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I currently weigh 130lbs and am aiming for 119 (although will likely stop at 122). My BMR is around 1350 as sedentary although I am a school teacher so should probably be lightly active. I therefore tend to eat around 1350-1450, however, I am probably a little under the last couple of days to shift the Christmas weight…

Shameless self bump! Can only check these forums for another hour or so...any more opinions on what I should choose?!

Thanks for the advice - I was thinking the sea bass. I know I will end up having a desert too... oh oh! Any other opinions?

I am exactly the same stats as you and MFP also set me at 1200 and I eat back my exercise calories. However, after reading all about BMR I checked what mine was and its about 1480 sedentary (even though I'm a teacher so probably should be lightly active). I therefore upped my calorie intake to 1400 and eat my exercise…

Our CW and GW are pretty much the same. I am aiming for 1400 cal a day - lose weight slower but long term and eating back exercise calories. Feel free to add me for support. I decided not to stick to the 1200 either as fat2fit worked out my BMR as around 1400 so didnt want to eat below this!

Would I also then add my workout calories separately? As I burn around 400 calories at the gym most days too?

Feel free to add me - im from the UK too!

Well I was there almost two hours doing cardio. And set the machines up correctly with my weight etc so think its pretty accurate. Not really that hungry now!

I have this problem today too. I had a complete blow out at the weekend and wanted to do a really great workout today. I ate 1200 calories today but I burnt off 900 at the gym so my net is really low. Not sure if I should eat some more tonight to increase my net?!

Thanks hun - its only one blow out! I attempted the calorie count - think I made it about 4000 for Saturday and the fry up has added to todays. Got no effort for the gym ha! Going to go to the gym tomorrow and do a massive session for like 2 hours...maybe that will help!

I eat mine otherwise I don't net enough!

Oh and on the 2000+ calorie day I went out for dinner and was naughty so went to the gym for 2 hours after and burnt off the 978 calories I'd eaten at dinner to balance me out!

Thanks all - I weight 9 and a half stone at 5ft 4 and am aiming for 8 and a half stone. I try and go to the gym most days and burn around 350 calories a time. Am aiming for around a net of 1400 and hoping this will be OK. I know its only been a week - just want to know Im on the right track! All this talk of BMR etc is so…

I am indeed guilty of a sweet tooth! Just cant resist and know if I cut it out completely (which I've done before) I will fail and just get down about everything. A hula hoop is a crisp in the UK! I am drinking water (always forget to log that!) I eat at least 4 of my 5 a day from fruit usually but could try and add even…

Thanks! I cant see where else to add the food without it being a load of chocolate ha! Which would be great but not particularly healthy. Added the cheese breadsticks and snack a jacks today in the hope of boosting the calories a little. Just dont want to be too under. Am at work tomorrow as well whcih will burn more…

My mom used to do this as well when I lived at home. She used to because I am quite petite anyway and she was worrying that trying to eat healthy and lose weight would cause me to get obsessive and take it too far. So maybe she's just doing it because she is worried about you. Perhaps reassure her that you are OK and are…

My BMR is 1, 327 so I am making sure I eat this amount, and then will try and eat some of my exercise calories too and see what happens! I really need to tone up so will see what works!

Lightly active - I'm a secondary school teacher so on my feet all day! Will aim to eat exercise calories so total I consume a day will be around 1500 - does that sound about right? My goal for a pound a week says 1282. For half a pound its 1580 - both without exercise calories. Just confused with all this talk of eating…