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lemurcat12

jemhh wrote: »

Annie_01 wrote: »

jemhh wrote: »

rjel78 wrote: »

5'10. 398
3 days a week I go to the gym and do a stationary bike for an hour, then 2 sets of weights....the other 4 days I do a workout DVD at home. Since I've started this program (again) I've got my steps in

I have done these exercises before but never this many times in a row

I am not weighing foods currently but eating only serving sizes

I do not weigh my liquids either, just what comes in the bottle

I should have asked this but are you writing down what you eat? Even if you are not logging calories? I'm actually a fan of not logging calories to start and instead just writing down all that you eat normally. After a week or two, look at the log and decide what you can cut out or cut back on. Right now, if you've been logging your food somehow, you have a good record to look at in order to do just that.

I used this method when I first started losing weight. I kept a little notebook and wrote down everything that I ate and an estimate of the calories. I actually lost 40lbs before I started weighing everything and logging it. When my weight loss stalled for almost a month is when I tightened down.

Yeah, it's what I did too. I only had to start counting calories when I got to about 25 pounds above the healthy weight zone. I firmly believe that if heavily overweight/obese people are honest with what they write down, they can make great progress without counting any calories or even measuring/weighing anything.

I also agree with these posts.

I enjoy the detailed approach and ability to get all geeky that MFP provides, but the only other time I lost weight (I lost 60 lbs and kept it off for years, until some life disasters and I stopped caring), I just wrote down what I ate over the course of a week, looked at it and figured out some ways to cut lots of calories (I was aiming to cut 500, probably cut more) and then added in more activity that increased over time. It worked just as well. (I continued writing down what I ate while losing which kept me honest, but did not count calories.)

ClosetBayesian

cmriverside wrote: »

You don't need to eat 4000 calories, regardless of how much exercise you're doing.

Try eating 2000-2500 base calories for the next month.

This.

cwolfman13

rjel78 wrote: »

5'10. 398
3 days a week I go to the gym and do a stationary bike for an hour, then 2 sets of weights....the other 4 days I do a workout DVD at home. Since I've started this program (again) I've got my steps in

I have done these exercises before but never this many times in a row

I am not weighing foods currently but eating only serving sizes

I do not weigh my liquids either, just what comes in the bottle

How are you determining "serving size"

Also be careful with entries...you need to cross check them as there are numerous bad entries in the database. Also, do not use generic entries like "Chicken noodle soup"...you have no idea who made that and what they put in it.

MelanieCN77

A "serving size" on a box has nothing to do with anything but the amount of calories a manufacturer wants to show you in one glance.