melodyis4reals wrote: » Daily Post: Tuesday Track: Yes Calories: Under Exercise: Walked 14,000+ steps Are Fitbit calorie adjustments really accurate?
digger61 wrote: » hippienana wrote: » AB0215 wrote: » cydneebauman wrote: » Track: Yes Calories: Under Exercise: some abs and arms tonight at home. It's been raining all day so no walk. Im addicted to popcorn. I can't stop eating it. Send help. @cydneebauman I was addicted to it too, and maybe try to find an alternative to start transitioning to? I gave it up when I went Keto, but there are low calorie snacks you can transition to.. So AB0215 you do Keto? I do as well and I feel so much better. 14lbs down since April 1st. 11 more to go before my husband starts. He told me he would start Keto if I lost 25 lbs so the game is afoot. LOL. I also follow Push for your better on facebook which is a Keto blog that has so much good info from a woman who has lost over 100 lbs since March 2017. Check it out. Nice to have a Keto buddy in this challenge. I am doing keto too down 40 so far
hippienana wrote: » AB0215 wrote: » cydneebauman wrote: » Track: Yes Calories: Under Exercise: some abs and arms tonight at home. It's been raining all day so no walk. Im addicted to popcorn. I can't stop eating it. Send help. @cydneebauman I was addicted to it too, and maybe try to find an alternative to start transitioning to? I gave it up when I went Keto, but there are low calorie snacks you can transition to.. So AB0215 you do Keto? I do as well and I feel so much better. 14lbs down since April 1st. 11 more to go before my husband starts. He told me he would start Keto if I lost 25 lbs so the game is afoot. LOL. I also follow Push for your better on facebook which is a Keto blog that has so much good info from a woman who has lost over 100 lbs since March 2017. Check it out. Nice to have a Keto buddy in this challenge.
AB0215 wrote: » cydneebauman wrote: » Track: Yes Calories: Under Exercise: some abs and arms tonight at home. It's been raining all day so no walk. Im addicted to popcorn. I can't stop eating it. Send help. @cydneebauman I was addicted to it too, and maybe try to find an alternative to start transitioning to? I gave it up when I went Keto, but there are low calorie snacks you can transition to..
cydneebauman wrote: » Track: Yes Calories: Under Exercise: some abs and arms tonight at home. It's been raining all day so no walk. Im addicted to popcorn. I can't stop eating it. Send help.
AB0215 wrote: » @gjaholy33 You know gains here and there are part of the process, hang in there!! You've been doing so well!! Keep up the great work and you'll be down again next week!@grizziegriz You are doing great, maybe the goal should be to slowly bring down your calories a little each day, that way you can get them closer to where you want to be, but don't necessarily notice the sharp decrease...@melodyis4reals Fitbit calorie adjustments can be relatively accurate and that really depends, it seem the translation from fitbit to mfp does seem to be a bit higher than I'd expect. I would say that the exercise calories that fitbit calculates are relatively accurate if it uses your heart rate, BUT it seems high when it imports into MFP and I never eat back my exercise calories, I just like seeing the estimates as it's encouraging to me to see that I'm burning calories and working hard, but I don't use it for anything other than that. I love that you took a walk at lunch! I went to a funeral Monday and had some time between the service and the dinner celebration, and I used that time to go to the gym, when you make this a lifestyle change, everything changes!!!@303lissy You're doing great! Hang in there, we have all done the mindless eating, and I STILL have to watch it or I still do it, you will get there, maybe you can make adjustments during the rest of the week to sort of offset the goldfish....@hippienana I have been keto since July of 2017, and I love it. I've lost 90 lbs and I have NEVER felt better, I don't have cravings for candy, sugar, etc, and it makes IF SO much easier and I am able to workout completely fasted and I love how I feel free from food, and in general, my health has DRAMATICALLY improved since I started eating this way.@nbatch456 I love your attitude, one foot in front of the other! Going to use that one, it's a great reminder!@jmitts2 Great loss this week! You're going to be there in no time!!@batgirl140 You are doing great and I love that you're doing Taekwondo!!@SLIMn2016 You are killing it everyday!! You are amazing! Inspirational!@o0kody0o Great job changing it up! Boredom usually leads me down a dark path and I wind up doing or eating something I shouldn't! Great job taking steps to keep that from happening!!@vicky2767 Hang in there, and get back into it for tomorrow, you GOT this!@CindyJNC1963 Awesome day!! You crush it everyday! Such an inspiration!
