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Well, Hello there, Plateau...
In the last nine months, I have lost 29 pounds... During those nine months, I struggled; it was really tough. And I am still faced with challenges, even now. Lately, there's just been so many celebrations at work. So much food in so many days! A little bit of this, a little bit of that won't hurt, right? Wrong. If you've…
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Interesting article
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weight-loss.html?_r=0
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What nutrition supplements do yountake while maintaining?
Been focusing on maintaining since January this year and have focused on recomp to gain lean muscle mass. Was curious what you folks have been incorporating in your diets or weekly routines. I try and do strength training 3 to 5 times a week and hiit cardio twice a week. After workouts I have been taking a whey protein or…
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Rapid Weight Loss is Not the Culprit!
OK, so by now the Biggest Loser study is lighting up the boards. It's a good study. The research is solid. Here is a quote from the study: "Rapid weight loss, such as that experienced by “The Biggest Loser”participants, is sometimes claimed to increase the risk of weight regain, but recent studies have failed to support…
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Found my equalibrium!
I just eat when I feel hungry. If I eat too much at one meal, I find that I don't want to eat much for the next. Biggest thing was societal pressure. If you're at a meal and you only get a cup of soup, it looks bad. I mention that breakfast was four chorizo and egg tacos, and that somehow makes up for it. As a large man…
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Cravings
Okay people of My Fitness I need help controlling cravings. I can not help it food is too good these days and with Facebook having all those great food vidoes and great restaurants out there it's really hard not to eat out or good tasting but bad for you food. It's not like I eat and eat and eat but I need to figure out…
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Freaking out
I've been working on a maintenance diet for about 2 weeks. I am tracking faithfully and almost never go up to 1600 calories. Most days it's between 1300 and 1500. I go to a gym and work with a personal trainer 3 times a week and on other days I ride a recumbent bike for 1 hour. I've gained 6 pounds. What should I do??? Do…
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Exercise calorie question.
I have been tweaking my calories trying to maintain, MFP says that as a sedentary female weighing 102.3 pounds and being 5 ft 1 (156cm so close enough) I should eat 1350, fitbit gives me 1295 if I do very little, anyway I was still losing on 1350 so I increased by 100 per day and problem was sorted. But I am enjoying being…
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Why are calories going down after goal?
I hit my goal after 235 days of eating 1,500 net calories per day. 185 lbs to 158 lbs. So why does My. Fitness pal say to eat 1,200? Why are calories going down after goal? I don't get it. Any ideas?
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How to balance calories
I reached my goal weight Sunday (yay!). I have been very careful about everything I eat - bringing my lunch to work every day, not eating out, etc. Today, the company provided a special lunch which never happens, and I ate and enjoyed it! When I figured up my calories, it totaled over 900!! It wasn't that much food, it was…
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Lessons Learned & Learning 29: 870 Days of Maintenance
Prior maintenance updates: 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 120 days, 150 days, 180 days, 210 days, 240 days, 270 days, 300 days, 330 days, 360 days, 390 days, 420 days, 450 days, 480 days, 510 days, 540 days, 570 days, 600 days, 630 days, 660 days, 690 days, 720 days, 750 days, 780 days, 810 days, 840 days. The vertical red…
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Maintenance is Hard...Sharing My New Plan
I wanted to introduce myself. I'm new to maintaining and so far I'm pretty bad at it. I really don't want to gain the weight back, and I've been reading this board for advice. I've lost ~ 25 pounds on Weight Watchers over the last year. I know people have a lot of issues with WW, but overall it worked for me at a time when…
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Need some advice for temp weight maintaince
Home for another 4 weeks recovering from a surgery...need to maintain current weight until I'm able to exercise again...please share thoughts and any advice
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My goals.
I don't know if anyone will reply but I currently weigh at 10st 6lbs now under maybe and I did weigh 13st 2lbs. I made this leap in 5 months and now at the weight I want to be have found myself happy again. However I'm so used to my diet of eating less and constantly checking labels and not eating foods I don't know how to…
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Does maintaining weight get easier after a year?
Hi, new here, just joined today :) with everything in the news I got pretty depressed. But then I found this article and wanted to get it straight from the horses mouth. Do you guys find that maintaining is easier after a year? Or is it always super hard like they say in the NYT article?…
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Would love some new friends to encourage each other to maintain our weight and get in better shape !
