Biggest blunders you've done?
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Cutting my calories too much at the beginning of my journey. 1200 calories really didn't work for me! Anything under 1400 makes me weak and cold, tbh. And from these attempts, i've found that muscle catabolism is no joke. My neck in particular showed the damage, all the ligaments and muscles were showing. I looked so haggard. And I still had stomach fat... Never again! Slow and steady wins the race!
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Making chocolate chip cookies on an empty stomach. Just.. .don't do it.
I eat way too many, and the huge rush of fat makes me sick as anything. But somehow, even knowing this, I still think that *this* time I'll know when to stop nicking cookie dough early enough to prevent it.
Always make chocolate chip cookies after a satisfying meal.2 -
kommodevaran wrote: »elisa123gal wrote: »Buying into a calorie is a calorie. I was always hungry eating 100 calorie snacks...chips.. cookies.. turkey dogs and trader joe's guilt free mac n cheese .all that. Nutrition matters and I lose better when I'm eating vegetables and making all my own food.
Yeah, but that isn't "buying into"; but "misunderstanding". Nutrition matters AND calories count.
see..this person is hungry that's why they're so mean.0 -
Wasting a 'bulk' (i.e. going on a couple of long trips spaced a month apart and having an 'f-it' attitude concerning how much I was eating the whole time).
I'd have been just as happy eating a bit less, and a lot more happy if I could have taken advantage of the extra calories by lifting. There were no weights, free or otherwise, while out of town and while I was home I was working my way back up to 'heavy' weights for me. So not much benefit there.
Ah, well. At least I reined myself in before going up a size. Now I just need to get my head on straight again.1 -
Having a Monster "protein" shake pre- and post-workout, then wondering why I wasn't losing weight (hint: they're about 200 calories each)1
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ashjongfit wrote: »getting a matching tattoo with my NOW EX-Fiance
as far as weight goes, I agree with the above, All or Nothing mentality! and trying to lose X by X. never works for me anyway. Trying to work in that crazy concept of moderation these days
SAME, we got our wedding rings tattooed on, looking at removal since its been three years and I have a daughter and am with the guy I should have been with in the first place LOL
1. Lose 100 lbs in six months
2. 1200cal, no eating back workout cals
3. Not seeing that stupid entry for garlic that makes it like 10x the calories.
4. trying to have to large of a deficit3 -
Eating A LOT less than I should
Thinking I could only eat ice cream if I "cheated"
Not wearing gloves when I run in cold weather. Seriously, that's the only part of my body I get paranoid about with winter runs0 -
85Cardinals wrote: »I'm still beating myself up about eating all that candy Halloween night 1998. A date which will live in infamy.
I JUST posted about Halloween 2001.... lol1 -
Listening to the dietician when she wasn't listening to me. (To be fair, she pretended she was. It took almost a week for me to figure out that she put everyone on exactly the same cookie cutter food plan. I was eight months pregnant. You don't put an eight month pregnant woman on a weight loss plan. But I don't think she even realized that's what she was doing.)2
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SusanMFindlay wrote: »Listening to the dietician when she wasn't listening to me. (To be fair, she pretended she was. It took almost a week for me to figure out that she put everyone on exactly the same cookie cutter food plan. I was eight months pregnant. You don't put an eight month pregnant woman on a weight loss plan. But I don't think she even realized that's what she was doing.)
When Mrs was ordered to see a dietitian to get help gaining weight, the poor dietitian didn't have a plan. She started the meeting by describing the portions of a healthy plate with veg, starch, and meat, then she paused and stumbled over her thoughts until she finally said, "And put butter on the roll, and gravy on the meat, and have dessert, ice cream."
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elisa123gal wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »elisa123gal wrote: »Buying into a calorie is a calorie. I was always hungry eating 100 calorie snacks...chips.. cookies.. turkey dogs and trader joe's guilt free mac n cheese .all that. Nutrition matters and I lose better when I'm eating vegetables and making all my own food.
Yeah, but that isn't "buying into"; but "misunderstanding". Nutrition matters AND calories count.
see..this person is hungry that's why they're so mean.
Giving truthful information =/= "mean". What she said was 100% on the mark and there was nothing mean about it.1 -
Feeling smug because I chose a breakfast muffin from the 'healthy and lower calorie' shelf at Au Bon Pain. Only to realise when I'd nearly finished the thing, that someone had put a 500+ calorie cranberry and walnut muffin on the wrong shelf.2
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