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Post by wwlurker on Sept 7, 2018 11:07:35 GMT
Hi everyone! cj59 - congrats meeting your goal of staying on track for a whole month! DotRen - I don't think I could stick to those low days! I have a hard time staying less than 1800-2000 calories a day! sunrose49 - I'm pretty inconsistent on breakfast. Sometimes I am hungry in the mornings and sometimes not at all. But, I do find that eating a little something in the morning tends to make me eat less throughout the day. Sometimes I can't eat in the morning due to nerves if I'm having a stressful day with a presentation or something. I've been trying to track what I eat, but not obsessively. I try to listen to what my body wants while still paying attention to calories and macronutrients. I pay particular attention to how much fat I eat and how much protein I get. I try to eat a balanced diet overall. I've been weighing myself periodically, but not every day. I find that once I step on the scale, I want to keep doing it. I'd rather spend some time focusing on what I eat, how I'm moving my body and let the scale take care of itself. I've been thinking a lot about set points and where I think my body wants to be. I don't think that I am meant to be the size that I currently am, but I'm not sure where the point is where it would eventually settle. I have never really spent any time just eating normally - I've always restricted or overeaten because of my previous restrictions. I just don't know what would happen if I stopped restricting, stopped overeating due to restriction and just listened to my body.
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Post by DotRen on Sept 7, 2018 12:00:20 GMT
wwlurker, honestly, it's more a mental hurdle lol. I tried it yesterday (I stay under 800 calories, not 500) and I had 2 big salads with carrots, green peppers, onions, olives, tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce with Kraft Fat Free Zesty Italian dressing(4T total) and a little vinegar to boost the dressing, 2 hard boiled eggs, 2 light string cheese, a pouch of tuna, 2 light wasa crackers with a laughing cow cheese, an activia light yogurt, and coffee with coffee mate(powder -1T total) for right at 700 calories. Planning ahead is everything on the low days
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Post by sunrose49 on Sept 7, 2018 15:27:11 GMT
Good morning
Wow very interesting approaches you ladies mentioned!
wwlurker, good to see you. I feel I have worried about food my entire adult life. I use to not eat breakfast when I was a young adult. Sometimes a pack of crackers when I got to work. Once I joined WW I started having breakfast and found that helped.
DotRen, let us know how the calories up/down work.
cj59, it would be worth a try to do the Wendy or the up/down that DotRen suggested. Just for a week.
Right now I am not counting points. I am doing Ideal Protein. I have 3 of their foods daily along with 8 oz of protein, veggies, and unlimited raw veggies. I am now down 10 pounds. It has been slow because of me. I am still getting a few things that I like. But that's okay it's working ;-)
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Post by DotRen on Sept 7, 2018 15:57:28 GMT
sunrose49, 10 pounds is great! I sort of recall Ideal Protein from years ago -it had pretty good reviews
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Post by cj59 on Sept 7, 2018 20:31:02 GMT
Hello Everyone wwlurker - I'm so happy to see you post and I'm glad to hear you are doing well. Not weighing all through August really did make me focus on how I was eating and I enjoyed that feeling. I agree with you about body set points. I don't think my set point is nearly as low as what I set my goal weight at, and that was 10 pounds above the highest weight for a normal BMI. I just wished I'd stopped losing weight before I went so much lower, because now that it's difficult to get back there I'm feeling some sense of failure for not being able to stay at a weight that is probably not something I can maintain. It's a vicious circle DotRen - Good for you being able to eat those low calorie days, I don't know that I could do it. I've done a few at 1100 and that's about as low as I really want to go. But I can see you are getting good nutrition with the foods you eat on the lower calorie days. sunrose - Congratulations on that weight loss, are you starting to get comfortable with this diet? I hope it's a program that will work well for you. I'm doing O.K., and still haven't been overeating. After about 5 weeks of no overeating, I don't have much urge to do it, but I part of that reason is I've eliminated almost everything from my house that I would binge on. I know that the eating plan I'm on is a good one for me since it's something I can continue for the rest of my life and it's not difficult for me. I'll just have to keep "tweeking" the other parts of what I do so I can stay on track.
