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Re: DAD BOD THREAD
I’m typing on the treadmill while getting a quick warm up before the workout so I’ll have to be brief. I like your approach and I can tell you’ve put a lot of thought into it. One thing I’ve learned is your plans will adjust along the way as your body or science studies may point you in a different direction. As far as your fats go I wouldn’t drop below 25% of your total calories. This lean out I’ve learned to do a re feed day as opposed to a cheat meal. The difference is I hit the calorie and macro count set for the day vs eating whatever I want for one meal as long as I’m able to consume it in one sitting. ( no eating the left overs later). The refeeds have allowed me to still burn fat while water retention is up due to the extra carbs.
And you’re right brother turning it into a science experiment and having a dead line for me to hit whatever goal I’m going for helps me stay focused.
never been interested in stepping on stage but if I can dial it in I may do when for my 50th.
Re: WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2025
March Highlights
Exercise Minutes & Strava Accomplishments
The tall bars were my cycling endeavours over Easter. 😊
Other April Accomplishments
- Lost 7 kg (15.4 lbs) since the beginning of January - no change through April. Possibly something to do with Easter Eggs.
- Cycled 203 km with the longest ride being 52 km.
- Walked 59 km.
- Climbed 302 flights (up and down) of 20 stairs up plus landings.
- Worked full time but did have 10 days off over Easter and ANZAC Day.
- Still madly busy at work with Audits, Submissions, and all. Work has been rather overwhelming since the beginning of the year.
- Attended husband's follow-up appointments for his ruptured Achilles tendon.
- Cortisone shot in left shoulder.
- Organised and hosted cycling event at the beginning of the month.
- Travelled up north for that cycling event and visited Sheffield - trains and murals.
- Bee Group.
- Lunch with friends.
- Organised a few things in house.
- Got our van serviced.
- Travelled up north for 5 days over Easter. Enjoyed quiet, somewhat remote, historic farm.
- Started Learn to Swim classes!!
- Got some gardening done
- Did several Sudokus.
- Coloured 1 page - didn't take my colouring with me during our Easter holiday.
- Read 4 books.
- Continued reading Bible every night.
April Books
Of those 4, I gave When No One is Watching 5 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I liked it enough, I've started another Alyssa Cole novel.
The Spellshop was sort of cute.
Small Joys was boring.
Lone Women … I don't mind so much if you want to put a dragon into early 20th century Montana, but using very modern language was irritating.
I'm doing some of Goodreads challenges so I am reading books I would not otherwise have selected with mixed, but reasonably positive, results. Some authors I wouldn't read again, others I'll try another novel to see if I like it.
Machka in Oz
Machka9
Re: WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2025
Happy May Day…
It was so gorgeous I gave it the medium setting.
We lucked out on the storm on Monday! North and South of us got hit with wind, a tornado, and large hail! Yes grateful!
Yesterday proud of myself for changing a recessed light that blew out. When I went to change it quickly realized the bulb had left the flange in the socket. Fortunately I had just recently updated the labels on the fuse box so I quickly cut the power. Then I remembered to get the stuck part out you use a potato. Fortunately I had a sweet potato the had a pointed end and fit the socket. Once I got it out enough I finished with needle noise pliers. New bulb put in, power back on, SUCCESS!
I swam competitively when through college and taught swim lesson at one point. I would stand next to the person I was trying to help learn how to float and have them arch over my hand that I would have supporting them from underneath. I would tell them to think of touching their belly button to the sky and use your hips to lift your legs. Once they felt more comfortable floating on their back I would slowly remove my hand. When learning it would sometimes scare they and then they would pull their head forward which would make them sink.It's Important to keep head back like you are arching your head to see someone behind you. When arch your head back it makes your chest expand and this is what helps you stay afloat. Dead man's float is different and it is learned so that is you need to stay afloat in the water for a prolonged length of time and want to use as little energy as possible.
Re: Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 295
@foodnoise716 I agree about the “noise” when tracking AND especially about the coffee! I used to drink 2 or 3 pots by myself when sewing then read about caffeine and bones after I was diagnosed with osteoporosis a year ago. I have tried to cut back but I lack willpower.
