Linnaea27 Member

Great! Keep it up and get yourself a pretty new belt. :)

I'm your height but lighter, and enjoy runs of about the same length. Based on my exercising when I was closer to your weight, you're likely burning around 500 calories on those 6-mile runs and maybe 300 or so on the shorter runs. So that would mean you're taking in about 800 calories net on your longer run days-- which…

I see that you, too, binge on bread. I am something of an emotional eater and get carb cravings either when I have been carefully in a calorie deficit for a week, or, more likely, at the PMS time. If I go into a store at that time, I almost ALWAYS come out with a loaf of lovely rye bread and eat too much of it (um,…

What is your daily calorie goal? Are you eating back exercise calories? (if you aren't so far, eat back at least 1/2 of them.) How much weight do you have to lose? All this would be helpful for people trying to help you figure out if you're not eating enough. :) If you are eating at a reasonable deficit, not an excessive…

Yes, that's what I meant-- I didn't see why OP was using *vegan* protein powder with so much yogurt and cream-- they might as well use whey protein powder if they are eating all that yogurt and heavy cream.

+2 I don't understand. A person has a right to decide what their goals are and where they feel best.

Wait, what?! You are still considered "overweight" at a size 2-4??? How is that possible? I am at 2/4 and am at 19-20 BMI. How odd the BMI scale is!

You can add me! I'm 5'1", losing the last couple pounds, and doing weight training to reach my goal of looking strong and athletic. :) I have never had an eating disorder and generally eat well. I'm a botanist and love animals too! Just add a message if you friend me because I prefer to get a note with friend requests so I…

I hope the holidays really help you feel more in control. I have a friend who restricts her eating severely when she feels like the rest of her life is out of control, and I wouldn;t wish that kind of thing on anyone. Severe stress certainly takes it out of one. I think that lack of sleep contributes to weight gain, so try…

My solution to the problem would be getting a less expensive protein powder (whey protein, since you are already having lots of dairy) and adding it to a full-fat Greek yogurt.

Very interesting! I apparently (as a short, slim woman) have a lower BMI than 70% of females ages 19-35 in the world, and am most like someone from Sri Lanka. And it says: "If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 50,614,965 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population"!

I've done the raw food thing at times. There are lots of more yummy things to eat raw than potatoes, but I don't think it's harmful to eat raw potatoes in small quantities. Ultimately I found doing raw foods unsustainable because I missed so many foods and it was expensive. My friend who was much more into it than I was…

It sounds to me like you have probably been eating a lot more than you thought-- high carbs (college food especially) are easy to underestimate calorie-wise. If you've had a high sodium intake, a few pounds of it could well be water retention, but not all 15. Drinking well over a gallon of water a day sounds like too much…

Um, for what particular purpose? Perhaps there is a diet fad I'm not aware of, but I don't know why one would want to experiment with eating raw potato. Yuck! Stick to more appetizing foods within your goals. :)

I would go back to your accustomed weight loss calories for a week or two. If you're only a couple weeks into maintenance, that shouldn't be difficult. If that brings you a little below your goal weight, that's easy to reverse as long as you don't have anything in particular going on that would make going a half pound…

I cross-country ski. I love it-- I live in a place where it is cold and snowy from late November until the beginning of April, and skiing is the only thing that allows me to tolerate such a long winter! It is also an incredible workout, great for total-body exercise/strength, and burns a surprising number of calories. I…

I was somewhat over my maintenance calories (and felt way too full!), but today I was barely interested in food (this happens to me after large holiday dinners) and made up for it perfectly. Tomorrow is the other side of the family's Thanksgiving. . . eek. I will go for a run in the AM.

I logged pretty accurately; I ended up at 2100 or so for the day-- almost 500 over my usual! And I went for a long run in the morning. Oh well-- I'm barely interested in food today so I think it will balance out fine.

Where is your current workout location? Is it a gym? Because if you are doing an hour of cardio in the gym I can definitely understand just being disgusted with it! Do you have a park, nice dirt road, or pleasant trail nearby? I think exercising outdoors is vastly preferable to working out inside unless the weather is…

I have this problem too! At least in the first month or so of logging/trying to lose weight. Sometimes one thinks about food way too much, especially when being borderline hungry a lot of the time during a "diet." Sometimes I do feel like I get hungry when I'm actually dehydrated, too, so drinking enough can be a good way…

When I first started maintaining, I had the exact same problem-- I was so used to eating the deficit quantity that I had trouble eating enough to maintain and lost extra weight. I made an effort to regain what I hadn't wanted to lose, at the time, and maintained within the range I like for several months without logging--…

I do have to agree that it is maybe a little obsessive-seeming, all the posts on how to get through the holidays, but I feel somewhat the same way as for me it's not just one/two days, as others are saying. I think worrying about it too much is not great. But I am worrying about it somewhat because we have: My family's…

Haha! Wonderful description of that. . . Monty Python and all! I guess one could just use a normal full skirt? That's what I often do at the beach because I dislike using the usually dirty changing rooms. :)

When I went into maintenance last spring, I found that it was 50-100 calories too low for me, which made sense since I'd been losing weight at a slightly faster rate than predicted by MFP calculations all along. I'm trying to lose a bit again and so far haven't lost anything (in a month or so). It is strange but I did just…

That seems like a bug in the website; it doesn't make a lick of sense that it is telling you you can eat more when your goal is to lose more weight each week. Strange. To get around this, use a different calorie calculator-- I like this one: http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm and choose the "set goal…

For me, it's not worth using, because I find it to be really disgusting tasting. After trying xylitol and getting a horrible migraine from it, I decided to learn to like coffee with just half and half in it; using a liberal amount of half and half still results in a lower-cal coffee than one with milk and sugar. If I want…

That sort of thing can certainly happen when you weigh yourself at that time of the month and then weigh a couple weeks later at a point in your cycle when there's no water retention. Not eating back exercise calories also would have created a much larger deficit than you had been set up for. If you have a new bag of flour…

I would think you'd be eating a little more than 1650 a day to maintain at 5'3" and 112. . . I'm 5'1" and maintain around 103-105 on 1650-1700 or so. Not sure if I'm just weird and have a fast metabolism though. Once you start maintaining, keep logging and weighing yourself for a month or two (if you want to eventually…

OMG, sorry that is so long. I hope at least some of it's useful! :confounded:

Ugh, school stress can really do a person in. (I am writing my master's thesis presently. . . taking a few minutes break and looking at MFP!) You've found a good website here! The tools it provides will be very helpful. Use them :) -- the calorie calculator, the food diary, etc. First, it sounds like you need to find a way…