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They call this the twinkie diet, and it can work but can be unhealthy because of the lack of nutrients. You do need the carbs, proteins, and fats. You can probably get away with this for some length of time, but eventually the lack of nutrients will catch up with you. Fine to do from time to time if that is your thing, I…

If you aren't drinking a lot of water, your body is going to conserve water instead of getting rid of it. This is called water retention, and can mean up to 5 extra pounds of water weight. I can't stand diet soda, so I don't know how healthy a replacement for water it is in builk. Coffee is essentially herb flavored…

That's a conversation you really need to be having with your doctor. When you get to that level of detail, that's something that the generalities and statistics we work with on this site doesn't deal with well. It might be fine for you, but someone with a personal knowledge of your situation should help you with that…

The best time to work out is when you can work out. Beyond that, it doesn't matter. I've seen people say that working out in the morning is better, or in the evening, or a number of other cockamamie theories. The truth is that everyone is different, and it is up to you to figure out what is best for you. I'm a night owl…

You should take anything you hear from a trainer, particularly if it sounds 'off' to you, with a huge grain of salt and get second opinions. MFP figures out what you should be burning by using statistics based on an amalgam of height, weight, age, and gender. This, to be honest, is a generalization and can be significantly…

Honestly, you probably need to get some help with this. This sounds (to my layman ears with no medical training, so take advice with an appropriate grain of salt) like you are straddling an eating disorder. You probably need to see a nutritionist or a doctor, who can look at your situation and help you get to where you…

Definitely a good point, ivansmomma

As you get closer to a healthy weight, you won't be able to lose as much weight consistently. You can probably stray a little under 1200, but I wouldn't go any significant amount. Talk to a doctor or nutritionist if in doubt, but you should probably reel in your expectations to something closer to .5 lbs a week loss, or…

You are probably eating a touch lighter than you should be, but not to any sort of ridiculous amounts. Probably should increase your average intake by a couple of hundred calories and see what happens. As the others said, give it some time.

Honestly, given that your thyroid medication was hit or miss you probably need to give it some more time. I wouldn't make any knee-jerk reactions. Worst case, if you feel you need to do something, is to go see your doctor and see what they say.

First week or two it is normal to lose a large amount of weight. It is mostly water weight. No reason to panic or celebrate. Things will normalize quickly enough.

You should immediately go back to the goals screen and reset the goal to what MFP says. I wouldn't try to go under that, especially as you have been underfeeding yourself so much as of late. As to dinner, I don't know your home situation, but there are always ways that you can work on that without being unhealthy. Try and…

When you plug your data into MFP and set a goal, it should give you daily calorie budget. If you are trying to lose 2 lbs of weight a week (which is what is considered healthy), then it will generally place you with a deficit 1000 calories below the TOTAL calories burned today (this includes BMR and calories burned by…

That seems a bit over the top...

Everyone is different, and it will presumably have different effects on you. May eat more bone mass as opposed to muscle, or you may feel weaker as opposed to so hungry. At a certain point, though, a bad thing is a bad thing, and no matter in what order or way a bad thing happens, it is still bad. Or, as they say in The…

As long as you are following a proper diet, you can lose weight without the exercise. One of the popular saying around here, though, is that if you want to lose weight diet, if you want to look good exercise. Is the 1200 calories what MFP suggested for you? You really don't want to be too aggressive with dieting for health…

You really shouldn't consume less than 1200 calories a day net (intake minus any exercise) without doctor, nutritionist, or other form of medical supervision.

If you keep at it, you definitely be able to make a healthy dent in it by October, whether or not you actually hit the 100 lbs. 70'ish lbs, or maybe even a bit more wouldn't be unrealistic, I don't think. Good luck, and let us know how it's progressing!

Definitely agree with the others. You definitely need to get some more caloric intake. Since you started logging in early January, it looks like you have 80% sub-1k calorie days net (after exercise is subtracted from intake). Most days you were at <700 calories, and some days you were as low as 200 calories. Judging from…

I never really thought about it, nor do I know. I also don't actually use a HRM, so keep that in mind. However, I would imagine that MFP adds workout activities on top of the BMR, while HRM (especially the cheap ones that are notoriously estimating high) probably include BMR in their burn. Really only the higher end HRM…

Everyone here is going to tell you that there is no way to do this safely. Other than an initial spike of weight loss at the beginning (from losing a lot of water weight), the maximum you should be losing a week safely would be about 2 lbs. So 100 lbs is feasible (if extremely aggressive) for a year, but to do it in 9…

Honestly, I've been in the place your mother is in now. I knew that I needed to do something, for a lot of reasons. I had people begging me to do something. I was unhappy with the status quo. Even with all of that said, I just wasn't ready to do it. It takes a catalyst for you to be ready. Unfortunately, there is no way to…

At a guess, it is assuming a certain level of activity that you aren't meeting, which means that your net difference between intake and burn isn't as great as it was expecting.

You probably don't need to eat all of the calories back, but 75-80% would probably be good (there are always over-estimations on the amount of calories burned, and underestimations on food that are built in by manufacturers trying to sell "quality products"). What is MFP saying you should be eating? Your food diary is…

No, because if you add the exercise calories on top of that you are probably looking at closer to 1600-1700 calories intake that you need.

Miragirl12 - If I'm reading that right you are letting your body subsist on 250-300 calories a day. No matter how small you are that is not enough for your body to survive on and your body is probably doing bad things to itself in the name of survival right now. There are numerous threads about how increasing calories to…

Actually, that is exactly what it means. 600 calories is not enough for the body to survive on, and your body will react negatively. If you are extremely obese you might be able to get by a little under recommendations for a while, but the closer you come to healthy body weight the more extreme your body's reaction will…

I would take that as sedentary level activity (at least as far as the definitions are concerned). On a side note, I highly recommend the Fitbit for someone like you. That is what the Fitbit was designed for, to measure your daily activity and encourage you to make small increases throughout the day to make you more active.…

If you are updating your weight, then it should account.

As Justjoshin said, it is probably best to go with MFP's recommendation if in doubt. You can probably skimp a little from your BMR, but massively shorting your BMR is going to lead to trouble. MFP has a lot of tools that they spent a lot of effort to build, so I would assume that if it told you 1200 there was reasoning…