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One more diet
candacetopping
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So I've been overweight my entire life. 
Tried one thing after another. Lost weight but always gained it back cause I didn't change my habits. So now I'm going to try the low carb high fat way of eating. After some research I think I can make this change. I'm 33 years old, 271lbs, 5'2", and a tight size 26. I started today. Made one mistake but it's a learning curve. Wish me good will power. 
Tried one thing after another. Lost weight but always gained it back cause I didn't change my habits. So now I'm going to try the low carb high fat way of eating. After some research I think I can make this change. I'm 33 years old, 271lbs, 5'2", and a tight size 26. I started today. Made one mistake but it's a learning curve. Wish me good will power. 0
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It sounds like your learning and determined... both are so important when you're changing your lifestyle. Keep at it and surround yourself with support. You can do it. Best wishes and good will power
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I wish you luck but it sounds to me like your leaping from one diet to another. If this will work for you that's great but will you be able to do this way of eating for the rest of your life? Very few people in reality can.So I've been overweight my entire life. Tried one thing after another. Lost weight but always gained it back cause I didn't change my habits. So now I'm going to try the low carb high fat way of eating. After some research I think I can make this change. I'm 33 years old, 271lbs, 5'2", and a tight size 26. I started today. Made one mistake but it's a learning curve. Wish me good will power.
I wish you luck but you may want to have a quick look at the link as this may be a more sustainable long term solution.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1175494-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants?hl=guide+to+sexypants&page=1#posts-183615940 -
I hear ya....what is working for me is making each day a goal. If I look too far ahead or look at the scale too often, it can be discouraging. One day at a time! Feel free to add me and like friends do here on MFP, we can encourage each other!0
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Will power cannot do it alone. Change the environment. Get new tools for the kitchen (crock post, blender, . . ). Get all the stuff out of the kitchen that will get in the way of your goals, .. and so on. Good luck. You can do this.0
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I would give up after one week of low carb. You know that you don't stick to one diet after another... how will this be any different?
Have you tried calories in vs calories out? You let MFP figure out how many calories a day to eat to lose weight. Then, you eat that many calories. Then, you lose weight. It's way easier than low carb.0 -
Low carb was hellishly hard for me, and too restrictive for a normal life (in the UK IME at least). Calories in vs calories out is the only thing that is simple to do, works and is sustainable long term IMO.
I would recommend you try this rather than low carb. Good luck!0 -
I wish you luck cause I have been where you are. I would hope you would rethink going on yet another diet and take a step back read the link that was given and I'm going to give you a few more. You don't have to go to drastic measures to lose weight, you don't have to be overly restrictive. I started at 285 lbs, was on doctor orders that I couldn't stand for more than 5 minutes every hour, so I understand. If I had decided to try going low carb I'm scared to think where I would be now, because I couldn't have done it.
Log your food accurately and honestly. Go for 80% good choices the other 20% don't worry so much about. I eat lots of delicious food and have consistently lost. Keep it simple find a REASONABLE deficit: Most people do not need to eat 1200 calories to lose.
If you have 75+ lbs to lose 2 lbs/week is ideal
If you have 40-75 lbs to lose 1.5 lbs/week is ideal
If you have 25-40 lbs to lose 1 lbs/week is ideal
If you have 15 -25 lbs to lose 0.5 to 1.0 lbs/week is ideal
If you have less than 15 lbs to lose 0.5 lbs/week is ideal
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1234699-logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide?hl=logging+step+guide
Find an activity you enjoy doing - I found I love to ride my bike and lift heavy stuff
Here are 2 more threads that will help take the time to read them:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1235566-so-you-re-new-here?hl=so+you're+new+here0 -
^^^^^^^^^^ this all this
totally agree with everyone here so far, diets are all good and well but the best one to be on is a healthy balanced one that takes in to consideration what calories you need and goes at a deficit CICO (calories in calories out). Its slow and steady wins the race (and even then you just move on to the next race and continue) its long term and its straight forward.
but you (as stated above) need to be honest about what you eat and log everything, get scales they are the only change really you need in your kitchen and weight everything so you are accurate and then set yourself realistic goals and dont get too worried when you have off days or blips in months where you plateau or go up slightly these are going to happen whilst you adjust and work on it. treat yourself somedays, once or twice a month just eat things you have stopped eating so they don't become too much or a secret desire and eat into your thoughts till you give in, one day or 2 days a month is not going to hurt you and also don't be too worried if you go slightly over your calories one day in a week, it will really make not much difference, its long term you need to think about in this case (yes keep each day as a goal and go through each day not thinking about the next that will help but equally don't get too bogged down in that mentality as it becomes difficult to maintain focus like that)
hope this helps0 -
So I've been overweight my entire life. Tried one thing after another. Lost weight but always gained it back cause I didn't change my habits. So now I'm going to try the low carb high fat way of eating. After some research I think I can make this change. I'm 33 years old, 271lbs, 5'2", and a tight size 26. I started today. Made one mistake but it's a learning curve. Wish me good will power.
