TEAM: The Big Butt Theory (January)
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mickey10111 wrote: »Mini Challenge 1/7
Tracking: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise: Yes
Today was leg day at the gym. Did probably 1.5 hours of strength training exercises, squats, deadlifts, sumos, extensions, leg lifts, etc. It was a really great workout. Eating, even though not good nutritious food, was still under calories.
Tomorrow is an early weigh in day before I head to Ireland. I hope it isn’t worse than last week.
Way to leave for Ireland (very exciting, BTW!) with this great workout as your last memory!! It'll make it easier to recall, and then resume, once you return home!1 -
I finally saw a decent loss on the scale this morning. And considering my weigh-in day isn't til Friday that gives me hope that this week will break my wall down and get in the right direction4
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@mikea2g
Those kinds of issues are why I stopped using fitbit - and I am in no way saying ppl should stop using fitbit. It is a great tool, and you and others seem to get a benefit from it.
But personally I found that things like that bothered me and had me not tracking calories properly. And that had me actually not losing weight anymore.
Anyway, I hope it continues to provide value for you.
So, Erik, you don't use it at all, or you don't have it hooked up to MFP? I just use mine for steps, and challenges, but not calories burned. We have a step challenge group started (thanks to Mike!) for anyone with a Fitbit.1 -
@mikea2g
Those kinds of issues are why I stopped using fitbit - and I am in no way saying ppl should stop using fitbit. It is a great tool, and you and others seem to get a benefit from it.
But personally I found that things like that bothered me and had me not tracking calories properly. And that had me actually not losing weight anymore.
Anyway, I hope it continues to provide value for you.
So, Erik, you don't use it at all, or you don't have it hooked up to MFP? I just use mine for steps, and challenges, but not calories burned. We have a step challenge group started (thanks to Mike!) for anyone with a Fitbit.
It started as not just hooked up to MFP. But it’s been about a year or more since I have used it at all0 -
January 7
Tracking: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes
60 min yoga 🧘♀️ & meditation 🧘♂️
40 min walk
17 min cardio
Steps: 10285
Water:102 oz3 -
@erikNJ, I have the same issues as you do about Fitbit the biggest issues for me though was I had to charge mine every day. It was more of a pain so I ended up switching to a garmin. At one point I disconnect it to MFP until I bought my garmin. The garmin you don’t charge so I can use it swimming.
As far as it not tracking correctly the calories we burn, I manually input my exercising calories.
Btw, congrats on the scale dropping 1 -
January 7, 2019
Tracking: Yes
Under: No
Exercise: No
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1/7/2019
Tracking: yes
Under: no
Execise: no2 -
MINI CHALLENGE
DATE: Monday, January 7, 2018
Logged food: Yes
Under calories: Yes
Exercised: Yes - 30 minute medium hard elliptical / 10 minutes stretching
Steps as of posting: 13,926
I have a random complaint of the day. I feel like you should get tons of steps and calories burned for making dinner. Not sure if y’all do, but I sure don’t. I leave the kitchen after an hour of prepping, cooking, cleaning and feel exhausted, ready for a drink(dinner for 4 picky eaters ((including me))). I think, “surely that counted as active minutes and at least 2000 steps”. Not at all
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Awww mike. I am in the same boat. I cook for 5. I have to make my dinner first so I can eat as I go or else I will never eat. 2 eat the same, 1 is super picky and another isn't picky at all and loves all the fixings. I usually make the same meal, 4 different ways. But i understand what you mean, seems for the amount of energy spent you should get more steps for it2 -
Jan 7
Exercise yes
Calories yes
Tracked yes
Sunday yes
Monday yes
Tuesday yes
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@mikea2g
Those kinds of issues are why I stopped using fitbit - and I am in no way saying ppl should stop using fitbit. It is a great tool, and you and others seem to get a benefit from it.
But personally I found that things like that bothered me and had me not tracking calories properly. And that had me actually not losing weight anymore.
Anyway, I hope it continues to provide value for you.
