MFP Goals - Lose 1/2 pound per week?

mamaisis09

Is anyone on the lose 1/2 pound a week goal? If so, what has your success been like with it? Lately (over this past week especially), I've been having trouble feeling full only eating the calories allowed in the "lose 1 pound per week" goal. I get nearly 300 calories more if I switch to lose 1/2 a pound per week, but I don't want my progress to slow, it's been wonderful! I'm about 5 pounds from my original goal weight and 10 pounds from my "probably won't get there, but may as well shoot for the moon" goal weight. Also, something to note as well, before ya'll start giving advice (which is what I am asking for) is that I am doing the Beachbody INSANITY program and completed the final week of the first month last week and I've been fighting a cold for about 2 weeks now. Ok, now, let the advice pour in. LOL, please I really would like to know what everyone thinks:) Feel free to look at my food diary (I've had a bit of a sweet tooth today).

meggonkgonk

I customized my calories to slow down to .8 lbs per week (I added 125 cals to my daily goal) but this is my 1st week so I don't have any results.

mamaisis09

Thanks meggonkgonk, perhaps I'll just decide to modify as you did...

shannahrose

i'm in the same boat - curious what others have to say...

amymeenieminymo

I only looked at a week of your diary, so perhaps it isn't always like this, but I saw a lot of calories go to junk that isn't filling, like one day you had soup for lunch which is 160 some calories, but then you had two cans of coke. A 400 calorie lunch would be pretty filling, but not when it consists of soup and coke.

I know we all have cheat days and meals, but pizza hut for lunch and dinner...just a few more examples of wasted calories. Do you work out? I don't recall seeing any exercise calories in there (sorry if I missed them). If you work out, are you eating your exercise calories? That would give you an added bonus if you don't feel like you're getting enough calories a day.

I would try switching up what you eat to healtheir foods that will be low in calories but fill you up and then one treat a day so you're not depriving yourself, like your skinny cow treat at night. Carrot sticks for a snack instead of tootsie rolls, try just one can of pop a day instead of two in one meal, etc.

mamaisis09

I must admit over the past couple weeks my eating has been somewhat erratic, skipping a meal here and there, cramming in the calories, I was having trouble getting enough calories a few weeks ago, but since I've progressed through the Insanity workout program that I originally mentioned and I am hungry!

Pizza hut for lunch and dinner was the same meal, I just couldn't finish the whole personal pan at lunch so I had one slice for dinner... with a breadstick:)

The coke was a mistake, lol, I poured it out thought I had only poured 12oz and then... well woops, it was double. I don't usually drink soda, its a once or twice a week thing for me, if that.

Also the tootsie rolls counted for all of 30 calories...I usually have dried fruit for my healthy snack but sometimes I forego that so I can have my evening treat.

Though today I've been eating terrible, just like I was eating when I first started MFP... just a bad eating day kinda. Oh well, I always bounce back.

I'm really just curious to see what everyone else's results have been from switching to 1/2 pound and their reasons behind doing it... I was thinking perhaps the reason I've been so hungry was the crazy workouts hitting my body or me having a cold for so long. Usually I eat good with treats and everything, but I don't usually have trouble staying under...

OceanAddict

I'm here trying to lose those nagging extra pounds, after having successfully gotten down to my 'fighting weight' in 2006. That time, I was using a different program that allowed me 1300 calories per day - which worked out to between 1.5 and 2 pounds lost per week. It was HARD, I felt really deprived, and I went back to my old eating habits almost immediately after reaching my goal.

This time around, I've set it to 0.5 pounds per week, because I want this new way of eating to become a healthier lifestyle, and I've heard that if you take if off slowly, it's more likely to last. I'm actually more worried about maintenance than I am about weight loss.

All of that said, so far I've been consistently under my calorie goal and I'm feeling quite full. So I guess I'll see what happens in the coming weeks and months....