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Knocks on wood, soon sounds good!
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Knocks on wood, soon sounds good
Well Yakky, if I had been more serious and motivated “soon” would have been yesterday. I just can’t seem to stay in the game consistently. Trying to overcome the head fog.
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Nods, completely understand.... there is a time and place when we get an urge and can move forward again.
I do not 'white knuckle' well - and, I get overwhelmed pondering too far ahead... i can't bear 'never' ideas - just what I can handle today, this week… and that evolves with circumstances…
Deep breath, don't beat yourself up, point forward… ;)
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Up two pounds down three. Up four down two. Same thing week after week 🫣. Definitely know how to do this but can’t get my *kitten* in gear!
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a day at a time and then you stich them all together!
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I am at my highest weight ever (279). I feel like *kitten* because of it.
I did walk 14k+ steps Friday and 17k+ on Saturday. Yesterday no where near that, but I did do some walking. Today though… today I am resting. My body aches.
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That is a lot of stepping for that weight (ask me how I know)🤣
I think I was only occasionally going as high as 10k steps before I got to below 250
And for sure I had multiple blisters and all such🤷🏼♀️
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I am at my highest weight ever (279). I feel like *kitten* because of it.
I did walk 14k+ steps Friday and 17k+ on Saturday. Yesterday no where near that, but I did do some walking. Today though… today I am resting. My body aches.
Been there - and more- Athijade. Hopefully with better eating the weight will drop.
I found exercise improved my endurance and health but did little for weight loss. It’s really more about food choices and amount of calories honestly. I’m sure your support doc and RD will help you along.2 -
Weight can go up and down so much, I like to look at the long term graph. When I see that, I'm happy with the trend. I've been trending about 5-7 lbs a month for the last year, but it has slowed the last couple of months (now at ~27% of my total weight lost).
this is easier to see on the phone app, you have to hunt it down on the website.
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@rms62003 - that's heck of a trend progress!
Inspired.
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Mr. PAV - question about your recent longish post in Introduce Yourself. You said you regained about 15 pounds in 2023 which you managed over time to lose in the subsequent months.
I am at a very stable weight (like anlmost an year!) albeit 15 pounds over where I want to be. How or what got you back on track to lose the regain? Did you just wake up one day and say “enough already”? Any special changes?
I just can’t seem to get the loss started. Mercifully it’s not getting bigger.2 -
will reply but too caught up to do so. Not sure that there's a great insight to be gleamed. Also trying to figure out some data because I am almost sure that there were extra ups and downs on the scale but they are "siloed" as I haven't been as much of a paragon of data keeping as I used to be in the past. Also it looks like the years are starting to run together :) so I have to sort of separate them! 😂🤣
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Funny - got a haircut and lost a half pound! And I have verrrry short hair anyway.
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I am losing weight- in ounces. Verrrry slow but not making myself crazy in the process.
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Hang in Yooly
We are having flaming hot days and air is not moving, humid with wildfire smoke - my body is sucking up liquid in defense. So miserable.
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We are having flaming hot days and air is not moving, humid with wildfire smoke - my body is sucking up liquid in defense. So miserable.
oh how I can relate- except it’s that way in central Texas from May through October. Except no wildfires this year. This week an “unusual” cool down. Because it’s under 💯 degrees!
Tired of salads, things out of cans, cold smoothie thingies, cheese and crackers, and gallons of water….. occasionally I’ll make a regular warm/hot meal but it’s just not as satisfying in summer. Feels heavy and hard to digest when it’s hot 🥵.
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I was a little surprised at the scale today - 215.2! I changed up my calorie goal and have been doing calorie cycling the last two months, and lost about 7 lbs in July and August, think it's been a good thing. (Do three 'high' days a week, and four 'low days' to average out to 1700 calories a day by the end of the week.)
I've been focusing more on my weekly calories over the daily. There have been a few days that I go a little over my count, but I just even it out on my high days.
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Do you guys know how painful it is not to be able to go back to edit--for someone like me? 🤦🏻♂️😡😡😡
Being willing to try to adapt is necessary I think for the longer term. As is slowly understanding what one's personal limits may be.
I see nothing wrong at all with focusing on weekly averages. What would not work for me would be three or four high days in a row. Or low days that are punitively low.
The past year and a bit, after accepting that it causes irreversible data loss, I've actually started a "balancing" entry to try to whittle down overages over an extended time period. I.e. I move it forward and drop off no more than 200 Calories at a time. Only rule is that if it hits 2000 I have to have a decision on how to deal with it to reduce it to 1000. I e. Either take the 1000k over goal that day or spread it back 🤣
In the end it all gets dumped into the same body so… 🤷🏼♀️
Pretty sure this would not have been great for me a few years back. But worrying about daily balance would not be great for me today.... hence adapting is part of the game!😊
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I have never heard a 'diet name' description of what I am doing philosophically... but I fell into it to stop bargaining with promises to future fix... to eat more now... such as eat these extra cookies today and exercise extra tomorrow kind of thing.
