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Looking for people to encourage and be encouraged
Hi everybody. I'm 34, have a great wife and daughter, and lost 40 pounds last year in large part thanks to myfitnesspal and the friends I made here. I've found positive encouragement to be really helpful for almost all of us. If there's anybody who'd like to add me as a friend, I'll do my best to be a positive friend who…
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Shift work - keeping up weight loss while dog-tired
Hi all. I'm doing pretty well with weight loss. Not as well as I could be doing, but I'm certainly losing weight. Discipline/not eating bad food and portion control are my 2 biggest challenges. I'm getting more discplined with these and am doing really well. I do shift work that includes midnight shifts. These shifts…
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Elliptical vs long-time bad knee
Hi all. I mean no offense, but I'd really like knowledgeable advice only. There's too much anecdotal and 3rd-hand and just bad advice out there and I don't think I can afford any bad advice. I'll be brief: -I started at 70-100lbs overweight and I've lost 27 so far thanks to MFP -I have a bad left knee and have for some…
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Help with bacon stats please.
Hi all. So pig bacon, not turkey bacon. I've looked at the stats on all the bacon I come across in stores and I have not seen 1 that's less than 100+ calories per slice. Yet MFP stats...used by several of my friends...have at least some kinds of bacon being around 30 calories per slice. How is this possible? Either MFP has…
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Just changed settings: lightly active to mostly sedentary...
I just changed the setting and MFP took away 250 calories per day from me! I have been losing slower than I thought I would even though I'm sticking to the plan fairly consistently...I guess I know why. Here we go!
