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OMAD
To those of you currently practicing OMAD or have in the past, how long did it take you to get used to only eating one meal a day without hunger pains during the remainder of the day? I was interested in giving it a try and was curious to see how others experience with it have been. To those who tried and quit, what was…
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Not all my recipes show on the App
I can access all of them on the website but they don’t all show up on the app. Is there a limit to how many are shown at a time on the app? It’s really inconvenient because I only use the app to track.
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Questions about Maintaining
Hello All! I have finally decided it was time for me to go into Maintenance after going from 200 lbs at 5'4" to 130 lbs over a span of 2.5 years. My timing could have been better since I started a week before I went on vacation where my weight only spiked up to 131-132. I will not lie I indulged while on vacation and…
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Struggling to accept where I am at
I started my weight loss journey back in November of 2017 at a weight of 200 lbs standing at 5’4” with a goal of 120 lbs. I lost 50 lbs in the first year and then 18 lbs the next year. This year I have been still trying to lose weight but really struggling to keep to my deficit continuously. I have only really lost 2 lbs…
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Recipe maker
Is anyone else’s MFP not letting them create recipes? It keeps saying it cannot load it but it will be saved and available later. Well it’s been 2 hours and it is still not showing.
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Fitbit Calorie Adjustments
Do you trust your fitbit calorie adjustments? I have myself set to sedentary and allow MFP to adjust exercise calories based on my step count. Just wondering if I can count them towards my net calorie intake fully or only partially? It seems kind of all over the place sometimes. I am a 5'4 female weighing in at 130 lbs…
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Trying to be Optimistic
So I decided back in the beginning of November to increase my calories because I was fed up with aiming for 1200 calories for the past year. I know that I was somehow averaging a 2 lb loss a month for the majority of 2019...which did not add up since I was expecting 1 lb a loss a week at that deficit. I do weigh everything…
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Progressive Lifting Programs
I recently started back up on a progressive lifting program and this time have increased my calories by 200 to better fuel my workouts. I am near my goal weight and figured a rate of 0.5 lb/week makes more sense. Out of curiosity, how long did it take before you saw visual progress from your lifting program? I've heard it…
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Exercise related water weight
I thought this topic would be interesting to hear from others experience. When I first began a weight lifting routine back in February my weight shot up 3 lbs and took around 2 weeks to come back down. I stopped lifting after 3.5 months and have just recently started back up this week. This time around I am up 2 lbs. What…
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Frustrated
I have been in my weight loss journey for 2 years now starting from 200 lbs and down around 68 lbs. For the past year I have been targeting 1200 calories but I now find myself feeling worn out with such a low calorie goal and have upped my calories to 1400 with some maintenance days thrown in here and there. I figure I…
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Areas of Fat Loss
Which area(s) did you long to lose weight from first? What sequence did your body actually lose the fat? At the beginning I really wanted to lose weight from my face as it had ballooned up and I barely recognized myself. Thankfully I did lose noticeable weight from there first! Secondly, I wanted to lose weight off my…
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Vacation Weight "Gain"
So I am back from a week long vacation and I am up 7 lbs. Now I know this is not all weight gain if any and it's most likely water retention. I hope it does not take too long to drop off. So my question is, what is the most you have gone up on the scale after a vacation? How long did it take to go back to your pre-vacation…
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Taking a break near the end
I am officially only 10 lbs away from my goal weight of 125 lbs (I am 5'4" btw). The progress has slowed down as to be expected but it has still taken a toll on me even though I know it shouldn't. I decided to take another maintenance break but this time only for one week(had one about a month ago that lasted 2 weeks) but…
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The last pounds
I am on my last 13 lbs until I reach my goal weight and ever since I hit a normal BMI weight loss has slowed tremendously! I've read that this is to be expected but I didn't realize it could happen to this extent. I'm lucky if I lose 3 lbs a month now. These final 25 lbs looks like it will take me a full 9 months to lose.…
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Bathroom Scale
How often do you replace your bathroom scale batteries? Mine uses a lithium coin battery which I was under the impression should last quite a while but I find myself having to replace every few months....I'm not sure if that's a normal timeframe or if I should be replacing my scale?
