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I'm doing it alone, and I wish my sister would join in, because she wants to lose weight very bad. However, I think I've been a bit of a de-motivator for her, since I got a head start on exercising and eating right, so I feel like she's been avoiding joining in like she wanted to. The more I try to motivate her, the more…

I can see how trying to get fit for a wedding could be super stressful! Glad you have a regime that's working for you now, without the added stress :)

Heh, that'd be a great birthday present, for sure!

Marriage would be a huge motivator! So exciting :) Good luck!!

Added! Thanks guys :)

Well I am very short (4"11), and I'm not very overweight (124lbs), so I will try to at least eat 1500 calories, Thanks!

Heh, I was confused by this to. I'm sure someone will be able to answer this question MUCH better than me, but to put it simply; yes. If you are only netting 500 calories a day, your body is getting too few calories. I know it seems crazy (it does to me at least) because i feel like i eat enough, even though i'm…

Alright thank you for answering my questions, as you can see I have little nutrional knowledge, which I think has helped slow down my attempts at trimming down in the past. Many thanks!

Okay. So just a (probably stupid) question. Eating higher calorie foods (like nuts) to up my calorie intake would be good, but say eating fast food would not, because of the grams of fat? Obviously there are other negative factors to fastfood (grease, saturated fat, ect.) but does all that also add to weight gain, or is it…

I do think I can stay below 1200 cal a day, the issue I'm having now is getting up to 1200 calories when exercising is involved (obviously it would be no problem if I wasn't burning the calories). I find If I'm burning 300-400 calories in exercise, it's hard to keep up with calorie intake after that!

Thanks guys, this helps a lot!

Thanks, I'll look into it :)

Awesome, thanks for the welcome everyone!