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unexpected experience
I recently hit my goal and switched to maintenance. my new calorie goal went up about 800. I am having difficulty hitting that number. I enjoy the lower cal lunches that that I switched to and I am aware of the approximate counts of food and find it hard to not pick weight friendly meals.
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Managed to maintain for 9 months
I realised yesterday I was still the same weight I was mid December and over Christmas last year. I had maintained a 14.5 stone weight loss (203 pounds). It took me nearly two years to lose that amount. I know I haven't stayed the same weight all the time but it has only gone up 5 pounds or so but always gone down again. I…
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Two weeks on MFP - just saw a drastic drop in weight
Hello everyone, I was hoping to get a bit of perspective from you guys on what I am looking at right now weight dropping wise. I joined this site exactly 15 days ago, and have been doing daily exercise for 16 days. I have a mildly active job, and had a cal allotment in the 1800's and generally I am around 20-100 short…
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Maintaining my weight, help?
I've been dieting/exercising for around 6 months and thankfully i've gotten to where i want to be! BUT i have plateaued, and this is not a problem however i'm worried that if i do less exercise/ eat more than before when i was loosing weight i might actually gain it Height: 5 ft 8.5 current weight: 136 lbs (approx) weight…
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Why am I gaining weight?
Okay, let me get this out of the way. I thought it was water weight when it first started happening, but since I've been steadily gaining since Feb, I don't think it's all water. I hit my goal (and then some) in Jan, then decided to try upping my cals a bit to maintain. I started gaining weight. I lowered the cals, and…
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My metabolism is coming back
I've lost 65 pounds, and for much of it I was eating around 1400-1500 calories gross. That is, I didn't eat back my exercise calories. Yes, that's low. Yes, I know it. So when I got to about 180 pounds, I decided I needed to stop losing, up my calories, and give my body time to get my metabolism back. I maintained weight…
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How did you change your workouts once you hit your goal??
I am getting close to hitting my goal weight (yay)...hopefully in the next few months. I am curious as to how everyone who is at maintenance has adjusted their workouts? Are you working out as much as you did while you were losing your weight or have you cut back a bit on the exercise? Did you cut back on the cardio and…
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The 'skinny fat' issue and maintaining..
Hey guys, So just looking for some advice/opinions from others on here that might be or were in a similar position to me I weigh 112 pounds right now, height 5ft3...i'm at my desired weight, from various calculations and tracking over time i've worked out my bf to be around 23%, right now i'm overall quite happy with my…
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maintaining despite slump
I am kind of in a bad place right now, where I just don't have the energy to eat. I logically know that I am wreaking havoc on my metabolism. When I have to go somewhere i'll grab aLluna bar, but when I'm home i'll eat yogurt, cereal, and coffee whey protein powder in it. I know this is nowhere near enough. Ill exercise to…
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Maintenance is Scary!
I am now in maintenance mode and trying to figure out my new calorie goal. I am 28, 5'4" and 120 pounds. When I was losing I was eating about 1600 calories with eating exercise calories back. I've been slowly upping calories 100 per week to see what will work but with just an 100 calorie increase this week I gained 1.5…
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Question on maintenance calories amount
Hi all! I joined MFP in july 2013, but this is my first post: I'm rather shy and not English native speaker, so please bear with me :flowerforyou: I lost fairly quickly and easy the weight I wanted to, and now I would like to switch to maintenance. My question for you: I see around fairly high amount of cals for…
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Calories on rest days to maintain
I'm wondering what people's opinion/thoughts are on calorie intake on rest days? I am an avid runner and run, on average, 6-7 days a week and average about 50-55 miles a week. I am wondering if you consume the same number of calories on rest days as you do on workout (running) days or if you scale back? I'm in maintain…
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Maintaining in college?
So the time has (finally) come for me to leave my childhood home and live on my own and attend college. I'm just a tad worried about the notorious "freshman 15". However, it's not as if I'm going to be gorging myself of pizza, cookies and ice cream day in and day out seeing as my weight loss journey has long since…
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Group Challenge
I woke up this morning feeling a bit hefty from the past couple of weekends. (I blame football) I am starting a 3 week commitment to a Healthy Eating group. We share healthy recipes, goals, struggles, tips, tricks, motivation and truly hold each other accountable. What better time than right now? Do you need extra support?…
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Pretty much at goal....
