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    Diet

    Posts: 10 Member
    edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    Diet starts tomorrow :#

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    • Posts: 1,482 Member
      Do you mean calorie deficit? Are you over already for today? What are you waiting until tomorrow for?
    • Posts: 3,082 Member
      Good luck
    • Posts: 10 Member
      Just new to this app, so will see how it goes, but my main goal is to start on 1st of April
    • Posts: 8,626 Member
      diets are a good way to fail. they are designed to restrict you. Unless that restriction is something you are willing to have last a lifetime, youd probably be better off to count calories and stay within your daily goals.

      regardless, best of luck to you! It's so easy its hard! (30 pounds and counting, here!)
    • Posts: 10 Member
      Thanks :)
    • Posts: 1,482 Member
      gedasstonkus10 wrote: »
      Just new to this app, so will see how it goes, but my main goal is to start on 1st of April
      Is this a joke?

      JK, really. Welcome and good Luck!
    • Posts: 10 Member
      I know what to expect, last time it was 4 years ago, hoping drop to 7% or less in body fat
    • Posts: 15,151 Member
      Start today.
    • Posts: 10 Member
      Yes
    • Posts: 1,710 Member
      Don't start a "diet", start a new lifestyle instead.

      Weight loss diets are temporary, a lifestyle change is permanent.
    • Posts: 217 Member
      Um... No matter how you slice it, it is still a diet. The first definition of diet is: the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community which we eat. The second definition is: a special course of food to which one restricts oneself either to lose weight or for medical reasons. If you are counting calories and creating a calorie deficit, then it is a restriction… However, it is better to count calories than to go on a fad diet, for sure. Counting calories is a great idea, even when maintaining weight. Once you no longer have the calorie deficit, it is still considered a diet by the first definition… Diet = food you eat!!! We shouldn't make it a dirty word.
    • Posts: 876 Member
      TiffanyR71 wrote: »
      Um... No matter how you slice it, it is still a diet. The first definition of diet is: the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community which we eat. The second definition is: a special course of food to which one restricts oneself either to lose weight or for medical reasons. If you are counting calories and creating a calorie deficit, then it is a restriction… However, it is better to count calories than to go on a fad diet, for sure. Counting calories is a great idea, even when maintaining weight. Once you no longer have the calorie deficit, it is still considered a diet by the first definition… Diet = food you eat!!! We shouldn't make it a dirty word.

      I second this post
    • Posts: 8
      beemerphile1 wrote: »
      Don't start a "diet", start a new lifestyle instead.

      Weight loss diets are temporary, a lifestyle change is permanent.

      I agree!!! :)
    • Posts: 8
      jazmin220 wrote: »
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      I second this post

      That's true!
    • Posts: 1,806 Member
      TiffanyR71 wrote: »
      Um... No matter how you slice it, it is still a diet. The first definition of diet is: the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community which we eat. The second definition is: a special course of food to which one restricts oneself either to lose weight or for medical reasons. If you are counting calories and creating a calorie deficit, then it is a restriction… However, it is better to count calories than to go on a fad diet, for sure. Counting calories is a great idea, even when maintaining weight. Once you no longer have the calorie deficit, it is still considered a diet by the first definition… Diet = food you eat!!! We shouldn't make it a dirty word.

      I agree! I've never understood the whole 'it's not a diet' thing. Of course it is. I'm not going to carry on eating 1200 calories for the rest of my life, I will go into maintenance eventually. Part of it is a lifestyle change, yes. Learning how much you should be eating is a lifestyle change. Eating few enough calories to lose weight is a temporary diet before you go into maintenance.
    • Posts: 10 Member
      First day and I had 4 meals and 3 snacks in between chicken and fish, sweet potatoes I love them
    • Posts: 19,251 Member
      ShellyBell999 wrote: »
      Do you mean calorie deficit? Are you over already for today? What are you waiting until tomorrow for?

      AKA a diet. OP: hope day one is going well!
    • Posts: 10 Member
      gedasstonkus10 wrote: »
      First day and I had 4 meals and 3 snacks in between chicken and fish, sweet potatoes I love them

    • Posts: 10 Member
      Its going really really good!
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