Alternative to weight loss surgery?
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Diet and sport:)
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I use a scale for almost everything, including liquids. A lot of times, weighing is just easier and spares a dirty dish. Honey is a good example. Trying to measure it accurately in a spoon is a pain in the neck whereas using a squirt bottle and squeezing it in on the scale is easy and doesn't dirty a measuring spoon. Most labels give the gram weight as well as volume measurements so it's easy to use grams as a measurement. Why dirty a cup measure for dry cereal when pouring it directly from the box into the bowl on the scale is just as easy?5
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Yeah, don't give up.
I didn't like how small one ounce of cheese was...or how little a tablespoon of peanut butter was - by weight. My level tablespoon of butter was more like 22g instead of 14g. Those kind of little mistakes add up.
I also agree that a "high calorie meal" can wipe out the whole weeks worth of eating at your calorie goal.
If you aren't losing weight, you're simply eating too much.
Congratulations on your 41 pounds loss! That's amazing! You don't need a dangerous surgery. Stick with us, you're well on your way.
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cmriverside wrote: »Yeah, don't give up.
I didn't like how small one ounce of cheese was...or how little a tablespoon of peanut butter was - by weight. My level tablespoon of butter was more like 22g instead of 14g. Those kind of little mistakes add up.
I also agree that a "high calorie meal" can wipe out the whole weeks worth of eating at your calorie goal.
If you aren't losing weight, you're simply eating too much.
Congratulations on your 41 pounds loss! That's amazing! You don't need a dangerous surgery. Stick with us, you're well on your way.
Thank you so much!
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kcn2bluesky wrote: »jesika0731 wrote: »Ugh I guess I'll try measuring
Not measuring. Weighing.
Buy a food scale, weigh everything solid you plan on eating, and then log that using accurate database entries.
I would bet a good amount of $$ you are eating far more than you think you are.
Give it a try for a few weeks and let us know how it goes!
Lol, I felt the same way. I was using measuring cups and serving sizes to count. When I got a scale I realized that I was eating more than twice as much as I thought!4 -
You'll get there, but you need to go for consistency and accuracy.
The phase of this process where you start weighing portions and finding out what a correct portion looks like and how much you've been overeating is hard, eye-opening and absolutely necessary. Too many people skip it and go straight to "calorie counting doesn't work for me" and look for all sorts of fad solutions.
Don't be one of those people. Take the hard road, face the truth about portion sizes, and you'll be one of the few that successfully loses weight in the end.9 -
cmriverside wrote: »Yeah, don't give up.
I didn't like how small one ounce of cheese was...or how little a tablespoon of peanut butter was - by weight. My level tablespoon of butter was more like 22g instead of 14g. Those kind of little mistakes add up.
I also agree that a "high calorie meal" can wipe out the whole weeks worth of eating at your calorie goal.
If you aren't losing weight, you're simply eating too much.
Congratulations on your 41 pounds loss! That's amazing! You don't need a dangerous surgery. Stick with us, you're well on your way.
@jesika0731 This little estimating mistake with the butter above alone resulted in 72 calories extra. Imagine you do that a few time per day, every day.
But yes, you can do it! I'm glad you asked these questions. That's the way to go1 -
cmriverside wrote: »Yeah, don't give up.
I didn't like how small one ounce of cheese was...or how little a tablespoon of peanut butter was - by weight. My level tablespoon of butter was more like 22g instead of 14g. Those kind of little mistakes add up.
I also agree that a "high calorie meal" can wipe out the whole weeks worth of eating at your calorie goal.
If you aren't losing weight, you're simply eating too much.
Congratulations on your 41 pounds loss! That's amazing! You don't need a dangerous surgery. Stick with us, you're well on your way.
I was so delusional about peanut butter...thank goodness for my scale to bring some reality to my consumption!
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jesika0731 wrote: »estherdragonbat wrote: »How are you measuring your food intake?Ready2Rock206 wrote: »How's your logging? Are you using your food scale for ALL solids? Measuring cups/spoons for ALL liquids? Using the recipe builder? Using accurate entries? Being realistic with exercise calories? Logging everything that passes your l lips? Etc?
