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family and friends who don't like change
Hi I've decided to change my name, I didn't think that it was a big deal. I dislike my name, so I decided to go on a variation of my middle name. the name is not out there in any way it's a normal name etc but gee the responses from family and some friends is just soo negative and hurtful. Comments like no you can't or…
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can you help me get this right
Hi, I'm eating 1200 calories at the moment. I'm 164 cm and 67.9kg a 42 year old women. I have been doing this for 3 weeks. The first week I lost 1.4 kg week 2 400g week 3 200g. I do 30 min of interval jogging and fast paced walking. most days at least 5 days. I do not eat back these calories. I'm i meant to be? I don't use…
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is 1200 calories enough for me?
Hi, I have been going along for 3 weeks now and feeling good and loosing weight. I have read on here a lot that 1200 calorie is is setting you up for failure etc........................... I'm 42 in a couple of months I'm 5'4 or 164 cm and weight 67.9 kg or 149.6 pounds. I do interval running/jogging with fast paced…
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does this add up?
I made a recipe tonight with the recipe builder and used weight as a way to work out the calories of my portion the total calories of my recipe that I put into recipe builder was 1202 calories the cooked weight of this meal was 1581 grams my portion was 400 grams ( yes I feel very full, lots of veggies....) I worked my…
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I need help!
Hi, I have bee doing well with tracking all my food, the one thing that I struggle with is when I make dinner for the family. If I do meat, veg and salad it's easy. But when I do a stir fry, soup etc I find it very hard to be accurate. I use the recipe builder and make up my own recipe, but I never really now how many…
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what is helping me
Hi everyone, I have started back on my journey after stalling for a while. I started by really looking at what I need as an individual and what tends to work for me. I need and like hard and fast rules that I have to obey. These rules have worked really well for me and my personality style. -I have to work out everyday…
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help with correct calories
Hi! I love MFP and I have found myself back into the swing of things after big break. this time I'm really weighing everything and no guessing. I'm dealing with emotional eating.... one thing that I find frustrating is that a lot of my food is not packaged, eg beef and chicken. when I go to log it I get so many variations…
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never really getting anywhere....
Hi everyone, was thinking about this this morning I have been using MFP for a couple of years off and on. I'm 164cm 5"4 and currently 69.1 (152) I started out at 70kg and have managed to get down to 65 once but I seem to be playing with the same kg all the time I'm 68 then 67, 69.1 68.3 then .... but when I'm not using MFP…
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how many calories do I need to burn? fitbit
hello! I have a new fitbit flex. I have 1200 calories on MFP. On the fitbit ipad app it has a feature ' calories burned' and a figure to reach 2184. I'm a bit lost I nearly got to this figure yesterday but it didn't show up on MFP app as giving me any more calories to eat. How many calories do I need to burn? I walked…
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errors when scanning foods
hi everyone! the last few days when I scan something to add to foods they come up as something similar but incorrect. eg tonight I scanned riviana popcorn and it came up as salted caramel deluxe popcorn or some such thing. Anyone else having this issue? the calories and nutrician panel, were incorrect also when I compared…
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can't believe the calories!
hi! I pretty new and I thought that it would be interesting to have a look at how many calories I was eating in an average day. I was maintaing my weight with small fluctuations i would go between 66-69 kg and I was thinking that I was eating ok but with a daily treat muffin etc but often with more than 1 treat in a day.…
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open diary and advice
Hi everyone! I have just started back. Im currently on 1300 calories but wondering if I should be eating more or less. Is the reason that I'm really hungry at the moment due to not eating enough or just that I'm used to making myself pleasantly full:) MFP suggests 1200 calories is 1300 too high for someone like me? I'm 41…
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calorie help
Hi everyone, I have just started back. I was using MFP last year and I had a 1200 allowance and I was doing ok but a holiday derailed me a little. I am back. I'm looking to get down to 58kg. Im 164cm tall and currently 68 ish kg. I don't exercise as such at the moment just walks to kinder and to the shops. I move around a…
