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`1200 is like, the bare minimum a woman should eat.....you'll be starving at 1200 calories a day!

It's going to be the food! High quality/clean, high protein....

1200 calories is too low! The exercise sounds fine but just make sure you're working hard enough. Its okay to work out for shorter amounts of time as long as you're really busting your butt!

I'm also a big blogilates fan. Its free on you tube and she has videos as short as three minutes so you can squeeze things in where you can

1200 is low - generally not sustainable long term! Your workouts look good (I wish I could be that dedicated!!), but I'd say you should increase your calories and just try to stick with real, clean food

I love Bar Method and I have seen great results from sticking to it over the years. That being said, I don't think it has ever helped me lose weight. Clean eating was the only thing that really did that for me. Bar Method is great for toning though (so you might look like you lost 6 pounds, even if you didn't).

@Mamaof2: MFP defaults to that for everyone. You can change to what you want it to be.

@Mamaof2: those guidelines are a general guideline, based off the food pyramid/my plate

@Mamaof2: whoops, I didn't explain myself correctly. 1363 would be your basal kcal rate, so those are the calories you need to just survive without wasting away. If you are able to figure out the calories your normally eat in a day, then you would subtract 500 from either diet or exercise. So say you eat 2000 calories a day currently, you could exercise to burn 500 calories a day and not change how you are eating, or you could eat 500 calories less. Orrrrr you could do 250/250. Does that make sense? Sometimes my dietitian brain is a little crazy

I agree with the calorie intake being too low with your exercise plan (which seems great with the right amount of healthy foods and correct calorie intake!)

@Mamaof2: keep in mind that the 1200 that mfp gives you is net, so when you enter your exercise it will subtract the calories burned from your total daily calories. So say you eat 1400 calories, and burn 200 calories exercising, that's 1200 net calories.

@Mamaof2: you'll definitely lose weight eating 1200 calories and exercising every day as long as your eating clean. If I could suggest something it would be substitute 2 sessions of your bar or elliptical and add in some HIIT exercises instead to switch it up. I get bored easy so I try to switch up my workouts every week.

Good luck with your weight loss !

I think the exercise looks great. I'm not a huge fan of calorie counting...it's exhausting and stressful to me. When I need to shed a few pounds, I look at what I've been eating and what could use some work. For instance, I'll try to snack less or if I'm hungry, snack on nuts, and fruit and veggies instead of mindless munching on chips, pretzels, etc. Or I'll stop eating while watching tv at night. Usually for a small weight loss like yours (6lbs), just increasing amount of cardio exercise and making a few tweaks to the diet should suffice.