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Please look closer at what I said. I said I used to not eat back my exercise calories until i recently learned that I should be. To be specific I just learned that I should be last Wednesday so not even a full week ago. If you look from then till today you can see I have tried very hard to stay very close to my net of 1200…

I don't breath heavily or snore (I know this cause I've asked my husband). I am usually so tired that I can crash right out. I will wake up multiple times in the night though (sometimes feeling really refreshed and energized, problem is that it is usually at like 3:30 in the morning and only last for a short time). I think…

I've just made my diary public so you all can get a better idea of what I am eating. To those of you who are saying to stop thinking about it and just do it or push though it please don't take this the wrong way but it isn't really a helpful suggestion. I don't actually think about it all the time or anything. I was just…

I am eating the 1200 net calories a day that MFP has suggested for me. I used to not eat back my exercise calories until I learned that was not what I should be doing, so now I eat them back even tough I am usually not hungry. So I am eating the 1200 calories that suggested.

MFP already calculates a deficit in your calories. Take a look at your fitness profile. It should have something on there about how many calories you need to just survive ( I think mine said like 1567 or something like that). Then it created a deficit for me by setting my Dailey/Net calories at 1200 (the net calories are…

Okay a couple things here. First you shouldn't work the same muscle groups every day. You should alternate what you do from day to day. Like legs/lower body days 1, 3, and 5 and say upper body days 2, 4, 6. Your muscles need time to regenerate. When you build muscle you are actually tearing the muscle fibers. They need…

You should never take anyone else's meds. Especially the kind prescribed for depression and anxiety. I was on Paxil from spring of 2009 to spring of 2010. It helped a lot with the anxiety. However it caused the depression as well when the weight gain happened. I had never weighed more than 98-100 lbs. After being on it for…

Okay maybe I will just take a little rest when I get out of work and see how I feel. The anxiety flare up is usually a sign of a nasty headache, possibly migraine, coming on. I just wanted to ask and get some opinions because I was worried that if I skipped today I would be reinforcing my bad habit of falling of the…

a little of both. I can still feel the sinus pressure a little bit plus my neck is starting to stiffen up a little (could be because I sit a a desk typing all day for work). I think the funk is from the tiredness. I don't want to take anything caffeine related to wake me up because that will aggravate my anxiety even more.…

I noticed the same thing with my pants. It could be water retention is the reason for why some days they are loose and others they are normal. The fluid in your body fluctuates through out the day and day to day. That is why sometimes it may look like there has been a shift of weight from one part of the body to another.

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I recently found out that with MFP you need to eat back the calories you get from exercising. This is because MFP already created a calorie deficit for you in the Food portion of your fitness profile. If you create too much of a calorie deficit you put your body into starvation mode which makes it so your body maintains…

I feel like that right now and at least once a month (hint hint). I get so tired. I have found that sometimes it helps to say just rest for 15 to 30 minutes, depending on the level of tiredness, before I work out. Don't nap or sleep. Just rest your mind and body. Try to unwind all of the tension and stress of the day.…

My situation is somewhat similar and somewhat opposite. I have desk job so like you I spend most of the day sitting. My husband is on his feet all day so when he comes home all he wants to do is sit down at the computer and play computers games until the late late hours of the night. I have been working really hard to get…

To be hones I started this back in 2010 and have fallen off the wagon more than once. I recently started back up about 2 weeks ago so the 7 lbs is really from the first initial start not just the past 2 weeks. It seems like whenever I get to about 131 lbs I always get stuck. I am hoping that I can push through it this time…

Yes as I mentioned above I do take my measurements. That is why it came as a shock to me that not only did the scale read the same as last week but my measurements were all the same too even though my pants felt looser by a lot.

Thanks everyone. I guess it just surprised me that there was no movement of any kind, up or down, in my weight or my measurements. Especially since a couple days ago I noticed that my pants weren't staying up so well on their own anymore. I though for sure I had at least lost a 1/4 of an inch or something even if my weight…

My eating habits have been the same since last week when I lost 2.4 lbs. I am eating all 1200 calories that I should be eating everyday. It is getting close to that time of the month so maybe I am retaining some water. I know I am feeling more tired than I have the past two weeks so maybe this is the cause. I do measure…

This happens to me all the time. I have found that first I have to admit that I am stressed out. Recognizing that you are stressed out in the first place is key. Then I give my self a time limit. Like say I'm stressed out and I want to eat say some chips and a candy bar. I tell myself to go do something else (laundry,…

I was on Paxil for a year and it is true that antidepressants cause some to lose weight and some to gain it. I think it is all about how you start to feel once they kick in. Some people may feel like they have more energy without being bogged down by the depression so they become more active, hence the weight loss, others…

Thanks. I will try to stay positive in knowing that I am still managing my eating habits even though I can't exercise.

Danced from age 7 to 21. I even taught for two years. I did tap, ballet, pointe, jazz, lyrical, hip hop, and was on the competition team. I miss it so much. No place around here to take adult classes though. Along with the weight gain from not being as active anymore I also lost 75% of my flexibility. I miss that greatly…

From what I understand if you eat under a certain number of calories (depending on age, weight, and height) you can actually put your body into starvation mode and make your metabolism worse, making it harder to get in shape. It can also be dangerous to your health in the long run. As for the calories you "gain back" by…