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As mactaffy84 said, eating more will not make you lose more. As long as you're not eating a significant number (e.g 300 calories) under your recommended intake and your body isn't complaining, you're fine, I promise. Just stick with it and don't give up. The hardest part is to stay motivated, if you can stay motivated I…

If you can stick to your new healthy lifestile for 3 weeks, you can stick to it forever. I am sure you will feel like a completely new person by then already - just having some muscles and seeing a little difference on the scale can make you sooo much more confident, so push yourself for that meet up in 2 weeks! Maybe you…

I'm 5'7'' and when I was at my highest, 160lbs, I could still wear a size 7. I'm lucky with my legs (but very unlucky with my stomach :s)..

Yes, it is very little, of course you're right! But eating 1200 calories a day is also definitely NOT starvation mode as some people claim it to be. It's definitely the wrong thing to do when you're overweight trying to lose weight and get all frustrated, but, again, it is not even close to starvation.

mschicagocubs I totally agree. But the scale is such a nice thing to look at and be proud of, because you yourself can't always tell whether your legs are more toned or not, so it often gets frustrating to just go by "how your clothes feel" etc.

Look, it was perfectly and totally right for you to eat more than 1200 calories a day. You lost 82 pounds! That is a whole lot (and jesus you can be proud, by the way) so you lost a whole lot by eating 1200+ calories. But what people seem to not understand is that NOT EVERYBODY HERE IS THE SAME. If you're let's say 135lbs…

If that is what works for you - lucky you, really! If I ate 2100 cals a day I would be definitely gaining weight even though I'm 5'7''. It's not really about height, it's about your starting weight and BODY. A 300lbs lady will lose weight on a 2000 cals diet, a 150lbs lady might need a little (or a lot) luck for losing…

Can you post a link? :)

This will take you at least 5 minutes, but it's suuuuuuper worth it! Mash up 1 or 2 ripe bananas, mix them with an egg - done is your super yummy pancake dough ready to be thrown in your pan. Sounds crazy right? But they will turn out like actual pancakes and omg, so delicious.

Sounds like you should contact a doctor.. especially with medical conditions like diabetes and you just having had a baby.. it might be a normal reaction from the body, but really, I would see a doctor and check to be safe.

For just losing weight, Cardio is awesome! Do it whenever you have some spare time, it might help you lose weight faster (and you can eat more and still be healthy, yay!). So it's not a must but a reeeally great thing to do :)

This is a reeeeeally tricky thing you do. If you actually count the calories you're walking etc DAILY as a regular part of your day you'd have to use your BMR as your "normal" intake. If you do that, you're fine of course it's just a lot of work calculating all the activities you do throughout the day and really not worth…

If it's not a medical condition, it's very very likely caused by your unhealthy eating habit. Eat fruits and veggies! Eatint unhealthy reeeeeally slows down your metabolism. If it takes you 2-3 days to digest food - try to focus on eating LOTS of fruits and veggies everyday. You might have to poop twice a day (which IS…

Yes of course! I probably eat like 400-500 calories of fruits every day! It would be fatal not to count them.

If you're stressed temporarily, maybe it's okay to treat yourself a little. For example - if you're normally trying to lose weight, try to just maintain your weight or lose less. I know how stressful it can be, but just listen to your body. :)

I wouldn't log walking as an exercise and also not eat them back, because MFP is already calculating them in. If you would lay in bed all day doing nothing, you wouldn't need much more than maybe 1500 calories just to maintain a healthy weight. But I also don't really trust all the statistics MFP gives you - you never know…

Every body is different, some people can eat 1700 cals and still lose weight and some eat 1200 and barely lose anything. As said before, embrace the fact that you are losing some, even though its slow! You might also have gained muscle weight, so the results on the scale are not always very accurate. Ps: remeber, the…

I've never had as much as a pound of a change, so maybe you want to check your scale. Little bits like 100-200 grams are normal I think.

I'm exactly 5'7'' and around 154 pounds, which is still considered "normal" but close to being overweight. So generally speaking, if your goal weight is anything in between 150-120lbs you should be fine. And remember, 150lbs with muscles can be way fitter and healthier than a 120 without any. :) Weight is not everything.