Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

@DebCountsAll sorry about your loss; hugs.

I'm up to my old tricks again!

I once again changed my daily calorie goal. I can't do 1200 - 1300 for more than 3 days in a row without wanting to eat the contents of the fridge. It did get me to my new low but I just can't sustain those levels even with high protein and lots of fruit & veggies and moderate fat.

This is what the past 6 days looked like calorie-wise. You can see that the calories slowly creep up daily and by Friday I was hungry, reigned it in for Saturday only because I kept busy and Sunday was I'M HUNGRY!!!

Tues: 1201
Wed: 1245
Thurs: 1316
Fri: 1967
Sat: 1386
Sun: 2708

So, I decided to figure out what my maintenance calories would be for my goal weight of 150 and MFP gives me 1620 for being sedentary and no exercise. That's my new daily goal and it should be a lot easier to sustain for any length of time. I hope.

Has anyone else decided to eat at maintenance calories for their goal weight?

Think Spring! Challenge
Name: Patty
Age: 35
Height: 5' 6"
Highest Weight: 317
Start Weight (Mar 01, 2018): 288
Goal Weight (Apr 27, 2018): 278

Weigh-ins, week of
Mar 09: 287
Mar 16: 287
Mar 23: 286
Mar 30: 284.6
Apr 06: 284.4
Apr 13:
Apr 20:
Apr 27:

Weight -/+ this week: 1.4
Weight -/+ this challenge: -3.4
Total weight lost: 28

I didn't do well focusing on my food logging but I did get to the gym several times this week.

MissSass2 wrote: »

Making mini goals for myself to get back on track.
Goals this week: Logging all foods (good and bad), bring lunch to work so I don't have to get take out. Drink more water, exercise 3 days this week.
Goals this month: Weigh in every Monday morning and log it.

I never used to log my bad days of eating or foods that I thought were bad for dieting. This time I promised myself, no matter what, that I'd log everything and I've stuck to it. It really gives you valuable feedback. I was surprised many times that I didn't really do that bad ... was pretty much eating at maintenance or slightly over. Sure, there were also days that I was 3000 cals & over but I realized that it would stall my weight loss for a few days and it would show on the scale but if I got back on track, I'd keep losing eventually. I feel more empowered over my eating this way and a lot less guilty. When I ignored those days, I'd get to thinking, "Well, I blew it yesterday might as well start over on Monday." I don't have start-over Mondays anymore. I get back on the horse the next day. (my overeating is always done at night)

MissSass2 wrote: »

Yes exactly! I need to see patterns and ways to improve. I can't do that if I just give up and just not log it.
I have to say I have a total win today. Someone had a birthday in the office today and I've been sitting about 4 feet away from cupcakes all day long. I am getting ready to walk out the door for the day and I did not cave in and eat one!! Yahoo!

Huge Victory! YAY!!!

@DebCountsAll --so sorry for your loss.

@campfirequeen --welcome back! I had been MIA to the thread for about a month and just got back last week.

@MissSass2 --another up side to logging the bad days is that you can look at the 5 week projection (if every day were like today, in 5 weeks you would weigh XXX) and usually see that the damage isn't so bad.

@TripleSnake --are you eating back any of your exercise calories? If you are burning a lot of calories for your sports, you may need to increase your intake a bit. I like to think of my metabolism as a fire. If it's not getting enough fuel, the fire dies down and just smolders, but if you throw more logs on the fire, it rages back up. If you're hesitant to increase your calories every day, perhaps try adding one or two days a week when you add 250-300 additional healthy calories--preferably lean protein to help prevent muscle loss.

@Sally_Abundance -- Welcome to the thread! Wow, other than the dairy one, all of your bullets points about food/nutrition sound like we could be twins. Sounds like you have a great goal--I love the idea of tandem parachuting as a goal (though I would never do that b/c I'm afraid of heights). I'm going Iceland in the summer of 2019 to celebrate my 50th b-day, and would like to be back at or below my fittest weight of 185 by then. I know that sounds heavy, but I was a size 10 at that weight and was in really great shape. That was just a few years ago, before a serious shoulder injury that has healed about as much as it ever will be, so I'm intent on losing the 15 lbs I've gained over the past couple of years, and perhaps more.

