shows calories burned for that particular game/exercise. Then it goes away and I could never find where the running total was so I'd do a few games and keep writing it down so I knew what my total was.

Thanks that helps a lot!!!! I'll focus more on reps then on weight. Thanks!!!!

Wii Fit is fun but you won't burn many calories doing it because each exercise/game is only a couple minutes long at most unless you do the running. I love my EA Sports Active for Wii much better. They came out with a More Exercise for EA Sports Active and I intend to get that one after Christmas.

I would say increase your calorie intake and eat more protein.

The type of socks/shoes you wear is the most important thing. I used to get blisters daily. I would make sure you are wearing athletic type socks that are a snug fit. Also when I switched brands of shoes I stopped getting blisters. I switched to Asics and won’t ever change from them again. I love my Asics and I’ve had 2…

EA Active Sports 2 is very very good all-around workout game. it comes with a Heartrate monitor and strength tension bands Do you mean EA Sports Active more exercises? Is that the same as EA sports active 2? I have just the regular EA sports Active and love it. I'm doing the 30 day challenge. Some days I burn around 200 or…

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