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Post by DotRen on Sept 8, 2018 11:56:22 GMT
One thing that was popular and easy to incorporate was doing low cal Mon, Wed, Fri; the higher calorie days Tues, Thurs and Sun; then having a "medium" day on Saturday so you can keep the lower days M-W-F. A medium day can be anywhere from 1000-1300 calories. For me, that made weekends a lot easier to deal with, and I liked the m-w-f "down days" being more or less absolute lol.
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Post by sunrose49 on Sept 8, 2018 12:04:44 GMT
Good morning
DotRen, that plan sounds very doable.
cj59, you are doing great--5 weeks wow! I am doing good with the plan. I still tend to cheat a little (reason for the slower loss).
Waving to all. I'll be MIA for a few days. Headed to visit my sister. I hope everyone has a great weekend!!
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Post by cj59 on Sept 8, 2018 22:48:59 GMT
Hello Everyone checking in - Hope you are enjoying your weekend sunrose - Hope you have a great time visiting your sister. DotRen - Thanks for your information on how you cycle your calories. I think I may need to do this, because my metabolism seems to be stuck at this weight I'm currently at and I don't want to stay here. I'm staying on track, and trying not to let myself get down and unmotivated.
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Post by cj59 on Sept 9, 2018 20:46:36 GMT
Just checking in for the day and I've still been on track. I'm going to go back and look at my food logs (tracking) that I did earlier this year and try to see if I can figure out why what I'm doing now just doesn't seem to be working. I guess it's the nature of dieting that what you do for awhile won't always work, but it sure is frustrating to have been doing something that worked well for so long and now doesn't seem to work very well. Hope everyone else is doing well on their plans
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Post by DotRen on Sept 10, 2018 10:42:45 GMT
Good morning. I'll be meal prepping turkey taco salads for this week a little later. It's 5:40am so not right now lol. I haven't coffee'd enough yet! It'a been raining so much here the past week. We need it badly, but it still gets gloomy. On the + side: great nap weather
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Post by DotRen on Sept 10, 2018 10:43:43 GMT
cj59, I think changing your diet up is essential to sustain loss. Maybe do 3-4 days of higher fat and lower carb to shake things up?
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Post by cj59 on Sept 10, 2018 21:56:54 GMT
Hello Everyone - Hope you are all doing well today DotRen - I admire your meal prep and planning Hope you get some sunny weather soon. I'm definitely going to have to try something different with my diet and exercise, but hopefully just a few tweaks because I really feel like I eat well and get in enough exercise (maybe just not a very high intensity). The plan I'm on is one I can live with and that's important to me. When I started this over 3 years ago I said to myself that I never wanted to do anything that I couldn't do forever. Hopefully I'll figure it out
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Post by DotRen on Sept 12, 2018 10:37:43 GMT
Another rainy morning. A bit nervy today because son is starting work at a new location in League City and it's an hours drive. Nervous because of the weather. Hopefully this location will just be temporary (long story short and leaving out my opinion...: son is a math tutor/teacher at a named franchise learning center; the new owner decided to close the local location but keep son on at this other one). Anyway hoping after October he will look for a more permanent, full time position somewhere. (another long story for another day lol).
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Post by cj59 on Sept 12, 2018 20:50:11 GMT
DotRen - I hope your son made out alright going to his new job and that he can find a permanent position in the Fall. I'm doing pretty well. I have eaten more the last few days than I have in the last month, so maybe it will jumpstart my metabolism having the higher calories. I'll drop back down the rest of the week. Hope everyone else is doing well on their plans
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Post by sunrose49 on Sept 13, 2018 13:33:42 GMT
Good morning
Got back mid day yesterday. I need to catch up later. Hope everyone is doing well.
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