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SmorganA28
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Need help on starting a liquid diet. What do I need to start and what's ways can I stay on track to make it successful? All help wanted please
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Why are you going on a liquid diet? Is it medical?4
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To lose weight is best to find a way of eating that you can sustain over the long term, including after you've lost the weight. Liquid diets are very boring and usually too low in calories which makes them hard to keep up for more than a few days. Unless there is a medical reason, I would look for a different way to lose weight.6
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Has your doctor recommended a liquid diet for a reason? If so - did he/she direct you to a dietician to help with that or discuss any specifics with you? What are your short term & long term goals?
"Liquid diets" are not sustainable in the long run. For me it would not even be sustainable for a short term of a few days.2 -
Oh Sweety (so called because you have such a sweet face!)
You’ve talked about cleanses before. Don’t buy into the cleanses and the liquid diets nonsense. Anything you lose from those will come right back once you start eating solid food again and that ole colon goes back into gear.
Come join us on the slow but successful team. Think of all the weight you could have lost by now
while you were mucking around with the other!16 -
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spiriteagle99 wrote: »To lose weight is best to find a way of eating that you can sustain over the long term, including after you've lost the weight. Liquid diets are very boring and usually too low in calories which makes them hard to keep up for more than a few days. Unless there is a medical reason, I would look for a different way to lose weight.
That's, yea so true, I guess I have to find what works for me, but it's so hard1 -
springlering62 wrote: »Oh Sweety (so called because you have such a sweet face!)
You’ve talked about cleanses before. Don’t buy into the cleanses and the liquid diets nonsense. Anything you lose from those will come right back once you start eating solid food again and that ole colon goes back into gear.
Come join us on the slow but successful team. Think of all the weight you could have lost by now
while you were mucking around with the other!
Thanks hun 😊, yea so true it's so hard to sustain a liquid diet, I tried it for one day and had to eat something by night😔, what types can you give me, I need help dieting is hard and I always feel like I do it wrong2 -
SmorganA28 wrote: »springlering62 wrote: »Oh Sweety (so called because you have such a sweet face!)
You’ve talked about cleanses before. Don’t buy into the cleanses and the liquid diets nonsense. Anything you lose from those will come right back once you start eating solid food again and that ole colon goes back into gear.
Come join us on the slow but successful team. Think of all the weight you could have lost by now
while you were mucking around with the other!
Thanks hun 😊, yea so true it's so hard to sustain a liquid diet, I tried it for one day and had to eat something by night😔, what types can you give me, I need help dieting is hard and I always feel like I do it wrong
It's only wrong if it kills you or makes you sick. IMHO.
Ok, not to simplify this but I'm going to totally simplify this.
At first, let mfp give you a not too aggressive calorie goal.
Log everything you put in your mouth. Weigh solids, measure liquids.
If you exercise, eat about 50-75% of those calories back and if you have an activity tracker synced, I would actually start with what that gives you.
Eat what you want, pay attention to satiety, tweak the foods you eat if you find yourself too hungry.
Weigh yourself however often is comfortable for you and after 4-6 weeks, see where you are, if you've lost or gained, if you were hungry or not...
Make changes if you feel you need to.
And, for the love of god, you couldn't take one day of a liquid diet. No need to torture yourself.
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SmorganA28 wrote: »spiriteagle99 wrote: »To lose weight is best to find a way of eating that you can sustain over the long term, including after you've lost the weight. Liquid diets are very boring and usually too low in calories which makes them hard to keep up for more than a few days. Unless there is a medical reason, I would look for a different way to lose weight.
That's, yea so true, I guess I have to find what works for me, but it's so hard
If it's hard, could it be that you're making it hard? Trying to make it ultra-fast? (Hint: All those reality TV shows, tabloids, ads, talk about losing ultra-fast.) Think about a pound a week, maybe 2 pounds a week if your current weight is well into the 200s pounds. Get a reasonable calorie goal, figure out which foods you like are more filling, and fit in your calorie goal. Experiment and adjust.
Get a calorie goal from MFP, aiming for 0.5% (of your current weight) loss per week. So, if you weigh 200 pounds, go for a pound a week. Set your MFP activity level on your daily life activity (job, home chores, etc.), then log exercise if/when you do some, eat those calories, too. Log every day, even if you go over goal.
Do that for one or two complete menstrual periods, so you can compare your body weight at the same relative point in two or more different cycles. (In between, hormonal water weight is weird.) If your weight loss is very different from what was targeted, adjust your eating. That's really boring, but it will work.
You can start just eating what you eat now, log what you eat, see which things "cost" more calories than they're worth to you, gradually figure out how to hit your calories, feel full, get decent nutrition, eating foods you like that are practical for you.
More details about that kind of approach here:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10636388/free-customized-personal-weight-loss-eating-plan-not-spam-or-mlm/p1
Leave behind the fad diets, trendy named diets: Eat foods you enjoy, figure out how to hit your calorie goal, feel decently full while you do it. Bunches of people here have done basically that, succeeded. (I have: At a healthy weight for 6+ years now, after about 30 previous years of overweight/obesity.)
