Time for a rant.
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im tired of people saying they are d oing cheat days and they dont care and they arent recording it
im tired of hearing about people getting drunk
im tired of people not logging in in ten days- which mean s they are eating junk while i am working my butt off
im tired of deleting people off here cuz they arent really or motivated
You must have a great friend.
I'm going to have to cool it on my IDGF days, my beer and whiskey drinking, my trips to McDonald's and my pizza delivery nights, 'cause you know I might be disappeared . . .
OP - the trick is to focus on sustainable change. Work on improving. Be serious about that but make sure that they are changes you can maintain for life.
Off with your head!0 -
Also it looks like your intake is a bit low.
I would suggest maybe joining this group...there is some good reading there.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/10118-eat-train-progress
If you like you can post a topic and ask questions about your intake/activity, etc.
Maybe if you had that straight you would feel better.
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OP there are a lot of days where it looks like you don't eat any of your exercise calories. No wonder you're hungry and frustrated. Try eating some of them (at least 1/2).
This is good advice. If you aren't fueling yourself properly you'll be more likely to have days like this (that's been my experience). Enjoy your exercise calories - you worked for them.0 -
OP there are a lot of days where it looks like you don't eat any of your exercise calories. No wonder you're hungry and frustrated. Try eating some of them (at least 1/2).
This is good advice. If you aren't fueling yourself properly you'll be more likely to have days like this (that's been my experience). Enjoy your exercise calories - you worked for them.
^ Great point here. OP, if you're eating less than you did before you started, then that's improvement. Eat back at least 1/2 your exercise calories and track what happens. If you're not losing at a reasonable rate (about 1 pound per week) after that, then drop your calorie intake by 100-150 a day and track it again. This isn't a race and you want to keep it doable.0 -
im tired of people saying they are d oing cheat days and they dont care and they arent recording it
im tired of hearing about people getting drunk
im tired of people not logging in in ten days- which mean s they are eating junk while i am working my butt off
im tired of deleting people off here cuz they arent really or motivated
You must have a great friend.
I'm going to have to cool it on my IDGF days, my beer and whiskey drinking, my trips to McDonald's and my pizza delivery nights, 'cause you know I might be disappeared . . .
OP - the trick is to focus on sustainable change. Work on improving. Be serious about that but make sure that they are changes you can maintain for life.
^This.
(And IDGAF days have never killed anyone)
*takes a sip of her 3rd drink tonight......*0 -
You are having one of those days. Hang in there! Also, listen to everything that BEACHIRON just told you...he just gave you excellent advice. You'll be alright.0
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Dear Lord get a grip, bro.
Maybe this will cheer ya up.0 -
When I was counting calories, it was very tedious and boring, and it pretty much got me nowhere. When I started focusing on lowering my carbs... everything changed. I've lost 12 pounds in about 40 days, and it's all due to watching my CARBS, not cals. Tonight for dinner I had a taco salad (no chips), with virtually no carbs. I eat BLT lettuce wraps everyday (amounting to about one carb), tilapia, steak, chicken, etc. It's a lot easier, effective, (and more fun) than obsessing over my calories.0
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If you seriously want to drop a few quick pounds, just eliminate carbs for a few days... it will melt off. Focus on meats, dairy, and vegetables. Knowing that I can eat bacon everyday and LOSE weight... does it get any better?0
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I get that way. It's usually when I've been overworking my body. I'll find my food cravings are up and I'm extra tired. Well, then I eat more and take a day off. I try to eat healthy still, or keep the bad food to a minimum as I don't want to go bonkers, but I want to really enjoy something I'm not normally allowing myself to have. I try to balance carbs and protein these days. I usually need the carbs to kickstart my energy levels and the protein still to maintain muscle repair. I met somebody one time who dieted and lost a ton of weight. His secret was he allowed himself a cheat day at the end of the week. It wasn't a fit everything in that'll fit thing, but just a meal where he ate what he wanted. Said it kept him on track all week. I haven't done this but choose just to listen to my body. I usually do something like swim on Saturday and Sunday where M-F I weightlift and do cardio.
