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Are the Calorie burns accurate for weight lifting?
When I weight lift for 1 hr I get a calorie burn value of 180, when I walk for an hour I get 285. I'm 5'4" and 132 lbs. The weight lifting feels way harder than the walking, why the lower calorie burn?
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What is the weirdest weight loss advice you've ever had?
I was just told by someone that I should be eating several tablespoons of coconut oil per day if I want to lose weight. Apparently coconut oil has a thermogenic ? effect and will boost my metabolism significantly. When I asked if the added calories and fat should be counted I was told no because the calories where actually…
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Calorie burn on your most active days?
I'm doing around 400-600 hundred on a really good day. Is that fairly typical?
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When are your most active days?
I'm consistently way more active on the weekends. Which proves to me if I never had to work again I'd be in AWESOME shape!:smile:
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Yay, 2 lbs down this week!!!
After not seeing the scale budge for 2 weeks this week 2 lbs came off, Yay! I know weight is only one measure of fitness but combined with looser pants I'm very happy to see the numbers coming down!!!
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Going heavy (er)
I'm starting to increase my weights. I do some home DVD's to weight train, mostly Cathe Freidich videos. Will increasing the weight lifted effect weight loss in the short term. I've heard that initially your muscles hold onto more water so it may stall the weight loss until they get used to it. Does this make sense?
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Why are there pizza adds flashing at me
I just logged on to my food entry and a pizza add is flashing at me on the top border telling me to ORDER NOW! That just seems cruel!!
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Breakfast Lunch Dinner Snacks
I'm wondering if there is an option on MFP to change the above categories, sometimes I eat more mini meals in a day, I'd like something along the lines of Meal 1, Meal 2 etc. Anyway to change this?
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Pants getting looser but scale not moving
My clothes are definitely getting looser and I think I look slimmer but the numbers on the scale haven't moved in 2 weeks! I'm working out and doing some light weights but I really doubt I'm doing enough to be making significant weight gain in muscle so I'm not sure what is going on. Any ideas on how to push through this…
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Wine, beer or vodka?
Are these all the same when it comes to losing weight? Just watch the calories or is one a better choice than the others?
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What scale should I buy?
Just wondering if anyone has an idea of what kind of scale I should buy. I don't want anything too expensive. The one I have now is a basic bathroom scale with a dial type display, it is hard to see the numbers and they move around by about 3 lbs depending on how I'm standing.
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BS detectors
Just wanted to say it is refreshing to read so many posts that back up my opinion that there is a lot of BS going around when it comes to weight loss, health and nutrition. I can understand why people are so confused, the amount of conflicting information out there is bewildering. There are so many unhealthy, dangerous or…
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Is it better to eat most of my calories earlier in the day?
I find that by dinner I'm starving, would it be helpful to eat more calories earlier? I'm eating around 1300-1500 total per day depending on if I'm exercising or not. I try to leave around 500 for dinner, mostly because I feel like I'm too close to my limit if I don't, and have no "wiggle room" to eat enough to be…
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Yay! someone asked me if I've lost weight!!!
I know I've only lost a few pounds so far but I someone asked me today if I've lost weight! What a great feeling! Especially after just gaining and gaining these past 2 years!
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Feeling a bit tired
So I've been doing this for about 3 weeks now, lost about 4 lbs, Yay! But I'm a bit surprised that my Fitbit is telling me I'm only sleeping around 7 hrs/night. I go to bed around 10 pm and am up by shortly before 6 am. some nights more restless than other, I'm feeling a bit tired lately and am wondering if it is the sleep…
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any good interval training programs
I'm looking for a good interval training for the treadmill in the 20-30 min range. I can't run because of a bad ankle but I can walk pretty fast and my treadmill will go up to about a 12 % incline.
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Any Cathe Friedrich fans?
I love my Cathe workouts also Jari Love workouts any idea how to figure out how many calories I'm burning doing them??
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Cheating
Interesting that this is just posted, I have a question too. Is it OK to have a "cheat" food or meal? And if so how often. Some things I've read suggest a full cheat day to "confuse" your body and accelerate weight loss, but aren't calories just calories??? Won't cheating just slow down the weight loss overall? That said,…
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Ratios
Just wondering what my protein/car/fat ratios should be, I understand that if I want to weigh 120 lbs I should be eating 120 grams of protein a day? If so then what should carbs and fat be?
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Weight loss graph
How do I get one of those weight loss graphs???
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Snacks
Any ideas for quick healthy snacks under 200 calories, I'm not much of a cook,,,,
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Having trouble figuring out net calories
OK, math wasn't my best subject at school but I'm confused, if net calories is equal to calories consumed - calories burned if it is > 0 shouldn't I be in a calories excess not deficit. I know the scale says I'm losing weight so I must be consuming fewer calories than I am burning but my net calories keep on coming out in…
