Weight loss

ashleygroizard

What have you done to lose weight?

ceiswyn

Eaten less. And moved a bit more, but mainly eaten less.

Oh, and completely rewritten my attitude to food and appetite, which is the hard bit.

kilobykilo

I'm still learning, but am on a mission to change my relationship with food.... being more aware of calories and eating foods that are nutrient rich, less processed etc.

Lillymoo01

I ate less and moved more, making sure I was in a calorie deficit. I did this while eating foods that I enjoyed and not eating those I didn't. If I decided that changes needed to be made I did them gradually, rather than all at once. Most importantly I didn't follow any hard and fast rules and did not adhere to any known diet plan because I have read many times that this often leads to yoyo dieting because of their restrictive nature.

sijomial

I ate at a calorie deficit over the course of weeks and months.
Used an IF eating schedule to help make adherence to that process easier for me but that's the tool, along with calorie counting, I picked to make the process easier.

What have you done OP?

Panini911

i eat at a calorie deficit regularly over an extended period of time. for me weighing and logging food is the only way to ensure i eat at a calorie deficit.

you post this question (or one very close to this) over and over. you successfully lost some weight, keep doing what you were doing. what have you tried? Do you really NEED to lose more?

zeejane03

For my active weight loss phase I did ADF/JUDDD (alternate day IF)-which is pretty much calorie cycling.

Now a few years into maintenance I'm in a short weight loss cycle, to get rid of some vanity pounds. I'm doing the NIH's DASH protocol and going by their serving recommendations for various food categories. This is an eating pattern and not a weight loss plan per se, but they do have different calorie levels so I'm following the one that puts me at a .5lb a week deficit (more or less). Keeping things simple and tracking on paper and then in the DASH thread that's going on in the food section of the forum.

cheryldumais

I had dieted most of my life. What I did differently this time was calorie counting. But this time I found the foods I was most happy with for life and then stayed within my allowance eating those foods. We eat out a lot less than before and I cook more. I try to walk 5 or 6 days a week to get some exercise. That's it. Took me almost 60 years to figure it out, lol.

ashleygroizard

I eat less, and cut out alcohol, and quit drugs, and cut out most junk food, and checked out the calories on the back of packets and bottles and cans, swapped normal energy drinks to sugar free energy drinks, increased my walking to a 90 minute walk 3-7 times a week a 7.9km walk, started bike riding, lost my license so I walk everywhere and I walk to bus stop to go thirty minutes or more out of town and walk to the shops and back home, mow the lawn with a push mower, I still eat chocolate I can’t give that up, I’ve cut my food down and eat heaps less, I try not to buy takeaway, I don’t use my deep fryer anymore, I weigh myself first thing in the morning and numerous times through the day and at the end of the day and record in my diary my weight after I get out of bed and after I use the toilet and my end of day weight before bed and I write down everything I eat. That’s all I can remember atm.

bpetrosky

ashleygroizard wrote: »

I eat less, and cut out alcohol, and quit drugs, and cut out most junk food, and checked out the calories on the back of packets and bottles and cans, swapped normal energy drinks to sugar free energy drinks, increased my walking to a 90 minute walk 3-7 times a week a 7.9km walk, started bike riding, lost my license so I walk everywhere and I walk to bus stop to go thirty minutes or more out of town and walk to the shops and back home, mow the lawn with a push mower, I still eat chocolate I can’t give that up, I’ve cut my food down and eat heaps less, I try not to buy takeaway, I don’t use my deep fryer anymore, I weigh myself first thing in the morning and numerous times through the day and at the end of the day and record in my diary my weight after I get out of bed and after I use the toilet and my end of day weight before bed and I write down everything I eat. That’s all I can remember atm.

According to the bolded part you are weighing yourself multiple times during the day and recording it reach time. If this is true, please understand it is unnecessary and counterproductive. Your weight fluctuates during the day because you eat, drink, eliminate and sweat constantly affecting your weight on the scale. That makes it harder to if you are losing fat, not easier.

Have you discussed this behavior with your care team at all? I think they would advise you to weigh no more than once per day.

Also, you don't mention using a food scale as part of your logging,. I'm sure it has been suggested to you in your other threads as a useful tool, so it would bear repeating here as well.

Please be sure to discuss what you are doing with your care team because it does seem like you could be going into eating disorder patterns of though and behavior.