AFM--I was at a workshop over the weekend, so not the easiest regarding food choices (they provided the dinner Friday, and breakfast & lunch Saturday--not the healthiest fare). However, yesterday and today were decent nutrition-wise. I haven't logged either day simply due to time constraints, but I ran 2 miles at the gym after school today. We have a testing day for the students tomorrow, so I'm hoping to get all caught up on my grading to free up some time to devote to logging food going forward.

Has anyone seen the Netflix docuflix, Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead?

It was well done, Entertaining and extremely inspiring.
Made with a sense of humor but seriously valuable information to consider.

Teerai wrote: »

My best guess is, that if you are doing sports consistantly, you are building muscle which weighs more than fat. If that’s happening, you will notice toning up and more definition in affected muscles. Trading fat for muscle is preferable by me even if the weight plateaus while it’s developing, since muscle uses more energy and will help continue weight loss in the future given your calories don’t exceed your energy output. Well-toned Muscles make you look slimmer at comparable weights too.

I would think so as well, but in 2 months since I started sports, at most I lost 1 inch in measurements (I measure every week), mostly way less... Though I lost almost 9lbs in last 8 weeks, before starting sports I lost 8-10 lbs a month. Anyway, even from these 9 lbs, 2+ lbs lost came when I traveled and walked a lot, and ate not much (I came with lots of waterweight - swollen ankles, but when it fell off, the weight was considerably smaller). Oh well, will try to continue... now only need to work a bit on cardio, anyone wants to ping me in the evening a bit so I would not skip it due to lack of motivation?

Birder165 wrote: »

MissSass2 wrote: »

Making mini goals for myself to get back on track.
Goals this week: Logging all foods (good and bad), bring lunch to work so I don't have to get take out. Drink more water, exercise 3 days this week.
Goals this month: Weigh in every Monday morning and log it.

I never used to log my bad days of eating or foods that I thought were bad for dieting. This time I promised myself, no matter what, that I'd log everything and I've stuck to it. It really gives you valuable feedback. I was surprised many times that I didn't really do that bad ... was pretty much eating at maintenance or slightly over. Sure, there were also days that I was 3000 cals & over but I realized that it would stall my weight loss for a few days and it would show on the scale but if I got back on track, I'd keep losing eventually. I feel more empowered over my eating this way and a lot less guilty. When I ignored those days, I'd get to thinking, "Well, I blew it yesterday might as well start over on Monday." I don't have start-over Mondays anymore. I get back on the horse the next day. (my overeating is always done at night)

I was the same way at first and now I log everything even my bad days. It helps me realize that my bad days really aren’t that bad when I stay on track most of the time. At some point if your logging your bad days too you’ll end up not having as many bad days which will be a win for you… You got this!

moodybear2003 wrote: »

Ok, Logging question for everyone. Our gym has Cybex Arc trainers. MFP doesn't have a preset calculator for it. The machine said I burned 124 cal in 15 minutes. Cybex's official calculator said I burned 447. That's a big difference. The closest thing MFP has is an ellipical, and that said i would have burned 306. Right now, I have Cybex's number logged, but I don't know if I picked the right one. Which would you have logged?

I’ve learned that the calories burned in the exercise section of the application are higher than normal. I always just use the exercise that’s closest to what I did and then change the calories burned to what the machine actually says. I would’ve chose the elliptical too

@Birder165 That has been a big stumbling block over the years for me was to not record the food I ate on the bad days. I think it goes with some of the black and white thinking I learned growing up, that if things are not perfect, they are not right. But I have realize over the years, that is not true. I too am trying to log everything that I eat. Thanks again for sharing.

@mnwalkingqueen @moodybear2003 I generally as a rule take whatever the machine say and cut it in half. So if the treadmill says I burned 820 calories, I will cut that in half to 410 calories. I think some articles have been written on it. I have also been inclined to cut it by 75%. That would give me 205 calories. It gives me a buffer if I go over my daily intake. I try not to go over my daily intake as well. But as I track my calorie consumption and fitness burn more and more, I will see what work for best for me.