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Heaviest weight: 175.4 in early 2013. Original MFP starting weight (January 2018): 168.2 December 31, 2024 Weight: 158.0 (10-day average 157.2) April 26 (Starting Weight for this challenge): 159.4 (10-day average 155.8) May goal: Get below the top of maintenance weight range (153 pounds) Ultimate goal: Stay in maintenanceβ¦
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Don't worry about setting negative calories for now. It's for days that you have less activity than you "plan" for; it reduces your calorie allowance. If you're new, just keep building the habit of tracking completely, honestly, and accurately.
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Even when I swim with training fins it tells me I'm a slow swimmer. I'm not terribly surprised.
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Heaviest weight: 175.4 in early 2013. Original MFP starting weight (January 2018): 168.2 December 31, 2024 Weight: 158.0 (10-day average 157.2) April 26 (Starting Weight for this challenge): 159.4 (10-day average 155.8) May goal: Get below the top of maintenance weight range (153 pounds) Ultimate goal: Stay in maintenanceβ¦
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Five days of rowing a raft on an amazing river through spectacular canyons with extremely varied geology. Almost half the trip was rowing into a "brisk" (20-30 kt) wind. Yuck. Also included is carrying gear to camp from the raft and back again the next day and setting camp up then breaking it down. Hiking most days to niceβ¦
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It has to get pretty hot for the sprinklers to go off. Basically there is a valve that is held shut by a vial that melts at a relatively low temperature. When flames get hot enough, the vial breaks, and the water can flow. The sprinklers are not intended to put the fire out; they are intended to give people a chance toβ¦
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Welcome @Debbi0 What strategies are you going to use to send that excess packing?
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I heard a story on a local public radio station last week about this. There is a microorganism that is common in soil that increases serotonin release and can make you feel happier. Allegedly a single exposure can have an effect that lasts more than a week.
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Heaviest weight: 175.4 in early 2013. Original MFP starting weight (January 2018): 168.2 December 31, 2024 Weight: 158.0 (10-day average 157.2) March 29 (Starting Weight for this challenge): 159.2 (10-day average 157.3) April goal: Get below the top of maintenance weight range (153 pounds) Ultimate goal: Stay inβ¦
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When May rolls around next week, we can start the new challenge. You'll find it right over here ββ May Weight Loss Challenge https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10937584/may-2025-weight-loss-challenge/
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In the aquarium, I pretty much need twenty pounds to get off the surface. Drysuit. I have a beefy wetsuit, and I need about the same amount with that. Out in open water, I carry more things that are negatively buoyant, so I can take a little of the lead off. When I was diving in warmer water (upper 50s or low 60s F), Iβ¦
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If you don't like coffee, have you tried tea?
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That's the place. Two years ago I did the hike weekly to watch the wildflowers wend their way up to the higher elevations. Last year I did Silver Falls a couple times a month. Yesterday I did a hike out to Bald Hill. It was such a disappointment after Marys Peak. Always within earshot of a road. Lots of trail shortcutsβ¦
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@AnnPT77 @springlering62 As regards stepping outside of our comfort zones, it can FOR SURE lead to growth. One of the things I'm working on this year for self-improvement is to say YES more often. I had my first opportunity when a friend invited me to join him on a wilderness river adventure not too far south of the Arcticβ¦
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We're here. Just got other stuff going on. Hiking season is here; snow is off the trails. Mud is drying up a bit. I did a hike up a local trail I really adore on Friday. I invited a friend. She said she had to mow and do chores. I was really surprised how few people were out. Even on a weekday, there's plenty of people.β¦
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I used to wonder how people could drink and enjoy black coffee. Now I wonder why people pollute it with stuff. Some of it is habit, and you can change your tastes. If I have to have really awful coffee for some reason, then maybe I will splash something in there, but I'd rather have a cup of well-made high quality coffeeβ¦
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It sounds like you're starting to take your experience and use it to do better. Maybe you aren't cutting as far back. You had a bad day, and you didn't quit. Instead you logged what you actually ate. I call that being honest with yourself. Whether you log it or not, your body will digest it. Logging or not logging doesn'tβ¦
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Heaviest weight: 175.4 in early 2013. Original MFP starting weight (January 2018): 168.2 December 31, 2024 Weight: 158.0 (10-day average 157.2) March 29 (Starting Weight for this challenge): 159.2 (10-day average 157.3) April goal: Get below the top of maintenance weight range (153 pounds) Ultimate goal: Stay inβ¦
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@ChuckgM3 Wow. That's ten thousand words worth of amazing pictures. Thirty pounds down, and 100% of it is fat (from 58 pounds of fat to 29)!
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You might consider a spacer to keep it on if you're planning to lose more weight. I think there's a limited number of times that jewelers recommend having rings re-sized.
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@nossmf It always feels GREAT when your performance surprises you in a good way. Keep that feeling when it happens, because it can be pretty rare.
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Heaviest weight: 175.4 in early 2013. Original MFP starting weight (January 2018): 168.2 December 31, 2024 Weight: 158.0 (10-day average 157.2) March 1 (Starting Weight for this challenge): 154.2 (10-day average 154.0) March goal: Get below the top of maintenance weight range (153 pounds) Ultimate goal: Stay in maintenanceβ¦
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Heaviest weight: 175.4 in early 2013. Original MFP starting weight (January 2018): 168.2 December 31, 2024 Weight: 158.0 (10-day average 157.2) March 29 (Starting Weight for this challenge): 159.2 (10-day average 157.3) March goal: Get below the top of maintenance weight range (153 pounds) Ultimate goal: Stay inβ¦
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Good news! We are having long enough breaks in the rain (and even seeing the sun), so the pollinators are out harvesting nectar from my fruit trees! The flowers had started to open just as we entered a long wet, cold spell. Some years when this happens there's little to no fruit. There's mason bees ALL OVER the cherry, theβ¦
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I have posted the April Challenge. See you there!
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Heaviest weight: 175.4 in early 2013. Original MFP starting weight (January 2018): 168.2 December 31, 2024 Weight: 158.0 (10-day average 157.2) March 1 (Starting Weight for this challenge): 154.2 (10-day average 154.0) March goal: Get below the top of maintenance weight range (153 pounds) Ultimate goal: Stay in maintenanceβ¦
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@DiscusTank5 I am pretty sure that the "dives" that @drmwc wrote about are sometimes described as "rides." They are treatments in a hyperbaric chamber. The description of it as a "dive" is because the chamber simulates the pressure your body experiences while diving. It does this with more saturated oxygen, or in the caseβ¦
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You can work around this. I just tried. I set my daily calorie goal manually based on past experiences. I let MFP determine my macros and figured out what those numbers were, then I used those numbers to set my macros by grams. I don't want to reset my goal, but I tried to see if it would work. It did. I didn't ask it toβ¦
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I like the barcode scanner. You do have to be vigilant that it actually identifies the item correctly. I'll echo what @yirara suggests; do the free trial of premium, use as many features as you can, and then decide if it's right for you.
