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Eating More to Overcome Plateau
My weight loss has been stalled for the last month or two (I'll not lose for 2-4 weeks, then drop two pounds), and I'm starting to get frustrated. I've been at or below my calorie goal on a consistent basis, and I seldom eat back my exercise calories (as I do not have a HRM and I'm worried about over estimating my burn).…
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What do you do when you're feeling discouraged?
Today was a very hard day for me. My eating was fairly good, and I still came in under my calorie goal, but I'm experiencing my first bout of real discouragement (probably due to a small loss this week after a long plateau and the combination of several other small factors). Some days you feel like your goals are within…
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Possible Plateau
I've been losing pretty consistently for the past two months (it averages out to about one pound a week). I think this is a healthy pace, so I've been quite pleased with my progress. But for the past week or two, each time I weigh myself, the number is either stuck or higher. I know that when the number goes up, it's water…
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Any slow loser success stories?
I've been trying to lose weight for a while now (on and off probably most of my life) and it seems that I'm just losing weight really slowly. This hasn't always been the case as there have been a few times that I've dropped ten or twenty pounds with relative ease and quite quickly, but I always hit a point where the weight…
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Weight Loss and Muscle Gain
I'm a little confused about how this works. Losing weight, I know, requires a calorie deficit. I understand that and it makes sense to me. I've (embarrassingly recently) learned that a calorie surplus is needed in order to gain muscle. I guess I'd just believed that if you exercise you gain muscle, but it makes sense…
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MFP Cardio Tracker
I'm wondering about the accuracy of the MFP cardio tracker when it comes to calories burned. I understand and like the idea of having extra calories that I can have on a day that I've exercised (particularly when something unexpected pops up), but I rarely end up eating any of them simply because I don't think I've…
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Weight Loss and Insomnia
Hello! I'm brand new here, so forgive me if this has already been covered in an earlier post. I'm wondering if anyone has any information/experience/knowledge about a correlation between sleep and weight loss. I know that healthy sleeping habits contribute greatly to a healthy lifestyle, so it would make sense to me if…
