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Maintenance issues.
According to MFP I am ok to eat 1850 calories on maintenance mode. I read in several places that it's ok to eat back calories you burned from exercise. I don't always do that and more times than not end up eating around my regular 1850 maintenance amount. I work out 6 days a week, Insanity Max30 for 5 of those days and one…
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Losing when the sums say I shouldn't
OK, so I realise my title might have some people rolling their eyes. I mean "why complain about a good thing?" I started back in April with about 20-25lbs to lose. I also just wanted to get fitter and improve my shape. I joined a gym and have been running, spinning and doing Bodypump (mainly the latter) all pretty…
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Maintainers weekly Check-in August 2017
Hey there maintenance friends old and new!!! This thread is a continuation from the previous month. The aim of this thread is to have a weekly weigh-in check for some accountability or support. Name: Age: Height: Total Weight lost: Time it took to lose: How long in maintenance: Maintenance weight range: Average weight…
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Weight Maintenance
Male, 32, 145lbs, 5 days lifting on progressive program. I recently hit my target goal of 145 on a 1600 calorie diet. I now want to maintain and by calculating myself (not with MFP) I came out to 2300 calories a day. I manually entered my own calories and macros into MFP. Yesterday I entered all my food into MFP, was only…
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Scared to gain weight?
So I've lost 40 pounds total. I'm happy where I'm at, 129 today and I count my calories still and everything. Everyday I have over 500 calories remaining. I'm trying to maintain my weight however everyone around me says I should eat more because I'm not eating enough. I go to the gym 5 days a week. Lift weight and do…
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Recomp success
Has anyone here had success with doing a body recomp that would be willing to share their before/after pics. I'm trying to decide if I want to do recomp or a lean bulk. I've been going back and forth with both for the last two months. I'm at my goal weight but bf is around 20 to 22%. I get mixed answers from both sides as…
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Question On Maintenance Weights
I am not sure how to word this. But. I am grappling with the issue of what weight to maintain. I have been relatively comfortable at my current weight but three years ago I was 12 Ibs heavier and a great deal stronger and fitter. I got a little caught up and obsessed with the scale number again (happens when I am stressed)…
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Eating more but still losing weight.
So I went from 200 pounds to 170 which was my goal weight. Changed that data in the app to maintain that weight and started eating more calories per day. I'm still losing weight and am down to 165. Not saying it's a bad thing but was wondering if anyone else has this issue.
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Running=Happy, Fit=Happy
In putting more and more into the idea that exercise daily make me happy. I'm not sure what else does.
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Looking for Calorie Dense Healthy Foods
Gaining weight is easy, grab a pizza 6-pack of beer and sit on the couch. Losing weight is easy when I am active I lose weight while consuming 3,000-4,000 calories a day. However, maintaining my weight while remaining active and eating healthy has always been a problem because then I need to consume near 5,000 calories a…
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Weight Management Takes Practice...
Really good short post by Brad Pilon on the "practice" of weight management... http://bradpilon.com/weight-loss/practice/
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Glycogen replenishment vs true weight gain?
How long should my trend line keep going up when glycogen is restored? I've been assuming that it happens over a few days, and that an upward moving line 2-3 weeks out from upping cals is true weight gain?
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Just ate over 1000 cals of Graham crackers :(
Ugh! My kids don't start school until next week and they are driving me CRAZY!!!! So obviously when I had two seconds alone without them, I ate over 1000 calories of Graham crackers. Not sure where to go from here... I guess low carb the rest of the day? Sigh....
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Re-comping but trying to make sense of macros / carb cycling / IF
I'm female, 33 years old, 5'5", 126lbs. I'm eating at maintenance at about 1600 calories. I've been lifting in the evenings 2-3 days a week with the StrongLifts 5x5 program for about 4 months now. I pay attention to calories and eat pretty healthy balanced meals, but haven't really paid attention to macros. My lifts are…
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Deciding on a goal weight
How did everyone decide on a goal weight ? I know a lot just go by the BMI charts but wondered the reasons if anyone else chose differently. I already weigh less than I did when I graduated high school and about 17 pounds away from the goal I set for myself. I don't think its too drastic but people that have known me my…
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Protein Shakes Newbie
Hi Looking for a bit of guidance as I am a little clueless.. At the point where I want to stop losing weight but become more lean and reduce BF percentage. Diet wise I am pretty good, the occasional chocolate/booze session here and there (we are only human) but overall I am quite good, eat a lot of protein, salads, veggies…
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Keto diet?
