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Need some advice losing weight
Hi everyone! Here are my stats: Age: 22 Sex: male Height: ~174cm Weight: ~ 81kg Body fat: ~ 26% I work roughly 5 days a week and my role requires me to stand pretty much all the time. I complete about 7K - 10K steps because I sometimes find the opportunity to sit but the role doesn’t require any heavy duty work or heavy…
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Energy from carbs and fats - interchangeable?
This is something I've been wondering. I'm sure there's an explanation but I can't find it. When you go on a tempo run and most, if not all of your energy comes from glycogen. Back home you have a tea, then go to bed. Do you lose bodyfat or did you only deplete your glycogen stores until the next morning? I'd think it…
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Weight loss with out muscle gain
Hey guys. I'm 94 kg . I'm 174 cm tall. I wanna lose weight . I don't want to build muscle ..but I also know I can lose muscle if I just aim for weight loss and no weight training with protein etc. I want to just eat whatever I want within 1800 calories (1800 because I chose 0.5 kg to lose weekly on the app .) My main goal…
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Weight loss and muscle building
Hey guys. I started my journey of weight lifting and losing weight . I'm 94 kg and 174 cm. I started two days ago. I just need to know if what I'm doing is correct . I'm eating around 120g protein and lifting daily for around 20 minutes . 20 minutes feels like hell for me. I'm following random full body workouts whether…
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Lunges and squats kill my knees!
So many lower body workouts are all about lunges and squats and I just can’t do them. It produces sharp pains in my knees. What are some effective alternatives?
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Tips for Sustainability?
Hello! Jeremy here. Looking for advice on sustainability- both with eating and tracking eating, water intake and exercise. Questions to ponder: Is having friends on MFP helpful? What’s an underutilized part of this app? Anything else.. please help :) Thanks!
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What does an anti-inflammatory diet do?
I noticed a freaky bulge in my forearm near the inner elbow! I guess it's tendonitis from riding my daughter's bike the other day. I was prescribed Mobic (meloxicam) , a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). It made me too bloated and now my stomach hurts, too! Has anyone had any luck with just an anti-inflammatory…
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I'm always going over my carbs!
Hey everyone, I'm always going over my carbs, however I don't ever exceed my calories. Will this make it harder for me to lose weight as well as toning up? Also, a lot of my carbs come from fruits, and occasionally pasta or whole wheat bread. I would also like to mention that I do workout at least 5x a week. My calorie…
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Do you know what machine this is?
I got it from my Uncle (excuse my messy house) but I'm not sure how to log it >: He just kept calling it 'the bike' but I haven't seen any like it before! If you know what it is called, I'd really appreciate it! (:
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Is there a Tick doctor in the house?
I've been searching online for info but am curious if anyone else has had this issue. Or has any advice. I've been bitten by several wood ticks this year. :( The first few didn't really bother me but the last bite I got was behind my ear and almost a week later, is itching like crazy. I've been using anti-itch stuff which…
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When your clothes actually DO shrink
For those of you who go by how clothes fit when losing/maintaining weight: sometimes clothes DO shrink, and gaining muscle can change how clothes fit! This is my fault for buying clothes from Old Navy, but man, a lot of their stuff shrinks! And I don't just mean the width, but the length as well. I just bought shorts from…
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Gained - Confused
I have a lot to lose so getting frustrated. I started 8 weeks ago at 133kg and haven’t lost much. I was set to sedenatary and was letting my Fitbit tell MFP what extra was needed. That didn’t seem to be working, so I unhooked Fitbit from MFP as this was all getting me down so started logging extra exercise on MFP. I do…
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weighing more on tile than carpet (digital scale)
I've been weighing on my digi scale from the start of my weight loss, and I was 230 to begin with and it read 220 yesterday (this is after a month of work)- all with the scale on the bathmat. Today I weighed with the scale on the tile and weighed 233! WHAT? Is my scale broken? Was it screwed up to begin with?? What is…
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Gastric sleeve
I had gastric sleeve 7 weeks ago. I have lost 52 pounds. I am super happy with this but feel my number could be better because I cannot drink water. I have tried warm water, cold water, ice water, fruit infused water, liquid flavoring, and powder flavoring. I can drink about 4 ounces and then feel nauseated. If I continue…
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Losing 1 pound in 3 days?
