320 pounds on 1,700 a day?????
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Keep in mind, too, that you can always change your intake as you go. Maybe right now, losing one pound is a better goal for you. Try that intake for a month and see how you feel. I'd bet money that your appetite will adjust as you get used to the lower intake, and you'll have time to break the habit of eating a lot after dinner. After 4-6 weeks, reassess how you feel. Maybe start adding in some exercise so you have more calories to play with, or if you've adjusted just fine, think about increasing your rate of loss to 1.5 pounds per week. (Or both, if that appeals to you).
Weight loss isn't about how fast you go at the beginning. In fact, lots of people try to go balls-out from Day 1 and end up burning out and giving up. Weight loss is about how long you can keep going. It's okay to start out slower if it means you can sustain your changes in the long run.
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I so hope you're right. I stuck to 2,200 today abd didn't feel deprived or hungry at all. Maybe I should do it in slow increments. I appreciate all of the insight. Slow and steady wins the race. 0 -
It's been mentioned before in this thread, but pre-planning my snacks/meals is really a game-changer for me. I budget my calories based on when I want to eat. For me, it's breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack (3 pm is a killer for boredom eating), dinner, and dessert.
Once I allocated my calories amongst those, I sat down and figured 3-5 'go to' meals/snacks. Things that are delicious, fit in my budget, and have a good amount of protein/fiber. So I've got choices without a whole lot of thinking necessary. Now time to check out the freezer/fridge and figure out what's for dinner tomorrow.
Now the fun part - figure out what I'm going to have, plug it into MFP and juggle things around until I'm where I need to be.
This worked for me like a charm several years ago when I lost a LOT of weight. I then had a few years where everything went to heck (husband died, raising my kids as a solo mom, dealt with other crises at home, blah, blah). I'm back trying for good self care and I will lose the weight. We can do this!0 -
It's been mentioned before in this thread, but pre-planning my snacks/meals is really a game-changer for me. I budget my calories based on when I want to eat. For me, it's breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack (3 pm is a killer for boredom eating), dinner, and dessert.
Once I allocated my calories amongst those, I sat down and figured 3-5 'go to' meals/snacks. Things that are delicious, fit in my budget, and have a good amount of protein/fiber. So I've got choices without a whole lot of thinking necessary. Now time to check out the freezer/fridge and figure out what's for dinner tomorrow.
Now the fun part - figure out what I'm going to have, plug it into MFP and juggle things around until I'm where I need to be.
This worked for me like a charm several years ago when I lost a LOT of weight. I then had a few years where everything went to heck (husband died, raising my kids as a solo mom, dealt with other crises at home, blah, blah). I'm back trying for good self care and I will lose the weight. We can do this!
I am so sorry for your loss Chris. I couldn't imagine going through that. Life just knows how to make us fight even harder, huh? Great advice, thank you. Its nice to pre-plan things. Doing my next days diary ahead of time is helping. I just thought I would let everyone know, despite my "binges" , I still lost 5.2 pounds in a week. Extremely pumped. Now, if I could get my overeating down pat, I'm sure I would lose 2 a week. good luck to everyone! Thank you all for the advice.0 -
Math error or typo in that -- 2400 to lose 1 lb/week, I'm thinking.britishbroccoli wrote: »ditsyblond17 wrote: »I'm 5'7. 25 And 325 pounds. I will open my diary now. Please be nice, I'm very sensitive tonight
If you are a light office worker (Sedentary by MyFitnessPal, Lightly Active by CalorieKing), you need to eat 1900 calories to lose 2 lbs/week, 2100 calories to lose 1 lb/week...
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Decrease your weight loss to 1 lb per week. Much easier and then you can be pleasantly surprised when you lose 2 lbs. Add a little exercise and eat those calories. Just be careful that you aren't over estimating the burn! Most people eat back half of what they burnef because estimates can be high. Good luck and you can do this!0
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I'm 284 pounds and on 1430 a day 0
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The thing about counting calories is, to me, you have to budget. Don't run out of the ability to eat before your body is done for the day. Once you do run out of calories, you have two choices: 1) Drink a bunch of water, suck it up, and go to bed. 2) Exercise so you can eat some more. It's a process to train your body and it's important to have a couple small snacks during the day. This means, however, the big 3 meals need to be a bit smaller to account for the snackage. Something that helped me was removing food from my home. I keep about 2-3 days of fresh food on hand and when it's out I go to the store again. I save money by not throwing away rotted foods and have nothing to binge on. Snack foods in the house are carrots and hummus. Work to get past your mental block. Your body will fall in line with your goals.0
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allenpriest wrote: »arguablysamson wrote: »Oh, you will be hungry. There is not an easy way out of that. But if you want to drop a lot of weight, eat once per day. Pick a time (any time), fill up one plate with anything you prefer (but don't do junk food or you will feel rotten), and give yourself one calorie beverage. You will be averaging 1,300 calories if you fill the plate.