I have to be careful not to burn myself out as I've found in the past that burning out means several weeks to a month of not doing something, such as running. By the time I start again I've lost my edge and need to work a few weeks getting it back. Then I think of all that effort and training I lost by just overdoing it. Had I maintained healthy rest periods I would've maintained my gains and never slacked off.0 -
Wow, you guys have been busy on here. I got a lot to read. Ill take a look and respond, My favorite thing about this website is all the support people give. Its really awesome. Thank you all for your support. I feel refreshed already. 0
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suck it up princess0
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You're doing great, and I really can't add anything that hasn't already been said on this topic. Just know that we are all rooting for you. Don't give up. :drinker:0
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BeachIron.....My calorie goal is 2000. My BMR is 1747 and my TDEE is 2905.
I rarely have cheat days, usually only one a week. I don't really even have cheat days but days where I will eat a meal out and not pay attention to calories. I guess I could bump it up to 2500?
Allons.....I don't usually eat my exercise calories. Some days I do. I've though about eating half of them back and going from there. I guess I'm just so in a rush to lose weight and body fat that Im being too strict on myself.
Crankstr.....I joined the group and Ill check it out and I will watch the video as well. Thanks.
Taylormom.....Ill look into my carbs as well. The only number I have really been paying attention to is calories. I don't even really know much about what carbs are and what they do.
Mchoss...thanks bro lol0 -
I just wanted to second BeachIron's suggestion of upping your calorie intake.
I get the urge to binge when I undereat, and I end up miserable as well. I've learned the hard way that being miserable is NOT required to lose weight and get fit. That's not to say it's painless, but you should not be feeling this bad on a regular basis. If you are, you're doing something wrong, and it's time to change it up a bit.0 -
Hormones = Man period. Welcome to the club! :explode:0
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I JUST had this exact same conversation last night! You are NOT alone and this damn weightloss journey is just that...a journey #hanginthere0
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I JUST had this exact same conversation last night! You are NOT alone and this damn weightloss journey is just that...a journey #hanginthere
A big pain in the *kitten*...that's what it is lol
Lots of confusing numbers and equations and this and that...0 -
Amen to that. We've all been there, but if you really need to be more healthy, don't give up.0
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woah buddy. Slow down, and a wink from a fellow Washingtonian.
From my own insane experience with Insanity I can say that a big calorie deficit is not a good thing on that.
Lyle McDonald has a great write up on too much cardio at a too large of a deficit being defeating. I will grab a link here shortly.
With that said, I saw very little results and was feeling JUST like you are right now. I upped my calories...drastically. I felt better and started seeing great results. I was anywhere from 200-400 deficit on any given day. 500 was too much. I had days when I ate anything that wasn't nailed down.
Once I started eating more, I saw amazing progress. Didn't lose too many LBs but I lost over 15" on the first round. I was also lifting 3x a week, mostly compound. That was last summer.
I'm not saying the rules of thermodynamics doesn't apply here. Lyle himself doesn't even understand this issue fully. He sees it time and time again and his books talk a lot about it.
Here you go:
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/why-big-caloric-deficits-and-lots-of-activity-can-hurt-fat-loss.html0 -
I noticed you're currently working through Insanity.
I did Insanity as well. It did wonders for my fitness-- but not as much in terms of aesthetics. The majority of my workout time is now dedicated to weight lifting, and I feel like the results have been much better; and without the torturous, heart-attack inducing, knee-sheering, energy sucking workout, that is Insanity.
Granted, it definitely improved my fitness, and I was able to build up the courage to go back to the gym from it. Also, plyometrics will definitely be reincorporated into my workouts when I start cutting, but I would reconsider your workouts depending on your goals, not just workout because you want to finish X many days of some arbitrary program.
