I NEED SERIOUS HELP

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  • kq1981
    kq1981 Posts: 1,098 Member
    edited March 2017
    Sugar is NOT toxic. There are NO scholarly articles or studies proving this.
    Please do not listen to this kind of advice when you are starting. Start small. Learn what works for you. Don't restrict anything! Don't look for a quick fix. Be realistic about your approach and chose to lose a smaller amount of weight loss per week initially until you get the hang of things. this is a journey. Losing weight will not happen overnight as much as we want it too. Start today.
  • Silkysausage
    Silkysausage Posts: 502 Member
    Eat what you like as long as it's under your calorie goal? Oh dear no...so by advocating eating crap in the short term this lady is going to be ok in the long run?? Eating well is a lifestyle and not a short term solution, you need to teach yourself what good food is and how you feel when you eat it.

    Eating well doesn't mean starving yourself, you can actually eat more of the good stuff but you need to limit portion sizes too. Eventually you will want less rubbish as your palate will be more refined and used to the taste of real food. Cook from scratch, don't eat processed and you'll know what went into your dinner. Chemically laden packet stuff will not allow your body to heal and eliminate properly.

    Get online, find some recipes and start there. Meat (or alternative protein), fish (or alternative protein), full fat dairy (or alternative), fruit, veg, nuts & seeds will see you through every day. Avoid refined sugars but eat full fat dairy & meat skin/fat to give you fuel instead.

    Simple honest food, controlled portions, the occasional 'treat' and 30 minutes of exercise a day is the best advice anyone can give.
  • omgstfualready
    omgstfualready Posts: 63 Member
    I'm only a week in (I started last Monday) and just logging will help you make better choices. You will see that a serving of chips is so many calories and didn't fill you up. Just log, the rest will come naturally from there. I know I like carbs, but I'm learning just how much and I need to be more moderate with those choices.

    I've lost, I've gained, over and again. Logging really helps. That way if you know you are having a big meal, you can put it in your log in advance and work around it. That way you can enjoy yourself.

    Another thing I'm doing is only looking at each .2 of a pound (what my scale measures). I may not lose 2 pounds a week, I may not lose 1 pound a week, but every .2 of a pound is just that much closer to being more healthy and more comfortable.

    Good luck.
  • Hoshiko
    Hoshiko Posts: 179 Member
    I'm excited for you! Instead of trying some crazy extreme diet you have everything you need here to start fresh with an attainable plan. Your biggest issue at first, given your schedule, might be burnout from trying to do too much too fast. This has to work within your life and schedule, and it totally can! It sounds like you're going to be working a lot, and commuting on public transit, which is always hard. You can definitely learn to cook and take food with you, but it takes time to learn all of the little tricks that make this easier.

    I've been there. In the past I was working 60 hrs and going to school, with a 3 hr public transit commute. The good news is that being so busy can actually work in your favor, because you're not sitting there snacking out of boredom. The hard part is that your sleep schedule may make you want all of your old comfort foods. You're making some big changes all at once, so you want to make sure you're setting yourself up to succeed at this right from the start.

    My advice is to log everything you eat this week, and learn how the food diary works. Don't try to cut calories right away, just try to understand how much you really eat in a normal day for you. Then, set your loss goal to 1lb/week and make small, sustainable changes to the things you already eat. Make sure you eat things you actually like and do your best to get enough protein and fat.

    It sounds boring, but it totally works. I have a small group of friends who are just starting out. If you ever feel like you need support or have newbie questions feel free to friend me and I'll add you!



  • nrbutton
    nrbutton Posts: 165 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »

    No "eat this not that" No, "high carb, low fat, low carb, high fat, all avocados all the time." No time limits. Eat it all at once in bed at 10PM or eat six little meals. Whatever helps you stay under your calories.

    That's it.


    Go log today's food. Make little changes, prosper. :)

    Well said! Wish I would have known this at 22, would have saved alot of money and frustration. Even after I learned CICO I was still inundated with the 5-6 small meals a day and when you go even 50 calories over at each meal that ends up being 300 calories too much at the end of the day and 2100 calories too much at the end of the week. I learned the hard way I have more control over my intake eating one or two meals when I'm most hungry at the end of the day than spreading it out throughout the day. Plus I just don't have the time or desire to think about what I'm going to eat all day long.

    Great advice
  • Silkysausage
    Silkysausage Posts: 502 Member
    kq1981 wrote: »
    Silkysausage wrote: »
    Eat what you like as long as it's under your calorie goal? Oh dear no...so by advocating eating crap in the short term this lady is going to be ok in the long run?? Eating well is a lifestyle and not a short term solution, you need to teach yourself what good food is and how you feel when you eat it.

    Eating well doesn't mean starving yourself, you can actually eat more of the good stuff but you need to limit portion sizes too. Eventually you will want less rubbish as your palate will be more refined and used to the taste of real food. Cook from scratch, don't eat processed and you'll know what went into your dinner. Chemically laden packet stuff will not allow your body to heal and eliminate properly.

    Get online, find some recipes and start there. Meat (or alternative protein), fish (or alternative protein), full fat dairy (or alternative), fruit, veg, nuts & seeds will see you through every day. Avoid refined sugars but eat full fat dairy & meat skin/fat to give you fuel instead.

    Simple honest food, controlled portions, the occasional 'treat' and 30 minutes of exercise a day is the best advice anyone can give.

    When you're learning about calories in calories out eat what you want in moderation. In the long run you will LEARN what foods keep you satisfied and start taking note of macros and micros. Processed foods? Everything we eat is processed. Chemicals hindering elimination? Nope. Too much information. The op wants to no were to start not were to end up.

