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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…
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Gifted a fitbit! Calorie question...
So, I just opened my brand new fitbit that was just unexpectedly given to me! Feeling so shocked and blessed! My question is, should I change my maintenance calories to account for my fitbit adjustment? I'm currently set to lightly active and I sync any formal exercise via Runkeeper. Should I reset myself to sedentary and…
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What's YOUR secret to maintaining the weight loss?? .
So, I am a 40 year old guy.....it's been almost 3 months since I started this weight loss journey and it has been enormously successful! About 40 pounds lost so far depending on what time of day I step on the scale. I have about 5 pounds more to lose but I am very cognizant that losing the weight is only the beginning....I…
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Struggling Maintaining/Need Support
I am looking for friends who is in the maintaining mode. I just started maintaining a couple of weeks ago and am struggling on the right ways to do it. Am I eating too much, too little? Am I excercising too much, too little? I have never liked lifting weights but when I started this journey I have found I really enjoy it…
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Why do posters keep saying g in a serving
Hi, can anyone tell me how to convert a "g" that is given when talking portion sizes? I need a cup or half cup etc and sometimes someone will have that measurement for that particular food as well, but more often than not it is a "g" for what I am looking for. Thanks for the help.
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this feels like a lot of food...
I just switched from weight loss to maintenance. 1670 calories a day if I am sedimentary, and logging activity separately for lifting and walking and sports, which is anywhere from nothing to 500 more calories a day, but this feels like a lot of volume. I'm a little scarred of this, not gonna lie. Anyone else feel freaked…
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Maitaining with MFP settings or TDEE?
Okay, I'm little confused. I'm currently upp-ing my calories to maintance (from 1200 now I'm at 1400). I'm 19 years old, female. Weight - 51 kg. Height - 165 cm. I calculated my TDEE (http://iifym.com/tdee-calculator/) - Your TDEE is: 1767 CALORIES/DAY. But when I changed my settings on MFP to maintaince, it gave me 1600…
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ladies who are 5 '1 and size 5
How much do you weigh? What are your measurments? im only 1 size away from being a size 5 and I currently weigh146. My goal weight is 120 - 127 and if I remember correctly that would make me a size three? Size 5 is where I idealy want to be though.
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Is eating over calories once okay?
I have a big party today and I am just wondering if it is okay to overeat (while still trying to eat reasonably) one day? I am currently moving to maintenance and any help would be appreciated.
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Feeling pretty down about my weight... advice needed
Hi there, I've recently put on 1-2kg, I've been working out 4 times a week, burning around 650 cals and then doing an 30-40 minutes of weight training. My clothes still fit and I know muscle is heavier than fat but 1-2 kg seems a lot to put on from weight training? I don't like seeing the number on the scales in the…
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A few questions! Need Help
Hey there everyone just wanting to know some of your answers and opinions on these questions So ever since about a month ago I've started to get hungrier more often, when i was trying to lose weight i would be able to have 3 small meals and no snacks but now im starting to have 3 some times 4 bigger meals, will that…
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Maintenance enquiries
1) do you actually weigh your bread? I'm actually weighing my bread because it says it's 142calories every 2 slices which is 70g. Should I actually weigh my breads? Or should I just grab 2 slices? I will normally weigh 70g of my bread and also weigh my peanut butter. Or should I weigh my bread but it weighs more than 70g I…