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What nobody tells you about losing weight
Wanted to make this thread for motivationial purposes more than anything but they don't all have to be super positive! More of what came as a surprise. I'll start.. - how much confidence it will actually bring, especially when strangers start treating you like royalty all of a sudden! - Sitting (particularly in baths) and…
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Any slim shorties maintaining?!
Just wondering what I should be roughly expecting to eat calorie-wise at the end of my weightloss. So by shorties I mean 5'2-5'4 ish and by slim I guess 120/130lbs?
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Big losers: first or second half most noticeable?
So I'm talking people who have lost around 70lbs+ ish! Was it the first or second half that had the most benefits? Not just how you look (that as well though!) but all the added bonuses that come with losing weight.
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Loose skin, what's your stats
To be honest this is just so I know other people are going through the same thing as me, I guess it makes it a little easier! Ok so firstly, do you have loose skin? Where? How much? How much have you lost so far, planning to lose and height? How old are you? Anybody had surgery on it? Successful? Basically, any info on…
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Anybody starting or in the middle of a big loss?
Have a few friends on here but none that are going through a similar journey to myself so thought it would be nice to have some! I'm pretty much in the middle of loosing 100lbs so would like to friend people who are also starting or have started loosing a 3 digit number! My stats are 5,4 Highest weight: 250lbs+ MFP…
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Do you make up for "cheat" meals?
So to all you maintainers, especially the ones who manage it without logging - if you have an event, meal out or just fancy a treat and suspect or know you have gone over your cals, do you make up for this in the following days? If I go over I always try and make it up afterwards, or save up calories for the night, but I'm…
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Cheesy vegan pasta
I made this up and don't measure things but I'll give it a go! Per person: 250ml almond milk 4 cloves garlic 1tspn olive oil Half an onion 2tbspn nutritional yeast 50g (dry weight) pasta Half a tomato 12.5g plain flour Violife "cheese". The ONLY cheese that is good enough for this recipe but the cheese is also optional…
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How is it possible to eat 3000 calories a day and not put on weight?
I follow a few people on facebook who are on various diets that mainly make up of fruit. Eating 1000's upon 1000's of calories a day and not putting on weight. So what happened to calories in vs calories out?
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Could vegan diet help with dizziness
So I used to get incredibly lightheaded. Going from laying to sitting and sitting to standing (laying down to standing would have probably caused me to completely pass out), exercising, even turning around too quickly would all cause intense lightheadedness. For a few days it's almost completely gone. A very tiny amount…
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Someone give me a protein powder brand!!
Every time I go to buy online I'm just overwhelmed by the sheer amount to choose from so I end up giving up! I need about 50g's more protein than I'm already getting daily, Im female, still want to loose weight so nothing that's super high in calories, and something fairly cheap (ish!) but still mixes well. And, out of…
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Do you need a "relationship" with food?
Right now I'm trying to find a good balance regarding how I feel towards food. I gained the best part of 100lbs in a very short amount of time. I think I can say I was addicted to food. It was every other thought - I LOVED it. This was a couple of years ago, over the past couple of years I've maintained around 220lbs…
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Anyone feel like they can't run?
I do between 30-45 mins of cardio at the gym each day. No problems at all. I push myself, sweat buckets, and enjoy it. Apart from when I try and run. The whole thing is just awful. It's so uncomfortable, I feel like I need to be breathing way more than I'm actually able to, everything hurts and I feel so heavy and gross…
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Not enough calories or low blood pressure?
I eat 1,200 per day with no exercise, or 1,200 + half my exercise back. I guess on average I'm eating 1,400. Been doing this about 70 days now. Before this I've never felt like there was a problem or that I was lacking in anything. Now, when I was at a healthy weight I had low blood pressure. I put on a considerable amount…
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Looking for people with similar goals
Hiya, looking for people who have fairly similar stats/goals to my own. Start weight: 225 lbs Current weight: 192 lbs Goal weight: 140 lbs Or people that have roughly the same weight to loose. (80 ish lbs) Thanks!
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How long does overeating take to show on the scales?
