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Is there a calculation for energy burned doing activities?
6ft 240lbs 30% body fat Goal: Weight loss. Aiming for 185-195lbs and somewhere between 15% and 20% body fat. Hi all, My idea was to try and change up my daily lifestyle ON TOP of working out and watching my diet as best I can to technically shift from "sedentary" to qualify as moderately active or whatever MFPs next step…
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Tabata Calories
Good afternoon folks. Thinking this is gonna be a hell of a lot more active in light of most folks being homebound. My fitness coaches at my job gave us some home routines we can explore while home. I picked the Tabata one since it seemed pretty good to burn calories. Online it says it's shown to burn 13.5 calories a…
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New workout log accuracy for Calories
I recently noticed the workout routine feature when logging exercises. I liked how it looked since it included volume and I am trying to learn about that while I exercise and lose weight, but minimize strength loss. At the end of logging everything is basically said I burned 800 calories (I wish). But I figured I ask since…
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Calorie accuracy
This is geared mainly towards anybody also using "Map My Run" but I'll still take insight from anybody. I finished a workout in Map My Run and the app synced to MFP and said I burned basically 700ish calories. I did a small 6 minute warm up on the treadmill at a speed of 5. MMR says thats 100 calories I did about 30…
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Intermittent fasting
I was looking into trying this out and saw a vid by terry crews regarding how it works for him, but the main piece was he said during his 16hr fast he doesn't eat, BUT he might have some black coffee or coconut oil or something else so my question is what can we eat, drink or take during our fast if it becomes difficult to…
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Meal plan purchase
Morning all, I'm working towards buckling down this year (better late than never). Im 249lbs 28% body fat and Im 6ft tall. I've always yo-yoed with my eating restriction and this year I joined a gym and was sold on the personal trainer (the guy was cool and the trainer is pretty supportive) but it seems like a more…
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Calorie burn counter
Wasn't sure of where to categorize this question, but I figured this would work since its related to nutrition and diet a bit. My gym at my first sign up ran me threw questions then showed me a projected "here is typically how much you burn for calories as RMR OR BMR (I forgot which because he told me I can find the other…
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Calories vs Macro focus
Its been a while since I asked something here, but I just had a thought and figured I ask for community feedback. My dietitian always leans towards "just be healthy, satiated and monitor portions" and the underlying idea is, from what I gathered, "I can't recommend anything to you to really optimize results of weight loss…
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Log calisthenics and weight lifting
Hey all, How do you log your mix workouts in MFP? I know when I do calisthenics/HIIT routines I was told to just log it as circuit training, but what if the program or routine Im doing is a mix of weight lifting and calisthenics? Today I did: Bench press 4 sets of 10 Bench hams (some calisthenic exercises) 3 sets of 10…
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This many Calories from just walking?!?!
Hi all, I just got reminded of my asthma since its finally getting colder so my plan of running 5miles turned into fast walking 1.4 miles, but map my run says i burned 220ish calories and as awesome as that'd be I just cant believe it. I assume it tracks via GPS and basing the calorie burn off of some standard (typical…
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Scale accuracy
Howdy all, So I just did my weigh-in after ignoring the scale for what feels like months and my old glass electronic one said I was 250.5 and the new weight watchers one I bought a year or more ago (I thought my first one broke) changed between 247.6 and 249.5. The weight watchers one has two metal bars that I am supposed…
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Weight lifting, HIIT and nutrition
Hi everyone, So I just changed my goals because I figured "why not, I'm in a rut right now and its been the same for the past 2yrs give or take" and Im a little stunned. Im 6ft, 30.8%BF and currently 260lbs and I float between 267 and 262 (poor diet and routine), but I started seriously exercising again and am currently…
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Eating clean wording
Just so happened to see someons comment about multiple people disagreeing with the term. Basically wanted to know if anyone has similar feelings on the wording or has heard similar opinions? Is eating "clean" a frowned upon phrasing now? If so, why? I imagine its just the idea of eat in a deficit of balance portions of…
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Nutrition/Hunger struggle
Height: 6ft even Weight: 260lb Body fat% 30.8 Hi all, this has been a really helpful forum throughout this whole weight/muscle/fat struggle since I have joined MFP so I have a question for anyone that has really gotten the diet and exercise combo discipline thing down-packed with great results. Looking at my endomorphs and…
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1 Rep max calculation
Hi everyone. Figure I throw this out here since it came to mind and I am remembering how helpful these forums can be, but I have a meeting with a trainer to calculate a true 1 rep max but he mentioned its a bit of a month long process to calculate it. 4yrs ago another trainer was helping when I was just then getting…
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CARB CONTROL
Hello everyone, I was plugging food into my calculator and even though I have the unpaid version it still tells me that my sodium, carbs or fats are "this close to the daily limit", but it got me thinking if when I burn calories am I "burning" proteins, carbs and fats? Ex. I had a bottle of soda (terrible yes, but I caved)…
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Meal prep and Exercise.
This might be long winded, but I'm finally at a point where I can try to take my exercising goals to the next level and hopefully start seeing some real progress. I'm trying to start meal prepping so that I can start seeing more significant weight loss. I'm used to a loss of 2pounds a week which is supposedly the most you…
