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Cooking light meal plan
has anyone tried it? I need a way to fit in low calorie dinner meals with little planning and a reasonable grocery bill. I like to cook and usually like the recipes in cooking light but sometimes planning my meals for a week just seems daunting. I'm only concerned about dinner. I have split custody with my kids so half the…
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Finding the right number
I just completed my first 5 weeks of maintenance. I continued to lose for the first three weeks, then it seemed to level out until last week when my weight started to climb again. I had increased my calories so that my average was within 100 calories of MFP recommendations by the end, with my average for the 5 weeks being…
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Will I always have to do more?
I was just reading through some posts where comments were made along the line of--your body will get used to the workout you are doing and you will start to burn less. This is mostly related to cardio. But the more I think about it, the more it doesn't make sense logically. I understand that when I was running 3 miles in…
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Why is it so hard to get in the maintenance mindset?
I reached my goal. I have lost weight plenty of times in my life (usually the same 10-15 pounds) but usually felt content enough when I was close enough to my goal so I would stop. The weight would slowly creep back and a year or two later I'd be back to losing those same 10. This is the first time I lost enough to get to…
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Importing Recipes HELP
I haven't had any success importing recipes on MFP and always end up having to use the older calculator. I just tried again using firefox the IE thinking maybe it was my browser that was the problem. It recognizes the recipes and pulls up all of the ingredients but when I click "match ingredients" nothing happens. Anyone…
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Just Thinking Out Loud
This whole TDEE business has got me thinking--and probably stating the obvious now but I never thought of it this way before. Now that i am very close to my goal weight I am thinking about starting to increase calories. My TDEE at the weight I want to be is about 2000 calories. So I am thinking of increasing to that amount…
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Cut, Recomp, bulk
I have been reading these boards and I think I am beginning to understand the basic differences between these three terms, but I am still not quite sure if I get it. Here is my understanding of it. Am I correct? Is there more to it then this? Cut means weight loss. To do this you need to cut calories to create a deficit…
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Pushups
One of my fitness goals is to be able to do at least 10 proper pushups. The problem is I can barely do one. I think I am doing the fine, but I just can't get low enough. When I try to get low my arms give out. What is the best way to build up the arm strength to get down to an inch away from the floor? Should I do inclined…
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Day 1: Not as intimidating as I expected
I hate strength training with a passion but this program was appealing to me because there are only 3 workouts a day and only 5 moves I need to know. Plus lifting real weights makes me feel like a badass! I belong to planet fitness and the one by me is real no frills. It has very few of the perks that I have seen at others…
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gauging my activity level for TDEE
Gender: female age:39 height: 5'5" current weight: 142 Using a few online calculators my BMR is 1305-1315 (1300 to make it tidy) the TDEE varies between 1909-2039 depending on which I used. I select Ted moderately active but I hope some of you could help determine if that is true. My normal activity that I do not log on…