Has anyone figured out how to get the drop down list of folks? I did get as far as “@foo” before it vanished! 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Re: Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 294
Hello Faithful MFP Supporters 🙂
It's so good to know that no matter when I jump in and out you are still here for all these years. I'm trying again to get accountable daily. I fell of the wagon and it ran over me and backed up a few times but I'm working on things.
Getting my property back to "Before Hurricane Normal" has both consumed me and paralyzed me. By January many of us just stopped. We needed a break from the daily grind of clean up and red tape. Of course the rest of our lives didn't pause because crap keeps falling out of the trees and insects are nesting in the uncleared fallen vegetation. I'm back at it daily and trying to stay sane.
Thanks to all of you for help with my sanity. I rarely comment but I browse your stories and appreciate the camaraderie here.
Round 294 goal:
Finish these last few days after a late start AND be ready to start the next round
Return to low carb with consistency
Weigh in and post here daily
Update and follow through on my exercise plan
SW RND 294
4/21
4/22
4/23
4/24
4/25
4/26 - 151.8 lbs
4/27 - Just re-started and already missed a day.
4/28 - 153.2 lbs Skipping the commentary. My "monologue" slows me down and results in missed postings!
4/29 - 153.8 lbs I'm a hot mess... trying to clean up... end of comments
4/30 - 153.0 lbs Still a mess but cooled a bit from hot mess. Deep Breath, I can do this and I will.
Until next round folks 🤗
MSWDiet
Re: LESS Alcohol ~ APRIL 2025 ~ One Day at A Time
I haven't figured out the stress thing either. If it's stress that I've created (ie: when the market was tanking big time, I try to say to myself…if you can't control it, just make the best of it and don't stress. If the stress is coming from others, that's the hard part as I don't want to appear totally rude by tuning them out :)
This is so true. I'm having some of both of these, but mostly the "others are causing it" kind. What's funny is that my SO is constantly complaining about things his brother does/says (brother has dementia), and I keep telling SO that it's not his brother causing his stress, it's his reaction to his brother, and he can control how he responds to things. Too bad I can't take my own advise 😬!
Re: Low Carb or Unrealistic?
Low carb is the preferred and default diet for pretty much all the metabolic clinics that deal with metabolic situations like diabetes and with very high levels of success. Personally I was in a similar situation, being pre diabetic and low carb solved that issue and some other health issues and I've continued that way for quite a few years, so it does work very well and continues to be in maintenance as well.
I suspect your making most of your own food now because low carb pretty much dictates a whole food diet to be a must to be really successful and I would advice your protein and fat sources be animal sources, better adherence for low carb and healthier as far as blood markers and the all important microbiome are concerned.
You've been given an amount of carbs that most people in that low carb community would say is high, nevertheless, it's still going to reap some of the rewards that low carb offers people. You have around 100 g's of carbs a day to work with and I would suggest you pick the carby foods you enjoy the most, grain products like pasta, potatoes, rice whatever and pick the fruit you like the most and fit them into your daily, weekly routine, it should be pretty easy to still enjoy most of the carbs you like, just maybe less of them. I have quite a bit of berries in my diet and eat them daily and my carb allotment is less than half of yours, so it can be done. The important part of this is to minimize your insulin response to the meals your constructing and to make sure you have enough protein and fat to accompany those carbs. I can give you a more nuanced answer if you like, just ask.
Re: Do you reset your MFP goals?
I never did. But I never chose the guided setup with the 0.5-2lbs per week defaults but chose my own calorie goal. Obviously, as I lost weight weightloss slowed down, and in the end my deficit was just about 300kcal per day. But it worked for me.
yirara
Re: Do you reset your MFP goals?
Yeah, like Ann, I didn't reset it - well, not downward.
I mean - to be honest I wasn't sticking to it anyway. Doesn't it just lower it by about a calorie per pound? Pretty insignificant in the big picture.
If I had started at, "Lose 1 pound per week," like the program suggested, I would have been a lot better off. As it was I started at a too-low calorie goal and ended up raising my calories when I crashed and burned from no energy (and other physical issues caused by eating too little.) So I didn't go down in calories, I went up - by about 300 per day. That's where I would have been had I started at, "Lose 1 pound per week."
After you've logged food for a couple months you get a good dataset. You can base decisions going forward on that.
