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See our 2024 stats, then share about your year!
Let’s look back on our year together, and inspire each other for the year ahead! All your efforts added up this year! Check out these impressive stats we racked up as a community: 👟We walked over 2 billion miles 🚰We drank over 23 million gallons of water 🔥We burned over 533 billion calories And of the 10+ billion foods and…
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Welcome to the MyFitnessPal Community: Health and Weight Loss
The Health and Weight Loss section is here for members to ask questions, seek advice, and discuss topics related to health, diet, weight loss, and overall wellness. Kindly ensure your posts are placed in the most suitable forum category to keep discussions organized. Off-topic posts may be moved to the appropriate section…
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Most Helpful Posts - Health and Weight Loss (Must Reads)
These are posts that have been recommended by our community members regarding general health, fitness and diet help. * Logging Accurately..step by step guide * Logging accuracy, consistency, and you're probably eating more than you think * Diagnosed/Living With PCOS? READ ME! * Starvation Mode - Adaptive Thermogenesis and…
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Test that shows you have a “slow metabolism”
I read on another thread that someone took a test that showed they had a “slow metabolism” but no thyroid issues. Is this possible? What test is it?
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Does anyone else have Heart Failure here?
IF you have heart failure and a low EF% (injection fraction percentage), can you tell me how you raised your EF % and got it back to normal? I have been taking all of my medicine. I started at 24% then 3 months laterI was up to 25%. This was discouraging to be honest. I hope it eventually goes back up to normal levels.…
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Lost 8.4lbs in less then a week
II just started my journey. I bike ride, since I started 5 days ago i have lost 8.4lbs i also tried the intermediate fasting and succeeded yesterday. I weighed 125. Lbs at the beginning. I am extremely happy to have lost 8.4 lbs so far. I love this app. And I'm meeting new people, which is a great motivator something i…
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How to have consistently and stay motivated for exercise and diet
Please someone help me. What to do. I really don't have idea. All I know is I need to lose weight as I'm 23 only but Weight 98 kg
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Not sure where to go
I have been battling weight forever and a number of health problems at the age of 53. The latest issue if shortness of breath doing basically anything and back pains when standing walking I found one Dr that found some lung issues that are there and it is what it is - no way to repair that. the doctor did state I should…
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Progress pics!! Do it!!
It’s funny how I feel I haven’t even changed. And I need these photos often. I would highly recommend anyone doing this weight loss adventure to take photos. Even if it feels pointless. I’ve only lost 12kg (26.5lbs) in 12 months. Which is nothing compared to some of you!!!! But I feel it’s my little win. Not sure if the…
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Protein
I can’t seem to get enough protein throughout the day. Any tips for how to add some without adding a bunch of calories.
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Need to lose fat
Hi I am suprith my current body weight is 78 and my height is 169 cm I need to lose body fat how much calories should I eat
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Looking for Mounjaro buddies. UK
I started 4 weeks ago, down 11lbs yay.Anyone else on here want to chat?
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Exercise Calories why I don't use them.
Hi, I don't believe my exercise calories, they are estimates and I turn my off for weight loss in MFP. I cycle and it can say I burned 400 calories to 600 calories for the same ride, at the same watts. I know on days that I ride I can add a few more calories, but no where near what the exercise was. Who I am: 57 year old…
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How to go and stay in a calorie deficit while losing weight ?
hi I’m new here , just checking to see if anybody has advice on how to calculate your calorie deficit and what are some tips to assure I’m following it
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Maintaining weight but not loosing body fat.
Hello! So I've been counting my calories and eating clean , but I have been in the gym. I haven't lost any weight no gained any neither. Is the gym what I'm missing to achieve my goal?
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How did you do today with your eating?
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I’m in a deficit but I’m gaining weight, why?
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What’s the flag for?
Hi! I’m new here and just learning this program and navigating through it. In the community I notice a flag on the right side. What is it for? I don’t want to make mistakes. It took a while to read the do’s and dont’s. But at 77 my memory is pretty tired. Been a lifetime WW person but thought I’d try something new.…
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Calcium setting
calcium is set at 100% - how many mg is that?
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Women over 60
How many women over the age of 60 are on My Fitness pal and have been able to lose weight. I was on this back when I was in my early 50's but haven't been on it for a while. Do you find it harder to get the weight off being over 60? I've been following the diet plan they have for me and trying to exercise at least 45…
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Fat
I've been taking green tea fat burner pills been on theme scence Monday 3 days been 190 . Help Should I stop there's no weight losing or wait 2 or 4 weeks for any change
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I Lose 7 kg in 1 month
I Lose 7 kg in 1 month is that bad ? Avg protine per day is 60-70 I mean I don't have any knowledge regarding this..so I use chatgpt and ask all my Question,like diet protine and for counting my calories!!
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Disillusioned
I have a low thyroid for many years. It was very low and this is 3 weeks with the new medication. I regained 40 pounds due to this. Very unhappy about that. I’ve counted calories and in 3 weeks have lost under 1 pound. I walk for exercise but have foot issues so it’s slow walking. Anyone else with thyroid that is low and…
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How do I join this group? newbee
Female 71, on Ozempic for diabetes & a few other aliments. Do I need to do anything to join this group? It's been years since I was on myfitnesspal.
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I feel so lonely
I feel incredibly low in my self image at the moment. I can't bear to look in the mirror or at pictures of myself. I'm 27, and have struggled with my weight for a very long time. Recently, I've noticed that I've gained at least 14lbs (1 stone) since losing nearly 3 stone in 2023- but i am too scared to weigh myself and get…
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Eating less for weight loss Vs enough to sustain long runs
I'm training for a 20 mile race so the runs have stepped up. Longest run so far has been 13.5 miles with this weekend being more like 15/16. I'm trying to run 3 other days as well besides the long run, shorter ones to build up the miles and I'm trying to strength train in the gym 3 days a week. So I put my details into a…
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Can anyone help me about loosing lower belly lower face and low butt fat ?
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Fun with time-restricted feeding (TRF)
I am inspired by a recent study that showed that, for fairly large subjects, and fairly modest weight loss (<5% of body weight), time-restricted feeding (TRF, aka "intermittent fasting") works about as well as calorie counting. Shock! I've been using MFP for years and have done many cuts using a calorie counting approach.…
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6 years post gastric sleeve surgery and have gained 30 pounds this last 6-8 months.
Anyone else experiencing regain? What did you do to lose the weight. Looking for all ideas.
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Losing weight after recovery
Hello! My current goals for my fitness is to lose weight, however I have just not long came from recovery of an eating disorder. I want to lose weight in a healthy way, but i've been going to the gym around 3 days a week for about an hour, as well as eating within my calorie deficit and i'm still not seeing results. I am…
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Has anyone else heard how it is common for people with EDs use MFP?
I have an ed but I am wanting to work towards recovery, and i've heard a lot of ED people use this site/app. Is that true? I'm not wanting to trigger myself too bad on the community tab if that is true.
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Gaining weight
I began working out 6 days for the last 3 wks and it looks like I am gaining weight. I'm on 1600 calorie that i seldom meet. I've learned to have yogurt or an ensure as a fill in when I feel hungry I'm just frustrated bc I don't know what I'm doing wrong
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Age 53 not able to reduce weight on midsection
Hey there, I just wanted to share a bit about my journey with this app. I've been using it for years, and while I love it, I also use other fitness apps to support my exercise routine. A year ago, I managed to lose 8 kg, and before that, I lost 20 kg, which I gained due to medication. At that time, it was really…