Thoughts, Epiphanies, Insights, & Quotables
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A long list of dietary restrictions ahead this week - reminds me of how much we now include intentionally.
An odd dissonance in my feelings. Since when did I want whole grains, nuts/seeds, color and big fiber??? Call me snookered by surprise, LoL
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I think I missed it! 😎
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Community pages seem to have been cleaned up - for now.
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Yep, nice to be back to regular forums.
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Yep, nice to be back to regular forums.”It does make one wonder WHY someone would do that? Not particularly clever, interesting or smart. Mostly annoying! Guess someone was amused by being obnoxious and disliked by lots of people.
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Yeah, I don't get any of that. Not my cuppa tea.
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Fall leaves, sweaters, frost, harvest decor —- but here in Texas it is still blazing hot 🥵 summer with no rain in sight. It’s the time of year I can barely tolerate because there should be SEASONS !!!!
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What the hades!
Rain arrives tomorrow... muddy footprints...
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But but but..... you have seasons🤷♂️ summer and ... Too Hot To Handle!
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So reran guided setup, adjusted cals and doing some tracking to get a feel on it. Still using myplate for pulling meals together - will probably have some volume increases to leafy salads and brothy veggie soups ;)
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I'm not seeing the previous post right now but I sort of remember you saying you've been losing at almost a pound a week. Which means an effective/ actual deficit of almost 500 Cal per day.
Are you increasing decreasing or keeping the deficit steady? Or keeping the deficit steady while playing with and optimizing other stuff?
Once you start going significantly past the sixth-month mark without major breaks (and breaks, of course, have their own significant dangers in addition to providing benefits)... I would personally aim to create an actual effective deficit such that I would lose 0.5% to 0.25% of body weight per week vs trying for sharper 0.5% to 1% effective losses.
Being quite specific re effective loss and not paper loss.
Because on paper a 200 to 400 Cal deficit (my personal range) could look anywhere from a 1000 Cal a day deficit to a 250 Cal a day overage!
It is the results based on averaging over weeks, not the paper values or one or two weeks that provide actual guidance 🤷♂️
As always your mileage may vary!
Now I'm off to add 100g of tomatoes that I forgot to add to yesterday's log cause I ate them off the vine 🤣🤣🤣😇
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“Now I'm off to add 100g of tomatoes that I forgot to add to yesterday's log cause I ate them off the vine 🤣🤣🤣😇”
Well PAV I wouldn’t worry much about the calories in those fine vine tomatoes 🍅. Minimal damage there. I would caution you about the OHenry bars probably lurking in your pantry…..
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Tomatoes! I hope to do some cherry/grape container tomatoes and strawberries next year.
So had to sleep on my thoughts last night...
When I saw Doc last Oct, I started just trying to maintain for the holidays and that was mindful (but not tracked/diet minded.) and worked pretty well.
Started the managed chronic care in Jan and the RD started us with calorie counting - and try to eat in range maintain to lose 1 lb a week, build meals using a myplate picture.
The mindblower absurdity in going from eat without restriction/feasting (think 3,000+ cals on feast holidays) to losing fast (think the tradition for women at 1200 cals.) - just thinking again, no wonder it is cazymaking - really should be a late night comedy act!!! LoL
So, they wanted us to focus on eating well for the sake of helping the body - and - enjoy the food. Learn how much, learn nourishing foods, approaches. Not link it to scale/weigh-ins, not link it to exercise (since I am not athlete levels for exercise.)
Mind blown at novel approach, totally skeptical, scale/weigh-ins followed, averaging -1 lb/wk.
Why? - Pav, thinking about it... I think because…
In guided set-up I selected 1/2 lb a week with sedentary. I don't tie/adjust/log exercise...
So thinking my actual natural average expenditure has me averaging 1 lb/week instead of food tracker level at 1/2 lb.
Thinking this is the unlogged, untied movement? Yes?
Anyhoo, it has been working, and point taken there may be stalls ahead.
Seems to be working and it's easy emtionally. I'm not all up in it like we (ladies in family dieting fad diets together) were always were doing with the crazy 'diets' then 'quitting' - really surprised, so willing to stay with it for now.
— even now, a bunch of them are doing low calorie carnivore, talking and sharing recipes... I just find it utterly crazy making.
Not to mention the expectation to be martyrs and not go off the diet for the holiday feasts... YOu should see me here,... shaking my head, no no no!!! Lol
(I enjoy and wamt tomatoes!!)
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So a lot of the early post by Novus did mirror a lot of my own thoughts… hence why I gravitated to this group.
Don't mess with what is already working and is not making life hard and miserable in a (misguided) attempt to make things go faster. Faster is not the win in this game. Remaining in the game while heading in the direction you desire IS the game.
This doesn't mean don't adjust when things are no longer work, or if you're feeling the need to change things. But always try to adjust towards sustainability, not to make things "harder".0 -
I would caution you about the OHenry bars probably lurking in your pantry…..
Yooly, I have no idea what you're talking about!
I absolutely have
run out offNO Oh-Henry bars in my closet!
They haven't been on sale for a while and it was only the way LESS FILLING dark chocolate covered marzipan 6x100g and 3x85g Droste that were on sale! 😕I do think that I am perhaps developing a bit of a split personality!
I'm going to blame the AI's! It's THEM; not me!
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I have been considering adding a freezer to handle seasonal stockpiles and more vegs. Spent afternoon prepping weekends snags, but out of space again... i wish we could just know it would be available when desired, same sale price!
Today I chopped, tomorrow will cook. Making big veg soup. Frozen, pre-cut blends are way cool too - hence the desire for freezer! Never anticipated that.
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Get the freezer! It’s a game changer. So much more meal flexibility….
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If power is reliable for sure would recommend… not only sale acquisition but convenience of having the selection and, frankly, that 10 minutes including the nuking time you can go from nothing to semi healthy-ish & semi filling-ish meal. I mean marzipan is even less prep time but it doesn't do too good on fiber! 🤣
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Thinking much about how anxiety, fear and pain suck the joy from life. Need to work harder on joy and regaining a sense of humor.
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constant pain would definitely suck — and would make anyone more prone to being snipe-y!
Getting up half asleep because the hamsters are all yattering about everything that should be going all sure doesn't help anything either!
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Nods, tired/nights makes any/the noise harder - I have to seriously talk back at it and consciously set things aside until later… (another time when I can address it, more rested, event arriving, whatever… or never.)
Naps/night sleep definitely helps, and I'm usually better in the morning until the external news comes on... I have to seriously limit it/pondering what I can do nothing about.
Then there is personally closer things like loved ones health/loss - those hit me more like strong storms, and I just have to keep rowing and pasting a smile on, then doing... until blessed r&r and nap time.
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I had been thinking on those things... because tough few weeks here...
A post in the quotes on MFP forums rang a bell with me:
Four words that will change your life-"I do it anyways".
Tired- I do it anyways.
No support- I do it anyways .
Scared- I do it anyways.
Afraid of failure- I do it anyways.
Fear of rejection- I do it anyways.
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Happy Halloween! Beware of the candy sales tomorrow…..
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Natures m&m's! Kiwi? Lil guy on right?
A fluff news report last night showed a guy handing out potatoes as a joke a few years back ongoing. No kids expected here, but I could dig out potatoes ;)
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Remind me to turn off the lights! Oh yeah…. and put the extra spicy takis bags out for the taking! Mr Negative Congeniality hath spoken!
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