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Nervous for my vacation this year!
Every year in around january (for the past 3 years) I get back on the MFP train and lose the weight I want to lose but I always take a vacation gain maybe 1-2 lbs but when I get back I have fallen off the MFP wagon and its like I forget what I worked so hard for! It drives me insane bc I DO NOT want this to happen again…
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This isnt necessarily a bad problem to have but...
I record my daily weight in happy scale and about 3 weeks ago on this day I was 131.4 now today I'm weighing in at 127.4, which yes is great but I'm shocked as somehow I may have went down 3-4 lbs in a few weeks considering my goal is to lose .5 lbs a week and if anything I feel like I've been eating a bit more then usual!…
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I've hit my short term goal! What are yours?
I started out in Jan. at 138 lbs my s/t goal was to be 130 by June. I knew if for some reason I didnt hit this goal that was OK but I was still going to strive for it. I am now at 128 as of the last 5 days. Feeling super good and proud bc I hit it before I expected too! My goal weight is 120 but I dont plan to hit that for…
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Feeling anxious...any advice appreciated.
So I currently work in a primary school as a paraprofessional. For the past year I have been a reading aide part of the day and the other part of the day I am in an early childhood classroom as an aide. I currently have my degree in early chidhood ed (qualified to teach prek-3 gr). Well the position for the EC teacher…
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Advice feel like I'm stuck in a rock and a hard place...
So for the past 2 and half weeks I've been sick with a cold/congestion. I finally went to the drs on monday morning and he first told me to try a steroid nasal spray and if that wasnt helping by wed to try a z pack which he prescribed me. I told my cousin about this and she has had an ear infection for the last 3 months…
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Feeling super proud this morning!
I woke up this morning and was at 129 lbs! I haven't seen that number on the scale in a couple of years and it made me so happy! My ideal goal was to be 130 by June and I'm already either at it or a little less then my goal weight. I would love to be 125 by the end of june for Aruba but if I'm not its not a big deal. I've…
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Should I enter this as my weight?
So I have had such a busy week this week when I normally weigh in daily and record in happy scale to take a weekly average. The last time I weighed in was fri and sat I was 131ish well I'm off on weekends so I weighed this morning and was 130. Should I just skip adding my weight into MFP for the week bc I like to typically…
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What weight do you log in MFP?
I use happyscale daily and typically I would take a 7 day average or 5 day whatever works easiest. There's also a moving avg that shows on happyscale and right now it says 132.0 would it be okay to log that? Ive heard some people log their lowest out of 7 days but that kind of feels like cheating.
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To those who are frustrated...
At the end of January I was more then frustrated. I had been using MFP since October and was yo-yoing in between weights. Between 135-137 lbs. My ultimate goal was 125 but obviously something wasnt working. I had lost weight in the past without a food scale and I've been lucky to drop 10-14 lbs before and obviously it has…
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Happy scale
So I've been using this app since January to track my weight loss progress. Since then I've lost almost 6 lbs which is right on track with my .5 lbs a week goal. The only thing I'm wondering is do you guys log even when your on your TOM? I usually skip that week and I'm wondering if I should still log no matter what. It…
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Advice about anxiety before sleeping?
For the past few months (especially sunday evenings into mondays) I have SUCH a hard time sleeping. I will sometimes fall asleep for an hour or two and wake up and I'm WIDE awake!? Then I lay there and start to get anxious bc I dont want to be tired for work in the morning. There have been times we're Ive had to call out…
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Not going to give up!
For awhile now I have been losing at a pretty slow pace. I really buckled down the beginning of February and (finally) figured out that my food scale could actually switch to grams (the button was on the bottom of the scale, DUH!) :p So since then I have been accurately weighing everything out and I've started a new…
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Question about strength training and calories?
I normally do these fitness blender videos on youtube. On the FB website and youtube channel they do a whole video on how they calculate calories burned for each of their videos factoring in weight, height, age, etc. They tend to show the smallest number of cals you can burn to the most (say between 150-260) for a video. I…
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Dumb advice people have given you...
I've recently felt pretty discouraged and was ranting to my best friend about it. She suggested that I cut out all alcohol on the weekends (I typically drink a few beers friday evenings and more on Saturdays). She said to try it for a month and see what happens. Obviously I'm still logging my drinks and making sure they…
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Feeling pretty discouraged right now
I know everyone is going to probably come in and say it could be many things effecting this but just hear me out. So I've been using happy scale for the past few weeks recording my weight daily and I've noticed a pretty well downward trend for the most part. I started out at 138.4 and last week I was at 136.2 at my lowest…
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Quick question about weighing
So when I weigh things I typically weigh them in a paper bowl that I'll either re-use or eat whatever item I just weighed out of it. I set the bowl on first and it weighs 8 grams so say whatever I'm weighing is supposed to be 20 grams I will figure the whole total should be 28 grams correct? I'm about 99% sure this is the…
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Doesn't make much sense?
