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Hi Lauren! I’m excited to find your post, because we are basically MFP twins — I’m also 35, 5’7” and 159 pounds! I restarted my journey about 3 weeks ago, and I have not seen the scale move yet either and have been feeling discouraged. I gained about 20 pounds (1.5 st) over the past 2 years and I’m starting to realize it’s…
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Seconding Happy Scale. I log my daily weight there to track fluctuations, but I only update my weight in MFP once a week.
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Add me!
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I try to go incognito too. I hang with a crowd on Fridays that tend to go overboard on drinking and then following up with diner food and milkshakes at 4am. They would not be interested in hearing about calorie counts, lol. I just reserve an extra 200 calorie deficit each day and then eat extra light during the day on…
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Oh hey, what's up! I'm not as big a gamer as I was in high school/college, but I do still play and I'm getting pretty big into hiking too. I live in downtown Chicago though, so I mostly go on long "urban hikes" with my husband every day, but we try to go out I the woods or places like the Indiana Dunes on weekends. We…
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Please add me! Introvert here as well :)
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Hey there! Feel free to add me. I'm also losing a smal amount of weight (down to my last 9 pounds) so we have similar goals.
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Agreeing with the posters that say to tighten up your calorie logging and be patient. Fat distribution is a matter of genetics, so it may just be that this area is the last to shrink for you. I don't lost my back fat until I get below about 130, and that has been the case every time I've gained and lost weight. Just how…
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Hey Vikki! I'll add you to my friends list. I log every day and like to comment on my friends wall so hopefully I can offer some support! My diary is open and you can feel free to get some ideas from it ( just ignore my weekends, particularly Fridays :# haha). Good luck on your journey, and my best advice would be to make…
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My husband and I went to a very nice Italian restaurant for Restaurant Week in January. I'd been using MFP for about 1.5 months at that point. It was a 3 course meal, with a pasta starter, entree, and dessert (vanilla panna cotta >:) ). I saved calories all week for this meal and ate every bite happily until I was about…
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Ok I took a stab at it. Base this on a typical 30 day month: Monthly Total TDEE - Total Monthly Cals Consumed = "M" (Monthly Dinner Cals + Cals Burned) # of pounds lost in 30 days x 3500 = "T" (Total Monthly Cals Burned) M - T = "D" (total Dinner calories for month) D / 30 = Average Daily Dinner Calories Please someone…
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My thought would be to get a Fitbit to log your TDEE as accurately as possible, and make sure you're logging everything except your dinner extremely accurately. Then, leave dinner blank. After a month, you could look back and subtract your total calories for the month from your monthly TDEE total, then take that number and…
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Humboldt Park here, feel free to add me!!
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I live in Chicago and use Sprig when I dont feel like cooking. They have low cal options and usually deliver within 20 minutes, can't beat that! I believe they also service the Bay Area.
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Hubs and I love soup -- I've been making it from scratch at least twice a week for the past two months. Skinnytaste.com has some amazing recipes where a single serving is usually under 200 calories. Before I was calorie counting, I would usually toast a bagel and dip that in my soup. Can't do that now, so I usually toast…
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It's CICO... but I know that's not the answer you wanted, so here's an overly detailed breakdown of how I've made it work for me: Meal planning is key for me. Google "Skinnytaste meal plan", and there's a post where she lists weekly meal plans for like 10 weeks, and all the meals are about 300 calories or less. Every…
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Morningstar Spicy Black Bean Burgers - I eat em dipped in yellow mustard, no bun Vitalicious Vita Tops - they're kind of pricey but it's a sweet snack for about 100 calories and they're packed with fiber so they keep you full between meals. My favs are the double chocolate and the banana choco chip. If you can find the…
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I grew up having dessert after every meal (thanks to my mom's affinity for sugar) so I almost instinctively want something sugary after dinner. I've found that if I eat a small dessert right after my dinner, I don't get cravings later at night. However, if I skip dessert, I almost always start scavenging for sweets about…
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I wish I could have comprehended this when I was younger. I'm 28 now and just learning to love my uniqueness and flaws (with the help of a great therapist). I'm "weirder" than I was in my early 20's, and hardly ever wear makeup anymore, but people seem to like me more. It's a relief to just be yourself ☺️
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Oh god, I can't eat ON Delicious Strawberry anymore after finding a shaker that got shoved under my car seat for a few weeks. We opened that sucker up to clean it and the smell immediately permeated our entire apartment and lingered for several hours, despite all windows and doors being open/fans on/etc. I gag just…
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Send me a friend request :) I'm switching over to IIFYM/maintenance now that I'm about 3 lbs from my goal weight. I've been packing as much protein into my days as possible, and eating at 1700 cals. Is your diary open? Would be cool to get some ideas on how to get more protein!
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All sweets. Why can't candy have more protein in it!?
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5'7", 133lbs, 28 years old. 35-29-36. Got a weird rectangle shape, slimmer hips with a thicker waist (on some sizing charts, my hips indicate an XS, but my waist is a L!). Generally I wear a US 2-4 though. Currently eating at 1210 for loss, but about to start weight training within the week, so I get to eat at my 1700…
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That's my goal too, I don't think I should lose too much more weight. Gonna star up strong lifts or starting strength soon. I'll add you!
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Columbus! Victorian Village, feel free to ad me!
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It's actually only $5 a box, which has 4 snacks. I get em weekly delivered to my office.
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Hardly ever anymore. It just doesn't fill me up (or it does, but only for an hour and then it shoots straight through me lmao). I got a quesarito a few weeks back on the way to my fiance's grandpa's funeral, and I was horrified to later find out it was 680 calories. It just isn't worth it. I do like a Wendy's ultimate…
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Hey Misty, I'm 28 but working towards the same goal as you. Had about 15 pounds to lose, and I'm down 11 already. My diary is open for inspiration, and I usually go through my feed and comment once or twice a day. Congrats on the retirement this year -- I can't wait for mine (that's partially why I've started paying…
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I'm also Amanda! Feel free to add me, my diary is open and I tend to like/comment probably too much ^_^
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We have similar goals, I've been looking to lose about 15 pounds by summer, already down 11 :). Feel free to add me, and my diary is open for meal ideas.
