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Weight stalling...please help!
Hey everyone! Looking for some advice. I had been losing weight pretty steadily since Mar 2 and weighed my lowest last Saturday. Since then, I haven’t been able to lose anymore—and even fluctuated up and down a little. I even took tape measurements and didn't notice any discernible difference. Any constructive advice would…
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5'2 relatively active women maintaining
Hi everyone! Looking for very specific advice from not MFP or another online calculator. I'm 5'2 and currently 119.6lb (trying to get to the bottom of my maintenance range of 115 and stay 115-120). I actively burn 350-500 calories 6x a week, on average, between cardio and lifting. Can anyone with similar statistics tell me…
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Weekly Exercise Calories
Hi everyone! I want to transition to counting calories weekly rather than daily, and I was wondering if you all could give me some input on the best way to do this. For some reason this seems more complicated & daunting to me than the daily counting, but I think it's more realistic. Cumulatively, on average, I actively…
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Fasted Cardio?
Hi all! Just curious about opinions / input. I never had heard of fasted cardio until yesterday, but now I'm curious about what people find the benefits & drawbacks to be. I do my cardio before work, and basically roll out of bed and into the YMCA's wellness center, and workout 6-7am. I don't eat my breakfast until I get…
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Anyone else - lose weight, gain a sweet tooth?
This is so silly, and I can't find anything about it online, but I'm just curious if this has happened to anyone else: I've never craved sweets in my life, always salt. I used to not eat the cake at my own birthday parties, always wanted more greens and veggies, etc. I still love greens and veggies, but recently since…
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Desserts for Those Still Losing Weight
Hi everyone! What's your favorite dessert to work into your macros while still in a deficit? When I'm low on calories left for the day I have a few different ice cream treats that are around 60 calories or I'll have a cookie, but I love hearing about what other people enjoy. Can't wait to hear some ideas! :)
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Only 2 Levels: Binge or Be Totally Restricting?
Hi all! Have had success, hit a plateau, but was comfortable with my size (even though I am frustrated with this 1 month plateau, and still ultimately want to lose more), so I decided to give myself a few days off these past few days while I was home with my whole family and we were doing a lot of special occasion eating.…
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Need to share
Not quite a success story yet, but I wanted to share this with the community that has helped me so much along the way. I am finally in the range of my goal number! I know that the scale should not be my only indicator of success, but after a few weeks being unable to get the scale to start moving again, I finally saw it…
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SO CONFUSED
Okay, my head is officially spinning. I am very confused. This morning, I wanted to eat granola with my yogurt, and I opted for KIND Peanut Butter Whole Grain Clusters. Maybe not the healthiest choice in the world, but it's gluten free and has peanuts in it for protein — and it's really delish :) . Anyway, I cannot for the…
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Help Please :)
Hello! I've been in a plateau before my final 10lb for the past 2 weeks. Would anyone be willing to look at my diary (I very accurately record both food and exercise), and tell me if I'm doing something wrong, if I should keep with it for a couple more weeks before trying to reform my food / exercise regimen, or if I…
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Feeling frustrated
Could use some motivation, friends! Hitting my first plateau and would love some words of encouragement. I'm petrified that cutting down on my cardio exercise means that I'm going to gain all my weight back, even though I'm still actively burning at least 400 calories a day, and eating at a deficit. I'm thinking my body is…
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Help with next steps
Good morning all! I weighed in yesterday at a little over 10lb from my ultimate goal weight (5lb from the top of my goal maintenance range). I'm wondering how in this stage I should change my diet / exercise habits. Do I lower my calories? Raise them? Do more cardio? Do less? I've heard a lot of conflicting views, and…
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Help with "banked" calories
Hi everyone! As always, I have a strange question for all of you. A couple of things happened this week that contradicted each other... 1) I found out on Sunday that my favorite frozen yogurt shop is closing on Friday (today), so I got frozen yogurt every single night this week — not exaggerating. 2) I wanted to save up…
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How to beat mental hunger
Hello! Does anyone have any advice on how to beat mental hunger? E.g., hunger caused by boredom, mental exercise / being in a working environment all day, or any other types of hunger that I feel in my mouth & brain, but not my stomach? I'm hungry all of the time. I know part of this is because I'm working out a lot, but I…
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Nervous about weekly weigh-in
Hello all! I do my weekly weigh-ins on Fridays (since starting about 2+ months ago), and so far each week has shown pretty good progress. I have a feeling (ya know, sometimes you just know!) that tomorrow is going to be my first time facing no weight loss....or even seeing possible weight gain. I'm due for that time of the…
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Overestimating Calories — Is this okay?
Hi everyone! I'm just wondering if anyone else tries to overestimate calories in an attempt to balance out other places where I'm probably unknowingly underestimating calories. That is, I'll try to round up. For example, if it's almost 1 cup of frozen yogurt, I'll log 1 full cup, or if I don't finish some of my dinner, I…