@erikNJ
It doesn’t really bother me. Just something to complain about. If it wasn’t that it would be something else. Overall I’m loving the Fitbit, even with its overinflated calories (for me at least). I have a good idea what I’m burning based on average loss over last 5 months. So I just stick with that number to keep losing (theoretically) at a steady rate. 2 -
Mini Challenge
1/8
tracked: yes
calories: yes,
exercise: yes, 2hr physical project at work. Came home and did a kettlebell workout
Sun: no
Mon: yes
Tue: yes3 -
Mini Challenge
1.8.19
Tracked: Yes
Calories: Over by 300
Exercise: no1 -
I am going on Day #2 of eating at a deficit. Haven't gotten back into exercise yet, but I'll take the under calories as my small win of the day, for now!!5
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MINI CHALLENGE
DATE: Tuesday, January 8, 2018
Logged food: Yes
Under calories: Yes
Exercised: Yes - 2 hour slow pace walk. Kids had a field trip to some botanical gardens and we walked all around.
Steps as of posting: 11,9032 -
January 8 Tues
Calories - ✅
Tracking - ✅
Exercise - ✅ (5k Run/Morning Walk/Treadmill/Yoga/Tai Chi)
Steps - 19,297
Water - 84oz3 -
January 7
Tracking- yes
Calories- yes
Exercise- yes (1 mile walk)
January 8
Tracking- yes
Calories-- yes
Exercise- yes ( walk away the pounds 1mile walk)2 -
Weigh in-
Last week 210
This week 212
Hasn’t been a good couple weeks. I have been sick the past week, between holiday eating, no exercise & no tracking, the numbers are going in the wrong direction. Hope to start perking back up & getting back in to the swing of things.3 -
1/8:
Tracking: yes
Under: yes
Exercise: yes 30 min treadmill1 -
I just can't do this. ive gained 2.2 lbs since the start of this. Im thinking just eating what I want would be less calories than eating healthing all day and then bingeing. It has to be less calories since im gaining now. I feel like giving up, again.4
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PhatStax69 wrote: »I just can't do this. ive gained 2.2 lbs since the start of this. Im thinking just eating what I want would be less calories than eating healthing all day and then bingeing. It has to be less calories since im gaining now. I feel like giving up, again.
Perseverance man! Think in terms of months, not weeks.
Also, are you logging accurately with eating healthy? Weighing everything? When I started weighing things it showed how off I was with cups of solids.
Next, why not eat what you want but in smaller amounts so you don’t binge? That’s what a lot of people on the forums say. Most of the time I like feeling full over having that “fix” of what I use to eat. You can get a lot more chicken than brownie for 200 calories. But i also have some brownie, just make it smaller and if it goes over calories, do some more exercise.
Simply put, you need to do the right things more than not over a longer period of time.
-Weigh and log food accurately
-Eat at a deficit
-Enjoy the foods you want, just control portions and make it fit in your daily calorie goal
-Exercise when you can
-Think in terms of months, not weeks
-Find alternative rewards for specific small goals. (Food use to be my reward, now it’s other things. I got a Fitbit as a reward, new clothes, etc)
-drink a ridiculous amount of water
-be aware that if you binge you will gain a lot of water weight
-be aware if you exercise hard (weight lifting) you can have water retention.
One last thing. I had a hard time losing weight many times. I use to think it was because of this or that special thing about me and my needs. I needed a special super restrictive diet because I’m an all or nothing type of person. I finally realized I’m not special and all the common advice actually applied to me. I finally realized I had to do all the little things mentioned above. And above all else I finally realized this journey was going to take a long time and be freaking difficult.
By the way, almost 6 months in and it’s still a challenge to make the right food choices. It’s a challenge I face everyday. I think a lot of people do.
Bottom line: stick to the fundamentals and give it time. Barring health conditions, if you eat less than you burn over a period of time, you will lose weight! You can do this!
