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My guess is that you might well be the correct weight, but you feel "flabby" because you lost a ton of muscle during your anorexia phase. (125 pounds is very slender for 5'9") If you feel you have to go it alone, get into weight training. Set your calories to maintain. Your ideal would be to stay the same weight but have…
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In particular, Greek Yogurt is high in protein.
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Pattylu7, can you share your base stats? Height, weight, current daily calorie goal, weight loss goal (0.5, 1.0, 1.5 or 2.0 lb.week), normal daily activities (Sedentary, Lightly Active, Active, Very Active)?
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I agree, you should be eating at least half those calories back. The only reason not all si that, well, while calories in food is pretty-well defined, calories burned is a big ol' estimate. Getting an HRM (like the FitBit) gets you more accuracy. I don't have one, so I log 2/3 of my exercise TIME (log 30 minutes instead of…
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For a lot of people, it means just select a low weight loss rate... Unless you are already at the minimum MFP gives you (.5 lb/week), a lower rate means more calories to consume. It is apparently common for new MFP'ers to pick 2 lb/week (i.e. a 1000 calorie per day calorie deficit, with a minimum of 1200 calories no matter…
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Remember that MFP puts in a deficit FOR you of 500 calories if you are set to 1 lb/week. You do not need to exercise in addition to get that deficit. So, eating back all of your exercise calories is NOT maintenance. The one thing I do think is the case is that the calories listed for exercise can be inaccurate, so you…
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If I were doing food prep for Thanksgiving for 25 people and it took all day, yeah, I might. That said... food prep is kind of like every day living and not "exercise" just like walking around my house isn't.
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Oh, it also depends on the weight loss rater you selected. your calories will be higher the lower rater you select. I tried plugging in your numbers, and they are pretty close if you selected .5 lb/week, but high if you selected 1 lb/week or more.
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After 10 pounds of weight loss, it prompts you to update your goals, but you can do it any time want to. I do it every time I record a weight loss, just because it makes me happy. :-)
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Mine are 1910, for 5'9", 270 pounds. I am set to lose 1 lb/week. If you are taller and/or heavier, your calories will be much higher than someone who is short and/or light. If you went through the MFP guided set up and 1990 is what you got, it's likely a pretty good starting spot.
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What some people do is eat those calories (or at least some of them) the next day.
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You said "Im still under my calorie, fat, protein and such for today". How is this such a tragedy?
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The advantage of going with sedentary plus eating your calories is if you go on vacation, or get sick or start working a bunch of overtime, you're only eating the calories you actually use in exercise. It's a nice self-regulating system.
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I agree on malwarebytes. That's something I keep running. It blocks stuff on Facebook ALL the time.
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You almost certainly have a virus. Here's a start to fixing it: http://www.2-viruses.com/how-to-fix-google-results-hijacker-google-redirect-virus-problem Good luck!
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To answer lisabrownnc's question: >So, my question....Does MFP already calculate how much I want to lose (with my goal) and make the caloric calculations >accordingly? So I can eat 1600 calories each day (provided I work out) and still lose weight? Yes, MFP already calculates a calorie deficit so you can eat 1600 calories…
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It's not algebra, really, it's simple addition and subtraction and MFP makes it easy, doing it all for you. The daily summary on your home page has all of it done for you. Here's mine right now: 854 CALORIES REMAINING Goal Food Exercise = Net 1910 1210 - 154 1056 I've eaten 1210 calories of food I've done 154 calories of…
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@GB333 Your questions in order: 1. Am I on the right track here? This *should work.... right? This does appear to be the case, yes. Nothing is guaranteed in weight loss, but according to everything I know, you've analyzed this pretty well. 2. how far up should I take my daily calories? 1500? the full 1700? There is no…
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I find "bust" size (over the breasts) to be tricky to take accurately, but the "under bust" (around the ribs) to be pretty simple, so I use the under bust as a better tracker fro my progress. It's good to have both, and since you'll probably buying new bras soon (I know I will) you'll need those new measurements!
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- Drink your water. - Get some exercise. Doesn't need to be a gym, walking works fine. - Everything in moderation - don't starve yourself, or eliminate all your favorite foods, or go crazy on the potato chips. - If you have a bad day and eat way too much, tomorrow is another day. - Take your measurements as well as your…
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I try to eat my exercise calories back, BUT... it appears that MFP overestimates exercise calories (at least for my height and weight). So I log 2/3 of the time on all my exercise (recording 30 minutes for every 45 spent). Then I try pretty hard to eat all of those calories back. However, I don't worry about it if I am a…
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You can customize your goals, including your macros, which means you can set it high enough so it stops showing red. Go to My Home > Goals, and select Custom: Manually set my own custom fitness goals This way it won't drive you crazy seeing the red, but you'll still be tracking it, so you can see if you go up to 300.
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All in the math... 1 day at +250 = 250 5 days at - 150 = -750 6 day total = -500 You're at a 500 calorie deficit for the week. Do this 6 more times and you've lost a pound. So, you didn't cancel it out. Take heart and keep on cranking!
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My Home > Goals > Change Goals Select "Guided" Continue Change Goal Weight Update Profile
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Chinese food. We went to PF Changs one night and my sodium hit 10,000 mg!
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One way to approach it might be to split it up into 2 groups of 60 pounds. Lose the 60, got to maintenance and take a couple months there, and them the other half. Good luck!
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I was 600 short last night... I only felt I needed to make up 100-200, because I'm only at 1 lb/week, so I have some wiggle room. Anyway, I had a piece of toast with a pat of butter. Incredibly satisfying! You can also have a heavier than normal breakfast in the morning.
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I find if I sip from my husband's glass of wine, I drink a LOT less. Of course, you'll need something to toast with, but the old "water in the wineglass" trick can help with that, too.
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Hershey's dark chocolate kisses are 20 calories each. You need to be able to just eat a couple, but for me, the individually wrapped thing helps a bunch.
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Frankly, I walk. And am riding my bicycle a bit to go to the post office. Once this stupid wrist heals (yes, I fell OFF the darn bicycle ...) I would like to ride more. I find all forms of gym work to be unbearably boring, so I just don't do it.
