Iphone App Users...Olivia Method is Awesome!

kikkipoo

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Your chart now shows your red line at what your maintenance is. Anything under is weight loss....anything over is weight gain. And that magic green number will say your weekly deficit.

Give it a try and look through past weeks. My week of Nov 14th shows a weekly deficit of 5,378 calories. That should have been approximately a pound and a half weight loss for that week. Didn't happen. I only lost a half a pound that week....but in looking at the calories that week...there wasn't a single day that I ate my BMR rate. That means I'm either gaining some serious muscle (which I doubt since I wasn't even eating enough to sustain my bodily functions) or my body has gone into starvation mode.

Olivia's method should really give us the opportunity to start finally achieving what it is we have been busting our tails for all along Think of it like a magnetic attraction....we've been pushing against ourselves all this time when all we needed was a little flip! Time to start looking at those calories as a deficit to weight loss rather than the calories we get to consume.

olivia3263

YES! Exactly!! I love how it works on the iphone app. That green number is very motivating. Total control I used to either eat too little, or too much. I feel like I've finally found my sweet spot for losing weight.

soccermum75

I love that i now feel more in control versus: in 5 weeks you should weigh xxxx.

kikkipoo

Thanks Olivia for sharing this plan and making sure we really understood how and why it works. You've been very selfless and helped so many and I'm not sure you realize quite how much. Hopefully our results can be some satisfaction for you. I already can't wait to share it with all my friends stuck in the 1200 calorie trap.

AlexzKT

It's funny, because before I saw your post about your method, I had recently changed to maintenance only because I hated seeing that red number. I've always found that if I have a big green number (say if I work out), I'm more inclined to watch what I eat. But if I've had lunch and I only have 400 or so calories left, then I'm very likely to say "f*** it" and eat wayyy too much.

So then I saw this method and it gave me even more reason to keep my goal at maintenance... And the iPhone app is a great visual of all that is happening.

Point is: green numbers rock.

olivia3263

Thanks guys! I'm so happy I'm able to share what I learned with so many people. I can't wait to hear about results! We should really call this the "green method" - cause it's all about that fantastic green number! (But I secretly like that it's named after me

nursenelson

Thanks Olivia for sharing this plan and making sure we really understood how and why it works. You've been very selfless and helped so many and I'm not sure you realize quite how much. Hopefully our results can be some satisfaction for you. I already can't wait to share it with all my friends stuck in the 1200 calorie trap.

^^^ what she said

nursenelson

Thanks guys! I'm so happy I'm able to share what I learned with so many people. I can't wait to hear about results! We should really call this the "green method" - cause it's all about that fantastic green number! (But I secretly like that it's named after me

HAHA yea keep it named the Olivia method because you deserve it

tangal88

works on Droid phones also.

I am still confused about how this all works to be a bit honest.

I originally was eating 1200 cal a day, and not eating back exercise cals. Lost a good chunk of weight for about 4 weeks then stalled. (of course )

Then slowly started to raise my cals a bit at a time. lost a bit more, but very slowly, but weight loss stalled again. Did lose some inches though.

But eventually that also stopped. Still tried raising my cals, until I was at about 1400 a day most days, 1500 occasionally. I also have a free food day once a week. (have always done this, so not new)

My weight and inch loss stopped for about 60 days, though I still maintained my workouts etc. Not eating exercise cals back, but eating about 1400-1500- a day. Even switched to MFP .5 lb per week loss plan to see if that helped, it did not.

Then a few days ago, changed to Olivias plan. I now have my calories to eat raised to 1630 a day, and I still workout. I eat to leave a 1000 green number deficit at the end of the day. (thats the green number right?) So "I think" I am eating a bit more? Not sure, since I did not eat my exercise cals purposely before constantly but did eat some on some days -, and now I am eating some on purpose, so I never have a deficit over 1000 left.

It is to soon to see if I am losing or maintaining yet. So far, I do not appear to be gaining.

But the point of the rambling post is........


When I look at the weekly chart - what exactly am I looking for?

I am aim to stay below the red line, but I have always been doing that for the past 5 months. And weight change stalled.

I am guessing I am trying to keep the green columns below 1000? Mine are about 600 on some days, 900 or so on another - with a week average of 700 or a bit less it looks like. My net cals for the week are 8123 under my weekly goal.

Is this good or bad?

I look at my older past weeks, and the only really difference I see, is my columns are now more "averaged" not so much up and down. But I still seem to have a high "net cal under weeks goal" number, 5000-8000. Not sure whats different?

Also - I am still a bit hungry at days end, can I add a 200 cal protein shake in at the end of the day without really messing things up?

olivia3263

When I look at the weekly chart - what exactly am I looking for?

I am aim to stay below the red line, but I have always been doing that for the past 5 months. And weight change stalled.

I am guessing I am trying to keep the green columns below 1000? Mine are about 600 on some days, 900 or so on another - with a week average of 700 or a bit less it looks like. My net cals for the week are 8123 under my weekly goal.

Is this good or bad?

I look at my older past weeks, and the only really difference I see, is my columns are now more "averaged" not so much up and down. But I still seem to have a high "net cal under weeks goal" number, 5000-8000. Not sure whats different?

Also - I am still a bit hungry at days end, can I add a 200 cal protein shake in at the end of the day without really messing things up?

You're still not eating enough if your Net cals for the week are 8123 under your weekly goal. Think about it this way - 1000 calorie deficit x 7 days is 7,000. This is the highest you want that number to be. If you averaged 500 calorie deficit each day, your Net calories for the week would be 3500.

Now your week is probably showing a combination of your old eating pattern and your new one - next week should be under 7000 if you keep trying to eat under a 1000 calorie deficit.

Please eat if you're hungry. Dieting shouldn't be about depriving yourself all the time. Just don't overdo it - I think having a 200 cal protein shake at the end of the day would be better than fine. Remember - 1000 = maximum, not necessary to do each day. I had a 392 deficit yesterday because I felt like I needed a day like that.

tangal88

ahh so my weekly net should ideally be in the range of 3500-7000, not higher then 7000 - right? And probably best if its actually a bit under 7000, for satisfaction reasons.

Yes current week is a combo week, so next week should look different.

futiledevices

Uh, when I look on my phone, it's showing a 700 or so deficit for the week, but when I add it up myself, it's more than 3500. Is it an average, or what?

kikkipoo

Uh, when I look on my phone, it's showing a 700 or so deficit for the week, but when I add it up myself, it's more than 3500. Is it an average, or what?

Did you set your calories at maintenance number? I'm looking at mine right now and it shows 5,229 net calories under weekly goal with one day left in the week to be tracked. When I add my green numbers manually from every day since Monday I got 3,249, which if I add an entire day's worth of maintenance calories (tomorrow) I get 5,229, just like it said....so it's dead on. Since I have to eat my BMR for tomorrow, I'm looking at an actual deficit of around 3,600 calories....right around a pound loss. The thing is, just since starting this on Wednesday I went from no loss in 3 weeks to a 6.6 pound loss in 3 days.

heaven_511

WOW! You are sooo right...the week of 11/14 I had a calorie deficit of 7869 which was my lowest weekly deficit, but I have not been dropping the 2lbs/wk. So have to be over working and under eating. Last week my deficit was over 10,000 cals and I didn't lose (well actually i went down 2 lbs but there're baaack).