Over 200 New Year New Me Part 32

LittleSpy

meokk -- I think I'm going to go back to where I was this week and select "lose 1/2 pound per week" as my goal. That puts me at 1750 cals (5'4", 193.4#, sedentary)

meokk

Oh and if anyone feels like rooting around in my diary, feel free. It should be open to anyone on my friends list and I'll be interested to hear your thoughts.
I log everything except for diet sodas but I only have 1-3 of those per week.

Thanks!

LittleSpy

So, my diet should take care of roughly 1/2 pound per week. And if I exercise pretty intensely for 3 hours each week, that should take care of another 1/2 pound. 1 pound per week guinea pig trial, here I come!

lildebbie

Heather - what do you have yoru weekly loss at...I know I am much much bigger than you (like 80 lbs) and my pre-exercise cals are 1330., i am set to a 2 lbs a week loss, but if you are a lot taller i think get more too...I am 5'6.

Ann - WTG on the 5 lbs!!

Elmo - weird about your hover and drop..but at least you are dropping..

September is upon us next week (not that it will be cool here in TX or anything) but the summer months are behind us. We WILL all get it together for those that have been not feeling it...you can do this and get back on saddle for those that having some wacked out weighins, metoblisms or whatever else you will get it going too...and to everyone else...this is our time !!! We will do it!!!

Okay just needed a peptalk to myself too

I am soo excited about this and all the weight we will lose before 2011 girls we can do it. My goal is to joine Nancy in the over 100lb loss club. My goal is to be 100 loss by 2011...It may be aggressive , if i don't hit it , it will be okay, but something to strive for. I have 33.1 1lbs to loose 4 month..that is pretty much a strict 2lbs a week...

RedneckWmn

meokk -- I think I'm going to go back to where I was this week and select "lose 1/2 pound per week" as my goal. That puts me at 1750 cals (5'4", 193.4#, sedentary)

I set mine at 2 pounds per week but it estimates that I will lose 1.7 pounds on the 1200 calories. I wonder if this is just a good ole fashion plateau for me. Dang it this is frustrating! I've had a hard time eating my calories with my exercise calories this week for some reason. Last week was no problem! Must of been TOM. I'm giving what I'm doing 1 more week to see what happens, if I don't lose then I'm changing something!

RedneckWmn

Deb-I love your pep talk!! I'm pepping myself up to get this thing going and not give up! I love it!! Thank you! :drinker:

Julie-I'm excited about your plan. If it works for you and I see no loss again next week, I'm joining you! That way I will have given what I've been doing a month to work. Clocks ticking on fitting into my dress!

meokk

So, my diet should take care of roughly 1/2 pound per week. And if I exercise pretty intensely for 3 hours each week, that should take care of another 1/2 pound. 1 pound per week guinea pig trial, here I come!

Are you doing 1590 daily then? that's what MFP gives me if I set it to 1/2 lb loss per week.

elmox

Meokk, just ran a report for my cals for the last 29 days.

Days under 1200 net: 8
Days right around 1200 net (there's not line there so I'm guestimating!): 7
Days over 1200 net: 12

I have no idea what that means, but there's the info!

LittleSpy

So, my diet should take care of roughly 1/2 pound per week. And if I exercise pretty intensely for 3 hours each week, that should take care of another 1/2 pound. 1 pound per week guinea pig trial, here I come!

Are you doing 1590 daily then? that's what MFP gives me if I set it to 1/2 lb loss per week.

For me it's 1750. I'm fatter than you.

RedneckWmn

This just blows my mind how everybody is so different. We all gain weight the same. Why can't it be simple to lose!? :laugh: But nooooo!!

RedneckWmn

Julie-So you are going to eat your calories that it sets for you to lose 1/2 pound per week and no exercise calories, right?

LittleSpy

Julie-So you are going to eat your calories that it sets for you to lose 1/2 pound per week and no exercise calories, right?

That's the plan (mostly). Creating a small deficit with diet & the rest of it with exercise.

But I think if I want to splurge, I'll make myself work extra for it (so, in essense I'd be eating those EXTRA exercise cals).