But always room to lose a little more. I am 42 years old, lost 90 lbs. and am looking for other "successful" people who have lost large amount of weight as well to be friends with. I am very active, and do have minor set backs with splurging a bit, but for the most part I am in this to win this! I run, walk, bike,…
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food diary help
hello, I have already put a post up similar but was wondering if someone can look at my food diary 8/9/13 and give me some tips, this would be my normal daily routine, I want to have a healthy balanced diet and need advice on maybe adding new food or cutting back on some, thank you :)
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No fanfare for achieving weight loss goal?
Does MyFitnessPal really NOT give any fanfare or congratulations for achieving your weight loss goal? Fitbit said, "Goal met. Woohoo!" Nothing from MFP? MFP got me there more than my Fitbit did! Thanks, MFP! :-)
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Question about switching from gaining to maintaining?
I still have some ways to go before I reach the healthy weight I have targeted for myself. I'm just curious and in need of a little clarifying! To gain: I need 1,930 calories. Once I get to my goal weight, MFP and other websites I've played around with have calculated that I will need 1,680. But the low weight I am at…
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Minimizing weight gain after eating below 1500 calories
I started cutting weight at 1500 calories at the start of the year and then slowly started eating less and less till I got the the point of around 1000 calories per day. I find with water weight fluctuations I weigh in around 135-140lbs at 6'0. I think my metabolism may be shot, how do I bring it back up to speed without…
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please help with calories?!? so lost
So basically I lost some weight on 1300 calories give or take (just a high school student) at a healthy weight now. I'm trying to maintain however I keep loosing 1 pound per week even though I increased about 100 calories. I'm at a TOTAL loss on what amount I need to maintain my weight. I'm 18 years old, a high school…
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Maintaining for over a year - Looking for more friends
Hello! I have been maintaining for over a year after losing ~70 pounds. I am looking for friends that are in the same boat. I plan on using MFP for a lifetime. Most of my "friends" abandoned me... :) I exercise almost daily and try to eat clean (when I can). I track all my calories consumed in MFP and I track my exercise…
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Maintenance friends wanted
Hi everyone! I have a wonderful group of people on my FL but I'd love to add some friends who are in maintenance, especially reformed yoyo dieters like me. I've just recently switched my settings to maintenance a couple of weeks ago and I want to do this right!
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started eating a lot during a day, please help!!
I've lost 22 kilos in 4-5 months and now.. these 3 days I started eating again, like, a lot, I try to tell myself off, but nothing seems to help. Can you help me and advise something. Maybe tell me what I should do, distract myself with when I really feel like eating something that is a lot more than a usual portion for a…
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more friends
I am 51 years old and joined MFP in February this year. So far have lost 39 pounds I am looking for more friends to support each other on this journey. I log in Everyday and keep in touch with Everyone . I have a open Diary. Please feel free to add me Thank you Sheila
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Help for maintaining weight and gaining lean muscle?
Hi all, New to MFP from Brisbane, Australia. Successfully logging meals and exercise for just over two weeks and really getting into the routine. The fitness lifestyle is already quickly becoming an obsession and I'm loving it! A bit of back story. I lived in Germany for 6 months from Sep 2012 to Feb 2013 and gained about…
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gained 3 pounds in one week vacation...
I have finally reached my goal a month ago and maintained it throughout the month but then I went on a one week vacation are we ate at restaurants every meal except breakfast. I did choose healthy choices vegetables seafood over fried food but I did eat a little more than usual problem is now I weigh 3 pounds more and it's…
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calorie cycling for maintenance
In another discussion, it occurred to me that I am doing this. Not for any purposeful metabolic related purposes, just because it is easier to do than coming up with the magic formula for a maintenance diet. So I try to be reasonable but eat what I want a day or two and then throw in a day that is pretty much straight out…
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Glycogen questions and I can't find the answer anywhere!!
Hey guys.. I was just wondering.. should I keep my glycogen levels up, which means those 2-4 pounds of water weight up too ? NOT LOOKING FORWARD LOSING WEIGHT just to maintain! :) Please answer :(
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i'm burnt out on tracking
does anyone else feel this way? i'm so sick of tracking everything and being so anal about every last detail of every single thing i eat or drink. i'm very heavily considering not tracking anymore. i'm about 6 weeks away from a year of steady logging. i'm just sick of it. i feel like over these past months i've gotten a…
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increasing bf % help
I've screwed up my maintenance a bit I got down to - and have maintained for 2 months - a steady weight of between 115 and 119lbs Followed various advice - Eat clean (mostly) and eat protein and good fat in every meal. Eat 100cal below maintenance 6days a week then over 1 day a week (ie friends round for supper etc) do 3…