Anyone else trying this? Any success/horror stories? I just began a few weeks ago after a 5 day water fast. So far so good but I'm wondering is it safe long term for weight maintenance or should just be a short term weight loss diet plan?
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Scared to lose progress
I'm happy with my weight of 103.2 at 5ft 3 and definitely don't want to lose any more. I'm afraid if I up my calories from 1200 to what I'll need to maintain, I'll start overeating. It's like I don't trust myself not to overeat if I allow myself more food. Is this a normal fear?
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44yr old crossfit
Reading the threads just wondering what sort of age groups you are all at. I'm pretty good at logging and maintaining macros whilst eating mostly clean but gaining muscle is a battle. I'm at 15% bf and 87kg looking to get to around 85kg but not lose any of the lean muscle I have. Macros are set at 40/30/30 C/P/F. I train…
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Maintaining & Recomp with Thyroid Issues
I hope this is ok on this board, as its kind of a two part question. I was recently diagnosed with Graves Disease. I'm relatively asymptomatic... some heart palpitations, eye pain, and neck pain, but not really anything else. Not even loosing weight unexpectedly which is a Graves hallmark. Anyway, my white cell count is…
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My scale
I keep weighing myself.... My scale enters it by Wi-Fi so it's cool to see!! Lol
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A good decision for every occasion
Getting sober. Over 5 years here✊✊
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Huge difference between calorie targets
So I was changing my goals on MFP and found that if I changed from a weight loss caloric intake to a maintenance caloric intake there was a huge difference. Like 800 to 900 calories a day. Has anyone else found this when changing goals?
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Maintaining weight but gaining muscles?
Ok i am 130 5'5 my macros are CARBS: 209 G PER DAY. PROTEIN: 140 G PER DAY. FATS: 52 G PER DAY.. Im really confused it says i need to eat 2100 calories a day but im not sure if im considered lightly active or not lol. My exercises are at home using 10-20lb weight i do monday 35 minutes of cardio then 30 minutes of abs.…
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Sugar in my Diet
I am very careful with the amount of sugar I take in but the majority of my sugar comes from the apple and grapes I eat. Do I need to count this for the amount I am sugar I am allowed to take in?
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Books/articles on recomping?
I posted a similar thread in gaining weight, but it seems this may be a better place for it. After years of losing weight (meanwhile having and feeding babies), I'm ready to be done with weight loss. Are there any books or other references you would recommend for someone looking to recomp what they have? I'm not in a huge…
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Maintaining at 120-125 pounds anyone?
What does this look like for you? How many calories a day is this? What is a typical breakfast/lunch/dinner? If anyone has an open diary maintaining at 120-125 I'd love to take a look. I still have not reached maintenance but I am so looking forward to it. Just incase its relevant I am 5'4. Goal 120-125ish. 33 yrs old. 4…
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Maintain, but lose belly fat? Is there a way?
Hello, so I'm 21 and I've always done sports and gym so yeah I'm in shape, but for as long as I can remember I've never been able to get abs. Last week I decided to fully commit to getting them and I started to do some reading, and to make a long story short I decided to get into a high caloric deficit (if you put your…
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Might be having surgery in the next month or so-- any ideas on how to maintain/keep fit as I recover
I am really, really hoping to be a living liver donor, possibly in the next month or so. So far the testing has gone really well. The woman who needs the liver is a young mom. So I really hope this works (that my liver is compatible). The thing is, I only have one worry-- that I will gain my weight back after surgery. As…
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Daily weight variation
Hi, folks. I'm within days of being able to switch from weight loss to weight maintenance (yay!) and have a question. My sense is that my plan will be something like this: 1) eat the appropriate number of calories to maintain my goal weight 2) weigh myself regularly (daily?) 3) if my weight goes too high or too low, adjust…