I want the BEST tips to help with speeding up weight loss!
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If you reduce your caloric intake too much, you can mess with your metabolism and send your body into starvation mode, where it thinks it needs to store everything because it's starving. Follow the recommendations on the site, using a realistic goal of 1-2 lbs. lost per week, depending on how much you have to lose.
No as to metabolism and starvation mode.
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JenniferTravis9 wrote: »WOW! How do you manage to concoct those meals? Lol! You must shop EVERYDAY for you produce to be fresh! I have 4 kids so everyday shopping is nearly impossible! And I see you are using some of the "sugar-free" products, I was never able to use that avenue as I am highly allergic to Aspartame and Saccharine. But I def envy your ability to have all that yummy produce in a day! I wld LOVE to be able to do that!
I guess I have become so accustomed to my daily diary that I do not realize that it looks somewhat overwhelming at first glance. I have been at this for over a year and a half and have kind of fallen into a habit of a large salad for lunch and a large protein frozen-fruit smoothie for a late afternoon snack (logged in the lunch meal). I do live within a ten-minute walk of three grocery stores, and my gym is right next to the closest grocery store, so I can, and do, pop in the one next to my gym anytime I need to - that is one of the benefits of living in an urban area.
I buy vegetables that I know keep for a long time in the crisper drawer or out on the shelf. I really only buy grape tomatoes because they last longer than large tomatoes. It really only takes me ten minutes to make my salad. I put the bowl on the scale, tare it, cut up 30g of one vegetable, tare the scale, cut up 30g of another, repeat, ad nauseam - it is strangely therapeutic. For the fruit, I slice/cube the fruit and freeze in plastic bags. When I make the smoothie, I just pull out bags of four or five fruits and tare the blender, add 60g or 30g of fruit, repeat.
On the weekends, I cook large pots of my mother's recipes, slightly modified with no added oils, half the meat, and three times the vegetables she would use and then freeze in small containers.
This has become part of the way I operate now that I have lost the weight and have been maintaining for just over a year.0 -
My best tip is not to be in a hurry, but to aim for a sustainable, steady weight loss.0
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Add some resistance/strength training to your workout. An hour on the treadmill is a LOT, and at your low-calorie intake, without eating back your exercise calories, you are likely losing quite a bit of muscle mass along with fat. Don't weigh so much, but note how your clothes fit and how you look in the mirror. Also note how much easier your wee ones are to lift and carry, how a 40 pound bag of topsoil or cat litter just floats into your shopping cart with no strain....fall in love with getting stronger and the fat will take care of itself.0
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JenniferTravis9 wrote: »
So if the liquid calories were responsible for your weight gain and no you stopped drinking them shouldn't you be losing weight?JenniferTravis9 wrote: »BTW, just a side note, I did not gain the weight from eating too much or being lazy. I used to drink a lot of soda every day and drink beer. I have nixed those items and am just working on the weight it left me with. I accept responsibility for the weight gain and would like to get rid of this yucky reminder of my previous bad habits!
I lost weight easily after each of my first 3 children, and though I did not gain much while pregnant with my 4th, post pregnancy I only continued to gain weight even while nursing and working out. All which led to depression, hence the soda addiction and later the beer. Just all honesty out there, my weight gain was probably 80% liquid weight gain alone! All those calories and sugar! It's not always a food issue people! Or simply being lazy! Liquid calories can pack on!
RIGHT?!?!? That is what I am saying! My sister drinks and says every time she stops drinking for a few weeks she drops like 20lbs! Just from not drinking! Like soda or alcohol! So I would think that the habit change alone would be helping me to drop weight. Adding in the fact I have worked harder to eat 1200 calories a day and get the nutrients I need as well as exercising an hour a day, one would think I would be melting off the weight, which has simply not been the response my body is giving me.
As I stated in another reply, I lost weight easily after my children. Until the last one! THE WEIGHT DIDNT BUDGE AFTER I HAD HER! I was nursing and going to the gym 5 days a week and only continued to gain weight! And no not muscle! My pants wouldnt fit! This was 4 months into my routine and still was putting on weight! My youngest is now 4 and I am 10lbs heavier than the last day I was pregnant with her. This is years of yoyo'ing!