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Reddit Weight Loss Subreddits
I've been a frequent browser of both the MFP forums and the reddit progresspics and loseit subreddits. Its amazing the huge difference in mindsets between the users there and here. One thing that really stands out to me is how widely praised huge amounts of weight loss in a short period of time is on reddit. I'm talking…
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Weight Loss Pattern
When I first started losing weight back in November of 2017 it was a gradual loss throughout the week. This pattern kept up until about 6 months ago. Now my weight will remain stable throughout the week and then drop 1 lb during Saturday and Sunday. I'm not sure if you would consider this a 'whoosh' since it's not a…
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Eating Out
How often do you eat out/get take out? Have you reduced the amount of times since starting on your weight loss? Was there a noticeable difference to your rate of loss once you lowered the amount of times you ate out? This has been the only part of my journey that I have yet to be able to change, I just LOVE eating out and…
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The last pounds
Lately I've become very fixated on my waist size because I am very disappointed at where I am at. My midsection is the part of me I'm no where near being happy with yet but everything else I am. I thought once I reached a healthy bmi (145 lbs at 5'4") I would be below 30 inches but I am still 30 inches. I feel like this is…
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Waist Size
This may be a silly question but it's been on my mind lately and has been bothering me. I am 8 lbs away from a normal bmi and my waist measurement is still quite higher than I expected it to be currently sitting at 32 inches (I'm 5'4"for reference). I have lost around my midsection but not nearly as much as I'd like and…
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Zero Calorie Sweeteners
Do zero calorie sweeteners really have no calories? I read some articles online that claim that this is untrue and that a packet contains several calories because they use bulking agents such as Maltodextrin and Dextrose which contain calories. They also say that erythritol and xylitol also contain calories. The reason I…
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Restaurant Calorie Counts
So I was wondering how much faith do you put into a restaurants posted calorie counts? I feel like it may be a rough reasonable idea of the amount you are consuming but isn't always on the spot given human variances when preparing the food. I feel like this may be my stall culprit as I've increased the times I've been…
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Fitbit not syncing
Is anyone else's fitbit steps not syncing? This has been happening for a week now and its super frustrating....Is there a fix anyone is aware of?
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Break
This is what happens when a few days break turns into a week and a half. I guess it turned into an unintentional diet break! Feels like I wasted this entire month. Getting back on track starting today! Has this ever happened to you? And if so, how long did your "break" last :) It was much needed for me since I've been at…
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Chipotle
Hi All, So I really love me some Chipotle but have found that their nutrition calculator is a bit on the low side calorie wise so I tend to double the servings of calorie heavy ingredients such as rice/chicken/sour cream and opted out of having cheese. So this usually brings my bowl to 900 calories as opposed to their 600…
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Steering off the path
I have been really bad with staying within my goal for the past 2 weeks ever since visiting my mother in Canada. She always make a ton of delicious food that I have a hard time avoiding. I was only there for 4 days but I've kept on eating much more than my daily 1200...reaching 1700-2000 calories a day now for 2 weeks. My…
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Fitbit calorie adjustment
Hi everyone, I was wondering how accurate is the fitbit calorie adjustment made to mfp with regards to steps. Also I noticed that an activity made in fitbit (today I did weights) does not get recorded in mfp...is it just part of the steps or do I have to manually enter it in? Thanks!
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BMR + TDEE
Which website's out there give the most accurate answer for these measurements? I've looked into several and they vary quite a bit. I am really curious as to what my maintenance calories are currently so I have a better understanding of how much of a deficit I am in. 5'4, female, 24 years old at 187 lbs. Thanks!
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Incorporating Exercise
I finally decided to begin exercising yesterday and make use of my gym membership. I did 10 minutes of walking on the treadmill at a steep incline as my warm up and then 40 minutes of weightlifting (targeted my arms on that day but will alternate between legs/arms/back). I am aware that you do not burn many calories from…
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Water Weight
Over the past weekend I went above my usual calories of 1200 and hit 1700 on Friday and Saturday and as a result gained 3 lbs. I'm assuming this is water weight because I weighed 188.4 initially and my height is 5'4...giving me a maintenance around 1800. So far none of the weight has dropped so I was wondering how long…