Not losing weight!!! So frustrated!
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It's almost always universally true, that when you are not losing weight, there's something wrong with logging.
Additionally, nothing stays static over time, including someone's lifestyle. It might be easier to lose weight at one phase of your life than another because you have more incidental daily movement than you realize when you're younger, and this gives you a higher TDEE. So it's easier to be lax about things and just cut back and see results.
Fast forward a few years, you've slowed down a bit, your TDEE is lower and the difference between that TDEE and your cutting back efforts isn't enough to create a deficit... BOOM, the scale won't budge.
In addition to tightening up your logging and taking a frank look (research METs) at how many exercise calories you might actually be burning, I'd also suggest now you get into the habit of trying to incorporate more incidental movement into your daily life. This will serve you well as you get into maintenance AND help the scale move as you lose weight.
Take the stairs instead of elevators or escalators. Park at the far end of parking lots. Do body weight squats while brushing your teeth. Keep a really neat house and vacuum every day. Pace around while the coffee is brewing or something is heating in the microwave. Try to move around for a few minutes every hour.5 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »@noexcuses0626
Maybe it's time for a diet break?!? You've lost a lot of weight already. You sound worn down. You could take a break for 2, 3, 6 months (or however long) and eat at maintenance. Fit a bagel in once in awhile. When you feel rejuvenated, go back to a calorie deficit to lose the last bit.
Have you listened to the Half-Size Me podcast? She talks about diet breaks quite a bit.
There's also a popular diet break thread in here. Maybe someone will link it. I don't have it.
It's long, but the first several pages are full of information:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10604863/of-refeeds-and-diet-breaks/p13 -
5 years on maintenance with the help of a food scale - if ever I feel tempted to skip, I put what I think is the weight in a bowl and then weigh it. Its an eye-opener! Also, although I have a Garmin tracker I don't connect it direct to MFP, I use it to check my walking speed before entering walks. Other than that I use the MFP estimates and its fine. But the food scale is the vital element. As others have said, you are probably under-estimating food and over-estimating calorie burn. Trackers can be inaccurate - fitbits can over-estimate calorie burn by 30%. (see the Which? report)5
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noexcuses0626 wrote: »I don't want to be an elite athlete, I don't want 15% body fat. I am a 37 year old busy working mom who just wants to be healthy. It shouldn't be this complicated! I should be able to eat a freaking bagel if I feel compelled to, but I can't! In fact, even eating only two meals a day, I have two dozen people telling me that I'm eating too much. It's upsetting, honestly, to think that this is what my life has come to. I have 40-50 lbs to lose just to be considered healthy and I'm already struggling at 1400 calories per day and exercising 5 days a week. I don't know how much more energy I can give to this endeavour. Maybe I should just resign myself to being a fatty.
It doesn't have to be complicated. You are making it complicated by worrying about BMR and such.
Plug your data into MFP, choose a goal of 1lb/week, and eat food. If you are hungry, play around a bit to figure out which foods help you feel fuller. Generally, fiber, protein and fats are going to be the winners. This is one reason that diets that focus on veggies, lean meats, healthy fats and some whole grains stick around longer than others. The best thing is, these choices are good for the whole family.
Every step you take towards more nutrition, proper calories and moving means better long term health, whether you lose the weight or not. It may also be the difference between gaining even more weight or not.16 -
noexcuses0626 wrote: »I don't want to be an elite athlete, I don't want 15% body fat. I am a 37 year old busy working mom who just wants to be healthy. It shouldn't be this complicated! I should be able to eat a freaking bagel if I feel compelled to, but I can't! In fact, even eating only two meals a day, I have two dozen people telling me that I'm eating too much. It's upsetting, honestly, to think that this is what my life has come to. I have 40-50 lbs to lose just to be considered healthy and I'm already struggling at 1400 calories per day and exercising 5 days a week. I don't know how much more energy I can give to this endeavour. Maybe I should just resign myself to being a fatty.
