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I work full time, on average 50 hours per week including commute, plus the occasional work from home some late evenings, I have school aged kids with very busy schedules of their own, I am trying to complete some online courses this year and I exercise on average 5 hours per week. I sleep between 7-9 hours. The key is…

Sleep. Sleep is a biological need, and there will be negative consequences even after a day. Driving when sleepo deprived for example or being drowsy at work are not acceptable. Exercise might be important, but nothing really bad can happen from skipping it for a few days. About a month or so I miss soem workouts, because…

You don't. This is the suggestion for the upper limit, not the lower. If you eat 50 per day, great.

Agree, I have already an appointment, but it is in 10 days from now. I know I should just ignore the whole thing until then as thinking about it is not really productive, but it is hard :(

When I used to run, I did not consider running on my own safe, as I have heard stories in the neighbourhood of people being attacked or having close misses and I had also a couple of encounters with really creepy guys - one time I am sure I would have been attacked if another runner did not appear close behind me at a…

Went for a hike today, because my family insisted. A really easy one, something like 6 km and an easy, family friendly route. Now, despite the the hot and cold showers, the massages and the stretches, I feel like an idiot. At least my coworkers will have a great laugh tomorrow in the office, watching me trying to walk.…

If this is you in the photo, I cannot imagine you have any weight to lose. What is your weight and height?

The first two, my best friend can do them, is in her mid-40s, it took her 5 years of weight lifting under a trainer to get there, plus she was already athletic, she transitioned to lifting from years of martial arts. She called me last month to say she finally can bench her BW :) I have been an amateur lifter for several…

I would not make such a drastic change, from 1200 to 1800. Start with 1500, give yourself a few weeks and see how it goes. If weight loss is still too fast, then up calories a bit more.

For a 45 year old woman, 165 cm tall and 60 kilos, with a sedentary lifestyle, her tdee is about 150 calories above where is was when she was 25 years younger. For the same 45 year old woman, burning 200 calories requires approximately a 4km walk at a comfortable pace of 1 km per 15 minutes. The difference is not big, but…

First photo you are very underweight, and based on the numbers you posted, you were not just skinny but dangerously so. However now you look great and your BMI is actually ideal. Why are you trying now to gain more weight? If someone was concerned based on the first pic, this is really valid as you there should have been…

Are you a diabetic? Is there a medical reason to count sugar? Why are you tracking it?

OP, you already have a low-ish BMI, so the basic question is "do you gain anything by going even lower ?" Because it is not going to be easy and it is not going to be fast and it is not going to really make a difference in the mirror. And the second most important, can you maintain there? If you are not very young and if…

Everytime I breastfed, I lost an insane amount of weight by breastfeeding alone and the big struggle was not to gain when weaning. Restricting calories, as in eating e.g. 1000 calories will affect your supply. But eating just at maintenance will not affect your supply at all and not counting in the 300-500 calories of…

If you enjoy classes, absolutely go for it. If you enjoy something else, do that.

When the kids were very young and in no activities of their own, I left them with their dad a couple of times per week to exercise, plus I had invested in a treadmill to jog while the kids were playing. Since they are old enough to be in afterschool activities I schedule my workouts around these activities, e.g. I go to…

Open your diary. If you are not used to logging properly your 1200 calories could easily be 1600 and your 1400 calories 2000, explaining perfectly well the gain.

Congratulations for dealing so well with your issues, mental health issues as no less "real" than physical health issues! Maybe you should start by separating exercise from being outdoors. You need physical activity so that your physical health does not suffer, especially long run. But this does not mean you have to also…

For weight loss, it does not matter. In general, if this is all the activity you get, your goal should be to increase it, a lot. If there is a health issue that is preventing you for at least walking more, definitely discuss a plan with your dr and do not make drastic changes on your own. If you are a healthy 21 year old,…

Can you believe I have never eaten kale? Not sure why, so good idea to give it a try :)

I am not overweight and my high cholesterol is genetic. I have a specific plan by my dr, as in guidelines and goals, which I have been following for years anyway. Weight loss does improve indeed cholesterol levels in an overweight person. But does e.g. a change from a BMI of 22 to 19 improve things? Both dr and I are…

What is your height and weight?

Set your goals on MFP and eat the recommended calories. Start counting calories by weighing every single thing that you eat. And be optimistic, it will work.

I need to lose weight on dr's orders to see if it might help with loweing my cholesterol, so not much choice there. Not very optimistic about a few kilos flucutation within the normal change will really help, and neither is the dr, but it is worth a try. I have lost 3 kilos in 3 months, so I do not feel this is really…

Will try that, I love broccoli and brussel sprouts.

Yes, I am sure I am not eating enough fat, mostly because I hate most fatty foods :( I am making a conscious effort to add more, like peanut butter instead of honey or other sweet spreads, but it is a struggle. My iron is low and I am currently on supplements on dr's orders. I wonder if mild anaemia causes hunger. For sure…

Unless you want to, you cannot lose weight. No one is forcing you to eat 6 sandwiches instead of waiting for your dinner to be ready. It is a choice. If you were living with someone else, a girlfriend, your parents, your children, again the same problem would be there: sandwiches, cookies, cake, chips, whatever. Even if…

There is no exercise that will help you, because you are literally starving yourself. Forget the gym and any type of exercise until you get your BMI to healthy by eating enough. For a person with your age and height, even if you do nothing all day other than move from couch to bed, this would be something like 1900-2000…

somewhere above 25% ?

Do you mean you think you can gain muscle from supplements without exercising? Because this is not going to happen.