I'm not really looking at it as eating or not eating exercise calories. I'm looking at the bigger weekly picture -- want to have what I think should be a 3500 calorie deficit weekly. I'll get to the deficit with a combo of exercisie & slightly restricting my diet. If I eat a little too much, I just have to exercise a little more. I guess the ultimate goal here is to consistently eat quite a bit more than I have in the last year as kind of an attempt to coax my metabolism back to normal.

Danielle_81

Jessica.......0......0%
Debra .......-3.3...1.29%
Heather....-0.2....0.11%
Cogirl........-5.0....2.02%
LittleSpy.......0.......0%
Purple.......-3.0....1.12%
Elmox........-3.0....1.66%
Meokk........+1......0%
Awestfall......-4.6.......2.03%
Danielle........-2.1......0.76%

So I haven't had the chance to catch up on the posts but just wanted to add my weigh in. I am SOOO happy because this is the first week I've had consecutive weight losses! No more seesawing.

Catch up later

cris20056

My goal for the fall is to eat NET 1200 calories...Im finally listening to you Meook, and to strength train 2 times per week and cardio 3 times per week. Not killing myself or anything abut 30 mins a day cardio and on ST days just however long it takes to get through all the machines the PT is going to show me on monday

I swear Ill be here with bells and whistles on come Monday...HAPPY END OF SUMMER!

LittleSpy

My goal for the fall is to eat NET 1200 calories...Im finally listening to you Meook, and to strength train 2 times per week and cardio 3 times per week. Not killing myself or anything abut 30 mins a day cardio and on ST days just however long it takes to get through all the machines the PT is going to show me on monday

I swear Ill be here with bells and whistles on come Monday...HAPPY END OF SUMMER!

RedneckWmn

My goal for the fall is to eat NET 1200 calories...Im finally listening to you Meook, and to strength train 2 times per week and cardio 3 times per week. Not killing myself or anything abut 30 mins a day cardio and on ST days just however long it takes to get through all the machines the PT is going to show me on monday

I swear Ill be here with bells and whistles on come Monday...HAPPY END OF SUMMER!

:drinker: Yay!!

meokk

My goal for the fall is to eat NET 1200 calories...Im finally listening to you Meook, and to strength train 2 times per week and cardio 3 times per week. Not killing myself or anything abut 30 mins a day cardio and on ST days just however long it takes to get through all the machines the PT is going to show me on monday

I swear Ill be here with bells and whistles on come Monday...HAPPY END OF SUMMER!

:drinker:

HeatherMN

Yay, Cris!

Here's the information for my calories.

Daily Calorie Goal: 1828
Projected Weight Loss: 1 lb. per week
Current Weight: 186.4
Height: 5'6"
Activity Level: Estimated 1200 cal/week but have NOT been hitting this, explaining the less than 1 lb/week loss.

Here's the really important part: I do not use MFP to calculate my calories because they are WRONG! I use dailyburn.com, which is another free weight loss site. You have to have a user name and password, but no other info. I then manually adjust MFP to the correct numbers.

Secondly, I took the quiz in Jillian Michael's books to determine what type of metabolism I have. I happen to be a "balanced oxidizer", to I adjusted my fat/protein/carb ratios based on her suggestions.

Sorry for the length of the post!!


***Oxidizer Test From Jillian Michaels***

In the morning, you
A. Don’t eat breakfast
B. Have something light like fruit, toast, or cereal
C. Have something heavy like eggs, bacon or steak, and has browns

At a buffet, the foods you choose are
A. Light meats like fish and chicken, vegetables and salad, a sampling of different desserts.
B. A mixture of A and C
C. Heavy, fatty foods like steak, ribs, pork chops, cheeses, and cream sauces

Your appetite at lunch is
A. Low
B. Normal
C. Strong

Your appetite at dinner is
A. low
B. normal
C. strong

Caffeine makes you feel
A. Great-it helps you focus
B. Neutral-you can take it or leave it
C. Jittery or nauseous

The types of foods you crave are (sugar is not listed because everyone craves sugar when they are tired or run-down)
A. Fruits, bread, and crackers
B. Both A and C
C. Salty foods, cheeses, and meats

For dinner you prefer
A. Chicken or fish, salad, and rice
B. No preference-choice varies daily
C. Heavier, fatty foods like pastas, steak and potatoes

