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Should I aim to eat every 3-4 hours or not?
For as long as I can remember I've heard the weight loss wisdom of eat six small meals a a day to keep your metabolism burning fast, but now there's all this info coming out about how it's better to eat all of your meals in an 8 hour period, and if you try fasting for say 16 hours then it gets your body into fat-burning…
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Should I ignore going over my sugar count with fruit?
I've started using more fruit now for smoothies as I persistently don't have enough in my carb section before, but the problem is I keep going over the red zone for sugar now! If it's natural sugar from fruit and vegetables is it not worth worrying about, or is it a bad thing to go over for any reason? When I make up a…
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Giving up on eating above my BMR
I don't know if anyone else has found this, but when I first joined MFP I was eating the 1,200 calories they recommended for me and lost 7 pounds in the first few weeks of that. Then my weight loss stalled and I came to the forums for advice, I was told about BMR and calculated that I need to eat between 1,500-1,600…
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What should I be eating to get up to 1,500 calories?
Possible stupid question, but I'm confused because I worked out that I'm supposed to eat that amount to lose weight, buuut I keep reading advice on how you shouldn't eat food like cheese for example too often. But if I just eat healthy and low-fat food than I find it really hard to get my calories up to the recommended…
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What am I doing wrong?
I started off at 1,200 calories and was advised by posters that for my height, weight, and age (5,5, 154 pounds, 31) I should aim to eat 1,500 calories a day as the bare minimum to lose weight and keep my body healthy, and that the calories to maintain my weight would be 2,200. Something to do with my BMR? Okay fine, so I…
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Is it a good idea to eat less for two days a week?
I keep hearing about this new diet where you eat regularly five days a week, and eat very little/under 1000 calories the other two days. I'm not getting great results at the moment from trying to lose weight through eating 1,500 calories 7 days a week, and for the past few weeks I've been frustrated at the scales not…
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How many calories does zombies 5k burn?
I've just started doing the week one workouts for that app. Today I was walking for about 35 minutes with short bursts of running. I guess that the calories burned would be 200 as I'm not very fit and it was mostly more walking than running, but now I'm wondering if it could be higher that that?
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Should I be eating less than 1,200 calories?
I started off at 11 and a half stone (161 pounds) and when I first started dieting 2 weeks ago I was eating less than 1000 calories in the first week. I did lose a few pounds from that and I now weight about 11 stone 2 pounds. Since then I joined myfitness, was told that I was eating too little, and upped my calories each…
