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Need some Community input on rate of loss please
Hello all, long time lurker (>10 years), rare poster here. First my stats. Age 36 female, 5'4, 158lbs this morning. Initial goal 140lbs (ideally by August, but it will happen when it happens). Calories set for a loss of 0.5lbs a week, 1520kcals a day given by MFP. Diary, I believe, is open. I have been on and off MFP since…
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Has anyone else's recipe's disappeared?
So this morning I log on and try to change a recipe for dinner in the "recipes, meals and food" section but all my recipes have disappeared? I still have the meals and food I've created. I can still go back and find the recipes from my previous diary entries, but I change them almost everytime I use them because, for…
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Crazy hunger at certain points in cycle
Hi all! I have been on and off this site for a few years now and successfully lost each time (and only went off and gained because I got pregnant twice). I'm back now and I have been happily losing 0.5-1lbs a week, eating about 2300kcals while breastfeeding. Haven't felt hungry or deprived (shouldn't at 2300kcals really.…
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Breastfeeding and weaning
Hello all! I'm currently losing 0.5lbs a week while breastfeeding my 5 month old, trying to get rid of the baby weight without affecting my supply. I log breastfeeding as a negative calorie adjustment (500kcals). I will be weaning my baby on to solid food soon. Over the next 6 months or so, she will gradually take more…
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Serving sizes and weight
So I've been reading a few threads where the OPs have been scanning the packets and logging serving sizes. Now I do this sometimes myself, but mostly weigh and am losing at a snail pace which I am comfortable with as I have very little to lose. But I was just wondering what some of the differences between serving sizes and…
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RIP scales!!! :(
After 2 years of loyal service, my food scales expired yesterday after leaving them on the hob and accidentally turning it on!! :'( Feeling so lost without them! My food diary is guesswork! It is a lie!!!! lol New scales required! Pronto! Anyone else addicted to the scales (although I suppose you wouldn't really know until…
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I finally overcame a mental barrier that had held me back since childhood! :D
I know this is a different kind of success story, but I just wanted to share!! Sorry in advance for the waffle! I have always considered myself unfit because I was overweight as a child and hated sport, and although I lost all the weight and was 119 pounds for most of my teen years (at 5'4) I still considered myself week…
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Just started swimming
Hello all! I have just started to include swimming in my workout plan as I now have 2 swim buddies. :) I normally do the breast stroke for about 30 minutes and in that time I do about 25-30 laps (it is more of a leisure pace, although by the end of the 30 laps I do feel quite warm). MFP says this will burn over…
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Concerns over weighing food?
Has anyone else had experiences of loved ones being genuinely concerned about you weighing all your food? I recently experienced this myself when I was weighing 100g of Ben and Jerry's Phish food ice cream! :) (The tub says 280kcals for 2 scoops or 100g. I did not have a scoop. lol) I was a little angry to start with (kept…
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Yikes! Who else went on a Easter binge?
So my fiance and I got loads of chocolates for easter. Between us, we consumed the following within 5 days. 1. Sticky toffee pudding 2. Rhubarb crumble 3. 3 boxes of fererro rocher (1 box had 15 choc balls, the other 2 boxes had 16 each) 4. 1 bag of fizzy farm animals 5. 1 bag of pinballs 6. 1 chocolate orange 7. 1 bag of…
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6g of sugar in my coffee??? Whaaaaaaaaaat????
So I have been logging my coffee using an existing MFP entry (1tsp sugar, 2tsp coffee and 75ml semi-skimmed milk) (I like my milk). Today I decided to cut down the sugar in my coffee to half a tea spoon in order to reduce my sugar intake. So I created my own recipe on MFP. Half a tea spoon of sugar has 2g sugar (doh) and…
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Body Weight Strength Training
Hello all, I have been working out for months now and am pretty fit with my cardio (am one of those girls in the front row of the Zumba class jumping up and down when everyone else is just stepping around). I have been doing bits of weights, but nothing significant. I would like to increase the amount of strength training…
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How long does water retention stay?
Hola all! So I have been at pretty much the same weight since after Christmas. I sort of understand why, as I am close to my goal weight I have increased my calorie goal to 1500kcals a day and I do not weigh, so I probably eat slightly more than I do (although I try to overestimate whenever possible). I have now bought…
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Yikes! I have been logging wrong all this time!
So I do a fair amount of walking (at least 40 minutes a day), aerobics and zumba every week. I have been using the MFP settings to calculate my calorie burn, but because I know it wasn't very accurate, I would log 60 minutes of Aerobics as 45 minutes for example, giving me around 350-400cals burn. My finace bought me a…
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HELP! There is chocolate cake staring at me!!!!
So a coworker has brought some yummy chocolate cake to work today and everyone is on about how delicious it is! I haven't even looked at it yet, but it's just there and I can't stop thinking about it! HELP!! lol The only thing motivating me is the fact that I weighed myself this morning and I had lost weight and I don't…
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Quick question about logging walking
Hello all! Quick question. I have a manually set calorie goal at 1400kcals, and my TDEE calculated based on a sedentary life style is 1700ish (have forgotten the exact amount, but my calorie goal is set at TDEE-20% ish, give or take 15kcals). Now as I calculated my goal based on a sedentary lifestyle I have been adding the…
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Bad back! :(
So I seem to have done something to my back. :( My fiance sprained his ankle during football on Friday and was limping around Saturday with my help. He is quite big and was quite heavy to support. I woke up Sunday morning with back pain which lasted till yesterday. It was better this morning, but after sitting at my desk…
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Ladies about 5'4" and 145lbs - calorie goal?
Hi ladies! So I have been on MFP for awhile, the first time about 2 years ago when I was given a calorie goal of 1250kcals (I was about 160lbs). I lost about 20 pounds, although I always went over the limit by a 100 or 200kcals and ate my exercise calories back (I used to go to gym about 3-4 times a week and walked to and…