I'm gonna be honest - when I was losing weight, I couldn't have a bagel if I wanted to, I had to plan out my week to fit one in if I really wanted it. I had to stop opening a bottle of wine during the week, and stick to one bottle of beer on Saturday. We become accustomed to thinking of high calorie treat foods as normal daily occurrences and feel deprived when we don't get them. But they aren't meant to be "whenever I want them" foods.
What I had to do was really study my food log and figure out what foods filled me up at the right calorie level and build my daily plan around them. Once I did that enough, it became a habit, just how I eat, and it no longer took effort. Then I found treat foods that made me happy but didn't blow my numbers out of whack, and had them pretty much daily. And then there are the calorie bombs - the bagels, the bottles of wine, the big burger and fries at the restaurant on the corner - these things I mostly avoided, except for special occasions. I had to change the way I thought about those foods. Now that I'm at goal weight, I can fit them in more often, but I'm still basically eating the way I did when I was losing, because I really did enjoy it and it did just become "the way I eat".
I would second the suggestion to read the diet break thread, and consider following that protocol while you experiment with the food scale. Hang in there :flowerforyou:
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How about half a bagel or a mini bagel? The top half of an everything bagel is the good part, anyway!
Most bagels these days are around 400 calories, without the cream cheese. If that is more than 1/4 your daily calories, there aren't very many people who are going to feel satisfied.5 -
noexcuses0626 wrote: »I don't want to be an elite athlete, I don't want 15% body fat. I am a 37 year old busy working mom who just wants to be healthy. It shouldn't be this complicated! I should be able to eat a freaking bagel if I feel compelled to, but I can't! In fact, even eating only two meals a day, I have two dozen people telling me that I'm eating too much. It's upsetting, honestly, to think that this is what my life has come to. I have 40-50 lbs to lose just to be considered healthy and I'm already struggling at 1400 calories per day and exercising 5 days a week. I don't know how much more energy I can give to this endeavour. Maybe I should just resign myself to being a fatty.
I'm 47, 6'4" 215 lbs and extremely active and I cannot have a bagel when I want if I want to be in a deficit. A bagel is ~300 kcals and does not satiate my hunger. I could easily go through a box of Panera bagels. Note that I've been in audit all week and bagels are provided for breakfast, so I'm off my routine and going over budget nearly every day
This is all part of the learning process. Instead of a bagel I make a 2 egg omelette with a splash of hot sauce and spices - that and a hot cup of coffee is ~200 kcals and this holds me for hours. This is my strategy. Yours will be different.
It isn't complicated. It is quite simple.
It involves changing your behavior and nothing is harder than this simple task. Nothing is more worthwhile as well.
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noexcuses0626 wrote: »I don't want to be an elite athlete, I don't want 15% body fat. I am a 37 year old busy working mom who just wants to be healthy. It shouldn't be this complicated! I should be able to eat a freaking bagel if I feel compelled to, but I can't! In fact, even eating only two meals a day, I have two dozen people telling me that I'm eating too much. It's upsetting, honestly, to think that this is what my life has come to. I have 40-50 lbs to lose just to be considered healthy and I'm already struggling at 1400 calories per day and exercising 5 days a week. I don't know how much more energy I can give to this endeavour. Maybe I should just resign myself to being a fatty.
You sound a lot like me 4 or 5 years ago. I knew what I needed to do but I convinced myself it was too hard. I just knew it wasn't possible to eat less. I just knew I had to be eating the right amount and wasn't losing weight and I needed to just resign myself to being overweight forever. I too lost a little weight on my own but I always stalled. So I stayed overweight for a while longer until I gave in and accepted that what I was doing wasn't going to work anymore. I had to do something different. So I bought a food scale, accepted a slow rate of loss over a long period of time, and I took off 70 pounds in two years by sticking with it. Then I had a baby, gained back some weight, and so far I've lost 57 pounds and counting in a year by doing the exact same thing. It took me 9 years to figure this out. You can start right now and figure out a new strategy to get you where you want to be. Take a diet break, figure out what's holding you back, and come up with a new plan.13 -
Oh and I'm a mom to five kids. I know what busy is and I've used every excuse in the world to talk myself out of doing what I needed to do. I used to think I could exercise my way out of too many calories. For a long time, I convinced myself that exercise was the way to lose weight so I didn't have to focus on my diet because I didn't WANT to reign it in. Now I lift weights 3 or 4 times a week, and lose weight because I focus 100% on my calories. I know that's the only way to make this work and it's really not difficult once I changed my mindset.11
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Quite honestly, I think you believe it's complicated because you're overcomplicating it.
