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Can't get out of weight loss mode
I have finally reached my goal weight but I cannot seem to wrap my head around matinence. I've lost around 60 lbs in about a year, at first my goal was 145, then 140, then 135. I finally reached 135 a couple weeks ago and stayed there steadily. I have recently moved and am getting back to my normal exercise and eating…
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"You're beautiful, you don't need to watch calories."
I think the title is the problem. Three times in the last week people have noticed me logging food on my phone at a restaurant or on a plane. Yesterday I was recommending this awesome carrot cake to my mother-in-law and mentioned that I always split it with my husband because it has literally half the calories I get for…
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You want to use white bat is the fact that stores energy
You want to use white bat is the fact that stores energy and hold on to it this is the fact that you develop to make sure you never star so you can blame your ancestors 4-pin teenage okay this is what we got from them white back now brown fat on the other hand is the fact that the baby had it's the leave a note that polar…
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Reverse dieting - your experiences?
Hello MFPers, So, I hit goal today. Hooray! I have been eating a 1,200 kcal diet (eating back most of my exercise calories), and I don't want to start eating maintenance calories straight away (plus I wouldn't mind losing an extra few pounds - my goal number was a guess I made in the far off distant past) as I think it…
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Bloating
Hi peeps, i need some advice, im currently underweight at a weight of 55 kg (8 stone 10), after restrictive eating for about 10-12 months, my stats are - 18 years old, 55kg, 5 foot 9 and a half (175.6cm), Whenever i seem to eat a Normal or even a little amount of food i get really bloated / distended. MFP sets my TDEE…
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Not Sure What I Do!
So I gave up logging for maintenance and so far now problems maintaining... No gains and no losses! However, I just don't know whether I should be eating sometimes! I have been told by a nutritionist to listen to hunger cues so I try. I eat about 1100 calories for breakfast and lunch (combined) sometimes a low cal snack in…
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Frustrated I've been slowly gaining...need a new method?
Hi! I've been struggling with maintenance lately. I give myself a 3 pound maintenance range and I've been slowly creeping up to the higher end of my maintenance range and I fear I'm going to have to cut my calories again to get back down to the low end of my maintenance range. Obviously if I'm slowly gaining weight I'm…
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name a must have food
i have been thinking that a lot of the foods i love! i never see people have like undiscovered treasure! so can you name a food you love but don't see many people having
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Is my goal weight too much?
I've never been far by any means but I've always hated the way my body looked, I always wanted to lose a few pounds. I'm around 5'4 and was around 133 pounds. I lost 8lbs in the last month and am now 125lbs. My friends and family say I look great and have been very supportive but think my goal weight of 119lbs is too much,…
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How to maintain and eat. HELP ME!
Hi. I'm new to the message board forum but I am at wits ends. I have lost over 200 pounds and now want to maintain but I am so scared that I'll gain weight that I work out 5 times a week and only eat 500-700 calories a day. I even gained a pound this week and I am freaking out. I don't know what to do or how to eat. I only…
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Never feeling satisfied?
I recently upped my calories to around 2000 a day to try and maintain my weight after loosing 27 pounds. This was great at first, I could finally enjoy food. However, now the problem I face is that I never feel satisfied. Even after eating a huge dinner (I just had around 250g of mince in my bolognese I just cooked) I…
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RANT POST: I am NOT too skinny!
I just need to vent a little. I am soooooo DAMN tired of ppl telling me I need to stop working out because I am already skinny. I am 176 lbs and 6 feet tall. It took me so long to be OK with myself and my "skinny" size when my entire family was big. There was something always wrong with me because I can't gain or keep…
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Friend selling Plexus facebook post .. just shaking my head
"I haven't been able to wear my shirt tucked in in YEARS but I have twice this week! Have I told you about PLEXUS?" "Not working out at all... Not dieting.... I just don't eat very much. This curbs your appetite and I have to make myself eat. No shakes ... No jitters... Yesterday I called it gastric bypass jn a bottle!…
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weird question- splitting your breakfast?
Anyone else do this? I feel like I'm tricking myself into thinking I'm eating a mid morning snack. I eat breakfast at 6am, before my workout, and save a 1/4 of it to eat at 9am as a small snack. It's oatmeal and vanilla muscle milk poured over it, BTW
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Opinions, please...
