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Starting Today...What to expect?
Hello everyone, so I'm taking a pause from dieting. I am well into healthy with a BMI of 21 and only want to lose a little more weight for vanity, but at the moment feel that I need to stop for a while as I have been dieting for months and I am about to have a few changes to my life. Anyway, I am just wondering what to…
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Lost the motivation to workout
Hello! I am new to MFP but not new to weight loss. I lost close to 80 lbs with Weight Watchers Online from January 2013 to October 2014 and have been maintaining since then. I am on the upper end of the BMI range but am happy and have been maintaining within a 5 lb range. I do pretty good with balancing my calorie intake…
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Is It Time???
How do you know when it's time to starting maintaining your weight? I've lost 46 pounds and weigh 125 pounds at 4'11. Ideally, I'd like to lose another five pounds but I don't know if it's in the cards for me right now. Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated.
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I need Help Maintaining!
Hi Everyone! Well A little background About myself! Iv been heavy my whole life My highest weight was 300 pounds that was my breaking point. I decided to change my life and once and for all and get healthy! I Did just that over a three year period i got down to 167 pounds! I felt AMAZING!!! It didnt last long unfortunately…
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Help me clarify something? Might have been going about Maintaining all wrong.
So I need some help clarifying something, I think. After I'd lost weight, I'd hit 6% body fat. I figured I was done, at that point, and it was time to start Maintaining rather than Losing. I wanted to reduce cardio, increase my caloric intake, and kinda.. become a normal person. While losing, I was at 4 hours of cardio, an…
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Loosen up more?
Has anyone decided to just "wing it" in maintenance and it worked for you? I was on vacation all last week, and for 7 days I was on a "logging break." I was at the beach for 4 days, and I ate my usual breakfast and lunch and logged those meals. At dinner I ate whatever I wanted (including fried seafood) and had dessert…
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Olive oil...is it good for you?
Is it good for constipation?...I eat more than 25 gm of fiber...so please don't discuss fiber..water... or exercise with me
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Accelerate a whoosh?
Hi there! I am pretty much at my goal weigh (I say "pretty much" because I didn't exactly have a set number, more of a range and I am in that 5 pound range). Hurray! However, I seem to have a good case of the squishy/super soft fat thing going on and was wondering if someone had any advice about getting a "whoosh"…
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Gained and Confused - Help!
Hi everyone- I am an 18 year old who just graduated high school. I care so much about being healthy - some would call it an obsession. I have an overwhelming Fear of being fat and gaining that "freshman 15". Everyone who knows me knows I love to eat. I have a fairly thin build with some assets and a pretty high metabolism…
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What strengt exercise should I do for weight loss?
Hi, Im 162cm 69,5kg,female!I have 25 years,i want to losse some 10-15kg,I cute my calories for 1200 for a day,andI want to exercise to!But I want to do exetcise thays gone help me,but Idont anything about this,I have 2x3kg weights,so pleeeease help!!!!!
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Gaining back weight (and maintaining it) without slipping back into binging/unhealthy habits
Hi everyone! I posted in the nutrition/weight loss support and was advised to try someplace else! I've successfully reached my goal and during a busy few weeks where I was eating well daily I weighed myself and was shocked to see I had gone below my healthy BMI range. Subsequently when I looked in the mirror after my hubby…
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over eating?
Was wondering if someone could explain why i gain 2_3lbs from just one day of over eating.and i do cardio regularly....could this be medical?? Lil help would be appreciated
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I ate over ate this weekend
Feel like a loser ate like 4,000 cals.
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What Is Happening With My Body?
I am 35, just under 5'4", and weigh about 116 lbs. My goal weight range is between 112 and 118, so I am not trying to diet or lose weight. I have, however, significantly increased my physical activity over the past few months. I didn't know what to measure, since I wasn't working with a formal plan, but I did have my…
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my weight fluctuates everyday
:/ some day I wake up and I am at my goal weight other I weigh up to 4 pounds more. My clothes also fit different sometimes. For example the waist of the pants may be really lose but it fits a bit tight around the thigh area. Please offer some tips to maintain my weight.
