Experts: How much should I eat?

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  • PittShkr
    PittShkr Posts: 1,000 Member
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  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    1) If you're doing all the household duties, you're not sedentary. Bump up your activity level and you'll have more calories.

    2) No one has the time or finds the time to exercise. They MAKE the time.

    In the time it's took you to type this post, you could have done some pushups. You could save two gallon empty milk jugs, fill them with sand or water, and use them as weights. They'd be 8 pounds each filled with water, 13 pounds filled with sand. Before I bought weights, I did deadlifts with two 40 pound buckets of cat litter. You got kids, use one of them for weights. They'll think it's fun.
  • LittleMiss_WillLoseIt
    LittleMiss_WillLoseIt Posts: 1,373 Member
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    LOVE THIS!!!
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
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  • mensasu
    mensasu Posts: 355 Member
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    Love this!

    Getting so tired of the excuses :grumble:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12
  • IronmanPanda
    IronmanPanda Posts: 2,083 Member
    Take the time you use to make all these forum posts and exercise

    qft
  • 76tech
    76tech Posts: 1,455 Member
    Look, I'm not refusing to exercise. It's complicated. I have 3 people in my house that codepend on me right now due to mental health issues. It's not as easy to find time as you think. I cook all my own meals, I do all the laundry, I do all the shopping, I do all the cleaning. I don't work really hard at it though so I don't count it as exercise, but I am generally on my feet most of the day. I just come to the computer when I am taking a break between tasks. So my point is, I don't have 1 hour to dedicate to exercise. But when the family is caught up, I might load an app on my phone and do some ab training or yoga. But I don't have 1 hour to spare. No stay at home parent does. Because if we did, we'd be working.

    So again, what should I be eating?

    How much time have you spent on here, today alone? You could have been doing situps, pushups, anything else instead.

    I'm a stay at home/work from home dad - on the days when I take care of several children, cook, clean, *and* work 9-5, I still make time to work out. It's not easy, but I'm far from supeman. I just divert my attention away from b!tching about it and just get the frack up and do it.
  • felice03
    felice03 Posts: 2,644 Member
    Look, I'm not refusing to exercise. It's complicated. I have 3 people in my house that codepend on me right now due to mental health issues. It's not as easy to find time as you think. I cook all my own meals, I do all the laundry, I do all the shopping, I do all the cleaning. I don't work really hard at it though so I don't count it as exercise, but I am generally on my feet most of the day. I just come to the computer when I am taking a break between tasks. So my point is, I don't have 1 hour to dedicate to exercise. But when the family is caught up, I might load an app on my phone and do some ab training or yoga. But I don't have 1 hour to spare. No stay at home parent does. Because if we did, we'd be working.

    So again, what should I be eating?

    You don't have time? I work full-time, go to school full-time and have two children that depend on me. I heavy lift 3 days a week and cardio 3 days a week. I get up before everyone else to do this (4:45 am). It can be done, you just have to make it a priority.


    Shes superwoman! :)

    Agreed. Because no one in their right mind would attempt to do this and try to keep their sanity. I'm sorry, but my health is a full package (mental health included). You must drive your kids/husband crazy! Either that or you're one step shy of a Paxil prescription.

    for someone who gets upset when he thinks he is being attacked that was awfully harsh....way to follow the herd!

    (ps superwoman, keep it up...I don't know you but you are amazing!)
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    Stop trying to lose weight. Eat at maintenance and start strength training. Body weight exercises for at home (google for ideas and there's also an excellent book out there 'you are your own gym'). If you can't block out 30-45 minutes a day do it in increments. Bam done.
  • jackpotclown
    jackpotclown Posts: 3,275 Member
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  • Lift_hard_eat_big
    Lift_hard_eat_big Posts: 2,278 Member
    Seek professional help. Seems like you are developing an ED. You should be trying to gain more muscle mass rather than cutting.
  • EccentricDad
    EccentricDad Posts: 875 Member
    I am not going to defend myself on this thread besides saying I exaggerated. All I want is help figuring out my maintenance since I've done everything I can on diet alone it seems.

    If people hate seeing me in forums, create a group of the people you like and don't go to public forums. It's as simple as that, you don't have to respond. Am I annoying? Maybe. But I don't give a eff what you think.
  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
    Okay so before the thread gets locked (as there are all sorts of insults being thrown around) the answer is: Eat maintenance and just effing exercise? Got it, so can someone help me make sure I got my maintenance right?

    And I had such hope.....you had been showing such restraint in the forums lately. Old habits die hard huh? You are the only flinging insults. Telling someone she needs drugs because she exercises and must drive her family crazy? Wow....not nice.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I'm just saying... you've posted 20-some times in the last two hours on here. You HAVE the time to exercise. You just don't have the discipline.
  • sjohnny
    sjohnny Posts: 56,142 Member
    I am not going to defend myself on this thread besides saying I exaggerated. All I want is help figuring out my maintenance since I've done everything I can on diet alone it seems.

    If people hate seeing me in forums, create a group of the people you like and don't go to public forums. It's as simple as that, you don't have to respond. Am I annoying? Maybe. But I don't give a eff what you think.

    I like seeing you in the forums. I find it entertaining seeing what kind of illness or disorder you'll decide you have next and seeing you come up with random bull**** that contradicts whatever other random bull**** you posted previously. Maybe I need more hobbies but screw it, this will do for now.
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    Josh Posts: 123 Member
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