After the meal, allow yourself only calorie-free beverages, but have as many and whatever kinds you want (water, coffee, tea, diet sodas, etc). Give yourself one splurge day once every week-and-a-half to two weeks. You will drop the weight sure enough, but this will take some adjustment, mind you. There is no way around that. This is OMAD (one-meal-a-day) in a nutshell.
Don't worry about exercise for now. Sedentary is okay and it seems to be the biggest mistake people make by working out while significantly obese. For more info, hit up the OMAD forums here or PM me. I dropped 173 lbs in just over ten months on what I just laid out for you.
This is beyond stupid.
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This is NOT stupid. It works for a lot of people. If it doesn't work for you, then don't do it, but don't say that it's stupid!0
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Old thread but at 330 5'7 my calories set to 1,8600
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You need to make a plan on what to do at 5p, so you won't binge.ditsyblond17 wrote: »Thank you for the advice. I can afford to lose aggressively since I'm obese. But sadly, I can't overcome my binge at the end of the day. During breakfast and lunch I'm not hungry. I feel I can go strong for days. Then 5:00 hits and I am so ravenously hungry (only a few hours after eating a high protein lunch) that I accidentally go over my calories by 500-800 each day. I almost feel like my body is telling me 1,700 isn't right. But May be I'm wrong. Does 1,700 sound like the right number for me?
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Thanks everyone, just to update! I've since started Intermittent fasting. It's incredible how satiated I feel eating within a small time window. The thing is, when I ate breakfast (like I was supposed to do via what "they" say to do) I always felt hungry. So by 5pm, I've eaten most of my calories and the only thing I could eat was chicken and veggies. SO NOT SATISFYING! So, now I go all day without eating (resting my stomach energy AND increasing metabolism) and eat all my 2,000-2,200 calories in one sitting. It's been shown to HELP increase metabolism and insulin resistance. Also, it's been a life saver for me to not binge anymore because NOTHING is off limits. Thanks again for all the support guys.0
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Uhh....that's not really the best long term plan. (Eat nothing all day and then binge on one 2000 calorie sitting.) You need to talk with a professional to help you develop a healthier relationship with food.-1
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Uhh....that's not really the best long term plan. (Eat nothing all day and then binge on one 2000 calorie sitting.) You need to talk with a professional to help you develop a healthier relationship with food.
All day long in here, people say CICO, CICO. If calories are the only thing that matter, and of course they are the basis of all weight loss no matter how a deficit is achieved, then it doesn't matter what time of day she's eating her calories.
She says it's working for her, so why tell her to seek professional help? That's a little rude I feel.
Ditsy, if it works for you and you're happy, stick with it.
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ditsyblond17 wrote: »Thanks everyone, just to update! I've since started Intermittent fasting. It's incredible how satiated I feel eating within a small time window. The thing is, when I ate breakfast (like I was supposed to do via what "they" say to do) I always felt hungry. So by 5pm, I've eaten most of my calories and the only thing I could eat was chicken and veggies. SO NOT SATISFYING! So, now I go all day without eating (resting my stomach energy AND increasing metabolism) and eat all my 2,000-2,200 calories in one sitting. It's been shown to HELP increase metabolism and insulin resistance. Also, it's been a life saver for me to not binge anymore because NOTHING is off limits. Thanks again for all the support guys.
Congratulations on finding a dietary plan that works for you.
However, no diet increases metabolism or has any magic properties. It's all about calories in/calories out, and it sounds like you are simply choosing to eat all your calories in one sitting. It works for some, not others. 0 -
Uhh....that's not really the best long term plan. (Eat nothing all day and then binge on one 2000 calorie sitting.) You need to talk with a professional to help you develop a healthier relationship with food.
Intermittent fasting is not bingeing, it's a way of life for many people. I think your comment about speaking to a professional is not appropriate.0 -
The key isn't to starve. So I'd shoot for 2100 calories and just lose a little slower. Suffering through 1700 calories a day then binging at night isn't how you're going to maintain your weight once you get there.
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Perhaps before you guys judge my response so harshly perhaps you should look back at the history of this OP. My comment was not meant to be rude but actually as a course of action that the OP should consider to help her deal with her over eating issue. Overeating is often just a manifestation of other issues in a person's life. The OP Is 25 years old and 320 pounds. She's had serious issues of binge eating in the past. Now her solution is to starve herself all day so that she can sit and pound 2000 calories in one sitting. And you guys really think this is solving her problem long term? We've all had a disfunctional relationship with food at some point or we wouldn't be on this forum. Honestly I just don't think she's addressing the real problem and talking with someone about it would probably really help her out. Sorry to offend but believe it or not it wasn't meant in a rude way. I was just trying to get to her avoid the cycle of crazy Yoyo diets that many of us went through in our younger years.-1
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