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Advice on beginning strength training
Hiya, I have decided to start lifting weights to lose weight and not sure if i'm doing the right exercises and/or lifting the right weights. I am 180lb looking to lose 40-50lbs. I am a 5ft 3 female. I am using dumbells at home as easier to fit in around my young kids. Dumbells are 7.5kg each (16.5lbs) Exercises are as…
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Friends with similar goals? 50lb to lose.TDEE-20%
Hi all, I'm Sylvia from Fife in Scotland. I joined mfp around 5- 6 wks ago and quickly realised it wasn't sustainable for me only eating 1200 cals so I decided to take the TDEE-20% route and am now eating roughly 1700 cals per day. My current weight is 185lb and my goal weight is around 140lb. I am 5ft 4. I haven't lost…
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Chicken breast calories???
Hey all, Had a skinless, roasted in oven chicken breast for dinner. After cooked weight was 120grams or 4.23oz. When trying to log have found entries as low as 95cals up to 236cals and every calorie value in between for the same weight, same way cooked chicken breast. Not very helpful as I eat chicken all the time. Anybody…
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Skip a meal or not
Sooo I couldn't sleep last night until around 3am so ended up that I slept in today and had to rush out the door to drive to a hospital appointment. By the time I got home and made something to eat it was 1pm. I have just had a snack but still way under cals for today as skipped breakfast. So do I 1. Just eat the rest of…
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argghh put on 3lb this wk-advice on eating more to lose
Hey all!! Well I started off weighing 14stone (196) I lost 6lbs myself cutting back and excerising before I joined mfp. I was originally eating 1200 cals but upped them to around 1400 when I found this wasn't enough. I'm 33 5ft 4 and 28% bf. After reading eating more to lose weight I calculated my bmr at 1600 and tdee at…
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MFP cals v BMR-TDEE
I joined MFP a few weeks ago now and was eating 1200 cals as MFP suggested. Lost 5lb in 2 wks. Then I read about BRM and TDEE which explained I wasn't eating enough. My bmr is 1600 and tdee 2405 so my tdee minus 20% is 1900 roughly. I felt that this was quite a leap for me so as it was advised that we should never eat…
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Help with eating my daily cals
Hey, I'm new to mfp only joined a couple weeks ago. Looking to lose around 50 lbs CW 185, im 5ft4. I was initially given 1200 cals to eat by mfp based on wanting to lose 2lb a week. After deciding to eat at 1700 cals (above my BMR and 20% below my tdee) I am struggling to eat my daily cals. I am doing 30 day shred most…
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Confused re cal intake.
Can anyone help? I am a 5ft 4 female and currently weigh 189lb. MFP states 1200 cal a day would be a weight loss of 2lb per week. My BMR is 1622 and TDEE is 2415 per day. I have been reading various posts about starvation mode and that if you eat 15-20% less than your TDEE that your body burns fat more efficiently than if…
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The dreaded white stuff!!
Hiya, Just joined mfp recently and still getting to grips with a few things so any advice would be appreciated. My daily allowance is 1200 cals and 24 sugar (grams I take it?). Anyway the problem I have found so far is I must be eating a lot more sugar than I first thought. My breakfast today for example is 45g all bran…
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New here too :)
Hey all, I'm Sylvia, I'm 33 and am married with 2 small boys aged 1 and 2. The weight has slowly but surely crept on over the years. I currently weigh 13 stone 7 pounds (189 pounds) which for my 5ft 4inch height is classed as obese which I just discovered....nice!! I would love to get down to 140 pounds which I haven't…
