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Gained weight Why?
Being offshore since 30.4.14, it seems I have gained weight while still mainitaining my calories, I am more active offshore throughout the day then I was at home, I know my scale at home is correct, so I cannot understand the gain in weight., the only difference is the food I eat, one can look at my diary. At home I could…
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Calories for recomp?
Total newbie here. Happy with my scale weight, started half heartedly lifting heavy weights and I've fallen in love. Working with a bit of a blend of 5/3/1 and Strong Curves and realised for best success I need to pay more attention to my protein and macros. This has highlighted calories for me for the first time (!!). I'm…
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Increasing Calories But Still Losing Weight
Hi, I have posted a few times here because weight loss was easy for me, but now I am moving to maintenance and want to maintain my weight comfortably without worrying about gaining it all back. I have been trying to increase now since January but have dropped 10lbs in that time span (I was 147.7 when I started just weighed…
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How many calories do you eat to maintain your weight
I am about 168cm and around 56/57kg though I do not weigh myself anymore. I find that MFP sets me at 1600/1700 calories for sedentary or lightly active and I aim for NET that amount on the days I exercise. But I find that intake is really not adequate in terms of stopping hunger. I still get hungry and I still binge…
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hungrier closer to maintaining?
So i have gotten down to a healthy weight and am pretty close to maintaining. I've been noticing though i'm much hungrier then before. I started out on mfp eating 1400 calories and being full pretty much every day and never needing to go over. Now weirdly enough I'm finding myself hungry unless i hit 1500-1800. Is there…
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To maintain or gain?
Hi guys This may be a long post so bear with me as I go on, but I think I may have a problem health-wise. First of all I'm a 28 year old male who measures at 5 foot 8 tall, has quite an active job in doing white man van work part-time. And use running as a hobby, I've run 7 half-marathons (about to run my 8th) and find…
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Figuring out Maintenance Cals while Lifting
Hey there! So, I'm essentially working on body recomposition at this point, because I'm at a healthy weight, but I want to decrease my BF%. So, I've been lifting heavy - or learning to - for the past few weeks. My issue is that I'm still unsure what my calories are for maintaining. People say to eat at a number for a few…
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A taste of maintainance
Hi! Next week I'll have visitors so I'll have to change my routine around accommodating daily trips and showing them around. This means that I won't be able to work out as much as I do now, I don't know if I'll be able to work out at all I'm afraid. So, I decided to see it as a trial of how it'll be when I'll be…
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Am i eating enough?
Am i eating enough? I dont eat much compared to others, but thats because im never hungry. I dont starve myself, i just dont eat a lot. I calculated the calories i have in an average day and its around 1200. I eat really healthy though, so none of it is carbs or sugar, just fruits, veggies, yogurt and fish, and oatmeal and…
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Has anyone tried using MFP to during pregnancy?
I recently used MFP to lose abt 50lbs and maintaining it well. Thennnnnnn i got pregnant and gained 25lbs in the first three mths because of change in diet nausea, stomach issues.... so now i am back here trying log wat i eat and basically maintain my weight with the allowance of the 1lb a week that i will naturally gain.…
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Should have taken more selfies!
I did not really have any "before" pictures because for obvious reason I did not feel comfortable in front of the camera! 20+ pounds later, I am quite the photo bugs....but with nothing to compare against. Anyone in the same boat? And oh...how do you take a good selfie (for MPF, like showing your abs)?
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Is Rest day from workout needed to maintain?
Currently I'm trying to maintain my weight. I've been working out daily. Going to the gym to bike for 20-40minutes( depends on how much time I have on that day), 5-10minutes on the stairs climbing machine and lift light weights for 20times in weekdays and light aerobics for 30minutes on weekends. I wonder if rest day is…
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Maintain my weight while lifting and eating at maintenance?
I made a work out plan consisting of upper and lower body resistance training exercises that I'm willing to do 3 times a week. I do 10 mins of cardio beforehand and spend one hour lifting weights (including breaks and stretches between sets). My goal is to become more "toned", but maintain my current weight because losing…
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Maintaining a small loss (20lbs and under)
So I lost about 12lbs. I keep hearing people gain a few pounds after switching to maintenance and it's normal to fluctuate up to 5lbs. What about the folks who only lost 10? Gaining back half of what you lost as fluctuation sounds horrible! I am focusing primarily on toning and dropped my few pounds as way to help with…
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Eat back CALS when maintaining weight?
Do I eat back CALS I've worked off if I'm makntaining?
