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Goals and rewards
I've made a change in tactics as suggested by a good friend. I'm looking only at smaller goals of 25 pounds at a time. Much easier that staring at the 200 pound mountain. The goals are easy, the rewards are not. What type of short term goal rewards to others have?
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Mapping tool to track your distances
Way back, not many years after the internet started being used by the masses, there was a site where you could plan a route, say from Maine to California, or one end of your state to the other. Then as you exercised, you could put in your distances walking, running, biking, etc. and it would track the distance as if you…
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What do you do to get back on track in the middle of a day?
I fully admit, I have blown it badly with food over the last 24 hours, I can give excuses, emotional crap and otherwise, but they are still, just that excuses. It gets so ingrained in me to not worry and start over tomorrow, but I don't want to wait. It just feels like I have already wasted today and whats the point.…
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Hi all!
Hi everyone, My name is Jay. I have been using MFP off and on for quite awhile, but never got involved in the community until recently. I am 44, been up and down my entire life, mainly emotional eating and being sedentary. 15 years ago I had gastric bypass surgery and dropped from 470 down to 235 and I looked really good,…
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If net calories are below your goal, is that a bad thing?
I have my calories per day set to lose 2 pounds per week. If I am eating at or near this limit, but then can subtract another, say 500 calories per day, for an effective deficit of 3 pounds per week, is this a bad thing? I am not starving myself in any way as I weigh so much it is actually hard to get in all my calories…