Have you been to the doctor to ask? Sometimes after a pregnancy things change in your body. You said that have thyroid issues, do you know if you have a gluten intolerance or some other type of issue that may be keeping the pounds from coming off? This happened with my sister and after she found she had an intolerance to gluten, she has started shedding the pounds (at a relatively normal rate) where she could literally exercise and cut calories all day without any loss and sometimes gain before. Just an idea.0 -
when it comes to weight loss and fitness, shortcuts dont work and fast is the least smart way to go about it.
what you want is slow, sustainable and committed.
we're changing our lives. we want to take time with that so it doesnt turn out to be a disaster and we have to start over lol.
I consider myself a masterpiece, not a round of pictionary
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work hard.0
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Does your treadmill have an incline? If yes, add a bit of incline to that walk. Start small & add an extra % each week or so. Starting small & adding as you go, you won't even notice the change while talking but you'll burn more calories. I feel, it is all about bang for your buck!
Best Wishes & Keep up the good work!!0 -
Add weight training to your regime, incorporate interval training into your cardio workout (can you cycle? Try spinning if it doesn't hurt your knee), and if you're really trying to lose more quickly for a specific goal (say, vacation), eat fewer carbs (though I wouldn't recommend doing this long term).0
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Best Advice - Get a VO2 test and see a nutritionist. VO2 test tells you the optimum heart rate you should be at for burning fat and not sugar. To high and you are burning sugar, which just makes you hungrier. Other than that, expect plateaus while losing weight and dont freak out and quit when they happen.0
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BEST tip... don't focus on thyroid... I have plenty of thyroid issues and can still lose weight with the old trusted eating less than I burn I just really hone in on what numbers work the best for me and I have been through all of them... 1200 - 2000 ... I lose the best when I stick with about 1700 which I eat no matter if I exercise or not. 0
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herrspoons wrote: »The best tip? Stop looking for shortcuts.
This is 100% spot on. i spent years looking for shortcuts, but weight management didn't stick until I learned the absolute truth that weight loss happens when I eat less calories than I burn.
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I agree with the general comment to stop looking for ways to speed up the process. I believe I've averaged a loss between .5 and 1 lb a week for the past eighteen months, and I'm a fifty-something grandmother pre-menopausal. I started at 275 lbs. Can't argue with progress, though! I'm a completely different person than who I was a year and a half ago. In the interest of full disclosure, I also had bariatric surgery.
I agree with the suggestion to change up your exercise routine to include weight training. And eat back half the calories you earn from your exercise.
For sweetening, have you tried Stevia?0 -
I forgot to mention, as you are a mother of four I am sure I have little to share with you about bulk buying and bulk preparation!0
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SergeantSausage wrote: »
SergeantSausage Thank you for this article!!!
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No. :banghead:minamu68 wrote:If you reduce your caloric intake too much, you can mess with your metabolism and send your body into starvation mode, where it thinks it needs to store everything because it's starving.
No, that is not starvation mode, and no, what you're describing is not going to happen, ever.
The body has to burn fuel to run.
It prefers to burn carbs - glucose, then glycogen.
Then it burns fat.
As a distant third it burns muscle. This is an inefficient conversion, plus it's risking death hoping you'll find food before your heart & diaphragm give out.
THAT is starvation mode, and it takes a long time of very low-calorie eating to get there.
If the body does not have fuel to burn from what you're eating, it will burn what it has.
It has to burn fuel to run. That's not optional.
If it doesn't have enough fuel coming in, it's not going to store anything you eat.
When there's a caloric surplus it will store calories.
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"I am using the treadmill for an hour a day at 3mph. (Avg. 5 days a week)" - this is a time waster. The same, monotonous, low intensity workout will only lead to boredom and failure. Do the treadmill 3 or 4 times per week for shorter time periods but high intensity. No, you don't have to run. Do speed walking intervals and high incline intervals. Then add weight training as your main source of exercise. Give it time, but you will see dramatic results if done correctly.0
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SergeantSausage wrote: »The best tip is to Slow It Down.
