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@AnnPT77, thanks for the above info. I recently had a bad bout of food poisoning and my weight jumped up 3 lbs. overnight. It settled itself back down within the same week and I'm back on track, but had I not been reading posts on MFP about water/waste, etc., I would probably have freaked out. I imagine mine was caused by water retention due to the inflammation the food poisoning caused in my gut, but that's just a guess. The important part is that I didn't freak out, kept to the plan, and am now back on track.
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Hello everyone, I too enjoyed reading the recent posts and glad to know I am not the only one seeing the scale go up and down, AnnPT77 your information puts it into perspective, because although I have read that all before I tend to freak-out and think this is never going to work. I am seeing a slow drop, but trying not to let the scales dictate my daily mood, and have been avoiding them, looking for changes in my clothes fitting etc to prevent my motivation from sliding. Today here is also warming into the 40's and hope to get out in a few minutes to walk. I sure do appreciate listening to what everyone is doing and giving me inspiration and hope. Have a GREAT day!3
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Hi everyone. Glad to see such an active group. Doing good, had a lovely yesterday. Danced a little, resistance band time and a great walk in the park under sunny skies.
@getthebabeback - hope you feel better soon, I couldn't help but laugh at the comment about the grand kiddos gift (one usually has a runny little nose for sure when I visit mine.) AND OH you've got me thinking about how much I need a farmers market fresh juicy peach. Spring and summer local produce and fruit can't come soon enough here.
@AnnPT77 - your info is great, keep it coming please. Today I decided to weigh in for the week a day early knowing that either way I would call the scale a "terrible matrix." I did, and now I'll put on my loose fitting jeans and head for a nice hike in the park. Don't care that the weight is the same as last week. Also, the bone broth tip for added protein and low calories almost became hazardous when my sweet kitty smelled the aroma in my cup and let me know I should have fixed him some too.
@barbiecat - hope you walk today is 100% chance of sunny. You've now got line dancing added to my bucket list.
@bacpath - keep up the good work girlfriend and @lynnchristy - thanks for the good thoughts and daily cheers.
Today will be a beautiful day in the 50's here and I'm headed to the river to walk along the great falls in the park.
Wishing all of you sunshine today. Om…
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Hello guys, 60 yr old newbie to site. Been doing crossfit at local gym for 8 months went from 285 lbs to 250 then hit the wall. Trying to track diet much closer to break through. I have completed my 1st week logging meals and exercise. I continue to be way low on protein and way above on sodium. I have not reached my calories any of the days but i'm eating a bunch it feels like. I have lost 3 lbs in the first week did 5 days crossfit during that time. I have 2 Questions and hope you can shed some light. I changed weight from 250 to 247 but my allotted calories and macros stayed the same I thought it would be a little less. I also log my exercise each day but it adds more calories and stuff when I do. I cant figure out how to just keep my calories the same and not add. I put original goals as weight loss at rate of 1 lb. per week because I believe in slow and steady. I would welcome all comments and advice. If you want me as a friend that will be great to. Thanks for reading0
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Hello guys, 60 yr old newbie to site. Been doing crossfit at local gym for 8 months went from 285 lbs to 250 then hit the wall. Trying to track diet much closer to break through. I have completed my 1st week logging meals and exercise. I continue to be way low on protein and way above on sodium. I have not reached my calories any of the days but i'm eating a bunch it feels like. I have lost 3 lbs in the first week did 5 days crossfit during that time. I have 2 Questions and hope you can shed some light. I changed weight from 250 to 247 but my allotted calories and macros stayed the same I thought it would be a little less. I also log my exercise each day but it adds more calories and stuff when I do. I cant figure out how to just keep my calories the same and not add. I put original goals as weight loss at rate of 1 lb. per week because I believe in slow and steady. I would welcome all comments and advice. If you want me as a friend that will be great to. Thanks for reading
@AnnPT77, I'm hoping you'll chime in on this, as I'm sure you can explain a lot better than I can about eating back exercise calories, etc. Throwing this out to you. . .0 -
