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If i'm eating at a "deficit" but am not losing and I switch to "maintenance," will I gain weight?
I hit my goal weight after very slowly losing about 7 lbs and thought I'd try to chip off another few pounds before going into maintenance mode. Well, it's not happening. 3 weeks of eating around 1300-1400 calories (while working out--not eating exercise calories) and I am pretty much the same, up by a half pound, in fact.…
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Sweaty workout pants/skin issues
I have gotten a few really ugly skin "things" (pimples? boils?) where the sun don't shine and I think it's from wearing sweaty workout pants for too long--I usually shower quickly after a workout but without boring you all with the details, it's taken me longer than usual to get to the shower after a workout. Anyone else…
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Do you gradually add back calories?
I belong on this board--I've pretty much been within the same weight RANGE my whole adult life minus pregnancies-never lower than 129, never higher than 141, and usually somewhere in the middle. 135 is my goal weight and I just spent the past 4 months slowwwwwly getting back to that weight after I had found myself closer…
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Do you believe a restrictive diet "ruins your metabolism"?
Or have you seen any evidence that it does, other than anecdotal? I ask because I'm only 3 lbs from goal and have been very good at maintaining a healthy weight--it's just vanity lbs. at this point. I'm tempted to go really low in calories and carbs for a week or two and just get those pounds off already...watching the…
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Weighing/measuring vs. "spoilage"
Sort of a philosophical question here from someone who is not exactly a newbie to dieting. So over many years, I've learned that some foods when measured out in a cup really do come within a gram or so of their weight on a food scale. Quinoa and steel cut oats to name two, unless of course you do a heaping cup vs. filling…
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Losing slowly people: question
If your goal is losing .5 a week or so, do you actually lose .5 a week or is that your average? That's basically what I am trying to do, being pretty close to goal & just wanting to knock off a few vanity pounds, and it seems like I'll go 1-1.5 every few weeks, then either gain or stay the same in between. My average is .7…
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Replacing the "noshing" habit with something healthier?
I remember being super-stressed when I was in college and downing Diet Cokes and pizza slices while finishing up term papers. When I was in grad school, I hit my heaviest adult non-pregnancy weight the summer I had to finish my thesis. After that, I lost all that weight, got very into working out/running, and have been at…
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New to this board--any accountability threads?
What's always worked for me in the past is having a daily check in on what I've eaten & what I've burned. Any suggestions for where on MFP to find that?
