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First time calorie counting. Help!
Hi! New here, wanting to lose 20lb. I’ve done keto in the past and of course lost a ton of weight, but then got pregnant and I don’t want to get back into keto. New to this app completely and tracking macros (I’ve always been engrained to have low carb or no carb diet) so trying to understand what my goal should be. This…
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2022 is here. The Covid situation gave me 50 lbs.
Nothing but fast food for 2 years gave me 50 lbs and diabetes. I want to give it back. Jan 1 I went on a regimen of basically nothing but fresh organic foods from Trader Joes. Apple, pear, banana, strawberry, yogurt, honey, and maybe a mandarin smoothie every single morning. This, with help from a masticating juicer I got,…
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I was calculating my maintenance calories wrong for years, or I am not? HELP!
Guys please help me as I am so confused, when I was always calculating my maintenance level I used this website https://tdeecalculator.net/ which is great as I understand but the problem was that I was selecting my activity level as Sedentary and that give me around 1800 calories per day however I realized that this might…
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[Progress Photo] 5 months into my weight loss journey.
F28 5'4.5" SW:193.8 lb CW: 165.4 lb GW: 140 lb Looking at photos of myself from last year, before I began my weight loss journey. I feel so conflicted. Proud of how far I have come, yet embarrassed that I had let things get so bad in the first place. I am 5 months into my weight loss journey. Down 28.4 lb, just over…
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How do I break my fast food addiction?
I’m pretty good with staying within my calories/macros when eating fast food but it’s still hurting my weight loss. I barely lose when eating fast food, it’s probably the sodium. I’ve increased my water intake but that doesn’t help much. I lose so much better if I cut out the fast food and eat at home. The problem is I…
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Moms over 30 years need to loose over 50lbs
When anyone supports you and motivates you is great, but when that person is having same struggles and with similar conditions/problems, you really feel that you are not the only one. I need to loose around 65 lbs and need more motivation. I just signed up in a gym So now what I need is to keep going.......I'll try to keep…
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Scales without memory function
I have scales that seem to have this memory function where if your weight is similar it ignores the new weight and just reports the old one. So I end up reporting the same weight for 7 days in a row and then a sudden drop once my weight falls below the 'tolerance' in the memory function. It appears this memory function is…
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Weight gain
Initially I was 63kg and went down to 53kg.However once I started working I went back up to 56kg and I’m really lacking the motivation to lose it even though I am unhappy with the weight gain.I’ve started to work out again because I always have enjoyed being active.Just need some support on sticking to a calorie plan as I…
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My daily calories is that a minimum
My daily calories is set at 2900 do I eat the 2900 even if I don't burn 2900 calories some days
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How much do the 6' tall men weigh?
My husband had joined me on my weight loss journey and I'm curious about what a healthy weight might be for a 6' guy with a decent amount of muscle? He's always been on the overweight side and so I'm having a hard time imagining him in the BMI range of 136-184? Like... when I weighed 136 as a 5'8" female I was a size 4 and…
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Gambling Addicition
I joked with my family these weekend about having a gambling addiction. Since the beginning of the year I've joined about 20 different fitness bets. I use the waybetter sites. I've won every bet so far, and just keep joining new ones. Some are super easy (submit a picture of your food log). Anyone else ever use sites like…
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Can't lose,weight
Hi everyone My name is Wendy and I am looking for some help. I started trying to lose weight in Sept 21 and so fat I've lost 22lbs. But I have stopped losing weight. I logged all my food everyday and go to the gym 3 to 4 times a week. But still I cannot move from 149lbs What should I do to lose more weight ? Any ideas…
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Body fat not coming down.
I’m 7 weeks into trying to lose 40lbs. I am eating heathily and doing Les Mills Body Pump 3 x week , walking every day and various spin classes a couple of times a week. I have lost around 13 lbs so far but my fat percentage is terrible. It started at 42.7 at 14st 5lbs and I’m now 13st 6 and 41.7% fat. The fat has barely…
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Carry over calories?
Yesterday I ate 360 under my calorie goal. My daily goal is 1200 + 240 exercise calories = 1440. But I only ate 1080. Could I eat all those 360 calories today? Or even half today and half tomorrow?
