PLEASE READ AND HELP, too many contradicting info sites.
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OLA Shelby
calm your nerves calm your senses..Little mother You are in fitness free fall... but on the road to a greater more fufilling life
My name is Dances with Wow
and I can provide solace..
you are suffering from post-partum big time.. Hormones are ranging and thoughts are disorganized..
there are several massive emotional mis-alignments going on..
First is body image.. Your stomach flap is a lack of muscle density and severe carb depletion..If you have never eaten any of healthy things ever and weight has never been a problem then your muscle tissue is very ZOFTIC.. Your body has been canabolizing (eating) itself for a very long time.
Which means graduating your eating back into a routine that aligns with your life force...The illict substances you once were taking have disrupted a wide range fitness variable for you..
Such as Food Frequency... your protein number and and the amount of essential fats..are at a critical mass of zero..There nothing to build upon or set a foundation for weight bearing activity.
SO!
Before just jumping into working out with weights begin with yoga based stretching and gradualy refilling your muscles with low density carbs...leafy greans, legumes, and grains..
The idea is to reset you hormonally first..and while doing so fill out the elasticity of the skin..
This should take 14days max.... thats if you are following a 2 before 12 and 2 after two food energy plan.. doing so balances your system across two horizons of the day.. 100% would be 28 meals a week..
with yoga the breathing technique alone will begin refilling zoftic skin..but ist the stretching poses and motorskills gleaned that will start toning you across your entire physcila envelope.
If you manage to reach a food frequency of say 60% then go to weights as you will have enough stored glucose to get solid..
Skin will still be somewhat giggly as its the biggest organ of the body..there is alot of muscle terrain to refashion and hormones to settle down to an even flow.
when you have gotten past the yoga or have questions about any of the stuff just mentioned... friend me..
I would gladly help you recalibrate your life force..and mentor you physical status..
I have 100% success rate..with post partum exercise issues
my name is Dances with Wow
and I help individuals just like you awaken the fitness within, access your bodys life force and deweaponize unwanted body fat.. faster than any known exercise system available on the market to date.
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I tried every fad invented and i was vegan for years and vegetarian most of my life. I mostly eat organic. I can tell you the only thing that ever worked for me and with ease is as follows:
If you follow the MFP calorie budget and do some type of cardio/aerobic exercise 30 minutes a day you will lose all the weight you want.
Eat all the calories back that you burn off exercising or you will get crazy hungry. The calories you eat back will satisfy you. working out wont make you more hungry that ever, if you eat the calories back
I do cardio on a machine that has a heart rate moniter and i stay inside my ZONE of 123 for my age and weight. Doing this you will never get out of breath or feel like youre dying.
Following the above advice I eat whatever I want. cheese pizza. etc. and am losing 2 pounds per week.
Ok I guess I'm still confused as to how I can eat the calories I just burned and how I'll lose weight if I just eat what I just worked off. And where do I find the mfp calorie thing0 -
See I just asked the same question to another member who replied mentioning I have to burn more calories than I eat in a day, but that's what I'm so confused about because if I stick to my 1200 calories a day plan how the hell am I supposed to burn 1200 calories in a day?
You need to read back through the thread. You have an explanation of what that means on two different pages now.
Whoa well I'm sorry I guess I am still not seeing it my bad. Is it in the links provided cuz i can't click them on my phone so I'm gonna have to eat til I get my computer fixed which is why I was hoping someone would explain it in a comment. Sorry for asking0 -
You're right in the middle of the healthy BMI range, so don't stress too much about the weight.I weight 124 and am 5 foot 4 inches. Now I'm 130 lbs ... I mostly need toned
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/english_bmi_calculator/results_normal.html?pounds=124&inches=64
You might find some useful info in my blog here; I have a post about goal setting and one about exercise, plus a couple with links to other resources.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/MKEgal
If you do the recommended 30 minutes of exercise 5 days a week, you'll probably easily drop the few pounds you're upset about.
And if you can do strength exercises you'll get toned, stronger, and lose inches, which will make you look thinner.
Put the kid in the stroller & go for a walk. Maybe he'll fall asleep and you'll get some quiet "me" time.
