What's Your Settings: 1 pound or 0.5 pound per week
BACKTOCHRISSY
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Ok. I have not added a topic in [cough, cough] a long time. That's not very good of me.
And, the result, me in the same place as when I started -- weight wise.
So, my question for the group is: what's your settings? Do you set MFP at 1 pound per week loss? Half a pound per week loss?
I cannot decide if I want to do half a pound or one pound. The thing is, if I set myself at a half a pound, I don't feel like I'm dieting, however, one pound would get the weight off just a smidge quicker.
I definately do better at 1/2 a pound.
Just thinking out load. :happy:
And, the result, me in the same place as when I started -- weight wise.
So, my question for the group is: what's your settings? Do you set MFP at 1 pound per week loss? Half a pound per week loss?
I cannot decide if I want to do half a pound or one pound. The thing is, if I set myself at a half a pound, I don't feel like I'm dieting, however, one pound would get the weight off just a smidge quicker.
I definately do better at 1/2 a pound.
Just thinking out load. :happy:
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Always go with what you can stick to.
You need to build a plan for yourself that accommodates your lifestyle and your personal psychology.
In the last year, I think I have achieved some real control over my emotional and reactionary eating. In the early days when I was working much harder to avoid my problem foods, like french fries and potato chips, I made sure there was always popcorn on hand for emergency emotional snackage. These days, I bring chips into the house in small bags because life without chips is not worth living. I guess I discovered that I could get by with some chips, just not ALL the chips. Plus--I don't pretend they are vegetables anymore. (Isn't it amazing what an otherwise marginally intelligent person can rationalize when they get the muchcies?)
But it takes time, patience, and practice to make real change.
Ease gently into your food restrictions and dive enthusiastically into physical activity and you will be ACES!0 -
I'm going with a pound a week, but more weeks than not I do a half pound. I think (at least for me) the key is to not push too hard for those weight loss number. I get too focused on that and get frustrated. I am spending a lot of time and energy on just learning to live healthier with food; to make better choices and not use food as a reward or a crutch. And I'm trying to become more active.
I figure if I eat better and exercise more, the weight will come off. And there is a greater chance it will stay off for the rest of my life. It isn't a race to the finish; it's a way of life.0 -
Thank you all.
I've been rollar coastering and i have my HRM to get my true account of burned calories.
I appreciate your feedback.0 -
I don’t use MFP’s recommendations for pounds lost, calories or macros. I want to lose 2 pounds per week (.5 to 2 pounds per week is healthy) so I figured out my calories by using one of the web sites to figure my TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure, calories needed to maintain current weight including calories needed to live (lying in bed being fed intravenously), working, exercising (for me, 1-3 times per week), basically doing anything other than lying in bed.
My TDEE is 2828 calories per day to maintain my current weight X 7 is 19796 calories per week. There are 3555 calories in a pound of fat (updated numbers), so to lose two pounds of fat per week, I subtract 7110 (3555 fat calories X 2) from my weekly TDEE (19796) and get 9025 calories divided by 7 days is 1812 calories per day.
After you eat this for a few weeks, subtract 100 calories if you aren’t losing the amount you want per week or add 100 calories if you are losing too fast and try that for a few weeks After you lose 20 pounds or so, re-figure it out, of if you stall, drop 100 calories for a few weeks and see where it takes you. Doing it this way, you don't add exercise calories so all your numbers stay the same day after day so it is not confusing. There is no guessing game this way. It’s all based on science.
As far as the macros go, my fat is set at 25% of my calories, Protein at 35% and carbs at 35%. I have my fat set at 35% to keep the sodium down because of high blood pressure) and my carbs to 35% because I am diabetic (carbs = sugar).0
