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G'day all, I am Chris 🙋‍♂️ living in Australia

I am on a journey to living past 100 years old, I am not kidding you! I tell u this life is worth living and there is no time like the present to get and be the best you internally and externally ......

I am a positive and happy man, motivated, passionate to help people, fun loving and adventurous, have a great knowledge of health and fitness and live this life always finding ways and ideas implementing NEW HEALTH HACKS to improve my life.

I am here to help improve yours with the hacks I have learnt to help transform you! Sounds like FUN, well it is so come ON m8!
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  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    Great attitude
    My grandma lived to be 103!! She had all her faculties but just kinda tired of life...wore out so to speak.

    It's possible!
  • Denean50
    Denean50 Posts: 1 Member
    Good morning! My first week using this app and I lost 4.5 lbs the first week. My question is I cannot seem to figure out how to have the app calculate net carbs or does it not have that function? I love the tracker but this is the one thing I am having a problem with can you help me?
  • fdlewenstein
    fdlewenstein Posts: 231 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Denean50 wrote: »
    Good morning! My first week using this app and I lost 4.5 lbs the first week. My question is I cannot seem to figure out how to have the app calculate net carbs or does it not have that function? I love the tracker but this is the one thing I am having a problem with can you help me?

    Change your diary entries to show fiber instead of sugar or sodium. It then will take about a second to mentally subtract that number from your total carb number to get net carbs.

    If you have a lot of time, you can create your own net carb entry for every food you eat. but I don't know anyone who has that time.

    Everyone has time. It takes just a few minutes to create a spreadsheet and if you know how you can use the formula function to make all the calculations for you!
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Denean50 wrote: »
    Good morning! My first week using this app and I lost 4.5 lbs the first week. My question is I cannot seem to figure out how to have the app calculate net carbs or does it not have that function? I love the tracker but this is the one thing I am having a problem with can you help me?

    Change your diary entries to show fiber instead of sugar or sodium. It then will take about a second to mentally subtract that number from your total carb number to get net carbs.

    If you have a lot of time, you can create your own net carb entry for every food you eat. but I don't know anyone who has that time.

    Everyone has time. It takes just a few minutes to create a spreadsheet and if you know how you can use the formula function to make all the calculations for you!

    Not sure what the spreadsheet would be for.

    The poster you were responding to pointed out that you can track fiber and do the subtraction in your head (super easy and satisfying for me when I was tracking net carbs) or, if you'd rather spend the time, create new net carb entries for each food you log. That's a lot more time, but if you care about having only net carbs show in carbs it might be worth it to someone, dunno.

    Neither requires a spreadsheet or formulas (and since the calculations are super basic subtraction everyone can do in their head I'm not sure why you'd want to use a formula function, but I assume this was just people talking past each other).
  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    Why do you say living in Australia Chris? Were you not born here? Hope you are not around any of the fires or floods. We got flooded badly last year.
  • LivinBest_Life
    LivinBest_Life Posts: 28 Member
    Hi Chris, all the best in achieving your goals 🙌

    Thanks so much miss_zita! Best of luck to you too😉😊
  • LivinBest_Life
    LivinBest_Life Posts: 28 Member
    mockchoc wrote: »
    Why do you say living in Australia Chris? Were you not born here? Hope you are not around any of the fires or floods. We got flooded badly last year.

    All safe and sound thanks. Have avoided all of these disasters. YES I am living here in Australia 😊😎
    Thanks for your kind words of concern Mockchoc! 🤗
  • JewRob63
    JewRob63 Posts: 47 Member
    I am 55 years old, 8 years ago I was almost 200 lbs. I am down to 175, but seem to be at a dead end. I stay below my calories. Very active, exercise 5 mornings a week. Strength and cardio mix 3 days strength 2 days cardio.
  • annliz23
    annliz23 Posts: 3,770 Member
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  • LivinBest_Life
    LivinBest_Life Posts: 28 Member
    Now who would disagree with that!! Love it, Thanks.

    Fill your brain with some dopamine in the morning to help u feel good for the day ahead!
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    G'day all, I am Chris 🙋‍♂️ living in Australia

    I am on a journey to living past 100 years old, I am not kidding you! I tell u this life is worth living and there is no time like the present to get and be the best you internally and externally ......

    I am a positive and happy man, motivated, passionate to help people, fun loving and adventurous, have a great knowledge of health and fitness and live this life always finding ways and ideas implementing NEW HEALTH HACKS to improve my life.

    I am here to help improve yours with the hacks I have learnt to help transform you! Sounds like FUN, well it is so come ON m8!

    So what are some of your NEW HEALTH HACKS?

    I wanna know this too... 🤔
  • donsenna
    donsenna Posts: 6 Member
    Hey all. I'm new, 7 days on the App. I am a 41-year-old man living in South Africa. I do Crossfit 3/4 times a week and eat below, or right on my calorie goal every day. I have given up all alcohol, but I must say, I am seeing centimeters drop off the waistline but no kgs. I often feel rather tired during the day despite getting to bed early every night. Any thoughts?
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    donsenna wrote: »
    Hey all. I'm new, 7 days on the App. I am a 41-year-old man living in South Africa. I do Crossfit 3/4 times a week and eat below, or right on my calorie goal every day. I have given up all alcohol, but I must say, I am seeing centimeters drop off the waistline but no kgs. I often feel rather tired during the day despite getting to bed early every night. Any thoughts?

