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No...more food will only make things worst...Okay, for the sake of argument...Let's assume that this (woman) is currently at 90+% muscle and burning a ton of calories everyday in the gym..(((but she now needs more body fat/ and less muscle in order to start having her periods again)))....At her current level of…

This does not have to be about not eating enough food....If it is about low body fat vs high muscle...It is more likely to be about TOO much exercise!

Just because the banner was bogus does not mean that this situation or this individual is not real...There are lots of people on this board who are trying to lose weight when they should not be doing so.. The situation that she was describing was certainly in tune with the pictures of herself that she had posted.

Read again...her Dr. has already told her to put on some weight...Like it or not body fat does play a part in the human female reproductive system.

This is why there are so many people who hate hearing the term "starvation mode" being routinely tagged with everybody's calorie intake on MFP. For the record..."Starvation Mode" is brought on by the Lack of body fat ((NOT THE LACK OF CALORIES))... Perfect example...The people who eat a lot of calories but still go into…

You look very thin in your pictures...What is your body fat percentage? Has anyone ever told you that when a woman loses too much body fat her periods can stop?

Excellent.!...LOL....I think that this man has nailed the drill!! This post (ie SCOTT'S RULES)should be required reading on MFP for anybody (ie everybody) who ever gets hit in the face with a scale generated setback.

You made an excellent start! But...Do you want to know what I think...truthfully?....It sounds like a head game (going on in YOUR head)! Are you AFRAID of succeeding?

That's exactly right!...Because for whatever reasons...Too many food manufacturers have no real qualms about lying bigtime about what the hell is really in the food that they are peddling to the public...I really doubt that many of these manufacturers even eat their own junk (muchless feed it to their families).

Question....during the period when you were not logging your food (but writing it down elsewhere)....were you also eating back any exercise calories?

Low appetite...no weight loss? Is it possible to increase your workout?

True...they need to make it mandatory for posters screaming about being in "starvation mode" to state their body fat percentage first (before beating this particular dead horse). P.S. Beware of all of those folks telling you to just blindly up your calories.…

Okay...but remember that on mfp...."skinny" is a relative term....OP was talking about sizes 14/16/18 as "skinny.

Amen!!...And they rarely ever hear...."They don't make this in your size!"

Question: Where do the skinny people shop? Answer: Anyplace they want to shop!

If you really have no clear idea of just how much you really have been eating...Then why are you surprised at gaining weight? You need to nail down your real food intake.

That it is possible to do 15 minutes worth of exercise to work off a slice of cheesecake.

I have never trusted the calories burned numbers coming from any of those machines!

Exercise in the pool!I Do you have water aerobics available to you?

I do a required 20 minutes cardio...Then on the resistance machines I do only as much time as it takes to complete my required repetitions.

What do you think about the caffeine that they put in workout drinks?

Wow...I can honestly say that coffee drinking has never been an issue on any of my trips to the doctor...Although he did once caution me about watching all the added calories from the add ons.

Excellent advice!

Great Job!:flowerforyou:

I stopped going to my favorite coffee haunts because I was hooked on their high calorie additives...The good news it that I am now brewing a great pot of coffee at home....Three cups...and I'm good!

Try cutting the processed sugar foods and replacing them with fruits and vegetables.

What he said!:laugh:

Congratulations....getting rid of salt and sugar right of the bat is like detox no wonder you lost weight!.. I think that you have made a great start. The only thing that I would suggest is that you concentrate more on getting your nutrients from your food...calories have a way of taking care of themselves...avoid…

I think that maybe it is your sodium....I only looked at the previous two days of your diary...(Friday and Saturday)...one day you had 2417mg of sodium...the day before you had 3409mg....and realize that if you use the salt shaker...Your daily consumption of sodium is even higher than that! Try bringing your food sodium…

Fortunately...pop-tarts were never on favorites list...However if you ever find out any gross/disgusting information about Sara Lee Bakers or any other makers of frozen cheese cake or key lime pie...Please let me know...I would be most appreciative of having my stomach turned and getting that monkey off my back once and…