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2011 Resolution met & exceeded. For 2012 I resolve....
Hi All, Tomorrow I will begin my second year on MFP! I began with the resolution to lose 20# by May and I did! Not only that but I ultimately reached 27-28# and the need to avoid being too thin, switching fully to maintenance by July. It had been over 20 years since I last saw these numbers on a scale. I dropped two sizes…
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Harvard study on diet and lifestyle impact on weight
Hi All, I just ran across a Harvard study published in June that raises some interesting points about food choices and lifestyle impact on weight. The study group was large, >120,000 people and studied over quite a few years. It points to some food choices that are most likely to produce gain or loss and to other issues…
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Proposed nutrition label changes
Hi All, My Sunday newspaper had a version ot this AP story discussing proposed changes to the nutrition label required by the US Food & Drug administration: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FOOD_LABELS?SITE=VABRM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT After getting past my first thought of "what will this do to the MFP…
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Did it! Yaaay....and now need maintenance buddies
I set a goal of 16 weeks for 20 pounds and hit 21 pounds instead! Ecstatic! This is the lowest weight I've been in about 20 years, despite numerous diets. I'm finally back below 140. This time I used MFP. I had tried tracking calories other ways, on paper, but it was so too, too time consuming. MFP was, for me, really…
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Use MFP for maintenance mode?
Not yet at my weight goal but as my progress nears 75% of that goal, I've begun to think about a maintenance plan and wonder if MFP can help me then. A year ago (pre-MFP) I weighed close to my current weight. It's been about 3 years since I was at my target and it had been a dozen years of weight above target before that.…
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Focused now...but will need help keeping it
Hi All. I'm new to myfitnesspal but not new to trying to lose the same 20 lbs and feel comfortably fit i.e. BMI of 22 or less and to be able to hike the hills with ease. I'm an active woman statistically classified as a "retiree' but don't feel any relationship to that word. Depressingly, the pace of my activity goes down…