I thought it was just a matter of a day or two but from the confusing things I'm reading it can be weeks?! Is this correct? I'm on 1,200 calories a day so never usually worry about going a little over here and there, and I never see the scales go up, but if this truly does take weeks then could I still have it still to…
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Can your body shape change after gaining then loosing
Is it possible after gaining and loosing a substantial amount of weight (from being a healthy weight in the beginning), that fat can hold on to different places compared to where it did before? Eg, having small hips. Putting on loads of weight, loosing the same amount of weight so the percent of body fat is the same as it…
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Why does my fat feel like this?
Particularly around the tops of my thighs and top of my arms the fat feels really different. It's gone really lumpy and the lumps feel kind of spaced out. Like loose!? When I press my hand flat against the area it feels like a half empty bag full of marbles, although the lumps don't show at all just to look at. Is this…
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How do you work out calories from walking?
Bad day, but today for example I walked 5000 steps. I'm 198lbs and walked at a casual pace. MPF says I burned 50 calories, my "Pacer" app says around 100, and online calculators work out to all over 200 calories. Which is most accurate and how do you work out yours accurately?
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1200 junk vs veg
I started off on MFP with no "junk" (I know there's no real good and bad food but you know what I'm talking about) food in my diet. Lost weight at a fast speed for about 4 weeks. Then, as I started to exercise I used up half of my exercise calories on "treats". I stay within my calories inc half of my exercise but I'm…
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Different calories burnt on MFP stepper
Some days I'll walk thousands more steps but would have burned less calories than other days when I don't walk as much but burn more. Why? The only thing I can think of it walking up and down hills but surely it's not that accurate?
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Sedentary - but logging all exercise?
Apart from specific, logged exercise - I do nothing. It was easy to start off by saying I was sedentary, trying to loose a lot of weight, at 2lb (to start off) so I was eating 1,200 a day. Then I was introduced to exercise. So now I go to the gym about 4/5 days a week, swim a few days a week, do home exercises, follow…
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Anybody else more emotional since MFP?!
Since starting calorie counting my emotions are running a bit wild to say the least. Anyone else had similar experiences? And why?!
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Net calories jumping around
So one day I may do absolutely nothing. If I don't have work I may just laze around the house and not work out at all. That day I'll eat my goal of 1,200. Then others I'll do hours of exercise which can boost my calories up to around the 2,000 mark. Only in desperate times do I eat all my calories back, usually no more…
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Targeting hips at the gym
I'm just under a third through my journey, but as I'm going on im developing a very strange body shape. My waist is getting smaller and smaller, but my hips aren't. There's an 11" difference between them both at the moment. So what can I do to start evening it out?! Particularly at the gym as I prefer to work out on…
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Soy protein - ok for women?
So there's countless videos on YouTube, mainly American body builders, saying this stuff is evil. The main reason being that it can make some men produce Estrogen, it's not sourced well, and it's no good for you. Well, I'm in the uk, can source organic soy protein, and a female and just want it as an easy way to meet my…
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Is this REALLY still muscle fluid from working out?
So I was loosing weight pretty fast, really easy too seeing as I have about 90lbs to loose. I was completely new to exercise, started the gym, go every day for an hour, and now it's been nearly 3 weeks since starting and I've lost barely ANYTHING! I'm waiting for this drop after the apparent water weight goes but I don't…
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Why choose other diets over calorie counting?
I'm completely new at dieting. Started calorie counting about 7 weeks ago, learned about caloric deficit, BMR etc and started the gym. Easy, and I've lost more weight than I ever thought I would in this time. Which now makes me think, what's the point in any other diet? Slim fast or herbalife in particular, or even the…
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Sweaty tomato face in the gym!
Right, I know the point of going to the gym is to work out, get sweaty etc but I swear nobody in the whole gym looks as bad as me at the end of a session! I'm naturally fairly pale but I'll go deep red, my hair is literally soaked through, I can wring it out at the end like I've been in the shower. I know I shouldn't care,…
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What exactly is a plateau?
Is this just a general word for when you haven't been loosing weight? Or is it specifically something going on in your body that everyone experiences? And if it is, then what is exactly going on? How far in to the new diet do people experience it? Is it a regular thing that will happen every few weeks?
