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Trying to maintain and/or lost fat/build thigh muscle at 120
https://imgur.com/a/yvGuTiS 5'5", F28, I feel way more comfortable with how my body looks at 120 (right and bottom pic) and could even stand to lose some fat/build muscle from the thighs, but I find it hard to maintain this weight for a long time. If I'm not calorie counting but still eating well and working out I tend to…
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Eating excessive calories burned
Should I be eating the calories I burn at the gym ? Or should I just stick to set calories . I burn 310 to 400 usually at the gym if that helps.
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How Many Calories Should I Eat?
Hi all, I need a little bit of advice. I'm currently in the 110-115lb range, 26 year old female, and 5 foot 4. I burn about 500 calories a day with a combination of stationary bike/walking. My question is, how many calories would be advisable to maintain my current weight? I am a little worried I may be a bit under and…
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Maybe I'm Maintaining?
On June 17, 2019, I was 198-200 lbs at 6'. I'm a 73 years old male. I've been at 173-174 lbs. for three (3) weeks which has been my goal. My daily calorie goal has been 1,700 (which I established) with a sodium goal of 1,500 mg. I've been under my weekly calorie goal nearly every week by as must as 300-500 calories because…
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Protein Shake Question, Answers/Help Appreciated!
Hello everyone :) , I hope everyone has a great weekend, for those who have weekends off work anyway. I work from 3pm-midnight Monday-Friday, so I have to rely on protein shakes to get my daily protein, carb, and calorie total. I know this part should be maybe posted in recipe forums, but I also have a question to maintain…
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Unsuccessful transition
I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the proper forum, so I aplogize but I could really use all of your help. I was transitioning into maintenance for a few months. I started in about May/June to increase my calorie intake because I was severely restricting myself unintentionally. For some basic information, I'm 5'6",…
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Gaining while training for a HM
I'm training for my first half-marathon (1 month to go), and I've definitely fallen into the weight gain issue that many articles discuss (see below). It's just really hard not to over-eat after a long run. You need to eat more the day of, but I've been ravenous the day after, which is usually a rest day where you don't…
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Maintainers with Fitbit how accurate is your data?
Just curious how accurate in maintenance you think your fitbit "calorie in and out" is? I don't really use MFP or Fitbit but the TDEE method to maintain but I do log daily. It is interesting to me to see that while I was losing my TDEE was 1850. Fitbit generally thinks I should eat 2100 or 2200 most days depending on my…
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To maintain or to lose those last 15...
I've been maintaining my weight easily for the last 18ish months... (stopped losing spring 2018 sometime). I lost 115lbs over about 3 years using MFP. I'm 28F, 29 soon, 5'5" and 165. My goal had been to lose into a healthy weight range, but early 2018 decided to take a break for maintenance while I worked on figuring out…
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September Check In
1. The aim of this thread is to have a weekly weigh-in check for some accountability and support. 2. Copy the form below by copy-pasting and edit to suit your personal schedule, then fill in your information and post each week. 3. Have a successful month, whatever your maintenance/health goal(s) may be!! Name: Age: Height:…
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Almost there!
I reached the top end of my maintenance weight today! Will keep going for a bit to get into the middle to lower end, then start adding 100 cals a week and keep monitoring. I just wanted to say thank you for all the advice on here, I'm a reader but not much of a poster. Libra has helped me keep my spirits up and I've been…
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Summer weight gain
So I’m getting back on track and waking up from the summer stupor. I hit my goal in May and gained 5lbs by the end of summer. Really seems counterintuitive since I was working so hard to feel comfortable in my bathing suit by summer! LoL! Anyone else gain weight in the summer or is it just me?
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Did anyone else decide the last few pounds just weren’t worth it?
I’m a 5’10 female and used to be 128#-130# in college. I’d classify myself as sedentary overall, though I do physical activities like hiking and surfing on weekends. My weight stays between 150-155 pounds when I don’t track calories. However, I always seem to be in this vicious yo yo cycle of getting back down to about…
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Fun
the app is fun
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Calorie amount
How do I change my calorie amount? Its showing 1200 & I would like to increase it up to 1500 because it's not enough?
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Smart Scale Recommendation?
