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New mom friends
I would really like some fellow new mother friends on here. I know losing weight isn't too easy right after having a baby. I'm three and a half months postpartum. By the last day of my pregnancy I was weighing in at 197, and now I'm somewhere between 145-150. Still waiting to weigh in tomorrow. Once I hit 142 pounds ill be…
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Need motivation!
Im new to MFP and I am in such need of friends to encourage and motivate me! Trying to lose 50lbs. I am 6 weeks postpartum and had a baby July 2. Add me as a friend! ;)
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Help!!!!!!!
I am new to the whole MFP thing, and I love this website. I have only been on here a week and I am already addicted to adding my food (and drink) and exercise information in. I have found that if I add my planned exercise such as walking my dogs for 45 mins that I more likely to do that rather than for say 30 mins…
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Weight Loss
I've been saying I would lose weight for years but this time im really serious, im doing it for a better me and not because everyone is telling me i need ot be smaller. I just want to be healthy honestly, and im here to look for ALL the help and support I can get. I want to start the 17 day diet plan (please offer your…
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The best thing anyone ever told me...
I lost over 50 lbs when I first started training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu a few years ago. I'm back at it now to lose some of the weight I gained back. And that made me think of this story... I was a new guy in the gym and that meant getting beat up a lost and gassing out almost instantly. Seriously, the first day I rolled…
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looking for friends
hello everyone! I have been a member of MFP for a while but only just started using it to track last week. I am a busy mom who also works full time. I have a desk job and right now just feel blah - i use food to make me feel better which is why I am in the place I am in. If I am honest with myself I need to lose probably…
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Ready to quit
I have been on this change of diet for over 2 1/2 months, need to lose 100lb's so I can have knee replacements. I eat every 2 hours consisting of protein, fruit and veggies and a few special k chips and I stay withing 1000 to 1200 calories a day. I exercise daily due to knee problems and I'm trying to strengthen my legs it…
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Question about planning....
I just began using the my fitness pal app for my phone so that I can achieve a better state of health. However, my situation gets a little tricky, in that I live in a house with 5 other people. We each take turns cooking on different nights of the week. Breakfast and lunch I have complete control over. I'm wondering if I…
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Square One
Hi - After a recent bout of health issues I am finding myself starting out at square one. I have been a very active person - martial arts, heavy lifting, group ex instructor but right now I am recovering from my last surgery and cannot workout or lift anything over 8lbs for the next month. I am really starting out back at…
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need some advice
just joined this today have been working out eating healthy for last 4 weeks and have lost 9 pounds which for me is quiet slow I'm working out 5 days a week doing Cardio 45 mins and also 40 mins of weights on the two days I'm not in the gym doing my cardio basically today I logged my calories and work out and got feed back…
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Night eating
Hi all! I suffer with Fibromyalgia, it is a constant up and down emotionally and physically. I am also a night eater. I want to consume all my calories after 6PM until midnight, then I can wake up from a sound sleep so hungry I HAVE to eat or feel like I am going nuts! I also eat in my sleep, next morning I am desperately…
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intro to the boards
Just wondering if somewhere on this board there is a key to the abbreviations used on this board? Would be very helpful to someone who is new to the site. Catching on as reading and trying to figure out the meanings but would be so much more convenient to have a list to refer to for ease of translation. i.e. TDEEs, MFP,
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Starting Over
Hi all. I had lost 40 pounds over the last year and regained 50 in the past 5 months. Boo. It seems in my hiatus most of my friends on here have disappeared. If you have the time to send genuine honest feedback about my food choices and exercise habits please add me. Even if it is harsh I can take it and want it. Skip it…
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Any tips for a 20 year old newbie?
Hi guys, So, 2 years ago before uni i made it my mission to get into shape. I managed to loose 8kg before i started uni and then a further 6kg during the first year. My problem now of course is that Ive put it all back on again! So here's my plan: Im going to consume 1100 calories a day. 14g of carbs(5%) maximum, although…
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Notifications during conversations/threads?
So, I am pretty new here - just about two months in, most of which I rarely looked at the message boards. Now that I've found that I'm interested in some of the topics, I'm struggling with following the threads in terms of whether someone responds to me. I see a setting for receiving notifications when someone responds to…
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need help with where to start please.
hi everyone i am new here. i am now around 175lb and 5ft1. 5 yrs ago i went from a size 16 to a size 0 and had major issues with food. i would eat around 800-1000cals a day and burn around 800 every day 7 days a week. i thought i had to burn everything i ate in order to lose weight. iw as obsessed i knew the calories in…
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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.....