Chase him around the park for a while.
Maybe have a couple sessions with a personal trainer, and explain up front that you want to learn some body-weight exercises so you can get toned. Here's where you can find a good certified trainer in your area:
http://members.acsm.org/source/custom/Online_locator/OnlineLocator.cfm
You don't have to have such a drastic diet in order to eat healthy.I've never eaten organic, gluten free, good carbs, no sugar, lean meat, non processed diet ... I've done a lot of research and I KNOW I want to eat healthy and learn to eat ONLY healthy
Slowly change what you're doing now: less sugar, less fatty food, fewer liquid calories, more fruits & veggies (good carbs), more whole grains (good carbs), more lean protein, fewer processed foods.
If you can afford it, there is some benefit to pesticide-free foods where you're going to eat the outside of the food (berries, for example), but none shown for other foods where the peel is removed (bananas, avocados, melons).
For most people "gluten-free" is a fad, nothing to do with health. Very few people are actually allergic to that protein. If you haven't been diagnosed with that disease, don't waste your money.
Good! Ya gotta start somewhere.have started doing one 10 min cardiovascular workout a day
And they're right, doing 3 10-minute workouts gives you the benefit of doing 1 30-minute workout (other than endurance).
Since you want to keep the muscle, do weight-bearing exercises.How can I lose weight in the right areas without losing my healthy weight
There's no way to target weight loss, though by doing exercises to target muscles in a certain area you can _tone_ that area more than others.
If you want to get back to 125 lb, aim for 1250 cal per day.I'm going to try the 1200 cal a day plan ... Its hard for me to stay at 1200 calories a day
If you're still hungry after your veggie-filled meals, add 1/3 to 1/2 the calories you've burned exercising.
Eventually you won't even need those.
No matter where you see something, if the site or person can't back it with a citation to actual research by a reputable group, be very very suspicious.One site says it's a myth that eating small meals throughout the day rather than 3 square meals a day will help you lose weight. Well, which is it?
The more way-out the claim, the stranger the terminology, the more suspicious you should be.
If you have to buy special foods or powders, run away.
The overall goal for weight loss is to eat fewer calories than you burn, so your body has to burn some of its stored calories.
If you find that eating 4 300-calorie snacks helps you control your hunger better than having a 600-cal breakfast, 400-cal lunch, and 200-cal snack for 'dinner', eat the smaller snacks.
The most recent study I've seen talking about how much to eat when is this one:
This study compared eating a small breakfast, medium lunch, and large dinner, [200, 500, 700 cal]
with eating a large breakfast, medium lunch, and small dinner [700, 500, 200 cal].
"The [large breakfast] group showed greater weight loss and waist circumference reduction ... fasting glucose, insulin [&] triglycerides ... decreased significantly to a greater extent in the [large breakfast] group."
In addition, hunger was less and satiety was greater.
Here's the summary: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23512957
Here's a PDF of the whole article.
http://genetics.doctorsonly.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Jakubowicz-at-al-Obesity-2013-oby20460.pdf
See I just asked the same question to another member who replied mentioning I have to burn more calories than I eat in a day, but that's what I'm so confused about because if I stick to my 1200 calories a day plan how the hell am I supposed to burn 1200 calories in a day?
Someone else has already answered this question for you. You do not need to burn 1200 calories with exercise! You burn at least this much (and probably more) just by being alive. You burn calories sleeping, making small movements, growing hair, replacing skin cells, digesting, and so on. Everything your body does to maintain itself requires energy. Then you add calories burned from daily activities and calories burned through exercise. The "average" woman requires 2000 calories for all this, but of course this is going to vary widely based on age, height, current weight, lifestyle, etc.
I highly recommend that you take some time and read the links provided. Do your own research, and you will learn so much. That is what I did.
Sorry I'm upsetting everyone by continuing to ask questions before I read the links provided but I'm on my phone and none of the links are clickable so I'll have to wait to read them til Im on my computer which could be a while. And I have been doing my own research that's why I came here to so the questions I was still confused about after doing my own research online. I figured this was the perfect community to answer my un answered questions0 -
I tried every fad invented and i was vegan for years and vegetarian most of my life. I mostly eat organic. I can tell you the only thing that ever worked for me and with ease is as follows:
If you follow the MFP calorie budget and do some type of cardio/aerobic exercise 30 minutes a day you will lose all the weight you want.