And this will be another thing you have tried, emphasis on the past tense - tried. There's an easier way, and the folks above have illustrated it rather well.0 -
I, too, have been overweight my entire life. I turned 50 in January, and decided that I couldn't stop getting older, but I could stop getting fatter. The key for me is to not limit myself. I can't remove whole food groups. I did Atkins years ago. Lost 50 lbs in 4 months, but the second I began reintroducing carbs, the weight started piling back on.
It was important for me to understand that I didn't get this way in 6 months, so I can't fix it in 6 months. And it's not about losing it and returning to my previous habits. I had to figure out that this was a complete overhaul of myself. My attitude towards food, my relationship with food, and my addiction to food.. all had to be addressed.
Don't diet... don't even CALL it a diet... it's a lifestyle change.. better habits for a better you.
And please.. believe that you're worth every effort you make. 0 -
So I've been overweight my entire life. Tried one thing after another. Lost weight but always gained it back cause I didn't change my habits. So now I'm going to try the low carb high fat way of eating. After some research I think I can make this change. I'm 33 years old, 271lbs, 5'2", and a tight size 26. I started today. Made one mistake but it's a learning curve. Wish me good will power.
Do you think you can eat low carb for the rest of your life?
Its ok to try it but if it turns out you can't, and I sure couldn't, it sounded great but a couple of months in and all I could think about were french pastries, breads and potatoes, if you find that it's not possible for you to live that way and stay sane you shouldn't give up hope.
I have come to the conclusion that you only need willpower to form a habit right at the start, once you get the ball rolling you shouldn't need it constantly, your life should be set up so your default choices are good ones. You don't really need to make dramatic changes in order to lose weight, especially when you're very overweight. Little, easy changes, one at a time, they can work too - and you're much more likely to make them last a lifetime if you make little changes instead of big ones.
Some ideas for little changes:
- Deciding not to use a car or public transport for any trip less than 0.5/1/2/3 (depending on current fitness level) miles (and you save money on fares and fuel too!).
- Pre-scheduling meals and any snacks and not eating apart from at scheduled times.
- Keeping a food and exercise log (hence myfitnesspal), even on "naughty" days.
- Parking a little bit further away from places when you take the car, or getting off the bus a stop early.
- Using a smaller plate.
- Filling ⅓ of your plate with non-starchy vegetables at each meal.
etc.
Try the LCHF thing if you want, but its damn hard - and losing weight simply doesn't have to be that hard.0 -
I've lost all of my weight so far eating a Ketogenic diet. However, this is no different than any other diet. If you stick with it, you will remain successful at maintaining a healthy weight.
It's got to be a lifestyle change or you're doomed to yo-yo. You will find this site biased against Keto/HFLC diets. http://www.reddit.com/r/keto/wiki/faq is a great place to get more info & there are a couple of Keto MFP groups you can join.
I wish you good luck & much success :drinker:0 -
Lifestyle change! Clear out the junk from your cupboards. Fresh fruit/veggies/lean proten You Can Do It!!!!!!
the Body can do whatever the MIND decides to do.
Nancy0 -
Hello Candace..
My name is Dances w/ Wow..
Your quest and the desire to fufil that quest is commendable...Before I ever make a commentt I read many of the other comments
There are some great voices in the wilderness..each on had a slice a sliver of what will work for you..
The one comment that stood out most was the willpower to start. but keeping it going infinitely...was powerful..Becasue that is the real nature of what you face..
Willpower is only the flint and steel.. to kindle your flame fire or roaring hearth year after year, which is what you are trying to do, requires a entire woodland to maintain..
I will attempt to provide all the saplings for your woodland as its not just willpower forever You NEED the physical equivalent of Willpower over free will.
Its not a discipline problem, an eating problem, or motivation problem..Its Process Problem...eat one like match sticks must line up so that there is no turning back..Each time one pound is lost..a feature of your process does not allow you to simply cut down all your tress with one single mistep in process..
This destroys freewill..You become a slave to the process repeating mistakes over and over that has no end in sight. Its a curse and you need to have your curse removed.
