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Looking at a height and weight chart? You should weigh around 148 lbs as a bare minimum. So yes, 135 could be unhealthy for you. (These are general guidelines, but 135 is well below.) An avg of 6 lbs per month loss, at your weight, is also pretty high, especially if you weren't trying. You might want to start logging your…

Not eating enough wouldn't hurt your weight loss. (Could hurt your health though!) But if you aren't weighing, you may be eating more than you think. Those scoops of protein powder for example? 2 scoops might weigh more than 30 grams even though the packaging makes them equivalent. But the 30 grams is the important number.…

Do you weigh your food on a food scale? (Including the fruit!) Do you eat back your exercise calories? And if so, what are you estimating for those?

Yeah but you're eating less than 3/4 cup, I thought. So 11 g instead of 6 g means an added sugar content of 5 g. Or around 0.6 tbsp of jam (using a generic jam entry). So picture your usual portion of yoghurt, but plain, and stirring maybe a spoonful of jam in to get the fruit flavour. That doesn't seem that excessive to…

How long have you been at 1900, and what results have you been getting? (How many lbs loss per week on average?) If your actual results are too fast, then up your calories. Actual results will trump any calculator or info you find in an article. So if you've been eating 1900 and getting the 1.5 lbs a week you told MFP you…

Personally, I'd avoid "health" articles in the media. They're generally exaggerated, misleading, fear mongering, etc if not outright wrong. I think they're worse for me than the sugar in my morning greek yoghurt tbh. I don't worry about sugar in dairy or fruit at all. Personal preference, I guess. As for added sugar in my…

Purposeful, scheduled exercise is not the only way to boost your activity. You can also boost your "lifestyle" for the time being. Don't lounge by the pool, play in it with the kids. Out of milk? Offer to walk to the store. Be the one getting up to get stuff from the kitchen. Organize walks. If you're near the beach, go…

Everyone is different, so there's really no way to know until you get there. I know that skin can take awhile to stretch down as well as it will -- maybe two years? And if you lose the weight too quickly, that puts you at higher risk for sagging skin. And stretch marks fade, but never go away (and almost everyone has…

Nah, it'd be easy, especially if rice is a staple food for you. You also may not burn 2500 in a day -- and you need to eat less than you burn, not just less than what you think you used to eat. With your stats, your sedentary maintenance (including calories burned in your lifestyle, like walking, but not including extra…

Ahh. Having to be off your feet is a totally different thing. (Low impact means low impact, aka not jumping, slamming into the ground, etc, it doesn't usually mean off your feet entirely.) You can lose weight through diet alone, no problem. If you like, just set up MFP and follow the calorie target it gives you. If the…

Weight loss aside, having a normal appetite and a healthy relationship to food (not hating it) is a desirable outcome. So yes, I agree, if her meds are making her hate food, she could consider changing them, depending on her options for alternatives. She's probably still consuming more *calories* than she's burning (or has…

Not eating enough calories causes weight loss, not weight gain. This is why starving people get thin and can actually starve to death -- they do not pack on more fat to live off of, despite there being nothing to create fat from, and they do not learn to live off of air. Think about it. If your body requires 2500 calories…

How long have you been trying? How new is the exercise? Are you near your time of the month? Are you being very careful which database entries you're choosing? There are a lot of little things to know to not choose inappropriate entries, and also inaccurate entries. Do you eat out a lot, or eat at other people's houses a…

Good to know! I'll try my phone if it doesn't right itself soon. Thanks!

If you've been logging consistently and accurately, it's just normal fluctuations. Only a percentage of your total weight is fat... a LOT of it is water and lean tissue, as well as waste (food and liquids moving through your system). So you should expect fluctuations in a 5 lb range or so. Fluctuations can sometimes be…

Make your own menu if you like the structure. (I am the same with breakfast and lunch.) So come up with a few ideas for breakfasts and lunch. You can consider what you like, macro balance (getting enough protein and fat especially) and what you can afford / are willing to prepare. Then pre-log each meal and play around…

Muscle is pretty dense and is fairly key to looking lean, rather than being small but still very squishy, or sick looking. So yeah, don't aim to lose muscle. (Also, your heart is a muscle...) <-- Keep lifting, get plenty of protein, and don't overdo your deficit. A few more months in the process is totally worth looking…

Sure. And I wasn't disputing that point -- most of our calorie burn comes from BMR. But you never know who is lurking, so statements like "If someone's bmr was 1400 and they ate 1400 calories they'd maintain" do need to be corrected, because that's how you get people trying to subtract 500 or 1000 calories from their BMR…

You are lumping BMR in with TDEE. BMR doesn't "take into account" calories burned getting up to go to the bathroom etc. It really is just your base calories, like what you'd burn in a coma. Your lifestyle burns more, as does your exercise, and the three added together give you TDEE. So no, eating at BMR would not get you…

MFP will use your stats to calculate your BMR (calories burned even if you were in a coma) and it will ask you about your lifestyle. Based on what you tell it, it will calculate calories and add that to your BMR. So it IS counting for something. BMR + lifestyle calories (movements outside of workouts) + exercise calories…

I can't comment on your medical issues, but just wanted to make sure that this point was clear: You don't have to eat in any particular way at all to lose weight. Your calorie count alone should suffice. All that advice about eating small meals regularly, or not eating after certain times, or eating mainly veggies, or…

It doesn't... not exactly. Dairy has natural sugar. A serving of dairy often has ~12 grams of sugar in it. So that's 5 grams of added sugar, which probably came with the flavouring (like jam if it's a fruit flavour). You can always buy plain and mix in your own jam. It would likely still be similar in terms of sugar…

Have you been on the medication long? Sometimes, side effects don't last. You could try to keep busy, not keep sugary stuff in the house, pre-log your food, and just have faith that this side effect will lessen or disappear. And you can probably try to work on the "I don't care" and the mindlessness. It might take *work*…

I'd like to echo MrM27 in that I don't know your family, so I can't give advice so much as some thoughts based on who I am and my own experiences. I wouldn't bring it up directly. i.e. "I'm concerned about your kids' weight/health" type of thing. It's their mom's business/responsibility, and it sounds like she has a lot…

Go into your food diary. Add a food. Search for olive oil. Choose an entry for olive oil. Select how much you used. Add it.

Try Rice - Brown, long-grain, cooked. It has a 100g option. So if your rice weighed, say 205g, you put 2.05 of 100g. Though it's better to weigh rice dry and use the dry entry. And you can always -- like I already said -- MAKE YOUR OWN ENTRY with the package. Then YOU can make it in grams. Simple. "Create a Food" under "My…

If you have the La Fe package still, use it. It should show grams, and you can create your own La Fe entry to use, that uses grams, and matches your packaging. Or just go with what you have now -- I think it's close enough (it's just annoying if you're going to use it over and over, and making one with grams would be nicer…

By the way: For any meal that you are going to eat regularly (at least once a week), once you get it logged correctly, with the entries you think are the best, and all components (including oil, etc), go to: Quick Tools > Remember Meal. Or if you are on mobile, click on the "... More" and choose Save Meal. Next time you…

For the olive oil, add it separately: Oil - olive and then choose your serving. Always weigh or carefully measure your oil, because oil is calorie dense, so small differences change the calories very quickly. For the veggies, that looks more reasonable to me. The margin of error on something like veggies won't be too bad.…

Your calorie goal is 1960 BEFORE exercise. Log your exercise under Cardio (even if it's a strength exercise) and it will give you more calories you can eat. And make sure that you set up your goals correctly. With 10 lbs to lose, it should be set to 0.5 lb per week. And you need to make sure you picked the right lifestyle…