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Thank you. I'm definitely glad I posted I've gotten some great advice.

Thank you for your advice and great information. I really appreciate it. It helps now I have a plan to move forward.

Thanks for the good suggestions. What is IF ?

Any advice on what I can do to make a bigger calorie cut without slowing down my metabolism?

Also I don't always log my daily walks so that's not going to show up in my dairy.

Ok I think it's public now

I just went back and looked at the past 6 weeks since I started to cut back to 1400 calories per day or so and once per week I get to to 2200 this is usually on a Friday or Saturday my cheat day. Could this one day per week be stopping my progress?

I've been logging all food religiously for 6 years. I'm 5'3" 148 I want to get back at or under 140. I walk 30 mins every morning 5 days and have a physical job and then zumba 3 times weekly. I eat 1400 to 1600 daily and maintain weight but according to mfp I should lose at that. If I eat more then this I gain.

I agree that 3 to 5 pounds is more normal, but there's one exception (for me, at least) that's not a factor for you (@cwolfman), presumably: every once in a while my weight swings up drastically, as much as 10 pounds in a day or two (I don't weigh every day); inevitably, two weeks later I get my period and realize I was…

I weigh myself once in the morning and once at night I usually don't pay much attention to those weights, the one that I actually mark down and I'm going by as far as the fluctuation is on Wednesdays in the morning that weight is the one I actually record. The fluctuation is only over the course of maybe 5 or 6 weeks I'll…

That a actually makes alot of sense of that is correct. Thank you for that :)

From what I have read and heard from nutritionists you are supposed to pair protein nwith carbs in order to process the proteinproperly and vvisa versa. So fruit and eggs or oatmeal and eggs or cereal with milk your body uses it the same so long as calories are the same in each pair.

That sounds like a good idea. That is the scariest part so far is eating more now. I have gotten so used to what I eat it terrifies me to eat more.