over 200 club New year New me Part 13

cris20056

snowflakes- I love love love MONK! Its one of my favorites too, I loved when they had marathons I am sad its over but I am happy to finally find out what happened to Trudy :laugh:

LittleSpy

I read another article about increasing protein to as much as 90 grams a day. I am ready to up mine. How do I manually change the numbers in the food diary? I see how to add or change a category but I am stumped on the amounts. Thanks.

Oh yeah, I know I personally need at *least* 90 grams a day to feel good. I know that varies a lot from person to person but I definitely noticed a big difference when I started eating more protein in Jan.
Go to "My Home" then "Goals" then click "Change Goals" and select "Custom goals" and click "Continue" and you can change your macronutrient percentages.

Personally, when I started increasing my protein intake I started at 50% carbs, 25% protein, 25% fat. Then a couple months later (about a month ago) I changed it to 45% carbs, 30% protein, 25% fat. At some point I may go a step further and try to get it to 40/30/30 but I'm still eating too many carbs to go that far yet.

RedneckWmn

I read another article about increasing protein to as much as 90 grams a day. I am ready to up mine. How do I manually change the numbers in the food diary? I see how to add or change a category but I am stumped on the amounts. Thanks.

Oh yeah, I know I personally need at *least* 90 grams a day to feel good. I know that varies a lot from person to person but I definitely noticed a big difference when I started eating more protein in Jan.
Go to "My Home" then "Goals" then click "Change Goals" and select "Custom goals" and click "Continue" and you can change your macronutrient percentages.

Personally, when I started increasing my protein intake I started at 50% carbs, 25% protein, 25% fat. Then a couple months later (about a month ago) I changed it to 45% carbs, 30% protein, 25% fat. At some point I may go a step further and try to get it to 40/30/30 but I'm still eating too many carbs to go that far yet.

I had mine at 40/30/30 and kept going over on carbs! I changed my carbs to 45%...I think I like carbs too much!! I still go over on protein though. My poor diet is all out of wack the last couple of weeks!

Positively_Me

Good Afternoon girl!
Active as always this morning/afternoon :laugh:

first congrates Momma on being the biggest loser..and I LOVE THIS WEEKS CHALLENGE!!! Thanks:drinker:

I have my food set up as 45/30/25..on a 1200 calorie a day..I have been doing great with it..sometimes i do go over on carbs or fat...but never on calories..well let me hold my tongue..i went over on all three this past Saturday. I also went over on sodium this past weekend...i think it's the lunchmeat i have been eating..all natural turkey breast 99% fat-free..

check in Friday
calories: over by 100 calories
water: about 9 cups
exercise: rest day..no trail walk today
proud: i didn't overeat i stayed incontrol the whole day...because TOM is here and i want junk food


check in Saturday:
calories: over by 500 calories, my calories is 1200 and i went up to 1700 calories ( but it was all good food, except the deli meat - 99% all natural turkey breast)
water: not enough
exercise: nope and it's not my rest day...just being lazy
proud: i didn't cave in and eat chocolate...


check in Sunday
calories: under by 200..making up for saturday's eating
water: yup..all 10 cups
exercise: went ot my state park and walked the trail twice, once wiht my hubby and older son and the second time around wiht my daughter..my son and hubby was tired and didn't want to go the second time so i dragged my daughter instead.
proud: i only had one slice of pizza and was still under my calories for the day

check in for Monday
calories: on target!
water: not yet but will by the end of today
exercise: start this weeks challenge and my trail walk with my family
proud: didn't let the one pound gain bother me because i know it's all sodium..ugh!!!

Have a great day girls...busy day today. I will try to be back later.

RedneckWmn

Positively-WTG on not going out of control this weekend! Wish I could say the same. I'm slowly getting better though! As far as lunch meat goes. I started buying the low sodium kind. Boar's head makes a good low sodium turkey and ham. You have to get it from the deli though and it's a ltitle expensive(it seems anything that is good for you is!). I thik for 2oz is about 360mg of sodium. Somewhere in there!

HeatherMN

I try to eat more protein, but the carbs are too hard to kick!

snowflakes

snowflakes- I love love love MONK! Its one of my favorites too, I loved when they had marathons I am sad its over but I am happy to finally find out what happened to Trudy :laugh:

Glad to know another Monkaholic:) We are so bummed that it is over to. We come up with all kinds of phobias and scenarios that Monk could continue to pursue, the writers for that show are fantastic. Yes, FINALLY Trudy's case is solved!

littlespy: Thank you for the steps to change my settings. That was so easy, but I could not figure it out on my own. You're the best. I sure hope that this helps the scale move. The first 35 pounds came off quite steady, since getting to my half way goal, the loss has SLOWED substantially to no loss this week. I know that I have a smaller calorie deficit than at the beginning but sheesh there is still a deficit! Hoping changing up the protein will help.

Jess I LOVE carbs too. I could live on pasta and be happy. Food making me happy??? OH YA BIG TIME!!! I have tried Boar's and it it yummy.

Thanks momma for the link, I know I'm an old lady to her but I am so impressed that she has taken the initiative to learn about her health the healthy way. Maybe she can bring a group of teens together. You ladies have a fantastic day!

cris20056

I changed my setting and apparently Im already over in carbs for the day :blushing: :noway: :laugh:

Think Ill go back to my old setting hehehe

lstpaul

Hello everyone! I was MIA over the weekend (AGAIN). I didn't track, but did well on Saturday and not very well on Sunday - we had a late Easter dinner at my cousin's house. I did well there, but then over-indulged last night because I was busy patting myself on the back.
I DIDN'T make my meal plan yet for this week like I said I was going to :devil: ... I will try later tonight, but it is going to be another hectic day. I know, I know ... I need to make my weight loss efforts a priority again, I just have to get my head on straight .. coming here and catching up on everyone's posts helped. I will FOR SURE do momma's challenge today, and try to fit in a walk during or after my daughter's sax lesson. I am feeling very PMSy today, we'll see if I actually get my TOM this month. I'm peri-menopausal, and on birth control pills (even though my hubby had a vasectomy) to try to regulate things (because I was getting TOM twice a month for awhile and very, very, very crabby all the time) ... but it still seems to be hit or miss even on the pill. I definitely don't miss it - but it sucks to have all the crabby, bloaty, craving symptoms anyhow - and definitely doesn't seem to help with losing weight!

lstpaul

One of the things that has most surprised me about tracking on MFP is that I rarely go over on carbs ... I thought I was a carb-a-holic. But really I OFTEN go over on sugar and fat, and sodium. I'm almost always under on protein and right on or under on carbs. I need a complete overhaul of my diet ... but it's not EASY! :frown:

LittleSpy

Oh boy, I'm sohungry at work I'm about to eat my afternoon snack early. I didn't pack a decent lunch at all... a protein bar & an apple. Just awful. :embarassed: I was in such a rush this morning. So now I'm starving because I've only had like 28g protein so far today when normally I would've had nearly twice that by now. :indifferent: And, lemme tell you, this stupid chewing gum is REALLY not helping. :laugh:

I'll be in training all day tomorrow & Wednesday to get more hands on experience learning the new HR & accounting system our state govt is switching to in June. I can hardly contain my (sarcastic) excitement! The new system will make my job a whole lot less tedious, but switching to it is terrifying because I KNOW everything is going to be messed up. There's no way there won't be 10 billion headaches that come along with the switch. Plus, once we're all trained, we then have to go out and train our employees (who are spread out in 70 offices all over the state). Anyway, that is to say I won't be around stalking much again until Thursday. I really don't like my job. :ohwell:

awestfall

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