I am open to all different types
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During Injury
Hi i'm a golfer who usually goes to the gym 6 days a week and walks alot yet i've managed to fracture my pars in my spine and am out for 2 months with no excercise except on a spinner. How do I minimise strength loss? Thanks, Robbie.
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Miss seeing the numbers drop!
I lost 85 lbs over the course of a year and I'm in maintenance now. Every day I get on the scale (old habits die hard) and every day it says 126-127. There's still a part of me that wants to see that number drop even though I'm happy with where I'm at. I assume that after eating in a deficit for so long it's just going to…
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Gaining it back; NYT article
I'm a newspaper carrier and today while I was bagging my route I noticed an article on the front page of the New York Times about the contestants of The Biggest Loser. I was running late so I didn't have time to read the article in full but I did scan it. Apparently a good many of the contestants on that show regain all…
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Coldest spring ever
Usually this time of year I am in sandals and short sleeve shirts just loving the spring weather! Well, this year I am freakin freezing all the time! I really want to wear my cute sandals and new clothes but I can't concentrate at work because I'm numb lol. Do you ever adjust after you've been maintaining weight loss for a…
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Protein shakes
I'm trying to cut some belly fat down for my lower abs and I'm wondering will drinking 2 or 3 protein shakes a day help that or not help that? I workout 4 days a week for an hour and fifteen minutes and I'm trying to cut the fat without loosing too much weight (202lbs) so I'm trying to reach at minimum 202g protein/day.…
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Stopping smoking & trying to lose some weight
Just wanted to ask if there's anyone else out there who has stopped smoking & maintained their weight? I'm trying to watch what I eat & log calories etc because I really don't want to put (too much) weight on. I've been smoking for 10 years week 3 of not smoking but I'm literally bored. I haven't stopped eating everything…
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Maintaining weight
Ok, well its almost may I'm maintaining weight now So i put that i'm sedentary, and then i add the exercise i do - runnin, going to the gym, walking So should i eat the calories from the exercises? And if you go 1 day under calories and other day over calories by the same amount, thats nothing, correct? Just wondering…
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Trying to learn to eat again
I am meant to be maintaining but I am having trouble reaching my calories now I have shed my bad habits - mainly excess chocolate. Any ideas? I don't want to lose any more.
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When will my metabolism adjust?
After seeing a nutritionist (for ED recovery) I was told that I should be eating approximately 2000 calories/day. I'm 5' 1'', 21 years old, petite framed, exercise 60+ minutes daily, and I'm at a healthy BMI. I have been severely restricting my intake (<800 cals) for 10 +yrs. How long will it take for my metabolism to…
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Almost to maintenance!
I'm so excited to be almost there! A few months ago, I had decided to switch my focus to fitness and see where the numbers fell, but the last few weeks I've tried really hard to stay in a deficit. I finally chipped away at a few pounds and I'm almost to my actual goal! 1.5 pounds to a new low weight and 5 pounds to goal!…
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Maintain weight but lose inches?
Can I eat at my maintain weight goal and still tighten this tummy? I'm super anxious about upping my intake seeing as I still feel like I have a tiny amount of fat kicking around in my stomach area. I want it to flatten out but on my one off day from the gym (without my workout calories) I have a hard time staying in my…
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Trying to push my body to the next level and get ripped.
Hey, my name is Patrick and I recently just started back on my fitness pal. I am looking for moral support to keep logging in and burn many calories and also get the body I want for the summer
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supposed to maintain but still losing..
I have lost 46lbs in about 5 months and hit my goal in December and have been pretty much been maintaining since then. this week is my TOM, and naturally I would feel hungrier sometimes and reach for snacks i normally would resist. I expected after a "snack binge", the scale would be up the next morning. instead the last…
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Maintenance for 18 months ... now want to lose 5 more lbs. Anyone done this? Advice?
I reached a goal weight 18 months ago( 40 lbs. lost), but it was not THE goal weight I originally set. I have maintained successfully/easily for all this time, but am now ready to lose the last 5 lbs. I have cut back from my TDEE (1600-1800) to my weight loss cals (1250+gym cals), and am beginning to see some loss. I am…