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started a few weeks ago &
im confused as hell. i dont lift weighs. Most of my exercise comes from walking or my stationary bike. I also use my ab lounger 2 times a week. My question is am i suppose to eat 1200 cals or should my net be 1200 cals. I usually eat around 1100-1200 and net about 800. is this okay?
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Need Friends who actually EAT
I am starting to eat at my BMR as of today (1663 + exercise cals) and I think I am going to need some support and motivation. My group of friends on here are eating at 1200-1400 cals, with some of them burning nearly 1000 a day. Geez, I couldnt do that, nor do I want to. So, I know there are others like me out there and I…
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Benefit of Eating More: Insomnia is subsiding
Ive suffered from insomnia since I was a teenager, to the extent that I have to take medication (which I hate :grumble: ). In fact, I was headed to a sleep study in a month. In the last 2 weeks I've noticed I'm ready for bed by 10-11pm.....my mind isn't constantly racing and I've only taken my medication once. Considering…
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Week 1 sucess
Really, it hasn't even been a full week. So on Monday, I started eating a little more. Prior to this I had been eating my BMR plus some to all of my exercise cals. My BMR is 1260 and I have been eating 1600 plus whatever I need to net my BMR. I have been on a 2 month plateau so am pleased that this week I didn't gain or…
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Super Fatty Here....HELP!
ok. So I am so lost. I've read some of the stickys....some of it makes sense, other bits of it might as well be in Chinese! MFP had my cals set at nearly 3000 cals to lose 2lbs a week. I manually reduced this to 2000. My BMR according to MFP is 3680 set to sedentary. I also exercise 4+ times a week two and a half hours at…
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Old Habits Die Hard
Old habits die hard. Today is day 2 of more calories (from 1200 to 1700). This morning while packing a snack (peanut butter and a banana), I got out the spoon and measured out only 1 tblsp of peanut butter....because that's all I'm used to allowing myself. I'm not sure I could have actually enjoyed any more, but the point…
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So What Sort of Meals Could I Have
So I'm sorry if his has already been posted or similar to it but I'm just wondering what sort of breakfast lunch and dinners I could have if I'm going to up my calories? I'm quite interested in what people are eating and would like some ideas.
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Why am I so darn hungry?
Background Info: 5'9" 171 lb 22 years old 31% body fat (hydrostatic body comp. test) TDEE 2800-3200 (bodybugg) Cardio 5x/week, strength 3x/week Upped calories 3 weeks ago from 1800-2000 to 2200-2500 (pure intake, NOT net cals). Ever since I increased my calories I'm hungry all the time! I eat, get really full, and then an…
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Bloating Normal?
I'm three weeks in to eating 2,000 calories a day instead of 1,200 (which is how I lost 22 pounds in four months before stalling out). I've only gained a pound or so in that time and my body fat hasn't really changed according to my scale, but I was just getting changed for practice and noticed my stomach and thighs look…
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how to set mfp goals?
if my bmr is 1600 and my tdee is 2485, how should i set up mfp daily goals? do i change my settings to net 1,600? thanks!
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Hurray for More Food
Can I just say this straight that I LOVE food - all kinds of stuff. I love pasta (especially in a cream sauce), avocados, salads, bacon and eggs, ice cream, dark chocolate, wine, beer, brats, steak, pizza, tacos, etc...And what I love most is that I found this group and I get to eat some of my favorites. Obviously stuff…
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raising your metabolism a myth? huh?
I was on a post yesterday where someone said they were hungrier if they ate breakfast in the morning, than if they didn't. I responded that by eating more often, your metabolism gets fired up, which helps with weight loss. I wasn't the only one to reply this. Quite a few people responded by saying that raising your…
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My a$$ got bigger over night? :-/
I usually weigh myself on Fridays. I decided not to depress myself so I held off, but I wanted to check my inches because they had been pretty steady and considering my calories per day, that was good. Well I'm up a bit over all in inches, but around my hips/butt I went up over half an inch since yesterday??? I mean, I…
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How is TDEE -15% any different?
I'm getting pretty technical here but how is TDEE-15% any different than what MFP does? Why can't you just take your BMR add back your daily lifestyle calories, eat your exercise calories then take a small deficit? It's the same thing correct? The reason why I'm asking is because my weeks are dramatically different from…
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intro + friends!
