Finally losing a little weight!
rhtexasgal
Posts: 572 Member
Well, the last week of May, I decided to institute a diet change. We all know, after our hormones go out of whack, nothing works normally, as it should again. I believe in the CICO mantra so that meant WHAT I was eating was holding me back. I did a few things:
1. Dusted off my food scale
2. Dug out my meal portion containers for my lunches
3. Changed my macros to 35% protein, 35% Fat and 30% carbs AND greatly reduced my sugar consumption, even those found in fruits (at least at first)
It has been almost 8 weeks (will be this week) and I have lost about 7 pounds ... it's slow but it seems to be working! The hardest part is consuming enough protein. I would say that once a week I go over my carbs but that would do that I would have a 1/3 serving of pasta/rice/bread etc. I have greatly reduced overall sugar consumption too. I have a little fruit or higher sugar veggies each day so most sugar carbs are from whole natural foods. I think the lower sugar, more than anything is the key.
I have always naturally done IF so that was not something I needed to institute. I eat my evening meal about 6 p.m. and my first meal of the day is lunch about 12 Noon! I bought a Fitbit Inspire 2 and let is calculate my activities instead of me logging into MFP so I can focus on weight workouts, wogging (walk/jog) with my dog and also getting my extra steps in marching in place etc.
I sort of made losing weight my 2nd job! I will continue to carry on and hope the weight loss does too ...
1. Dusted off my food scale
2. Dug out my meal portion containers for my lunches
3. Changed my macros to 35% protein, 35% Fat and 30% carbs AND greatly reduced my sugar consumption, even those found in fruits (at least at first)
It has been almost 8 weeks (will be this week) and I have lost about 7 pounds ... it's slow but it seems to be working! The hardest part is consuming enough protein. I would say that once a week I go over my carbs but that would do that I would have a 1/3 serving of pasta/rice/bread etc. I have greatly reduced overall sugar consumption too. I have a little fruit or higher sugar veggies each day so most sugar carbs are from whole natural foods. I think the lower sugar, more than anything is the key.
I have always naturally done IF so that was not something I needed to institute. I eat my evening meal about 6 p.m. and my first meal of the day is lunch about 12 Noon! I bought a Fitbit Inspire 2 and let is calculate my activities instead of me logging into MFP so I can focus on weight workouts, wogging (walk/jog) with my dog and also getting my extra steps in marching in place etc.
I sort of made losing weight my 2nd job! I will continue to carry on and hope the weight loss does too ...
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Sounds like a great plan - it's hard to lose weight during this time of life but not impossible- keep it up!1
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Awesome plan!! I love IF. Congratulations.1