After dinner you
A. Need to have something sweet
B. Could take dessert or leave it
C. Don’t care for sweets and would rather have something salty like popcorn

The types of sweets you like are
A. Sugary candies
B. No preference
C. Ice cream or cheesecake

Eating fatty foods like meat and cheese before bed
A. Interferes with your sleep
B. Doesn’t bother you
C. Improves your sleep

Eating carbs like breads and crackers before your bed
A. Interferes with your sleep, but they’re better than heavier foods
B. Doesn’t affect you
C. Is better than nothing, but you sleep better with heavier foods

Eating sweets before bed
A. Doesn’t keep you from sleeping at all
B. Sometimes makes you feel restless in bed
C. Keeps you up all night

Each day, you eat
A. Two or three meals with no snacks
B. Three meals with maybe one light snack
C. Three meals and a lot of snacks

Your attitude toward food is
A. You often forget to eat
B. You enjoy food and rarely miss a meal
C. You love food and it’s a central part of your life

When you skip meals, you feel
A. Fine
B. You don’t function at your best, but it doesn’t really bother you
C. Shaky, irritable, week and tired

Your attitude toward fatty foods is
A. You don’t like them
B. You like them occasionally
C. You crave them regularly

When you eat fruit salad for breakfast or lunch, you feel
A. Satisfied
B. Okay, but you usually need a snack in between meals
C. Unsatisfied and still hungry

What kind of food drains your energy?
A. Fatty foods
B. No food affects you this way
C. Fruit, candy, or confections, which give you a quick boost, then an energy crash

Your food portions are
A. Small-less than average
B. Average-not more or less than other people
C. Large-usually more than most people

How do you feel about potatoes?
A. You don’t care for them
B. You could take them or leave them
C. You love them

Red meat makes you feel
A. Tired
B. No particular feeling one way or the other
C. Strong

A salad for lunch makes you feel
A. Energized and healthy
B. Fine, but it isn’t the best type of food for you.
C. Sleepy

How do you feel about salt?
A. Foods often taste too salty
B. You don’t notice one way or the other
C. You crave salt and salt your food regularly

How do you feel about snacks?
A. You don’t really snack, but you like something sweet if you do.
B. You can snack on anything
C. You need snacks but prefer meats, cheese, eggs, or nuts.

How do you feel about sour foods like pickles, lemon juice, or vinegar?
A. You don’t like them
B. They don’t bother you one way or the other
C. You like them

How do you feel about sweets?
A. Sweets alone can satisfy your appetite
B. They don’t bother you but don’t totally satisfy you
C. You don’t feel satisfied and often crave more sweets

When you just eat meat (bacon, sausage, ham ) for breakfast, you feel
A. Sleepy, lethargic, or irritable
B. It varies day to day
C. Full until lunch

When you eat heavy or fatty foods, you feel
A. Irritable
B. Neutral-they don’t affect you
C. Satisfied

When you feel anxious
A. Fruits or vegetables calm you down
B. Eating anything calms you down
C. Fatty foods calm you down

You concentrate best when you eat
A. Fruits and grains
B. Nothing in particular
C. Meat and fatty food

You feel more depressed when you eat
A. Fatty or heavy foods
B. Nothing in particular
C. Fruits, breads, or sweets

You notice you gain weight when you eat
A. Fatty foods
B. No particular food. You gain weight when you overeat
C. Fruits or carbs

What type of insomnia, if any, applies to you?
A. You rarely get insomnia from hunger
B. You rarely get insomnia, but if you do, you often need to eat something in order to fall back asleep
C. You often wake up during the night and need to eat. If you eat right before bed, it alleviates the insomnia

Your personality type is
A. Aloof, withdrawn, or introverted
B. Neither introverted nor extroverted
C. Extroverted

Your mental and physical stamina are better when you eat
A. Light proteins like egg whites, chicken or fish and fruits
B. Any wholesome food
C. Fatty foods

Your climate preference is
A. Warm or hot weather
B. Doesn’t matter
C. Cold weather