Good morning 60 and uppers Keto Chocolate Mug Cake for breakfast, yummy
If anyone would like some recipes for keto, paleo or low carb meals here is a link to my pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/frantz_lynn/ there are numerous recipes in all these categories and more 
gunderw59, welcome You've come to the right place for info... I am sure AnnPT77and getthebabeback can help you right out. j29t, glad to see you are doing so well, congrats n2gardens56, I'm glad to hear I am not the only one going up and down... we can do this if we don't give up RCPV, goodness glad to hear you are better now (hug) food poisoning can't be fun. AnnPT77, thanks again for your wealth of knowledge and willingness to share bacpath, I'm glad you found a breakfast you like. You might find some more recipes you like at the link I posted. bethe, congrats on the 6# loss, awesome 
Have a great day everyone
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lynnchristy - thanks for posting your pinterest page. I'll definitely be checking out those recipes!0
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Hey, y'all. Walked a couple of miles with the dog yesterday and threw the frisbee around with my son and granddaughter. Lots of work to do today. I remind myself "It's good to have lots to do". And I still sit on my *kitten* way too much. Have a good week, everyone!4
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Hello guys, 60 yr old newbie to site. Been doing crossfit at local gym for 8 months went from 285 lbs to 250 then hit the wall. Trying to track diet much closer to break through. I have completed my 1st week logging meals and exercise. I continue to be way low on protein and way above on sodium. I have not reached my calories any of the days but i'm eating a bunch it feels like. I have lost 3 lbs in the first week did 5 days crossfit during that time. I have 2 Questions and hope you can shed some light. I changed weight from 250 to 247 but my allotted calories and macros stayed the same I thought it would be a little less. I also log my exercise each day but it adds more calories and stuff when I do. I cant figure out how to just keep my calories the same and not add. I put original goals as weight loss at rate of 1 lb. per week because I believe in slow and steady. I would welcome all comments and advice. If you want me as a friend that will be great to. Thanks for reading
Hi! There's kind of a lot to unpack in your post. Apolofies in advance if this turns into an essay.
Fundamentally, I think some of your goals may be somewhat at cross purposes to each other. "Slow and steady" healthy, sustainable weight loss tends to be at odds with "can't eat all one's goal calories" and not wanting to add exercise calories to one's goal.
First, as a bit of background: The calorie goal MFP gives you for weight loss does not include intentional exercise (this makes it different from many/most other calorie calculators on the web**). Therefore, it expects you to log exercise when you do it - teaching us the useful lesson that we need more fuel when we do more work, but don't have to fill up the tank as much when we do less. Therefore, it adds your exercise calories to the amount you're supposed to eat.
Think of your body as a fee-based checking account, one that requires you to maintain a minimum balance. At the start of the month, you deposit your paycheck, and pay for things across the month as needed. If your account balance drops too low, there are expensive penalties you want to avoid. So, if you have some unusual expense (say, car repair) during the month, you may need to transfer money from another account so you don't go too low, and experience those bad consequences.
Your body, of course, needs a certain number of calories just to sustain itself. When you set up MFP, and want to lose slow and steady (a good plan), it gives you a daily calorie balance that has your weight loss plan figured into it. So, you want to be trying to eat close to that number of calories, to keep on the slow and steady course. On a day when you do some exercise, that's a calorie expenditure just like that car repair was a money expenditure. You don't want to drop way below your sensible calorie balance. That means you need to eat more calories, so you stay at the same minimum balance that it takes to remain healthy, while losing slowly and steadily.
Undereating, like overspending, has penalties. They start with fatigue and weakness (which can come on suddenly - ask me how I know this
). They can go on to unnecessarily large amounts of muscle-tissue loss alongside fat loss (something we can ill afford at our age), gallbladder problems, hair thinning, and worse. Hunger is not necessarily one of the warning signs. People can feel full enough, but suddenly begin to have other bad outcomes (after a few weeks or so when undereating catches up to them).