I say all this because I feel like the Insanity program encourages more strain than necessary (which can lead to wearing you out). If your goal isn't to see how hard you can push your heart in a plyo/HIIT workout, you can probably do something else and get a better result : )0 -
@RedHeadMoo: Wow, I hadn't seen your post until after I had written mine-- but your experience mirrors what I wanted to say in my post : ).0
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@RedHeadMoo: Wow, I hadn't seen your post until after I had written mine-- but your experience mirrors what I wanted to say in my post : ). So glad to hear it got your buns back in the gym lifting.
Our experience over at the BB forums is pretty rampant. The advice to eat more is rarely taken well. LOL.
I still love the workouts though. I love the intensity like that but I just have to eat a truck load. I'm pretty sure I considered eating my kids at one point.0 -
@RedHeadMoo: Wow, I hadn't seen your post until after I had written mine-- but your experience mirrors what I wanted to say in my post : ). So glad to hear it got your buns back in the gym lifting.
Our experience over at the BB forums is pretty rampant. The advice to eat more is rarely taken well. LOL.
I still love the workouts though. I love the intensity like that but I just have to eat a truck load. I'm pretty sure I considered eating my kids at one point.
Haha, thank you! It's been really great. I wish the cardio-junkie me of two years ago would have actually listened to the advice of seriously pick up weights a long time ago.
Their community is past the point of needing to discuss the serious, scary, scary dangers of eating only 1200 calories over there ; )
And I agree. They're still really nice if someone horrible happens and you can't make your way to the gym ;_; ...0 -
Also it looks like your intake is a bit low.
I would suggest maybe joining this group...there is some good reading there.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/10118-eat-train-progress
If you like you can post a topic and ask questions about your intake/activity, etc.
Maybe if you had that straight you would feel better.
All that info makes me anxious and gives me a headache.0 -
I noticed you're currently working through Insanity.
I did Insanity as well. It did wonders for my fitness-- but not as much in terms of aesthetics. The majority of my workout time is now dedicated to weight lifting, and I feel like the results have been much better; and without the torturous, heart-attack inducing, knee-sheering, energy sucking workout, that is Insanity.
Granted, it definitely improved my fitness, and I was able to build up the courage to go back to the gym from it. Also, plyometrics will definitely be reincorporated into my workouts when I start cutting, but I would reconsider your workouts depending on your goals, not just workout because you want to finish X many days of some arbitrary program.
I say all this because I feel like the Insanity program encourages more strain than necessary (which can lead to wearing you out). If your goal isn't to see how hard you can push your heart in a plyo/HIIT workout, you can probably do somethingt else and get a better result : )
I at least want to finish insanity, maybe doing workouts every other day. Then I will reconsider my exercise approach. I'm going to up my calories from 2000 to 2500 and eat back 1/3 to 1/2 of my workouts. I'll see how that works for me. I don't necessarily want to lose weight but body fat.0 -
When I change my goal manually to 2500 it says I will lose .1 lbs a week. when I have MFP do it, it gives me 1930 calories a day and -1 lb a week. How should I change my goals?0
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Also it looks like your intake is a bit low.
I would suggest maybe joining this group...there is some good reading there.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/10118-eat-train-progress
If you like you can post a topic and ask questions about your intake/activity, etc.
Maybe if you had that straight you would feel better.
All that info makes me anxious and gives me a headache.
Then reread it a few times because Sara and Sidesteel are AWESOME! There info is research based and who wouldn't want to look like them! 0 -
When I change my goal manually to 2500 it says I will lose .1 lbs a week. when I have MFP do it, it gives me 1930 calories a day and -1 lb a week. How should I change my goals?
I agree with Crankstr- go to the Eat, Train, Progress group and create a thread about your calories and macros settings. It is soooo worth it. I am working with one of the and went from a 6 month plateau to losing weight and a boat load of inches. They know what they are talking about!!0 -
Sounds like you need a cheat meal.0
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