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Slimming World v Purely Calorie Counting
I know everyone will find the best way to lose weight and keep it off for them and what is best for one is not necessarily best for another. So all I’d say to anyone reading this, whatever works for you, do that. I’ve tried calorie counting and now on slimming world. For me I find slimming world far more of a lifestyle…
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Back to the Start
After two years of steadily putting weight on again, I’m back to the start with My Fitness Pal. I’ve had a few health issues which have caused a lot of pain and made the motivation to exercise not overly attractive. But on top of that I also stopped Calorie Counting and have put 2 stone on in two years. But a new year and…
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Sugar, hoping my post will be encouraging
I was brought up on sugar. Not fizzy drinks and sweets, but my Mum made us sugar sandwiches when there was nothing else in the house, we always had puddings in the evening, and at least a dessert spoon of sugar on our cereal in the morning. My Dad even puts sugar in his peas when he cooks them. These days I no longer have…
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Levator Scapulae killing me
I have been in agony for 48 hours. As a result of excessive swimming I have severe pain in my neck and shoulder. I have tried pretty much everything. Heat pack, hot bath, massage, pain killers, changing pillows, stretching etc. I want to get back in the pool tomorrow evening, but I really don’t think it’s going to happen.…
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Slow and Steady
I know slow and steady weight loss is the healthiest and best way to lose weight. But it’s also the most frustrating. When I got on the scales after Christmas I’d put 12lbs on. I’m burning anything between 600 - 850 calories per session in the pool 3 - 5 times per week. I’ve given up refined sugar for Lent which includes…
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Loving my Swimmo
I know there are all sorts of fitness trackers out there, all of slightly differing accuracy and ease of use. But I am absolutely adoring my Swimmo. My OH bought it for me for Christmas, and just wearing it in the pool is making me try much harder. I’ve also been pleasantly surprised by how intense kick drills are, and…
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Women’s Health Question about Resting Heart Rate
I bought a fit bit on 1st January, which means resting heart rate (RHR) is a new thing for me to monitor. My RHR is normally about 60 bpm, which I’m fairly happy with. However, I have noticed that my period causes my RHR to drop fairly suddenly over the course of just hours to 45bpm, it stays there for about 24 hours…
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Fitbit Calories v MFP Calories
I got a Fitbit at Christmas and have synced it with MFP (Although it doesn’t sync with the iPad App, only online and on phone app.) I log food on MFP and exercise on Fitbit. I have noticed that even with the Fitbit calorie adjustment there seems to be a discrepancy between the two apps. Fitbit usually allows 30 - 40…
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Totally Fell off the Wagon
Since October I have been on holidays, courses in hotels and obviously Christmas. So that’s very little exercise with lots of hotel food. Not a great combo. I have put 10llbs back on. So the fit bit is out, the swimmo is out and back to logging food. In the last two weeks, I’ve lost a pathetic total of 0.5llbs and I’m…
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It's one year on and feels like an achievement
Tonight is my exercise and fitness New Years Eve. Tomorrow marks the beginning of year two of a healthier lifestyle. A year ago tomorrow, I started swimming again and calorie counting because I had spent two years with back problems, almost total muscle wastage down my left side and pins and needles in my hands and feet,…
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How do you deal with the Plateau?
I'm still in deficit, I keep trying to step up the swimming training and in the last 4 weeks I've lost 0.3lbs, last month I lost 1lb. I try to stick between 1200 - 1500 calories and in fairness am pretty good and sticking to it. I've been sticking to this since I started MFP again last year and have lost a total of 30.4lbs…
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The Feeling Phenomenon
Don't you just hate those days when you "feel" fat. You get on the scales and you've either stayed the same or lost a lb or 2lbs, but nothing you do can stop you from that feeling fat. Especially in that week before the dreaded period. Then of course there's the opposite that happens too which to be honest is probably even…
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How many clothes sizes have you dropped?
I was really pleased this week when I went shopping for some new work tops and was able to buy a UK size 12. I can't tell you the last time I was in a 12. When I started this journey I was squeezing myself into a UK size 16. I can tell you it felt good to be in a size that every shop stocks. I'm still a UK size 14 on the…
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Where has the weight gone from?
