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One year on MFP = 80lb loss (pics)
First year down, and I’ve seen so many changes. I’m just a lb or two shy of hitting my initial “final goal” and have been able to reassess what that really means. Now I’m aiming to lose 5-10lbs or drop 3-5% body fat. Just rewarded my year’s effort with a HRM and will be buying some dumbbells to start weight lifting at…
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But I Can't Make a Vine
Hey all you fitness pals, I had to make a vine as part of a class project. We get graded on how many views we get, and since I've gotten wonderful support before from this site in my fitness journey, I was hoping I could ask for a little support in this as well. Please watch and share with your friends, I'd really…
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Please Help: Maximum Heart Rate
I just bought a HRM (Polar FT7) watch and it's telling me my heart rate is getting too high on exercises I didn't think twice about before. Sure I get tired, but I thought that was all part of the it's gotta take effort to be a workout thing. When I jog for 30 min. at a rate of 4-5 mph (really not all that fast), I still…
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Goals
I don't know about everyone else, but now that I'm getting close to my "final goal" I'm looking at tweaking it. How have you all decided on your goals? Anyone change them once they met their original goals? Feel free to share what your goals are and how you came about them. As for me, I've never weighed a healthy weight as…
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Introductions :)
I figured maybe we should do introductions and list our goals, for the home stretch. I'm 5'11", and down to my last 6.5lbs. I'm hoping to lose that amount and maybe a bit more before my MFP 1st year anniversary. *crosses fingers* Started 30 Day Shred this month, and I'm a bit concerned I'll maintain all month, but we'll…
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Clothes too big?
So I've loved my experience so far on MFP, and I've lost a lot of weight, but my clothes have sadly all gotten too big. Which can be a real bummer for those once in a lifetime shirts you get from vacations or that are no longer being made. Luckily I found a really great tutorial for easily and cheaply altering t-shirts. It…
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NSV? Clothes too big?
I posted in another thread, but I thought this might be more applicable here for those of you with small and large successes, or those who are looking for ideas, once they hit their goals, on what to do with their old wardrobes. So I've loved my experience so far on MFP, and I've lost a lot of weight, but my clothes have…
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Don't Recognize Myself
So this isn't really here or there, but I've found that I'm getting to the point where I don't feel like "myself" anymore, and at times it can be really confusing. In high school I was borderline healthy/overweight, and so when I gained a ton of weight in college I always sort of internally identified as my high school…
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Self acceptance, the things that don't change
So MFP is a great place to regain control of our lives and to work on being happier and healthier people. During our times here we change a lot in many positive ways. I wanted to create a thread for those things that don't change, that we feel are somehow "less" than ideal, and how we've grown to accept them or how we'd…
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60lbs down and 3/4 of the way done
I'm finally 3/4 of the way to my goal. Okay technically I'm a lb away from 3/4, but I only take pics every 10lbs, so it's close enough. Weighed in today with a 60lb loss and took a picture. I was super shocked to see myself in the photo. I'm not sure what it is about seeing yourself in 3-D, but I feel like I hardly see any…
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New and happy to join!
Hi everyone! I'm new to the group, but not new to MFP or eating 1200-1300. I'm glad there is a group like this as I was starting to feel really guilty about eating so "low". I basically set MFP to "lose 2 lbs a week" and go from there. At my highest it was over 1300 cals, but as I've lost weight it's gone down to 1200. As…
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NSV Fitted apron now actually looks fitted (pics)
So a couple of years ago I asked my mom to make me the world's most amazing apron to match my amazing art skills. She spliced together a couple of different patterns to come up with a wonderful apron that used old denim jeans to make tons of pockets and little loops to put all sorts of brushes. I ended up thinking it was…
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5'11", 40lb down, in progress, pics
I'm just a lb shy of meeting my official half way goal of 41lbs but I thought I'd share my progress anyways since 40 is still pretty awesome. I first decided to lose weight this summer when I realized my pants yet again were too tight. Up to this point I just kept telling myself it wasn't a big deal. I was already unhappy…
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Adjusting activity level
I just started back up at college. Previously I was easily defined as sedentary, now I'm not sure what to do about my activity level. I've been biking the 1 1/2 miles to school and back and the occasional 2 1/2 miles to the studio and back. My classes are all on the fourth floor and the elevators break frequently so I…
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Before & After Art Fail
I don't know how interested everyone here is in art, but I thought I may share with you all some interesting before and after images. The before is a fresco that is over 100 yrs old. The after shows what happened when an elderly woman decided she ought to start a DIY project to restore the painting without the permission…
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Balancing food and exercise
So I'm kind of new to all of this. I started with following the guidelines for how many calories I should eat and I've been slowly introducing exercise into the mix these last couple of days. Only now because of the exercise I feel like I'm eating a lot. For example today I burnt 344 calories exercising so I had to eat…
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Hello, I'm new of course
Hi, I'm new to the site. I found this app for my phone and so far it has been really motivational. So far I don't have any friends on here, mostly because the best friends I have probably wouldn't be very interested in losing weight with me. I know that friends can be very motivational for each other, so if anyone would…