    How long have you been doing this?
  • annliz23
    annliz23 Posts: 3,770 Member
    annliz23 wrote: »
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    Getting to the bathroom in time is mine. #oldpeopleproblems :D

    I know the feeling lol!
  • annliz23
    annliz23 Posts: 3,770 Member
    Now who would disagree with that!! Love it, Thanks.

    Fill your brain with some dopamine in the morning to help u feel good for the day ahead!

    Thanks I agree!
  • LivinBest_Life
    LivinBest_Life Posts: 28 Member
    donsenna wrote: »
    Hey all. I'm new, 7 days on the App. I am a 41-year-old man living in South Africa. I do Crossfit 3/4 times a week and eat below, or right on my calorie goal every day. I have given up all alcohol, but I must say, I am seeing centimeters drop off the waistline but no kgs. I often feel rather tired during the day despite getting to bed early every night. Any thoughts?

    Hi Donsenna, my thoughts are: Do you get enough sleep?

    We are all different but a big cause of the body storing fat is stress. Cortisol is released in the body when we are stressed and some of us - a lot, lets face it are under stress bc of work, the lives we lead etc, it is everywhere. So if you are under stress your body wont be absorbing and processing your food as well as if you weren't under stress and so therefore it stores more bodyfat - usually around your mid section. Fight or flight...

    In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....

    HACKS

    *Get good sleep, at least 7-8 1/2hrs - between the hours of 10pm and 1am each hour of sleep for the body at these times is worth 2 hours sleep - Take magnesium before you go to sleep - up to 2 hours before if u want and this will help you wake fresher among many more health benefits - more than 70% of people are deficient in this

    *Gut health - we are what we absorb! Include in your diets foods that encourage "Good Gut Health" such as fermented foods - sauerkraut, greek yoghurt, fibrous foods - whole vegetables, fruits, garlic, sourdough bread etc
    A probiotic supplement may benefit you too

    *Intermittent Fasting - Give your stomach a rest to catch up! This is a great way to appreciate hunger and for your body to relax and reset. Maybe do some research here, but you can do it however you like and this will help with your belly fat. You might want to eat for say a 10 or 12 hour window during the day. Say your first meal is at 7am and under a 12 hour window you have your last meal at 7pm and then you eat nothing until morning again. But drink water.
    Then if you want to be hardcore you take a day during the week randomly and you fast for the entire day.....

    * Water - the first thing that should go in your mouth in the morning, at least 500mls - 2 cups, even with a little vinegar - I mean 50,000 Japanese cant be wrong, in a study of more than 50,000 Japanese who were over 100 years of age it is reported that they drank water when they first woke in the morning.....

    * Drinking water in the morning will set you up for the day boosting your metabolism up to 30% !

    There are sooooo many more hacks, but these are some easy ones to adopt that will help with belly fat. There will be skeptics on here but this is all scientific research so it is pretty accurate.

    Best of luck and sorry it is so long. I post hacks on my page so FR me if you want to see them and join in.
    Thanks
  • donsenna
    donsenna Posts: 6 Member
    Hey Snickerscharlie. A month.
  • donsenna
    donsenna Posts: 6 Member
    LivingBest_life thank you. I usually go to bed at 21:00 and am asleep by 22:00. I get up at 5:30 am, however, I have a young daughter and she usually disturbs my sleep for about and hour or so on and off during the night. I normally have a glass or tow of water first thing along with an espresso coffee, no sugar. Then a do an hour of Crossfit, get home, have a 92 calorie health bar. At 10 am I have a 54 calorie protein snack. I also have two cappuccinos with no sugar. At lunch, I have whatever, a mix of protein, some veg, and starch. Dinner is usually protein with salad and starch. I drink about 3 litres of water a day. I take a multivitamin, vitam d3 and iron supplement.
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    donsenna wrote: »
    Hey Snickerscharlie. A month.

    How are you measuring your caloric intake? Are you using a food scale? If not, I can highly recommend getting one. Best 20 bucks you'll ever spend on yourself!

    There are lots of things that can be affecting your lack of results. Here's a chart to help you sort through it. Your answer is in there, I promise! :)

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  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    donsenna wrote: »
    Hey all. I'm new, 7 days on the App. I am a 41-year-old man living in South Africa. I do Crossfit 3/4 times a week and eat below, or right on my calorie goal every day. I have given up all alcohol, but I must say, I am seeing centimeters drop off the waistline but no kgs. I often feel rather tired during the day despite getting to bed early every night. Any thoughts?

    How much total weight do you want to lose? If you don't have much to lose and the workout effort or frequency is new this month, your muscles might be retaining some water.

    Take a look at your month of days logged and do a gut check - Are you calculating your serving size carefully? Are you double checking that the database entries you are choosing have the correct calories. Are you logging everything? It's not always what we want to hear, but 99% of the time, it's a logging issue. It simply takes most of us some practice to be able to be really honest and exact about what we're consuming.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

    Good luck!
  • emeraldeyes2020
    emeraldeyes2020 Posts: 231 Member
    Me too! Any tips for keeping my bp up ?