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20 lbs
Does anyone else have 20 lbs to lose that wont budge? I'm finding it a struggle after losing 57 lbs over the last 14 months and lost my mojo over Christmas all the way through January. I'm only just trying to get back into a routine now and am 20 lbs overweight again 😫 I keep losing 7 lbs of this 20 and then the hunger…
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“Complete Diary” is not consistent
Hi, I am a bit confused about the “complete diary” function. At the end of my day I always complete my diary and I am seeing that it is very inconsistent and doesn’t even make any sense. It will estimate what I could weigh in 5 weeks time if I continue to eat the way I did on that day. But it is random in that sometimes I…
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Body Fat Percentage
At the beginning of my fitness journey, I went to my gym and got my body fat percentage measured. At the time, my BMI was juuuust at 25 which didn't bother me so much, but my body fat percentage came out at 34% which surprised me. Today I found this photo and frankly I feel like I look a lot more like the 25-26% than the…
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Anyone else overeat when sick?
I have been so determined, had been doing slimming world but swapped to a calorie deficit as felt it was working much better. I had lost over a stone but been plateauing since Christmas which is why I decided to change from slimmingworld. I still have at least 5 stone to loose after 3 babys in the space of 4 yrs. We…
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Looking to regroup, feeling stuck!
I dropped about 60lbs and went from 256lbs to under 200lbs. During this time I ate 1500 calories a day and had a strenuous job. I also love to ride electric mountain bike. Once winter really hit I started lifting strongs 5x5 with additional exercises added in. I’m 2 months in to consistent lifting at this point. Until I…
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How to pick "base" calories
Hello, I am no stranger to MFP. I've lost just over 100lbs. I am on my last 15ish pounds now and the same math isn't working. To lose the weight previously I ate 1700 calories plus half my exercise calories back. I am currently training for a 1/2 marathon and do hot yoga. Some days my burn is 800-1100 calories, rest days I…
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Diabetes Type 2
Having just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, I thought I’d post a topic re all things diabetes type 2. I am completely new to this and looking for as much support as possible
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How Does Body Fat Percentage Effect TDEE?
So i'm 172cm tall, weight 70kg (male, 26) and I have what can be called a "skinny fat" body. I used the US navy body fat method (including an online calculator) to determine that my body fat percentage is around 27%-28%. Normally on TDEE calculators without a body fat % it will put me at around 1980 calories, but with the…
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Calorie target
Is anyone selecting their own calorie target to have it as a happy medium between the automatically calculated options? And if so, how do you change it? For 0.5kg per week weight loss my calories allowed is 1230 daily. For 0.2kg weight loss per week my calories allowed is 1510. That feels like quite a jump with a fairly…
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New to community
I have a question about I was training for a half marathon when I got sick with covid. Ended up in hospital with covid pneumonia and having a difficult time getting back to where I was. Diet has changed a bit. Breathing has definitely changed. Anyone else had this experience and how did you handle it?
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New job stress eating
Hi everyone 👋 Six months ago I started a new job, where the expectations were quite high and all the pressure was really taking its toll on my mental and physical health. I was all day on my PC and didn't have time to do any excercise, because I felt exhausted all the time. I noticed myself eating more sweets and snacks…
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Is Leaky Gut no longer considered woo woo?
I'm hoping for a bit of discussion rather than a "yes/no" answer. My own take (at the moment, haven't given it a ton of thought and am interested in the thoughts of others) was that there was a time when it was diagnosed by naturopaths and others without adequate evidence, but that probably an indeterminate portion of the…
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Must Finish the Entire Bag
Last night I felt like I wanted a little something sweet after dinner. I rummaged through my pantry and ran into a forgotten unopened bag of coconut clusters. I had received a large basket of goodies for my birthday and thought I had gotten rid of everything but there they were. Part of me was excited and the other part…
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Losing hope instead of weight :(
So I have been in a calorie deficit of 500-600 calories a day now for over a month as well as burning 200-300 calories walking everyday but instead of Of losing weight I’m gaining it! I weigh everything and always scan everything and put it in my diary on here. I occasionally have cheat days and from that alone I will gain…
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Carbs and Diabetes
I am diabetic and confused about daily carb intake. What I hear is "low carb diet." I'm averaging around 215 carbs a day. Am I even close to where I should be?
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OCD and calorie counting
Anyone else here legitimately have OCD? Did this affect your weight loss journey in terms of getting way too obsessed with counting calories? I'm restarting.. Again... But last time I quit counting because I felt myself obsessing over the calorie count and weighing food / thinking about it consumed me. Right now I'm…