Diet?
ajackson1048
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What kind of diet is everyone doing? Keto? Low calorie or low carb? I lost 16 on Keto but find it very difficult to maintain Ketosis of more than 1.1 per my blood meter so I thought I may check to see what is out there these days
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I don't follow any specific diet. I eat the foods I enjoy in appropriate quantities to help create a calorie deficit.20
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CICO is generally a winner round here...10
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I would classify my diet as moderate carb, protein, and fat with an ample helping of treats and no real rules other than not exceeding my calories. I strive to eat more protein, veggies, and fiber but it doesn't always happen. I feel deprived if I go more than a week without pizza, and more than a couple of days without icecream so I make sure not to let that happen! I lost 15 lbs two years ago, maintained for about a year, lost 5 more lbs last summer/fall and have been maintaining since.
Trying to follow a specific diet failed for me for about 10 years, so I don't do that anymore
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^ This.I don't follow any specific diet. I eat the foods I enjoy in appropriate quantities to help create a calorie deficit.
^ And this.I would classify my diet as moderate carb, protein, and fat with an ample helping of treats and no real rules other than not exceeding my calories. I strive to eat more protein, veggies, and fiber but it doesn't always happen. I feel deprived if I go more than a week without pizza, and more than a couple of days without icecream so I make sure not to let that happen! I lost 15 lbs two years ago, maintained for about a year, lost 5 more lbs last summer/fall and have been maintaining since.
Trying to follow a specific diet failed for me for about 10 years, so I don't do that anymore
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The best diet is the one that fits you and is a basis for how you will eat the rest of your life. If you need any help getting started on a diet plan that you build just ask. There are plenty of very knowledgeable people here that can nudge you in the right direction.2
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I'm on low-carb Lifetime Maintenance. Starting weight: Over 450 pounds 14 June 2015. Lowest weight: 180 Pounds 14 June 2016. Current Weight ~200 pounds for the last two years.5
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The Canada Food guide. Pre logging to stay on goal helps.1
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I'm on low-carb Lifetime Maintenance. Starting weight: Over 450 pounds 14 June 2015. Lowest weight: 180 Pounds 14 June 2016. Current Weight ~200 pounds for the last two years.
Did I read this right? You lost 270 pounds in exactly one year???? That's more than 20 pounds a month. If so, congrats to you. That is phenomenal!!!1 -
efrensgirl2015 wrote: »Did I read this right? You lost 270 pounds in exactly one year???? That's more than 20 pounds a month. If so, congrats to you. That is phenomenal!!!
You read it right, I did that. It's funny, no one really says anything about it anymore. I guess because it's been a couple of years.2 -
ajackson1048 wrote: »What kind of diet is everyone doing? Keto? Low calorie or low carb? I lost 16 on Keto but find it very difficult to maintain Ketosis of more than 1.1 per my blood meter so I thought I may check to see what is out there these days
I stopped tracking my ketone levels after I learned it was not a real factor in regaining my health but I have worked to keep my daily carbs at 50 grams or just under for going on four years. Health improvements are still coming my way.
Key is to find a way that works for you and do it.
Keep up the success the way that works best for YOU.2 -
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Due to insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome issues I am doing low carb/high protein and it works for me as long as I stick to it and work to keep CICO numbers good. Of my 2160 calorie allowance, that means roughly 80g carbs and 160g protein.
We (wife and I) are working on making it a long term lifestyle change. The first time a few years ago I went from 387 to 295 in a little over a year (walking daily as well) and then fell off the wagon. This time around we are working together pretty well on it, gym 3 times a week and have gone from 356 at the beginning of March to 303 as of Friday. The more I lose, I know the more it will slow down and my calories will have to get tighter but right now it is working to get it started and we will adjust as we go along.