I want to help break this unrest and gift you lifeforce. The first order of business is to realize your body has a lipolytic enzyme issue..This is a hormone that commands and over rides the force field unwanted body fat puts out..If you are unable to shut down the force field...your curse remains just that a cusce forever.. No diet no advice no amount of exercise will fein this curse.
NONE!
Mother nature has a specific set of rules an she does not play well with mere mortal decision making..The tactics I am providing helps you translate what HER guidelines are..She doesnt understand calories and never will..
She does however understand how to protect you..You are delicate and a barbarian at the gate approach with a basic counting system that insists you through countless stones, boulders and battering rams to penetrate is a mere mortal mindset.. that ridiculously permeates through out all entire fitness and dieting organism we call health..
That said, Mother nature has you a wake sleep cycle.. for a reason...During the day you must do a few things and towards the end of the day you must tend to few things..In inescaple because thats one of the curses..Wake then sleep..Its what you do during these two periods of time that speeds up metabolism or keeps the curse in place..
During wake periods you require a food freqency that provides all the food energy to manage an entire woodland.. think how much sun and water and organic matter it takes to nurture a woodland. Well thats what you are up against to break the curse so you can live in the woodland with out Mother natures protection..
Food frequeny is your first priority.. (2 before 12 and two after 2) This food freqency formula balances the amount of food energy needed across the entire day so the chances of something in the woodland dieing off is reduced..
Next you need to knwo how much fertilizer it takes to give mother nature a break from her tending to your biological needs of your woodland. This fertilizer is called your Protein Number ( Pn#) this is mother natures master metabolic key.. She keeps it hidden from you because she knows how irrational we mere mortals can be..
Youcant steel it but you certainly can borrow it and make a duplicate. Your kob is to make a duplicate so can go into the background of your wood land and adjust things--- AT will..
the moment you have this adjustment at the ready..You then run like hell to the exit and give Mother nature back the original set of keys..
Once you are food frequent once you have the master key you can use when you want to..Then thats when the work begins..
You have to be just a s diligent as mother nature so she puts her guard down... and begin lower the force field..
Your work ie exercise is steady, but sure....You cant run around like those who are not so cursed you are a unique woodland.. you have to manage that entire expanse at your own pace till you can duplicate the efforts mother nature makes to protecting your woodland system..and shut down the curse.
From what you have said.. about your prior use of diets..All of which did not duplicate the master metabolic key.. its time you let her know you will work with her instead of calorie counting trickery..
You ahve the food frequency formula
You now know about a protein number as the master metabolic key..
Using it is the enxt step.. which means you need a food energy plan that exudes your life force. You require a plan the nourishes all the woodland not just here and there or when you feel like it.. Its the entire you that has to be addressed.
Your day and night hormones are taxed..The lipolytic enzymes are in metabolic banckruptcy..
They cant help you tend your woodland because they are grief stricken. You must use the protein number to lift their workethic activities.. as they cannot and will not work for forever free. You msut pay them the desired amount so they stay pleniful strong for the task and and replenish in number..
and you require a number of them working around the clock ie...your wake sleep cycle..to help shut down the protective force field of body fat...
If you have read this far.. this where the magic begins to happen..Yes other elements activities and will be needed to continually balance your ecosystem so the entire world ca finally witness the beautiful landscaped body and life force your curse is hiding.
If you can see the direction and how this will work..as better than shooting trying to disaster relive your body with dieting.. hsot me a friend memo.
i will be glad to complete the rest of your woodland story..
as it gets better and easier and no longer will yo a slave to the process or be under the spell of cursed life force
My name is Dances with WOW and
I know Mothers Natures spell book and can duplicate her master metabolic key with out mere mortal tricks0 -
Hello Candace..
My name is Dances w/ Wow..
Your quest and the desire to fufil that quest is commendable...Before I ever make a commentt I read many of the other comments
There are some great voices in the wilderness..each on had a slice a sliver of what will work for you..
The one comment that stood out most was the willpower to start. but keeping it going infinitely...was powerful..Becasue that is the real nature of what you face..
Willpower is only the flint and steel.. to kindle your flame fire or roaring hearth year after year, which is what you are trying to do, requires a entire woodland to maintain..
I will attempt to provide all the saplings for your woodland as its not just willpower forever You NEED the physical equivalent of Willpower over free will.
Its not a discipline problem, an eating problem, or motivation problem..Its Process Problem...eat one like match sticks must line up so that there is no turning back..Each time one pound is lost..a feature of your process does not allow you to simply cut down all your tress with one single mistep in process..
This destroys freewill..You become a slave to the process repeating mistakes over and over that has no end in sight. Its a curse and you need to have your curse removed.
