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A lot of those foods more expensive where I live. 2lbs of chicken breasts for $1.96? I WISH. More like $12 here. A gallon of skim milk is closer to $5 than $2. 16 ounces of cashews is easily over $10, not $4.18. *CRIES*

you've lost 15lbs in 2 weeks. that doesn't seem like hitting a rough patch to me.

I'm betting you calculated your body fat wrong. At ~200 lbs my bodyfat was 42%. It seems off that you would have 35% BF at 230lbs.

This is how I see it- eventually you will start losing muscle (if you haven't already). Now you might say "I don't care about being muscular!!!" But remember, your heart is a muscle too and you will lose from there too. That's why so many anorexics drop dead from heart issues.

Im 5'8, 198 and wear a 12(EEP!!)/14. I fit into a pair of jeans from HS which we're a size 31 yesterday too. :D My brother says I have 'twiggy' legs lol. I wish I had thicker, more muscular legs.

You're in the 'honeymoon' stage. Give it another couple of weeks and I bet you'll be saying "OMG I WISH I COULD EAT MOAR FOOD!" ;) IA with everyone else; eat more calorie dense foods. GL!

You aren't going to lose 45lbs in 3 months. Sorry, not sorry. PS: Eat more PPS: Green coffee capsules are a joke

French braids are my go-to. Half up/half down is easy and works well.

I have learned to love sports bras but I didn't have big boobs to begin with lol. *unhelpful*

This was my immediate thought as well.

You probably set your goals to "lose 2lbs/week"

I entered all of your info into this calculator and used 'lighly active- 1-3hrs a week of physical activity' http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/ To maintain right now you would eat 2500 (lightly active) or 2200 (sedentary) To lose you can eat 2000 (lightly active) or 1750 (sedentary) Your BMR is 1800 so I…

Easy. Look at the box to check the total amount of grams in it and divide that by 4. Tada!

Change your DNA.

You must be using a BMR calculator and not TDEE. BMR is what you would eat if you did nothing all day (vegetative state) to maintain your weight. TDEE is maintenance w/ normal daily activity & exersise included (I used TDEE for my example above). Its all very confusing in the beginning lol.

Maintenance for a 90lb female who is 4'10 would be ~1450 cals. 1200 isnt above maintenance for any normal sized adult. Most toddlers eat 1000+ cals a day lol.

You are within 10lbs of your goal weight so you don't burn enough in your day to safely have a 1000 cal/day deficit. MFP will never recommend less than 1200 cals a day. You should probably set your goals to .5/lbs a week.

don't

You can eat all of the 'bad stuff' and still lose weight. Just eat less of it. Portion control FTW.

What about milk & eggs? I see commercials for those all the time. Water too. I call BS.

THIS

I eat them. Sometimes I don't feel like eating them all the day I work out so I spread them over the week.

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Im betting 90% of those people aren't weighing their food/overestimating the calories burned at the gym = unintentionally eating too many calories.

I eat 1600 + exercise calories. Yay for eating moar food!

9lbs in 3 weeks is good. Thats 3lbs/week. Most people can't lose that fast. it will keep slowing down from here (first couple of weeks weight comes off faster). Keep going but don't be hoping to lose more than 1-2lbs a week and get discouraged. GL! EDIT: Weight fluctuates daily. If you are weighing yourself daily try to…

I went spin class the first time yesterday and went back today. My lady parts are SO SORE. Killer workout though. :happy:

You could cook some chicken breast yourself and shred it and put it on a sandwich. That way you could change up the flavour by using different seasonings on them. Tuna is good too.

Eat more than your BMR but less than your TDEE. Eating 2500 would give you a 1lb a week loss.