You have problems with coughing or chest pressure.
If yes, “C”: if no, move on to the next question
You have a tendency to get cracked skin or dandruff
If yes, “C”:if no, move on to the next question
You have a tendency to get light-headed or dizzy
If yes, “C”: if no, move on to the next question

You eyes tend to be
A. Dry
B. Fine
C. Teary

Your facial coloring is
A. Noticeably pale
B. Average
C. Pink or often flushed

Your fingernails are
A. Thick
B. Average
C. Thin

Your gag reflex is
A. Insensitive
B. Normal
C. Sensitive

You get goose bumps
A. Often
B. Occasionally
C. Very rarely

You are prone to
A. Constipation
B. No stomach problems
C. Diarrhea

When insects bite you, your reaction is
A. Mild
B. Average
C. Strong

Your body type is
A. Short and Stocky
B. Average
C. Tall and thin

Your nose is
A. Dry
B. Normal
C. Runny

Scoring your metabolic typing test

When you have finished the test, add up the number of A, B and C answers you have circled A____B____C____

If your number of C answers is 5 or more higher than your number of A or B answers, you are a fast oxidizer.

*If your number of A answers is 5 or more higher than your number of B or C answers, you are a slow oxidizer.

*If your number of B answers is 5 or more higher than your number of A or C answers, or if neither A, B, nor C’s are 5 or more higher than the other two, you are a balanced oxidizer.

If you are still not certain, you can try these two other drastic tests.

1. Niacin test: Take 50 milligrams of niacin on an empty stomach. If you experience and immediate flush, you are most likely a fast oxidizer. If you feel a moderate flushing effect, you are a balanced oxidizer. If you experience a significantly delayed flushing or nothing at all, you are a slow oxidizer.

2. Vitamin C test: Take 8 grams of vitamin C in equally divided doses over 8 hours. The fast oxidizer will respond by feeling acidic and uncomfortable, and may even experience other symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea or increased intestinal gas. A true balanced oxidizer may find that his or her stomach feels less acidic. A slow oxidizer will have no response at all.

*Fast oxidizers
You require foods with higher percentages of protein and fat than carbohydrates. Make sure there is protein in everything you eat including snacks. Your ideal macronutrient ratio is 20 percent carbs, 50 percent protein, 30 percent fat.

All proteins are not created equal. The ones that are best for you are high-purine proteins, which are commonly found in fattier meats. This is not to say that you should cut out chicken and fish, but you need the heavier proteins most because they help slow down your rate of oxidation. Choose from this list of proteins when deciding on a meal or snack.

High purine:organ meats (pate, liver, etc.), herring, mussels, sardines, anchovies.

Moderate purine:beef, bacon, dark meat chicken, duck, lamb, spareribs, dark meat turkey, veal, wild game, salmon, shellfish (lobster, shrimp, crab), oysters, scallops, octopus, squid, dark tuna

Low Purine:cottage cheese, milk, yogurt, eggs, cheese, white meat chicken, turkey, fish

The best veggies for protein types are asparagus, cauliflower, celery, mushrooms and spinach.
The best fruits are avocado, olives, apples and pears(in limited quantity and never without protein on the side or better yet first)
It is best to avoid grains altogether, but the best grains would be sprouted grain bread.
The best legumes would be tempeh and tofu.

The best nuts are (in order of protein content) walnuts, pumpkin seeds, peanuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, almonds, cashews, brazil nuts, filberts, pecans, chestnuts, pistachios, coconut and macadamias.

Good fats are butter, cream, almond oil, peanut oil, coconut oil, sesame oil, flaxseed oil, sunflower oil and walnut oil.

*Slow oxidizers
Your ideal macronutrient ratio is 60 percent carbs, 25 percent protein and 15 percent fat.

*Balanced oxidizers
Your ideal macronutrient ratio is 40 percent carbs, 30 percent protein, and 30 percent fat.

LittleSpy

I went to Dailyburn.com and it estimates my TDEE is ONE calorie more than MFP estimates my TDEE with the same settings (sedentary, 193.4, 5'4"). :laugh: DB says 2001, MFP says 2000. It may be a little more because my part-time jobs aren't sedentary, but I only work those jobs 2-3 days a week so I haven't been counting that small bit of additional activity in my week.

