Exercise and Weight Loss Challenges
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I agree Gayle! and I wouldn't consider homemake Blackberry cobbler junk food - and I would just get on the treadmill and earn some calories to spend.
Some of my favorite recipes are from Cooking Light, but I learned that no matter how healthy a dish is, two portions is too much.
The pie-chart on the MFP app (50%, 30%, 20%) clued me in that while carbs were easy to fill I was often lower in fat and protein. That's when I will have some almonds or peanuts. Good fats keep you satisfied.
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From Spark People"Be Stronger Than Your Strongest Excuse".I really need to work on that one.
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gaylebodine wrote: »Lill, my weight is always bouncing all over the place and I've seen that these things (it could be different for others) really influence my morning scale.
- what time I weight (later in the morning, before breakfast is best)
- how much salt was in my food the day before
- how large even a large healthy meal was the day before
- if I got my prunes and activia in
- if I drank all my water
- how much moving around I did the previous day
Today is day before weigh in, so i am referring to Gayle's tips and putting them into practice.
And I'm planning ahead for badly timed writers meeting tonight,
where the host feels need to give us sugar.
So I am taking my self-talk (for my spoiled and angry inner child), "i can have a taste when its time to go home."
And to ward off the need for a taste, which would trigger my sugar addiction, I'm taking 90% dark chocolate.
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Good for you Lill. My personal internal command center got the "feast day" permission on July 7th and somehow has not gone back, entirely, to old rules. Or I should say, best rules. Pretty much OK today until I could not turn down a free extreme dessert. Yikes. Will weigh in on Saturday this week. And tomorrow it is marshall law. That means strict military rules for all (my internal) citizens (spoiled inner child and indulgent and self destructive aspects of self).0
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Challenge Goal: 157.6
April 3rd-157.5
April 10th-164.5
April 17th-161.5
April 24th-166
May 2nd-164.0
May 8th-164.0
May 15th-165.0
May22-165.5
May 29th-164.0
June 18th-170
July3rd-171.0
July10th-168.50 -
Challenge goals:
Stay in target range 130-132. This morning 129.4. I looked back and I've been in target for 2 months.
My husband was copying dinner from my diary for his tracking. Now I'm not doing it so much, but will now add in anything new that he hasn't logged before.
Trip to NYC. My friend is making reservations, sifting through activities that will appeal to us and her daughters 8yo and 16yo.
I've recently met some people for the first time. I realized that they probably see me as always being this way - why would they think otherwise? I want to pull out my phone and say "See.. there I am 50 lbs bigger! I'm 27% smaller now!" ah... so silly!
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Great job Mary! Pam, I know exactly what you mean! I don't think it's silly at all. You have worked hard and consistently for this new appearance.0
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I did weigh in today, and only lost 0.5 lbs. far cry if I want to hit that 15 lb. goal. I had lost 7 lbs. in my first 30 days, that is how I came up with the goal...Today I have started only allowing myself one bread choice a day. Bread is my biggest weakness. So far so good..
I was good last week till I went to Red Lobster on Wednesday evening. I was very disappointed in my weight loss this week, can you give me any idea why I didn't do as good?
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Beth, do record your actual damage when you go to places like Red Lobster. It can make it "real" for you brain to understand the sort of damage that can be done. I have had days when I just can't bear to enter the details of my mess ups but usually I do. This week, for you, it would make the mystery of the .5 weight gain less mysterious.
Another observation is that I see you rarely eat your exercise calories. That leads me to suspect that, in general, you may not be eating enough calories to keep you metabolism high. When we first start dieting the calorie deficit is enough to encourage fairly quick weight loss. Then the body says, alert--famine! reduce metabolism to avoid starvation. So it is hard to tell if it is that you metabolism is down, you digestive system is jammed up a bit from the big meal on Wednesday or you really ate everything in sight on Wednesday and your weekly deficit (which looks great) was not enough to offset.
Hope everyone else weighs in on this, this is just my take. Also please see the list I gave Lill, in the thread above, about what I have found can affect scale. BTW, the way I am going I would fondly embrace a .5 loss!0 -
Also Beth, please enter your challenge goal, your initial weight on July 3rd or 4th and your weight for today. Then next week you can copy/past that list of three things and add you new weight beneth. Here is Mary's like that for an example:
Goal: 157.6
July 3rd- 171.0
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Thanks so much Gayles, I will log everything (even the bad) Iwas good Wednesday till I went to Red Lobster, then ate everything that was on the table..LOL It was good, but it showed.. I will never say that will never happen again, but now I know to log it as well as the good, and this will show me what I can improve on...Also on the exercise, I was not aware that I could go ahead and eat those calories. Is it ok to eat some of them and leave some?
Thanks
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Challenge Goal: 245
July 3 - 260.4
July 10 - 259.2
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Goal: 161.5 (15 lbs.)
July 3 - 176.5
July 10 - 176.0
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Great job Cheryl! Yes Beth, a lot of people exercise their "*kitten* off" so they can eat more. You can eat all the calories, none or some. What does everyone think about eating exercise calories?0
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gaylebodine wrote: »Great job Cheryl! Yes Beth, a lot of people exercise their "*kitten* off" so they can eat more. You can eat all the calories, none or some. What does everyone think about eating exercise calories?