Most of your original post is about exercise. Exercise gives you more calories to eat and helps improve your physical fitness, but it's not required for weight loss. You don't have to spend hours at the gym.
You don't have to care what "two dozen" or even two hundred people think about your eating.
You don't have to know your BMR. You don't have to struggle to calculate it or pay anyone to figure it out for you. MFP calculates your calorie goal for you. Set your rate of loss to 1 lb. per week and eat that number of calories.
You DO have to make sure that you are in a calorie deficit. The best way to ensure this is to weigh all of your food. If you aren't weighing your food, you are likely eating more calories than you believe you are.
If you are using gym equipment or MFP's database to calculate exercise calories, you're likely overestimating. Both of those are notoriously high. Try eating back only half of what they recommend.
You may not be able to have an entire bagel and still meet your calorie goals. You might be able to eat only half the bagel. You might have toast instead of a bagel. You might have to eat smaller meals or replace high calorie foods with lower calorie foods. This is a lifestyle change. You have to be willing to make some changes. You have to figure out how much you want the bagel, and if you really want it, you have to make it fit into your calories for the day.14 -
noexcuses0626 wrote: »I don't want to be an elite athlete, I don't want 15% body fat. I am a 37 year old busy working mom who just wants to be healthy. It shouldn't be this complicated! I should be able to eat a freaking bagel if I feel compelled to, but I can't! In fact, even eating only two meals a day, I have two dozen people telling me that I'm eating too much. It's upsetting, honestly, to think that this is what my life has come to. I have 40-50 lbs to lose just to be considered healthy and I'm already struggling at 1400 calories per day and exercising 5 days a week. I don't know how much more energy I can give to this endeavour. Maybe I should just resign myself to being a fatty.
I'm gonna be honest - when I was losing weight, I couldn't have a bagel if I wanted to, I had to plan out my week to fit one in if I really wanted it. I had to stop opening a bottle of wine during the week, and stick to one bottle of beer on Saturday. We become accustomed to thinking of high calorie treat foods as normal daily occurrences and feel deprived when we don't get them. But they aren't meant to be "whenever I want them" foods.
What I had to do was really study my food log and figure out what foods filled me up at the right calorie level and build my daily plan around them. Once I did that enough, it became a habit, just how I eat, and it no longer took effort. Then I found treat foods that made me happy but didn't blow my numbers out of whack, and had them pretty much daily. And then there are the calorie bombs - the bagels, the bottles of wine, the big burger and fries at the restaurant on the corner - these things I mostly avoided, except for special occasions. I had to change the way I thought about those foods. Now that I'm at goal weight, I can fit them in more often, but I'm still basically eating the way I did when I was losing, because I really did enjoy it and it did just become "the way I eat".
I would second the suggestion to read the diet break thread, and consider following that protocol while you experiment with the food scale. Hang in there :flowerforyou:
Ditto.
I'm supposed to be working on maintenance, or at least increasing my calories. I *still* can't "just have" a bagel.
I work in one a week, and *only* after I've gone to barre. Considering that a bagel + cream cheese from a deli is at least 480 calories (I get 330 calorie bagels, and 150 calories worth of cream cheese) it's something that simply has to remain a sometimes treat.
Beer, wine, or a cocktail only happens if I have calories leftover for the day, and I've met my protein goals. Otherwise, nope, it's water or a Diet Coke.
