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What are your stats? I'm 5'4 and around 135lbs give or take, and I use an online calculator based on my average heart rate that gives me around 200 calories for 30 mins.

If you eat the calorie goal given to you (and weigh your food and log accurately) you will lose weight with no exercise at all. If you exercise on top of that you are expected to eat at least some of those back- otherwise you risk ending up with too few NET calories. Exercise is great for health and fitness, just do what…

Extra weekend calories! I would treat myself to a nice meal out with a drink or two the following day

This isn't entirely accurate. The BMR is the amount of calories your body would need to maintain your current weight if you were completely inactive e.g lying in a coma. Many people close to their goal weight have a TDEE and BMR very close together, so may find that they do have to cut a little below to see results. Having…

How are you counting calories? Are you guessing, using measuring cups, or weighing in grams using a digital scale? Are you logging calories from exercise and eating them back? On the days where you go over calories, are you accurately tracking then, too? You might consider setting your diary to public, if you're…

If you are on 1200 calories, does that mean you are trying to lose weight? What were you eating that got you overweight/wanting to lose weight to begin with?

horseshit.

Hahaha, this reminds me of my friend who thought that any calories consumed while walking wouldn't count :D

Yep, there's IGAs all over Sydney! Never heard of Foodland haha

If they take it personally that you want to make healthy choices for yourself, isn't that kind of their problem? If you don't feel comfortable talking about your diet, which is totally understandable, maybe tell them you're trying to save money and don't want to buy pub lunches every day? I actually have a holiday to the…

So If i'm understanding correctly, you want to lose fat and gain muscle so you can become leaner but remain a healthy weight? Have you looked into bulk/cut cycles and progressive lifting programs?

Australians say 'takeaway' too!

Really unlikely she gained muscle on a large deficit doing a bunch of cardio. My guess is water retention from muscle repair, I know my legs would be pretty sore after a few days of hiking

How are you counting your calories? Digital scale or measuring cups/spoons or estimating portions? 4 months of no loss on such a low calorie goal normally indicates inaccurate logging i.e. you're eating more than you think you are.

I know my appetite wants me to be at a certain size...

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The way she's written it does make it seem more complicated that it needs to be. Basically it looks like she's saying instead of setting a deficit calorie goal, you just set your goal calories at maintenance. That way when you look at your diary the 'green number' shows your daily deficit and when you look at your weekly…

Going off the pill messes with your hormones, so temporary weight gain could definitely be a side effect! When I took a break I didn't notice any weight gain but I got super depressed for a couple weeks and started breaking out. It'll definitely mess with you while your body gets used to a different hormone balance, try…

Did you just start weighing your food and exercising on Friday?

Whatever works for you. I eat my first meal at around 3.30pm :)

Planning. Log in advance what you will eat at these occasions and stick to it. Save up calories through the week if you need to or do extra exercise. If I have a special occasion coming up on the weekend I will often leave 100 or so calories each weekday so I can use them on the weekend, then do a big workout on the day so…

Could you please clarify what you are asking for help with? Are you having trouble staying within your calorie goal eating the foods you like?

I don't see anything logged in your diary, can you give us an idea of what your diet is like? Maybe try to log the last couple of days so you can see if your macronutrient ratios look ok?

When people aren't losing weight, 99% of the time it's either a) it hasn't been long enough to see results (less than 3 weeks) and they need to be patient, or b) they're not tracking accurately enough and therefore unknowingly eating too much. How long has it been? How are you tracking your calories? Are you using a food…

You're underestimating your calorie intake and eating too much to lose weight. Get a food scale and start weighing everything instead of measuring in cups, servings, and 'handfuls'. Here's how easy it is to underestimate when you're not weighing accurately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjKPIcI51lU

It just depends on the number of calories. Something like Thanksgiving you could go 2000 cals over maintenance or 5000, depending on what you eat and drink and in what quantity. If you ate, say, 3500 calories over maintenance in one day then went on a 500 calorie per day deficit for a week you would maintain for that week.…

I was clinically depressed for a year and was prescribed the drug Lexapro. I needed it to function, so you could say I was 'dependent' on it. It was technically a 'crutch' I used to get out of bed every morning, go to therapy, complete my studies. Was that a 'problem', too?

How would you address chronic migraines then? Meditation and deep breathing? Drugs can be helpful to a lot of people with a lot of conditions, and personally I'd rather smoke (or ingest, vape, whatever) weed than pop a bunch of pills.

I've found that some strains of weed have less of a 'munchies' effect on me, maybe you can try some different kinds? I get the munchies pretty bad also. I've found that if I find something else to engage my senses in other ways I can beat it, like listening intently to music, drawing, or even playing video games. I also…

Possibly they meant thighs? Probably an autocorrect or ESL issue :)