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Re: WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2025
Are you sure it is too small? My guess is they want it fitting tight to do its job.
I hope you get some relief soon. You've been through the wringer.
Okie in the TX Hill Country
Re: Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 294
SW RND 294
4/21 148.8 this is salt retention from yesterday's ham Unfortunately it was delicious and we have a ton of leftovers so this salt is probably going to plague me all week. But my BS was 98 this morning, so that is a big plus for the week.
4/22 stayed the same, in spite of a calorie deficit and 20K steps. But the easter ham is almost gone, just a bit left, and throwing away food is not my thing. So long as I stay in a calorie deficit, I ignore temporary salt/water retentions. On the plus side, for this round I decided to start a 16/8 fast, starting at 11 and eating till 7. Starting at 11 is not a problem, though I have been snacking a bit on sugar free dark chocolate and almonds after 7. I am not doing this fast so much for weight as to have a normal blood sugar in the morning. Snacking at night is my hardest thing to give up. I have no problem staying within calorie goals but I always budgeted a few hundred calories for an evening snack and this is hard to move earlier or change. I'm not going to beat myself up about it if I fail, but I am going to try every day. On a plus/minus side, I had bought quite a few size 16 insect shield lee jeans in the winter, when they were on sale, and they are all so big that they look like elephant skin on me. I am almost in tens. Wondering if I can alter them. I never thought I'd get this low. So I guess that's a plus, but it is frustrating to not have them available during the worst of spring tick season.
4/23 148.4 Last of the ham was yesterday, so hoping tomorrow sees the end of water weight. I've been in a calorie deficit, salt aside, so hoping for a whoosh in the next couple of days.
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Re: WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2025
I said something about another trashpile - this is it. There is a small stream that runs behind the property, probably 20 yards/25 metres from where we worked yesterday - and a reasonably solid wooden bridge, but not one we would trust the tractor on… so all THIS is going to have to be picked up by hand and brought over to the main yard… plus about half this amount again piled up in the trees and bushes on each side of it.
We knew what we were getting into, and it's worth doing. It is not, however, easy.
Re: Guys I need some advice
Are you saying that your goal is 1800, but you're eating only 1300? If so, that can be part of the problem. Being weak or fatigued for no other obvious reason can be caused by under-eating. If there's less than ideal nutrition, that can also contribute. (If calories are truly too low, there's literally no way to get adequate nutrition, even if the macro percents are fine.)
Also, is the 35-60 minutes of daily exercise a new routine for you? A large increase in exercise all at once is likely to cause fatigue. On top of that, over-exercising is counter-productive for either weight loss or fitness improvement. It can hinder weight loss because fatigue means we drag through the day, burning fewer calories than expected doing daily life stuff, effectively wiping out some of the exercise calories. It's not ideal for fitness improvement because recovery - the time between workouts - is where the magic happens, our bodies rebuilding better than before.
When adding exercise, it can be more productive to start out slowly, then gradually add more duration, intensity, frequency or additional types of exercise as the initial exercise becomes easier.
I'm sure you've thought about whether sleep quality/quantity can be improved, since that's an obvious factor. Sometimes a sleep schedule that was adequate before becomes not quite enough once we add the stress of a calorie cut or new exercise. Those are both stressful to the body - obviously we hope they're good stress that will trigger improvement in the long term, but in the short term they increase our total stress load.
Without more information, it's hard to say what's going on for you. The above are some of the general common things that can happen, though.
I hope you're able to improve the situation - wishing you the best!
AnnPT77
Re: 100 day Challenge #22 February 04.25 – May 14.25
4/16: 209.3 - Expecting a bump and bloat on the scale from the long plane ride in addition to just getting home from vacation indulgence. BUT I walked a ton and didn’t really snack much at all. Then there was all the interesting and challenging food LOL! Loved the experience and tried almost everything but let’s just say that sometimes I did better than others. 3 of the excursions included “authentic Japanese cuisine” which those meals were more more challenging. When DH and I struck out on our own we found food we enjoyed. I’ll post some pics.
Bike 20 min AF
4/17: 209.1 - Hopefully my internal clock is reset … woke at a normal time after adjusting from the 14 hr time difference between Tokyo and Houston. Bike 20 min. AF … Fast food for dinner and frozen pizza for dinner … not a great way to live a healthy life.
4/18: 208.4 - Happy Good Friday! Attending a family & friends crawfish boil today where I’ll get to see my little granddaughters for the first time since we returned from vacation. While we did FaceTime during the trip with them and saw how much they grew over the past month … it is always wonderful to experience those hugs and smiles in person. Bike 20 min
4/19: 209.2 - After a crawfish boil I fully expected this bump. Hope it is temporary! Walked a mile plus and slept … a lot even taking a morning nap and then a 4 hour afternoon nap.
