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What do I do after I have reached my goal Weight?
Hello Everyone, Now, I haven't even lost a pound yet but Just have to get this of my chest. I have between 40-50 kilograms to lose (I know it's lots) and I am wondering what happens when I reach it? I work out 5-6 Days per week (1 Hour or Cardio and 30 Minutes of Strength Training) and to the help of My Fitness pal, I eat…
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Contribute a Great Workout Song
So I've accumulated quite a few great songs to run to and I'd love to expand my collection with your favorites too! The rules are: 1) No more than three songs (I know! You have to choose!) 2) Include a youtube link so everyone can listen to it! 1. Get Up (Rattle) by Bingo Players http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_BGKyAKigs…
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Goals
I'm about three weeks new to My Fitness Pal and have a couple of questions. When I look at Nutrition is gives me a breakdown and my Goal for each one --- I'm assuming I should not exceed the daily goal -- for example: Protein is 15% I should stay under 15% --- does that seem low ? Also, I work out and it's pretty time…
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Maintainance tips
There are so many weight loss tips out there. But what about maintanance? I need you to add to these tips. Anyone? 1. Lifting is huge as it tones muscles and enables us to eat more if I want. 2. Keep on counting calories to not to let the weight sneakily get out of control on me. 3. ???
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i lost 4lbs and i don't know how?
Hello, im a 20 y/o female 120lbs 5"5. i have always been naturally thin, sometimes too thin looking but never underweight ( I had no muscle). So i started off at 118lbs 3 weeks ago, and after a week and a half of working out i gained 5 lbs., it was all muscle not fat (im guessing because muscle weights more and how could i…
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In Search of Maintenance Fitness Pals
Hello all! I've been away from MFP (and fitness/healthy eating) for a few months, but I'm ready to get back at it. I'm getting maried next June, and I want to look and feel my very best! I won't be weighing myself at all, but none of my goals are weight-based - mostly just feeling better in my clothes.. and out of them too…
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Letting go of goals and being happy and healthy
Anyone else feel this way? I gained about 10 in the first two years of college by eating in the dining hall and restaurants and fast food and not exercising. I have managed to lose about 10 lbs since I started on MFP in June. I'm 113-115 at 5'4" so I'm happy with the number. I tend to get obsessive when I have specific…
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Eating too much and hungry all the time
Hi, I sort of reached my first goal in spring. I went from 151 to about 127 ( +/- 2lbs) in a matter of 4 months. Ever since I am "maintaining". But I am struggling with gilt. I leave my diary set up at about 1250 calories a day, only to go over by about at least 700 cals every day! That is about 2000 cals NET every day,…
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Losing Weight to Maintain Weight
I have a few events coming up where I'd like to be able to enjoy whatever foods in whatever quantities I please (Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, etc). I'm contemplating losing, say, 5-10 pounds PRIOR to these events just so I can binge my face off. I'm guessing with water weight & massive excessive calories the 5-10…
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Which maintenance calories to eat?
I am currently moving to finding my maintenance calories intake but I have gained 1kg since then, so I am not sure if I should add on my calories intake to the weight before I gain the 1kg or after gaining the 1kg. I am also kind of worried that I may continue gaining weight. Should I stop increasing my calories intake??
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Can't reach maintenance calorie goal
So, to cut a long story short, i changed my whole diet about a year ago and took up jogging, over the last year i have lost around 2 stone in a controlled way. The problem i have now is that i am under my bmi and have lost practically all of my muscle and curves and im not very slim, i want to gain muscle and tone up,…
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who has kept weight off for 2 years
The reason I am asking is the BBC program "The men who made us thin" brought up the fact the majority of people will regain their weight after two years. Research that supports this has been described here I have also come across information that high sugar consumption affects the liver and reduces the amount of leptin…
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Do you get hungrier when trying to build muscle?
Yesterday I had a weight training session and really felt it this morning. Today I have eaten my maintenance calories and my eaten back my cardio exercise calories but I'm still sooo hungry. My stomach actually feels empty and is growling at me. Is it because I need to eat more for my muscles or what?
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Can your metabolism increase after losing weight?
