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Diet stalled; should I eat *more* or *less*?
Hi all, I'm stumped here and hoping that you folks here who understand this all better than I do could be of some assistance. I'm male, 28 years old, 6' 0", and about 225 pounds. That's down from an all-time maximum of near 275 pounds, which I've lost slowly over several years without following any sort of formal diet…
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How many calories should I REALLY be eating?
Hi all, I'm a 6', 0.5" male, age 28, about 220 lbs (down from a maximum of 275 several years ago). When I first started with MFP I was eating the number of calories it told me based on 2lbs/week weight loss, because I didn't really know any better -- so I was eating shy of 1,600 calories per day. I've since bumped that up…
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Question on heart rate and metabolism
Hi all, I'm a 6'0", 220lb, 28-year-old male. For a few months I had been following a pretty strict 1,550 calorie/day diet as that was what MFP had recommended and I didn't really know anything about your basal metabolic rate or TDEE or any of that stuff. Since learning about that and discovering that I was probably doing…
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Confused about BMR
Hi all, I'm a 28-year-old male, 6' 1" tall, 220 lbs. I'm trying to get down to about 185 lbs, from a starting weight of near 250 lbs. I walk 30 minutes on a treadmill 5-6 times a week (10 minutes at 4.1mph, 3% incline; 10 minutes at 3.7mph, 10% incline; 10 minutes at 4.1mph, 3% incline). I've had some success so far (I've…
