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Cleanse
webbsark
Posts: 17 Member
I have decided to cleanse my mentality of obsessive dieting programming. I have spent years doing keto, weight watchers, paleo, mfp. I just want to coexist with the food around me and make it work. I am weary of rules and substitutions. I tend to eat healthy about 75 % of the time and I hope to improve that a little bit. My goal is to track everything for a week and not worry what my macros are, or if I ate 50 extra calories. I unfollowed all of my dieting Facebook groups and am limiting other social media. It feels a little liberating and a little scary. Thank you for reading this.
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Sounds like the start of a good plan. Good luck!1
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Hello. I tracked everything for my first week without attempting to change any eating habits. It taught me that I was keeping a calorie deficit Monday through Friday, and getting a calorie surplus Saturday and Sunday which was keeping me obese. I only needed to change 2 days worth of habits, rather than 7.16
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The clickbait is strong, but the message is powerful. Welcome to sanity!13
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JeromeBarry1 wrote: »Hello. I tracked everything for my first week without attempting to change any eating habits. It taught me that I was keeping a calorie deficit Monday through Friday, and getting a calorie surplus Saturday and Sunday which was keeping me obese. I only needed to change 2 days worth of habits, rather than 7.
My wife and I tried to just log our existing diets for 2 weeks, when we started with MFP. I say “tried to” because we both found we instinctively ate less as soon as we started logging, but all the same we both got some surprising results.
For me, I found my macros were fairly close to MFP defaults, but I wasn’t getting enough protein. My wife found out that her diet was very high in fat and very low in protein. On the first day, we found that my burger was a better lunch than her superfood salad.
So the result was that we didn’t need to change much to manage our macros. I just added some protein-enhanced products and she just had a bit more protein and less dressing in her salads. Hitting the calorie goal was almost automatic, once we could both see our “balance” at a glance.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the best Diet/WoE for me is the one that involves the least change from what I’d choose if my weight didn’t matter.20 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »Hello. I tracked everything for my first week without attempting to change any eating habits. It taught me that I was keeping a calorie deficit Monday through Friday, and getting a calorie surplus Saturday and Sunday which was keeping me obese. I only needed to change 2 days worth of habits, rather than 7.
My wife and I tried to just log our existing diets for 2 weeks, when we started with MFP. I say “tried to” because we both found we instinctively ate less as soon as we started logging, but all the same we both got some surprising results.
For me, I found my macros were fairly close to MFP defaults, but I wasn’t getting enough protein. My wife found out that her diet was very high in fat and very low in protein. On the first day, we found that my burger was a better lunch than her superfood salad.
So the result was that we didn’t need to change much to manage our macros. I just added some protein-enhanced products and she just had a bit more protein and less dressing in her salads. Hitting the calorie goal was almost automatic, once we could both see our “balance” at a glance.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the best Diet/WoE for me is the one that involves the least change from what I’d choose if my weight didn’t matter.
This, this, this all day long...8 -
I applaud you for getting liberated.
But I so much hoped this was a cleanse thread.
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Now that is a master cleanse.5
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I approve of this cleanse...and the clickbait.8
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I love this thread: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10695975/cleanse#latest
I also particularly love the last paragraph of this comment:Hello. I tracked everything for my first week without attempting to change any eating habits. It taught me that I was keeping a calorie deficit Monday through Friday, and getting a calorie surplus Saturday and Sunday which was keeping me obese. I only needed to change 2 days worth of habits, rather than 7.
My wife and I tried to just log our existing diets for 2 weeks, when we started with MFP. I say “tried to” because we both found we instinctively ate less as soon as we started logging, but all the same we both got some surprising results.
For me, I found my macros were fairly close to MFP defaults, but I wasn’t getting enough protein. My wife found out that her diet was very high in fat and very low in protein. On the first day, we found that my burger was a better lunch than her superfood salad.
So the result was that we didn’t need to change much to manage our macros. I just added some protein-enhanced products and she just had a bit more protein and less dressing in her salads. Hitting the calorie goal was almost automatic, once we could both see our “balance” at a glance.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the best Diet/WoE for me is the one that involves the least change from what I’d choose if my weight didn’t matter.
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Sorry for the "click bait", couldn't think of a catchy title.2
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Not what I was expecting.
Good. *nods approvingly*1 -
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