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Question about very small weight fluctuations and calories in/out
So I've been doing great staying below 1200 calories daily as well as doing some sort of exercise daily for the last 2 weeks. Last week, I went from 130 to 127.4 in just 7 days. The past two days instead of losing weight I've been gaining. It has only been a couple ounces though. Yesterday morning upon weighing myself I…
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This makes no sense
Ok so I've been working out and have been under my calorie goal by almost 200 for the last couple days. I weigh myself daily because in the past I've noticed a decline every day and it's encouraging to me. Recently I've been bloated like crazy. I had 3 cheat days last week where I consumed an excess of calories. I went…
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Calories in- calories out. Quick question.
So I'm still confused about the whole calorie in/out thing. Yesterday I had a cheat meal that was about 2000 calories. Usually I eat about 1200 calories daily plus I burn off about 150 or so working out. So about 1050 calories daily. I'm pretty sure maintenance for me is about 1600 or 1700 calories daily. I know I didn't…
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I know this has been asked before...Treadmill calories
So I'm currently 119 pounds with about 5 more pounds to lose before I meet my goal. I eat 1200 calories daily and exercise 6 days a week for 30 minutes. When I'm at the gym I use the treadmill and walk at an incline of 9.5-10 at 3.5mph for 30 minutes. The machine tells me this burns about 207 or so calories. I put in my…
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Question about weird fluctuations. Getting discouraged
Ok so I'm trying to lose 15 pounds total by August. So far my scale says I'm down 5. I lost over 30 pounds using MFP 2 years ago but gained 15-20 last year after a rough patch. I'm currently 125 and want to get down to 115. I weigh myself weekly, every Tuesday morning at around the same time. For the past 2 weeks the…
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Handi-snacks Cheese and Crackers
Ok so you know the little packages of cheese dip and crackers. It comes with 5 crackers and a little bit of cheese dip (and a little stick to spread the cheese). The nutrition facts list the calories in the whole thing as 100. But typically 5 Ritz or Club crackers are about 80-90 calories by themselves. So is the 100…
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Smartpop popcorn
Ok so I'm confused about the servings. I usually get the 100 calorie bags but I mistakenly got the big bags this time. The box says 3 tbsp unpopped is 120 calories and 1 cup popped is 15 calories. It also says 3tbsp unpopped is equal to 6.5 cups popped per serving, I assume. There are 2 servings per bag. Simple math tells…
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How much over maintenance before weight gain?
Know this has probably been asked before but I'll shoot anyway. Ok so my maintenance is currently 1600. I'm sedentary. I know MFP says that 1800 daily will make me gain half a pound a week, so basically to maintain I have to stay with the 1600-1700 range? It seems like it would be hard to keep this up as a lifetime thing.
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How many days of going over calories until you gain?
Long story short, I went over my calories by like 1500 a couple days ago. I'm set at 1360 to lose half a pound a week. I'm 121/122 looking to get down to 118 maybe. So I know it takes 3500 calories over your maintenance to gain a pound BUT I'm a little confused still with the time period and weight gain over time. If I…
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Feeling extremely hungry and unsatisfied lately. Why?
Soo about 2 months ago I went from eating 1200 calories daily to 1360, losing half a pound a week because I'm only a pound or 2 away from my goal. I started working out every single day for at least 30 minutes a day in January. I think I may have missed maybe 3 days of no exercise in the past 2 months. Sometimes I do 45…
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HELP: eat all my allowed calories before 2pm
Ok so I love to eat as does everyone else on the planet but this is more of an issue for me because once I start eating and the food is good I cannot stop...I can't have one thing, I have to have a side too. It's weird. I'll have a 250 cal sausage biscuit and that won't be enough. I have to have 2 granola bars immediately…
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Pausing workout videos for breaks
I'm fairly new to this exercise thing and I sometimes find it difficult to complete a workout to finish when I am doing some of the videos provided on youtube. Is it ok to pause the video and take short breaks when it gets to be too much? Will you still burn the same amount of calories with this breaks in between the…
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Don't believe estimated calorie burn
I've been working out in some form every day now for 2 weeks. I usually use the Fitness Blender channel on Youtube and do their squat, cardio and ab workouts. In addition, about 3 days a week I walk on the treadmill for about an hour at 3.5 mph. The problem is I never believe that I've burned as many calories as MFP tells…
