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Gaining weight on 'maintenance'?
Hi all, Last week I hit my goal of 50kg, after sticking to 1200 since June. The scale was wavering between 50 and 49, so it was quite inconclusive, but I wanted to stick to that number. I upped my calories to 1500, but consumed between 1200-1500. It varied, day by day. Quite frankly, I expected to have lost some weight.…
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Another reason why you may be gaining whilst maintaining...
This is a 6 minute vid where the host takes some pre-packaged food to a lab to work out the real calories within that food. At the end he calculates that if he was calorie counting then he would have consumed 500 more calories than he thought according to the food labels. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGunZpKLb5o
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Any other breastfeeding mamas??
Hi everyone, My little guy is 3 months old now. I'm 5ft and before pregnancy was a bit underweight at 93lbs. I'm now exclusively breastfeeding and weigh 101lbs. This is my third baby and in my experience a few pounds are here to stay until breastfeeding is over. I'm fine with that so I'm focusing on staying right near…
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Eating lunch at 8:30 AM
One issue I've been dealing with over several months of maintenance.... the ravenous morning hunger I get 2 hours after breakfast. I eat a good breakfast every morning at 6:30 AM, cereal or oatmeal almost always. Then suddenly, once I'm in the office 2 hours later, I end up eating my lunch I brought in that day ... and…
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Discrepancy between the MyFitnessPal and other calculators
Hello, I'm 6'0", currently at 170lb, 33-y.o. male My activity includes 2 hours a week of martial arts (krav maga / MMA) and ~1.5 hours a week of weight lifting. Otherwise I have an office job. According to these, this puts me at least into the "moderate physical activity" range of BMR calculators. I've checked a bunch of…
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maintaining
I am so frustrated with my weight loss. Okay so I have lost a total of 70 lbs. of which I lost over a year and a half time. A lot of my weight I lost by running. I have done a marathon, 5ks, 10ks, 15ks, 1/2 marathon. Slowly my weight has been creeping back up on me. I have gained about 15 of that back, and I am trying to…
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Should I get a tummy tuck?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBt-y7zYEQw&feature=c4-overview&list=UUTE7nfB_ZdXoa3LnKRmmd4g This is a Youtube video of me showing the loose skin on my stomach. My boyfriend thinks I'm crazy. Everyone else thinks I am too. But I wanted some more opinions. Thanks guys :)
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Time to maintain, but I'm honestly a little scared...
My weight loss journey has abruptly and unexpectedly come to an end. I set my goal weight for 110 lbs, not knowing what that would look like for me. I set that weight because my lowest healthy BMI is 105 at my height, so that seemed like a reasonable goal at the time. My beginning weight was 150 and I'm now 117 (at 5'3").…
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Ready to start maintaining...
I put myself on an EXTREMELY restrictive diet in April- I began eating less than 600 calories most days- yes, this was very stupid. I have, now, gained my common sense and increased to 1200+ for maybe the last two months. I've been increasing very slowly (currently eating around 1350) and so far have not put any weight…
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What do I do now
I've reached my goal weight now what do I do, eat more than I usually would ? Workout less each week ? What I have no idea
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what can you eat an entire container of without thinking...
for me...saltines or oyster crackers. ugh. the calorie content is not a lot per serving...but it is easy to eat many servings.
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underwear
Ok, silly topic, butt... I am having a hard time finding underwear, for a reasonable price, that is small enough. Any ladies know where to get maybe a size 4?
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Am I ready for maintenance?
I'm thinking about changing my goals to maintenance instead of loss. My goal weight is really just a number. I'm in a smaller size than I've ever been in my adult life, even though I'm not at the smallest weight I've been (I had gotten down to 138 pounds in a size 10). Since January I have lost +/-60 pounds. I went from a…
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How many calories to maintain weight?
I am around 114lbs currently. My goal weight was 110lbs but I now feel that would look too thin, as I'm looking slim now. I would like to stay this weight (114) but I'm not sure how many calories I would need to do this. When dieting I ate around 1200 - 1300 calories and managed to lose weight. I have a desk job and…
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Maintenance, constipation and saturated fat
Hi everyone, I loose around 5.5 kg and now I am in maintenance step from 2-3 weeks ago. Before that I check my saturated fat and kept it as low as I could and now the MFP suggest me 1550 Kcal per day for being maintain and the saturated fat goal is 17 gr. I have a serious constipation problem and it really bother me. I…
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switching to maintaining but reducing body fat?
