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My Fitness Pal

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Category: Support
Forum Name: Weight Loss
Forum Description: Want to lose weight before TTC? Shed the extra kilos after baby's born? Or want to be a lean, mean fitness machine? Talk about it here.
URL: https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=38790
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Topic: My Fitness Pal

Posted By: Bizzy
Subject: My Fitness Pal
Date Posted: 13 April 2011 at 1:13pm

Does anyone want to be friends on this? My name is Azrak on there if you do - bizzy was taken!

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Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 13 April 2011 at 2:04pm

Yep I need some more friends! I'm kiwi_dee

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DS 8
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DS 4
DD 2

Posted By: snugglebug
Date Posted: 17 April 2011 at 12:29pm

Im mrsh101 Ill add you both :)

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Me 28, DH 29
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Posted By: escadachic
Date Posted: 01 May 2011 at 6:53pm

I'd like some friends too.

My username on there is: escadachic

Surprise, surprise LOL!

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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 03 May 2011 at 11:52am

I have done friend requests

I am sparkleberries

Posted By: escadachic
Date Posted: 03 May 2011 at 4:53pm

Have added you.

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Posted By: my4beauties
Date Posted: 04 May 2011 at 9:53am

I'm Italiah

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My babies:

R (9),G (7), J (5)

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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 04 May 2011 at 9:20pm

I'm Mrsmojo

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Posted By: escadachic
Date Posted: 05 May 2011 at 12:12am

Have sent you a request

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Posted By: P&E'S Mum
Date Posted: 18 July 2011 at 11:52am

Hi ladies.
Have just started MFP today, what an awesome site, really surprised at how much NZ stuff is on there too!
I am rach56.. add me if you like!

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Posted By: escadachic
Date Posted: 18 July 2011 at 3:01pm

Will do! My username on their is: escadachic

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Posted By: Patientlywaiting
Date Posted: 18 July 2011 at 3:50pm

I'm on there 2 but for the life of me i can't remember my name on there will have to look at adding you guys tonight when i get home sorry what a fail

Posted By: Patientlywaiting
Date Posted: 18 July 2011 at 3:52pm

I'm at the gym and doing the vibra training or the power plate but i couldn't find it on the MFP as a exercise any one come up with that issue?

Posted By: escadachic
Date Posted: 18 July 2011 at 4:22pm

yeah seems there are a few things that aren't on there. If you can find out by googling it, how many calories it burns, you could click 'add to database'.

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Posted By: Patientlywaiting
Date Posted: 18 July 2011 at 4:26pm

Thanks that's a good idea

Posted By: Patientlywaiting
Date Posted: 18 July 2011 at 6:21pm

I'm scuppie

Posted By: escadachic
Date Posted: 18 July 2011 at 6:49pm

Have accepted your add request

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Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 18 July 2011 at 7:02pm

Me too

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DS 8
DD 6
DS 4
DD 2

Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 19 July 2011 at 6:26am

me 3

Posted By: My3Sons
Date Posted: 20 July 2011 at 2:40pm

mine is Charliz

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Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4

Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 21 July 2011 at 10:15pm

I've just joined, Nik8it

I'm a bit confused by the site though!
Its only giving me 1230 calories a day .... I would STARVE on that. apparently if I keep eating like I did today (a great days for me!) my weight will be up in 5 weeks. It reckons I should be down to my goal weight in 5 weeks (7.2kgs to go) ... I'm not so sure, its taken me almost 3 months to lose 3kgs, so I doubt it will suddenly all come off quickly. although if I ate that little it might! It told me my bacon and egg pie for dinner was 1200 calories alone, so that only left me with 30cal for the rest of the day! (but only offered me 1 serve or 4 serves of pie?!)

Oh dear! lol

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DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs)

Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 22 July 2011 at 6:58am

Nikki I have sent a friend request I am sparkleberries.

I have just checked my cals & they are 1200 a day. You can earn extra with exercise. You will find you can stick to it, just watch portion sizes.

Are you adding in food from scratch or picking what is in the data base? Did you make the b&e pie?

Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 22 July 2011 at 12:06pm

Be careful with the options in the database. If you made the pie, enter it as a recipe (an option in the 'Food' tab. If you bought it, see if you can find the matching one, or you may have to enter the nutritional values yourself. I made B&E pie on the weekend (served 6) and it was 378 per serve.

I'll add you too :)

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DS 8
DD 6
DS 4
DD 2

Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 22 July 2011 at 12:52pm

378 sounds better than 1200!! I have accepted both. Will get back on tomorrow and have another look.

I still don't think I could stick to that. I used to eat about 3000 (hence not losing my baby weight!) and theoretically should have about 2000 to maintain (I count anything less than this as a good day!) ... so I might drop down from the recommneded loss/wk so it lets me have a bit more! :)

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DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs)

Posted By: escadachic
Date Posted: 22 July 2011 at 3:24pm

I've sent you a request on there too Nikki

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Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 22 July 2011 at 3:57pm

Nikki - What have you set your weekly weightloss goal to? Maybe aim for 1 lb/500g per week then your daily deficit will only be 500cal. If it's saying you'll lose 7kg in 5weeks then yeah you won't be getting alot of cals! I'm maintaining and I get 1800 per day.

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DS 8
DD 6
DS 4
DD 2

Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 12:12pm

I've changed it to half a pound now, so it will let me have 1480cals. even that will be hard! hehe.
I was doing OK with yesterdays entry til I got to the 3 glasses of wine! So i didn't even put in the afternoon tea shout at work! lol. oh dear!

