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What else should i try? Graves disease
in the past I lost over 140 pounds. I regained about 40 pounds firstly when I had hyperthyroidism, back in 2016, the anti thyroid meds are terrible for it. I had half my thyroid removed in 2018, lost the weight, and more, got weight lifting, fittest I had ever been, pounds away from being a healthy bmi when autoimmune…
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Looking for a flexibility, functional fitness, strength program/app
I've lost around 120 pounds over the last few years, I regained about 10-14 pounds in the last year, because I got graves disease and the meds made me gain, which is normal and i'm working on losing that. I had to stop exercising when graves was really bad, so it's been a year since I properly worked out. (i was lifting…
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140lb lost. Totally lost the will to keep calorie counting
I've lost 140 pounds, and I'm loving that, but I can't seem to get myself going to lose the last 30 pounds or so. This year I've lost nothing. I have made some fitness goals, and am doing well there, I've been cycling and hiking and doing strong lifts, but weight wise, and eating a good diet wise, I've totally fallen off…
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Starting weight training with ongoing sciatica
I am getting closer to my healthy weight and I know I have low muscle mass, and my bmr is pretty low, I need to start doing some weight training. But I have ongoing sciatica. Every time I lift anything the pain gets worse, scitica exercises make it worse, yoga makes it worse, walking and cycling makes it worse, any kind of…
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100 pounds down today
There is 12 years between these photos. It has taken a long time and a lot of setbacks and I know I still have some ways to go. Probably another 55 pounds to get to under 25 bmi. However, even if I never get there, I am loving where I am, and that is important. The biggest thing has been learning to love myself NOW. Not…
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This is so hard, tell me its worth it
I've been dieting for almost 6 months and I've only lost 17 pounds. I have 120 pounds to lose. When I just count calories, and eat 1200 to 1400 a day, I lose about 1.5 pounds a month, the only way I lose more is fasting on 800 calories for 5 days, every 3 weeks. This week I went on holiday, on a tiny boat, and I didnt fast…
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Ridiculous exercise calories
Help me understand. I have mfp linked to gfit which is linked to my fitness tracker, mi fit 2. I can't directly link the mi fit as far as I can see. But doing this seems to make mfp assign me insane calories. Today its 917 extra calories for 3k steps. I am set as sedentary and try to walk 5k steps a day. But every day its…
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TDEE help
I've just recalculated my TDEE since i'm now exercising more and my BMR (based on body fat calculated from my scales and from various online calculators using measurements) is 1501 and my TDEE based on exercising 3 times a week is 2063...so as I understand it, in order to lose a pound a week I take off 500 calories from my…
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weight loss but fat percentage gain
Since, I've started calorie counting again, I've lost around 20 pounds in 107 days - so not hugely fast or anything, but my body fat has increased quite a lot. I started around 51% and now I'm almost 55%, i've lost 4 inches of my waist, and 4 off my hips. I was using the Katch McArdle Method to calculate my BMR which was…
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Fitbit calorie confusion
I just got my fitbit today, and I'm confused. Fitbit tells me I've burnt 1343 calories - I'm assuming most of this is just my BMR, since I've only walked 593 steps, I assumed that since it's linked with mfp, it would only start logging calorie 'burn' once my the calories burnt got above my MFP BMR which mfp says 2320 a day…
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MFP suggested Calorie goal wrong?
so, I've not been losing weight like I apparently should be eating the calories MFP tells me I should eat. So I tried to discover what my actual maintenance level was over a few weeks...turns out it's 1800 (give or take)...MFP tells me it should be 2390 for my normal daily activity (I weigh 259 pounds), that's a bit of a…
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what exercise should I start with?
I weigh 261 pounds, I'm very unfit, and I suffer from autoimmune disease, arthritis, pleuritic chest pain and I have balance problems caused by my ears. My pelvis is also messed up from pregnancy (still - after two years) so even walking causes significant, long lasting pain. I need to exercise though as I am seriously…
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Breastfeeding but no weight loss
I'm breastfeeding my 9 month old, he breastfeeds about 5-7 times a day still. I aim to eat around 1700 calories because I don't want to lose my milk supply right now. But doing this I'm just not losing weight. If I eat around 1500 calories I do lose about 1.5 pounds a week, but then my supply drops. Last week I ate 1600 a…
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I'll introduce myself at last!
I've been using mvp for a while but not come to the forums, and before that I have lost a lot of weight. I am 5ft 5.5 and 241 pounds. I have lost 70 pounds in total now. But my weight loss stalled after my son died early last year, I've only lost 14 pounds or so in the last 10 months, so I really need to get going again, I…