Eat all the calories back that you burn off exercising or you will get crazy hungry. The calories you eat back will satisfy you. working out wont make you more hungry that ever, if you eat the calories back
I do cardio on a machine that has a heart rate moniter and i stay inside my ZONE of 123 for my age and weight. Doing this you will never get out of breath or feel like youre dying.
Following the above advice I eat whatever I want. cheese pizza. etc. and am losing 2 pounds per week.
Ok I guess I'm still confused as to how I can eat the calories I just burned and how I'll lose weight if I just eat what I just worked off. And where do I find the mfp calorie thing
When you enter your goals into MFP under settings (lose 1/2 lb., 1 lb. etc.) it calculates a calorie deficit for you. Let's say your BMR (# of calories needed to sustain yourself/# of calories you burn by just being alive) is 1700 and you select lose 1lb per week. MFP will tell you to eat 1200 calories per day because it is giving you a 500 calorie deficit (1700-1200=500) in order to have you lose 1lb per week. 3500 calories (500 calories x 7 days) = 1lb. So in theory if you ate 1200 calories per day and did no exercise you would lose 1 lb. per week.
Now if you exercise on top of that you will burn more calories and MFP is set up to allow you eat those calories back. So if you go for a 20 minute run and burn 200 calories it will "give you" an extra 200 calories allowance that day. You can see your daily allowance at the bottom of your food tab. Some people choose to eat back calories and others do not. One note of caution is that MFP can sometimes estimate calories burned a little high for exercise so a Heart Rate Monitor or other way of tracking calories burned is a good idea. You can also choose to eat back just some of your exercise calories and not all of them.
According to MFP your BMR at your current weight is 1330. Another website I tried said 1413. So if you eat around 1330-1400 calories and do not exercise you would in theory stay at your current weight. In order to lose weight you will need to use a combination of exercise (to burn calories) and reduced calories. For most women it is not advised to eat under 1200 calories so losing 1/2 lbs a week is probably a safer goal for you. Your weight is in a healthy range already for your weight. You may also want to consider if the number on the scale is important or if it is your body shape. If you aren't concerned about weight and want to be more toned then you may just need to select work outs to help you tone and not try to lose weight.
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Yes it does help and I did do that mfp when I first signed up but I didn't know what it was called and it said I need to stick to 1200 that's why I keep saying that number in my comments. I haven't entered any other info cuz i didn't really know how it all works so I'm glad you explained it to me cuz now I'm gonna start logging here cuz I've only been doing so in a notebook or on my phones memo pad and keeping track of calories and how much I worked out. But I've never wrote down hkw many calories I burn with each excersize cuz is there really an exact way to do so? My phone has a hear rate monitor but I don't use it. Is it necessary to try and figure out the calories burned as lono as you know you're burning themI tried every fad invented and i was vegan for years and vegetarian most of my life. I mostly eat organic. I can tell you the only thing that ever worked for me and with ease is as follows:
If you follow the MFP calorie budget and do some type of cardio/aerobic exercise 30 minutes a day you will lose all the weight you want.
Eat all the calories back that you burn off exercising or you will get crazy hungry. The calories you eat back will satisfy you. working out wont make you more hungry that ever, if you eat the calories back
I do cardio on a machine that has a heart rate moniter and i stay inside my ZONE of 123 for my age and weight. Doing this you will never get out of breath or feel like youre dying.
Following the above advice I eat whatever I want. cheese pizza. etc. and am losing 2 pounds per week.
Ok I guess I'm still confused as to how I can eat the calories I just burned and how I'll lose weight if I just eat what I just worked off. And where do I find the mfp calorie thing
When you enter your goals into MFP under settings (lose 1/2 lb., 1 lb. etc.) it calculates a calorie deficit for you. Let's say your BMR (# of calories needed to sustain yourself/# of calories you burn by just being alive) is 1700 and you select lose 1lb per week. MFP will tell you to eat 1200 calories per day because it is giving you a 500 calorie deficit (1700-1200=500) in order to have you lose 1lb per week. 3500 calories (500 calories x 7 days) = 1lb. So in theory if you ate 1200 calories per day and did no exercise you would lose 1 lb. per week.
