The Daily Diary Thread

I'm fairly new to my fitness pal, and have just started looking through the community pages and find your thread and found it interesting. I have always been into exercising but 5 years ago suffered a neck and back injury so I can relate to the medical issues causing difficulties with weight loss/ control. Some things I noticed reading through the thread there was a mention about the 2000 calorie diet, everyone's needs are absolutely different. The amount of calories required per day actually is affected by age, gender, activity level, body composition, and I'm sure there are others I'm missing but that is just off the top of my head. The other thing I saw I believe it was Bill that brought it up was sodium. You absolutely need sodium in your body as it directly affects nerve impulses and a few other things, but if you take in to much then you wind up retaining more water and as I believe Bill also pointed out is about 1 pound per 16 ounces, it doesn't take much to make the scale go the wrong way. A little more background on me, I'm currently semi-retired in my early 40's going to school to be an x-ray tech, which is where I picked up the insight on sodium and calorie needs. I'm currently trying to find the right weight by how I feel, I haven't been on a scale in over 18 months because I didn't like what it said at 240. I have felt good anywhere between 195 and 210, but that also was more active then I can be with the neck and back injuries so I can't say fit sure what weight I'll feel good at now until I hit it. I know I'm a few days behind where you are with the sodium and calorie thing, but I saw it and wanted to throw in my 2 cents with the information I learned from anatomy and physiology to add a little more understanding to the salt calorie thing.

Hello! I've been trying (but not hard enough) to get back on the wagon and truly make some healthy changes in my life. I love that only a few people are posting on this site. Some posts seem to get out of control so quickly with the number of people. I'd like to join your group and try to post daily for accountability and support.

So I eat 1500 a day or at least that's what it's set to. I go between IF and snacking. I'm not doing IF for the health benefits, just to manage my eating. I just forgo breakfast and continue with my day for IF. If I'm fasting I do 500c lunch, 700c dinner, 300c snacks, when I'm not I just switch the lunch calories for breakfast and don't snack. Seems to be working for me. This morning was one of the those days were I ate breakfast and I ain't even mad lol. I basically had a smaller portion of my dinner last night (chili) minus the rice stuffed into a pita. Super satisfied right now.

That's a good idea @billdwyatt ... carry celery around with me. I enjoy a stalk at one time; more than that at one time leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not a muncher though and don't eat between meals in my normal routine. It's more that when I do have the 'certain carbs' I'm hungry much sooner than normal and cannot satisfy the desire to eat more. Thus, instead of eating every 3.5 to 4.5 hours, I'm searching for food every 2 hours. That, and a recent penchant for raisins before bed.

Another interesting fact to take into account when you are weighing yourself and all that. When you eat it takes 4 hours for what you have eaten to leave your stomach, and then it is going to be where it is going, either in your cells as energy or expelled from your system with in about 24 hours after eating. So Bill if you ate a big dinner last night that might have still been hanging around a little this morning when you weighed in.

I only weigh myself twice a week. Otherwise I get too depressed. I'm trying to loose 20 pounds. I've lost 5 so far over 2.5 weeks. I really think I need to change my goal to 25, but I guess I will get to 20 and see how I look and feel there. Since I started at 160 at 5'6", I've heard it will be harder since I am close to "normal" weight for a woman my height and age.

@billdwyatt at least it was only 200 calories and as we all know 1day isn't going to make or break you in the long run.

@Nikion901 it is hard not to compare ourselves to others, but it does any of us any good as we are all different. Great job on finding the positive as that is what is important and keeps us going.

I was just looking back at my calories since I've started taking, which has only been since the 27th last month so a littler over a week. The first 5 days I didn't do well at all. During that time I was been 2200 and 2500 each day and felt hungry. I also started riding my bike 3 days week week at the same time. Since Monday I've stayed right around 1500 with one day being up to 1750. I also started measuring neck and abdomen last week since I don't want to get to what feels good not a number, but at the same time have something objective to measure. This morning was the second measurement and neck went up about a half an inch and abdomen is down a quarter. Good news is I carry most of my fat in my belly so that's going the right way at least. I figure if I can stay around 1500 to 1750 I should be seeing some good results soon.

billdwyatt wrote: »

catmomfat wrote: »

I walk an average of 6 miles a day at work. I consider that lightly active

6 miles a day? Dang, I'd call that intense training if it were me!

proof that my weight gain was caused by what I was eating, not lack of physical activity

billdwyatt wrote: »

At 1700 I'm still supposed to lose weight. Not happening. I'm up another pound today. Back to 212.

Hey if you're recording your weight every day download a app on Android or ios so you can go by trend weight since there's so many reasons for fluctuations. Don't let it discourage you!

Good Monday morning everybody!
I did not lose anything all week. I was over in cals 2 days but also under 2 days. I am tired of walking the same neighborhood..same places. I was lazy with walking last week. It was like no matter what coat I had on..I was freezing!
Ok..New week. New Day. My goal for the day is to walk at least 3 miles. Not much..I know..but it's a start. HAPPY MONDAY MORNING!