All Things In Moderation

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  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    beatonchat wrote: »
    jgnatca that sounds wonderful! I am going to look for that. Do they sell it at most stores or is it a specialty or health food store find?
    beatonchat wrote: »
    jgnatca that sounds wonderful! I am going to look for that. Do they sell it at most stores or is it a specialty or health food store find?

    I'm in Canada in a major urban center and I find it in the deli section here. I have NOT found it in small town stores.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    Bennysammysofiesdad wrote: »
    I gotta be goofy...just gotta
    How we supposed to do "everything" in moderation? Shouldn't we do like 80%
    Just sayin::::

    I don't follow. Can you please clarify?

    I get it! If one is totally committed to moderation above everything else, one is no longer a moderate! By definition.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    beatonchat wrote: »
    I've read a lot of people saying that they "save" calories up over the week for a night out or event they have coming up. Does that work? Can you not eat calories today so you can eat them tomorrow and not have it affect your progress?

    Your body doesn't care what day it is. You could eat enough to gain half a pound of fat in one day... but if your deficit the rest of the week is enough to lose half a pound, you'll make it up for it.

    The swings on the scale are wide though. And for me it involves going to bed hungry quite a bit (and my deficit is SMALL). But that's how I've maintained my weight.
  • beatonchat
    beatonchat Posts: 24 Member
    I used to be a baker and we would have cases of 1 pound butter blocks on hand. So as I'm losing weight I keep picturing my amount lost in terms of butter blocks and that makes it very real just how amazing a loss even "just" 8lbs is. Does anybody else do this?
  • cross2bear
    cross2bear Posts: 1,106 Member
    Re: the butter blocks - I do this. Sometimes, I will even stack a few pounds up in the grocery store and have a look. yes, I am sure other shoppers think I am deranged, but I tend to learn best when I can see something being done, so having the visual is helpful.

    I would love to stand back and look at what 86 butter blocks looks like as that is what I am at now!
  • beatonchat
    beatonchat Posts: 24 Member
    edited June 2016
    cross2bear wrote: »
    Re: the butter blocks - I do this. Sometimes, I will even stack a few pounds up in the grocery store and have a look. yes, I am sure other shoppers think I am deranged, but I tend to learn best when I can see something being done, so having the visual is helpful.

    I would love to stand back and look at what 86 butter blocks looks like as that is what I am at now![/quote
  • beatonchat
    beatonchat Posts: 24 Member
    That is amazing! That would be a big stack, they do butter sculpters at some state fairs and I bet that would make a nice bust or farm animal! :smiley:
  • beatonchat
    beatonchat Posts: 24 Member
    What am I doing wrong with the quotes? How do I get the quote and my reply in the same post??
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    I picked up a twenty pound sack of potatoes to demonstrate to my (then) school-age children what a twenty-pound loss looks like.

    @beatonchat that talk of butter busts took me to a whole other place....
  • cross2bear
    cross2bear Posts: 1,106 Member
    beatonchat wrote: »
    What am I doing wrong with the quotes? How do I get the quote and my reply in the same post??

    You just hit the quote button at the bottom of the post and it pops into the reply window - then just scroll down and start entering your reply below it.
  • cross2bear
    cross2bear Posts: 1,106 Member
    beatonchat wrote: »
    That is amazing! That would be a big stack, they do butter sculpters at some state fairs and I bet that would make a nice bust or farm animal! :smiley:

    Yes, I can assure you that my shape is dramatically different from my "butter bust" one (sad hubby)!!!
  • beatonchat
    beatonchat Posts: 24 Member
    I was really just applying this whole "everything in moderation" thing to food but realized I need to apply it to exercise, too. I went to many days in a row really pushing myself and ended up hurting my back when I joined an online fitness challenge. I didn't hurt it badly but it was a good reminder that my body is still getting used to being really active and needs a day here and there to recover.
  • extra_medium
    extra_medium Posts: 1,525 Member
    edited June 2016
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    Bennysammysofiesdad wrote: »
    I gotta be goofy...just gotta
    How we supposed to do "everything" in moderation? Shouldn't we do like 80%
    Just sayin::::

    I don't follow. Can you please clarify?

    Being 100% dedicated to moderation is not a moderate attitude towards moderation.
  • beatonchat
    beatonchat Posts: 24 Member
    Everything in moderation, including moderation. This past weekend I was not moderate at all. I went camping with my family, I ate and drank whatever I pleased (a lot of which just happened to be healthy) and had a great time! I also swam a ton and got a lot of exercise. When I weighed in this morning I hadn't lost anything but also hadn't gained and that I can live with.
  • beatonchat
    beatonchat Posts: 24 Member
    I am in love with Zucchini Noodles! They really do satisfy my craving for noodles, be it with sauce or just Parmesan cheese. I have always liked zucchini, though, but my husband and son have never been partial until I started turning them into "noodles". Now they'll eat them instead of the real thing even when I offer to make regular noodles for them.
  • whit37k
    whit37k Posts: 22 Member
    edited July 2016
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    Bennysammysofiesdad wrote: »
    I gotta be goofy...just gotta
    How we supposed to do "everything" in moderation? Shouldn't we do like 80%
    Just sayin::::

    I don't follow. Can you please clarify?

    Doing EVERYTHING in moderation would not be doing things in moderation in an amount that is in moderation. Get it? :)

    Whoops I somehow missed the posts where other people had already clarified this :/
  • Zipp237
    Zipp237 Posts: 255 Member
    Moderate moderation, though? You can eat gobs of some things and none of others? Not strict with the moderation?
  • beatonchat
    beatonchat Posts: 24 Member
    I found out I was pregnant a year and 1 month ago. I swore I would maintain my healthy eating and exercise routine through the pregnancy and come out the other side no more then 10 pounds heavier. :D I crack myself up sometimes! I gained 55 pounds overall, lost 20 right away after i had my son. I have lost 5 pounds with exercise and then plateaued because I was not paying enough attention to what I was eating. Now I am back on track, motivated and ready to shed the remaining 25 pounds to get back to where i was pre-pregnancy. I am ready to share and listen. We've got this!!
  • beatonchat
    beatonchat Posts: 24 Member
    Here we are at the beginning of a new week. I prepped salad stuff for my work lunches, hard boiled eggs for snacks and have found a low sugar plant based protein powder that I like for breakfast. Planning ahead and knowing what to expect help me stay on track.
    What are you doing to start out strong?
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