It's all about choices.5 -
collectingblues wrote: »noexcuses0626 wrote: »I don't want to be an elite athlete, I don't want 15% body fat. I am a 37 year old busy working mom who just wants to be healthy. It shouldn't be this complicated! I should be able to eat a freaking bagel if I feel compelled to, but I can't! In fact, even eating only two meals a day, I have two dozen people telling me that I'm eating too much. It's upsetting, honestly, to think that this is what my life has come to. I have 40-50 lbs to lose just to be considered healthy and I'm already struggling at 1400 calories per day and exercising 5 days a week. I don't know how much more energy I can give to this endeavour. Maybe I should just resign myself to being a fatty.
I'm gonna be honest - when I was losing weight, I couldn't have a bagel if I wanted to, I had to plan out my week to fit one in if I really wanted it. I had to stop opening a bottle of wine during the week, and stick to one bottle of beer on Saturday. We become accustomed to thinking of high calorie treat foods as normal daily occurrences and feel deprived when we don't get them. But they aren't meant to be "whenever I want them" foods.
What I had to do was really study my food log and figure out what foods filled me up at the right calorie level and build my daily plan around them. Once I did that enough, it became a habit, just how I eat, and it no longer took effort. Then I found treat foods that made me happy but didn't blow my numbers out of whack, and had them pretty much daily. And then there are the calorie bombs - the bagels, the bottles of wine, the big burger and fries at the restaurant on the corner - these things I mostly avoided, except for special occasions. I had to change the way I thought about those foods. Now that I'm at goal weight, I can fit them in more often, but I'm still basically eating the way I did when I was losing, because I really did enjoy it and it did just become "the way I eat".
I would second the suggestion to read the diet break thread, and consider following that protocol while you experiment with the food scale. Hang in there :flowerforyou:
Ditto.
I'm supposed to be working on maintenance, or at least increasing my calories. I *still* can't "just have" a bagel.
I work in one a week, and *only* after I've gone to barre. Considering that a bagel + cream cheese from a deli is at least 480 calories (I get 330 calorie bagels, and 150 calories worth of cream cheese) it's something that simply has to remain a sometimes treat.
Beer, wine, or a cocktail only happens if I have calories leftover for the day, and I've met my protein goals. Otherwise, nope, it's water or a Diet Coke.
It's all about choices.
It's good to remember that macros have different saety levels for everyone. I'm in maintenance and eat an asiago cheese bagel pretty much every day at around 500 calories per bagel/cream cheese. Actually right now I'm dealing with dental issues (root canal etc), and I've had a few days where I've eaten two bagels in one day because it's soft food. Scale holding steady though and that's because carbs are very filling for me. A bagel mid-morning and then a large veggie/chicken dish in the evening and I'm full all day. Coming in under 1,600 calories a day, even with the bagel.
Someone else may eat a bagel and be hungry an hour later. It just depends on the person and how different macros affect them
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noexcuses0626 wrote: »I don't want to be an elite athlete, I don't want 15% body fat. I am a 37 year old busy working mom who just wants to be healthy. It shouldn't be this complicated! I should be able to eat a freaking bagel if I feel compelled to, but I can't! In fact, even eating only two meals a day, I have two dozen people telling me that I'm eating too much. It's upsetting, honestly, to think that this is what my life has come to. I have 40-50 lbs to lose just to be considered healthy and I'm already struggling at 1400 calories per day and exercising 5 days a week. I don't know how much more energy I can give to this endeavour. Maybe I should just resign myself to being a fatty.
OP, I wasn't suggesting that you are or should try to become an elite athlete, I was only using those specific in the context of my experience to demonstrate the successes that I've had in employing the strategies that others have mentioned in the thread; I'm sorry if you thought I was implying anything beyond that.
This absolutely doesn't have to be hard or complex. There are already a number of other very experienced users providing very solid advice. By your frustration it's evident what you're doing now isn't working for you, time to change some variables.3 -
MerryMavis1 wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »noexcuses0626 wrote: »I don't want to be an elite athlete, I don't want 15% body fat. I am a 37 year old busy working mom who just wants to be healthy. It shouldn't be this complicated! I should be able to eat a freaking bagel if I feel compelled to, but I can't! In fact, even eating only two meals a day, I have two dozen people telling me that I'm eating too much. It's upsetting, honestly, to think that this is what my life has come to. I have 40-50 lbs to lose just to be considered healthy and I'm already struggling at 1400 calories per day and exercising 5 days a week. I don't know how much more energy I can give to this endeavour. Maybe I should just resign myself to being a fatty.
