How I eat pizza while still losing weight.

highervibes

I think this is really individual so based on your goals maybe you should work backwards? I want to keep the only advantage over the thin I have; which is lean body mass. I lost next to no lean mass and it's calorically expensive to run a body with more lean mass so I get to eat a very humane 1850 calories and still lose.

MrsFowler1069

chicken and brown rice...all day everyday no pizza for me

That sounds miserable and no one should do that to themselves.

BTW, you're not burning 750 calories an hour weightlifting. HRMs vastly overestimate calories burned during strength training.

ok, so what is the point of you telling me that?

To increase your knowledge?

so how should I log weightlifting then?

That's not an easy question to answer. There's a lot of disagreement to it; however, one thing knowledgeable people pretty much all agree on is that HRMs vastly overestimate lifting calorie burn. For various reasons, heart rate increases during lifting are not matched by a corresponding increase in energy usage by the body; as a result, HRMs, which estimate calories through heart rate, overestimate calorie burns. Personally, I generally add about 50-60 calories per hour to what my Fitbit estimates for the lifting time period. Other people do different things. For people who insist on using the HRM in this way, I generally suggest they knock 40% off the number it gives them.

when you knock off 40% weightlifting doesn't really burn that many calories, but I will give it a shot

Well you have to consider the benefit of keeping or building lean mass, afterburn, and does nobody appreciate bone density anymore?!?

i don't really think about those things, i'm a numbers person. I guess when i'm sweating my *kitten* off and lfiting weights and i see I've only burned 280 calories for 40 mins kind of a let down

It's enough for some pizza. : ) And you won't break your leg walking across the kitchen to get it.

I think this is really individual so based on your goals maybe you should work backwards? I want to keep the only advantage over the thin I have; which is lean body mass. I lost next to no lean mass and it's calorically expensive to run a body with more lean mass so I get to eat a very humane 1850 calories and still lose.

The big picture is always more important than one element of weight loss and health.

MrsFowler1069

How I eat pizza while still losing weight:

Step 1) Make sure I end the day in a calorie deficit, no matter what I eat.
Step 2) There is no Step 2.

Yep. : )

Although I will add that alternatives and variety are good....and I really, really liked the cauliflower pizza crust. So did my teenager and the roofers I fed that night. lol I'm not even kidding. But I won't ever give up real pizza either...no reason to.

thekyleo

chicken and brown rice...all day everyday no pizza for me

That sounds miserable and no one should do that to themselves.

BTW, you're not burning 750 calories an hour weightlifting. HRMs vastly overestimate calories burned during strength training.

ok, so what is the point of you telling me that?

To increase your knowledge?

so how should I log weightlifting then?

That's not an easy question to answer. There's a lot of disagreement to it; however, one thing knowledgeable people pretty much all agree on is that HRMs vastly overestimate lifting calorie burn. For various reasons, heart rate increases during lifting are not matched by a corresponding increase in energy usage by the body; as a result, HRMs, which estimate calories through heart rate, overestimate calorie burns. Personally, I generally add about 50-60 calories per hour to what my Fitbit estimates for the lifting time period. Other people do different things. For people who insist on using the HRM in this way, I generally suggest they knock 40% off the number it gives them.

when you knock off 40% weightlifting doesn't really burn that many calories, but I will give it a shot

Well you have to consider the benefit of keeping or building lean mass, afterburn, and does nobody appreciate bone density anymore?!?

i don't really think about those things, i'm a numbers person. I guess when i'm sweating my *kitten* off and lfiting weights and i see I've only burned 280 calories for 40 mins kind of a let down

It's enough for some pizza. : ) And you won't break your leg walking across the kitchen to get it.

I think this is really individual so based on your goals maybe you should work backwards? I want to keep the only advantage over the thin I have; which is lean body mass. I lost next to no lean mass and it's calorically expensive to run a body with more lean mass so I get to eat a very humane 1850 calories and still lose.