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PhatStax69 wrote: »I just can't do this. ive gained 2.2 lbs since the start of this. Im thinking just eating what I want would be less calories than eating healthing all day and then bingeing. It has to be less calories since im gaining now. I feel like giving up, again.
Perseverance man! Think in terms of months, not weeks.
Also, are you logging accurately with eating healthy? Weighing everything? When I started weighing things it showed how off I was with cups of solids.
Next, why not eat what you want but in smaller amounts so you don’t binge? That’s what a lot of people on the forums say. Most of the time I like feeling full over having that “fix” of what I use to eat. You can get a lot more chicken than brownie for 200 calories. But i also have some brownie, just make it smaller and if it goes over calories, do some more exercise.
Simply put, you need to do the right things more than not over a longer period of time.
-Weigh and log food accurately
-Eat at a deficit
-Enjoy the foods you want, just control portions and make it fit in your daily calorie goal
-Exercise when you can
-Think in terms of months, not weeks
-Find alternative rewards for specific small goals. (Food use to be my reward, now it’s other things. I got a Fitbit as a reward, new clothes, etc)
-drink a ridiculous amount of water
-be aware that if you binge you will gain a lot of water weight
-be aware if you exercise hard (weight lifting) you can have water retention.
One last thing. I had a hard time losing weight many times. I use to think it was because of this or that special thing about me and my needs. I needed a special super restrictive diet because I’m an all or nothing type of person. I finally realized I’m not special and all the common advice actually applied to me. I finally realized I had to do all the little things mentioned above. And above all else I finally realized this journey was going to take a long time and be freaking difficult.
By the way, almost 6 months in and it’s still a challenge to make the right food choices. It’s a challenge I face everyday. I think a lot of people do.
Bottom line: stick to the fundamentals and give it time. Barring health conditions, if you eat less than you burn over a period of time, you will lose weight! You can do this!
This, simply put, is excellent, Mike!! Thank you for taking a moment to share your wisdom, which you have garnered over time. It is spot on, in my opinion.3 -
PhatStax69 wrote: »I just can't do this. ive gained 2.2 lbs since the start of this. Im thinking just eating what I want would be less calories than eating healthing all day and then bingeing. It has to be less calories since im gaining now. I feel like giving up, again.
@PhatStax69, Hang in there, Keith! Mike has given you some excellent suggestions; I hope you find something in there that works for you.
I do have a question for you. Why is it you think you are bingeing? Is it because you are denying yourself certain foods, or is it because you are still feeling hungry at the end of the day? Making some foods taboo almost never works...you are better off to incorporate a smaller serving into your daily calorie goal, like Mike suggested. And if they are trigger foods for you, they probably shouldn't be in the house. But, if you are bingeing at night because you are still feeling hungry, you may need to make your daily deficit smaller. Yes, it would mean losing at a slower rate, but losing is better than gaining! And make sure you are drinking your water. It really does help to make you feel fuller so you never reach that ravenous point. But don't wait until you are ravenous to start drinking.....it won't cut it then!!2 -
Weigh in-
Last week 210
This week 212
Hasn’t been a good couple weeks. I have been sick the past week, between holiday eating, no exercise & no tracking, the numbers are going in the wrong direction. Hope to start perking back up & getting back in to the swing of things.
Well, the timing of you getting sick is not great, to say the least! Do what you need to to start feeling better, so that you can go full steam ahead as soon as possible!!1 -
PhatStax69 wrote: »I just can't do this. ive gained 2.2 lbs since the start of this. Im thinking just eating what I want would be less calories than eating healthing all day and then bingeing. It has to be less calories since im gaining now. I feel like giving up, again.
Perseverance man! Think in terms of months, not weeks.
Everything Mike said was great advice.
But that first line is what finally got me on track last year. Things do not happen overnight. Start with small things and work towards building them up. We live in a world where we now expect everything immediately, but in reality things don’t often work that way.
I started last year with smaller goals and gradually increased things and changed things as needed. And even then things frustrated me. I’m sure anyone who was in this group around Aug-Sept last year was sick of my whining about how I was stuck at one weight for two months. But I had to realize that is part of this. And while I am about a year into this journey, I may not reach my final goal til I have been at this for years possibly.
