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Try to eat in a way that you can do forever. You probably won't eat Kashi meals at christmas, for example. Try to get in fruits and vegetables, yes, but you can eat higher calories stuff, too. You may not be hungry now, but at some point you will probably crash and binge if you keep eating that low. Lean body mass loss is…

Way to go!

Please read the stickies at the top of this getting started forum. Then reread. You can lose weight eating 2000 calories a day because it is less than what your body burns daily. Weigh all solid food, measure all liquids. If you stop losing for MORE than a few weeks, then slowly drop your calories until you do. Don't lose…

Wrote this awhile ago: Today I discovered another reason why I weigh myself daily and record it on mfp. Let me say first, if the daily fluctuations bothered me I would seriously rethink doing this, but they don't. I was entertaining the idea of not recording daily for one vain reason, however: my mfp friends "liking" when…

Also, if a certain number of calories is too hard, start a little higher and go down gradually. It's all a matter of what works for You.

They are two differnt types of calculators. With scooby you do not eat back exercise calories. With mfp you do. Eat a certain amount of calories, give it a few weeks, adjust up or down. They are ALL estimates.

If I were you, I would aim to lose .5 lbs a week (convert that to kgs :-) ). You don't want to lose muscle mass. That should give you more calories and you should eat back around half of your exercise calories. Slower is better as you might actually stick to it. Also, I would go more by tape measurements and pictures than…

Makes your day, right?

I saw a post in the forums today that got me thinking. It was asking what kept people motivated. At that point I realized I didn't really feel all that motivated. Why haven't I quit? And then I realized...this isn't a struggle! Weighing my food is a habit now, for one thing. I'm not eating at a huge deficit, for another. I…

Go to Apps, then click on Ticker, then Personalize. Hope this helps.

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Glad it helped!

Height, weight, goal weight, and open diary if you want specific help.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/737101-relatively-light-people-trying-to-get-leaner?page=2%2525252523posts-19474154 If you want a somewhat long read, this might give insight.

WOW, no good deed goes unpunished.

Wow, this is a tall order! Allrecipes.com is a good site and they have diabetic recipes as well. Diabetes.org has recipes as well. If she can do basics like mac n cheese (with whole wheat pasta, can't tell the difference)for your sister, bake chicken breasts, put together a salad, she can start there. It might be easier to…

The closer to goal you are the slower you should go. You run the risk of losing muscle mass as well as fat. I would add in heavy weight lifting, less cardio, and measure yourself as opposed to the scale. My daughter is 5' 2", does judo and jiu jitsu, as well as weightlifting, and maintains 108 lbs on well over 2000 cals a…

MFP's activity level setting is for your everyday activitity NOT including exercise. I am a lazy slob most of the time and I have my activity set to lightly active. Exercise is on top of that and you should still eat back a portion of that. This is especially important for you to do if you are having a hard time adhereing…

I play competitive badminton 2 days a week, 3 hours each time. I LOG it as social badminton, cut out a half hour for breaks and then eat back only half the calories. So far working great.

+1 Don't go too low on your calories or it will backfire. Weigh all solid food. Very easy to under estimate intake. Slow and steady wins the race as they say. Edited for spelling.

You have gotten a lot of replies about motivation and you should listen to them all. That being said, let me give a little practical advice: I glanced at your diary and you haven't logged at all the last three days. I would start with just logging. See what you eat now and make small adjustments from there. No one can…

One of the Kashi cereals with flax milk. Larger amount on badminton days. Holds me about 4 hours, usually. Once in awhile: two egg omelet with lots of spinach and mushrooms with sourdough toast.

I'm not an expert at maintaining, still in the weight loss phase, but maybe heavy weight lifting is the way to go. It will increase your muscle mass, if you are eating at a surplus, and should increase your maintenance calories. I assume you are still weighing/ measuring all your food? Hard to tell your true maintenance…

At the beginning of this journey I would first worry about the calories. Nothing horrible will happen if you are a little under or over the macronutrients. Later, you may want to worry more about those things, but even then it is mainly preference, or for satiety, or maintaining muscle, not life or death.

The deficit is built in already. That being said, I play competitive badminton which is NOT steady state so I eat back only half.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/737101-relatively-light-people-trying-to-get-leaner?page=2%25252525252523posts-19474154 Please read.

You may have to work up to p90x if you've never exercised before. If I were you I would eat at maintenance, start lifting heavy weights ( can be done at home) and join the Eat, Train, Progress group on here. They are very knowledgeable about this. Good Luck.

Hope it helps.

Read, read, and read again the stickies at the beginning of this forum. Then read this: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/737101-relatively-light-people-trying-to-get-leaner?page=2%252525252523posts-19474154

I just scared my daughter I laughed so hard!