I’m transitioning into Maintenance, from weight loss. I’m fine with the idea of counting calories/logging food for the rest of my life. But weighing food… Nope. So my idea is to have a 50-100 calorie a day deficit almost every day (not worrying about it Thanksgiving, Christmas, 4th of July, Memorial Day, New Year's Eve,…
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Avoiding the Relapse During Maintenance
Hi MFPers! I lost 50 pounds with MFP and have managed to stay at goal (+/- 5 lbs in either direction) for the past three years. However, after quitting smoking I definitely noticed the scale creeping up steadily over time. I notice a lot of people on here are on their second or even third attempts at weight loss.... so...…
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Transitioning from weight loss to maintenance
My scale is telling me that I am only 0.2lbs away from my goal today. I want to stop losing now and go into maintenance. Does anyone have advice on how to accomplish this gracefully?
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Transitioning to Maintenance... now with food anxiety
So, I've finally hit my goal of 110lbs/50kg and dead chuffed, but I've gotten really paranoid about tracking my food. I weigh everything, literally. I no longer go out for lunch with friends, unless it's a place with a menu and nutritional information. I feel anxious about the fact I have a big family party tomorrow and…
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Feeling like a lost soul
I have previously been diagnosed with depression, and got treatment for it/consider myself recovered. Ugh. Some days I still feel like I'm struggling with depression. However, now my feelings are not suicidal but are of shame in regards to food. Here's the thing. I started on this website only to lose a few pounds (8…
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finding it so hard....
i just seem so stuck... ugh... all of last year i maintained my weight, yeah me!!! then this year i thought i woudl change up my exercise routine... ( last year did clx and t25) so i got p90x3. well i did that for 2.5 months, i gained 1/2 inch on my hips and 5 lbs plus went up 1% in body fat! ugh... which iwhy i changed…
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Changing goal on deflect
Hi, I've asked this question a couple time sand you guys got me to the right place and it was able to up my protein goal. According to the program I'm using, I also need to up my deflect 128 calories - I see absolutely no way to change that. The goals tab won't open anything in " your diet profile". Help anyone???
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How to maintain weight ?
I have managed to lose 65 pound since January. I now need to try to keep weight at around about the 10 stone mark but not sure how to do this ! I am terrified of eating more and putting weight back on. Just not sure what to do? Also need to find a way of tightening the flabby skin on belly. Advice please?
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Metabolic Damage? Low RMR
Hello. I have never posted a question on MFP although I have used it for about 5 years now. I am a runner and exercise 5-6 times a week (I am a bit of a cardio addict but have tried to add strength training). I am 5'6" and 110 (which I know sounds really low but I am very small boned and this has been a normal weight for…
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Still loosing...
Any advice welcome please, I set my maintenance weight at my then current weight of 10 st 6, and my calories were set at 1960, this was a month ago, I have kept to this amount except for weekends when I know I go over slightly, the only daily exercise I do is walking the dog, which I don't log or eat back, my current…
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Any one have a health-o-meter scale?
Hello =) I have a health-o-meter scale and the last time I weighed my self the L0 message popped up and and then the scale died. I bought Heavy duty 9volt batteries and put them in the scale but they didn't work.. Do I need to get a different type of 9volt battery? like lithium or Akaline? I just don't want to have to keep…
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Anxiety and Eating Disorders
Are there any of you out there that have extreme anxiety and an eating disorder that take medication? I'm currently on two different medications and they just don't seem t help with my anxiety OR the eating disorder. The OCD isn't under control, either. Any suggestions?
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Maintaining while gaining?
Hi so I am trying the whole banking calories method and it makes me wonder if It is water weight or actual weight gain? I drink about 20 bottles a day of water but I do eat a lot of sodium, I've saved up maintenance calories but the scale each week goes up. Pound? But then lowers but I have not seen yet my weight when I…
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Our Brain health Weight
You can piece them together increate new things on your old so we're going to start super simple and probably my number one favorites now is harnessed and how this is great because you can dip stuff in it now the best thing to dip in it is going to be that stables right now one near lower on the topic I should mention…
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Emotional maintenance
Hello, I've been losing and have now reached my desired weight. 60lbs gone! I have "been there - done that " for over 30 years. I've lost 20lbs, 40lbs, 60lbs, and even 88lbs depending upon my starting weight. I have always lost in a safe manner - no crash diets etc... Then I reach (to me) the dreaded maintenance stage.…
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Lose body fat% but keep weight
Anyone able to direct me to information about maintaining weight but drive down body fat%? My body fat is at 28% I would love to see it at 20%.