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How to differentiate water retention & fat gained?
I'm maintaining now but I've gained a kg since yesterday and I'm not sure if it's water retention or fat gained how can I differentiate it? Do you consider it weight gain after your weight go up after a few days without dropping or after a week? I need to be able to tell them apart so that I can adjust my maintenance…
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Suppressed maintenance?
Someone told me that I may be having suppressed maintenance calorie level right now and saying that I can actually eat more without gaining any weight. I've been eating 1640calories for a few months and these few days gained a kg and most of the people say that it's water retention (I'm having sore muscle) so I think it's…
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Same food 2 different calories
What do you do when you come across the same food but it shows 2 different calories content? I searched for raw pig skin and here in MFP raw/boiled 28g-118calories while in lots of the Chinese website it's 100g-363calories. What to do? Should I use the nutrition info. From the Chinese websites and create a entry here or…
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Raw pig skin
I've came across pig skin nutrition in lots of Chinese website saying that it's 363calories per 100g but in MFP it's raw/boiled 118calories 28g. What should I do? Should I create a new entry of the data in the Chinese websites or just use the MFP data?? Anybody knows the nutrition facts of raw pig skin?? Or even boiled one?
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Added wrong calories for food
I have just realised that I've been using the wrong calories for my Japanese sweet potato... I use 87cal per 100 instead of the correct cal which is 132cal per 100g. What should I do now?? Should I just continue using the wrong info or switch to the correct calorie info? I have been eating Japanese sweet potato almost…
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How to count
My mum cooks pork belly meat, but I eat only the lean part and not the skin and fat. But I can't find any entry in MFP that says pork belly lean only... So I'm wondering if the lean meat of pork no matter which part it is from, have the same calories? Am I right to say that? If not, can someone please correct me... How…
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Strategies to maintain weight without counting calories
I'm thinking that I'm only 18 still very young, I can't possibly be bringing the scale along with me to everywhere I go. Therefore, I want to know some strategies on maintaining weight without having to weigh your food with the scale. I really need this advice because I will be going back to my homeland for months end of…
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Should I up to maintenance calories MFP set for me?
I'm trying to find my maintenance calories and I've been eating 1550 calories for the past 22 days and haven't lose weight. Should I continue to up to 1640calories that MFP has set for me? Or should I just continue eating 1550calories?? Help please!
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gained weight, should I lower cal intake?
I am 18 years old, 158cm, and today weigh 44kg. I started to up my cal from 1450 to 1550 cal intake 18 ago and I've gained 1kg on the second day of upping cal to 43kg, and for the past few days I've been having fever but I continue to eat 1550cal daily but today I found out that I gain another kg and weigh 44kg. Is that…
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Eat maintenance calories when sick?
I'm feeling kind of sick right now so I'm asking this just in case I really fall ill. When you guys are sick do you still stick to eating your maintenance calories? Or do you just eat whatever you want? But when we are sick we tend to eat a lot lesser, do you eat those calories back once you have recovered?
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158cm(5'2) girls what are your maintenance calories??
I'm 158cm and 42-43kg I'm like eating the lightly active cal which is 1550 cal not eating back my exercise cal. When I started upping cal from 1450-1460 to 1550 I went from 42 to 43kg and it seems like people around my height are eating lesser to maintain... Please share your height, weight, maintenance cal and best your…
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Will I gain weight eating entire container of ice cream?
So although I understand that it's all about calories in vs calories out. I only gain weight if I eat more than my maintenance cal. The entire container of Haagen Dazs green tea ice cream is 250cal per serving, 1 container has got 4 servings so I'll be eating a 1000cal which is within my maintenance cal, so does this…
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Same exercise while figuring out maintenance cal?
I'm in the process of finding my maintenance cal but I gain a kg after upping my cal and I want to switch my exercise from figurerobic to cardio. I up my cal from 1420 to 1550 and gained a kg after a few days... I'm 158cm and before the gain I was 42kg. I am doing 30min of figurerobic daily and not eating back my exercise…
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is changing exercise after some time needed?
I heard that we need to change the exercise that we are doing after some time because our body may get used to the exercise and resulting in burning less calories, is that really true? Do we have to change exercise after a certain period of time? If yes, how long should we do the same exercise before changing to a new one?
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How to measure calories of Haagen Dazs ice cream?
I want to eat the Haagen Dazs green tea ice cream, then I realised that the nutrition fact given is in ml... How am I suppose to count the calories that way? Should I use total use the total weight in gram of ice cream (stated on the container) and divide it by total ml?? Omg. Why can't they give the serving size in gram?!…
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Guilt after bingeing
I knew that I am going to have buffet today so I started to ''save'' up calories for today since last week and I managed to ''save'' up 1423 calorie last week and 1283 calorie on sat-mon so a total of 2706cal for today's buffet. I ate mostly sashimi, no fried food, veggie without dressing and quite an amount of gelato ice…
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Is it fat gained or…?
Recently I've upped my maintenance cal intake as one of the MFP member had suggested and I gained a kg I'm not sure if it's fat or otherwise because I upped my cal a few days after bingeing at the buffet and eating 1250cal for a few days before upping the cal. How can I differentiate if it's fat or otherwise? Should I…
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Is it fat gained or…?
Recently I've upped my maintenance cal intake as one of the MFP member had suggested and I gained a kg I'm not sure if it's fat or otherwise because I upped my cal a few days after bingeing at the buffet and eating 1250cal for a few days before upping the cal. How can I differentiate if it's fat or otherwise? Should I…
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Watch weekly calorie goal for maintenance?
Do you guys watch your weekly calorie goal or otherwise? Like eating less on weekdays then eat back those calories on weekend, do you gain weight by doing so? Now that I'm finding maintenance calorie when I do log my food I would make sure I eat just my maintenance calorie. If I workout daily by doing figurerobic (exercise…
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Confusing food calories...
I've got hong kong dim sum steam BBQ pork bun ( char siew bao) at home bought from the restaurant and when I search for its calories it varies greatly! Some says 206 per bun while some says 150-160per bun while the Singapore hawker one says 363 cal (120g) but a steamed BBQ bun weighs far lesser than that. When I went to…
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Anyone heard of Figurerobic ?
I'm doing figurerobic it's a aerobic combine with figure dancing movements exercise which is 30min+ per session. I do it 5-6 times a week and I'm trying to figure out my maintenance caloric intake now while eating back my exercise calorie but I searched online and couldn't find calorie burned for this exercise... What…
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Same food but different cal? Which one to choose?
I'm kind of confused with the calories available because for example boiled(in water) skinless boneless chicken breast for 100g some state 156cal while the other is 115 cal which one should I choose? I know it may not sound like there's a much different but if I eat it everyday it builds up can it can make a huge…
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Which Maintenance calorie goal to meet?
I'm in the process of finding my maintenance calorie intake but on days when I work it's really difficult for me to meet my daily calorie goal so is it okay for me to eat the deflict on the following day? Will I gain weight by doing so or cause inaccuracies in calculating my maintenance calorie? Am I suppose to meet the…
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Help! Questions on finding maintenance caloric intake
1) I bought a food which I can't the calories of it in Singapore, but in HongKong there's a exact same shop with the calories of the food which is pretty much the same as the one that I just bought here in Singapore. Can I use the calories of the food shown in the HongKong website of that brand for my food which is…
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cheat day while finding maintenance?
Currently I am trying to find out the amount of calories needed to maintain my weight, but does that mean I should not have my cheat day?? I am worried that the calories intake may be wrong due to the cheat day... So should I have a cheat day while finding my calories intake to maintain my weight??
