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tak2usoon
tak2usoon Posts: 2 Member
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Hello I am trying out myfitnesspal. I have to serious about this and I dont know exactly how to follow this program. Any help would be appreciated. Do you have a meal plan for the day to get me started?

Thank you

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  • skinnyrev2b
    skinnyrev2b Posts: 400 Member
    Hello!
    This isn't a program - it's a tracking tool with a community sourced database and a great community vibe.
    I'm sure you can find links to just about any dieting program you'd like - and can find out what real people think about it... just enter the details into the search button.
    What's most helpful for peeps on here though is to go through the initial setup = entering height, weight, gender and current activity level (not intentional exercise, that gets counted separately in your daily diary) but what you do day to day - for instance I'm set as not-very-active as I'm mainly office based. However I've clocked up 8k in steps and done a 7 mile bike ride today. These are intentional activities that I've logged separately.
    Once you've told it how much you'd like to lose a week (1lb is probably the safest), MFP will spit out your daily calorie allowance and you then chose what you'd like to 'spend' your calories on. So head on over to the dairy, enter your day's food choices and see what that adds up to. Don't worry too much about going over on these to begin with - just begin to notice what's 'worth it' - to you - in terms of calories and what's less satisfying.
    Don't try to do too much too soon - just log. Eventually you'll want to get a food scale to accurately measure things. You'll want to check the labels to make sure the database is accurate (cos it's community sourced, as mentioned above. Things change. Mistakes were made etc etc). And you may - in time - want to check other things than calories (protein/carbs/fat depending on your diet-of-choice)... but ultimately the whole thing is based on a simple formula...
    Calories in (what you consume) should, over the week, be less than the calories you burn (by existing and by intentionally moving) for you to lose weight. The difference between those two determine how quickly that loss happens.
    Lastly, please remember that weight loss isn't linear. The scale can, and will, go up as well as down. It's called 'life'. Just learn to roll with it. Make sure Calories in are less than calories out and you won't go far wrong!
    Good luck!

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