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✅ Exercise: 60 minutes swimming ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( ) I also find tracking is essential to me and pre-logging helps.

@daciasil21 If your clothes fit looser I wouldn´t call it a true plateau, but I understand your frustration of the scale not moving. Depending on what your health issues are, I would look at the glycemic index and insulin. Am I mixing you up with someone else or am I remembering correctly that you are on a medication that…

@Caroline_slowandsteady Yep.... congratulations at achieving a healthy weight! Your BMI and height/waist ratio both suggest that losing more weight would not really lower your risk for diseases or increase your lifespan or healthspan.

✅ Exercise: 50 minutes exercise ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( ) @cowphilosopher, I am sorry for you loss. That list of champions today is people who stayed through February and kept posting even though they exceeded their pass days. That is greatly respected here and I hear it really helps with weight loss.

✅ Exercise: 40 minutes walking ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( )

@Caroline_slowandsteady Maybe consider a different metric than BMI for how healthy your weight is. I believe the metric of waist to height ratio is more correlated to health than BMI is. If your waist is more than half of your height, then they might not be vanity pounds. But if it is less than half your height my…

@daciasil21 Do you have a blood glucose test kit/monitor? If not, I think you should get one if you are on a medication that affects insulin/blood sugar because what you described sure sounds like low blood sugar which can be quite dangerous. A doctor´s order is not required if you are privately paying. You should be able…

✅ Exercise: 45 minutes swimming ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( )

✅ Exercise: 40 minutes walking ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( ) How long have you been on MFP, and what was the catalyst that drove you to finally 'get started', I signed up in 2006 but didn´t use it. I began using it last summer when I decided to retire and finally felt I had time to focus on my health. how much…

Hi, I am Susan. I live in a rural area in Kansas. I am back for my fifth month with UAC. I have now lost 44 pounds since actively tracking with MyFitnessPal starting last August. I still have at least that much more weight to lose. It is not the first time I have lost a lot of weight. I have lost a lot and gained it back…

✅ Exercise: 25 minutes walking ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( )

✅ Exercise: 60 minutes swimming ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( ) Wow! The month flew by and I haven´t used any pass days yet so I guess I made the winner´s circle.

✅ Exercise: 20 minutes walking. ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( )

✅ Exercise: 60 minutes swimming ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( )

In regards to what I think might be considered an ¨exergame¨ I love the game Dance, Dance, Revolution. Not only is it fun and aerobic, my understanding of the research on maintaining your cognitive abilities as you age, tells me it should be good for that too. As an aside, any of you parents of young children might want to…

@Mrs_Hoffer Thanks you! So I am going to try out these two ways of doing a spoiler below, with a brief video I watched this morning about the 3 ¨levers¨ to pull to lose weight. You all can ignore this, it is nothing super surprising.

✅ Exercise: 70 minutes walking ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( ) My mindset is really important to whether I am losing, maintaining, or gaining weight. The trick has been changing it when I have felt like I am just crawling to get by. Thus my episodes of 75+ pound weight loss and later regain. A year ago I made the…

Can someone point me to the instruction for how I do a spoiler on MFP?

There is an online course at coursera.org that I am auditing for free. https://www.coursera.org/learn/weight-management-beyond-balancing-calories (If you sign up, it gives you the choice to pay and complete assignments, or just audit to take the course without credit--- the auditing option is not as obvious but look for…

✅ Exercise: 40 minutes swimming ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( ) I haven´t traveled since I started losing weight in August. I expect I will do it different this time around, because both my husband and I are doing intermittent fasting and I am eager to see how that works on vacations. I am told that it actually…

@MadisonMolly2017 You are amazing. Sometimes my MYF friends have several notes of encouragement from their friends about their daily log and I just can´t think of a single different way to provide support. It´s like brain freeze or something. You have so many different encouraging things here I decided to start a ¨cheat…

And that BMI is getting very close to the healthy range too!

✅ Exercise: 20 minutes walking ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( )

✅ Exercise: 40 minutes walking, 40 minutes swimming ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( ) I worked out for many years before my husband ever used our family gym membership. Now he is the one sometimes pushing me to get out and go with him when I would prefer to stay in and walk at home. I dont think it is necessary to…

✅ Exercise: Lots of walking and shopping today ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( ) This one is going to take more thought. I have read Dweck´s books and used her concepts in regards to other things, but had not thought about it in this context. I do think growth mindset should be applicable to learning to maintain my…

✅ Exercise: 60 minutes swimming ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( ) I track calories, carbs, protein, fat, fiber, and sugar. I try to keep my net carbs (carb grams minus fiber grams) below 150g, my fiber above 25g, and my added sugar as low as possible, usually below 40g (the way MFP tracks sugar I have to eye ball…

@layzBlondeChef, Have you heard of lectin sensitivity? Your description makes me wonder if you could be lectin sensitive, both from the foods that bring it on and that it didn´t go away in building up fiber slowly. Are foods like chia seeds bothersome to you? They are really high in lectins. The most common high-lectin…

@Caroline_slowandsteady The fiber sources you added all are pretty good sources of the things that feed gut bacteria, especially the chia seeds (I am principally talking about the good ones that you DO want to feed) . In addition to the very old idea that fiber adds volume that keeps us satisfied, the newer argument some…

✅ Exercise: Lots of walking ✅ Calories ✅ Tracked 0 pass days used ( )

That is a great tip about USDA +. Never heard that before. I realized I am not exactly sure what bloat is so I went to look it up. It still is not clear to me if bloat refers to gas or refers to water retention. I do not typically have much discomfort from gas, even when my stomach gurgles or I burp. I do have a tendency…