Think I'll have to exercise ALOT to get more food allowance!

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DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs)

Posted By: BriAndOlisMum
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 1:57pm

you can add me too i'm http://www.myfitnesspal.com/bri_and_oli_mum - Bri_and_Oli_Mum

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Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 7:09pm

Accepted the request, thanks.
Woohoo - day 3 and I've stuck to the increased calorie limit - probably because it gave me lots more calories with my exercise though.

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DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs)

Posted By: BriAndOlisMum
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 8:51pm

so how many calories is everyone on? I'm supposed to be on 1500 but I think it is too much and i'm not loosing any weight. I'm thinking about lowering it but thought i'd see what everyone else is on first.

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Posted By: My3Sons
Date Posted: 27 July 2011 at 9:34am

I get 1440, I actually go under most days......when I changed my lifestyle to sedentary it gave me 1200, might try that for a bit and see how it goes

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Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4

Posted By: BriAndOlisMum
Date Posted: 27 July 2011 at 12:42pm

I have changed to sedentary now and it is now giving me 1200 :)

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Posted By: HuntersMama
Date Posted: 29 July 2011 at 8:07pm

Ive just joined and im pretty confused too! It has given me 1450 points, but my job is pretty sedentary. I do get up and walk every 30 mins but only a few metres

How do you change to sedentary? Im popsicle13

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Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 29 July 2011 at 8:39pm

Welcome to MFP Huntersmama

To set your activity level go to: 'Settings' > 'update your diet profile'.

Will send you a friend request

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DS 8
DD 6
DS 4
DD 2

Posted By: cheekymouse
Date Posted: 17 August 2011 at 1:38pm

I have just joined MFP. Username Cheekymouse12. I need the extra motivation to get back on Track

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Posted By: BriAndOlisMum
Date Posted: 17 August 2011 at 2:15pm

just added you

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Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 17 August 2011 at 4:50pm

Me too

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DS 8
DD 6
DS 4
DD 2

Posted By: Kicker
Date Posted: 17 August 2011 at 8:31pm

I'm on there too if anyone wants to add me: lauratws

I actually upped my cals as i wasnt loosing when i only had 1200, so now i aim for a net of around 1400.

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Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 18 August 2011 at 5:07pm

Yeah I do think having your calories too low can cause as many problems as have too many. I aim for a .5kg loss per week (when not preggy of course) and eat back most of my b/feeding and exercise calories and I tend to lose fairly consistently. When I don't lose it's because I eat badly (lots of fatty, sugary food etc!!)

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DS 8
DD 6
DS 4
DD 2

Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 12 September 2011 at 10:03pm

OMG I got sick and had a cold / cough for 7 weeks .... exercise twice in that time and was so sick the next day I stopped ... then we went to Oz for a week and have been flat out since we got back so I have done nothing in 2 months! But I'm back on there now .... and need to start exercising so I have any hope of staying under my calories!

Geez, just when I was getting back into working out too!

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DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs)

Posted By: fletch
Date Posted: 15 September 2011 at 1:47pm

hi all - I am new to this all and joined fitness pal about 3 weeks ago. I am lost as reading all your post - I may be to high. It tells me 2090. I am bigger so maybe need more?? I have no friends on their yet - if you would like to add me or let me know if I could add you that would be great. My user name is mummygirl.

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Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 15 September 2011 at 2:18pm

Hey Fletch! I've sent you a friend request on MFP :)

That is quite a lot of calories, unless you are very tall, I'd assume that some of your details may be incorrect.

First thing to check is your height & weight. Are they both metric so kgs and metres & cms (rather than feet & inches) which catches alot of people out

Then have a look at what you are aiming to lose each week (between 1-2lb / 0.5-1kg is considered healthy).

Then have a look at your activity settings. I set mine to sedentary and then add in any activity I do.

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DS 8
DD 6
DS 4
DD 2

Posted By: fletch
Date Posted: 15 September 2011 at 4:14pm

Thank you - will check out m settings!!!

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Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 15 September 2011 at 9:15pm

You can add me if you like - Nik8it

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DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs)

Posted By: _SMS_
Date Posted: 16 September 2011 at 12:03pm

Feel free to add me. Im Sabrina0007. Ive just started using this site again. So hopefully i start seeing some results

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Posted By: _SMS_
Date Posted: 16 September 2011 at 12:04pm

One question though. It has the amount of calories i should be having. But i couldnt find an opition for BFing. Should i be increasing this since i am Bfing??

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Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 16 September 2011 at 12:42pm

SMS - search for it in your food diary and it will add negative calories/fat/protein etc I think for a such a young bub you get about 500cal/day

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DS 8
DD 6
DS 4
DD 2

Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 16 September 2011 at 12:45pm

Have added you on MFP.

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DS 8
DD 6
DS 4
DD 2

Posted By: chickadeedoo
Date Posted: 16 September 2011 at 1:33pm

I am Reneel on there.

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Posted By: fletch
Date Posted: 16 September 2011 at 4:24pm

Thanks for the breastfeeding question - I was wondering that too!! I am always hungry!!! However never knew how much I really ate - so far loving this!!

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Posted By: PorterLou
Date Posted: 15 October 2011 at 6:43pm

Hi all

I need some encouragement and inspiration...

I am PorterLou if anyone wants to add me as a friend?

ETD - have changed my username.

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