Starting Today
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claireforde14
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Hi All
Started myfitnesspal today and looking for any tips anyone has on food, exercise etc or anything that helps & a dose of motivation please
Started myfitnesspal today and looking for any tips anyone has on food, exercise etc or anything that helps & a dose of motivation please
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I too am starting today! Hoping the motivation lasts!3
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Best of luck, reading the success stories is motivating me !2
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I also just started today. Been participating in a diet mobile weight loss study since Feb. Finally decided to really go mobile. Ha!1
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Tip 1: Change your weight loss goal to 0.5 lb per week.
Reason for that: Easier.
Tip 2: Enjoy this journey.
Reason for that: So you can stay on it and continue to maintain after reaching your goal.
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Hi all, i started today also. I need motivation!
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Also, you must be honest and accurate with your food diary. All is for naught if you can't tell the truth to Diary. For this, you must acquire and use a digital food scale and weigh all your food. Maybe not spices, but certainly oils, meats, fats, veg, bread, grains, legumes, calorific drinks and such.1
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Don't get carried away enthusiastically eating all the exercise calories that mfp says you can. Exercise calorie burn is notoriously inaccurate.1
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Thanks Jerome I have it set to 2lbs for week that's 1200 calories a day need to be very clever with food choices, hoping to not use the exercise calories so I can loose it quicker.!0
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Good luck everyone, all in this together0
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Claire, you should not experience hunger doing this. Vegetables in variety are your friend. Just Saturday for the first time I purchased a "jicama", also called "yam bean". It's a big ugly root. Anyway, it's easy to slice, peel, and eat raw. It tastes sweet, but has low sugar. It's crunchy like a water chestnut. It's an excellent source of fiber. I'm just getting started with recipe experimenting, but I already found that in case of hunger a little bit of jicama tastes sweet and immediately satisfies the empty tummy0
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Ah thanks for that I'll add that to my list0
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claireforde14 wrote: »Thanks Jerome I have it set to 2lbs for week that's 1200 calories a day need to be very clever with food choices, hoping to not use the exercise calories so I can loose it quicker.!
Setting your goal too aggressively and you risk "burning yourself out" and being frustrated. Set smaller goals to make the transition from your current life style easier.1 -
Thanks a mill good advise0
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