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I eat anything I want, but not everything at once, and not all the time.5
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Finally I have come to realize that the answer is not a "diet" but a healthy meal plan which I can stick to long term. There is not one "diet" for everyone who wants to lose / gain weight. I have to find my own healthy meal plan, stay under the myfitnesspal suggested calories, try to get used to portion control, record everything I eat during the day and do whatever exercise I can do with my weight (160 kg, 352 pounds.)2
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My diet is basically a calorie controlled diet (not low calorie) and my food choices are geared towards minimizing dieting stress. If I'm presented with several choices I always pick the one that makes dieting easier for me at that moment.
Example:
I want cake. Sometimes it's definitely worth it because having it would make me happy without affecting my overall diet, other times it's not worth it because I'm hungry and having it would make me even hungier, yet other times it's "possibly worth it, but more likely isn't", like if I had cake too often within a short period of time and it's affecting my nutrition - I just tell myself "later" most of the time in this case.3 -
I eat whatever I want with the only rule that I remain in a calorie deficit. I eat mostly healthy, but I never deprive myself of anything. This way I change my eating habits without feeling guilty if I decide to have chocolate or piece of cake or some Cheetos.
A calorie deficit is the how to lose weight. That's it. Adding exercise helps tremendously, as does a very healthy diet. But, if you are miserable because of your diet, that's not good either. Unless you are willing to change your lifelong eating habits to a particular diet, weight generally comes right back on as soon as you stop the diet, that's why most "diets" fail. Find an eating habits that you can stick to for the rest of your life.3 -
I eat whatever I want with the only rule that I remain in a calorie deficit. I eat mostly healthy, but I never deprive myself of anything. This way I change my eating habits without feeling guilty if I decide to have chocolate or piece of cake or some Cheetos.
A calorie deficit is the how to lose weight. That's it. Adding exercise helps tremendously, as does a very healthy diet. But, if you are miserable because of your diet, that's not good either. Unless you are willing to change your lifelong eating habits to a particular diet, weight generally comes right back on as soon as you stop the diet, that's why most "diets" fail. Find an eating habits that you can stick to for the rest of your life.
^ This. Choosing an unrealistic, overly restrictive approach rarely results in success because most people aren't going to last long trying to white-knuckle it through every day. The most likely outcomes are either a full-blown eating disorder or an epic fail/regain.4 -
I don't follow any specific diet. I eat the foods I enjoy in appropriate quantities to help create a calorie deficit.
^This, because it's a life-long approach.
I've done the "dieting" approach that got me to goal weight. Step 1 accomplished. Then I promptly gained the weight back (far too common) because "dieting" did nothing to prepare me for maintenance.
Pick something that also prepares you for maintenance. In other words, something that has things in common with how you expect to eat forever.1 -
If mine has a name, it'd have to be the "Ice Cream and Pizza Diet".5
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This one:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10636388/free-customized-personal-weight-loss-eating-plan-not-spam-or-mlm
It's pretty much what I did to lose 50+ pounds in less than a year, and maintain a healthy weight for 2+ years since (while hypothyroid, among other things), but with the experiments and blind alleys left out.
It's very similar to many of the approaches described above, used by successful MFP weight losers, just a little more detailed.
It's even got low carb in it. And not. 1 -
I do low carb and have lost 69 lbs . Went from a size 24 to a size 18 almost 16/ I have been a member of mfp for a while , but started low carb almost a year ago.
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I don't follow any diet, I am a CICO kind of gal 0
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I don't follow any specific diet. I eat the foods I enjoy in appropriate quantities to help create a calorie deficit.
Exactly how I got started and maintained the loss I've had. You want to still eat the things you enjoy or you will eventually relapse. If part of your goal is to eat healthier in general, due to an unbalanced nutrition intake, I would suggest start with what you normally eat and just monitor portion control. Then slowly switch items out for healthier options.0 -
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Nutrient dense foods 80% of the time, and snacks that don't make it hard to stay within my calorie goals by either having too many calories, and by not causing me cravings.1
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