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Here's the thing: Most everyone has something that makes weight loss hard. Exactly what that thing or things is varies, but most people will name something. If we can't change the things that make it hard, then our choice is to figure out a way around, over, through, or otherwise past those obstacles. Yes, it takes…
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Hard gainer thread direct link, just to keep things easy:
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Hello and welcome! The best place to find that kind of group/competition/challenge would be in one of these two Community topic areas: There are other ones in other topic areas of the Community, but they're more concentrated in those two. You can read the intro posts of ones that look interesting, and they'll usually say…
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Best meals? Any foods you enjoy eating, that add up to the right number of calories, and keep you full and happy most of the time. Since you have a goal to build muscle, too, then ideally those foods will deliver ample protein and overall good nutrition, too. What foods are those? Really, no one else can tell you, because…
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But that supposedly higher calorie burn's not a good thing - hoping that's what you mean? Lifting doesn't burn a lot of calories. Worth doing for many reasons, but not a high calorie burner during the workout (or from EPOC, in absolute calories vs. percentages). Heart rate is a poor indicator of work - calorie burning work…
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It's normal to lose quickly at first, slowly at first, or really any variation. When we change what we eat, when we eat, how much we eat, and maybe how we exercise all at the same time, our scale weight does complicated things. That's because our bodies can be up to 60% water, and our water retention fluctuates even more…
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The green check just means that several people have checked a box saying that that entry is correct, or was correct at the point in time that they checked the box (since product formulations can change). One important fact: Almost all of the MFP food database entries are crowd-sourced, i.e., entered by regular users like…
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This is too freakin' obscure, but: Whey is a complete protein. It has a limiting amino acid(s), i.e. an essential amino acid(s) that is less present than would be an utterly perfectly balanced complete protein source. Here's the catch: Pretty much every "complete" protein source - literally every one as far as I know, but…
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I see you posted this a few days ago. You might get more replies from experienced lifters if you posted in the Fitness and Exercise or Gaining Weight and Bodybuilding parts of the Community. I suspect it's some kind of form issue, or an undiagnosed physical problem, but I don't know what it might be. Posting in those parts…
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The MFP default percents are a reasonable starting point for most people, unless they're trying to lose weight too aggressively fast for their current size. There's no getting adequate nutrition on too-few calories. If you wanted advice on whether you should vary from the defaults, we'd need more info from you about your…
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Do you have a fitness tracker synced to MFP? If not, do you log exercise by typing it in MFP? In either of those cases, your macros would change when extra calories get added. I'm assuming you have premium MFP, since you're setting macros in grams. There's settings there to change how it handles exercise calories, with a…
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Hello, Ana, and welcome! I'm Ann, so sort of a similar name, I guess. I'm sure your English is my better than my Romanian (or Hungarian, if you're from that part of the country), and that that'll be true for most people here. Some of us native English speakers aren't even all that good at English, especially the typed-out…
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+1 to what that smart, successful Springlering62 said up there. The easiest-to-follow personal practical plan gives the higher odds of success. "Lose weight fast" is a trap, and restricting foods a person could eat in moderation is usually more hindrance than help when it comes to finding that personal plan. Best wishes!
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Hi, Debi, and welcome! I'm a long-time MFP-er, joined to lose 50 pounds back in 2015, reached goal at 60, now 69 and hanging around to maintain a healthy weight since. My point isn't self-promotion, but rather to suggest that your goals are achievable at any age, if you persistently pursue them. I figure that if a…
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A little water retention, maybe, as Retro said. Honestly, I didn't notice any weight gain or anything I'd call "bloating" when I started . . . and I did do a higher loading dose at the start (which I later learned was unnecessary, so listen to that nice Mr. Retro. 😉). If there was any scale effect, it didn't stand out from…
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Speaking as a fellow vegetarian, that sounds really tasty to me!
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After being here on MFP for nearly ten years, I'm pretty convinced that what prevents a huge fraction of people from actually reaching weight goals is: Picking an aggressive, restrictive, unpleasant plan Feeling discouraged because they're working so hard at it, but only getting weight loss results that are excellent in…
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Hello and welcome! There are people here at all stages of the progress, with all kinds of different health, fitness, or weight management goals. I've been around here a long while - coming up on my ten-year anniversary with MFP. I lost around 50 pounds back in 2015-16, have been hanging around maintaining a healthy weight…
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Welcome back! My 10 year MFP-iversery is coming up at the end of this week. Things have changed in the social side of MFP. These days, your best bet for support and online friendship is to start in with one or more of the Community threads devoted to support, accountability, or challenges. Those are most concentrated in…
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Hello, and welcome! I'm 69, and am an MFP long-timer, took just under a year to lose about 50 pounds, have been maintaining a healthy weight for 9+ years since. I started being routinely active longer ago, but I was already in my late 40s then, and just past full-bore treatment for advanced breast cancer. My experience so…
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I don't know whether any of my lesser experience will suggest anything or not, but I'll comment just in case there's something. Was your spine specialist a D.O.? If not, that might be a modality you could try - specifically a D.O. specialized in manipulative medicine. They're fully qualified medical doctors similar to…
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Premium MFP has a setting that will make it track net carbs, but it's only available as far as I know in the phone/tablet version of MFP, not the web browser version. Free MFP only tracks total carbs. I know it may be surprising if you're someone committed to low carb or keto as the best way to manage weight or achieve…
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Because the estimates can be meaningfully far off for some people. Let's say I took 500 calories off MFP's or my fitness tracker's estimate of my TDEE (total daily energy expenditure, rather than BMR/basal metabolic rate or BMI/body mass index). I'd lose like a house afire, way faster than healthful for my size, because my…
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Overall, it's one of the less Mediterranean Mediterranean breakfasts I can think of: Plenty of meat/eggs, high fat overall, one serving of veg if I'm interpreting generously, zero whole grain unless there's some hidden in the sausage, zero fruit, possibly only 4-5g fiber. Um, wot? I'm not saying it's not a reasonable…
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There's a setting that makes the search list just show recent/frequent foods for the same meal, rather than all meals.
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I'm going to oversimplify the arithmetic, just to give a more understandable example. Let's pretend someone ate 1900 calories on average every single day for the whole six weeks, which is 42 days. Let's pretend that person gained 10 pounds over that time, though that seems unlikely to me if we were talking about you.…
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Pretty much any combination of food that's filling enough to stick with, and that adds up to the right calorie level, will generate weight loss. Bonus for health if the food also adds up to overall good nutrition on average. I lost around 50 pounds 9+ years ago eating balanced macros, close to the MFP default macro…
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So you are 18F, 165cm and 50.5kg. For other USA-ians like me, that's about 5'5" and 111 pounds, a BMI right on the border of underweight, technically - BMI 18.5. BMI isn't gospel, but it gives us a hint where things probably stand. I have a hard time believing you have high body fat, honestly, and I'm saying that as a…
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It really isn't mostly about how accurate MFP or any other calorie calculator or even fitness tracker is: The good ones, including MFP, are based on solid research studies. The numbers they spit out are basically the statistically average calorie needs of people with the same demographic details as the software asked us to…