Hi there! I'm a brand-new member in this group and thought I'd say hi. I, like most people new to the 'fuel your bodies' mindset, have a few questions regarding whether or not my numbrs are correct. I'll have to come back later with all my figures, though, because I just finished exercising (need a shower, lol) and my kids…
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It's been awhile
I haven't been on in awhile one of my family members passed and from there things went down hill haven't been doing to good on the eating clean trying to get back on track but I havent stopped working out I'm gonna give this a go again my goal is to lose 4 inches in my waist by june 14 I just need some support please help…
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Fitness Frog?
Hi, I joined this group after reading a post from 2BeHealthy4Life on the general boards. She mentioned calculators on fitnessfrog.com and I wanted to use them to see what kind of results they would give for me, however I have not been able to access the website at all. I even tried different browsers. Anyone else able to…
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So there I was in the bathroom
checking myself out in the mirror...feeling some muscles, checking on the guns ect. well 1, one of my employees caught me and laughed, I should probably fire him. 2, I know there are muscles underneath a protective coating 3, I think I am catching a terrible disease...narcissism. I cant seem to walk by a mirror with out…
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Changing activity level
I'm cutting down my cardio for the summer. It's too hot to really run outside, and going to the gym is going to be limited due to my daughter home from school. I plan on still doing my C25k (35min avg 3x week) and riding 1x week (60 min) and then 6 hours of grass mowing every other week. So my activity level (if I apply 3…
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Quick Question on Eating Exercise Calories
Today I burned (per my HRM) 488 calories on a trail walk/run and 369 calories during my heavy leg weight circuit. Giving me 857 exercise calories. With that, and eating at cut (1900ish) my net is 1060......do I eat back 500 calories to bring my net up to 1500 (my BMR) OR do I ignore the weight training calories and just…
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scale
Should I check scale? I started last week Tuesday. about 1.5 weeks now, plan not to see it until next Friday. I pray it is not a 10 lbs GAIN lol!
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App - Restaurant Nutrition
I have a Droid X and I downloaded it from Google Play. Here is a link to what I found online: http://www.androidapps.com/health/apps/366098-restaurant-nutrition-unified-lifestyle The manager in a Zaxby's shared it with me when I asked them about a nutrition sheet today. We started chatting and he showed it to me. It has a…
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HELP! Muscle soreness & aches...
Posted this also on the NROL4W board. Figured I would post it here, too... Okay, first I apologize for my complete wimpiness. I did the first workout (Stage 1, Workout A-1) on Tuesday. Def. had some soreness on Wednesday. Now today I'm way more sore. Is that normal to be more sore on the second day? Also, am I okay to do…
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Wondering if I should change my activity level?
Currently my workout schedule is this: In the a.m. I am doing 30 day shred, when thats done I'll do ripped in 30. I do this everyday unless something comes up and I can't fit it in but I usually do this 7 days a week. Then after dinner I was walking for an hour plus but now I am getting back into running so I have been…
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TDEE calculations and daily calorie goal ...
Sorry if this has been asked before but I have a question about calculating TDEE and daily calorie goal. Should I be eating TDEE - 15% of my current weight? Or eat the TDEE calculated to maintain my GOAL weight? I'm 5'3", female Currently 128 pounds. Goal weight = 115 Calculations using my current weight & 1-3 hrs/wk of…
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Anyone else from the UK here?
I feel kind of lonely!
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making sure I am figuring this correctly
My TDEE is 2015 - 15% = 1713 so this is what I need to change my MFP goal to? BMR is 1472. so I need to eat up to 1713 a day? and if I work out that day and burn more than 242 calories I need to eat the difference? Just trying to wrap my brain around all this before I start
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Not convinced this EM2WL works
3 weeks in am the only thing that is happening is I'm gaining weight. 2.5kgs to be exact. The first two weeks raised cals from 1400 to 1700 and ate pretty well. This last week ate more like 2000 cals,I ate out a bit though so it wasn't the healthiest of weeks. I am not game to up the cals anymore or I'll be right back to…
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Training for Half Marathon and Marathon. Please help!
Hi everyone. I am a 26 year old female currently weighing in at 120.6lbs (this morning) and 5'2". I have been on a yo-yo diet for years that has lead me to binge often and unfortunately become bulemic. I am recovering from bulemia now and am trying to do my best to eat healthy and give my body the fuel that it needs. Right…
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EM2LW with thyroid problem?
Hi! I'm new to this conecpt and just starting to learn more. Its really appealing because the 1200-1300 calories a day I'm trying to eat right now just doesn't seem sustainable long term. I like PB and banans and that's a lot of calories at this level :p I think everything I have read so far make so much sense but I have…