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searching
searching for new friends who have new ideas and good support
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structured lifting program with limited weights at home.
I have been lifting a little over 3 years but nothing structured,I would like to start a structured lifting program(have seen some results on my own otherwise),but I dont have a lot of weights(2 barbells-not olympic, with weights a total of maybe 130lbs. and some hand weights and kettlebells and a weight bench. my question…
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My recent sorrow
I sabotage my own weight loss and turned it into a game by putting globs of peanut butter in my morning shakes and in my evening she not knowing what was going to be the end result so now I'm almost at my start with 10 pounds and have to start all over
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Really want abs
I finally hit my target weight of 165 lbs. now I really don't want to lose anymore weight. On the other hand, I still want to build more muscle and I really really really want abs. I think this will be my goal for 2016, to finally, for the first time in my life, get abs. Lol. Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions?…
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Finding calories?
I'm coming off of a very unhealthy run that lead me to lose 30 pounds in 3 months. (Yes I'm in therapy, yes, i'm working on it) I'm trying to get healthy again, but stay at this weight. I'm finding it difficult to find healthy calories (read: not empty calories) to get me to an appropriate (and safe) number for caloric…
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This 30 days' worth of Data tells me what, now?
OK, I collected it as suggested, but have no idea how to use it to help me. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give me! I'm a 5'2.5" 44yo woman. Still not sure on goal weight. Maybe 135? (After 18 months of dieting down from 262lbs, I am still trying to wrap my head around the idea of picking a weight/range.)…
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Belly Dance Fitness
This is how I maintain my weigh loss of 40 pounds
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Ditching the scale to help maintain?
I know this may seem counter intuitive but I've been becoming obsessed with the scale. I started weighing in every day to every three days (instead of my usual once a week to once every two weeks while losing weight). I was having panic attacks over weighing myself because I was scared I was gaining weight while…
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Should I lower my intake now or wait until I see my dietician?
I'm sorry that I'm always posting for advice, but I do appreciate everyone's and I find them very helpful. I'm recovering from anorexia, and a while ago I reached my goal weight of 110 lbs. Currently, I'm 113lbs and I don't like be over my goal weight, though I know logically that 3lbs isnt much to be over by. It stresses…
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New mom, fear staying at home will add pounds
I don't know if any other women or Stay at home dad's have this fear but I worry that having a brand new baby will keep me too busy from eating enough (I never eat unless I remember to or make time) or I'll turn into a lazy slob and only eat and stay on the couch. So I downloaded mfp and I hope it'll make me maintain my…
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Were the cals mfp gave you accurate?
I'm going to be entering maintenance here soon... I have about 5 more pounds to go! (Yay!) Anyway, for those of you maintaining- were the calories mfp gave you for maintaining weight pretty accurate? Or did you calculate your cals somewhere else and manually enter them in instead? Thanks!
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Maintain weight
Keeping track n maintain weight
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Technology is changing the way we remain in shape..
Living longer and living healthy and living in shape is the ultimate goal for all of us. I am a mother of 2 and for me keeping in shape is a great challenge. I have been following a strict regime all through year in order to shed off the extra calories in order to remain in shape. I was amazed to read a recent…
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Sugar
I tend to go over my sugar everyday. I did the whole 30 last year for medical reasons, so I am conscientious about reading labels & checking sugar content. However, I eat a lot of fruits & veggies, never use added sugar & refrain from sugar substitutes. What sweetener I do use daily is honey, but that is literally 1…
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Maintaining weight while losing inches
I'm 6' about 200# I usually weigh in at 180, but went on a mission to gain, while accomplishing that (eating everything in sight, soda, sugar all the good stuff), I started to lose my abs (imagine that), and buy bigger jeans. Now my goal is to maintain the muscle and weight while dropping my fluff. Any pointers would be…
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What was raising your calories like?
