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Trying to help my mom make an account but it won't let me?
I enter all her info, I get to the last part and click to confirm, but then all that shows up is a message saying " there was a problem with your request" We've tried this 3x now and always had the same result. Are we doing something wrong or is this a bug on mfp's side? (mom's an older lady who's not great with computers…
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Added dumbbells to my workouts last year, I still feel weak... am I expecting too much?
Look. Honestly, I'm one of those people who (if going from sedentary to working out) take a few months just to do a regular pushup. Even at my lightest and fittest (I was almost breezing through Insanity at one point back in 2012) I couldn't do a single pullup. I added in weight training (sorta) last year, around may/june…
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Opinion on goals?
current stats: a hair under 5'3 and 122ish lbs, lowest weight I hit was in november (around 118lbs, might have been dehydrated), I did gain about 2lbs over the holidays (christmas, new years, followed by more birthdays in the family) but stayed within my "don't go over 123-124lbs" range since I...have been more or less…
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Is it normal to be so tired from walking?
I'm a 30yo woman, 5'3 (or a hair under) and in the high 110s/low 120s depending on the day. Because of the lockdown all public transport has been shut down for close to a month now so I've been walking about to/from work... this means on average about 2h of walking per day... I log the activity (or part of it anyway), I'm…
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How do you decide what your "normal/ideal" is?
I was a fat teenager (BMI 36-37), up and down in my 20s (tho never back to that level of obese, mostly hovered around BMI 26-28) I've tried maintaining once before, when I hit roughly the same weight I'm at now (53-55kg at 159.5cm), and then had dental issues and lost down to 48kg. Then I gained 20kg (could finally eat…
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Public transport is shut down, daily walk to work is causing pain
Ok, so public transport shut down for 2 weeks in my country, I can't work from home because my internet connection hasn't been stable, so I'm stuck walking a minimum of 10km per day... now, that's about 2h of walking, but on saturday I had to pick up a delayed order which involved about 15 km of walking.. I also have…
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30yo with PCOS, probably in the best shape of my life
I'm sorry if this is gonna sound like bragging but I'm genuinely happy with my progress right now... I was overweight last summer, then had an ugly breakup (cheating ex, online harrassment, all the fun stuff) and I lost something like 10kg in less than 2 months... I got my diet in check towards the end of 2019, then kept…
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Recently noticing I'm getting really sore?
I've been working out more regularly since late February/early March after a few months of mostly just walking and stretching, I pushed through the first week or two of feeling sore and then the occasional slight muscle ache after a new workout or heavier dumbbells. However, past maybe 2-3 weeks I notice I'm getting sore…
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Really questioning my current and goal weight...
So I'm a 30yo woman, 159cm tall and I've been maintaining 58kg (+- 1kg) since roughly February. This puts me, on average, at a BMI of 22.9 I've been questioning my goals to begin with - the main point of maintaining has been 1) a break from pushing for a deficit and 2) to give my body time to adjust and also to get used to…
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Trying to decide on a final goal weight + hunger?
Ok, so I've been maintaining in the 128-132lb range past 3-4 months. I'm 30F, a hair under 5'3, so it's a high normal BMI. I felt like I really needed a break and some time to assess my goals. I lost weight eating 1200-1300kcal a day in the past (I was roughly 160lbs last July), but I was not very active. I would work out…
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Just realised I might be underestimating my activity level - is this a concern?
I've just done the math for the past 2 months... I'm almost 14lbs down since the beginning of August, I'm a 5'2 29yo woman who (at least I thought so) is sedentary, and I currently weigh 139lbs... I've been eating what MFP says should be about net 1300kcal a day. But using the "roughly 3500kcal per 1lb" I've worked out…
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Back into calorie counting and exercise after a long break
I'm prone to stress eating, the past 5-6 months have been extremely difficult for me... Add in a few health issues (still getting my left hand checked for nerve issues and my right wrist looked at due to months of pain - which I suspect is caused by my hypermobility) etc.. and I put on about 3kg in 6 months and lost muscle…
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Modifying my workouts/activity to numbness in one hand and painful wrist on the other side?
So I've been dealing with what I suspect is pretty bad ulnar nerve problems on my left side since December (finally getting an EMG in 2 weeks). I now also have, for the past 2 months, pretty bad pain in my right wrist if I try and lift something heavy or put my hand flat on the ground (for planks, pushups, etc). I've had…
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I know it's not a competition/race but...
.. does anyone else get kinda discouraged when everyone else around them seems to drop weight so much faster? A bunch of friends and acquaintances have started their weight loss diets recently - a bunch of them, probably more than 3/4, are doing keto (seems really popular atm? not sure if there's a reason or if there's…
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"But you look so fat"
Eating lunch with grandma, having a casual conversation about diet and exercise: me: anyway, I've managed to lose some weight this year and I'm only about 1kg overweight for my height, going by my weight this week :) grandma: what? but you look so fat Well. I know I'm not at my goal weight yet but ouch? I said that I was…
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Weak arms/upper body
So basically, even at my fittest I've always had "noodles for arms" so to speak I've been trying to exercise at home (I don't really have money to spend on gyms and I've always felt a bit intimidated by them), and while my lower body feels noticeably stronger after 3-4 months I feel like there's literally zero progress on…
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Balancing exercise vs hunger and calories? (is my math off?)
My weight loss has been pretty slow - I'm aware, though, that I'm fairly short (maybe 5'3) and not that heavy - I'm overweight but not obese and I'm aiming to lose about 25lbs I've been losing maybe 1-1.5lb max a month for the past 3 months while eating about 1200-1300 calories a day (the app says it evens out to a net of…
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Slow progress - feedback/opinions?
I started logging in mid-november 2017 - but I've done calorie counting before (5-6 years ago), just not on myfitnesspal I weigh everything I eat and drink on a kitchen scale (it's meant to be accurate within 2g) - the only thing I'll occasionally eyeball is stuff like lettuce I try and log everything - this includes…
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I love dinners... my family doesn't
So I made the mistake of mentioning wanting to lose some weight to my parents. They are now trying to convince me that I'm "doing everything wrong" because dinner is my main meal of the day and "dinners make you fat" Just to be clear, my dinners are usually a significant chunk of my daily intake (around 400 out of 1300…
