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Looking For Friends Who Eat!
Hi! I'm back at this "healthier me" thing after letting stress and injuries get to me for a year or so. I'm a college student who doesn't usually log meals (because focusing on calories just gets me in a really weird/problematic mindset + I've done this before with some success, so I know what/how much I should be eating,…
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Anyone else not logging food?
I'm one of those people who seems to keep coming back to mfp and rarely sticking with it (though one time I did make it to within 10 lbs of my goal). A few times I injured myself - I shouldn't really be allowed to play contact sports - but mostly I just get so preoccupied with food and being under calories that I start…
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'Mere
Hi, so at the beginning of the year I logged consistantly for several months but in April I hurt my ankle and went to maintenance and then quit logging altogether until midway through summer. I quit logging again - after a small loss - while I was moving down to college, but now that I'm here I've realized how incredibly…
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Help - I'm always snacking!
I eat at 1695 netted daily, lately a bit more because I'm always snacking. It's not that I'm hungry, really, but more like I just feel like I should be eating. It'll be all I think about until I grab something else. I try and make most of it in somewhat low-calorie amounts or healthy options, but it still amounts to more…
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NSV!
After gaining a few dozen pounds my senior year of high school and first semester of college, I gave up and bought a few pairs of size 8 pants so I wouldn't freeze. I've only lost about a quarter of the weight I put on, but I was out of clean non-holey jeans last night so on a whim I tried on a pair of old size 5s from…
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Whey Protein before or after working out?
My boyfriend has some powder hanging around from when he was in a lifting class in high school (just a year or so ago - it's not old or anything). He's told me I can use it, though I've never really wanted to. However, I've noticed that I have major problems getting enough protein (I usually get about 2/3 of what MFP…
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Tummy Troubles
So I've never really been classified as overweight, I think even at my highest (5' 4" and 153ish pounds) I was just at the cusp, but even when I was considered 'light' or 'slim' at 120ish I had a chubby tummy. I started losing weight because my jeans didn't fit and I figured that would help with the tummy chub, a good two…
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Midwesterners?
Is that even a word? Who knows. Anyway. I'm from Wisconsin originally and I'm going to school in Southern Illinois, so I usually just claim residency as "Midwest" as my two homes here are nearly twelve hours apart. I've been at this almost a month (and had been working out without calorie counting for a month before that)…
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Running/cycling NSV!
So I was always one of the out of shape kids growing up, even when I was skinny. I did poorly when we had to run the mile in middle school, so I rarely tried. Picked next to last in gym class because I sucked at throwing/catching anything really. I've been doing a mixture of running (okay, jogging), cycling, rowing, and…
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The Scale - Help?
Okay, so I've been using a couple at my gym, but I know that one or both aren't particularly accurate due to them weighing me about two pounds different within half an hour and plus, it's frowned upon to weigh naked in the cardio room :laugh: Anyway, I'm thinking of getting a scale for my dorm room. I want a decent,…
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Chocolate Fix
My aunt makes a variation of these for Christmas every year, and I absolutely love them. We call them nut goodie bars, but I've heard other people call them Rockie Road bars and a variety of other things. 1 bag butterscotch chips 1 bag milk chocolate chips 1 cup chunky peanut butter 1/4 cup other nuts (optional) 1 bag mini…
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Hi, I'm Kayla, and I'm a junk food eater
I have been for all my life, I could eat several sets of snack cakes a day, follow it with some mac and cheese and then ice cream for dessert. Since starting myfitnesspal I've kind of balanced it out. One snack cake (or set) a couple times a week, instant food once a day (ramen, mac and cheese - I'm a broke college kid,…
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Calling All College Students!
I'm not technically new, but within the last week I've started over on this website. I'm 19 and trying to get healthy this time, for real. I had been thin my entire life because of sports and my mother's genetics, but during my Senior year of high school, I ended up gaining something like 30 pounds and four pants sizes…
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What Made You Really Start?
Working at the Rec Center at my college was what eventually made me start exercising regularly and paying a bit better attention to what I ate. Seeing that everyone else could do it (and that almost all the other staff members were super fit!) made me feel like I could maybe do it too. This is my fourth time trying to work…
