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Family and friends keep telling me to stop losing weight.
I'm a 5'3 132 pound female. 7 months ago, I weighed 172 pounds and realized I needed to change, so I lost 40 pounds the healthy way (sensible diet and exercise). Now I'm 7 pounds from my goal, but everyone is telling me not to lose anymore. I get comments all the time from people saying that it's crazy to lose any more…
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Losing inches but weight loss seems to have stalled
Hi, everyone :) So, I've lost 14 pounds in the past 8 weeks through diet and cardio (running some days and treadmill with an incline of 8% on others). I haven't done much weight lifting yet (I started a couple of days ago). The scale seems to have stalled the past couple of weeks, however, I'm still losing inches. If the…
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Weight loss after being ill.
Hi, everyone. Haven't been here in a few days as I've been sick with what I think is viral fever. This caused me not to eat much, as I lost my appetite and also didn't want anything coming back up. It's been 4 days of eating lightly, way under my required caloric intake I'm sure, and I've lost four pounds. How long do you…
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Will taking a break from cardio affect my weight loss
Hi, everyone! I've lost 30lbs so far in the past 4.5 months through diet, cardio, and lifting weights. I'm eating around 1500 to 1600 a day (5'3 142lb female). So yesterday I stubbed my small toe on the leg of a coffee table and injured it pretty badly. Today, it's swollen, red, and a little bruised. I can walk on it but…
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Should I adjust my caloric intake since my weight loss has slowed?
Hi, everyone! Since joining MFP, I've lost 29 pounds in 4.5 months. I'm a 5'3 female and my starting weight was 172. Right now, I'm 143 pounds trying to get to 128. I've been eating around 1600 calories a day and alternate cardio and strength training days with one rest day (I burn about 350 calories when I do cardio).…
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Cheating not so tasty anymore
I've been eating around 1600-1700 calories a day in addition to working out 6 days a week. I eat pretty clean unlike before when my diet was absolutely awful. I've been on this diet for about 3.5 months and lost around 22 lbs. Every couple of weeks I'll have a cheat meal and eat out (McDonalds, milkshakes, etc.). Lately,…
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Did I completely damage my weight loss journey
I started to count calories and exercise about two weeks ago. So far I've lost 6 lbs in those two weeks. I'm a 5'3, 24 year old, 166 lb female. I've been eating 1200 calories a day and burning about 500 a day through exercise. The problem is that I just realized that I'm supposed to be eating those calories back. I've…