Now if you exercise on top of that you will burn more calories and MFP is set up to allow you eat those calories back. So if you go for a 20 minute run and burn 200 calories it will "give you" an extra 200 calories allowance that day. You can see your daily allowance at the bottom of your food tab. Some people choose to eat back calories and others do not. One note of caution is that MFP can sometimes estimate calories burned a little high for exercise so a Heart Rate Monitor or other way of tracking calories burned is a good idea. You can also choose to eat back just some of your exercise calories and not all of them.
According to MFP your BMR at your current weight is 1330. Another website I tried said 1413. So if you eat around 1330-1400 calories and do not exercise you would in theory stay at your current weight. In order to lose weight you will need to use a combination of exercise (to burn calories) and reduced calories. For most women it is not advised to eat under 1200 calories so losing 1/2 lbs a week is probably a safer goal for you. Your weight is in a healthy range already for your weight. You may also want to consider if the number on the scale is important or if it is your body shape. If you aren't concerned about weight and want to be more toned then you may just need to select work outs to help you tone and not try to lose weight.
Hope that helps.0 -
Yes it does help and I did do that mfp when I first signed up but I didn't know what it was called and it said I need to stick to 1200 that's why I keep saying that number in my comments. I haven't entered any other info cuz i didn't really know how it all works so I'm glad you explained it to me cuz now I'm gonna start logging here cuz I've only been doing so in a notebook or on my phones memo pad and keeping track of calories and how much I worked out. But I've never wrote down hkw many calories I burn with each excersize cuz is there really an exact way to do so? My phone has a hear rate monitor but I don't use it. Is it necessary to try and figure out the calories burned as lono as you know you're burning them
Under the exercise tab you can search the exercise you are doing (walking, running, biking, etc) MFP will estimate your calories burned but if you want you can buy a HRM and use the number it gives you instead. (MFP allows you to override their # and type in a different #). For food you can search the food database on MFP or if you are using a smart phone you can scan the barcode of the food package. You can also add recipes and calculate the calories and save meals. There are lots of tools to make it easier.0 -
Well I just read that and it is a great article except it says I shouldn't follow the mfp calorie thingy because it's not accurate and that's what I've been using.. I can't complicate things because I have ocd and don't wanna start measuring and weighing all the time. Soooo I've been trying to just go by the calorie counter0 -
Yeah I just input all my food and excersize from today. That is pretty cool. But my question is, I still don't get why I earn calories back when I burn them? Shouldn't I still burn those calories and not eat them back if I wanna lose weight? Or will I still lose the weight if I eat what I burn as long as it all equals out? And I read most of those links but I can't get all crazy like it's saying to do like count the macro nutrients and measure myself and all my food portions because 1 I have ocd and it'll make it worse by doing all that. And 2 because I only need to lose 5 pounds and an inch or less, which I can do just by countING calories ate and burned
Yes it does help and I did do that mfp when I first signed up but I didn't know what it was called and it said I need to stick to 1200 that's why I keep saying that number in my comments. I haven't entered any other info cuz i didn't really know how it all works so I'm glad you explained it to me cuz now I'm gonna start logging here cuz I've only been doing so in a notebook or on my phones memo pad and keeping track of calories and how much I worked out. But I've never wrote down hkw many calories I burn with each excersize cuz is there really an exact way to do so? My phone has a hear rate monitor but I don't use it. Is it necessary to try and figure out the calories burned as lono as you know you're burning them
Under the exercise tab you can search the exercise you are doing (walking, running, biking, etc) MFP will estimate your calories burned but if you want you can buy a HRM and use the number it gives you instead. (MFP allows you to override their # and type in a different #). For food you can search the food database on MFP or if you are using a smart phone you can scan the barcode of the food package. You can also add recipes and calculate the calories and save meals. There are lots of tools to make it easier.0 -
Yes it does help and I did do that mfp when I first signed up but I didn't know what it was called and it said I need to stick to 1200 that's why I keep saying that number in my comments. I haven't entered any other info cuz i didn't really know how it all works so I'm glad you explained it to me cuz now I'm gonna start logging here cuz I've only been doing so in a notebook or on my phones memo pad and keeping track of calories and how much I worked out. But I've never wrote down hkw many calories I burn with each excersize cuz is there really an exact way to do so? My phone has a hear rate monitor but I don't use it. Is it necessary to try and figure out the calories burned as lono as you know you're burning them
Under the exercise tab you can search the exercise you are doing (walking, running, biking, etc) MFP will estimate your calories burned but if you want you can buy a HRM and use the number it gives you instead. (MFP allows you to override their # and type in a different #). For food you can search the food database on MFP or if you are using a smart phone you can scan the barcode of the food package. You can also add recipes and calculate the calories and save meals. There are lots of tools to make it easier.