Anyway, it looks like MFP and Daily Burn agree for me. :indifferent:

cris20056

silly girls! love u

all that number crunching is giving me a headache....math really is not my forte

RedneckWmn

It said my daily calorie goal should be like 1600 or 1700. That seems so high!

meokk

Thanks Heather !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I changed mine to fit a balanced oxidizer, 40% carbs, 30% fat, 30% protein and I'm way up at 1590 cals daily which seems SCARY but I'll do it for a week or two....onward guinea pigs !!!!!!!!

RedneckWmn

Thanks Heather !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I changed mine to fit a balanced oxidizer, 40% carbs, 30% fat, 30% protein and I'm way up at 1590 cals daily which seems SCARY but I'll do it for a week or two....onward guinea pigs !!!!!!!!

Both the dailyburn and MFP said for me to lose 1 pound a week I need to be about there as well. I'm giving what I've been doing a week and then if I still see nothing I'm changing to what y'all are doing. All this is making my head hurt. :grumble:

awestfall

Thanks Heather !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I changed mine to fit a balanced oxidizer, 40% carbs, 30% fat, 30% protein and I'm way up at 1590 cals daily which seems SCARY but I'll do it for a week or two....onward guinea pigs !!!!!!!!

Both the dailyburn and MFP said for me to lose 1 pound a week I need to be about there as well. I'm giving what I've been doing a week and then if I still see nothing I'm changing to what y'all are doing. All this is making my head hurt. :grumble:

Made my head hurt too Jess !! I am sticking to what I know works for me because I have a smaller frame and my doc says I don't need anymore than 1200-1300 calories a day to lose weight safely.He also told me 30 minutes of exercise a day is sufficient and not to kill myself doing it either.If you can do more great but 30 minutes is enough.I guess we all just have to find what works for each of us because we are all different.I know for me 1200 calories strict and 30minutes to an hour of moderate exercise I can see 2 pounds lost per week so I am going back with that because I am not having much luck getting to eat more than that right now lol.Its funny how we are all different when it comes to losing weight.

Positively_Me

Hey,

Quick check in..I weighed the same as the past couple of weeks..201.8

so no loss for me..


I am so far behind on post..I really need to catch up. I miss ya all and have a great weekend:drinker:

Laila

bluenote

Hey look, I'm pissed because MFP said since I lost the big 100 I now should eat 2100 cals a day! I don't know HOW you girls can do it on 1500 or less!!! :noway:

check in:
cals: right at the top
water: 100
exercise: still trying to get to the gym; otherwise, just 15 minutes of walking
proud: I wasn't super duper exhausted after school today, which is NOT like me on a Friday! :bigsmile: I even went to Happy Hour! I haven't been out after school on a Friday in many moons! :laugh:

bluenote

Jessica.......0......0%
Debra .......-3.3...1.29%
Heather....-0.2....0.11%
Cogirl........-5.0....2.02%
LittleSpy.......0.......0%
Purple.......-3.0....1.12%
Elmox........-3.0....1.66%
Meokk........+1......0%
Awestfall......-4.6.......2.03%
Danielle........-2.1......0.76%
Blue................-5.0......1.28%

lildebbie

Nancy - Look at you rocking 5 lbs !!! You go...Everytime it lowers my calories i am quite upset...I started at like 1800....now i am 1330 but honestly if i don't workout i usally go over...

Went to spin class was not feeling it, i was tired and my head hurt the whole time, but i did it then like 10 minutes on the arc trainer...I am way way under on my cals...guess it is eating for me

RedneckWmn

Nancy congrats on hitting 101! That's amazing!! It's scary at first when you drop your calories but you find ways to adjust. It's crazy. I remember when a lean cuisine I thought was the size of a snack!

Deb-Way to go on getting the best out of spin class and then hitting the arc trainer. Awesome!

Thought I would share our pic with y'all from last night. This is before we went out last night. You know me and my love for pictures. LOL

bluenote

Deb - great job going to work out even when you didn't feel like it.
Jess - you look adorable!

check in:
calories: a little under
water: 100
exercise: 20 mins elliptical and 30 mins treadmill
proud: I went to the gym after I recovered from a touch of food poisoning