I just, for now, am separating eating events. Breakfast choices, eat, stop. Lunch, eat, stop. Dinner, same. I take maintenance cals, divide by 4 and can eat up to 4 meals/snack events a day.
and same approach for 2 lbs/week rate of weight loss divided by 4.
And that is my high and low calorie target range for meals, day in, day out… up to 4 meals a day, not in between.
Few exceptions but exceptions are infrequent and not counter-balanced against day, days or week.
Food choices for macros/meals fit the myplate design - somewhat low carb as well ranging at times towards keto - for health & appetite reasons..
It has been an experience working with the RD. Explored much, kept a bit and it helped reaffirm my preferences.
Looks like we are wrapping up in Sept with more on choices for anti-inflamation, gut health, whatnot.
I conclude that I still need to understand 'how much' is appropriate, and not too much - I absolutely still need to understand how much I am eating - without getting too tied up in the mechanics... which is why I think the myplate by meal/target range is working well for me right now.
It may need to evolve or be tweaked as I lose - for sure, my ranges will be lowered as needed...
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So - post cruise weigh in this morning. About 5 pounds of ten days cruise damage. However my ankles are still a bit swollen and am having fat fingers. Hoping to pee a few pounds off? I’m thinking it’s closer to 2-3 pounds. Remarkable considering the never ending feasting!
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Yakky the I will start tomorrow or next week thing absolutely was an issue for me -- hence my comment that it would not have worked for me in the past!
My eye caught 2 lbs a week. Unless you're quite high up there in terms of your total weight, that's quite aggressive!
Open cards. I've averaged for various time periods more than 2 lbs a week. When I was ready to quit and found MFP I was pulling a 1 lb loss every couple of days. But my "large" loss during my first year on MFP averaged just a fraction less than 1.5lbs a week when taken over the year.
And my personal take is that it WAS as to the limit of how fast I should have gone. While feeling great there were multiple signs along the way that I was pushing at the edges.And yes, the brain takes a LOT of time to adjust.
Anyway. was looking for something else… and I stumbled on the academy of Nutrition and dietetics "play-book" :)0 -
swollen? from airplane? you all good?
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swollen? from airplane? you all good?
Oh so much going on physically! Achy joints, ankle balloons up, fatigue. More doctors appointments…..
But considering the alternatives- I am
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Awesome Yooly! Hopefully the extra water leaves! When we travel, by about 6th meal, I get head2toe puffy just from salty foods!
Pav, would agree... 2 lbs/week would be super agressive for me and I have never sustained that.
My range for total cals for a day is set between maintenance cals and lose 2 lbs/wk cals.
Divided across 4 meals a day. Any qty I eat between those targets is ok...
My usual hard stop is maintenance, unless infrequent exception like holiday feast, travel, whatnot.
I've averaged 1 lb/week this year using the ranges approach - it is emotionally easier than a fixed target.
Except... stopping at enough when my tongue is doing a happy dance like with the strawberry swirled cheesecake served at dinner tonight.
Menu said 600 cals, enjoyed 1/2 = 300cals, + 400 for dinner of plank smoked salmon, seasonal grilled vegs & baby reds, and a small dinner salad about another 100c. So figure 800 for the infrequent meal out...
I can live with that. Back to regular meals/ranges tomorrow.
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Back to work after my week in Honduras. I was pleasantly surprised to be the same weight when I got back. After losing some water weight, was actually 212.5 on Monday. Happy to have had some weight loss while on my mission trip (ate breakfast and dinner, did bring some snack stuff for lunch. Lunch was cooked by locals, and I wasn't that trusting of the cleanliness where we were at.)
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That's great! Sounds like you are on a roll right back into your routine!
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Hope you accomplished much on your trip to Honduras rms62003! It sounds like you had a good plan and stuck with it.
I, on the other hand, indulged with abandon on my cruise. Even with that I am now only 3 pounds over precruise weight. I think perhaps I have actually developed some better eating habits/preferences over time. I found it impossible to overeat every day. The one time I did I was uncomfortable and mighty unhappy.2 -
Yakky's plan sounds good. Flexible while making progress.
I hope water is running away for Yooly!
Trip to Honduras sounds very fulfilling and interesting --- though a tiny bit scary with the food and all! 🤔
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I hit my new lowest adult weight today.
157.6lbs
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