I'm gonna be honest - when I was losing weight, I couldn't have a bagel if I wanted to, I had to plan out my week to fit one in if I really wanted it. I had to stop opening a bottle of wine during the week, and stick to one bottle of beer on Saturday. We become accustomed to thinking of high calorie treat foods as normal daily occurrences and feel deprived when we don't get them. But they aren't meant to be "whenever I want them" foods.
What I had to do was really study my food log and figure out what foods filled me up at the right calorie level and build my daily plan around them. Once I did that enough, it became a habit, just how I eat, and it no longer took effort. Then I found treat foods that made me happy but didn't blow my numbers out of whack, and had them pretty much daily. And then there are the calorie bombs - the bagels, the bottles of wine, the big burger and fries at the restaurant on the corner - these things I mostly avoided, except for special occasions. I had to change the way I thought about those foods. Now that I'm at goal weight, I can fit them in more often, but I'm still basically eating the way I did when I was losing, because I really did enjoy it and it did just become "the way I eat".
I would second the suggestion to read the diet break thread, and consider following that protocol while you experiment with the food scale. Hang in there :flowerforyou:
Ditto.
I'm supposed to be working on maintenance, or at least increasing my calories. I *still* can't "just have" a bagel.
I work in one a week, and *only* after I've gone to barre. Considering that a bagel + cream cheese from a deli is at least 480 calories (I get 330 calorie bagels, and 150 calories worth of cream cheese) it's something that simply has to remain a sometimes treat.
Beer, wine, or a cocktail only happens if I have calories leftover for the day, and I've met my protein goals. Otherwise, nope, it's water or a Diet Coke.
It's all about choices.
It's good to remember that macros have different saety levels for everyone. I'm in maintenance and eat an asiago cheese bagel pretty much every day at around 500 calories per bagel/cream cheese. Actually right now I'm dealing with dental issues (root canal etc), and I've had a few days where I've eaten two bagels in one day because it's soft food. Scale holding steady though and that's because carbs are very filling for me. A bagel mid-morning and then a large veggie/chicken dish in the evening and I'm full all day. Coming in under 1,600 calories a day, even with the bagel.
Someone else may eat a bagel and be hungry an hour later. It just depends on the person and how different macros affect them
This is a very good point. Figuring out personal satiety is the key to making those decisions about foods.
But I have one criticism - if the bagels where you live are a soft food that's easy to chew, they're doing bagels wrong
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scales for the win. weigh everything you can. log everything.
unless there is an underlying health issue it is simply cico.
it's not about being an athlete, it's about losing weight.
then look at what keeps you full. check protien to fat to fiber ratios. and not just physically full, mentally full. while a vegetable or fruit might be the healthy option, your mind might still craving be something else. i try to leave room for ice cream for bedtime. or hot chocolate.
i changed into healthy eating because i found it more satisfying all the way around but i certainly eat my fair share of burgers and fries0 -
MerryMavis1 wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »noexcuses0626 wrote: »I don't want to be an elite athlete, I don't want 15% body fat. I am a 37 year old busy working mom who just wants to be healthy. It shouldn't be this complicated! I should be able to eat a freaking bagel if I feel compelled to, but I can't! In fact, even eating only two meals a day, I have two dozen people telling me that I'm eating too much. It's upsetting, honestly, to think that this is what my life has come to. I have 40-50 lbs to lose just to be considered healthy and I'm already struggling at 1400 calories per day and exercising 5 days a week. I don't know how much more energy I can give to this endeavour. Maybe I should just resign myself to being a fatty.