So I'm trying to get into maintenance but I'm really scared of raising my calories, worried that I'll put on all the weight again. When you went into maint and raised your calories, did you put on weight? Did it come back off again without having to lower calories again?
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"Banking" calories during the week to allow for planned overage
I've heard about people doing that. Does it actually work?
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Lose fat while maintaining weight
I would like to lose fat, but am not overweight I really just need to tone up and lose fat. I am wondering how to adjust my calories on MFP to accommodate for this?
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Maintaining for a week or two
I changed my settings to maintain, should I also change to lightly active from sedentary? I sync MFP with my Fitbit and have negative adjustments set up. I walk a lot at school (I'm a teacher) and then lift weights 3x week and run 3-4 times a week. I've lost 43 pounds, but I am finding myself losing my steam lately. I just…
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Critique my plan for maintenance please?
Upon weighing myself this past weekend, I was 115 lbs, which is just 5 lbs from my goal weight. I've more or less been losing 5 lbs every 5 weeks, but I really want to drag out these last 5 lbs over 10 weeks (or, if I must, at least before summer) in order to make the transition to maintenance easier. According to the…
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The Battle
I am following the Dash diet, recommended by the ADA after going to a seminar at work. I read the book, it is a lot of common sense. Anyone have some experience to share?
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Christmas and the gift of blubber.
Guess I’m not the only maintainer who gained over Christmas and New Year? Had a triple whammy of lots of lovely food at home, loads of fun social events involving eating and drinking, plus my back went into severe spasm which restricted my activity. So I sat on my *kitten* too much, eating, drinking and being very merry!…
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Getting back to MFP after a loooooong break
sure shows you how slick your brain is at rationalizing. I've had a great week getting back to logging and am sort of shocked at how different my eating patterns and amounts are when I'm forced to be aware and acknowledge what I am doing. Literally hundreds and thousands of extra calories were getting by my warning system,…
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I don't remember what it was like pre-MFP...
I'm wondering if I'm alone in this? I've been on MFP for about 3 years (well, my anniversary is next week, lol). And I cannot for the life of me remember what I used to eat before. I remember skipping breakfast, and eating whatever I wanted all day (mostly junk food, and cheese), and eating out a lot (well until we got…
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Did maintenance (reaching your goal) meet your expectations?
Hi all, I've a bit to go before reaching maintenance, but catch myself on occasion wondering how I'll feel once I get there, will it be what I thought it would be? Happy? Sad? Will it prompt new goals? I really can't know until I get there, I guess, but would be very interested in hearing about your personal experiences of…
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Know that feeling
I've lost over 50 pounds and now people say the same thing to me too that I'm too skinny and why do I want to lose more These are people that have never known our struggle that can't even believe that a fat person can really be skinny It's a high only we know about I want to lose more too it's my body I know when to stop
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Is your BMI "normal" now?
Well, is it?. There's more to being healthy than the BMI number which only takes into account two factors: height and weight. After losing 91 lbs, (5'3 Female) I'm at 144ish and I keep feeling sort of guilty for going to maint and not seeing to it that I get to a "normal" BMI (which would be 140 lbs at the high end) but I…
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I'm switching to maintenance....
...tomorrow and want to start a recomp. I had gotten to where I had the deficit thing figured out, and now I'm feeling nervous and new again. I guess I'm just supposed to switch my setting to maintenance and brace for the initial scale increase as my weight levels out? (I don't know where the thread that explains that is…
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FINDING MY COMFORT ZONE
Hi all. Its so good to read all your posts. I have experimented with maintenance for a few months and I kept loosing a bit every week, but I think I have finally reached a stage where my weight is steady or at least does not fluctuate much. For the last 3 weeks I have added in a big meal on saturday nights. I do not count…
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Eating calories back on maintenance
I know this probably isn't good but i have been eating back my calories that i earned during exercise when i was actively losing. Being able to eat some of those calories back was my primary motive to workout. Now that i am in maintence i was wondering if most of you eat calories you earn in exercise. After 3 years and a…