So this past two weeks I've been recording my weight with happy scale daily and have seen the daily fluctuations and overall I have lost about 1.5 which to me is good! The scale was mostly set at between 136.2-136.6 all last week. My deficit is set to lose .5 a week and so I've done pretty well on that. But Saturdays I…
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What do you think of this?
Do you think if I eat at maintenance for one day out of the week (usually Saturdays) it will effect my weight loss goal? I'm set to lose .5 a week and just started recently doing this as to let myself have a little more wiggle room on the weekend
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Feeling good and motivated!
As of two Fridays ago I am down two lbs! I have been using happy scale to track my daily fluctuations so that I can see weight loss isnt always going to be linear. I've also been using a new workout regimen (fitness blender channel on youtube) and I really feel like I am getting a great workout every single day, I sweat…
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calories for certain crockpot recipes?
There is a meal I make in the crockpot every so often which includes about 2 lbs of chicken, a can of cream of chicken soup, an 8 oz package cream cheese, and various spices. It all gets mixed together so in order for me to know how much it is is really difficult to figure out the calories etc. I normally cook whole wheat…
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Fitness Blender youtube channel
I posted this in fitness and no replies :( Thought I would post here bc this place seems more active! Anyone done these religiously and seen great improvements? I just started on Monday and have done it 2-3 videos (60 min altogether) everyday since. I have had soreness in muscles I never knew I had, which I would say is a…
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Sometimes I feel like my scale is funky...
I will weigh myself in the morning and lately its been about 137.8-138 typically when I weigh in in the evening (about 12 hours later) no matter how much I have eaten or worked out I will weigh like .5 less or the exact same. I used to fluctuate quite a bit and always be MORE after the day was almost over now its either…
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What should my maintenance calories look like
I'm just curious. MFP currently has me at 1350 to lose a lb a week. I am currently about 137ish lbs at 5"3. I would eventually like to be about 120-125 whichever I decide looks better. On Saturdays I tend to eat out for lunch and sometimes dinner but stay on track the rest of the week, I was thinking of trying to keep my…
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Fitness blender workouts
Anyone done these religiously and seen great improvements? I just started on Monday and have done it 2-3 videos (60 min altogether) everyday since. I have had soreness in muscles I never knew I had, which I would say is a good thing! ;) I'm hoping if I continue up with these workouts (plus eating in a deficit) I can really…
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Question about popcorn calories
So on the box of cals it shows the calories for popped and unpopped. 2 tbsp unpopped is 150 cals where as a cup popped is 25. I weigh it out by grams if I go by weight (a serving size is 4.5 cups) it ends up being about 110 cals rounding up a bit. Is that right or do I need to go by the cals of unpopped lol sorry if it's a…
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Kind of excited but may just be false hope
I made a thread this week about gaining weight as my scale continually showed 138.2, 138.4 everyday. I didn't weigh in yesterday bc my cycle is about to start on Tuesday so I figured I'd wait. I was curious this morning and the scale said 135.8!? I know it's prob just daily fluctuations but I'm hoping I lost at least a lb?…
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I guess I am gaining instead of losing weight?
I was recently suggested by some people on here to use happy scale app to track my weight everyday since I seem to get frustrated by daily fluctuations. Last week I ended up weighing in 3 times and was 137.4 every single day, I figured something may be up as it was the exact same everyday. I've been doing really great with…
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Getting a little frustrated...
I recently decided to change my goal of losing .5 lbs a week to 1 lb a week to lose a bit quicker. I would love to lose 10 lbs by june and I think thats a pretty doable goal. I'm 137 right now. I am starting to get frustrated as I've lowered my calories quite a bit from 1600-1400 a day and have sometimes even been under my…
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Still feeling really discouraged...
Since the beginning of November I was weighing in about 133.6 lbs I try and weigh myself about once or twice a week. So for 3 weeks I was literally staying the exact same weight. No fluctuations idk if it could be my scale or what. But for the past two weeks I've been weighing in at like 135.2-135.8 and I'm not sure why. I…
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Not too happy...
So for the past couple of weeks my weight has been at about 133. I started out the beginning of October at 139 so I have lost 6 lbs which is good in my opinion so I was happy with how things were moving along. Last week was obviously Thanksgiving but I never eat much because I'm not a huge thanksgiving food fan, luckily. I…