The big picture is always more important than one element of weight loss and health.

280 isn't even a slice of pizza

thekyleo

i guess i'm boring since i decided to cut out alot things that i used to enjoy... oh well

ekahnicole

It's called moderation and keeping your deficit. You can fit anything into your diet and lose weight.

Boogage

I have to have pizza in my life!

I go to pizza hut every month or two and devour a big salad bowl loaded with pasta and couscous potato salad etc as well as salad. After that I have up to half of a large stuffed crust and some garlic bread. Any left over pizza goes home with me to snack on later...or have for breakfast the next day nom nom

I also have other takeaways every now and again.

I can't eat healthily everyday, I need to enjoy myself and it hasn't hurt my weightloss. I went through a period of feeling guilty about going over my cals sometimes but other days I'm under my cals so I figure it must even out )

thekyleo

I have to have pizza in my life!

I go to pizza hut every month or two and devour a big salad bowl loaded with pasta and couscous potato salad etc as well as salad. After that I have up to half of a large stuffed crust and some garlic bread. Any left over pizza goes home with me to snack on later...or have for breakfast the next day nom nom

I also have other takeaways every now and again.

I can't eat healthily everyday, I need to enjoy myself and it hasn't hurt my weightloss. I went through a period of feeling guilty about going over my cals sometimes but other days I'm under my cals so I figure it must even out )

I feel guilty everyday that's why I cut everything out

jonnythan

I have to have pizza in my life!

I go to pizza hut every month or two and devour a big salad bowl loaded with pasta and couscous potato salad etc as well as salad. After that I have up to half of a large stuffed crust and some garlic bread. Any left over pizza goes home with me to snack on later...or have for breakfast the next day nom nom

I also have other takeaways every now and again.

I can't eat healthily everyday, I need to enjoy myself and it hasn't hurt my weightloss. I went through a period of feeling guilty about going over my cals sometimes but other days I'm under my cals so I figure it must even out )

I feel guilty everyday that's why I cut everything out

You've obviously had a great deal of success with whatever you've been doing, but there's no need to go through life feeling guilty for eating foods you love.

Eat them responsibly; make them fit into your calorie and nutrient goals and there's nothing to feel guilty about.

thekyleo

That's the thing. I can't eat them responsibly. That's why I cut them out. It's better to be safe than sorry

jonnythan

That's the thing. I can't eat them responsibly. That's why I cut them out. It's better to be safe than sorry

That's because you feel guilty eating it. You consider these foods unhealthy, so to lose weight you cut them out entirely. This is why people end up failing their diets and binging: they eventually give in and eat the "unhealthy" food, tell themselves it's just this once and they're back on their "never again" diet tomorrow, so they end up gorging themselves on it.

If you can shift your perspective, realize that the calorie and nutrient goals are literally the only thing that matter, it becomes trivially easy to fit whatever you want into those goals. If you look at ice cream as just another way to get some calories and a few grams of fat, it becomes functionally equivalent to whatever other source of fat and calories you'd normally consider "healthy" and fit it in.

thekyleo

That's the thing. I can't eat them responsibly. That's why I cut them out. It's better to be safe than sorry

That's because you feel guilty eating it. You consider these foods unhealthy, so to lose weight you cut them out entirely. This is why people end up failing their diets and binging: they eventually give in and eat the "unhealthy" food, tell themselves it's just this once and they're back on their "never again" diet tomorrow, so they end up gorging themselves on it.

If you can shift your perspective, realize that the calorie and nutrient goals are literally the only thing that matter, it becomes trivially easy to fit whatever you want into those goals. If you look at ice cream as just another way to get some calories and a few grams of fat, it becomes functionally equivalent to whatever other source of fat and calories you'd normally consider "healthy" and fit it in.

I really wish I could. I wish I could see food as macros and such. I just see it as the number. I feel it as a punishment almost that I cut out these foods

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