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Unsweetened vanilla almond milk.
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Try blackening it with cajun seasoning.
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Yes. MFP's calorie goal is based on your NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis), which means your activity level represents how many calories you burn throughout day, excluding purposeful exercise. You're supposed to log your exercise separately. MFP will then give you extra calories on the days you workout.
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Weight loss is all about calories. But if you find satiety/hunger management to be an issue, start paying attention to which macros satiate you the most and start incorporating more of those foods into your diet. I normally just pay attention to my protein intake and let the rest of the macros fall where they may.
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I listen to podcasts and audiobooks while doing cardio. "Theater for the mind," if you will.
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Don't feel like you wasted your money, because there are plenty of uses for it that aren't weight loss related: You can use it as the acid component of a vinaigrette It makes great slow cooker pulled pork (search allrecipes.com for the recipe) It's apparently very good at keeping gnats away You can dilute it and use it as…
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Skinny Taste has a lot of low calorie recipes.
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The more weigh ins you log in Happy Scale, the more accurate the trend line will be. I weigh daily for Happy Scale but only log weekly in MFP. And for MFP I enter the actual weigh in and not the rolling average.
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As with most things related to nutrition, individual needs vary from one person to the next so yes, I agree that it's not necessarily true in all cases. That being said, it seemed to me that OP wasn't aware of either the RDA or the reason why it's important get adequate protein in her diet. I thus felt providing some…
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Agreed. That flowchart should be a sticky.
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Unless you're exceptionally tiny, 25g of protein isn't enough. The RDA is .36g of protein per pound of body weight. Eating so little protein while also maintaining a calorie deficit means you're likely losing a lot of lean muscle mass. You need to incorporate more protein (probably about twice as much as you're currently…
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Many runners start up again when they're at the tail end of a head cold. The stomach flu is a completely different animal. I came down with the stomach flu shortly after the New Year and it took me two weeks to get over it. Rest, stay hydrated, eat if you can stomach it, and don't rush it.
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And yet OP absolutely mentioned wanting to control her sodium intake. How is eating 32 oz of peanut butter or 2 gallons of pickles in one sitting even remotely relevant?
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When grilled, its texture reminds me of calamari. But I definitely prefer calamari.
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Where I come from, people who eat ~6,000 calories of peanut butter in one sitting are called binge eaters. Have you ever been diagnosed with BED?
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Yes. MFP is designed for you to eat your exercise calories back. Some choose to eat about 50-70% back, because they've found their exercise calories to be overestimated by MFP. When I was losing weight, I usually ate all them back and still lost at the rate I was expecting.
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Have you ever had gopchang at Korean BBQ? For whatever reason, that's easier for me to stomach (pun intended) than tripas. Still not my favorite though.
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I love everything you mentioned except tripas. No way, no how! ;)
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It's actually really tasty once you get over the "Wait, WTF is this again?!" factor.
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There's an awesome taco truck that parks in my neighborhood 7 days/week, and they make amazing beef brain (sesos) tacos.
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So, no vegetables or fruit either? Sounds challenging, but I guess that's the point, right? You're basically limited to protein.
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Thank you. I'll be here all week...
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"The Walking Thread"? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Good job! Portion control is a wonderful thing.
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:D
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I just entered maintenance and have the same goal you have. I found this thread to be extremely helpful: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10177803/recomposition-maintaining-weight-while-losing-fat/p1
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You're already eating 1200 calories/day (is that net or gross?) which is quite low. Further reducing your calories while maintaining your current workout plan wouldn't be a good idea, IMO. My suggestion would be to tighten up your food logging (am I correct in assuming you're already using a food scale?) and reassess your…
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How long have you been in a plateau?
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It's kinda like The Matrix, except for fish.
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Except sodium is a micronutrient and the weight gain that comes from increased sodium intake is water weight (which I'm sure you know...just pointing it out for the OP). It's important to remember that weight loss isn't about reducing the amount of water our bodies retain. It's about reducing body fat, and that's all about…
