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HELP!!
My story in a nutshell: I lost 91lbs. I hit my goal weight last June so It's been almost a year. In the summer and fall I was running a lot. When the weather was getting cold I tried to keep it up at the gym but I ended up having almost 2 months where I didn't exercise at all. I adjusted my calorie intake during that time…
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Can't commit to maintenance...
I've been 'transitioning' to maintenance for over a month now, I log intermittently but haven't upped my cal goal - though I eat extra and often forget to log it. I'm 26, 5'3, 119-120lb I am losing very very slowly now and am worried about the dreaded glycogen. I getting hung up on the number on the scale and don't want to…
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Adjusting to higher calorie goal
I need to let myself eat more. I tried weening my way into the higher calorie goal, but I'm still losing. I think 1680 is too high, but evidently trying to stay under 1300 is too low. I'm 5'5" and currently weigh 124 lbs (my goal was 125). How should I ween myself into eating more? I think it's most a mental thing, but I…
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Scared of eating over maintenance on active days.
I did 1 hour of weight lifting this morning and was on my feet all day working as a server. I usually end up feeling super hungry by the end of the day craving everything in the fridge. I don't know whether to give into these cravings or eat above maintenance. This only happens on days I've been more active as opposed to…
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Menopausal & Maintaining 1 Year Later (PICS!)
This is NOT an April Fools! Today I am starting on my 2nd year "Riding the Maintain Train" Wooo-Wooo!! A year ago I successfully dropped 81 pounds and reached my goal weight of 155: Here is that post: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/950527-58-years-old-and-81-pounds-gone-pics-too Since that time I've maintained…
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How many calories do I need to maintain? Help!
Hello everyone, I'm 18 years old, 113 pounds, 5'6" tall. I'm pretty sedentary and only do some light activity about 3 times a week. I want to maintain my current weight. Some people have told me 1400 calories is my maximum to maintain, while others suggest a larger numer like 2000. I don't really know what to do. I don't…
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Scared of maintance
I am not even near my goal, but maintance scares me more. I need encouraging stories of people keeping it off and tips!! I see so many people lose the weight (mostly family members) just to gain it back and possibly more.
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Best Pre-workout Snacks Ideas
Hey everyone! I'm finding it really challenging to find a good pre-workout snack to help fuel me through my workout mid day. I tried a Larabar and that was decent, but I was hoping some of you would have some good suggestions based on your own experiences. I always find it easier to workout in the morning because 1/2 cup…
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too many carbs, scary numbers, not too many calories!
I track my food on MyFitnessPal although I'm not dieting I'm just maintaining my weight. I don't eat too many calories per day, however startlingly enough I ate too many carbs today. I was supposed to have 150 g of carbs, and I had 260 g! It scared me a bit, honestly. However, most of my carbs came from dried fruits,…
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How much over maintenance before weight gain?
Know this has probably been asked before but I'll shoot anyway. Ok so my maintenance is currently 1600. I'm sedentary. I know MFP says that 1800 daily will make me gain half a pound a week, so basically to maintain I have to stay with the 1600-1700 range? It seems like it would be hard to keep this up as a lifetime thing.
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Wishing I hadn't switched to maintaince
Me getting to my goal was a great effort, a got there with little problems, but the last 2 months after switching has turned out out to be a complete failure, I began on 2200 (a big jump from 1500), but I slowly seemed to gaining, 2 weeks later I switched to 2000, then soon it was obvious i'll never see my goal weight…
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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.