Another analogy: If you drive your car to work every day, but not much of anywhere else, maybe you can put in 5 gallons once a week and do fine. If you suddenly take a big trip of a few hundred miles, you'd better put in more fuel, or you're going to run out of gas. Bodies aren't different. They run on food as fuel, and calories are the measure of fuel.
Now, some people worry that exercise calories might be overestimated, so they start out eating back a fair fraction (maybe 50%) for the first 4-6 weeks, and watch their weight loss rate. After that, if losing too fast on average, they eat a little more to adjust. Likewise, they'd adjust to eat less if losing too slowly (but could safely/healthfully lose faster).
If you're having difficulty eating all your allotted calories, or close, the answer is to eat more foods that are a little more calorie dense, but not (to you personally) unpleasantly over-filling. Common examples are nuts, nut butter, fattier cuts of meat or fish, more oil or butter in cooking or on foods, avocados, full-fat dairy products rather than low/no-fat, etc. If you're getting good well rounded nutrition already, and still have some calories left, it's also OK to eat some reasonable portion of treat foods that are not as nutrient dense, like ice cream, baked goods, chocolate, or alcohol. Within calorie goals, those won't impair your weight loss.
SInce you're coming in low on protein, I'd suggest working on that first. We really want adequate protein as we age (some research suggests we metabolize it less efficiently, and muscle loss is a big problem for aging health). Also, adequate protein is useful for muscle retention while losing fat, and is absolutely key to making muscular/strength progress in the gym. Use some of your calories to get more protein!
Sodium being high may or may not be a big deal. I'm over sodium often, but as I have normal blood pressure now that I'm at a healthy weight, and don't have any other health issues that would require limiting sodium, I don't worry about it. If you have reason to limit it, just start looking at your diary, see what foods are contributing a lot of it, and consider whether you can happily eat less of those, and more of some other food you enjoy that better supports your nutrition goals.
Now, about your putting in your lower weight, and not seeing goal change: If you just recorded an updated weight (and did nothing else), MFP may not update your calorie goal. Some people report MFP automatically adjusting every 10 pounds, and some don't (I think the difference might be the app version they use, not sure). If you want MFP to re-evaluate calories at any point, you can make it do so by going back through the guided set-up like you did when you started out. Three pounds loss is great, but realistically, it isn't going to make a lot of difference in your calorie goal.
Best wishes for continued success!
** In the profile settings, MFP asks your exercise in terms of what you do in your job and daily life, not including intentional exercise. It does this by estimating your NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis), the calories it thinks you burn just going through regular life, but doing no exercise. Then it subtracts calories based on your weight management goal (1 pound a week = subtract 500 daily calories), to give you a pre-exercise calorie goal to eat. Most other calculators are TDEE calculators (TDEE = total daily energy expenditure); they're estimating your daily calories including intentional exercise, then average those over the week. Either way, you want to be fueling your exercise, either as you do it, or averaged over the week. Otherwise, you're underfueling and risking too-fast loss.
If you prefer to eat the same number of calories every day, regardless of exercise level, you would want to use a TDEE calculator to create your own calorie goal, and put that in MFP manually. Then, you can either skip entering exercise, record exercise time but zero calories, or pay for Premium MFP to have more options.6 -
Thank you for responding, I will definitely use your information.2
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Another pound gone, increased my calories so maybe that's working, now 10lb more to go!
