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Tired of seeing praise for under-eating!
Anyone else tired of seeing their newsfeed filled with people praising others for coming in under their calorie goal for the day? It's boring the pants off me, especially as a follower of the 'eating for future you' method. There seems to be a massive culture of this on MFP and I think the way MFP is set up is to blame for…
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a little clarification please :)
So this is what I came up with for last week using the spreadsheet. Start Weight date 2/20/12 Daily Goal Calories 2024 Start Weight 202.2 Workout calories 462 Start BMR 1650 Real Net 1562 Food Exercise Net BMR current weight 1650 Monday, February 20 1758 335 1423 Tuesday, February 21 1788 463 1325 Wednesday, February 22…
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looking for some advice
Hello! :) I spent some time reading about this and it seems to make sense. Having said that... my calculations seem a bit odd to me. Can someone look this over and let me know if the results are as expected? I understood that, in most cases, the goal weight maintenance should be just about what my current BMR is but it's…
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Brand new here
Hi, I am new to this group. I am excised because this might be just what I need to really maintain my current weight. However, I am also really nervous to change my calories to say so much. I am a SAHM and always up and moving a chasing/lifting my son, plus I work out everyday. Soooooo should I really be eating 2400…
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Eating for future you method
This started as a Message Boards Topic, and several comments to start a group for ones to post fears, success, concerns. Lot of questions and comments there. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/471769-an-easier-way-to-setup-goal-calories-eating-for-who-you-wi This started from researching back over my time racing when…
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will this work?
I have been on MFP for over a year. It scares me to change my goals to custom. Instead I changed my actives to active so it would give me more calories. I also will keep logging 200 calories a day for my workouts giving me 2050 calories a day. The website said 2250 for me, but I am not sure I can eat that much, also if I…
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Hello! Question...
What do you guys think about calculating daily activity without exercise and then still eating exercise calories back? I only exercise about three days a week. It seems like that'd be the best way to do it when we're using MFP. I fully get that MFP underestimates your calorie goal- I rose mine up to 1600 a day a month and…
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Have I got this right?
I'm feeling kind of dense today and I'm not quite sure I've got this right. I used the link to the site to estimate my calorie requirements, put in my info for my goal weight and tried to be pretty honest with my activity level and the numbers seem to be pretty much in line. My question is, when I go to change my settings…
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Discussion on premise, what could it make easier
Start out simple. Biggest thing is trying to have your net calories really hit your BMR on avg for a week. Some days will be less, some more. But your metabolism should never see a need to massively slow down and waste free calorie burn. So this means if you have a lot to lose, you automatically have factored in bigger…
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Why BMR should be known as an important figure
This method is to protect someone from pre-maturely lowering their metabolism and BMR before they reach their goal weight. Because otherwise, you can get the stalled weight loss and no appetite result. Just in case the concept of BMR is not understood, my first post provided the link to read up on it, and snippet how it's…
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The last 5 lbs, stuck
So if you have been following this method (or doing MFP's method) and always kept your avg net calories above your BMR, it hopefully means you have gotten to your last 5 lbs with a fully functioning burning BMR. So why would the last 5 be most difficult? Well, the BMR calc is just an estimate based on average healthy…