4/20: 208.5 - Now I’m up at 2:30am wide awake. Really struggling to get back in sync with the time zone after vacation. No exercise.
4/21: 209.1 - Woke up thirsty and hungry … that was a strange feeling. No exercise and too much food!
Loss this challenge: 3.6
4/22: 209.6 - no exercise
4/23: 209.3 - Hmmmmmmm I've been hungry and feeling like I'm eating all the time though in reality I'm not. But I've got to stop the crackers and cheese before dinner … just need to move up dinner time!
Re: Frustrated at lack of progress
Can you use your ADHD to hyperfocus on using a foodscale on everything you eat, including condiments, oils, etc. and on finding correct database entries every single day? We still don't know what your weight is, gender, etc… but it's very likely you're just eating more than you think. A 8.5km cycle ride doesn't burn too many calories if you have a half good bike and it's not hilly. So what you can work on is tightening up your logging, or just eating less without improving logging and have a look in 4-6 weeks where you are.
yirara
Re: Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 294
@musicsax Where are you, dear?! You are ALWAYS first in the morning!😎
Re: Database for Chickpeas
The verified flag, historically, IMU was just 5 people agreeing that the entry was correct, at some point in time. Personally, I might use that flag to narrow down the candidates, but I don't give it much credence in itself.
In the US, I believe the label - unless stated otherwise - includes whatever is in the can, which in the case of chickpeas would include the liquid. IME, different brands can have more or less liquid, though I say that from eyeballing, not measuring.
I know that MFP has been doing some work on improving the database (yes, really). The "best match"-labeled entries that now show up on some searches in the phone/tablet app are IME better, and most look like entries derived from a source like USDA that's more reliable. In the drop-down, they have varied serving size types: Volume, weight (metric and imperial), sometimes count or inch size. The default is usually cups, which is arguably dumb, but the other options are there.
Personally, for legumes - even canned ones - I usually use the USDA-sourced entries that match the pattern mentioned above about serving size options; usually they will have "boiled" in the title like "Chickpeas (garbanzo beans, bengal gram), mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt". They nearly always have a title only a bureaucrat could love. I think those are drained weight, but it's been a long time since I checked one against USDA FoodData Central, which by the way is this site:
Often the "SR Legacy" ones there can be found in the MFP database under the same name. Sometimes one of the grams serving sizes has obviously wrong calories in MFP allegedly from some past database conversion project, but most of the serving sizes have correct calories.
This is IMO never going to be perfect in the way that people hope. Partly, that's a function of US labeling regulations, which I agree are a little weird. Foods differ. With careful selection, the discrepancy from the database is likely smaller than the permitted 20% wiggle room that's IMU allowed on labels in the US.
Fortunately, workably close estimates are good enough. For myself, figuring out how to get workably close logging is possible, and a preferred time investment vs. talking about how bad the database is. Others' mileage varies.
AnnPT77
Re: 60 yrs and up
Non-loom beading? With apologies to those uninterested, because length, do you mean like . . .
OK, yeah, that last freeform peyote bracelet one got excessive to near-unwearability, because I couldn't figure out when to stop. 😆
ETA P.S. Watch out. IME, the supplies addiction has slippery slope potential.
AnnPT77
Re: Question about what my dietician said
@yakkystuff before my own jaw hits the ground….
so let's assume that you can only use up 200 Cals every 2 hours (at a pace for 2400 per day, I assume).
And that you eat… oh my kittens… that you eat 600 Cals this hour. And…. oh my kittens 400 Cals gets stored as absolute fat. Oh what to do what to what to do….
Let's run this crazy experiment. In one hour you don't eat the extra 200 calories you spend. Let's be rebels. Maybe you don't even eat the extra 200 Cal you spend on the third hour either.
My gosh. What is going to happen? Where are the magical calories that you've just spend and didn't eat during these two hours magically going to appear from?
Could it be remotely possible that they will come back out from the magical fat stores you replenished 2 hours ago?
I mean they will first come from the magical glycose in your blood plus glycogen if you're moving around or from the magical fat stores you have or a combination. But we are dealing with someone who says that you store as fat the extra 400 calories you haven't even managed to digest yet, so why am I bothering to try to be more precise.
Not to mention that if you're converting back and forth from fat stores you're actually using up energy… so that would be a good thing to do if you're trying to maximize spending of energy: the more inefficient conversions you force the more energy you spend.
Like. OK. I admit to being triggered. I don't enjoy being talked down by professionals. So either she is an idiot. Or she is talking down. Take your pick… but on your behalf I am just a little bit ticked.
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