I want to help break this unrest and gift you lifeforce. The first order of business is to realize your body has a lipolytic enzyme issue..This is a hormone that commands and over rides the force field unwanted body fat puts out..If you are unable to shut down the force field...your curse remains just that a cusce forever.. No diet no advice no amount of exercise will fein this curse.
NONE!
Mother nature has a specific set of rules an she does not play well with mere mortal decision making..The tactics I am providing helps you translate what HER guidelines are..She doesnt understand calories and never will..
She does however understand how to protect you..You are delicate and a barbarian at the gate approach with a basic counting system that insists you through countless stones, boulders and battering rams to penetrate is a mere mortal mindset.. that ridiculously permeates through out all entire fitness and dieting organism we call health..
That said, Mother nature has you a wake sleep cycle.. for a reason...During the day you must do a few things and towards the end of the day you must tend to few things..In inescaple because thats one of the curses..Wake then sleep..Its what you do during these two periods of time that speeds up metabolism or keeps the curse in place..
During wake periods you require a food freqency that provides all the food energy to manage an entire woodland.. think how much sun and water and organic matter it takes to nurture a woodland. Well thats what you are up against to break the curse so you can live in the woodland with out Mother natures protection..
Food frequeny is your first priority.. (2 before 12 and two after 2) This food freqency formula balances the amount of food energy needed across the entire day so the chances of something in the woodland dieing off is reduced..
Next you need to knwo how much fertilizer it takes to give mother nature a break from her tending to your biological needs of your woodland. This fertilizer is called your Protein Number ( Pn#) this is mother natures master metabolic key.. She keeps it hidden from you because she knows how irrational we mere mortals can be..
Youcant steel it but you certainly can borrow it and make a duplicate. Your kob is to make a duplicate so can go into the background of your wood land and adjust things--- AT will..
the moment you have this adjustment at the ready..You then run like hell to the exit and give Mother nature back the original set of keys..
Once you are food frequent once you have the master key you can use when you want to..Then thats when the work begins..
You have to be just a s diligent as mother nature so she puts her guard down... and begin lower the force field..
Your work ie exercise is steady, but sure....You cant run around like those who are not so cursed you are a unique woodland.. you have to manage that entire expanse at your own pace till you can duplicate the efforts mother nature makes to protecting your woodland system..and shut down the curse.
From what you have said.. about your prior use of diets..All of which did not duplicate the master metabolic key.. its time you let her know you will work with her instead of calorie counting trickery..
You ahve the food frequency formula
You now know about a protein number as the master metabolic key..
Using it is the enxt step.. which means you need a food energy plan that exudes your life force. You require a plan the nourishes all the woodland not just here and there or when you feel like it.. Its the entire you that has to be addressed.
Your day and night hormones are taxed..The lipolytic enzymes are in metabolic banckruptcy..
They cant help you tend your woodland because they are grief stricken. You must use the protein number to lift their workethic activities.. as they cannot and will not work for forever free. You msut pay them the desired amount so they stay pleniful strong for the task and and replenish in number..
and you require a number of them working around the clock ie...your wake sleep cycle..to help shut down the protective force field of body fat...
If you have read this far.. this where the magic begins to happen..Yes other elements activities and will be needed to continually balance your ecosystem so the entire world ca finally witness the beautiful landscaped body and life force your curse is hiding.
If you can see the direction and how this will work..as better than shooting trying to disaster relive your body with dieting.. hsot me a friend memo.
i will be glad to complete the rest of your woodland story..
as it gets better and easier and no longer will yo a slave to the process or be under the spell of cursed life force
My name is Dances with WOW and
I know Mothers Natures spell book and can duplicate her master metabolic key with out mere mortal tricks
You baba vakasharian love solution people are getting more and more crafty I see...0 -
Hello Candace..
My name is Dances w/ Wow..
Your quest and the desire to fufil that quest is commendable...Before I ever make a commentt I read many of the other comments
There are some great voices in the wilderness..each on had a slice a sliver of what will work for you..
The one comment that stood out most was the willpower to start. but keeping it going infinitely...was powerful..Becasue that is the real nature of what you face..
Willpower is only the flint and steel.. to kindle your flame fire or roaring hearth year after year, which is what you are trying to do, requires a entire woodland to maintain..
I will attempt to provide all the saplings for your woodland as its not just willpower forever You NEED the physical equivalent of Willpower over free will.
Its not a discipline problem, an eating problem, or motivation problem..Its Process Problem...eat one like match sticks must line up so that there is no turning back..Each time one pound is lost..a feature of your process does not allow you to simply cut down all your tress with one single mistep in process..
