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How to accurately calculate calories burned in exercise??
I'm just entering maintenance and now I will need to be eating back all my exercise calories, but I feel like it's hard to know what's accurate. I have a heart rate monitor, but it always seems to spit out higher calorie burned amounts than what I get when I take the average heart rate the HRM gives me and plug it in to an…
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On to maintenance!
I decided yesterday that it was time for me to go to maintenance. I'm working out 5x a week, with at least 1 of those workouts being strength training. I think figuring out my *exact* calories will be difficult (I've read up on TDEE, BMR, etc.) so I'm going to start at 1600-1700 and eat back exercise calories. I think I…
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How many days to lose 3lb water weight?
I'm curious how long it typically takes to lose 3 pounds in pure water weight after eating higher sodium foods and exercising a bunch. Monday-Wednesday I did a *TON* of exercise and was sore each day afterward, including today. In addition, Tuesday and Wednesday my dinners were pretty high in sodium, but I didn't go over…
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Why do I look thinner in photos than in mirror?
I've always heard the old saying that the camera adds 10 pounds, but now that I've lost all this weight, when I see photos of myself or take a quick shot with my iPhone, I feel like I look thinner in the *photo* than when I am just looking in the mirror. Anyone else experience this? Is it some sort of weird body image…
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Anyone else terrified of eating more?
So in the last two days, I've decided to up my calorie goal to 1500. I've lost 66 pounds and I am 129 now at 5'5'', fitting into a size 2. My goal weight is 125, and I've been dieting and exercising for 7 months. And I realize that for a lot of the time between Sept-early Jan. I was eating too little (1,050 to 1,200 with…
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No weight loss in 1.5 weeks -- schedule change?
I've been steadily losing weight, with the exception of maybe one or two 7-day stretches, for the past 7 months. (Not all 66 pounds lost are from those 7 months, btw -- I split it up over two years). My scale claims I have not lost any weight since Jan. 7. In that time, my schedule has changed from 2-10 p.m. Sun-Thurs. to…
