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Re: Weaning away from weight loss
Basically you went from 327lbs to 205 while feeling full and energetic and not deprived? We're you supplementing anything other than maybe creatine, oh, and were you counting calories, just curious. Thanks.
Re: Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads
Oh my, no crazy claims here (no claims at all really, I'm presuming weight loss is the goal here) but the visuals 😯
Lietchi
Re: Am I doing this correct?
If you're intending to hold your weight steady, yes, averaging close to maintenance calories would be correct. Keep in mind that it's not some calculator or fitness tracker that tells you what maintenance calorie level is. Those are just starting estimates, basically the average for demographically similar people. The 4-6 week average trend of your bodyweight (whole menstrual cycles for those who have them) tells you what your actual personal maintenance calories are.
Besides protein, fiber and fats, personally I also want to eat plenty of varied, colorful veggies and fruits for micronutrients and varied fiber. People with some other eating styles would disagree. I also want some probiotic foods, like live-culture yogurt/kefir and such, or unpasteurized saurkraut/kim chi, maybe raw vinegar, and that sort of thing. Again, some people would disagree.
In one sense, I feel like it's always possible to fine-tune nutrition in a more positive direction, but how far to take that is quite individual. The basics - the things you're doing - achieve the majority of the benefits. with further details giving diminishing returns comparatively. For some, obsession becomes a risk, and compulsive or obsessive pursuit of dietary perfection is technically an eating disorder (orthorexia). Finding the right personal balance is good for physical and mental health.
You might want to ask about your workout program over in the Fitness and Exercise or Gaining Weight and Bodybuilding area.
I know more about cardio, since I've done a cardiovascularly intensive sport for a couple of decades. Walking is fine for cardio. After you have a good endurance base from that, there might be additional benefits from mixing in something more intense once or twice a week . . . but here, too, the basics deliver the majority of the benefits and walking is good for that as long as you're enjoying it.
Generically speaking, for strength exercise failure is probably a bit far: Last rep or two of final set very challenging, but still capable of good form might be a better intention. Full body 5 days in a row is also possibly not ideal, since recovery is where the magic - rebuilding the body better - happens. If a beginner as you say, 3 days full body, with a recovery day between each, might give better results. There are splits that can be used over 5 days while allowing for recovery, but they may be more suitable for intermediates. Details matter, and I'm no expert, so those are generalities.
Best wishes!
AnnPT77
Re: SPRING 2025 Weight Loss Challenge (APRIL, MAY and JUNE) A Continuation
STARTING WEIGHT AND DATE WITH MFP(MY FITNESS PAL): 157lbs
April 2024YOUR CHALLENGE STARTING WEIGHT FOR THIS CHALLENGE: 147.4lbs
YOUR CHALLENGE WEIGHT LOSS GOAL: 10-15lbs.
April 7: 143.4
April 14: 143.4 - No change. I was sick most of last week which is probably why
April 21: 144.2 - My own fault for the scale going back up. I haven't been eating right
April 28:
April Goal: I don't have a monthly goal. I have a June vacation goal.
April Actual:
April Loss: 4lbs!
May 5:
May 12:
May 19:
May 26:
May Goal:
May Actual:
May Loss:
June 2:
June 9:
June 16:
June 23:
June 30:
June Goal:
June Actual:
June Loss:
Weight loss for this week:
Current challenge loss:
Challenge Weight loss goal: I want to be in the mid-130lbs for my June vacation
angf0679
Re: Frustrated at lack of progress
lots of things stand out here that can be problematic. Tighten up your counting and look at weekly numbers. Take 7 days worth and divide by seven and this is your actual daily amount. You need to do this every day though and not cherry pick days where your calories are lower. If you really want to make your fat loss accelerate, you're going to need to be a lot more exact and you'll need to look at your beer consumption and you're going out to dinner situations those two things alone can kill a weekly calorie deficit.
Also, a lot of the information on calories on the database on this app can be off so you may want to look at the ingredients in those meals and cross check with something like ChatGPT or Google just to confirm that those calorie amounts are correct.
Re: Frustrated at lack of progress
You say you "put on a few kg" and that you've lost 2kg presumably in the last 10 weeks. That's about 0.5 pounds per week, which if you are close to lean (you don't say, but you imply it) sounds quite reasonable. Slow and steady progress is obviously working. You're already doing a decent amount of activity, so your next step after this should be cutting out a couple of high calorie cheat meals or snacks.
Re: Hacks that reduce calories (and other things)
I’m a bit of a sucker for creamy sauces but actual cream is obviously not great. I replace it with a mix of stock and cream cheese. Honestly tastes the same and far less calories.
IrisKB5
Re: WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2025
Tracey Love the HappyPea card. Have a HappyPea day!
I would add to that sentiment Barbie. If you don't own it you are no longer responsible for it. It was such a great feeling giving those boxes of research to someone who could use them. I just gave a neighbor some children's aprons that her daughter could wear. They were in a box of my school collection. Nice to see things end up where they belong and no longer in my sea of stuff.
Drank 8.5 glasses of liquid yesterday. Still waking at 4 as a consequence but no LEG Cramps in the morning that has been a problem for some time.
I learned that higher urea numbers could be a sign of kidney stones. Kidney stones can also cause UTI. I have no sign of a UTI. I have had one years ago so I know what it feels like to get one. I plan to do what I can to keep from getting one. MORE liquids and less animal protein more plant protein, low sugar, and yes you guessed it Fiber, Fiber, Fiber!
Re: WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2025
Well, they asked me to work Mon, Tues, Wed. Fri, and Sat. My guess is that they’re going to have W do the prep on Thurs. I felt so sorry for her. Sat. It didn’t look like she had much to do. There’s just so much bacon you can make and so many eggs. Besides, what do you do after they finish serving breakfast?
Last year we had some trees removed. The stumps were just now taken out. So we had to go and put the dirt back in the holes. Well, we got the three biggest ones done completely and three more (smaller) ones half-done, then started mowing the grass. Then it started to rain. I guess I have about ¾ of the weed wacking to do.
Katie - $20 is only money. That was a generous thing for you to do. You can look yourself in the mirror, he probably can’t.
Ginny – I do hope the doc helps you. That must be so frustrating, you never know when it’s going to start leaking
Rebecca – you reminded me of the saying “laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you’re alone.” I remember hearing about high calcium leading to kidney stones
Sue – so glad for you that the credit card co. found the fraud
Vince promised this gal at ceramics that he’d sub for her husband while he recuperated from an operation. I reminded Vince that we have bowling Wed. night and this is Wed. afternoon. He said at the time that bowling 6 games in one day will not be a problem. Just now C (the wife) called to be sure he’d be there. I could see the look on his face that he really didn’t want to and he said “well, I’ve been bowling like crap”. As if they would care! What difference he thought that’d make, I have no idea. Well, he told her that he’d do it. So he’ll go there tomorrow afternoon and then we have bowling tomorrow night. Fortunately, that league only has 3 or 4 more weeks. But after J (the husband) gets back, C is going for an operation so she’ll need a sub. Ah...Vince made the commitment. I really don't like this league. To me, there are 4 people on a team and it seems like it takes FOREVER to get thru 3 games.
Michele
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