Hi there! My husband detests our old scale we use. He complains about it multiple times a week. I'd like to surprise him with a nice new one. He and I both use myfitnesspal to track food, he uses myfitnesspal to track weight daily, and I use my Fitbit app to track my weight daily. What is a good scale that might be able to…
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SCARED to gain
I figure this would be the best place to post and read until my eyeballs cross. I am 57. 5'5" and have gone from 215 to 142 in a year. This is the 2nd time I've lost alot of weight--in 2013 I lost 88 lbs but gained 63 back. I'm in a smaller size than I was the first time--from an 18 to an 8! Here's the thing.....I'm SCARED…
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Healthy BMI
I’ve reached MY personal goal and now want to try to stay there or thereabouts, just checked & my BMI is sitting at 26.5 so I’m still about 9lbs over, now I know this is what is classed as healthy for my height but I feel good at the moment & just don’t want to put weight back on, I’ve had lots of celebrations since…
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I finally lost all the weight.
My story is simply this: I took on a new job, the stress was killing me, I packed on 15 pounds, and finally decided I wanted to lose it all and fast (and I mean fast-unhealthy). It sucked losing weight that way. I felt like *kitten* most of the time. Despite all that, I finally lost 12 pounds, and I am now pretty much the…
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Rapid Weight Gain AGAIN
Hey everyone! So a few months ago I had noted that I was gaining weight at a very rapid pace (somewhere around 6lbs in 10 days to 142 at the highest point) when I was previously maintaining (around 136-137). I posted about the issue here, and noted that I was under stress with examinations, recently stopped drinking…
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August Maintainers Back On Track
I’m finding this thread really helpful, so I’m keeping it going for August. This challenge is specific to Maintainers who may have lost a little enthusiasm along the journey to better health or simply need to refocus efforts - let’s use this space as a discussion / accountability thread to get back on track and ultimately…
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Darn BMI Weight
I work out and log in daily and my weight has gone down significantly. However, the dreaded BMI is stuck on stupid. Anyone has any suggestions or advice. Feel free to add me for daily support.
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What does it mean to eat 'at maintenance'?
I've seen lots of folks refer to this, and it must have some kind of a formula attached to it, but for those of us who are kind of new, what exactly does this mean and how do we translate this into specific amounts, cals, etc? Thanks. I'm especially interested in how to do this on the way to getting to my goal weight that…
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Yo-Yo Here We Go.....Again!!!!
Looking for some knowledge bombs or experiences that you think might help a cyclical dieter. I believe I am the definition of the yo-yo dieter. I lean out, pig out, lean out, pig out worse than last time, lean out....I always keep on track of my macros until i see im 95% of the way to fully fledged abs and then BOOM…
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My Aria
Is anyone’s Aria not working proplerly? I’ve been loosing weight but it’s telling me I have 11.5% body fat. Down from 26% in 3 months. I don’t believe it. I’ve haven’t been working out. Just watching my calories. Weight dropped from 135 to 128 in the same amount of time.
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Gaining weight
Lost 4 and a half stones over a few years. Can someone help me with advise how to gain muscle. Without looseing anymore weight at the momemt. I lknow resistance training and protein. What about my caleroies. Still overweight i dont want to be thin i want to feel firmer and stronger. Thankyou. X
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1600 to maintain with high carb/low fat, trying to find maintenance with low carb
I am actually trying not to lose weight. On carnivore keto I am seeing that maintaining my weight is a problem. I keep dropping and I am averaging between 1800-2200 a day. I am doing both intermittent fasting as well. I don't want to change everything. So i will change one thing. That thing is to add extra protein. If this…
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Not many calories in maintenance!!
So, this morning I have adjusted my settings to maintenance and the adjusted calorie target is only 1560. This is not much more than I had when I was losing weight. It’s not a problem- i just wanted to moan that I assumed it would be more!
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BMI vs feeling comfortable
Hi all! So far I've lost 4 stone and 5 pounds which I'm really proud of. I only want to lose another 2 pounds which makes me a comfortable uk 10 with a healthy body fat percentage. My quandary is my bmi at 5ft 1inch will be 24.9. That is the maximum for healthy. Is it important to get further into a healthy bmi eg. 23 or…
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Inexplicable weight gain
After six plus years of successful maintenance, I'm having trouble. I log and all the numbers looks good. But for the past year, every time I travel, I gain 5 pounds. These are short trips and I log the whole time - I know I'm not over-eating. I figure it's water from salt and flying (my ankles blow up like balloons). It…