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5'5 - 5'6 ladies. What would you like your BMI to be?
I can only imagine I would look a bit ill if I were to get down to the starting BMI in normal range for my height but what do I know. Just wondering what would be an ideal BMI within the normal range?
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Workout Plan
Hey there, fitfam! I just finished up 3 months with my personal trainer. Since I will no longer be working out with her I wrote myself a workout outline. People who are knowledgeable about lifting please review and let me know if this is a good plan and if you think not, give me some tips to improve my plan. Thank you in…
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I lost the weight I wanted, now having a hard time finding the energy to workout
Does anyone have any tips on how to get motivated again? I used to workout daily, but now it feels like I have no energy at all...my calorie intake was pretty low & after not feeling well I felt like I was lacking nutrients so I upped it and started feeling better and am now at a weight I'd like to maintain, but still…
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Fasting
hey guys, I've lost 9 kg for a good 6 months now, and im really happy with my results, right now im currently trying to maintain my weight, I'm fasting for a day, not as a diet but as a Christian due to my believes religiously. And I was wondering. Will that ruin my metabolism and crash it? I've always heard your body goes…
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Advice, thoughts, or opinions please, time for a break or not?
After some advice and opinions please. I'm 175 cm tall, I've been under 145 lbs for 2.5 years usually about 140 ish got a 370 day streak going but I'm thinking of giving it a rest for a bit to concentrate on fitness rather than weight. I've got a good Idea of what I can eat without logging anyway. I'm not entirely sure I…
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How do I go about body recomp?
I'm eight pounds from my goal maintenance weight! Rather than bulking and cutting cycles, I'd like to begin 'body recomposition' once reaching my goal but I have no idea how to! Here are a few questions I have but any additional information would help... 1) Do I eat to maintenance as I would if I were choosing to stay the…
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Losing weight too quickly, need help with calories/ meals
It was suggested that I repost this in this section to here we go... I'll start off with my current stats to give you a better idea of where I am. 23yo female, 5'5, 135lbs (lost 43lbs in 10 weeks, was 178 the day I had my son). Eating ~ 1900cal a day. I am exclusively BF my 10 week old and I seem to be losing too much…
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what do you tell yourself when you want to overeat?
I have maintained for about 3 yrs but recently put back on 10 lbs. I just seen chocolate pies at the grocery store and had to just run out. I don't need that when my weight is up. I tell myself now you want to fit in your clothes. Enough is enough. Could use some help, what do ya say that helps you, this maintaining is…
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5'9 goal weight?
I'm getting closer to my goal weight and the number seems high compared to others. What's your goal weight if you're around 5'9ish?
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Regaining weight
I've hit my goal weight, and actually have gone a bit under even but it seems if I have one cheat day or take a day or two off the gym I immediately regain 3+ pounds, which I know doesn't sound like a lot but it's pretty noticeable to me on my frame. I've only been dieting/working out for three months, will this eventually…
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How "Not Linear" do we mean?
I am going to preface ALL OF THE FOLLOWING with a note that I realize that I am a metabolically special snowflake, I am under the care of a doctor, and I understand that my situation is a statistical anomaly. That being said, we know that weight loss is not linear and calorie consumption recommendations are guidelines that…
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I would like to learn how to keep my weight and still burn body fat
I've never been over weight but I struggle with body fat and my body is not tone at all. I need some guidedence! Any suggestions?
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What should be my activity level?
My work is very sedentary - desk job sitting in front of a computer for 8 hours a day. I use this activity level (sedentary) to calculate my TDEE, however I bike to and from work about 20km one way 3 to 4 times a week at the moment. I do eat these calories back on most occasions... I recently read an article that has left…
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Toccarra
Hi I am 5'3 and I weigh 153.7 but I want to be 160 but toned all around. How can I maintain that?
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How do you maintain your new weight?
I have nearly reached my weight loss goal! Just want to lose 4 more pounds. Once I have reached this, how do I keep my weight the same? Do I just go back to 1500 calories a day? which I think is what is recommended for women? I feel like if I do that, the weight will start to come back. Any advice from those who have lost…