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Formula to figure maintenance calories
Hi all, I may be getting a little ahead of myself but I'd like to know what is in store for me calorie wise. The last time I lost weight I had 2 back to back pregnancies so I never experienced maintenance and didn't see how many calories worked for me. Is there a certain formula that one can use to determine? Height is…
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Is water really important?
Ok so if its all about CICO is water that important? I'm not gonna lie, I have a hard time drinking water. But so do teachers/professors, nurses, line factory workers, etc. Not everyone has easy access to the bathroom every 20 minutes. So how important is it for losing weight?
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Maintaining at 120-125 pounds anyone?
What does this look like for you? How many calories a day is this? What is a typical breakfast/lunch/dinner? If anyone has an open diary maintaining at 120-125 I'd love to take a look. I still have not reached maintenance but I am so looking forward to it. Just incase its relevant I am 5'4. Goal 120-125ish. 33 yrs old. 4…
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Coffee- Give it up or not at all?
I don't want to give up my coffee for good, so should I not give it up at all? I've been trying to lose weight for 3 weeks now. I gave up coffee and am drinking green tea instead. Can I do this for 3-4 months? yes. But I will not give it up for good. Should I just make it fit into my calorie goal now? Or make it fit into…
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Best calorie burn in 30 min lunch break
I would love some advice on what is the best thing to do in 30 minutes for maximum calorie burn. With 4 small kids at home and working full time its HARD to get exercise in everyday. So what can I do at work? Its only a one story building with stairs to an inventory cage so multiple flights of stairs are not available to…
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How long to keep loging food.
People who have reached and maintained their goal weight. How long do you keep login foods in MyFitPal? I would think after some time you get used to what amounts of foods have approx what calories and know what you can eat in a day of your regular day to day foods etc. 3-4 months? More? Never stop logging foods?
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Activity level. Am I doing this right?
I have on office job which MFP describes as sedentary. That gave me 1200 calories a day. I have 4 kids at home including 2 babies so its hard to get exercise in daily but I do what I can, I walk at work daily during my 15 break. When I have time (usually 3-4 times a week) I will do a 30 minute zumba or jillian michaels…
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Confused with cup measurements- Help!
I have been weighing my food. But many of the food items listed in MyFit Pal is in cups. For example 1 cup chicken stir fry.. is this 1 cup as in 8oz weight or one cup as in all you can fit in one physical cup? Should I be weighing 8 oz to use the "1 cup" measurement. Or filling up one cup?
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Exersice during Cylcle 1? (besides 17 min walk)
Is okay to excersice during cycle one (besides the two-17 minute walks a day)? I take two 15 minute walks (during my breaks at work). But one day when i was not able to do one of the walks, I went home i did some Zumba fitness with my kids for about 20 minutes and i really enjoyed it, so I have kept it up. Sometimes doing…
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Macros help
Can you tell me what your macros numbers are at and why how you came to those numbers. I am trying to read on it but keep getting conflicting information. It seems that numbers depend on your goal (lose, lose while gaining muscle, gain ) I guess losing while gaining is possible but it is easier to stick to losing and then…
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Having a hard time eating (Morning) before exercise
Hi! So I have read and read to fuel your work out and that If you don't eat before exercising you will be losing muscle instead of fat. Now for time restraints in the evening I have changed my work out time to the morning. At 5:30am. I am not really hungry at this time, plus it seems you have to eat 1/2 hour to an hour…
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Macros, how do you know what to set them at?
So I hear you can not bulk while on a deficit. But atleast I can try to keep the muscle I have. I am trying to lose 7 pounds, doing 30 minutes of walking a day and circuit training every other day with light weights. How would I know what to set my macros at? I notice I feel better in general if I dont have too many carbs.…
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Ladies- who currently weigh around 128 lbs...
What calorie number are you trying to hit? MFP suggest 1 pound loss, 1200 cal goal. I also read a deficit should be 10-12 times your weight so 1280 to 1536. 1536! Wow. Nice. Currently I decided on 1,300. Just because 1200 seem to little for my appitite ..lol. and is only 100 more than what MFP suggests. On the days I…
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How do you log your homemade food?
For example beef stews or recipes with lots of ingredients? How do you log it? I used to look for the name on MFP site, and if it said homemade I thought it was better (because restaurants Im sure have all these added fats and sugars and fry everything to make things yummier) But I recently read not to trust the "homemade"…
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Activity Level
Did I pick the right activity level? I just read a post about how a lot of us pick the wrong activity level, like those who have a desk job but then get home to young kids (me!). So I chose sedentary, I have a desk job. I literally don't have to get up but like 5 times a day and only to a few cubicles away. I get two 15…
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Did I pick the right activity level?
I just read a post about how a lot of us pick the wrong activity level, like those who have a desk job but then get home to young kids (me!). So I chose sedentary, I have a desk job. I literally don't have to get up but like 5 times a day and only to a few cubicles away. I get two 15 minute breaks in which I take a walk (…
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Another question for early risers
I want to know, the people who get up at 4:30 or 5 am, what time do you go to bed? I'd love to work out in the morning when the kids are still sleeping, that way in the evening when I get home from work I can cook, feed, clean, bathe them, spend time with them and not worry about "i still have to work out!" I currently get…
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How do YOU do it?
Do you eat whatever, and I mean whatever, (chips, soda, crackers, cake, full fat coffee creamer, etc) just a deficit and have succesuflly lost weight? Or sticking more to healthy, unproccessed, lof fat.. or what not? Just wondering.
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Scales
If you have a scale that you love, please let me know the name or brand. I have a WW scale that fluctuates from one second to another. Usually by 3lb difference, for someone who is tryign to loose weight this is incredibly annoying, AND im not sure which weight to follow, the lower or higher number. I discovered this when…
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Favorite work out video
And why, I am looking for somethiing that will shed pounds and tone tummy preferably, oh and legs too. But would like to know which work out video worked for you, and how.. lost pounds?, inches, got fit, got strong, hard butt..lol.. anything
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To start, excersice AND cut calories? Am I doing it wrong?
According to MFP, i should be consuming 1,200 calories in order to lose weight. I am a female 5'4, starting weight 140 lbs. I decided to also start walking at work for 30 mins, and doing some Zumba or other aerobic/toning excersice at home after dinner (for about 20-30 mins). Should i be targeting 1,200 calories AFTER…
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What is TEDD or TDEE?
something like that, and where do i figure it out? Anyone have a link?
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Sugar limits
Posted this elsewhere, should have posted it here to begin with. I am following the 17 Day diet, I could not find the unsweetend Kefir that it calls for, the only thing at the store was Raspberry, so i got it. Now that i have made my Smoothie with unsweetend frozen berries and the Kefir, i saw that i passed my sugar limit,…
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I went ove my sugar limits! Anything to offset?
Sorry, I meant, I went OVER my sugar limits. I am following the 17 Day diet which is very low on sugar. Anyway i could not find the unsweetend Kefir that it calls for, the only thing at the store was Raspberry, so i got it. Now that i have made my Smoothie with unsweetend frozen berries and the Kefir, i saw that i passed…
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Does it make a difference?
Brisk waliking, i do it during my lunch break. Should i do it before or after eating? Does it make a difference?