    'Food' as in boxed standard American diet is HIGHLY processed, no one needs that in their life, that's what I mean by crap. And yes, eating refined nonsense will hinder the body's processes. And too much info...not really, this is standard by comparison. Where we end up starts with the beginning, how we treat ourselves at the outset means that we don't need to change tack half way through.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,336 Member
    Silkysausage wrote: »
    'Food' as in boxed standard American diet is HIGHLY processed, no one needs that in their life, that's what I mean by crap. And yes, eating refined nonsense will hinder the body's processes. And too much info...not really, this is standard by comparison. Where we end up starts with the beginning, how we treat ourselves at the outset means that we don't need to change tack half way through.

    It's good that you started this whole thing knowing exactly where you needed to end up!

    Maybe you can also make up some daily menus and provide them to the OP so that they don't have to waste their time exploring what will work for them?

    Curious: if the OP has no intention of cooking for themselves and is only interested in ready to eat options and restaurant meals... is there any way that they would ever be able to lose weight?
  • Silkysausage
    Silkysausage Posts: 502 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    Silkysausage wrote: »
    'Food' as in boxed standard American diet is HIGHLY processed, no one needs that in their life, that's what I mean by crap. And yes, eating refined nonsense will hinder the body's processes. And too much info...not really, this is standard by comparison. Where we end up starts with the beginning, how we treat ourselves at the outset means that we don't need to change tack half way through.

    It's good that you started this whole thing knowing exactly where you needed to end up!

    Maybe you can also make up some daily menus and provide them to the OP so that they don't have to waste their time exploring what will work for them?

    Curious: if the OP has no intention of cooking for themselves and is only interested in ready to eat options and restaurant meals... is there any way that they would ever be able to lose weight?

    I'm sorry I won't be expanding further on this...this is my opinion and if she wants to take it then so be it.
  • nrbutton
    nrbutton Posts: 165 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    Silkysausage wrote: »
    'Food' as in boxed standard American diet is HIGHLY processed, no one needs that in their life, that's what I mean by crap. And yes, eating refined nonsense will hinder the body's processes. And too much info...not really, this is standard by comparison. Where we end up starts with the beginning, how we treat ourselves at the outset means that we don't need to change tack half way through.

    It's good that you started this whole thing knowing exactly where you needed to end up!

    Maybe you can also make up some daily menus and provide them to the OP so that they don't have to waste their time exploring what will work for them?

    Curious: if the OP has no intention of cooking for themselves and is only interested in ready to eat options and restaurant meals... is there any way that they would ever be able to lose weight?

    Good point, not all of us have the time or fortitude to go "clean eating only". If I were looking down the road at only eating non-processed, organic, hormone-free, grass-fed, superior food choices only I would become quickly obsessed and quickly self-defeating. Not everyone can adhere to (or even have enough time in the day) to completely change their food choices. It's time consuming just starting to log your daily intake when your starting out. I would guess this poster has plenty to learn just about calories in/calories out to be weighed down right away with all the other "diet necessities" currently out there.

    To put it simply: each pound contains 3500 calories of energy. Each time you eat over what your body uses, it is stored in fat. Each time you eat less than what your body needs, it turns to fat. Simply cutting out 250 calories and increasing your daily activities to burn 250 extra calories then you will be using 500 calories daily over your body's needs. That equals out to 3500 calories a week or 1 pound of fat. Over 52 weeks (1 year) that would equal 52 lbs of fat lost.
  • angel7472
    angel7472 Posts: 317 Member
    Amanda_Brit_Expat wrote: »
    I had no idea about nutrition or how to lose weight, the following post changed my life:
    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1



    I second this!!!! <3
  • njitaliana
    njitaliana Posts: 809 Member
    Hi Cherrell,

    There are lots of things you can eat.

    Yesterday for breakfast, I had 2 pancakes with pure maple syrup and 2 chicken sausage links. Then for lunch, I had a Caesar salad with salmon on it at a restaurant. For dinner, I had crab cakes from the grocery store with veggies. For snack, I had Enlightened Roasted Broad Beans (comes in a bag).

    Today my breakfast was oatmeal with walnuts, flaxseed and berries. For lunch, I had a California omelet with spinach on the side at a restaurant. For dinner, I had a turkey breast lunchmeat sandwich. Snack will be baked kale chips.

    You can vary it up to include things you like, as long as you don't go over your calories.

    You can buy things at the store like a rotisserie chicken or steamed fish from the seafood department, and eat them over a bed of salad. You can buy frozen meals, such as Weight Watchers, Lean Cuisine and Atkins.

    You can cook easy things like hamburgers, with a salad or veggies on the salad. Soups, stews and chili are easy to make. You can find recipes online and even make them in the crockpot to cook while you are at work.

    Things like tuna or canned salmon are good to have on rice cakes or in sandwiches.

    If you like to eat out, read menus online before you go out to see what the calories are. I choose what I will eat and add it into MFP before I go to the restaurant. My daughter doesn't do that--she made the mistake of getting an Oriental chicken salad at Applebees without checking the calories. Here, the salad had 3X the calories of the Shrimp and Parmesan Sirloin, which is her favorite meal. She figured the steak would be too high cal, but it wasn't. So, don't be fooled thinking salad is always the lowest calorie option--some dressings are full of calories, as are some salad toppings. Also, you can order dressing on the side and only use a portion of it.

    Some things I like to eat for breakfast are crustless quiches (look for recipes), 1/2 cup cottage cheese and 1/4 cup nuts, a cut-up apple with 2 Tbsp peanut butter spread on it, yogurt and a muffin, a protein bar and yogurt. There are lots of things besides eggs.

    For lunch, you can have leftovers from dinner, or a sandwich and some cut-up raw veggies. On weekdays, I eat dinner leftovers every day for lunch. It makes it easier.

    You can do this!
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