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.
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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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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.
This is a huge insight for a lot of people. I'm a little sad for the folks who never quite grasp this very simple, but incredibly liberating concept.
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The "copy meal" feature. For the longest time I would reenter every ingredient when having leftovers from the day before.10
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I thought the whole goal of dieting was to eat as few calories as possible, I thought 500 was a good goal and didn't understand the concept of your body needing x number of calories just for normal living. I was thinking this way around 270-280 lb and of course if I tried to eat 500-700 I would wind up eating a ton more because I really needed it! I also thought the calories you burned were pretty much only through intentional exercise, like I didn't get that you burned calories from breathing, walking from room to room, etc. I basically thought if I ate a 300 calorie item and didn't work out to burn 300 calories it would ultimately cause weight gain and that seemed so depressing that I just kind of shrugged & accepted my fate!?
Once I figured that out it was like a light bulb came on and everything got so much easier. Kind of embarrassing that I truly didn't "get" calories until my mid-thirties, shortly before I joined this site.10 -
Good portioning is equally as important as food choices when monitoring calories and nutrition, along with consistent exercise.0
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In my 20s, I didn’t know anything about dieting, but everyone said “weight watchers”. I tried weight watchers several different times in the next 20 or so years. Each time, I would eat what they told me. I would lose a lot of weight the first 2 weeks, then crash the third week. Literally didnt have the energy to get out of bed. Sick for about a week, then up and around again, but not feeling well enough to go back on the diet. Never did really lose any weight on weight watchers. 20+ years later, went to an excellent dietician who taught me so much! I know now ww was giving me about 1200 calories/day. I am 5’10. At the time I was farming, hauling hay, feeding 70 lb bales of hay to the cattle and 40 and 50 lb sacks of feed to sheep and pigs daily. I needed FUEL. I was literally starving myself on weight watchers.
I don’t lose as fast now, but I can lose consistently, enjoyably, with just a little effort.
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Rejecting willpower and implementing discipline. Not sure exactly what my hangup was in regards to food - a combination of buying into high/low metabolism and confirmation bias.2
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Today, thanks to this thread, I learned what the “Tare” button on my scale does. I’ve been doing it the hard way all along. I honestly thought that button was just some useless fancy scale thing that I’d never need to use. How wrong was I?! Wow 😮11
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Today, thanks to this thread, I learned what the “Tare” button on my scale does. I’ve been doing it the hard way all along. I honestly thought that button was just some useless fancy scale thing that I’d never need to use. How wrong was I?! Wow 😮
don't feel bad, it took me a couple weeks to figure out what that "extra" button did too! :-P0
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