Never mind I just saw someone's comment that explained the entire allowance thing. Ignore my last comment0 -
You're right in the middle of the healthy BMI range, so don't stress too much about the weight.I weight 124 and am 5 foot 4 inches. Now I'm 130 lbs ... I mostly need toned
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/english_bmi_calculator/results_normal.html?pounds=124&inches=64
You might find some useful info in my blog here; I have a post about goal setting and one about exercise, plus a couple with links to other resources.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/MKEgal
If you do the recommended 30 minutes of exercise 5 days a week, you'll probably easily drop the few pounds you're upset about.
And if you can do strength exercises you'll get toned, stronger, and lose inches, which will make you look thinner.
Put the kid in the stroller & go for a walk. Maybe he'll fall asleep and you'll get some quiet "me" time.
Chase him around the park for a while.
Maybe have a couple sessions with a personal trainer, and explain up front that you want to learn some body-weight exercises so you can get toned. Here's where you can find a good certified trainer in your area:
http://members.acsm.org/source/custom/Online_locator/OnlineLocator.cfm
You don't have to have such a drastic diet in order to eat healthy.I've never eaten organic, gluten free, good carbs, no sugar, lean meat, non processed diet ... I've done a lot of research and I KNOW I want to eat healthy and learn to eat ONLY healthy
Slowly change what you're doing now: less sugar, less fatty food, fewer liquid calories, more fruits & veggies (good carbs), more whole grains (good carbs), more lean protein, fewer processed foods.
If you can afford it, there is some benefit to pesticide-free foods where you're going to eat the outside of the food (berries, for example), but none shown for other foods where the peel is removed (bananas, avocados, melons).
For most people "gluten-free" is a fad, nothing to do with health. Very few people are actually allergic to that protein. If you haven't been diagnosed with that disease, don't waste your money.
Good! Ya gotta start somewhere.have started doing one 10 min cardiovascular workout a day
And they're right, doing 3 10-minute workouts gives you the benefit of doing 1 30-minute workout (other than endurance).
Since you want to keep the muscle, do weight-bearing exercises.How can I lose weight in the right areas without losing my healthy weight
There's no way to target weight loss, though by doing exercises to target muscles in a certain area you can _tone_ that area more than others.
If you want to get back to 125 lb, aim for 1250 cal per day.I'm going to try the 1200 cal a day plan ... Its hard for me to stay at 1200 calories a day
If you're still hungry after your veggie-filled meals, add 1/3 to 1/2 the calories you've burned exercising.
Eventually you won't even need those.
No matter where you see something, if the site or person can't back it with a citation to actual research by a reputable group, be very very suspicious.One site says it's a myth that eating small meals throughout the day rather than 3 square meals a day will help you lose weight. Well, which is it?
The more way-out the claim, the stranger the terminology, the more suspicious you should be.
If you have to buy special foods or powders, run away.
The overall goal for weight loss is to eat fewer calories than you burn, so your body has to burn some of its stored calories.
If you find that eating 4 300-calorie snacks helps you control your hunger better than having a 600-cal breakfast, 400-cal lunch, and 200-cal snack for 'dinner', eat the smaller snacks.
