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fdnando2879
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You can have results or excuses. Not both
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What if my excuse is to walk my butt to the store for my chocolate bar.4
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Yeah if kriss wants a chocolate bar thats excuse enough for me to get my butt to the store. Cya in 3 hours kriss1
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CattOfTheGarage wrote: »
I thank excuses for a very large part of my weight loss XD Settign excuses to walk further, like walking to the store for nail polish (4 mile walk and i dont even like nail polish) Helped keep me moving XD1 -
JaydedMiss wrote: »CattOfTheGarage wrote: »
I thank excuses for a very large part of my weight loss XD Settign excuses to walk further, like walking to the store for nail polish (4 mile walk and i dont even like nail polish) Helped keep me moving XD
Excuses to do it are great. Excuses not to do it - those are the problem.
You know the kind of thing. "I don't have time to exercise", "calorie counting takes too long", "it's not me, it's my metabolism!"
There's a fine line between a genuine problem and an excuse, though. The distinction is attitude, I think - either we're looking for a solution, or we're looking for a reason to quit.4 -
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For me negative excuses happened because I wasn't losing the weight for me, I was losing for an event, occasion or because I thought someone else wanted me to lose.
Once it became solely about me and what I wanted - it became easy to recognize when an excuse pops up.0 -
You are right OP
I am the queen of excuses. I am the worlds greatest procrastinator. Mainly because I am lazy and the things I really enjoy involve sitting down. Reading. Laptop. Making jewelry etc etc.
However I did get my behind in gear a couple of years ago thanks to MFP and got to the gym regularly, lost over 30 pounds and felt great.
Then I gave up smoking (that's good right?) and fell back into bad eating/exercise habits using the excuse that I couldn't cope with giving up smoking and dieting, put on all the weight again and here I am back at the beginning.
Sadly now I also have Arthritis but funnily enough that is making me less prone to excuses because I know that I have to lose the weight and keep moving if I want to reduce the painful bad days and increase the good ones.
Still not smoking
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Like all comments but if ur giving an excuse just to cheat n eat junk food then so be it ur still not changing or progressing in your weight loss if here to say stupidity instead of making progress then there's no need for you to be on here plain and simple you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pocket0
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I find losing weight relatively easy to follow and do, but the being patient part really does bore me.0
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Doesn't matter if u count calories or not what u intake is what matters that's what changers your body loses your weight and also performance 1 cheat day throws your whole workout off for the next day or the next time u workout from Nov 2016 to first week of Jan 2017 i lost 38lbs and 8 percent body fat eating right everyday one day i cheated the next day I worked out it took me 3 days to get back to performance and at that I didn't cheat going crazy so u can't have change if u dont make one @Look_Its_Kriss0
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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »fdnando2879 wrote: »Doesn't matter if u count calories or not what u intake is what matters that's what changers your body loses your weight and also performance 1 cheat day throws your whole workout off for the next day or the next time u workout from Nov 2016 to first week of Jan 2017 i lost 38lbs and 8 percent body fat eating right everyday one day i cheated the next day I worked out it took me 3 days to get back to performance and at that I didn't cheat going crazy so u can't have change if u dont make one @Look_Its_Kriss
Okay so, My next question is.. I started on MFP May 1 2015 (252lbs), i was 300 pounds.
Between then and now, every single day i ate chocolate 3 times per day, once after lunch, after supper and at the end of the night... 4 times if i felt like having it at breakfast time too..
I also ate KFC.. mcdonalds.. from time to time.
I am 140 pounds now. Only thing i did was count calories and monitor my calories in and out.
I went from morbidly obese to being able to run 10K.. my performance improved.
How did i do it since i never really removed those things from my daily life?
232-148 in past 9 months, I just got back from mcdonalds and beers
Omnomnom. walked 40 miles this week (been a slow week admitedly But i earned it.) Thats ALL you need to guy above. Calories in calories out 1 -
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oh god. I like whiskey/rum/wine/beer. And yeah no i dont eat when i drink often. Id lose it XD
But yeah to tie it in, I didnt need an excuse for beer and noms because i worked for it
Plus, Delicious, Like cmon0 -
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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »Hahaha.. yeah
I definitely have to be in an environment where there is no food where we are drinking.
Doesnt help that sean wants me to not lose anymore weight he likes my curves XD He likes to offer me food. Often. And more beer. I had to tell myself no to the food most the time so i can say yes to the beer XD
No excuses, No guilt, Just compromise and deliciousness0 -
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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »The guy i am with is a professional cook. lol
He's got the whole beer keg thing going on, i told him to keep it, i like my men meaty lol
seans a fighter hes fit as hell >.> motivates me to remain my sexy self and improve on my toning I like the push 0 -
fdnando2879 wrote: »Doesn't matter if u count calories or not what u intake is what matters that's what changers your body loses your weight and also performance 1 cheat day throws your whole workout off for the next day or the next time u workout from Nov 2016 to first week of Jan 2017 i lost 38lbs and 8 percent body fat eating right everyday one day i cheated the next day I worked out it took me 3 days to get back to performance and at that I didn't cheat going crazy so u can't have change if u dont make one @Look_Its_Kriss
Interesting that you feel that way. I started at about 280+ lbs in January 2014. My aim was to walk at least 5000 steps a day, every day. Accomplished that in April for the first time.
Joined MFP in late November 2014 at about 230lbs because I was about to say screw it and give up because "there is no way in *kitten* I can live the rest of my life like this"
The rest of it is on MFP. I don't think I've averaged less than 2000 Calories eaten for any length of time on mfp other than perhaps the very first weeks before I had started educating myself.
I think last year in the summer I put up a thread for the previous 12 months where I was 20-25lbs down while eating on average 2775 Cal a day.
BTW I am 172cm (5ft 7.7") and about 156.5 nowadays.
BTW #2 I do the OCCASIONAL push up. Otherwise I find excuses to walk. 2-3 times a day. To McDonald's. For coffee, mostly. And elsewhere. My Fitbit goal is 15725. It used to be a tdee of 3100 (it no longer is). I do mostly hit it (the goal, not the tdee, these days I am closer to 2750 in reality)
BTW #3 I am setup as very active on MFP and usually my Fitbit gives me extra calories.
BTW #4. I no longer feel that what I am doing is unsustainable and about to fail.
BTW #5. Your rate of loss is excessive and guaranteed to eventually cost you more lean mass than it has to. I doubt it is sustainable long term.
Best of luck.
P.S. ice cream cones and chocolate bars are great. So is bread. So are steaks or.... If you don't figure out how to deal with whatever "temptation" is for you, what will happen on the day it is in front of you? Or on the day an injury stops you from going to the gym for a month?
PS2, the thread I mentioned, sorry am on phone, search for: "I need to lose weight! 1200 Cal? 1500 Cal? or 2775 Cal @ 50% carbs and 165g sugar?". Hey, I'll bump it for you! ;-)
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fdnando2879 wrote: »Doesn't matter if u count calories or not what u intake is what matters that's what changers your body loses your weight and also performance 1 cheat day throws your whole workout off for the next day or the next time u workout from Nov 2016 to first week of Jan 2017 i lost 38lbs and 8 percent body fat eating right everyday one day i cheated the next day I worked out it took me 3 days to get back to performance and at that I didn't cheat going crazy so u can't have change if u dont make one @Look_Its_Kriss
Not everyone is trying to reach 8% body fat, man, and even if they were, 3 days is not a long time! Everyone needs a treat sometimes and even competitive body builders don't stay super lean all the time. It would drive anyone nuts.
I agree excuses don't cut it, but neither does your super-extreme mindset.1
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