I just turned 19 a few days ago so I guess you could say I'm still kind of young. I was a tiny child and became overweight around the 11-13 age mark. I lost it all and then some when I was 14. I was back and forth from then on but I never got anywhere near as big as I was when I first gained weight. The most I gained was…
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Understanding maintenance
So when you first start losing weight, its like your bmr is 1800 and its easy to make a deficit, but the more you lose the lower that number becomes, meaning what? How do you live by lowering your calories? Also I am like 175 and if I ate 2000 calories a day I would gain weight. So its odd to see people maintain at like…
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Exercise or not when finding maintenance calories
I am currently trying to find my maintenance calories intake, but I am not sure if I should continue my exercise when I am trying to find the maintenance calories intake. I am afraid that if I exercise while finding maintenance calories intake I may gain weight in the future when I do not exercise. Should I not exercise…
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Maintenance calorie without gaining weight
I've reached my goal weight and I want to increase my calories intake to maintenance level. How am I suppose to do it?? I am scared that I will gain the weight that I have lost back when I start to increase my calories intake. I will really appreaciate your advice.
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regaining some weight!
so, I had lost about 45 pounds between December 2010 and August 2012. I went from a size 13 to a size 4, and went from 191 pounds to about 143. I'm 5'9''. I was super proud of myself. I don't know what went wrong. A year and a bit down the line, and I'm now 165 pounds. I feel like an absolute failure. I feel like I did…
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Advice please
I am a 16 year old girl 5'3 currently 100 pounds after loosing 35lbs. I eat around 1440 calories a day? Is this enough to maintain weight without loosing anymore?
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Maintaining Weight - do you workout same as before
do you workout same as before after shifting to maintenance stage? my goal was to workout 1 hour everyday, but now i want to maintain my weight and wondering to slow down workout, or shift to more of Pilates and strength training? slow down running to once or twice a week? i have reached maintenance stage many times in…
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How I intend to tackle maintenance
I have been at goal about a month now - admittedly I am under my goal which was 155 and am 151 instead. I have been weighing myself every day - I understand that the body fluctuates and I have allowed myself a weight range between 150 and 157 to be in - I use the app Libra to track my weight every day - it helps keep me in…
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How to Feed the World
Omidyar, the 46-year-old French-born Iranian-American who remains chairman of the e-commerce giant he founded, wrote in a blog post that he considered buying the Washington Post – which Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos eventually snapped up – but decided he wanted to build a news organisation from the ground up. “Right…
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Heart Rate monitor
Hey all! I'm getting close to my goal weight, only 20 or so lbs to go. I've been reading a lot about maintaining to get ready for this new stage in my fitness journey. I've been thinking about getting a Heart Rate Monitor to better calculate how much I burn during exercises so I can make sure to eat everything back. I was…
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Switching to Maintenance
I'm nearing my goal weight, I'd like to move on to maintenance and focus more on toning and building a little muscle in my arms and core as I move into shift work over the summer my job will require manual handling (Lifting, shoveling material etc). My real question is, how do I move to maintenance, do I gradually over the…
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Is My Fitness Pal correct?
I'm a bit confused. Myfitnesspal says I need 1650 calories a day to maintain my weight, and then the american cancer site says i need 1780 to maintain. Not much of a difference but my question is which site is correct? today I had maybe 20 more calories then what mfp says I need. To them I'd be an ounce heavier if I ate…
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Binge eating and what to do about it...
Hey MPFers! A little background, I recently lost about 60 pounds (YAY!) but I am finding the struggle to maintain the weight loss to be much much more of a battle then it was to loose it to begin with. To loose the weight I simply found a good deficit, and ran about 5 miles a day. One year later, 50 pounds gone. I didn't…
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Determined to stay fit this winter!
Who's with me?! I'd really like to maintain my weight (123 lbs) maybe even lose a few more to 120 and do NOT want to gain the typical 7 for winter!!! I already put one on so I'm working extra hard to get back to 123. Anybody else super determined this winter to stay in great shape?! Add me! I could use some like minded…
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Meeting macros??
So sorry...... I wish I knew how to delete posts I made when the momentary insecurity of panic fades to logic and the post is no longer needed.... Now, go back to your regularly scheduled programs.AGAIN, MY APOLOGIES
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Is my body more secure in maintanance?!
Of course I could be at more of a deficit than I realise or is there another reason to lose faster now? Will I suddenly put more on? Anyone experienced this when going to maintenance? Is it just a case of my body being happy I'm eating more and so feels safer to not conserve fat anymore? I was expecting to put on the 5lbs…
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Lost 40+ lbs, in maintenance, but I am ALWAYS hungry...
...and slowly sliding back into bad habits. I used to be vigilant about logging every day, but now I haven't even been doing that either. Is this normal? Am I falling into the "getting too comfortable in my own skin" thing? I took a week off from regular logging and then decided to backtrack log what I could remember, and…