I'm gonna be honest - when I was losing weight, I couldn't have a bagel if I wanted to, I had to plan out my week to fit one in if I really wanted it. I had to stop opening a bottle of wine during the week, and stick to one bottle of beer on Saturday. We become accustomed to thinking of high calorie treat foods as normal daily occurrences and feel deprived when we don't get them. But they aren't meant to be "whenever I want them" foods.
What I had to do was really study my food log and figure out what foods filled me up at the right calorie level and build my daily plan around them. Once I did that enough, it became a habit, just how I eat, and it no longer took effort. Then I found treat foods that made me happy but didn't blow my numbers out of whack, and had them pretty much daily. And then there are the calorie bombs - the bagels, the bottles of wine, the big burger and fries at the restaurant on the corner - these things I mostly avoided, except for special occasions. I had to change the way I thought about those foods. Now that I'm at goal weight, I can fit them in more often, but I'm still basically eating the way I did when I was losing, because I really did enjoy it and it did just become "the way I eat".
I would second the suggestion to read the diet break thread, and consider following that protocol while you experiment with the food scale. Hang in there :flowerforyou:
Ditto.
I'm supposed to be working on maintenance, or at least increasing my calories. I *still* can't "just have" a bagel.
I work in one a week, and *only* after I've gone to barre. Considering that a bagel + cream cheese from a deli is at least 480 calories (I get 330 calorie bagels, and 150 calories worth of cream cheese) it's something that simply has to remain a sometimes treat.
Beer, wine, or a cocktail only happens if I have calories leftover for the day, and I've met my protein goals. Otherwise, nope, it's water or a Diet Coke.
It's all about choices.
It's good to remember that macros have different saety levels for everyone. I'm in maintenance and eat an asiago cheese bagel pretty much every day at around 500 calories per bagel/cream cheese. Actually right now I'm dealing with dental issues (root canal etc), and I've had a few days where I've eaten two bagels in one day because it's soft food. Scale holding steady though and that's because carbs are very filling for me. A bagel mid-morning and then a large veggie/chicken dish in the evening and I'm full all day. Coming in under 1,600 calories a day, even with the bagel.
Someone else may eat a bagel and be hungry an hour later. It just depends on the person and how different macros affect them
I don't disagree at all. But for me, it's also that 480 calories is a good chunk of my calories for the day, so it has to be a sometimes treat, not an every day treat. 1 -
in 2003-2004 I broke my leg and needed a rod and pins in it. I was not eating as much and I lost over 20 lbs and I was not even trying to lose weight. I surely wasnt active either as it was hard to get up and around. gained it all back and in 2013 I started working out and trying to eat less, I lost some but started gaining it back again. couldnt figure out why. so I started working out twice a day,didnt lose anything.
I was using measuring cups and so on at the time. I thought it was about exercise too. I kept trying until I was ready to give up. I did a search and it brought me here to MFP. I was told to get a scale and weigh everything solid and semi solid and to use cups and spoons for liquids. once I did that I started losing weight,I was even able to scale my exercise back to once a day and was still losing. so yeah at one point I was working out a lot but still eating more than I burned only I didnt know that.
I thought I was doing everything right and thought that because I lost it without trying the last time it would be easy 10 years later. nope its been harder in fact. so get a scale and you will be shocked at what a portion of something really is.8 -
MerryMavis1 wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »noexcuses0626 wrote: »I don't want to be an elite athlete, I don't want 15% body fat. I am a 37 year old busy working mom who just wants to be healthy. It shouldn't be this complicated! I should be able to eat a freaking bagel if I feel compelled to, but I can't! In fact, even eating only two meals a day, I have two dozen people telling me that I'm eating too much. It's upsetting, honestly, to think that this is what my life has come to. I have 40-50 lbs to lose just to be considered healthy and I'm already struggling at 1400 calories per day and exercising 5 days a week. I don't know how much more energy I can give to this endeavour. Maybe I should just resign myself to being a fatty.
I'm gonna be honest - when I was losing weight, I couldn't have a bagel if I wanted to, I had to plan out my week to fit one in if I really wanted it. I had to stop opening a bottle of wine during the week, and stick to one bottle of beer on Saturday. We become accustomed to thinking of high calorie treat foods as normal daily occurrences and feel deprived when we don't get them. But they aren't meant to be "whenever I want them" foods.