The most recent study I've seen talking about how much to eat when is this one:
This study compared eating a small breakfast, medium lunch, and large dinner, [200, 500, 700 cal]
with eating a large breakfast, medium lunch, and small dinner [700, 500, 200 cal].
"The [large breakfast] group showed greater weight loss and waist circumference reduction ... fasting glucose, insulin [&] triglycerides ... decreased significantly to a greater extent in the [large breakfast] group."
In addition, hunger was less and satiety was greater.
Here's the summary: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23512957
Here's a PDF of the whole article.
http://genetics.doctorsonly.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Jakubowicz-at-al-Obesity-2013-oby20460.pdf
See I just asked the same question to another member who replied mentioning I have to burn more calories than I eat in a day, but that's what I'm so confused about because if I stick to my 1200 calories a day plan how the hell am I supposed to burn 1200 calories in a day?
Someone else has already answered this question for you. You do not need to burn 1200 calories with exercise! You burn at least this much (and probably more) just by being alive. You burn calories sleeping, making small movements, growing hair, replacing skin cells, digesting, and so on. Everything your body does to maintain itself requires energy. Then you add calories burned from daily activities and calories burned through exercise. The "average" woman requires 2000 calories for all this, but of course this is going to vary widely based on age, height, current weight, lifestyle, etc.
I highly recommend that you take some time and read the links provided. Do your own research, and you will learn so much. That is what I did.
Wow I'm a moron I'm sorry I didn't even see your entire comment cuz im new to this site and don't know how to use it. But everything u said makes a lot of sense so thank you. And I can't click those links on my phone and can't get on my computer for a over a week so I can't read it, but the basis is I should eat most at breakfast right?0 -
Wow I'm a moron I'm sorry I didn't even see your entire comment cuz im new to this site and don't know how to use it. But everything u said makes a lot of sense so thank you. And I can't click those links on my phone and can't get on my computer for a over a week so I can't read it, but the basis is I should eat most at breakfast right?
There's no magic formula for when to eat and how many calories to eat at each meal. I personally prefer to spread out my calories through out the day. Some people like a big breakfast. Some people prefer a big dinner. You can try different things to see what works best for you. You mentioned you don't want to measure food. You may need to eventually if you struggle with losing weight because it is more accurate. Food scales are not too expensive but even if you measure stuff out using a measuring cup or measuring spoons you will get more accurate amounts.0 -
Let me make this very simple for you. You gained 6lbs eating a box of cookies every night for a year. Cut out or down the amount of cookies, keep up with your exercise, and you'll probably lose the weight pretty easily. Sounds like that is what was putting you over.0
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My tips / thoughts:
Don't bother with fad diets and don't try and lose the weight too quickly, it took a year to gain it and it ain't gonna shift in 4 weeks. The faster you lose it, the easier it is to put on.
Work up to it - whatever 'it' is. If you suddenly go from 2000 to 1200 cals a day your body's going to go WTF? and you're gonna get hungry and may not lose as much as you hope, stagger it over a few weeks and ease yourself in. Works the same with exercise, do what you can and then do more as you get fitter.
It's not about losing weight, it's about lifestyle change - don't change your lifestyle and it'll come back.
Focus on the end goal, some weeks are good, others bad, but don't get hung up on it, as long as you're committed to that end goal you will achieve it.0 -
Hello all! I'm not sure how this works because I just joined so I don't know if you can see my profile information or not so I'm going to post a brief background. I'm 23, with a 3 year old, a recovering addict clean 3.5 years, and I suffer from depression that didn't start til my son was almost 2. The depression brought me to eat a full box of cookies with milk every night for like a year straight. Before that, I was at a pretty good size and weight for post birth women of my height. I weight 124 and am 5 foot 4 inches. Now I'm 130 lbs but its ONLY in my fupa and love handles. My legs, arms and everything else looks fine. I mostly need toned and I know this, but I'd like to he back at my 124 weight and lose the fupa (the little pouch under my belly button that rolls when I sit).