genajonas wrote: » Hello all, hope everyone is well. Just wanted to apologize for last month. I was in a bad place mentally with my weight loss. I felt like such a failure. My weight seemed to either stand still or go the wrong way on the scale. I was also having a problem adjusting to the changes my body was going through. Everything was sort of soft and jiggly and I couldn't handle it. Let me explain a little about my journey. I now know that I cannot rely on the scale as I am losing fat and building muscle which is not an easy task. I work with a personal trainer 5 days a week, I attempt to achieve 20,000 steps daily and I was eating super clean. Well that is until I began to stress about the loose fat and I went back to my old ways. I am an emotional eater, food is my comfort or at least use to be, now it just make me feel horrible when I eat junk. Anyway my goal is to be fit enough to compete in a show just once. I have a long road ahead but I am determined. You guys are great and it felt good to be able to post, vent or ask for advice which I did in March. I really don't know how I let it get so out of hand in April and I am sorry if I messed up this competition. Wanted to give a special Thank You to Ashley for lending an ear and giving sound advice. So if you guys have room for me I would love to come back to the group. Week#1: May 1, 2019 Username: genajonas PW: 206.8 CW: 208
genajonas wrote: » Hello all, hope everyone is well. Just wanted to apologize for last month. I was in a bad place mentally with my weight loss. I felt like such a failure. My weight seemed to either stand still or go the wrong way on the scale. I was also having a problem adjusting to the changes my body was going through. Everything was sort of soft and jiggly and I couldn't handle it. Let me explain a little about my journey. I now know that I cannot rely on the scale as I am losing fat and building muscle which is not an easy task. I work with a personal trainer 5 days a week, I attempt to achieve 20,000 steps daily and I was eating super clean. Well that is until I began to stress about the loose fat and I went back to my old ways. I am an emotional eater, food is my comfort or at least use to be, now it just make me feel horrible when I eat junk. Anyway my goal is to be fit enough to compete in a show just once. I have a long road ahead but I am determined. You guys are great and it felt good to be able to post, vent or ask for advice which I did in March. I really don't know how I let it get so out of hand in April and I am sorry if I messed up this competition. Wanted to give a special Thank You to Ashley for lending an ear and giving sound advice. So if you guys have room for me I would love to come back to the group.
AB0215 wrote: » Today's motivational quote is from Thomas Edison and seeing some of your comments, I think it's fitting. Thomas Edison was often questioned about his failure in making the lightbulb and his response was always the same. I did not fail, I just found 2000 ways how not to make a light bulb. We can apply his sound logic to our weight loss and fitness journey. We may not always succeed, but we will most certainly not succeed if we don't get back into it. And we can move forward with the knowledge that what we just tried did not work so we can try something else. Let's move forward and try something else (if we need to, not all of us need something else!)!! We got this team! Let's make May our month!!
SLIMn2016 wrote: » but artificial sweeteners has been linked to so many health issues---cancer and neurological issues as well. Have you tried Zevia natural sodas? I drink them--made with stevia... I really like them as an alternative to soda.... or you could make your own with seltzer water, a little lemon and swerve too!
genajonas wrote: » Hello all, hope everyone is well. Just wanted to apologize for last month. I was in a bad place mentally with my weight loss. I felt like such a failure. My weight seemed to either stand still or go the wrong way on the scale. I was also having a problem adjusting to the changes my body was going through. Everything was sort of soft and jiggly and I couldn't handle it. Let me explain a little about my journey. I now know that I cannot rely on the scale as I am losing fat and building muscle which is not an easy task. I work with a personal trainer 5 days a week, I attempt to achieve 20,000 steps daily and I was eating super clean. Well that is until I began to stress about the loose fat and I went back to my old ways. I am an emotional eater, food is my comfort or at least use to be, now it just make me feel horrible when I eat junk. Anyway my goal is to be fit enough to compete in a show just once. I have a long road ahead but I am determined.
AB0215 wrote: » @tinak33 Glad you went out on your date, sounds fun. Well, I take that back, I never really liked "dates" and I can't tell you the last time I went out on a first date because well I've been married 9 years and well, yeah, glad you had a good time, and if you're really worried about it, you can adjust over the week and plan for it better, for next time, and the same thing applies, even if your weight is up this week, you can still adjust and help it go back down a bit faster for next time!! You're doing great and one day isn't going to kill you!
