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It doesn't track them.
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As a 5'1" woman in her 30's, MFP will spit out 1200 for me if I wanted to lose 2 pounds a week. At least it did 4 years ago. I don't want to lose 2 pounds a week, and I don't want to even attempt only 1200 calories a day. I would never stick with it. Clearly, I liked food enough to become obese, and that didn't change once…
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Oh I'm tired ;) It's just the way I've always been though. In a way it's kind of depressing because I think about how much I can eat now and lose, and now I know how much I had to be eating in the past in order to get to over 200 pounds despite all the added activity.
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NEAT plays a big role in me being able to eat more at 5'1". I'm hoping when I reach my goal weight that I can maintain above 2000 calories. I spend a good part of the day on my feet taking care of my home and children. Preparing meals, cleaning, spontaneous dance parties, and other various tasks. I like to keep things tidy…
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Bahahahaha! Awesome.
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The only way to know is to try it and make sure you're logging your food correctly. If you're using a food scale, choosing correct entries, etc. and you're still losing successfully with your account set to active, then you'll know. MFP rewards you in the form of more food if you're more active. Don't consider it a bad…
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My Fitbit and MFP are accurate to within 30 calories of each other. I have my account set to active and get 10,000+ a day and eat back any extra I earn. No problems losing. If you're losing 5.6 pounds a week, you're going to want to start eating your exercise calories back because you're not going to enjoy the consequences…
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Oh don't I know it. Mine have increased pretty significantly as time goes on, we all have to start somewhere!
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I've been tracking everything for the last year and adjusting as I went along. At the end of the week I can see what my daily deficit is and adjust as needed. Sometimes I adjust manually in the app and sometimes I go with the recommendation MFP gives depending on how close the numbers are. I'm currently sticking with my…
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A food scale will be eye opening, plus there's no guessing about how much you can eat. The weight loss winners are the ones who figure out how to eat as much as possible and still lose. It's an inexpensive investment and well worth it.
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@schmarahscott I'm reposting this here for you: Here's what I recommend: Set your account to maintenance for 3 or 4 weeks. Set the correct activity level. If you're a SAHM, it's likely that you're at least lightly active. Log your exercise and eat back those calories. Follow that calorie goal and log all of your food with…
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I've seen the 250 before but I strongly encourage people to start out by eating at maintenance regardless of how much they think their baby nurses. If I had followed the 250 calories extra a day when my dude turned 6 months and started solids, I would have been losing over 3 pounds a week at that point. I've had weeks…
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It's also important that you log any exercise and set your activity level to the correct setting and eat back the calories it gives you. Since breastfeeding creates its own deficit, you're not doing yourself any favors by making that deficit even bigger. I originally thought I was lightly active. Then I received a Fitbit…
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Here's what I recommend: Set your account to maintenance for 3 or 4 weeks. Follow that calorie goal and log all of your food with MFP. A food scale helps with that. Find a weight trending app that shows your rate of loss and deficit per day (like Libra) and start weighing yourself and tracking your weight loss trend. Do…
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If you're not cleared for working out yet, I'm guessing you just had a baby. You retain a lot more fluid throughout your body than normal during pregnancy. In the 6-8 weeks following birth, you'll lose that fluid (like with those lovely night sweats). Obviously, your uterus will shrink as well and all of your organs will…
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For women who are overweight or obese after pregnancy, breastfeeding can be a good opportunity to lose weight without restricting food intake like a typical dieter would. Nature intends for women to gain extra fat stores during pregnancy and use those fat stores after birth in order to fuel milk production. Yes, for…
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Set your account to maintenance for 3 or 4 weeks. Follow that calorie goal and log all of your food with MFP. A food scale helps with that. Find a weight trending app that shows your rate of loss and deficit per day (like Libra) and start weighing yourself and tracking your weight loss trend. Do that consistently for 3 or…
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1) If a guy has the cojones to vocalize to you that your body is a turn-off, that guy is a loser. The right guy knows that aesthetics are fleeting and will find qualities within a woman that have universal value through every stage of life. But you don't need to worry about this right now because you're young. 2) Stop…
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Why does it have to be either/or? How is it way worse? Context, dosage, and frequency is what's relevant here. Often when I see these kinds of comments, it's always black and white thinking. There is an area that exists between cutting them completely out and eating them for three square meals a day. To think otherwise is…
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The weather is finally starting to warm up here around the Great Lakes. We were able to enjoy it this weekend and get lots of walking in. Two weeks until we leave for Costa Rica! I'm excited to see how much progress I can make by then. Height: 5'1" HW: 195 April 2017 SW April: 141 Ultimate goal: ? April goal: 135-36. April…
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I can't speak for you personally but I'll explain my own experience. I've breastfed all five of my children and with the first three, I naturally hit a weight loss plateau after a certain point and didn't lose anymore weight. I couldn't get out of the obese range. I always assumed I was just one of those women who couldn't…
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Last month I had a really large meal and dessert and went well over my calories for the day. I honestly felt so sick from how full it made me that I didn't want to eat much the next day. I couldn't even sleep I felt so bloated and awful. I don't have any intention of repeating that experience. Maybe I'm just not used to…
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You need to speak with a doctor. None of us can or should offer help beyond that recommendation given your unique set of circumstances.
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Two things. You can't be sure you're in a deficit unless you're a bit more precise about logging. A food scale helps with that. Secondly, if you're more precise about logging and using a food scale, there is absolutely NO reason to underfeed yourself. Seriously. Don't do that. Be more precise about logging your food and…
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Try to think long term about this. If you put forth the effort to lose the weight, and you give up now and stop being mindful, you're going to eventually find yourself back at square one. There's no way around that. Losing weight and keeping it off takes mindful effort one way or another. So you can either figure out a way…
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I feel no emotional reaction to the number on the scale. It's just a number. It's going to go up and down for a variety of reasons (water retention, food in transit, etc.) and that's not an indicator of gaining fat. I anticipate a gain of a few ounces the day after I workout because of water retention, and it always goes…
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I don't share because people try to copy other people's food logs on here and that would be completely counter-productive because I can eat a lot more than most people with my stats and still lose weight since I'm still breastfeeding. I also find it kind of weird that people do that. I'm honest about living a balanced life…
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I'm a SAHM (I know this is often tricky for stay at home parents because we don't have a job description to base this off of). I get 10,000+ steps a day easily. My account is set to active and that works for me.
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Do you use a food scale?
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1) I personally wouldn't choose a shake over food if that's what your plan is because you have difficulty with measuring, particularly if you don't plan to drink them forever. I gained weight because I completely disregarded proper portion sizes. I'm using my weight loss phase as an opportunity to learn how to weigh and…