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annliz23 WTG
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Well, I kept to my plan yesterday even the wine and chocolate. I’m so proud of myself. Thanks again AnnPT. I learned a lot from your post. I have not been adding in my calories for exercise and some days it can equal 500. I will change that starting tomorrow. Congrats to all who posted losses. You inspire. My official weigh day is tomorrow, fingers crossed. Welcome newbies.5
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internet down at my house. Will respond more when it's back up 1 -
Monday greetings and welcome to the newbies. Hope all is going smoothly. Yesterday was a marvelous spring like winter day here. Before my hike at Great Falls National Park I had food logged, snack packed, lunch salad and dinner prepped in the fridge. The walk was so refreshing and challenging climbing up and down the sharp craggy rocks. I took a good rest on a big rock overlooking the river counting my blessings. The river is low, we haven't had any snow here this winter.
Life is what we make it, make it good today.
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Good morning 60 and uppersj29t, I'm inspired by your food prep, the hike and your attitude... what a wonderful place to go hiking, you go girl
barbiecat, technology is a marvelous thing when it works 
I hope you're up and running soon (hug) bacpath, wow, look at you, one day at a time, you rock It has been going well with me, sticking to my food plan and getting in some good exercise time, even if it is in the house for the most part. I started setting a timer so I am not spending excessive time sitting 
Have a wonderful day everyone
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Good morning, everyone! Well, I'm thoroughly over my bout with food poisoning now, but it threw off my weight loss efforts for the week. I've been doing the slow and steady, 1 lb. per week, and this is the first week that I didn't lose my one lb. since the beginning of the year. There's always this coming week though, so back on track and keep going.
@AnnPT77, as always, thanks for the great informative post.
@annliz23, congrats on your loss and only 10 lbs. to go! I can't wait to get there.
@j29t, what a beautiful place to go hiking. My sister lives in Roanoke. I realize that's a ways from you, but what a pretty state.
@lynnchristy, all exercise is good exercise and congrats for sticking to the food plan.
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In spite of being without TV for most of the day yesterday and without internet for over 24 hours, my cable company gets high praise from me for their customer service during the outage. It was so easy to find out first that the lack of service was the system and not just my house, second that there was a projected time for return to service, and third that they would call me when service was restored if I wanted them to. I use my computer and the internet for many business related tasks that can't be completed on my phone. Today I am a happy techno-lover. When I started on MFP, I stuck very carefully to the calories allotted to me and didn't add exercise calories until the day that I walked for two hours in the morning and came home feeling faint and dizzy. That's when I realized that I'd need to have more fuel if I planned to be more active. When I was recovering from spine surgery and could barely walk for five minutes indoors with a walker, I stayed at 1200 calories, but now that I walk for about three hours and ride my exercise bike for another three hours, I consume many more calories. It makes perfect sense to me.j29t what a beautiful place to take a hike. Barbie in NW WA 4
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Hi Everyone! I guess I'm here for a bit of a different reason than most, but I'm 61 and am good at providing support as well as needing some myself from time to time. I said my reasons are a bit different. I don't really need to lose weight although 10-15 pounds wouldn't hurt. No, I have to track my nutrients carefully as I just lost my right Kidney to cancer. They never tell you the lifestyle changes you need to make up front before surgery, but afterwards.... Keep Protein intake to less than 60 grams a day, <2000 mg Potassium per day, <2500 mg Sodium per day, 70 - 80% carbs, no red meat, no alcohol, etc..... All to keep the remaining Kidney healthy. I feel like I need to learn how to eat all over again. I've used MFP before, off and on, in an effort to keep carbs down. Now I'm back and it really is to get, be, stay healthy this time.7
