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low carb / keto snack ideas please!
I'm a teacher and we're going back to school. Here's my situation: I've always prepped my lunches and took them to school. I had my own fridge and microwave in my classroom. I had a stack of yoghurts, juices, coconut waters and creamer for my coffee in my fridge and granola bars and crackers in my cabinet for snacks. That…
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Keto/low carb diet - need some advice
My background: Nov 2014 - June 2015: lost 33 lbs by logging food, didn't care for macros at all, exercised 4-5 times / week. Only had 5 more lbs to go. June 2015 - June 2016: didn't lose any more weight, slowly gained 5 lbs, then 5 more, and in the last 6 months 5 more. This is mostly due to not logging food, or when I got…
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Zumba calories burned
So I just got a Fitbit Charge HR on Monday (4 days ago) and I have been taking Zumba for a little over a year, pretty regularly (on average 2-3 times / week). MFP always estimate over 500 calories burned in an hour, I always just entered 350-400 if I wasn't sweating that much, didn't feel that much out of breath, and 500…
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Fitbit underestimating, synching with MFP and other questions
This is my 2nd day of having my Fitbit but I am very confused about calories burned. It says that yesterday's Zumba class burned 413, and today's class 390 (same instructor). I was jumping around way more than usual, way more than anyone else, had heart rate up, sweating, out of breath a lot... By the way I've been taking…
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wearing Fitbit on ankle?
Sorry if I sound ignorant or not very knowledgeable, it's probably because I don't know that much. I ordered a Fitbit Charge HR, and I should have it within the next couple of days. I'm very excited and I've been trying to read a lot about it. I know how it works, but it seems like things can get complicated, and have seen…
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What MFP is doing for me
Ok, this post is not about me losing extreme amount of weight, or going through a huge transformation. It's about changing some long time habits and formed attitudes. To start with, yes, I did lose 12 lbs so far (in about 60 days) I have 27 more to go. But here's the most important stuff: - I have always battled with…
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weight stall/gain after starting to run
I started here on November 23rd (Thanksgiving week) and by December 14th I lost 8 lbs. Since then I have only lost another .5 lbs. I have been pretty much under or right at my calorie goals (1450 during the week, 1300 on the weekends and non-working days), except for Thanksgiving day and Christmas eve, but even on those…
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macros - have some questions
I'm hearing all kinds of things and I just want to make sure I get it right. - macros don't really matter for weight loss, the most important is the calorie deficit - I totally get that and agree with that - I've read some posts here (which were highly praised) that we must hit our macros, or we're not doing it right This…
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Zumba and calories burned
MFP suggests that Zumba burns 700 calories / hr. I went on a website where you enter your weight, height, gender, and the intensity of the class (can't even talk: high, can talk: moderate, etc) and it also came up with 700. I'm sure that's also just an overall estimate. Should I manually override it and enter less? Another…
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Overwhelmed by the number of available activity trackers.
I want to buy a tracker, but I'm overwhelmed by the 50 + (supposedly) different trackers, and I still have some questions about them. The ones that track calories, how do they actually do that? I think tracking heartrate would be one way, but most of these don't have that. Could anyone recommend one or some for me based on…
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sugar intake - don't understand
I don't get it. I don't eat sweets, not now and not before because I just don't crave it. My only sugar intake comes from fresh fruit (banana, strawberry, etc), and the creamer from my coffee (I don't use sugar). Today I've eaten 1 banana, coffee with creamer, egg whites with a little butternut squash and onion, tuna…
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40 lbs to loose
Hi everyone, I never had to loose this much weight. I've always battled with extra lbs, but usually it was 15 lbs, maybe 20. This extra weight snuck up on me over the past 2-3 years, the last 10 lbs maybe just in the last 6 months? :( So I know it should be easier to lose (the longer you've had excess weight the harder it…
