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Have you considered a revision?

I go by the color of my pee.

I went swimming today! It wasn't as cold as last time and I did better with the sighting too.

This is what my program said: Calorie 800 or less Protein 70 g or more Carbs 40 g or less Fat 30 g or less That was what everyone started out with and then they adjust you based on things like how fast you are losing, how short you are, how much you work out. But that works as a general guideline for most people especially…

It's under Goals. Select the CHANGE GOALS button then select the "Custom: Manually set my own custom fitness goals" radio button and put in any numbers you want. You can't put in exact protein, carb and fat goal. You have to put in percentages but you can get close enough with those.

She's pretty cool, too. :smile:

I think the first step to any fitness goal is tracking. So being here is a good first step!

I don't actually believe in weight goals. 135 is meaningless if you don't know body composition. Plus, if you have to lose muscle to get to that weight then that's counter-productive IMO. I think the goal should be to have a certain percentage of body fat and then as much muscle as you need to be as strong as you want…

I need to get 80-100 for everything to flow smoothly. I drink 16 oz protein shake every morning, 3 big mugs of tea during work (14-16 oz. each) and then when I get home, I have 20 oz more, usually a Vitamin Water Zero.

I mean 90-99% DON'T keep it off. SO 1-10% keep it off, 90-99% regain most or all.

It's pretty common to worry you'll be the one it doesn't work for. After all, how many diet programs did we all go on that didn't work? So it's normal to ask why this will be different. Here's why: Diets like Weight Watchers work for 1-2% of the population maybe. 90-99% who manage to lose the weight actually keep it off.…

I broke my armband band because I didn't understand the instructions. Maybe they've changed them but they keep talking about pressing on the "armband" when they don't mean the band that goes around your arm. (WTF? What else would you mean by an armband?) No, they mean the round-ish disk that has the sensors in it. You…

I've been doing really well since I went on Topamax. :laugh: I was really struggling before. MFP really helped once I came back here though.

It is well documented that lactose intolerance among Scandinavians is almost zero. So you "heard" wrong.

Oh my, that's it exactly! :laugh:

Hey everyone! Things are going okay with me but today I had this revelation that my job is literally killing me. I'm totally convinced it's my job that's kept me from healing my post-concision syndrome. So I'm going to try harder to find a new one.

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I don't understand what you mean. Count towards what? Skin weighs something so it counts towards our weight which means it impacts our BMI. It doesn't count towards our body fat percentage as that's only our fat.

Congrats! I had mine done 4.5 years ago. Best thing I ever did for myself!

I find the MFP exercise database to be too high. For one thing, it tells you how many calories an average person would burn during that time, not the net burn. But you've already accounted for the base calories in your daily calories. For example, if you run for an hour and run 6 miles, most women's net burn is 600…

Congrats!

I gave up diet soda years ago and it didn't do a thing for my cravings. It did make me less gassy though. I have noticed that adding Sucralose to my tea seems to make me crave sugar more than adding Saccharine or Aspartame to it. But I think part of it is how sweet I make my drinks. If I drink things that are super-sweet,…

Congrats!

In the mornings after peeing before getting dressed a couple of times a week.

So I'm kind of annoyed. According to my BodyMedia FIT and MyFitnessPal, for the past two weeks, I've been posting an average deficit of 250 calories a day. And my weight hasn't budged one bit! Bah. Stupid scale!

I am well aware of who Dr. Garth is. Yes, he has gotten good results. But that was before he became a vegan and joined PETA and now tells his patients ridiculous things like broccoli is a good source of protein.

Except those are already accounted for in your activity level that you select when you set your numbers up. However, you are right that you shouldn't subtract your BMR from your exercise burn. Technically you should subtract your RMR from your exercise burn rate but I didn't want to get too technical about BMR vs. RMR…

Well I've done a lot of reading on this subject and I think your doctor is wrong. There is a ton of data out there that supports a high protein diet both in the early days when we're healing and on a VLCD and later on just because most of us have office jobs and we don't really need the quick energy that carbs provide but…

Topamax is a medicine for people with seizures or migraines. I have post-concussion syndrome and I can't workout until I stop getting headaches. I don't know when that will be. The medicine takes about 6 weeks to start working and I've been on it for a little over a week. When I first had surgery, my surgeon said I could…

MFP lies. Not on purpose, of course. But all the figure it gives you are averages and you can't use them as gospel because everyone is different. Just because the screen says "if you ate like this every day in 5 weeks you'd weight X", doesn't mean it's true. The same thing when it claims you burned 150 calories when you…