I don't measure but gauge and count everything.
A food scale will be a game changer for you.
eta: I'm several years into maintenance and I STILL use my food scale every.single.day. It's one of the most important tools in my weight management arsenal7 -
You should be lifting weights too, not just walking for cardio.0
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MostlyWater wrote: »You should be lifting weights too, not just walking for cardio.
Not at all necessary....Just saying. Iv lost all my weight (105 pounds in 13 months ) and im quite tight and slim considering, and i dont lift weights3 -
jesika0731 wrote: »
Yeah, I wouldn't expect it would. Ultimately, if you aren't losing weight you aren't eating less than you are burning. This could be because you aren't logging what you eat correctly or it could be that you aren't active enough.1 -
My first post here was asking the same exact thing, and I also was told to buy a scale. I didn't want to. It was weird weighing food at first, but...it made all the difference in the world.
I saw that I was off on everything. Some things I was eating too much of (meat/peanut butter/cereal), and yet others I wasn't eating enough of (butter/cheese). It's actually fun (and very eye opening) once you can really see what servings should look like.
Also...once you get the hang of using a food scale it takes no time at all to weigh stuff.7 -
are you serious or not? the suggestions given above are all based on the poster's successful experience.
here's mine.- get a scale and weigh everything including liquids.
- track EVERYTHING.
- stop eating packaged food - cook what you eat. don't eat conveniently, eat mindfully. stay away from processed food.
- pick your recipes carefully. make it fun. try new things. cooking well is rewarding.
- plan your meals. if it's good left overs make great second meals for another day.
- prepping is good. be careful not to eat tomorrows meal today - don't ask how i know.
- try a rice cake.
- lose the diet coke.
- get up and move. when you go to the store to buy the ingredients (not packages) of the food you are going to weigh park as far away from the door as possible.
you might like intermittent fasting as well. good results quickly and consistently.2 -
Not a bad list, but there's no reason to eliminate packaged food. It's often high in sodium, true, but not always. And even if it is, cutting back is not necessarily cutting out.
And Diet Coke is neutral for weight loss. Frees up extra calories for other food, tastier than water. There is a problem if you let yourself think it magically rips the calories out of the rest of your meal, but that's a bit like saying exercise doesn't help because taking five flights of stairs instead of using the elevator didn't mean I had enough calories for a banana split.
I'm down 71 lbs in just over 8 months, eating Gardein and veggie dogs and drinking over a litre of Diet Coke daily. Saw my doctor 27 lbs ago (going back in September) and everything had improved.1 -
dadsafrantic wrote: »are you serious or not? the suggestions given above are all based on the poster's successful experience.
here's mine.- get a scale and weigh everything including liquids.
- track EVERYTHING.
- stop eating packaged food - cook what you eat. don't eat conveniently, eat mindfully. stay away from processed food.
- pick your recipes carefully. make it fun. try new things. cooking well is rewarding.
- plan your meals. if it's good left overs make great second meals for another day.
- prepping is good. be careful not to eat tomorrows meal today - don't ask how i know.
- try a rice cake.
- lose the diet coke.
- get up and move. when you go to the store to buy the ingredients (not packages) of the food you are going to weigh park as far away from the door as possible.
you might like intermittent fasting as well. good results quickly and consistently.
3, 7 and 8 are totally unnecessary - other advice is good.2 -
MostlyWater wrote: »You should be lifting weights too, not just walking for cardio.
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Echoing everyone. I never thought I needed to weigh. So I used measuring cups, and what I'd log as a cup was really short of the cup line. I thought that covered it.
Around 210, my weight loss stopped. So I sucked it up and got a scale.
It didn't cover it. Each meal I was eating at least 150 more calories than I thought I was, and I was a grazer with 4-6 small meals a day.2 -
Congrats on the 41lb loss. That is awesome! You're on the path, you just need to do some fine tuning. As many of the above mentioned, you may want to measure your foods. But I would also recommend adding more exercise, or changing your exercise. HIIT is great, but concur with weightlifting as you'll burn more calories with more muscle. That may help your body get out of this plateau. Don't be discouraged though, you've come so far already!0
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