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Thank you! I'm keeping my calories at a 20% deficit and not eating any fast food or junk food! This makes me feel better :)

I sure hope you can lose fat with no cardio, lol.

Brilliant advice. Thank you so much!

Yeah, I guess you're right. I just really don't want to gain any weight.....

Thank you :)

Fruit is always a good choice for something sweet. Strawberries, raspberries and red grapes are my favorite, and they're sweet enough. There are low-fat ice creams that are really good and have only 100 - 150 calories and no more than 3 grams of fat. Even a serving of chocolate chips could do. There's about 70 calories in…

Wow, don't give out advice if you're being serious about this. Not having a period is a very BAD sign. I used to weigh 85 pounds and my period was gone and it worried the hell out of my Mother. You NEED a period.

Thank you :)

I don't believe that logging every little thing is really relevant. Those activities are already taken into consideration when you choose your activity level, unless you set it at sedentary and then get up and do more than a sedentary person would. The only time I bother logging that sort of stuff is when I do more…

My goal is about 118 - 125, if I weigh more because of muscle, then that's alright. As long as it's not much about like 133. And, just so people know, I'm really short, like 5'3".

So the calorie burn from exercise is already included in my TDEE? Sorry, I'm still a bit new to understanding this stuff. It can be confusing.

I wasn't talking about MFP...

] But when you pick your activity level on any TDEE calculator, it asks for how many days you exercise. o-o

Ahh thank you! :D

No the goal page is loading, I just can't figure out. Do I change the net calories consumed? When I do that, it say I'm only going to have a deficit of 110 calories a day, and my weight loss will only be 0.2 lbs per week. Does that matter?

It's not letting me change the calories though O_o;

Grrr...can't figure out how to change my calories goal.

I chose lightly active because I only exercise 3 days a week. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Lifting weights for 30 minutes and walking for about an hour.

No, I have it selected on 1 lb a week.

Do I eat 1640 on days I don't exercise, too?

But doesn't TDEE include exercise?

Start weight lifting and trying 100 more calories. Do this for a couple of weeks, and if you don't see a change, up the calories another 100, and so forth, until the inches start to change. Don't care so much about what the scale says.

Losing weight that fast isn't good on your body, nor is it realistic and likely to stay off. Unless you're very overweight, the best approach is 1, maybe 2 pounds overweight.

Ectomorph all the way.

3 - 5 is moderate, 1 -3 is light, so if the OP doesn't do anything else outside of exercise that's really "active" I think lightly active works well. Besides, if she eats about 1700 - that's right in between the calories she would need were she "lightly" and "moderately" active. I already know how many calories she needs…

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I occasionally have a day where I'll exceed my calories only because it's good on my body to give it a bit of a surprise, so to speak. I don't do it because I deprive myself throughout the week though. If I want something, be it a bowl of ice cream, a slice or two of pizza, etc, I'll have it. As long as it stays within my…

Really, the only thing I am afraid of is someone I know getting a terminal illness, or getting one myself.

I would like to lose that much by Christmas, for sure. But I only have 20 - 25 pounds to lose so I'm probably only going to be able to pull of 6, maybe 8 pounds at the most by then since I'm aiming to lose 0.5 - 0.75 pounds a week.