MFP's most common user pitfall to avoid

ladyhawk00

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Mhaney

I think the goal weight that MFP has suggested for me is way under what I should actually weigh to be healthy, I'm built like a redneck (broad shoulders, wide frame) and to weigh that little at my height would look sickly.

hedleyrocks247

THANK YOU BANKS!!!!!!! Once again, well said!!! BRAVO!!!!! :happy:

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Swimgoddess

I'm up to page 2 right now, I'm hoping somewhere between there and here you did put up those goal weight range calculators & tables you mentioned on page 1.

I'm set for maintenance right now though with my body comp being 19.8%BF, there is probably anywhere between 40-300 calories deficit/day.

I've decided it's more important to me to maintain my lean mass and get my BF% down to 15%.

My sense of self worth is tied more to how I look in the mirror now more than what the scale says.

Last month was the first month I didn't feel anxiety over gaining 2lbs of ToM weight. It stuck around 4 days before I lost it all plus half a pound.

I am a bit guilty of having an ideal in my mind of the place I was at physically (it seems to just me though that wants to throw in a big whiny "ONLY") 5 years ago at 25 after having 2 of my 3 kids. I've leaned to absolutely adore the hips and lower WHR ratio childbearing has given me though

Thanks for this post! I'm slowly but surely coming around I think...

Angeloftheshore

I applaud you for this. At first I had set my calories at the bottom line of 1200. All while proclaiming I wanted a liveit plan and not a diet. I realized I was hungry and setting diet goals for myself. So I set my calorie goals for my ideal weight range. Yes, I am losing slower now. But I feel much more comfortable with my food allowance daily and feel like I am living a healthy lifestyle now and not just a diet. It has allowed me to actually know what I can and cannot eat for my goal weight range, and that is perspective I needed for a lifetime of change and not just a quick fix!

SHBoss1673

I'm up to page 2 right now, I'm hoping somewhere between there and here you did put up those goal weight range calculators & tables you mentioned on page 1.

I'm set for maintenance right now though with my body comp being 19.8%BF, there is probably anywhere between 40-300 calories deficit/day.

I've decided it's more important to me to maintain my lean mass and get my BF% down to 15%.

My sense of self worth is tied more to how I look in the mirror now more than what the scale says.

Last month was the first month I didn't feel anxiety over gaining 2lbs of ToM weight. It stuck around 4 days before I lost it all plus half a pound.

I am a bit guilty of having an ideal in my mind of the place I was at physically (it seems to just me though that wants to throw in a big whiny "ONLY") 5 years ago at 25 after having 2 of my 3 kids. I've leaned to absolutely adore the hips and lower WHR ratio childbearing has given me though

Thanks for this post! I'm slowly but surely coming around I think...

the problem with a 15% body fat % for women is that it's extremely difficult to maintain as it's right on the cusp of the lowest healthy BF%, generally only fitness professionals and professional athletes and others who are able to exercise multiple hours a day can maintain it. If you can, that's great, but I just wanted you to be aware of it.

best luck to you.

Banks

curvygirl512

If I could go back to the beginning, I would take the time to take my measurements. I've only lost 10 pounds, but I've lost a ton of inches.

Swimgoddess

the problem with a 15% body fat % for women is that it's extremely difficult to maintain as it's right on the cusp of the lowest healthy BF%, generally only fitness professionals and professional athletes and others who are able to exercise multiple hours a day can maintain it. If you can, that's great, but I just wanted you to be aware of it.

best luck to you.

Banks

Ha! Love that about you Your brutal honesty always raining on my oblivious parade, lol. Really, thanks for paving the way for me to accept my body just the way it is... but I wouldn't be a chick if I didn't make a show of resisting (insert visual of me being dragged off kicking and screaming with my fingernails scraping for hold in the pavement)

withchaco

After losing 22lbs, I back to my high school weight. Too bad I was overweight back in high school too :laugh: I still have a lot of fat to lose!

Would "having defined ab muscles" be a healthy/realistic goal for a woman?

redheadmommy

Hmmm, I wondering that maybe I set my weight loss per week too low? I need to lose a LOT , like 60-70lb, and I set my goal to be 1lb per week. I am 5'"8 and 220 lb, andmy scale says I have 44.5% bodyfat .(36yrs old female)
Should I aim to the 1.5lb or even 2lb weight loss?

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nickblackburn82

just found this post after about a year on MFP i currently weigh 313lbs and TBH have no idea what my goals are weekly or final all i know is i need to lose weight any advice on what goals i should be aiming for im 5'10" with a BMI of over 40

BTW i read it 3 times i found it that fascinating

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bigmamma3

Thank you for that! That is a huge pitfall to me, comparing myself to someone I used to be. I didn't have 4 children in High School. Though, truth be told, I was heavy in high school. But later, before children, I did lose weight. I tend to compare myself with who I was then and not who I should be now.

don't get me started on post-pregnancy women and goals. The female body changes massively after child birth. Don't believe it when some pop star has a baby and says "I got my pre-baby body back." they didn't, they have a DIFFERENT body now, it can still be sexy, and healthy, and beautiful, but it'll never be what it was pre-baby. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I totally agree with this since my three children my hips are so much wider and I don't think there is much i can do to move bone. I am smaller than I was before I had children as I was 95kg but my body is definatly different but I just see it as a sign of how amazing my body is to make three beautiful children

BerryH

Great stuff, and very timely for me as I was just scratching my head wondering where I'd come up with the goal weight on my ticker, which is 6 lbs different from the one in my signature.

ladyhawk00

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