What I had to do was really study my food log and figure out what foods filled me up at the right calorie level and build my daily plan around them. Once I did that enough, it became a habit, just how I eat, and it no longer took effort. Then I found treat foods that made me happy but didn't blow my numbers out of whack, and had them pretty much daily. And then there are the calorie bombs - the bagels, the bottles of wine, the big burger and fries at the restaurant on the corner - these things I mostly avoided, except for special occasions. I had to change the way I thought about those foods. Now that I'm at goal weight, I can fit them in more often, but I'm still basically eating the way I did when I was losing, because I really did enjoy it and it did just become "the way I eat".
I would second the suggestion to read the diet break thread, and consider following that protocol while you experiment with the food scale. Hang in there :flowerforyou:
Ditto.
I'm supposed to be working on maintenance, or at least increasing my calories. I *still* can't "just have" a bagel.
I work in one a week, and *only* after I've gone to barre. Considering that a bagel + cream cheese from a deli is at least 480 calories (I get 330 calorie bagels, and 150 calories worth of cream cheese) it's something that simply has to remain a sometimes treat.
Beer, wine, or a cocktail only happens if I have calories leftover for the day, and I've met my protein goals. Otherwise, nope, it's water or a Diet Coke.
It's all about choices.
It's good to remember that macros have different saety levels for everyone. I'm in maintenance and eat an asiago cheese bagel pretty much every day at around 500 calories per bagel/cream cheese. Actually right now I'm dealing with dental issues (root canal etc), and I've had a few days where I've eaten two bagels in one day because it's soft food. Scale holding steady though and that's because carbs are very filling for me. A bagel mid-morning and then a large veggie/chicken dish in the evening and I'm full all day. Coming in under 1,600 calories a day, even with the bagel.
Someone else may eat a bagel and be hungry an hour later. It just depends on the person and how different macros affect them
I wish I could eat a bagel and cream cheese and be full.
I just leave them for treats on road trips where I bring celery and carrots to snack on in the car.0 -
Bagels. I love them, and had stopped eating them completely because at 5'3" and 1260 calories/day, it wasn't worth the spend. However, there are always alternatives. Check out Skinnytaste's recipe for "Easy Bagels"!! There was a thread here with so many of us happy about this discovery. 5 ingredients, super easy to make, much better macros than a regular bagel and very satisfying because of the extra protein.
OP, you can do this, don't overthink it, so much great advice given by some of our amazing members that have been there and done that.
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First; my rant from my page last week :
Warning: Rant to Follow: SO I went and worked out this morning, worked out hard, ate an egg white beforehand but that was just to tide me over since I try to go 12 hours between dinner and breakfast... so now I am adding an hour workout on top of going 12 hours not eating so hard boiled egg white and lots of water seemed like a good idea ... when I left after my shower I was starving and my gym was handing out freshly toasted bagels and cream cheese ... well I really am not a bread person so I really have no idea how bad this is ... so I take the bagel eat most of it on the drive to work not thinking much about it ... sure carbs and calories but man I had no idea till I logged it... WTGG .... there was less sugar, sodium, and calories in my 10 dark chocolate almonds with single bag of butter popcorn than in the frikin bagel WITHOUT CREAM CHEESE ... and I was hungry an hour later after the damn bagel .... NEVER again .... WHEW I feeeeel better.... goodnight everyone!!!
Second; you got a lot of great advice from a lot of MFP OG's on here... nothing to add but maybe just a little thought to you original statement about having your child and losing weight that year; if you breastfed that burns an extra 300 to 700 calories daily on its own depending on how many ounces of milk a day you produce. So you might have been at a larger deficit that year then you realized compared to currently, which could possibly count for some variance between these two time periods (as in you though you lost more weight faster but really you were in a larger deficit then you realized)?
Anyway, get a scale, log, DON'T GIVE UP!!!3
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