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1OldSailor wrote: »Hi Everyone! I guess I'm here for a bit of a different reason than most, but I'm 61 and am good at providing support as well as needing some myself from time to time. I said my reasons are a bit different. I don't really need to lose weight although 10-15 pounds wouldn't hurt. No, I have to track my nutrients carefully as I just lost my right Kidney to cancer. They never tell you the lifestyle changes you need to make up front before surgery, but afterwards.... Keep Protein intake to less than 60 grams a day, <2000 mg Potassium per day, <2500 mg Sodium per day, 70 - 80% carbs, no red meat, no alcohol, etc..... All to keep the remaining Kidney healthy. I feel like I need to learn how to eat all over again. I've used MFP before, off and on, in an effort to keep carbs down. Now I'm back and it really is to get, be, stay healthy this time. Your reasons are as compelling as anyone else's. Having to learn to live with and love a new way of eating is a huge challenge. The motivation and the consequences are equally important. I hope you will keep coming back. Barbie in NW WA 2
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Hello 1OldSailor - welcome! I think you will find the folks here very supportive and encouraging.2
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1OldSailor wrote: »Hi Everyone! I guess I'm here for a bit of a different reason than most, but I'm 61 and am good at providing support as well as needing some myself from time to time. I said my reasons are a bit different. I don't really need to lose weight although 10-15 pounds wouldn't hurt. No, I have to track my nutrients carefully as I just lost my right Kidney to cancer. They never tell you the lifestyle changes you need to make up front before surgery, but afterwards.... Keep Protein intake to less than 60 grams a day, <2000 mg Potassium per day, <2500 mg Sodium per day, 70 - 80% carbs, no red meat, no alcohol, etc..... All to keep the remaining Kidney healthy. I feel like I need to learn how to eat all over again. I've used MFP before, off and on, in an effort to keep carbs down. Now I'm back and it really is to get, be, stay healthy this time.
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Happy Mardi Gras everyone.
No King cake on my tracker this year, just not worth the calories. Walked to the gym yesterday and worked with light weights and bicycle. After dinner I clicked on NOLA.com to watch some of the Mardi Gras parades, put on my Mardi Gras beads and got in some extra steps sashaying and marching along with the bands parading down St Charles in New Orleans.
@1OldSailor welcome. I hope MFP helps make your lifestyle changes easier to manage.
Thanks for the kind words y'all. Enjoy your day.
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Laissez les bons temps rouler
(Let the good times roll)
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Hi all,
Male starting over at 68 years. Need to lose 140 lb. Anyone can add me, need all the help I can get. Thanks6 -
Hi all,
Male starting over at 68 years. Need to lose 140 lb. Anyone can add me, need all the help I can get. Thanks Welcome. I found that being part of a thread like this was helpful. I hope you will keep coming back. It helped me to log food every day and learn more about the nutrients and calories so I could make changes to get the most nutrition from the fewest calories. I also seek every opportunity to be active. I found MFP at age 62 after many failed attempts to lose weight. This time I found a plan that worked for me.
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Good morning 60 & uppers Welcome xxBillx, you've come to the right place for encouragement and support We also have a couple of very capable info sharers that are a plethora of help and suggestions. j29t, I'm sure you had a good time watching the festivities last evening even if you don't have King cake this year ... it is worth going with out... toi aussi annliz23, bethe and barbiecat,(glad to see your're a happy techno-lover once again ) good to see you all here pledging support for another, to make our point 1OldSailor Welcome I guess you can see for yourself that this is more than a message board for weight loss it's a place where friends come together RCPV, glad you're no longer ill (hug) hang in there ... no loss, no gain means you're doing great
Have a blessed day everyone
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Thanks. I am trying to figure out the proper way to add friends..I don't think I am doing it right. I have just been sending messages. Is that how?3
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Good morning, everyone! Happy Dance (just because).
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For me fitness is like a three legged milking stool. Nutrition-Cardio-Weight Training. Leave one out and my program always feels as if I'm not quite hitting the mark. I may make gains but they are typically short lived. MFP makes the Nutritional component trackable and sticktoable : )
Cardio - Before my heart attack I ran half marathons. Now I set my sights on 5-10K distances. I like running...most days.
Weight Training - Just shoot me. I'd rather drink peanut butter. But a must it is so I set forth begrudgingly.
May your life become an example for others to follow. A true blue flame lighting the way, inspiring life and vision in the hearts of those around you.
Peter, 61. A goal weight of 160 means I have 12.6 lbs to destroy.
Make you're mark....nobody's going to do it for you.5
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