Simple trick that took an embarrassingly long time for you to figure out...
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middlehaitch wrote: »@oat_bran, and others.
Have a read through the NEAT thread, for ways to increase your daily movements in, sometimes, fun and interesting ways.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10610953/neat-improvement-strategies-to-improve-weight-loss/p1
Cheers, h.
Thanks. I do know, what NEAT is and that increasing NEAT can produce a significant increase in TDEE. Heck, I have a fitbit with a hr monitor (which seems to be very accurate juding by my losses and gains) and I know very well, what a difference can there be between an active day and sedentary day even without any intentional exercise. On work days I can burn as much as 2700 cals, while on sedentary days it can be like 1600. And I try to increase my NEAT when I can. I walk everywhere I can or use public transport. I don't have a car. But you know what? It's not always possible or easy to increase NEAT. Walking, fidjeting can help to add hundreds of calories to your TDEE, yes. But it burns less calories per minute than running for example. For some of us it's much easier to go out a short run in the evening to clear one's head than to try to add aimless walking in our small apartments or losing time taking the long route to somewhere etc. And some people just have a 8 hour job where they can't walk and can't not drive or take the public transportation to arrive there. Also, some people just enjoy cardio?
So my point is, everyone has different lifestyles. And short cardio workout is easier for some than taking significant time and head space throughout the day to increase NEAT.7 -
Lillymoo01 wrote: »I started off on another app and forum which had been hijacked by 'Dr' Fung (He is a Nephrologist with a practice helping obese diabetic patients in Ontario, Canada, so YES.... DR.) followers. Although deep down I knew much of what was being said was woo .....0
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amusedmonkey wrote: »It took me a while to figure out that moving throughout the day burns calories and it doesn't even feel like work. I used to do 30 minutes of exercise and agonize at the possibility that to get the calories I want I may at some point have to increase that to two or three hours. 30 minutes of exercise plus my day to day steps amounted to about 5k steps before introducing more movement. Started incorporating small walks here and there around the house while waiting for stuff, on the phone, taking the longest route, extra laundry trips, became the designated garbage person...etc and my steps jumped up to 7-10k without any exercise, so 10-15K on exercise days.That's about 90 minutes worth of extra walking every day that I don't even feel like I'm doing.
EXACTLY. All of this.1 -
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It's like MFP's best kept secret :laugh:3 -
I finally figured out the recipe importer.(Mobile) Have you tried copy/pasting a recipe website to it, for it to tell you the recipe won't parse ingredients? Instead of entering everything in manually, try this first.
-At the top of the page where it has the web address for the MyFitnessPal recipe builder, hold down and delete that.
-Now type in your recipe as search terms for the website you found it on. Ex: Beef Stroganoff- all recipes. It then does a google search.
-Find your recipe website, and click on it.
-At the bottom you can click import recipe. The ingredients should finally import.
-If not, use the search tool to find a similar recipe from a different website that will parse.
- Be sure to verify each item that it imports. Most of the time I need to fix a few things like the quantity, or just replace a bad item. ( like that pesky 600 calorie garlic!)
This has saved me TONS of time in the kitchen using the recipe builder. Now I can find a recipe similar to my own that I want to cook, and import it and most of the ingredients ahead of time. Then, when I get to the kitchen, I can simply edit, add and change items instead of hunting my kitchen and scanning barcodes to enter a recipe manually.
Edit: Found a typo...9 -
That maintenance calories are the total of your calories consumed during recent loss days (like 30 or 60 days) plus 3500 for each pound lost divided by # days. Why did I think it was more complicated????3
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ladyreva78 wrote: »I don't need to kill myself working out. I just need to a little bit less than my body needs each day and maybe move a little bit more (this more due to the rampant cardiovascular problems rampant in the family than for weightloss)
I've lost 35kg following that and have maintained that loss for the past year (trying to get into the mindset to lose those last 10-15kg
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If only I had known it's that embarrassingly easy 20 years ago...
I actually like working out hard and for long periods of time.1 -
Crafty_camper123Crafty_camper123 Member
August 28, 2018 11:44AM edited 11:57AM
“I finally figured out the recipe importer.(Mobile) Have you tried copy/pasting a recipe website to it, for it to tell you the recipe won't parse ingredients? Instead of entering everything in manually, try this first.”
OMG thank you! Saves so much time!1 -
It's like MFP's best kept secret :laugh:
That's crazy.... Been here for a while and had no clue.0 -
GemimaFitzTed wrote: »
Hahaha same. And as soon as I realised it, and if I felt like I was having a really off-plan day, I would try EXTRA hard to breathe out really enthusiastically
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You can't fix overeating with exercise!! Losing or maintaining is 90% food, 10% exercise.4
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Day 2 and I thank you for this thread and this great community. Anyone else tried intermittently fasting and light exercise for initial goals? Any tips would be great.💕💕0
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DefinitelyDoingThis wrote: »Day 2 and I thank you for this thread and this great community. Anyone else tried intermittently fasting and light exercise for initial goals? Any tips would be great.💕💕
You'll get better answers by either searching the forums or starting your own thread.4 -
That I could just type a calorie goal that was 150kcals higher than the one given to me and not be miserable with myself for being in the red every day.
And still loose weight12 -
Bulk weighing. I would weigh out every type of lettuce individually in my salads (most have exactly the same calorie densities).
Doing crazy math to figure out how much I'm eating. I used to weigh my bowl, pour cereal in weigh again, subtract for bowl then do some division and multiplication of fractions to figure out how much I'm eating. Now: bowl on scale, tare. Pour cereal in until 29g (1 serving), log!4 -
Not weight change related:
Tucking my jeans into my socks so my jeans don't ride up under my boots and try to escape.
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I would say knowing I CAN eat what I want, it is simply a matter of watching the amount I eat. For the longest time, I thought losing weight meant eating food I did not like and just toughing through it. Praise da lordt that is not the case, because I am a major foodie. 3
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