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Eat HRM + fitbit cal to maintain?
I've just gotten my HRM and my fitbit one and today is the first day I'm using them both to calculate calories that imposed to eat. I use my HRM to find calories burned through my exercise and log it into myfitnesspal. However now 11:16pm, as I'm about to go to bed I discover that I've got 300++ calories more to eat. I…
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How accurate is MFP for your maintenance?
I am currently ready to switch to maintenance (so done with extreme deficits) and I am terrified of gaining it all back. How accurate have you found the suggested maintenance calories have been for you? Any advice? I don't think I have maintained for long in the last 3 years.
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need help....
a little about me so i can get the most help i can get... i have maintained 115 lbs for over a good year now. I am 5.2 ft and would bounce around between 114-115.5 all last year. I was so happy i could maintain things even when i stopped logging from sept-dec. Well during that year i was doing clx and then t25. then went…
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TSFL Maintenance
My name is grohcorrea and in Sept - Nov 2013 I lost 25 lbs with TSFL. I am now in maintenance and need a way to track my low-glycemic, low-carb food choices. I am back to Myfitnesspal!! Let me know if you are successful with your maintenance.
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How do you maintain the weight, without losing control?
Hi everyone, I've been on MFP for 3-4 years now. Have lost around 30 kg (66 lbs). I initially lost about 20 kg (44 lbs) in a year or two, then gained back around 10 kg (22 lbs) when I stopped logging (and gave up) for about a year, then I returned and lost the remaining 20 kg (44 lbs) in the last couple of years. I have…
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How much do I need?
I'm a 5'3 90 pound recovering anorexic who walks like 9 miles a day. Any caloric suggestions? Please, no hate, thanks.
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How many calories should I aim for?
After a VERY restrictive diet for a good few months and came out the other end with an eating disorder (EDNOS), I'm now trying to get myself back on track. Yes, I am still obsessing over calories and weighing :( but now the problem is that I want to eat even more than mfp is telling me I need to maintain. I'm hitting about…
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NET calories, Cario and Weight!
Hello everyone, bringing back the net calories topic once again in the forum! I'm maintaining, working out twice a week. I do both cardio and some light weight training..but I was wondering, do I have to eat back just the calories burned with the cardio workout or the cardio+the stenght ones? Thanks!
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People irritate the *kitten* out of me
It should never be OK to talk about a person's weight. Ever. Period. I have worked at the same place for the past 14 years. Some of these people have known me almost half my life. And over the years (and 2 kids) I had put on some weight. I carried it well, thankfully, but it was totally unhealthy. Now that I have lost the…
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maintain weight, gain muscle, loose fat?
So, i go to the gym at least 4 times a week (useually 6 times a week). I usually do 30 minutes of cardio (burning around 200-300 calories, then work on weight machines for the rest of the time. I weigh around 99 pounds, eat 1400 -1500 calories daily. Can i gain muscle, maintain weight, and loose fat? Ive read that gaining…
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Weight Range and Fluctuations
How did you determine what your preferred weight range is? Is it a 3 pound range, 5 pounds? I have a lot of underlying issues, but I'm trying to understand that daily fluctuations are no reason to panic. The problem is, I don't know how much fluctuation is normal and when I should start to worry. Thanks for any help.
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Can I *know* my TDEE?
With all the talk about TDEE and BMR, I get a bit confused. My understanding is TDEE is all the calories your body burns during the day, and BMR is the calories it burns laying about in bed. If I decrease what I eat to some value between these two values, I will lose weight. Okay, good. Most of the posts I've seen point to…
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Help I'm getting fat.
Okay so here is my story: About a year ago I weighed about 135lbs I am 5'11. Not strong at all or fit. I do hot yoga about 4 times a week and go to the gym 2-3 times a week. When I am at the gym I do about 15 min of cardio (hate cardio) and an hour of weight lifting. Since last year I have gotten strong but I currently…
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Maintenance Friends Request
I am looking for friends who can help me with my goals, give great advice and be a support for me. I lost 26 lbs after getting in a contest at the start of the year. I had really never lifted weights until the contest and have found I really enjoy it, however I dont know what I am doing and have found that my back is…
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Need buddies!
Hey there, The past few weeks I'm kind of demotivated to maintain weight; it's boring! More so because I just have a few buddies on here. However, I started noticing that buddies kind of keeps things interesting and fun, and what 1 like actually can do if you completed your food diary for a day, it's actually quite…