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It's time to go to bed when...
... You keep clicking the wrong things! Night night, mfp!
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Don't you just love...
... the accept button when you log your 'progress'? Yes, I accept that I have gained 2 lb in 3 days due to not logging and making bad choices. Yes, I accept that my relationship with food is not yet healthy. Yes, I accept that calorie counting is the best way not to regain weight. Yes, I accept that that really is what I…
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If body types exist, are their caloric needs different?
If body types exist, I'm a lazy mesomorph, I think. My maintenance calories far exceed mfp's calculations (next time I want to lose weight, hopefully baby weight, I'll set mfp to lose 0 lbs :laugh:), while some on mfp find they have to go below what they thought to not gain. Could body types help explain this kind of…
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Why surgery?
Firstly, this is meant with complete respect. I'm not intending to hurt or upset anyone. I just like to understand people better. Reading about surgery, I suddenly thought, why do people have operations on their stomachs when it's not the stomach that made them over eat? Why deal with a problem whose cause is psychological…
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Do you believe in body types?
Thanks to someone's signature, I ended up googling 'mesomorph', and reading up on body types. It makes a lot of sense to me. I always felt big as a kid because I would never have spindly legs, like an ectomorph. I have always lost and gained weight easily, so i'm not an endomorph. When my French Exchange had me do strength…
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How DO you plateau?
I'm on maintenance now and seem to be really bad at staying the same weight. To those of you who have plateaued, how did you do it? It may not have been intentional, but what was your secret?
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Proud mummy nsv
In the middle of a long journey we stopped at a service station. I asked my 3 y.o. if he wanted anything and he went straight for a lovely, rosey apple! Yay!
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Any bike couriers on mfp?
... And if so, can you really survive on the calories mfp suggests????
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Do you believe in high metabolisms?
My dad watched a TV program that basically suggested that high and low metabolisms don't exist, as they tracked someone who thought she had a low metabolism and just found she over-reported exercise and under-reported her food intake. Now, for me, one example proves nothing, but my dad just keeps going on about calories in…
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RIP Mr Peanut
:sad: I bought you off eBay, paying exorbitant postage and packaging from the Channel Islands in the hope that you'd save me from my expensive peanut butter addiction. It was not to be :sad:. After two meals of homemade peanut butter glory, you groaned, cracked and snuffed it... Plastic novelty peanut butter makers from…
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High heel NSV
Running seems to be paying off in a bizarre way... I've never been any good at balancing in high heels, but last night I was just fine. I run and walk in vivo barefoot now, hardly ever anything else, but it was like my legs were in better shape for heels than ever before. PLUS my legs look better than ever in my life…
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Tricks to speed you up or keep you going
In college I made myself walk faster by playing this game: You start on 0 points. Every time you pass someone you gain a point. Every time someone passes you, you lose a point. It kept me going faster and faster, but unfortunately only works in towns. What tricks do you have to get yourself moving faster or for longer?
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Do you lose faster or slower than mfp predicts?
Me, faster :happy: You?
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Help me understand about protein
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19841581 I have been looking for evidence-based info on protein requirements. What it says on Wikipedia gives a range between 0.8 and (as an absolute maximum) 2.5g/kg, whereas people on mfp often mention 1g/lb (2.2g/kg) as if it were ideal, although I can find no evidence for this. So I…
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What does hungry feel like to you?
For me, hungry feels like every cell in my body is calling out for food, almost like an ache all over my body. What is hungry like for you?
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Easy added exercise
I didn't quite fancy the Shred tonight, but had to stay up while the washing machine did it's spin cycle so that I could set it to tumble... So I did cardio for those 10 minutes: butt kicks, skiing, grapevines, anything that kept me moving! I even broke into a sweat :happy: Not quite the type of spinning you'd get in a…
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How much protein do we NEED?
I've been googling protein and the requirements seem to be based on body weight, not calorie percentages. When I was on 1200 calories the figures were very similar, but as I'm now 5 kg lighter but seem to need around twice the calories, my protein requirements won't have doubled! The formulas I found were from 0.8g/kg for…
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NSV - No one recognises me!
Today one more old acquaintance completely blanked me! That makes 4 to date, so I'm prepared now to have to start every conversation by reintroducing myself! It's weird because I've only lost 30 lbs, the last 10 on MFP, but I show my weight in my face a lot, so the difference is between just into Overweight and looking…
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Hot and red after meals
I get hot and red after large meals. Does this happen to anyone else? Do you know any probable causes? My doctors have checked for everything obvious and don't seem very interested any more...
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BMR and maintenance calories
Why is the maintenance calories suggested by the calculator below so much higher than the maintenance calories suggested by mfp? Am I missing something? http://www.diabetes.co.uk/bmr-calculator.html Is it because you enter and eat your activity on mfp, or is there another factor I'm not aware of?
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Unlikely heroes
I expected Starbucks, etc, to provide all their nutritional information (lots of image-conscious young women as a part of their target market) but I've been pleasantly surprised that the following also disclose everything (all UK): Pizza Hut (online) Wetherspoons (online and in the pub) McDonalds (online and in…
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How do you balance out your day?
How do you spread out your calories? I was having a large breakfast and lunch, with a light dinner, but today I found it much easier to stay within calorie doing the opposite (complete with a burger King meal for dinner :blush: ) How do you play it? Which meals are lighter/heavier?
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Hypnotherapy
Have any of you used hypnotherapy to lose weight, or for anything else? I'm thinking of becoming a hypnotherapist and I would love to know how people found it. There are two reasons I'm thinking of this. Firstly, I'm a huge believer in mind over matter, and feel I have been blessed with the ability to control my behaviour,…
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I can't do sit ups!
I've 'completed' the 30 day shred, but I really, really can't do sit ups. I can give all the other ab moves a good shot, but sit ups? Nothing doing. The Shred reintroduced me to my abs 3.5 years after a C section and split muscles. When the midwife saw my abs in antenatal she asked if I was a PE teacher, which is…
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Results of 40+ days without mfp or scales
When Lent began I had reached my absolute minimum bmi of 20 (I'd read that below that fertility can be affected) having used mfp since just after Christmas. I was weighing every day and recording every mouthful, and I was worried it was becoming obsessive, so they seemed the perfect two things to give up for Lent. During…
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Lent 2011
Hi! As no one seems to have started one yet, I thought I'd try starting a Lent thread. As a fairly new Christian, brought up in a country where a lot of people do keep Lent in some way, I was wondering about good ways to make it about Jesus, not me. Any suggestions?
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I fit back into my size 10s
this morning I risked trying on my (UK) size 10 skirts, and they fit! The tape measure says I'm a twelve, but my waistbands disagree :laugh: So even tape measures lie sometimes!
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Meal replacement diets
How do you feel about Meal Replacement diets (Cambridge, Lighter Life, etc)? I'd like to hear both sides. I've never used them myself, but two dear friends are dieting with Cambridge and I want to understand better. Thank you! :flowerforyou:
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Why is the mfp sugar goal so low?
I have 30g sugar for a day, and usually end the day in multiples of it, even when I stay within calorie. So I looked up the GDA in the UK, and it's 90g for a 2000 calorie diet. Why is the mfp goal so different? Are GDAs different in the States or is mfp trying to turn us into complete angels?