I've looked and looked and can't find a concrete answer on reducing body fat while maintaining. Can I reduce it at maintenance calories, rather than deficit? I'm 25 132 lbs and 5'5". I don't know my body fat % and really can't afford to have it checked, right now. I don't mind if it's a slow process but I'd like to reduce…
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Your maintenance calorie goal vs. weight loss calorie goal
Hi maintainers, I'm curious about the relationship between the calorie goal you had when you were losing weight vs. the calorie goal you have now that you are maintaining. What was your WL calorie goal? What is you maintenance calorie goal? Thanks!
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Sick Calories Help?
I was sick from Monday and starting to feel better today! While sick I could only manage about 1200 or so calories. If I bump back up to 1500 will I gain weight? Does a week make a huge difference? I'm trying to maintain....
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Tough Time
I'm having a bit of a tough time now that I am at maintenance. Lost 50 lb total and all the doctors and websites say that for 5'8 140 is a great weight but I still see so much fat. I know I need to do weight exercises in order to change that but I find myself still eating at a deficit because I am too scared to eat at…
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After reaching goal weight
I have started this whole life style change process a couple weeks ago and have really felt the positive effects of not only the exercise but the feeling of not always being so full I want to puke. I look forward to finally reaching my goal weight and I was wondering if anyone has any success stories to share, when you…
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Why doesn't MFP change my calories when I reach my goal
I'm below my goal weight, but MFP still has me at the same calorie goal. How do I get it to put me on maintenance?
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Slowing down weight loss to ease into maintenance. Opinions?
I'm looking to maintain for life once I get to my goal (another 10-15 pounds), so I want to transition out of the "all or nothing mentality" that I've been in for years. By all or nothing, I mean that I'm either all-out going at diet and fitness, or all-out overeating (though not binging since I don't have that problem,…
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Confused, lost weight after several cheat days!?!
First of all let me start out by saying that I reached my ultimate goal weight of 120 last Sunday, so now Im trying to maintain my weight loss. Ok, now let me explain my cheat days. So last week I was away from home at a work conference for 3 days, took hubby along for the ride. I planned on working out everyday at the…
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Setting myself up for failure?
Hi everyone. I haven't quite reached my goal yet, but since it's become so damn hard and I don't want to lose any more muscle than I already have, I've decided to maintain. The problem is, I like food, a lot. So in light of this likeness I decided I'd try an experiment and raise my maintenance calories by a bit to see if…
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Worried about maintaining
I am actually still 11 lbs away from maintenance, but I'm excited to move on from "always trying to lose weight". I got to my goal weight 4 years ago on WW. The WW meetings in my area aren't really set up for those who are maintaining. I was told "well, you just keep adding and taking away until you figure it out." No one…
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trying to figure out maintaining weight
I have been maintaining since July. This is what I do. I eat good during the week but weekends I have time to get pizza, Chinese, fast food. We are always going and eating out. So then I gain 3-4 lbs and have to work like the devil at the first of the week at the gym to get it off and eat less. I love my pizza and Chinese…
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HELP! Losing weight when I am suppose to be maintaining
Hi MFP Community! I need some advice. I reached my goal weight of 120lbs one month ago so I am suppose to be maintaining. BUT.... I am losing more weight instead. I know I am suppose to eat 1620 cal a day excluding exercise. I am currently 111 lbs I eat on average 800 cal a day and I exercise on average 70 mins everyday. I…
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Starting Again
I haven't gained back all my weight but I was religiously weighing in between 131 - 133 lbs, and now I've been weighing in between 135-138 lbs. I haven't been tracking or logging foods and have been cheating a fair amount, more than I should have. I haven't been exercising daily (no running since I have asthma and it's…
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Eating until full? Help?
Does anyone else find that they will know the calories in their meals and are hungry before you start to eat but then you get full quickly but you still have half of the meal left? I get this sometimes but mostly with dinner! I always find myself wanting to keep eating because if I don't ill be under my calories goal and…
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Wow! I'm At goal!!!
So, a friend of mine cleaned out her closets, and sent me 2 huge bags of clothes. (My poor closet was looking empty) In them were 2 pair of size 8 pants, one coral skinny jeans, and one brand new jeans with tags still on- lol. But anyhow, tried the coral ones on, and THEY FIT!!! My goal has been to fit into 8s. I think…