Every day won't go perfectly. When they don't go perfectly, learn from that, don't beat yourself up. Just figure out the "why", adjust your plan. The rare off day is a drop in the ocean. The majority of our days determine the majority of our progress. Just keep learning and adjusting, stick with it, even if off days happen. It's OK. We're all human.
This is a thing you can do . . . and I wish you success!
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Unless this is medically indicated, it's probably not a good idea.
Simple diets always sound good in theory: don't eat carbs, don't eat solids, etc. But the more limited a diet is, the more difficult it actually is to incorporate into your real day to day life.
Also, there's nothing about eating food in liquid form that will "detoxify" anything.
The main thing a liquid diet does to most people is make them obsess about eating solid food and encourage bingeing.
I've seen liquid diets work wonders for serious medical weight loss patients, but those were urgent cases where the patient had, say, serious liver problems and the doctor needed to 100% control everything the patient was consuming.
That said, I personally always have a liquid meal for breakfast when I'm working, because with my chaotic work schedule, that's the easiest way for me to get a very filling meal in that will keep me full for 6 hours. I always have Vega One mixed with yogurt.
So if you wanted to have a liquid meal for convenience to avoid eating crap when you are rushed, then that would make sense. But I wouldn't do it for every meal, and certainly wouldn't expect to get ANY benefit from doing do.3 -
SmorganA28 wrote: »
An oldie but goodie, though it does ask you to follow some links:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1159755/looking-for-a-detox-cleanse/p13 -
One of the things that got me rolling was creating a smoothie that coincidentally tasted just like a Wendy’s Frosty. I had it every morning for breakfast for a year, not because “liquid diet”, but because it was delicious and nutritious and filling, hydrated me (I use a butt ton of ice in smoothies) and best of all, seemed to satisfy my morning craving for sweets. (I used to start every morning with several donuts and a large bag of candy.I was to sweets what a streetsweeper is to leaves. I’d just mow my way through. )
The above is all great advice from experienced losers (ha!! They’re NOT losers, they’re winners!!!!)
Try changing small things.
Cut out soda and switch to water, seltzer water or diet drinks.
Replace rich coffee or tea add-ins with fat free half and half, zero cal sweeteners or syrups.
Find a lower cal salad dressing. (Strawberry and blueberry balsamic vinegar rocked my diet world. Sweet and tart and a thousand ways to use them.) salsa doesn’t have many calories. There’s zero cal dressings that are quite good.
Replace your sandwich bread with a low cal version. Lewis Bakeries has a really good one. Pepperidge Farm has a fab one- it’s their regular bread, smaller, and cut super thin. I didn’t find that filling but it sure was good.
Replace some of your daily bread with low carb tortilla wraps.
Preplan your meals for a week and think “where can I trim some calories.”
Every Sunday I season and grill a couple of chicken breasts. I chop them and use them in salads and wraps for a nice high protein, low cal lunch or quick snack. A 45 calorie tortilla and 6 ounces of chicken makes a killer pick me up for no more calories than a protein bar.
Think about what you put in your mouth. When you do enjoy a sweet or a chocolate, don’t do it while you’re on your phone or reading. Stop and savor it.7 -
SmorganA28 wrote: »
You do not need to detox.1 -
You have organs inside your body that take care of detox needs.
I take it you need to lose weight and that is why you're here. Are there particular health issues in mind? If so that could help focus a starting point. Are you prediabetic, have high blood pressure, have joint pains? If those or any other medical priorities are on your agenda: start there.
If weight loss is your primary focus, not predicated on other health factors, it is a matter of budget. It is not terribly different from your financial budget. If you earn $X per month, you use that to take care of rent, bills, groceries and such and probably try to save a little or spend a little on things you enjoy. If you spend more than you can afford, you run up debt. If you spend less than you earn, your savings can grow OR you have more to spend on things that you enjoy. Food & nutrition are THE SAME. Your body uses a certain amount of energy in a day, to move you around and keep you alive.
A simple start is to log your food intake now - even if you don't stress over changing the way you eat. Try to be honest and accurate. From there, you can start making little changes. Eat less fried, and more grilled. Use lower calorie condiments (light mayo, mustard) instead of heavier calorie ones. Drink more water and/or sub some diet drinks for sugary high calorie drinks. Be aware of portion sizes. Eat for need, not for boredom. (If stress eating is a thing for you, try to come up with other ideas for stress. Journaling, going for a walk, hitting a punching bag, taking a bubble bath, having a friend you can call when you need to vent.) Be aware that bites, licks, tastes add up. It can be hard to NOT have a bite here & there when you're making food but it can add up.
Little changes, over time, make a difference. Personal motto: I aim for progress NOT perfection. THere is no such thing as being perfect, so striving for it is a futile effort.6 -
You've received some really good advice! What helped me was along similar lines ... I switched to high fiber/local tortillas, and I think my protein powder is yummy and I have that for some dessert most days (I make it creamier by making it with milk).
Bottom line, you want your weight loss "diet" to be something you can continue for life. Eating one way to lose weight, and another once you lose it generally isn't going to yield long-term results. And that's what we're all here for. 1 -
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