I've never eaten organic, gluten free, good carbs, no sugar, lean meat, non processed diet my entire life but I've never once been overweight. I'm still not, according to the bmI caculators. But since having a kid I've done a lot of research and I KNOW I want to eat healthy and learn to eat ONLY healthy, for myself and my son and my future health. The organic non processed food is another discussion in itself which I'm working slowly to achieve.
I haven't worked out a day since my son was born but I used to be active. I'm not so much anymore because of my depression. I own the 10 minute trainer and have started doing one 10 min cardiovascular workout a day til I build up enough strength to do 3 a day, at different times probably, not all at once. I've talked to a few professionals who said its ok to split the 30 min workout into 3 during the day because I'll still reap benefits.
How can I lose weight in the right areas without losing my healthy weight such as making my legs thinner or arms? I'm going to try the 1200 cal a day plan, which I should be ok with since we've started buying healthier foods and Ive cut out those cookies once a day to none a day. I know I'll lose weight eventually with this 10 minute trainer but how can I make sure it's my love handles and tummy? I know there's no way to target one place specifically but I've read a few sites dedicated to fupa workouts, so should I just add those to my 10 min trainer every day??
Too many websites say too many different things but this one seems legit and helpful so I'm gonna stick with it. One site says it's a myth that eating small meals throughout the day rather than 3 square meals a day will help you lose weight. Well, which is it? I'll post a pic if needed
Congrats on your 3.5 years! I will have 10 on 9/29/14. That 3.5 years is your biggest accomplishedment! Be proud.????
as far as all of your questions, I will let others answer for I am still a newbie here. But I do know that you will lose weight with a calorie deficit. Good luck!
Wow Congrats to you then! What an accomplishment to be proud of !! I'm struggling with this calorie deficit mostly because even healthy foods have high calories!! So I'm like ready and willing to eat no crap and more healthy foods but I want to eat MORE of them but can't cuz they're all just as high in calories as crap food, they just have better nutrients and ingredients in them!0 -
My tips / thoughts:
Don't bother with fad diets and don't try and lose the weight too quickly, it took a year to gain it and it ain't gonna shift in 4 weeks. The faster you lose it, the easier it is to put on.
Work up to it - whatever 'it' is. If you suddenly go from 2000 to 1200 cals a day your body's going to go WTF? and you're gonna get hungry and may not lose as much as you hope, stagger it over a few weeks and ease yourself in. Works the same with exercise, do what you can and then do more as you get fitter.
It's not about losing weight, it's about lifestyle change - don't change your lifestyle and it'll come back.
Focus on the end goal, some weeks are good, others bad, but don't get hung up on it, as long as you're committed to that end goal you will achieve it.
Wow that's awesome advice and it makes so much sense what you say because I am finding myself hungrier during the day even though I'm eating healthier more fulfilling foods instead of processed and sugary foods. I have my mfp set at 1 lb per week which means 1200 cal a day so I can change it to be .5 lb per week and that'll make my cal per day go up a little right? Cuz you're right if I lose it as fast as I would doing 1200 a day then I'll probably gain it all back super quick cuz ill be happy with the results and won't think I need to do it anymore. Or my body will react negativ3ly because it's not used to the changes.
You said don't overdo it and do it fast, pace myself, but the problem with addicts is they want what they want and they want it now and that's wit he everything in life including food, excersize, positive outcomes, weight loss etc. So I'm really gonna struggle at no overdoing it all or doing it top quickly. I'm logging pretty good except I don't have my servings exact right because I don't have a food scale so Im just guessing the weight of my veggies and dressings etc.
Also, I know this is a lifestyle change because that's what I WANT FOR myself and it's not even all about weight. I've had depression and fatigue and everything that comes with it now for awhile and no meds worked so I realized I needed to do a better life including my diet habits and excersize0 -
1/2 lb is probably a reasonable goal since you don't have much to lose. MFP should up your calories if you change your goal to that. You may need to play with what combination of foods make you full. I love carrots & ranch but it won't make me full even if I eat a whole bag. I eat things like crackers and cheese or cheese and grapes for snack. Try different combinations and you will find what works for you. I personally don't believe you should feel hungry all day long when trying to lose weight or you are likely to end up miserable and give up. If you are hungry drink water and try to distract yourself for a few minutes. If you are still hungry eat.0
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OLA Shelby
calm your nerves calm your senses..Little mother You are in fitness free fall... but on the road to a greater more fufilling life
My name is Dances with Wow
and I can provide solace..
you are suffering from post-partum big time.. Hormones are ranging and thoughts are disorganized..
there are several massive emotional mis-alignments going on..
