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Can't see your food diary so I have no idea what you are eating but in addition to eating back all/most of your exercise calories, I would recommend looking at your protein and fat intake. Those are the areas where what you eat can make a difference in how satisfied you feel. Also if you are depriving yourself of certain…

^^This is where you should begin. Start with the basics. By logging consistently and accurately you can see whether you have a calorie deficit and make changes accordingly.

Whenever I see a thread that reads "constantly hungry" my first thought without reading further is "eat more". Then I read the thread, check the food diary and sure enough, there it is: too few calories. Sometimes the right answer is the most obvious: eat more. The thing about mfp is that there are many ways to use it.…

I am not a vegetarian and am no longer 250+ but I was when I started out here. While the quest for support from "fat friends" is fine, you should also consider adding "formerly fat" friends, since we know where you are coming from but have some experience and importantly *results* to back you up.

It's great that you are taking the first positive step to lose weight and get into shape and using the mfp tools and forums could be a great help to you. But if your goal is to "lose 70 pounds" then you may be right about being "doomed for failure". The idea of losing 70 pounds is daunting and can lead to self-doubt and an…

WTH? If I only ate Nutella, milk and fish oil that would be intolerable (but then again I actually hate Nutella). What ever happened to eating real food and a variety of it? Adequate nutrition demands variety and any fad diet that only contains 2-3 different types of foods is going to lack that. Not sure why all the…

Take a breath, back away from the scale and keep on eating Nutella if you want to. As long as you are within your calorie goals, you will be fine. Weight fluctuates a lot during the course of even one day, so you may want to weigh yourself just once per week and look at the trend over time. It's the beginning of the year…

Hear, hear. 'Nuff said.

Bump for later

LOL, remember "always look behind you". Great work!

Congrats on your success.

Um, no. My stomach has no idea what time it is when I am digesting whatever I have eaten at whatever time I have eaten it.

That made me laugh about you being the tallest person in Honduras. I had the opposite experience recently when I was in Amsterdam where so many people were freakishly tall. At 6' 2" I wasn't even the tallest woman around. It was so interesting to be "average" height there. Oh, and a grateful thanks to my mom who would not…

The diet and exercise advice you've gotten here is solid. If you follow it, it will serve you well. But THIS^^ about letting go of blame and focusing on the power you have to change is so important. Your focus can't be on what your mom says and whether or not other people in your life support you. You can find the support…

Yes, count everything. Even condiments if you can. 2 TBS of mayo and 1 TBS of ketchup is nearly 100 calories. Count the oil you cook with as well: 1 TBS is 100+ calories. Those little things can add up, so at the beginning especially you should count/weigh/measure EVERYTHING.

Yeah, what they said^^^. Thanks for the inspiration women. I'm currently on a plateau but I'm smaller than I was 10 years ago at the same weight. And today I accidentally brushed against my unflexed, rock solid tricep and was like "Oh, yeah, **that's** why I lift". Keep it up ladies!!

It takes time. Just as the weight gain can happen slowly and imperceptibly day by day, catching up with what you see in the mirror and pictures also takes time. I notice it now, but mainly because of the change in my clothing size, looking back at before pics compared to now and the fact that people who have not seen me…

bump. Thanks for sharing everyone. I will dig up one of mine from many, many pounds ago and post later.

Keep at it. What you are doing is "working" as evidenced by your blood sugar control. Use NSV (non-scale victories) to keep you motivated: how do you feel, how do your clothes fit, are you meeting your exercise or eating goals? The combination of changes you are making is most important, think of weight loss as the side…

To those who eat 1200 or whatever number of calories and lose weight and are healthy and happy and not hungry or bingeing, I don't think this post was for you. It seems that the OP was talking to those who are not happy or successful with that approach. I didn't read more into it than that.

The best you can do is guestimate. You can look up similar foods and estimate the proportions but it's difficult to be accurate about restaurant meals when it comes to actual content.

You joined mfp a while ago and want to lose quite a lot of weight. You don't need a gym or a HRM to lose weight. You do need to know how much you are eating. Food trumps gym. Buy the food scale. It will be the best $15 you ever spent.

I support you in taking a break. I have taken two, two week breaks in the past 11 months with no regrets. The first time I did it was about 6 months in and I was freaking out a little (I had been so meticulous about it in the beginning, even has a portable scale...too much perhaps). But then I went on vacation for a couple…

I'm 6'2" and have already lost over 40 lbs, just 15 lbs until I reach my initial goal. Feel free to add me but be warned: I will be totally supportive of any healthy approaches to this but I will call someone out if they post about and want support for diets that include: hcg, weight loss pills, all cabbage, <1200 calorie,…

Didn't want to leave you here alone discussing RI30, Lisa. For several months I have been working out 4-5 times per week, alternating Jillian days with kettlebell workouts. I'm on W2D4 but lately I find that if I take a rest day, I just do kettlebells again and skip RI30. Maybe it's just something about W2 that I don't…

The following is a quote from the first page of this link: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12 "Eating at BMR and staying in bed should maintain things as long as you do nothing at all. Most people who start using MFP dont really understand the importance of this BMR…

TDEE has an exercise factor already calculated in. Think of it as your BMR+daily activity+exercise. So if you are eating just above your BMR and then exercising for a burn of 300 calories, you should eat those calories back. You don't want to net below your BMR.

^^^What she said. Read that link, follow the advice there. Bottom line, you need to do the math: calculate your TDEE and BMR, eat calorie amount that falls between those 2 numbers. Doing anything less well give you the symptoms you describe of feeling weak, and you may also lose more lean body mass than necessary. Lean…

I can completely relate to your concern about this issue. As someone who considered herself a heavy bleeder, especially for the first 2 days, the cup has eliminated my need for the super tampon-overnight pad combo. I just empty the cup a little more often on the first day and have no issues at all. It has eliminated all…

I hear your frustration but here's how I see it. Your food diary looks pretty good, you have a nice balance of things there and don't appear to be under eating. You are logging your food. You are coming onto the forums and "asking annoying questions". You are weighing and measuring yourself. You are acknowledging your…