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Restart LC, count calories?
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sherryrichie wrote: »@Suzqtme, using a blood glucose meter as a fuel gauge is such in interesting concept. I'm familiar with intermittent fasting, but not using a meter to determine when you should eat your next meal. I'm at the point where I find myself eating a meal just because it's mealtime even though I'm not really hungry. I may give this a try and see what happens.
!! Danger!!
Eating "just because" (it's that time, someone at work brought you a plate of fried Twinkies for your birthday, your in-laws want to see how many Hostess Snowballs you can fit in your mouth, etc.) when you're not hungry is a recipe for... well.... it's usually not weight loss.
Good insight - kudos for recognizing what your subconscious is up to!3 -
I watch carbs like a hawk, and keep an eye on calories so I guess both.1
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I count calories and macros both. Weight comes off slowly for me and if I don't watch the calories, weight loss will stall or reverse.
@Roseygirl1, you might find this article interesting since you got the prediabetic warning at your last physician visit.
https://optimisingnutrition.com/2016/02/15/how-to-use-your-glucose-meter-as-a-fuel-gauge/
This is something I added to my plan (but I've been at it for a couple of months now). My numbers are very nearly out of the prediabetic range, and I was actually just shy of a diabetic dx in December (147 fbs with 6.5 A1c).
This is the second time I have seen this link, but the first time I read the whole thing. I decided to give it a try this morning. I workout 5 days a week in the morning which makes my BG elevate. Normally, I eat breakfast afterwards because I feel like I am starving and bordering on "hangry."
Today, I just kept tracking my BG until it got down under 95 before I ate (which wasn't until after 11). This meant instead of eating breakfast around 6:45 or 7am, I did not eat any calories until almost 11:30.
What I noticed is the way I felt hungry changed as my BG dropped. I felt belly hungry, but the irritation associated with being hangry slowly went away.
This was definitely a worthwhile experiment that I will be repeating as, at least initially, it seems being hangry has more to do with the BG spike and associated insulin spike than it does with actually being hungry.6 -
I've been trying to count both calories and carbs, but there are a lot of days I've been over on calories in the past month or 2. My RMR is 1,607 according to online calculators, so I've been trying to target 1,400 + FitBit exercise adjustment calories.
Unfortunately, my appetite is much bigger than that. So while my carbs have been pretty good, I'm still over on calories more days than I would like. For example, I haven't had dinner yet and I'm super hungry (it's almost 3:30pm here), but I have only 283 calories left today. I'm thinking I'm going to be giving in to hunger and will be way over on calories today, despite that I still plan to stay fairly low carb (I'm at 29g now and think I'll be <50g even if I eat another 1K calories).
The good news is that going over on calories so frequently hasn't stalled weight loss. I'm not losing as fast as I want, but am averaging about 0.6 lbs. / week loss despite having a lot of days (maybe 1-2 per week) where I'm over my calorie goals. Before going low carb, a larger calculated deficit with much more rare occasions going over calories only yielded 0.19 lbs. / week loss on average... so I can't complain.0 -
How many here count calories along with LC?
Both. I count carbs to ensure my blood glucose doesn't spike. I count calories for weight loss. From Oct 2, 2015. (Down 70 lbs, with an ~3 month break at maintenance during cancer care.)
For me, the only thing that matters for weight loss is limiting intake. I can only do that by counting calories (or a calorie substitute - since fats (at least some) create cravings - not satiety. I also don't have the normal "hungry/full" sensors - so I could easily put away several thousand calories of low carb food (cheese/nut butters/Quest bars) without batting an eyelash.
Same here, but lately my appetite / hunger has really been getting the better of me and I'll put down a ton of low carb foods. Before going low carb, I once ate 9 lbs. of lettuce and only stopped because I ran out and didn't have anything else that was not calorie dense. Sometimes I see suggestions for things that are not calorie dense like watermelon, but the carbs in 1-2 regular sized watermelons is way too high for a low carb WOE.1 -
@midwesterner85 I understand that feeling. Everyone seems to have a version of a "fat bomb" which I think helps. I can have a cup of almond milk with a quarter cup of hwc for about 230 calories, but my belly feels like I just ate 1,000+. I have done this on a couple of those evenings where I have felt like what you are describing with good success at curbing how much "over" I went.0
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Hi guys,
I am restarting LC yet again. I hope that I have finally realized that this is a lifestyle and not give up after first slip up.
How many here count calories along with LC?
Right from the start or later?
Only cause MFP makes me. I try not to look. It's ingrained. I also hate that "this food is high in calcium" is green. But "this food is high in saturated fat" is red. >:(0
