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To do maintenance calories or not?
Hi everyone! I have lost 30 lbs since January and have been eating 1,870 calories/day since January as directed by MFP when I started this journey. I have had the mindset this whole time of letting my body do what it does naturally and I felt when my body hit a weight it should be at, that my weight loss would slow or…
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Stopped losing weight.
Hi everyone! I started to work with MFP 160 days ago, lost 10 kilos on a 2200 kalories net per day and since 2 months have not lost any weght at all. Why, can anyone give me an advice? Thanks. Fredrik in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Weight loss and maintenance charts April 2015 to August 2019
I took some screenshots and thought it might help newbies to see a bit of what weight loss and maintenance looks like over 4 and a half years. Here's some pics from the app I've been logging daily in since April 2015. It's an app called Happy Scale. A typical month of weight loss, October 2015: See all the days it looked…
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calorie intake for maintenance??
Hi, I reached my weight goal and now I worry all the time about gaining weight back. I’m 18, 91lbs and 5’1, exercise for 20 minutes 6 days a week and usually i walk 5000-7000 steps daily. Is eating 1400 calories everyday too much? will that make me gain weight back?
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Please help
Ok I’m 411 91 pounds 43 years old I was eating 1180 calories a day and was losing .5 pounds a week I upped that to 1200 calories and was losing .5 pound every couple weeks I’ve upped my calories to 1300 and have gained 2 pounds in a month ? I’m at a loss and I’m set to sedentary can someone shed some light please
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Maintenance Calories
Hi (: Stats: Height: 5ft Age: 25 Completely sedentary job Monday through Friday Current Calories: 1700 Cutting Calories: 1500 Lift: 6 times a week (back/biceps, legs, and shoulders/abs/triceps) x2 Cardio: due to cutting I was walking on the treadmill everyday (speed 2.7) for an hour On July 1st I started a cut where I…
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Short females (under 5")? Could you please share your maintainence calories and how active you are?
Height Activity levels Calories/macros
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Diet and fitness fatigue
Diet and fitness fatigue I have been maintaining approximately five years. (I’ve lost over 100 pounds) I distance run and lift. I feel Ike I’m pounding myself into the ground. I have no energy to get through the rest of the day. I work out three to four times a week, I do different types of cardio for an hour. lifting…
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Scared of maintainence
Hi all, have lost about 90 pounds this past year. I’ve never eaten e exercise calories. I can’t imagine getting on the scales and it not going down. That’s going to feel like a failure. I’m basically at my goal weight, although with my bmi at 22, there is room to healthily lose more. This past month I’ve lost 11 pounds.…
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Ending a Cut
Hello! Since July 1 I’ve been in a cut where I went from 113 pounds to 109 pounds. I will be going to Columbia for about nine days and would like to know the best way to revert back to maintenance calories. My trip is in 11 days. As a sidenote, should I go over my calories during this trip, should I be concerned? My…
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Carrying calories over from prior week
I recently started maintenance. I linked my Charge 3 to MFP with "Negative Calorie Adjustments" enabled. In the last couple of weeks, at the end of the week I've had a few hundred calories leftover. It doesn't happen all the time. Do any of you carry over "below weekly goal calories" to next week? I was thinking maybe to…
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Calories/macros help
I’m 33 years old 6’1 172 pounds. I lost 30 pounds by going to orangetheory 4 days a week and consuming around 1500 calories. I want to get lean muscle. What should my calories and Marcos be? Any advise is appreciated
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Most accurate macro calculator?
My results really vary from calculator to calculator, and I want to make sure my macro count is the most accurate for maintenance. Any recommendations? Thanks!
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Net Carbs Math
Now that I am transitioning to maintenance I am going to be putting more focus on net carbs and not total carbs. While I understand its total minus fibre, what I am not sure of is how to handle a food with zero carbs, but it has fibre (konjac rice and noodles). I eat this food four or five times a week, so I want to be…
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If there was ONE thing about maintenance you would share with everyone...
what would you tell them. Me, I have been maintaining since Sept or Oct 2017 so this is the viewpoint from only about 19 or 20 months in. Others who are just starting or are longer down the road may have different ideas so please share length of time in maintenance and your one BIG takeaway if you have one. I would say for…
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Increasing calories to maintenance
Hi folks! I have been using MFP for almost a year now and am now starting to consider heading to maintenance as I am at a healthy weight (yay!), however as I have been at a significant calorie deficit for almost an entire year I have now got used to eating much less food than before. Has anyone got any recommendations on…
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Sodium
How can there be 409 sodium in 1cup egg whites if you don't add salt to the eggs.
