30 lbs in 12 weeks!

np11073

Congratulations Brenda. I am very proud of you. It has been a gratifying experience to see the fantastic progress you have made. It is too bad that we live so far apart. It would be neat to get together and celebrate our mutual successes. You are well on your way to your goal. You have improved your health, bolstered your self-esteem, and added years to your life.

Cristofori44

Outside of eating below 1200...which is just plain dumb....another thing struck me: the contention that it "takes three days for a binge to show up on the scale." Really? What's the science behind that?

"And I say unto you, if thou eats the doughnut, in three days it will rise and destroy the temple that is the body." -Acts of the Fat Apostles, 3:21

Brenda_1965

Outside of eating below 1200...which is just plain dumb....another thing struck me: the contention that it "takes three days for a binge to show up on the scale." Really? What's the science behind that?

"And I say unto you, if thou eats the doughnut, in three days it will rise and destroy the temple that is the body." -Acts of the Fat Apostles, 3:21

Really? Try weighing daily and you will see it. This is how MY body works. Are you "dumb" enough to think that eating a 1 pound burger will add 1 pound that day? Geesh! Water a plant and fertilize it, and it takes awhile to grow! That's what our bodies do. It takes awhile to process it into body weight!

I'm doing fine this time, and I have plenty of energy to run competitively. Not for medals, but that is my goal, in time.

Brenda_1965

AND my overall daily average is 1200! Not everything I eat after 6 goes in my diary, and some bad days, I don't finish logging!

Brenda_1965

Np, can you believe these people? Congrats on your success too! Wow, your ticker is up there.


By the way, I'm gonna go eat some almonds, and I have NO intention of logging them! I know how many calories are in them, and I can figure it out mentally!

Cristofori44

So human biology is equivalent to plant biology? Brilliant. You should feed burger meat to your ferns.

A 1lb burger incidentally is 1300 cals give or take. It wouldn't show up on the scale at all for me so long as it didn't push me over maintenance TDEE. In fact, you have to go over TDEE by a decent margin to gain a pound. As 3,500 cals = 1lb., unless you binged well above maintenance, ingesting 1k, 2k above your level, what likely showed on the scale was water retention.

shellydd

2 years ago this site was people supporting each other with very little bickering......now days it seems to run rampant. also....why so many skinny skinny people? "i weigh 110 pounds and want to lose 20......gross

Cristofori44

Well look, the whole point of posting on the "success" page is, in part, to tell people how you did it. While the weight loss is great, the OP says she would underestimate calories, then not log other cals, go under 1,200 some days, but then says she averaged over 1,200 every day (presumably by making up for it on following days).

Congrats on your loss, and glad it works for you, though given the number of members I've seen who go under 1,200 routinely and net 200 or 600 a day after exercise,..which can be very dangerous...I think people are right to say: proceed with caution.

kimad

I have also learned that it takes 3 days for MY body to register a binge. That is helpful because I don't get excited the day after a binge because the scale dropped. This keeps me from permitting myself to continue bingeing.

Yup!

selig0730

congrats and great job on the loss

paleirishmother

Only 12 weeks? Damn, I feel like a loser now!

RychelleD

Great job. Everyone is different. Don't worry about the negative. I also have found that I have more success if I don't eat the "extra" calories from exercising. My goal is 1200 calories on here. I am sometimes under a bit and sometimes slightly over. Noone has the same calorie levels everyday . Also the comment you ate candy for lunch.People have days here and there where maybe they eat a bit "unhealthy" It's called being a human lol.

Mcgrawhaha

just ignore the negativity! congrats to you! its your body, whatever works! some people can barely loose no matter what, some people can shed the pounds with little work. we just have to learn our own bodies, and what works for our bodies.

SweetCheekszx0

just ignore the negativity! congrats to you! its your body, whatever works! some people can barely loose no matter what, some people can shed the pounds with little work. we just have to learn our own bodies, and what works for our bodies.

This^^ who gives a *kitten* .. Feel good, be proud, carry on.. And also your f*cking awesome and congratulations ❤

lauren3101

Wed. 1044
Thurs 1016
Fri 978
Sat 1170
Sun 1723<

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Mon. 761. (Did not log my 700+ calorie binge on turkey bacon)
Tues. 1253

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Week 7945 +700+
Average 1135 per day
With I recorded binge on healthy food, = average of > 1235 per day.

But... you have already said that you over-estimate your portions, so that calorie log isn't going to be accurate either.

There was one day where you burnt 1100 calories on exercise, and only ate 1200 calories...

I don't think I saw one piece of fruit when I was glancing through.

I don't want it to sound like a criticism because it isn't meant like that, but your method is not a healthy way to lose weight, and younger, more easily infuenced people might see your food diary and think it's ok to lose weight like that.
By your comments on here you are basically saying that to lose weight you need to eat very little and exercise a lot.

Also by eating like that I would say it's unlikely you will be able to stick to that forever, so old habits will kick back in and your weight will creep back up.

Congrats on your weight loss though and I hope I'm wrong, but I do hope you fin a healthier way to lose it and keep it off.

Brenda_1965

Tomatoes are fruit, and I eat a lot of them. I also drink tomato juice. I overestimate calories by a LITTLE. I used to underestimate them by a lot.. Aka denial of the truth so that my journal looked good. I tell myself the TRUTH now, and I don't freak out if I'm over some days. I also don't freak out because I have an unrecorded snack.

The hamburger was an example, moron. Sorry. I just HAD say it. I'm a really kind and honest person, yet you got me going. Congrats to you for believing you are smarter than you really are.

Thanks for the two dittos on agreeing that your bodies, too, register a binge in the same time as mine does. I have a pretty sluggish elimination system, so maybe that is why. My body is also pretty efficient .

Thank you SO MUCH to all of you who have emailed me and added me as a pal. I was near a binge yesterday, but managed to keep it under control with your support. Please add me if you would like to.

I am NOT a liar, and my intention here was to help others. I have been overweight for ten ya pears, I'm 47, and FINALLY I'm losing more than the normal 10. I tried it their way and plateaued. I have also done it the starvation way with success and kept it off as a teen, but this time I'm jdoing it right and strolling rolling along!

Once again, thanks supporters.

Brenda_1965

Also. I didn't say that I am Never warned about starvation mode. My point was that mfp is designed to accept 1200 calories without expecting you to eat your exercise calories. This brings up another point. The exercise calories are on the high side. It really depends on your weight how much you actually burn. I ate themALL the last time I did this, and I lost ten and plateaued.

farway

Congratulations on your loss, ignore the doom sayers and do what works for you, I do