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Please help me with maintaining weight loss
Hello friends! I reached my goal weight of 120.5 lbs a few weeks ago. I decided to increase my calories, especially carbs, but now find myself 5 lbs heavier. It's been a few weeks so it cannot be all water. I exercise the same but have thrown in some miles of running to the weight lifting. Running makes me want to eat a…
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I'm not sure this is the idea of maintenance....
I hit goal about 4 weeks ago and have been maintaining since, so have had about 500 extra cals a day. I've barely made my meals any bigger, but am instead using most of the extra for snacks (*cough*biscuits*cough) and wine. Working perfectly for maintenance as all within my cal goal, and my weight is steady, but probably…
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How did you feel when you reached your goal?
I am 36 years old and a mom of three. My weight loss journey has been super hard and emotional. I am 5'3 and lost about 19 lbs a few weeks after my third baby, but still needed to lose about 40 lbs to get to my goal of 129. I am 6 pounds away and feeling super emotional.....was not really prepared for that part. Weight…
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6 months into "no-logging" maintenance
Each person develops the style of maintenance that works for them, and I know that some people feel best when they continue to log calories. I just wanted to share my method because it has worked for me for the last 6 1/2 months. I'm 5'8", used MyFitnessPal to go from 161 lbs to 135, which took almost 4 months. When I…
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How do you stay motivated
how do you keep the goal going
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I'm pregnant.
Morning, I'm starting today to log my food intake and exercise. When I found out I was pregnant, three months ago, my eating and exercise plans went down hill. I weight 6 kg when I found out I was pregnant and gained so far to much. Everything got bigger and I'm so disappointed in myself. Today I started again doing…
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800 calories?
Daily, I eat about 800 calories. I do not do it on purpose, I am just used to eating this way. After spending my childhood overweight I cut down in my early teens and since then (I'm 18 now) I never broke the habit. I eat a range of healthy foods (maybe a bit low on the dairy) but include plenty of fruit and veggies…
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Best Method for Calculating Calories Weekly
Hi all, I'm shifting into maintenance (really, been there for the last four months or so), and wanted to start calculating calories weekly. It matches more accurately my patterns, which are to eat somewhat abstemiously during the week and more indulgently during the weekends. For those of you who calculate your calories in…
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Advice
My profile pic is an update as of 5/27. I was planning on losing another 7-10 lbs, but I think I should probably start looking into maintenance. That scares the crap outta me. Any advice on beginning maintenance?
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How do I maintain and still have a deficit??
Here is my problem - I'm at my goal (Male,5'7 150lbs) I have been averaging about 1600 calories a day for the past few months and lost 14lbs in the last two months. I work out 4-5 times a week. I'm not looking to build huge muscle mass. After my regular meals and snacks I'm full and find that if I do decide to eat extra…
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Hey not so new
Hello I'm on my journey to great health...need new friends for support of another! Only dedicated individuals!!! :)
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almost to goal
Hey y'all I have lost 95 pounds in a year and love to work out...in am literally 10 pounds away from my goal and in am terrified, to gain weight once I'm there... Any hints or suggestions on maintaining a healthy weight once you get to goal?
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Meal plans
I have no idea how to go about creating a meal plan. Can someone help me figure it out?
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Gained 5lbs lost back!
I can't seem to get myself back on track. I recently have gone through a tough time and have gained 5 of the 25lbs I lost back and I am feeling so discouraged. I can't seem to shake them and lose them as quickly as I have in the past. I am depressed and it's just getting worse. I work out three days a week; turbo kick…
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Problems Maintaining with Family
I lost my weight last year and have maintained at approx 140lbs this entire year (one year in March). However, psychologically sometimes I get really down. This happens mostly when I am with family. I am a person who enjoys a routine so I eat the same kinds of foods (with variation each day tho) and workout 5 days a week.…
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Maintaining weight question
once I hit my goal weight does myfitnesspal change from telling me what I have to eat calorie wise for losing weight to maintaining weight?
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Maintaining my Weight Question?
I had dropped from 219.5 to 163 pounds, and feeling really good. I adjusted my calories to maintain my weight and did so successfully for 6 weeks. Today, at 9 weeks, I weighed in again and had dropped to 160. Not really doing anything different that I can think of. Why the weight loss?
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Getting rid of fat and toning without losing weight
I;m 5"7 and weight 123 to 125 pounds. Over the past year I have been working on gaining weight from an eating disorder. Now at this weight I have been maintaining. For a portion of the weight gain I did without any exercise so some of the weight is nasty fat around my thighs and butt. I would like to tone. Ive been working…
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5'7/5'8 gals, maintenance cals?
I'm nearly to goal and I'm experimenting with cals. I'd love to hear what ya'll are doing. I'm listed as sedentary (desk job) and am running abut six miles per week. Thanks in advance!
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need friends who are also trying to maintain
Any tips, recipes, exercises would be great:)
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5ft 9 - 140 pounds - gaining muscle!
I'm 5ft 9 weighing 140 pounds- my goals are to gain muscle. Am I right to maintain my weight or gain my weight? I will be starting a flexible dieting regime but I was getting confused!! I love food and I don't want to lose weight - I train mainly using weights. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks
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Calories
I am 18 y/o and I'm working on erring a toned body and making my tummy flatter and get rid of minor muffin top. I use to be very active but the past year or two I have gotten some health issues and was a bed potato for a while. I am 125 pounds and I stay around that weight. I need to know some exercises to get to my goal!…
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Master Cleanser
I want to try the master cleanser (aka lemon diet). Has anyone try it, and did work for you..... The good the bad and the ugly.......
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terrified!
i lost the 70 lbs i wanted to lose and went from 205 percent to 135... i am on week two of maintaining and have stayed within a pound of 135... heaviest weighing in at 136.6...i almost cried but i have to remember fluncuations! i was wondering how often i should continue working out! i go sun, mo, tue and i rest wed, go…
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Today I reached my goal weight!!!
I finally did it!!! Thank you to mfp and whoever put up some inspirational sayings on this site! I have been at it for 8 months. Feeling so much better!! I can stay where I am at or loose another 10. I have got to do some maintaining in the near future. Open for ideas!!
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Weight restored with no period
So im honestly very stuck and don't know what to do with myself. I've gained to a bmi of 20 on maybe about 1800 calories and still have no period and am still gaining. Im fighting a relapse I feel utterly hopeless that I'm still gaining on low calories with no period. I've been discharged from my therapist so please don't…
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Maintenance calories: am i supposed to count in exercice calories,or are they all accounted in ?
So I used this calculator http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm to find out my actual daily cal intake on maintenance, since it seems to be the most efficient from what I've found. I got 1850 by choosing the ''Daily'' exercise level, considering their criteria is '15-30 min elevated heartrate''. Accurate,…
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Another "Excercise" cals question"
Hi again, I have been maintaining for around two months on 1800cals. Seem to be doing okay with this recently I have been eating back a small amount of ex cals (around 100cals). though for the large part with exercise included, I have remained at a deficit. My question is this, I would've expected to have lost more owing…
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It Begins
As of today I am officially declaring victory. I have met my goal of losing 30lbs. While it was difficult and at times I wanted to quit, the real struggle begins today; the new goal for the rest of my life - to maintain my current weight. Looking forward to reading the discussions here to become inspired and to learn how…
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Similar Goals
Hi, I was hoping to find more people similar goal as mine, as my overall goal is not to lose a lot of weight but to become more fit. I'm three pounds away from my weight goal, from there I will focus fully on recomp and lowering my BF%. Right now I'm exercising 6 days a week for at least an hour each day, lifting 3 days…