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Deconditioning in a week?!
Family's getting together for the holiday and they won't get my exercise routine. I usually bring my DVDs, do YouTube, use the bike and treadmill I bought for my parents, and do something daily. I'll hear I'm small enough, I'm crazy, I'm killing myself, etc. I just don't want to deal with it, so thinking to skip the…
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Charge hr problem - dashboard info doesn't change?
I can only think this problem is as a result from my recent update but the info displayed in dashboard is the same day to day. Tried rebooting, unsyncing, disconnect mfp? Note everything below the first few tiles is the same today, yesterday, since I bought this a month ago. Below is an example: Any ideas?
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Fitbit/MFP - basic basic basic question!
Hello. I've been enjoying my Fitbit charge hr for a few weeks now but I need to really learn more so I can get the most out of the Fitbit/MFP data. I'm honestly a bit confused going back and forth between the two (the negative calorie adjustment thing, exercise calories, etc). So, until I get it all sorted out - if I…
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Fitbit and bmr?
Hello. Just purchased a Fitbit charge hr and entered my stats. Have been literally sitting since I got it for the last hour while I peruse forums on how to get the most out of it but I noticed the "calories burned" is staying around 970. Is this my bmr? Almost every online bmr calculation I've done has me about 1200?!
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Need tips before I descend any further!!!
Help! After such a great, great series of weeks, I've gone over on calories almost every day this week - ice cream, Entenmanns, Chinese food, chips, crap! When I think about why, I realized it's my same m/o. I take care of my elderly parents in my home a few months at a time. I'm about to bring them back to their home in a…
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Uh-oh. Is 1/2 cup cooked rice NOT the same as 4 oz?
I thought I'd improve my measuring and read here that measuring solids was best done on a food scale; liquids in a cup. I was measuring rice in a measuring cup. But the 1/2 cup if rice in the measuring cup seemed a lot less than the 4oz of rice on the scale. Am i doing this correctly?
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Just for fun: normal foods or food combos you can't stand!!
Hi All. My sweet niece knowing I was thinking of reducing my carbs brought me a tuna melt with no cheese. I couldn't even fake my horror. Tuna, cheese, and mayo. I'm shuddering typing this! She then confessed it made her sick to watch me eat my melted vanilla ice cream with crumbled cheese peanut butter crackers. So, it…
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Any 50ish year old petites who just had to lose 10lbs?
How? How? How?! How many calories? How long did it take?! Just not the same for me - would've lost this in a snap years ago! Ugh
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5 weeks later: .5 loss in waist and .5 lbs heavier?!
Hi All. Today my trainer took my measurements. Not the progress I hoped for. Hips the same. Waist .5 inch loss. After I hired her 5 weeks ago, she told me I was eating too little for my activity and needed to increase my daily calories. I actually was too nervous to, so I maybe went to 1300, not 1400, from 1200. My pants…
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Frustrated! Anyone want to do the math for me?!
Hi. Soo frustrated. I've gained 3 pounds of scale weight since my trainer a month ago told me 1200 was too low for all my activity - despite my age, height, whatever. Didn't matter -at minimum she said I should be eating 1400 calories. Could she have been wrong? I've spent the last few days doing every equation on every…
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Is Trx "lifting heavy"?
Hi. I was wondering if I should add Stronglifts to my routine. I have fallen in love with my Trx instructor and class - very, very hard core - and I feel like I get a great workout with him three times a week. But am I missing out on the heavy lifting? I do an insanity like class on two other days and do on the last two…
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Someone please explain what's happening?
Hi, Everyone. I'm 51, 5'3, and 132 lbs. Twice I got to my goal weight of around 125 - at 126 and 123, respectively -but couldn't stay there. I was eating no more than 1200 calories per day and strength training an hour or two, 5 days a week. Both times though, stressful family situations coincided with my weight loss, so I…
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Any cons to maximizing exercise hours?
Hi. I'm in a period right now where i have my days free and been trying out my neighborhood gym classes. The schedule I found I like turns out to be like two hour long back to back classes a day - Cardio/Trx: cardio/circuit training; circuit training/Trx). Weekends I do some stretching, light yoga. I'm trying to lose the…
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Straight talk needed! Do rules change after 50?
Hi All. I'm a bit confused and dismayed and just need some advice. I was 131.4 on 1/15. Today 135.2. I know it's not fat given the whole how much you have to eat to that weight to really be fat. BUT I was taking the advice not to only eat 1200 calories daily as I was, especially since I was working out two hours a day (not…
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Did you get to like grains?!
Hello All. My trainer read me the riot act about my nutrition. Too low calories, not quality food. She told me to introduce grains - I thought she meant whole wheat bread - but she said no - quinoa, rye, barley, buckwheat, spelt, oats - other stuff like hemp and chia seeds. Good lord - I'm a meat and potatoes type of gal…