This destroys freewill..You become a slave to the process repeating mistakes over and over that has no end in sight. Its a curse and you need to have your curse removed.
I want to help break this unrest and gift you lifeforce. The first order of business is to realize your body has a lipolytic enzyme issue..This is a hormone that commands and over rides the force field unwanted body fat puts out..If you are unable to shut down the force field...your curse remains just that a cusce forever.. No diet no advice no amount of exercise will fein this curse.
NONE!
Mother nature has a specific set of rules an she does not play well with mere mortal decision making..The tactics I am providing helps you translate what HER guidelines are..She doesnt understand calories and never will..
She does however understand how to protect you..You are delicate and a barbarian at the gate approach with a basic counting system that insists you through countless stones, boulders and battering rams to penetrate is a mere mortal mindset.. that ridiculously permeates through out all entire fitness and dieting organism we call health..
That said, Mother nature has you a wake sleep cycle.. for a reason...During the day you must do a few things and towards the end of the day you must tend to few things..In inescaple because thats one of the curses..Wake then sleep..Its what you do during these two periods of time that speeds up metabolism or keeps the curse in place..
During wake periods you require a food freqency that provides all the food energy to manage an entire woodland.. think how much sun and water and organic matter it takes to nurture a woodland. Well thats what you are up against to break the curse so you can live in the woodland with out Mother natures protection..
Food frequeny is your first priority.. (2 before 12 and two after 2) This food freqency formula balances the amount of food energy needed across the entire day so the chances of something in the woodland dieing off is reduced..
Next you need to knwo how much fertilizer it takes to give mother nature a break from her tending to your biological needs of your woodland. This fertilizer is called your Protein Number ( Pn#) this is mother natures master metabolic key.. She keeps it hidden from you because she knows how irrational we mere mortals can be..
Youcant steel it but you certainly can borrow it and make a duplicate. Your kob is to make a duplicate so can go into the background of your wood land and adjust things--- AT will..
the moment you have this adjustment at the ready..You then run like hell to the exit and give Mother nature back the original set of keys..
Once you are food frequent once you have the master key you can use when you want to..Then thats when the work begins..
You have to be just a s diligent as mother nature so she puts her guard down... and begin lower the force field..
Your work ie exercise is steady, but sure....You cant run around like those who are not so cursed you are a unique woodland.. you have to manage that entire expanse at your own pace till you can duplicate the efforts mother nature makes to protecting your woodland system..and shut down the curse.
From what you have said.. about your prior use of diets..All of which did not duplicate the master metabolic key.. its time you let her know you will work with her instead of calorie counting trickery..
You ahve the food frequency formula
You now know about a protein number as the master metabolic key..
Using it is the enxt step.. which means you need a food energy plan that exudes your life force. You require a plan the nourishes all the woodland not just here and there or when you feel like it.. Its the entire you that has to be addressed.
Your day and night hormones are taxed..The lipolytic enzymes are in metabolic banckruptcy..
They cant help you tend your woodland because they are grief stricken. You must use the protein number to lift their workethic activities.. as they cannot and will not work for forever free. You msut pay them the desired amount so they stay pleniful strong for the task and and replenish in number..
and you require a number of them working around the clock ie...your wake sleep cycle..to help shut down the protective force field of body fat...
If you have read this far.. this where the magic begins to happen..Yes other elements activities and will be needed to continually balance your ecosystem so the entire world ca finally witness the beautiful landscaped body and life force your curse is hiding.
If you can see the direction and how this will work..as better than shooting trying to disaster relive your body with dieting.. hsot me a friend memo.
i will be glad to complete the rest of your woodland story..
as it gets better and easier and no longer will yo a slave to the process or be under the spell of cursed life force
My name is Dances with WOW and
I know Mothers Natures spell book and can duplicate her master metabolic key with out mere mortal tricks
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Are you going to eat this way for life? If not, then this may not be the eating plan for you. I LOVE eating keto-style, which is low carb and high fat with moderate protein. I plan on eating this way for life, as long as my body allows for it. I may up the carbs a little bit once in maintenance, but I'm NEVER going back to high carbs. If you can see yourself eating this way for life, then good luck! You can't see this as a "diet" or a quick fix. It HAS to be a LIFESTYLE CHANGE.0
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You can't see this as a "diet" or a quick fix. It HAS to be a LIFESTYLE CHANGE.
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You need to stop finding new "diets" and find a new way of life. Those of us with lifelong weight problems have to change the way we think and find a new way to eat and be active for the rest of our lives. Diets generally do result in weight loss but many, if not most, are not something you could realistically live on forever.0
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