First is body image.. Your stomach flap is a lack of muscle density and severe carb depletion..If you have never eaten any of healthy things ever and weight has never been a problem then your muscle tissue is very ZOFTIC.. Your body has been canabolizing (eating) itself for a very long time.
Which means graduating your eating back into a routine that aligns with your life force...The illict substances you once were taking have disrupted a wide range fitness variable for you..
Such as Food Frequency... your protein number and and the amount of essential fats..are at a critical mass of zero..There nothing to build upon or set a foundation for weight bearing activity.
SO!
Before just jumping into working out with weights begin with yoga based stretching and gradualy refilling your muscles with low density carbs...leafy greans, legumes, and grains..
The idea is to reset you hormonally first..and while doing so fill out the elasticity of the skin..
This should take 14days max.... thats if you are following a 2 before 12 and 2 after two food energy plan.. doing so balances your system across two horizons of the day.. 100% would be 28 meals a week..
with yoga the breathing technique alone will begin refilling zoftic skin..but ist the stretching poses and motorskills gleaned that will start toning you across your entire physcila envelope.
If you manage to reach a food frequency of say 60% then go to weights as you will have enough stored glucose to get solid..
Skin will still be somewhat giggly as its the biggest organ of the body..there is alot of muscle terrain to refashion and hormones to settle down to an even flow.
when you have gotten past the yoga or have questions about any of the stuff just mentioned... friend me..
I would gladly help you recalibrate your life force..and mentor you physical status..
I have 100% success rate..with post partum exercise issues
my name is Dances with Wow
and I help individuals just like you awaken the fitness within, access your bodys life force and deweaponize unwanted body fat.. faster than any known exercise system available on the market to date.
Maybe this guy is for real and means well but his posts are questionable. Seems like the start of a scam.
You think ? He hasn't replied since anyways so if it is a scam he's not doing very well. Doesn't the yoga and body elasticity thing sound legit though?0 -
wow that is some very good advice thank you. And it's weird cuz I did change the weight a week goal AND the excersize amount I plan to do daily and it still gave me the same 1200. Everyone on here seems to think that's a horrible amount and to pay no attention to it cuz everyone gets that number from mfp. I've been eating fruits as snacks and almonds and healthy granola but I still crave sugar at least once a day. I've cut it out almost completely as a snack except for my latte a day and now I'm wondering if I should still eat a sugary snack a day so my body doesn't crave it so much .1/2 lb is probably a reasonable goal since you don't have much to lose. MFP should up your calories if you change your goal to that. You may need to play with what combination of foods make you full. I love carrots & ranch but it won't make me full even if I eat a whole bag. I eat things like crackers and cheese or cheese and grapes for snack. Try different combinations and you will find what works for you. I personally don't believe you should feel hungry all day long when trying to lose weight or you are likely to end up miserable and give up. If you are hungry drink water and try to distract yourself for a few minutes. If you are still hungry eat.0 -
Let me make this very simple for you. You gained 6lbs eating a box of cookies every night for a year. Cut out or down the amount of cookies, keep up with your exercise, and you'll probably lose the weight pretty easily. Sounds like that is what was putting you over.
Yes you're right it definitely did put me over and I have cut out the cookies and I am trying to do a daily excersize but can't seem to do it every day with me being at home with my son alone til his dad gets home. Besides walking I can't get much else in when I'm home with DS alone. I just made a post actually asking if walking alone will help me lose the tummy fat I have or the fupa if you will . Most people are saying since I'm a healthy weight still technically that I need to do more strength training then excersize like cardio. But won't walking and circuit training and doing just ten to twenty mins of cardio a day help me lose that fupa? That's all that I need to lose.. And it's even hard stating at 1200 calories but I'm definitely gonna keep trying.0
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