So I have never lost that much usually in 3 days but is that ok if I were to. Also I am not counting weight fluctuations.
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Help, I think I overdid it??
So yesterday I think I managed to work out too much, given my usual level of activity. I went rock climbing with a friend but I only went up once so I felt like I needed to do more. So I did the dumbbell workout I’d planned on and 10 mins of core because my core is a mess. I worked out 6 days this week, alternating running…
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Evening Hungries....what to do?
Around 9:30 in the evening I get really hungry. I usually have supper around 5:30 - 6:00. I've tried drinking lots of water when the urge to eat hits, but it doesn't help. Having a piece of fruit makes it worse. Wondering if anyone else has this happen to them and how you handle it! Any advice is appreciated!
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I hit my goal weight! Thanks, I hate it here.
SW: 245 GW: 168 CW: 168 I started in Dec 2019 and hit my goal weight a couple of months ago. I'm 5'9". You guys, I look terrible. I mean, awful. My stomach looks AWFUL. I should point out that i am 42F, and I have had twins (13 years ago!) and that didn't help. I'm not saying I want to go back to being 245, but, I thought…
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Water weight effect on measurements
Hi everyone! I am confused and hoping someone out there has experienced this too so I can get some clarity. I've lost a lot of weight but for the last while, I've been retaining a lot more water than usual, maybe because of the hot weather or who knows, but I do notice that I retain water here and there. I know I shouldn't…
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Can't get motivated for wedding!
It's 11 weeks until our wedding, and when it was meant to be last May, I had done well and lost a stone. But then lockdown happened and I put on weight again. I know that I need to start now, but for the life of me I can't get motivated at all. My partner is motivated now but it's not rubbing off! Can anyone suggest any…
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Hydrostatic Body Fat Testing
I recently had my body fat tested via water displacement or the hydrostatic body fat testing and I'm just curious if anyone has done that and had the results be inaccurate. I realize they dunk you 3 times and then average it out but I'm just super surprised by my results. back in 2017 I was at 29% and I just recently…
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Too much fibre?
I apologise if this is TMI, but every time I start eating healthily (whole grains, plenty of fruit and veg, pulses, salads etc) I start to find it really difficult to poop. I checked back over my diary for the past 20 days and my fibre intake has fallen into the range 26-32g per day; my fluid intake is pretty stable at 3.6…
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3.5lbs down since Tuesday, adjust calories up?
I'm back at MFP this week, after taking a few years off and maintaining on my own, until the pandemic hit last spring and I gained around 25lbs since then. Coming back I set my target to .5lb a week, because otherwise it gave me 1,200 calories and that's just not feasible for me. I've logged Tuesday-Friday, and had a…
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Loosing 35 pounds this year
This year I finally took working out and eating clean serious. As a over the road truck driver it can be hard to eat clean and workout but I stick to Starbucks and chipotle 😂 luckily I deliver to eos fitnesses and 24hr and they let me workout
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Loose skin
Guys and gals, anyone that’s HW was 200 lbs+, did you get loose skin when you lost weight? Is this going to be inevitable for me :(
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Fitbit/MFP calorie count decreased
Hello I recently lost a few lbs and changed my current weight on MfP and my fitbit. I noticed a major drop in the calories I am burning. I am doing more activity as well but still such a low number for calories burned. Any advice?
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Health issues: IBSD, diabetes, Arthritis, Low does chemo?
Hey Just looking for a some people who may be going through some of the same things I am. I have IBS-D… having issues where everything I eat goes right through me. So far Shakeology with digestive boost are the only thing that does not run through me. I’m just starting it 2x a day with almond milk (the vegan shakeology),…
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What is a cheat day??????
I look at it as a day I still stay at or under my net calories but eat the wrong kinds of food. I wanted to see what everyone else thinks it is within the plan they follow?
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Name something that was easy for you to give up
Is there anything you guys struggled with but was able to give it up easily? For me, it was alcohol. I was a heavy drinker but refused to be called an alcoholic because I could go days, weeks and months without a drink but my real problem was I didn't know how to stop once I started drinking. I would have to drink the…
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Is this a plateau
My starting weight was 200lbs, my current weight is 183lbs(as of this morning). I keep losing and gaining the same 1lb for the past two weeks. I’ve only been dieting for 2 months, isn’t it to early to hit a wall?