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Dentist told me off :(
Saw my dentist today and he told me off saying I have cavities due to eating too many sweet snacks and drinking fizzy drinks. I drink one diet energy drink a day and usually have a chocolate or cake in the evening after dinner. I think he thought I was munching on dried fruit and guzzling coke all day. I'm maintaining now…
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Net calories
I'm trying to get my head round the numbers, can someone explain it to me please. Fitbit says I burn an average 1800 calories a day. MFP says I eat an average of 1800 calories a day. I've been maintaining within a couple of pound range for the last few weeks so this makes sense. But MFP tells me my net average daily…
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Maintaining weight but still shrinking.
Watch strap and belt have both gone up another notch and new jeans that fit are getting looser. Any idea why? Ive upped my walking and my calories but don't do any other exercise.
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Travelling across time zones
Has anyone done this while using MFP and Fitbit? Will MFP adjust the time automatically as my phone adjusts arriving in a new country and if so, what will happen to the lost hours (and any food eaten in that time)? Or will it stay in the original time zone and just look like I'm eating and exercising at odd times? But if…
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Oops.
I have just gone over by a thousand calories :open_mouth: . It's the first time I've binged like this since I started nearly four months ago. Daily average is 1500 so 1000 is a lot of calories but wasn't actually much food, cheese on toast, mixed nuts and a few biscuits. Not really sure why it happened, I didn't feel…
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Chinese Takeaway Calories
They don't count, right? Just kidding :wink: I had a mushroom omelette with peas and a few chips, I know no-one knows exactly and there's so many variables but does anyone have a ball park figure for number of calories? I'm thinking of doing a quick add of 1000 calories, do you think that would cover it? It was our…
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Body fat.
I measured my body fat on a scale and it came up at 12.5%. It said normal body fat would be 20-27%. Does this sound right? 12% seems very low given that I'm about 15lb over my ideal weight and do no exercise. I'm 5ft 5 and currently weigh 136lb. For some reason I thought I'd be about 30%
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That other feeling that feels like hunger?
What I've liked about counting and logging is that I actually start to feel hungry before eating, and that seems to make the food taste nicer. I have been eating all the foods that I like and enjoying them. But, sometimes that hungry feeling doesn't go away after I eat. Often it does and I forget about food for a while but…
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Getting a cold
I've been logging for 53 days (and lost 10lbs) but I woke up this morning feeling like I'm getting a cold. How do colds affect people's weight loss? I usually want to eat and eat when I'm feeling poorly. Does anyone have any helpful suggestions for quicker recovery?
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How long have you been logging?
I've been logging for 45 days :) Probably still a newbie compared to most but feeling proud of myself.
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Electrical scales (food) and heat
I put my steaming hot baby potatoes on the scales to 160g, dished up everyone elses dinner and when I next look the scale said 150g :o Do you think it was the heat affecting the scales or are my scales dodgy?
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Why does it matter if I don't always eat all of my calories?
I feel healthy, have plenty of energy and am not hungry. I don't feel like I'm dieting. I have about 10lb to lose but am not in a hurry (currently about 143lb and 1.66m). I started logging again to get an idea of what I was consuming with the idea that I could make small tweaks along the way and because it makes me pause…
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Is it normal not to meet the suggested nutrition needs, eg sodium?
I've been logging for the last week and notice from my reports that I am way under for things like sodium. I am not really dieting as such, more using MFP because it makes me more accountable for my choices ie stops me from having seconds or mindlessly munching through boredom. It makes me think that I've probably been…