I find it completely fascinating where you actually lose fat from. My exercise is swimming, so I am emphatically kicking my legs and pushing water with my arms. Freestyle works both my upper and lower abs really hard. But interestingly I lost weight first off my face and fingers! I have now lost weight from all over, but…
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Has losing weight helped a medical condition?
I have asthma, which started to emerge in 2006 when I quit smoking. It's never been chronic asthma and plays up upon the weather getting colder as well as a large amount of dust. Occasionally exercise sets it off. However, I've been stepping up the swimming since September last year. I know it's summer right now and the…
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The Ashwell Shape Chart in stead of BMI
I just posted this on another thread. But thought it may motivate people so am giving it a thread of it's own. I always weigh heavier than I look. I'm 5ft 4 which means I should weigh about 9 - 9 1/2 stone to be in the green on a BMI Chart, but to be that weight I would be a UK size 8 - 10 and that would be deathly thin…
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I wish there were a way of logging excess lifestyle activity
I wish MFP had a way of logging a temporary change in activity of lifestyle for those times you're doing something out of the ordinary. Last week I couldn't get to the pool because I was decorating. I managed to decorate my living room, dining room and kitchen all in 7 days. 6 - 8 hours per day, up the steps, down the…
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So frustrated
I have lost just over 4lbs in the last 2 months. My calorie goal is meant to lose on average 1lb per week. But seems in the last 8 weeks this has halved. I still have at least a stone (14lbs) I want to lose, as well as go down another dress size. I'm staying under my calorie goal, I'm still exercising. Why is it just…
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Prepared Meals
Due to my being my husband's full time carer as well as working full time shift work, we started getting Wiltshire Farm Foods (Meals on Wheels) delivered about a year ago. We're not old, but as a carer it gives me one less thing to worry about. I sometimes work until the early hours of the morning and Wiltshire Farm Foods…
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Losing After Surgery
This is the first time I've tried to get in shape after I had surgery in 2013. I had lower abdominal surgery with a scar line similar to that of a C section. When I first came out of hospital I was petrified of over doing it. I couldn't walk and I was scared I'd pop my stitches. Then of course it all healed up and realised…
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New Dress from my favourite shop - down one size
I was so chuffed today because I bought a new dress from my favourite shop and I felt like a princess having dropped a whole size. The dress looked beautiful and it was a happy day. Then I started to freak out because I knew I had two very expensive dress suits from the same shop in my wardrobe which are a size bigger.…
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Hello
Hello, I joined MFP back in 2011 when I used the app to help me down two dress sizes and lost a staggering 52lbs . But then by April 2012 I hit my target weight and stopped using it and went back to my old ways. Over the following 4 years 37lbs slowly crept back on and on 2013 regular exercise stopped when I had major…
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Hello
Hello there, I have come back to MFP after I lost 4 stone in 2011. I had surgery in 2013 which made me pile the weight on again. I'm still 1 stone and 4llbs lighter than I was in 2011, but I've recently had back and shoulder problems which has meant I need to get strength back in my back in both. I've been back with MFP…
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Saying Hello again
Hi there, I joined in 2011 and did really well losing about 3 stone before Christmas 2011, a holiday and a wedding put an end to my self will. Mainly because I had nearly reached my goal weight and thought I could start eating "normally" again. But then my shifts at work changed so I couldn't get to the Leisure Centre and…
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Work Shifts Get hungry around midnight
I work shifts, and although I don't work nights anymore I do work until the early hours of the morning. Around midnight I start to get really hungry. I have avoided the very strong temptation to eat anything at midnight, mainly because I have just two hours to go and the only food at that time of night in my work place is…
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Hello
I've been using this site for a while to keep track of losing weight but wasn't sure whether to join the forum or not. I've been dieting for the first time in my life since July and have lost a total of 2 stone, but I've only been with My Fitness Pal for about 6 weeks I guess and have lost 10lbs since then. I'd got to the…