I always like to look at this weight loss/health improvement journey as “a job or career”. I started saying that just cause I needed to realize it is something I have to do every day whether I really want to or not. It has grown to represent that much more. Just like a job I am going to have great days/weeks and I am going to have tough times. Just like a job I didn’t start day one and instantly get to where I wanted to be. But with each job I have had, I worked hard to get further.
Pounds lost, Non Scale Victories, Promotions, Rewards. They all come after hard work.5 -
Mini challenge 1/8:
Tracking - yes
Under - yes
Exercise - yes (30 minute walk with my dog since I couldn't get to the gym in the morning)3 -
1/8/2019
Tracking: yes
Under: no
Exercise: yes, walking3 -
PhatStax69 wrote: »I just can't do this. ive gained 2.2 lbs since the start of this. Im thinking just eating what I want would be less calories than eating healthing all day and then bingeing. It has to be less calories since im gaining now. I feel like giving up, again.
@PhatStax69, Hang in there, Keith! Mike has given you some excellent suggestions; I hope you find something in there that works for you.
I do have a question for you. Why is it you think you are bingeing? Is it because you are denying yourself certain foods, or is it because you are still feeling hungry at the end of the day? Making some foods taboo almost never works...you are better off to incorporate a smaller serving into your daily calorie goal, like Mike suggested. And if they are trigger foods for you, they probably shouldn't be in the house. But, if you are bingeing at night because you are still feeling hungry, you may need to make your daily deficit smaller. Yes, it would mean losing at a slower rate, but losing is better than gaining! And make sure you are drinking your water. It really does help to make you feel fuller so you never reach that ravenous point. But don't wait until you are ravenous to start drinking.....it won't cut it then!!
Well after diner yesterday I was stuffed but I still wanted junkfood. I can eat a carton of ice cream or a whole pizza at a time, just stuff myself. yes I am trying to eat healthy foods so I am denying myself junk and fast food.1 -
PhatStax69 wrote: »PhatStax69 wrote: »I just can't do this. ive gained 2.2 lbs since the start of this. Im thinking just eating what I want would be less calories than eating healthing all day and then bingeing. It has to be less calories since im gaining now. I feel like giving up, again.
@PhatStax69, Hang in there, Keith! Mike has given you some excellent suggestions; I hope you find something in there that works for you.
I do have a question for you. Why is it you think you are bingeing? Is it because you are denying yourself certain foods, or is it because you are still feeling hungry at the end of the day? Making some foods taboo almost never works...you are better off to incorporate a smaller serving into your daily calorie goal, like Mike suggested. And if they are trigger foods for you, they probably shouldn't be in the house. But, if you are bingeing at night because you are still feeling hungry, you may need to make your daily deficit smaller. Yes, it would mean losing at a slower rate, but losing is better than gaining! And make sure you are drinking your water. It really does help to make you feel fuller so you never reach that ravenous point. But don't wait until you are ravenous to start drinking.....it won't cut it then!!
Well after diner yesterday I was stuffed but I still wanted junkfood. I can eat a carton of ice cream or a whole pizza at a time, just stuff myself. yes I am trying to eat healthy foods so I am denying myself junk and fast food.
I’m a big fan of self improvement articles, especially specific strategy ones. Something that is helping me is focusing on specific habits and small improvements. I’m linking an article to James clear below. He talks about the compounding effect of 1% improvements.
Maybe for you, 1% improvements would mean eating slightly less ice cream or pizza. Maybe it means backing off the restrictions, eat like you use to, and adding 1% healthier food every day.
Just have to find the strategy that works for you. Find your reason why. Build your positive habits.
Sometimes, when I’m craving hard at night, I pop a Tylenol pm and pass out rather than eat. For me, works great. I wake up feeling way better about myself for not bingeing and as an added bonus, I sleep a lot.
https://jamesclear.com/marginal-gains1
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