I try not to eat my exercise calories but glad I have them when I do go over my 1200 limit.It's good to have them when that happens.0 -
Blackberry cobbler? I would make it with sweetener and try not to over indulge, just no cream or ice cream, and yes, they have whipped cream and ice cream in sugar free, lactose free varieties! But blackberry cobbler? It is a necessity.
Gayle, 45 lbs is great. Just stick with MFP. I was stuck at 30lbs lost, life got busy and tough and I went away. Gained half back. Stay with us girl!0 -
Here is my weigh in for the week. Was wobbling there for a few days but feeling back on track today.
Goal: 169
7/03/15: 174.3
7/11/15: 175.1
Actually up .8 but, considering my birthday excesses, I'll take it. I could have had my carrot cake without damage, with better planning. But I had a very cavalier attitude that day (and a bit for two days after). Hard to rein in but did get the galloping horses curbed before we went over the cliff, so to speak. Anyway, back on track, feeling strong. Only shooting for a very doable 5 pounds during this challenge. If I do better than that that will be fantastic too!0 -
Marney, I've discovered that whipped cream (in the spray can) has many of the charms of ice cream with many fewer calories. Sweet, creamy, cold. And I've also discovered that I like the Breyer's lactose free vanilla ice cream. Agrees with my digestion, tastes great, fewer calories.0
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Goal, 1 pound a week.
7/3/15: 192.2
7/11/15:192.8
Maybe could have lost a pound if i'd had time friday or sat morning to pee away the water weight.
Every night When i complete my diary i always get same message, that if i keep doing what im doing i will weigh 185 in 5 weeks.
I have kept doing what im doing for 5weeks, but am no where near 185!
Is mfp trying to make me crazy?
I have only been doing this for five weeks
Too soon for the dreaded plateau!
Gayle great job curbing those galloping horses!0 -
i always get same message, that if i keep doing what im doing i will weigh 185 in 5 weeks
I get that too and especially like it when I just ate a boat load of ice cream...nothing like the lies a computer will tell!0 -
Yeah, according to MFP, I will be a skinny minny in 5 weeks too. Whatever I am doing, I have gained since I started! So, weigh and measure, weigh and measure, and I mean food, not me. I think though my measures of me are smaller. Clothing feels better.0
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I don't even look at the "you will be...in 5 weeks" pronouncements anymore. mfp is much more optimistic than I am. Can't believe how one wildish day (my birthday) still has me so off kilter. Well, one day at a time.0
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Cheryl, they don't sell ice cream in boatloads in my neighborhood. Good thing. I know you are big on buying bulk though.
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Sunday weight 191.6!
That is a pound lost. Now i feel better
Hmmm... When left to my own devices, my day is longer than 24 hrs.
Maybe my week is more than 7 days .
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gaylebodine wrote: »I don't even look at the "you will be...in 5 weeks" pronouncements anymore. mfp is much more optimistic than I am. Can't believe how one wildish day (my birthday) still has me so off kilter. Well, one day at a time.
I never look at these pronouncements either. Like you said Gayle, MFP is a bit optimistic.
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gaylebodine wrote: »Marney, I've discovered that whipped cream (in the spray can) has many of the charms of ice cream with many fewer calories. Sweet, creamy, cold. And I've also discovered that I like the Breyer's lactose free vanilla ice cream. Agrees with my digestion, tastes great, fewer calories.
Try putting fat free cool whip between two chocolate graham crackers,place in freezer bag and freeze.Good when you want ice cream.you can make a bunch at one time .0 -
I'll try it Mary! Have you tried the all natural vitatops (muffin tops). http://www.vitalicious.com/allnachvi1.html0
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gaylebodine wrote: »I'll try it Mary! Have you tried the all natural vitatops (muffin tops). http://www.vitalicious.com/allnachvi1.html
I haven't tried them.
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Hi, everyone! Marney, so glad you are back! We have missed you! As you can see, we've added some new people to give us more motivation and have added a recipe, quotes, and articles/links threads.
Sounds like everyone is doing well. I went camping (only got a connection when hiking to a mountain top) and got back late last week, but has been a crazy week since. I am working short-staffed. Oh, I wrecked a County vehicle...oops! Where did that pole come from? Have had plans most evenings and internet wi-fi problems. Verizon has been terrible...in and out. And finally the rain. My goodness the rain. I know that Beth has it, too. I am so sick of rain I could scream. Had a taste of summer on Saturday and then rain since. Really was storming badly a little bit ago. I haven't looked out since.
I am doing great with my leaving a bite goal! I am up to 6 days a week now. I don't do the "take half home" thing because I hate leftovers in most cases. Even when I cooked, about the only things I liked left over were soups or things made in a kettle. You know, the stuff that actually improves as it melds.
Haven't lost, but haven't gained. Up and down. Still those same five pounds!
Mary, I really like that graham cracker idea. I'm going to copy it and put it on the recipe page.0
