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Please Add Me
I am senior in college and married for little over a year. I need to commute an1 1/2 hours to college and have gained 20 pounds since I have gotten married. The college does not have a cafeteria and has fast food for food choices. I tend to bring my own food, but I purchase the sweet things when I get the craving. I have a…
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Help - I need friends and motivation
I'm looking for some people to help motivate me. I've been on my health kick for about 3 weeks and am having fun but I know how easily I lose motivation. If you want to be a weight loss/fitness buddy then please add me, all the extra motivation I can get would be appreciated. I do a bit of running a bit of CrossFit and and…
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Ready to go
Well day one for me. I really want this to work this time. I have a busy life and food ends up being my stress reliever So I am really going to work on not over eating. I have felt terrible for a while and I knew I needed to do something. 1st thing before I joined this is that I gave up caffeine x2 weeks. Tough in the…
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Hello Again...
Good morning everyone! Back again.......feeling more confident in my quest to stay on track. I'm down 10lbs so far!! That is not counting the one sneaky little pound that crept back on over the weekend! LOL....I'm OK with that though, in previous attempts that 1 would have been more. My goals this time are to try and track…
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Sugar intake
I have problems constantly going over the recommended amount of daily sugar intake. Diets in the past I usually just watched cals and fat grams, or counted points etc... I like that mfp shows me all of these factors to watch but I don't understand why the allowed sugar intake is so low. Is the range on here a normal…
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SERIOUS MFP members PLEASE READ
Hello all! My name is Courtney. I am 19 and about to start my second year of college. I am 5'1 and currently 150.4 pounds. I have a 30-35 pound weight loss goal. I am looking for serious friends to help get some motivation and also help motivate others. Please feel free to add me! If we are around the same age, great. If…
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Calories plus exercise
Hi Everyone, I have just started......and feeling really positive. Can someone answer this question please!! I am allowed 1200 calories per day, and say I exercised and burned 150 calories......do I eat those 150 extra calories ontop of the 1200 or can I just eat the 1200 calories?? Confused........also I entered that I…
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Ready to drop these pounds!!
Hello everyone! I am 28 years young! I have fought with weight my entire life and I am to the point I have no other option but to lose it, my family has history of diabetes, cancer and heart disease and I don't want to be in any of those categories, I want to wake up in the mornings go for a run and not feel winded after 2…
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Need to lose 80lbs!...
Hello all!! I've been hanging around MFP starting/restarting/quitting/starting/quitting/restarting for quite some time now. I lost 50lbs in '10 after the birth of my son, but of course put some of that back on (I'm still down 26lbs of that 50). ANYWAY, I'm here and here to stay now b/c I'm ready to like what I see in the…
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Has anyone tried having small dinners ?
I typically like to have my largest meal at dinner. 1 maybe 2 day out of the week I eat out w/ friends at dinner. My problem is that lunch and dinner were both ending up large! I've known a couple of people who have told me they eat their smallest meal at night for dinner and they've lost weight/kept it off. Anyone else…
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fat and 50
so 1st week back on MFP and lost 2.5 lbs............but before MFP i would have big lunchs anything i want for dinner and top it off with icecream at night mix in a few beers and maybe a martini or 2 . this week at the gym 5 times eating right and not over eating in the good old days "before 50" i would have lost 10lbs…
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Weight vs Inches
Hi all. Most often when we talk about getting fit it gets translated into how much weight to lose. But you also need to gain muscle to increase your metabolism and if muscle weighs more then fat, should we focus on out weight or our measurements? I would like to know what you think is more important especially if you fall…
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How to recommit ?
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At It Again!!
I'm back!!! I took a break from MFP for almost a year and it has been up and down - weight is mainly up!!! I love the accountability that MFP adds to my eating plan..... I'm having nightmares about cookies and I can not sleep!!! I love cookies.....
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Fellow shorties, let's show them what we can do!
Hello there! My name is Trina and I would love to have all the fellow shorties out there share some of your results, or add me for some accountability, motivation and support. A little about me... Height: 4'11 Starting weight: 135lbs Goal weight: 112lbs Current weight: 109lbs I began my weight loss journey over a year ago,…
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Up for a challenge?