Speeding things up is generally a race for disaster, disappointment, and failure.
Faster is not usually better.
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As you lose weight, those will get smaller too. Trust me on this.JenniferTravis9 wrote:part of the heavy weight I carry is in my chest
Just in the last 25 lb I've gone from a 38G to a 36F/G (depending on manufacturer).
The same volume of tissue that could be contained in a 36G would be in a 38F, so I've lost volume.
Those very muscular people are the outliers, the last little tail of the bell curve.I am not sure how accurate some charts can be, the same as for very muscular and athletic persons.
For the vast majority of people, BMI is a decent tool.
2 lb per week is a pretty ambitious goal, not reasonable for most people.I am not wanting to lose weight overnight! I am just wanting the 2bs per week I am busting my butt for!
I started with 100 lb to lose to get to the very top end of a healthy BMI range, and over the last year I've lost an average of 1.5 lb per week.
Now that I'm only 25 lb from that top end of the healthy range, I'm losing even more slowly & it's really annoying & frustrating, even though I knew it was going to happen.
I'm actually aiming for at least 10 lb beyond that.
Phentermine is just an appetite suppressant. Some people feel it gives them more energy, even makes them jittery, but that could be because they're very suggestible or possibly they're very susceptible to side effects. It's approved for short-term use (2-3 months) for people who are obese by BMI standards, or overweight with other health issues.she put me on Phentermine (weight loss medication) for about 6 months before! I lost 30 lbs in that time ... I had heart palpitations from it and ended up quiting taking them and gained the weight back plus a few lbs, NOT CHANGING ANYTHING FROM THE NORM!
If you don't learn to eat smaller portions, it won't help you lose weight.
If you go back to eating more once you're not taking it, you'll regain the weight.
When I took it, it knocked out my hunger. I went from being ravenous pretty much all the time to being a little hungry if I hadn't eaten all day.
Now, even though I'm not taking it, I'm not hungry unless I haven't eaten for maybe 6 hours. My doctor tells me that's normal. I wouldn't know, since I've never experienced that before.
That control of hunger allowed me to get used to eating normal-sized portions. That carried through once I stopped using the medicine.
The only side effect I had was that my blood pressure was very slightly elevated, but still in a normal/acceptable range.
No, it retains water. I've had a couple higher than normal sodium days recently and was shocked that the scale went up a couple pounds. (It's entirely mental, because I'd been below 200 and this bump puts me over again.)I have read a couple of articles relating to sodium and notice my sodium numbers are frequently high. That is stated to be "holding fat!"
That's just an MFP thing. Don't do it.I do not understand the "eating back the calories you burn" if I am still at my minimum needed calories for the day.
My doctor (endocrinologist in charge of the weight loss program at the hospital) and dietician both told me to eat at my healthy calorie goal (which started out as 10x my healthy goal weight) and ignore exercise. Exercise is a bonus toward weight loss.
Most people underestimate what they eat, and most machines (including MFP) overestimate calories burned. For most people, the errors more or less cancel out.
1200 is the minimum for a woman of average height to be able to get the nutrition she needs to be healthy. The only thing you affect with exercise is calories. (Well, OK, and some electrolytes due to sweat.) You want to burn calories to lose weight.
Currently, MFP says my BMR is 1629. I'm aiming at 1400 cal (total) every day. (Doesn't always happen, no. Looking back, it's been 9 of the last 14 days. Have to work on that.)Not eating them back causes the deficient to be too large and make it unhealthy.
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Eating 1200 and burning 300 nets you 900 calories per day. This is a perfect recipe for hair loss, fatigue, scattered thinking and major health concerns.... It is also not maintainable longterm
When I started a year ago, it said 1974 and I was eating 1700.
So for a year I've usually been eating under my BMR.
My doctors are all quite pleased with my progress, my health, etc.
My hair is not falling out (any more than the usual), I have no problem with energy to do what I want to do (including being on my feet at work 7.5 hours yesterday), pretty sure I'm thinking coherently, and all health markers are greatly improved from JAN14.
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"Do the treadmill 3 or 4 times per week for shorter time periods but high intensity."
The OP mentions arthritis so this may not work for her.0
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