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Weigh-in goals
Hey maintainers. :smile: What do you guys hope to see on the scale when you weigh in? Whether you weigh in daily or weekly, are you simply hoping to see a number that is within your maintenance range or do you have more strict goals that you follow? For example, is your range 145-150 lbs but hope to see a daily fluctuation…
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Protein shakes ... ugh!
Anybody else hate these things? I just turned 50, and at 6'0, 195lbs, I keep reading that I should be consuming at least 150g of protein to maintain muscle, testosterone, etc... I really struggle getting this amount of protein in my daily diet without resorting to shakes/powder (revolting), or protein bars (equally…
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Can I fix my stuck scale?
Three weeks ago I changed the battery in my scale because it wouldn't turn on. I weigh twice weekly. For two and a half weeks after changing the battery my scale registered exactly 120 (the scale measures to the .2/lb) which I became highly suspicious of after a couple of weigh-ins. I then wondered if I could make it move…
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Successfully dropping logging
My first post over here on the maintenance forum!!! Who has successfully cut back on/ stopped logging? I've been in my maintenance range several months and I'm working hard on eating a really solid whole food diet and cooking a ton... but honestly, it makes logging new recipes etc exhausting and takes a lot of the…
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What comes after cutting?
Hello, I started a mini cut in July and I’m thinking of now going back to maintenance. Prior to the cut I had gone through the process of repairing my metabolism by reverse dieting from 1200 calories to 1700. During my cut I decided to be conservative with 1500 calories and adding 1 hour of steady walking on a treadmill…
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Setting Weight Maintenance Range
I feel the most comfortable weighing 150 lbs, but I know I can't maintain this same exact weight every time I step on the scale. I decided I am going to cut down to 146 lbs to give me room to fluctuate around and thus giving me a 5 pound maintenance range. This will put me lower down in the BMI 22 unit and I hopefully plan…
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Help needed trying to figure out my maintenance calories.
I've got all my data for the last 14 weeks and I think I've calculated it correctly but would someone be kind enough to double check it for me please? 1st May - 6th August / 14 weeks / 98 days 1st May - 117lbs 6th August - 100.6lbs Total lost = 16.4lbs 16.4lbs ÷ 98 days = 0.167lbs loss per day 0.167lbs ÷ 3500 calories =…
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5’6” ladies - what are your maintenance calories?
And how active are you?? I’m 5’6” set to lightly active, 1930 cal a day. Also hit the gym 3x a week and walk an hour daily. I have only just switched to maintenance and I feel like this seems high. Anyone else eating this much and NOT gaining? Also- should I be eating exercise calories back? I thought I might just not log…
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Transitioning from weight loss to body recomp?
How did you know when it was time to refocus your efforts from weight loss to body recomposition (maintaining weight, losing fat, adding muscle)? Thanks all ❤🏋️♀️
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Wtf why did I gain 6 lbs in a week!?!
Hey everyone! So I've been maintaining my weight at 128-130...well woke up this morning to 136.4! Only difference I've done this week was: started hard core ab classes & spent the weekend in Vegas (no drinking, lots of walking, worked out there, got some sun)...what happened?! has anyone experienced this? I am freaked out…
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Maintenance too low
I basically switched the app to maintenance and have been eating lower calories 1,600 instead of the 2,000 it gives for my height of 5,6 and haven’t been losing I’m afraid once I up it to 2,000 I will start gaining any advice? Do you think 1,600 which seems quite low is indeed my maintenance amount?
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What helped you lose "the last 10?"
10 more pounds to go. I currently don't have any intense cardio in my routine, so I'm hoping that adding spin once/twice a week gets these last 10 pounds off slowly. What helped you?
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Maintaining easily vs maintaining a low weight
I feel myself getting frustrated, I've been eating at a slight deficit and I've lost roughly 2 pounds from some regain but lately it's been a kind of two step forward, one back situation. I eat at my deficit level, but then I have one-two days over maintenance and then I've netted maintenance for the week again. Which hey,…