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With fish, the simplest is to grill them. Whole, or wrapped in baking paper, depends on the fish. You need no extra fat at all, just salt, pepper and lemon juice if you wish. Other than this, you need to be more specific, even e.g. plain pasta or pasta with tomato sauce is low fat, so how complicated is what you are…

Since you are busy, and also out of shape, start simple and include the kids. Babies and toddlers love being outdoors, so just start by walking. Choose the time of the day when you think works best for the 2 yo, and walk. It does not have to be a super long walk, and it does not have to be fast, and it can be neither with…

Maybe a short circuit? Like 1 min planks, 1 min push-ups, 1 min squats, 1 mean burpes, and repeat 3-4 times.

Don't. It is almost zero, so not worth the mental effort to keep track of this.

I am guessing that this is not what OP is talking about though, I mean she is not talking about really extreme dieting. So she has room to experiment, and not panic if 100 calories more or less would affect her, this is what I am trying to say, not to worry too much as she plans to be rather conservative about it anyway.…

By the way,to lose your milk, you will have to starve. Worrying about 100 or 200 calories more or less, there is no reason for this. Now, if maintenance is 2000 and you decide to cut to 1000, then yes, you will have a problem after a while, but do not worry too much about e.g. 1700 or 1800.

Calories from breastfeedin on demand are 300-500, 500 as the baby is older, close to a year (which is the opposite of what you would expect) or during growth spurts. So from your stats 2000 is your maintenance, with breastfeeding. You will need to lower calories to lose weight.

To be honest, I have heard others say this, but I have never noticed it myself. Could it be you are not logging as accurately as you think your exercise? Some that refer to "effort" for example, are rather misleading, since "effort" does not matter. I can feel for example like dying by jogging at 6 km/h right now, but…

It is pretty much standard dr's recommendation where I live.

You are not the parent, you cannot make siblings do anything. It is sad, but it is what it is. Not your responsibility, you are taking over something that is not for you to accomplish or to feel guilty about.

I have no idea why they are horrible, but I cannot see how they can be scary. Or why one would do them if he/she does not like them.

General note: do not judge calories burned by how you feel. I can swim for hours without feeling exhausted, usually I am just bored of the repetition when I give up. I have not run for years, and if I jog around the block to catch the bus, I feel completely exhausted. Obviously one hour of swimming burns more than running…

I can totally understand being scared of lifting at home, but sit-ups? How can a sit-up be dangerous? Anyway, perhaps start with the basics? Walk, to start getting into the routine of exercise and once you are comfortable doing that look into bodyweight routines, there are lots of them for beginners. I would avoid anything…

My oldest son got a watch for his birthday a couple of years ago. Cannot remember the brand, we did not keep it long, but one of the expensive ones. He wore it to school. Even on days without PE, he was easily logging over 5K steps while at school. He knew he did not even do 1K steps. No idea what the watch was tracking,…

I do not understand what you are asking. You plan to eat more than 1900 calories in the evening?

I have noticed the last years that when I am facing stress, I snack a lot mindlessly, and there have been a series of bad things happening to me and my family, so I keep coming back to this app every year or two, to loose the extra weight before it becomes a problem. I am very accurate in my logging, scale, almost all…

I would guess it depends on your overall activity and fitness. If you are not e.g. in the habit of walking or jogging,jumping does not sound like a good idea, but if you are already active, you can slowly increase the intensity. Just start slow, short intervals, and see how it goes. If there is any pain, stop. I suspect…

I do not know OPs stats, but if I do this exercise for myself, middle-aged mum, 3 kids, office job, no opportunity to move much during lockdown unless planned, eating 2K calories per day would put me at 500 over my maintenance, and I can easily imagine a gain of 5-6 lbs in a month because of it. Adding a bit of water…

Hmm, this does not add up, there must be something very off with your calculations. What is your current weight and your goal weight? A woman would have to be either rather big (very obese or very tall) to expect to lose when eating 2000 calories per day, or extremely active, probably both, so gaining fast with these…

You are probably grossly overestimating your burns and underestimating what you eat. I would start by not adding any calories for your workouts and measuring with a scale everything you eat, and aim at reversing what happened in a month or two.

If you want to get super fit, not inbalanced and not injur yourself in the process, find a program that matches your goals and follow it, or get yourself to a gym if you can and ask a trainer. Unless you have some experience in strength training, anything you come up with will be far worse than an established program.

I have a different problem with my ankle that cannot be repaired, but because of it I am also more prone to tendon injuries. You cannot start exercising without instructions from a dr or physioterapist (usually the first sends you to the second). In my case, and despite being in very good shape when I last injurred the…

Exercise is the way to go for fitness, not cardio or strength training. Strength training is for building muscle, not losing weight. Absolutely add weight training in your routine, to build strength and improve overall health, do not expect to lose any weight because of it though.

It depends on the tendon

You look much better in the second picture :)

Why won't you ask your dr? I was not allowed to do any exercise, not even walking much, because of my medical history, hormonal problems making my pregnancies very high risk and contractions as early as the first trimester. I have a friend who taught aerobic classes 8 hours per day until a couple of weeks before her due…

Several years ago, my father was a dr, in a large training hospital, head of a big clinic, with a PhD, and several peer reviewed publications. So, definitely not stupid and not ignorant. Yet, my father was also a chain smoker, since his teens, and never really managed to cut back. What did he do? He developed a theory that…

Was it though the BMI or the label the issue? If you were being essentially labelled "fat" by whatever other tool, would it have changed anything?

If the scale will not move for months, you are eating at maintenance right now. If it is just for a couple of weeks, keep doing what you are doing.

You would say the same if you sold them for a living ;)