I'm starting the couch to 10k program available from zenlabs. I have fallen so far off of the running bandwagon and I need this help to get back into the swing. Whose with me? Add me and we can motivate each other! Even add me if you are doing the couch to 5k!
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MFP for Dummies....
Hi, I'm a newbie and I've read through so many of the 'getting started' posts and still don't understand what my final numbers should look like at the end of the day in order to lost that 1 pound per week. From what I understand (the basis of 'more calories out than calories in')....you're supposed to leave 500 calories at…
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Anyone Weigh in Every Day?
I was considering it, to track how I'm losing, but I'm not sure if it's wise. Anyone who actually weighs in every day?
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Seeking Advice
After being away for over 2 months, I'm finally ready to get back into an exercise routine. I've been out because I messed up my knee doing Insanity. I made it 2 days into the second month and had to stop. After going through Physical Therapy, I'm ready to go again. Here is what I have been up to the past week and where I…
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Post RNY and post baby
Hi y'all! I had RNY 4 years ago and a beautiful baby boy in May. My hubby uses this occasionally and I am going to give this a valiant try. Looking for support and ideas to get dome grazing weight and baby weight off. Please feel free to add me as a friend! :)
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what should i eat tomorr0w?
I'm starting my diet. I want to lose weight and look toned. I'm trying to decide what I should eat for my first day?
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calorie counting drinks
Looking at calories for powdered drinks such as Nescafe coffee or hot chocolate sachets it usually shows the calories per 100mls or serving size etc. Can some one explain to me how can the calorie count change depending on the quantity? If I use one sachet and 200 mls of water or 400 mls of water I assume the calorie…
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Meat
I know I should know this but want to be sure. When I am inputting meat, do I put in the cooked ounces or raw # of ounces?
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Can't seem to stay motivated
Hello all! I'm hoping I can vibe on some inspiration from you guys. I'm 18 and going off to college and my first summer without sports has led be off my path to fitness. What do you all do to stay motivated? I've been trying to slim down and tone up FOREVER and I can't seem to do it! Any takers? (: It would be awesome to…
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Calorie intake???
I actually just posted something the other day, but it's come to my attention that if you're eating under your calorie goal, you're more likely to maintain your weight because of lack of your metabolism.. Is this true? I'm always under my calorie goal on here, sometimes sufficiently, md I've been at the gym everyday for a…
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FitBit/Withing scale/MFP confusion
Ok.. I started MFP a couple weeks back and connected the apps I use: FitBit Ultra, Withings Wi-Fi scale, Runtastic Pro. I've had the Withings scale and FitBit over a year, btw. When I first signed up, MFP got and tracked my weight from my Withings account starting that day. Since joining, MFP tracked me at losing about…
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Is it okay to eat below my bmr if I'm fairly sedentary?
Hello! Sorry if this is a silly question. I'm 18, 5'9.5 and about 154 pounds. I am finally at a healthy weight (lost some weight before joining MFP) but I want to lose a few more vanity pounds to get around 140. My bmr is around 1500 calories. I have been eating approximately 1350 calories to lose 1.1 lbs per week. I was…
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Cut wise given current weight?
I recently weighed myself for the first time in a while and came in way lighter than I expected. Currently sitting 9st 12lbs. Last time I weighed myself was a few months ago and I was somewhere round 11st. I never weigh myself and have only just decided to change things up and count my calories and use iifym. I'm putting…
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Entering machine exercises
How does one go about entering exercises done on machines. An example of this would be delt fly or deltoid fly. I looked in the data base but it had rear deltoid raise. That was one of the options on the machine but i didn't do it. Please, i would like some help with entering these things. Thank you for your help.
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so far so good
as a few of you will know ive had a bad year with my health. in feb i had emergency surgery and am still recovering from that. my diabetes has been actin up and am now on 2000g of metformin, 6mg of glimipiride, injections of 1.2 of victosa and 60 of levemir. i start doing well eating good but then i have a little hitch, im…