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Ultimate Starting Weight: 168 Challenge Starting Weight: 164 Challenge Goal Weight: 153 Ultimate Goal Weight: 145 This morning, I weighed in at 158 and I'm okay with that. I was started in early July and there wasn't much change in weight for the first month and then things started to move in August. My calorie deficit was…
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As others have said, calories. I use the macros as a general guide. Aside from my daily calorie number, the other number I will pay attention to is how many grams of fiber I'm eating, for bathroom purposes.
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7/22 - 163.4 - well, only down by .4 lbs My calorie budget from MFP is a bit high. After under going an RMR test and checking out my last couple of weeks of food logging, the weight loss lined up perfectly. Now I have my numbers in place. I'm probably aiming to eat around 1350 cal every day but in the last couple of years,…
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I'm in! Like some others, I need some accountability Ultimate Starting Weight: 168 Challenge Starting Weight: 164 Challenge Goal Weight: 153 Ultimate Goal Weight: 145 I'm also aiming to comfortably run on the treadmill for 30 minutes by Labor Day in preparation for winter half marathon training. I sweat really easily and…
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I get light headed when I've been active for consecutive days and know I'm not eating enough. I've done this a few times in the past, a couple of times by accident when I wasn't counting calories and a couple of times when I was and had my calorie goal set a little too low. When my calorie goal was too low, I started…
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I think this is how I manage to always gain weight when training for marathons, or at least my first one. Also, until I realized that I wasn't eating back my calories, I think I was driving my metabolism rate down. I've been doing better in terms of weight gain on the last couple because I've been trying to eat it back and…
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Nothing to be afraid of! The main difference from what you're normally doing is that there's people around you cheering you on!
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I usually will bring some Gu and Snickers bar(s) on my long runs (marathon training). My coach has me consuming about 250 calories every hour or so. The Gu comes in around 100 calories and the Snickers is about 270-280. Also, agree on maybe eating a banana before you go out. Or bake a batch of muffins and freeze. When you…
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Yeah, I know it's weird but it's just such a hassle and so mentally draining to have to drag myself out to a store and try on clothes and find stuff that looks good but doesn't fit or fits but doesn't look good. Ya know? It's just easier to stick with what I've got!
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Hi everybody! I'm Judy and I'm in DC. I've been off and on MFP for about a year now. I don't have much weight to lose but I started since my clothes weren't fitting and I'd prefer to not go clothes shopping because I'm too lazy. I have a warped sense of lazy :) Anyways, I'm getting back on the wagon since I'm training for…
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I love this thread! I'm 5'6" and currently around 168. I'm aiming to get down to 148 for now. Every time I get down to around 150, I feel like I"m too thin when I look in the mirror. My running coach pointed out that I may have to look around at the people I hang out with and i usually am the skinniest person and so I feel…
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If you are going to yoga classes, talk to the instructors before the class starts and let them know where you're having troubles. A friend of mine broke her hand a couple of months ago and has gotten her cast off and feels comfortable enough to go back to classes. Her instructors were aware of her injuries and could then…
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Keep your ears open for different work outs. Like the others have said, it's not always about the running/biking and weights at the gym. In the last few years, I've also heard about the exotic dancing type classes (this is just an example) and I actually went to an intro pole class last week. It really was a hair's breath…
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I'm 5'6" and although I'm currently 157, I have pictures from when I was 135 and 140. It's close...would it help?
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Maybe try to eat more during the day and not save it all until dinner? On days when I know I'll be going for a longer bike ride after work, I know about how many calories I'll burn and I'll start eating through those during the day rather than eating them only after I've exercised. If I did that, I wouldn't be able to eat…
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Oh! I want to play! I just experimented with some hot water bath canning this weekend and it was successful! I did some pickles and some tomato jam (the Food In Jars recipe). I didn't originally intend to make the tomato jam but when she mentioned in her blog that she uses it as a ketchup substitute, that inspired me since…
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I know for myself, if I want to lose or even maintain weight, I'm going to have to track calories for the rest of my life. I love food and for most of my life, I've been lucky in that genetics has helped to keep my weight down and that I wasn't 200 pounds when I graduated high school but I know I'm at a point in life where…
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Wow! What a difference! Good job!
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Awesome! The current issue of Fine Cooking had a page on nut butters and I read it wondering about making my own Nutella! I'm so glad to not only see the recipes but to see that you've posted pictures!
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I ignore the labels :) Running at 5.2 mph on the treadmill feels fast for me. I try to not let it intimidate me since I figure that everyone has a comfortable "leg moving" speed and mine just happens to be slower.
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Well, I like to think of my food calories as my aim for the day. Since MFP calculates your net calories based on food and exercise, as long as I'm within 100 of my goal, I'm happy. This was the one thing that kept me here rather than over at sparkpeople where I was constantly having to track calorie in and calorie out and…
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Are you roasting it in the oven? Are you using a crockpot? What's your cooking method?
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Different bikes are built for different purposes. So you'll want to figure out what you want to do with the bike. Do you want to commute or run errands? Do you want ride on dirt trails? Do you want to ride it for general exercise? The other thing you'd want to ask yourself is how much you want to spend on a bike. There are…
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Way back when I first started exercising, it sucked. I was always out of breath and I hated it but I made myself do it. Now it's not so bad and I even found something I really enjoy doing - mornings out on the local multi use trails on my bike. As for feeling tired, about a month ago, just before I joined MFP, I had ramped…
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Roast a chicken? Rub chicken with salt, pepper and some mix of spices. I throw in some paprika and my next one will probably involve some ground cumin. Place chicken in your crock pot and on low for 6-8 hours. From here, I've taken the meat to make chicken enchiladas, burrito bowl, and a chicken and broccoli casserole.…
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Roast a chicken? Rub chicken with salt, pepper and some mix of spices. I throw in some paprika and my next one will probably involve some ground cumin. Place chicken in your crock pot and on low for 6-8 hours. From here, I've taken the meat to make chicken enchiladas, burrito bowl, and a chicken and broccoli casserole.…
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17 miles tonight and it burned enough calories to let me eat dinner. Yay! I'm finding that I have spent way too much time staring at the radar map on weather.com this year. There seems to be a constant threat of thunderstorms.
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Regarding the VO2 Max testing. I just had that and my resting metabolic rate tested last week. I didn't go to a gym. I had started googling in the local area and stumbled upon a local running site that had a recommendation and I contacted them. From there, I dug around some more and found a sports therapy/rehab center…
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How many calories you manage to exercise off also comes into play. I burned off 1800 calories on Saturday on a long bike ride. I managed to eat about 2000 calories, enough to make up for the bike ride but not my daily caloric intake needs. Yeah, I know, that's bad. On a weekday when I'm not out on a long bike ride, I…
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I'm 5'6" and I started around 168. (just started here). I'm goal is to get down to around 145-150. When I get down there, I'll be paying more attention to my body fat %. My aim for body fat % is around 22%. In my early to mid twenties when I was between 140-145, I was probably at my fittest and lowest body fat % (around…
