Restarting my journey, new to the group
LCW_731
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Hello everyone. I am restarting my health and fitness journey before it spirals out of control. Working with a nutritionist last year, and using MFP for a food diary I lost about 60 pounds between July and the new year. I started at 419, and i'm currently 357. My goal is to get back to 250. I've dropped 2 pant sizes and could probably go down a size in shirts. Many clothes that haven't fit me for 2 or more years now fit very nicely! I was able to do it mostly just really watching what I eat, cutting out most carbs and just about all added sugars, and really just eating clean foods and not so much processed and refined food. I look forward to sharing your journeys, and sharing my journey with you.
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So excited to hear your journey!! Such an inspiration!! Thank you for sharing.0
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AS OF MARCH 25: I am doing a recalibration too. 15 mos of LCHF--> 12 pound weight gain. Still keeping starchy carbs (grains and food made w grains) low, but I am doubling down on vegetables. This rises my overall carb count, even if I substract fiber for net carbs. net-Carb target is 90-120g/day. Protein is the same 45-60g/day. Fat has been cut to a third of what it was at 20g-30g/day w a more specific target to keep saturated fats below 12g/day.
I don't have a sweet tooth. I am good with fiber. I have learned where I need to add minerals, including salt to meet recommended minimums. I do intermittent fasting, IF, 18:6 weekdays (2 meals between noon and 6p). Weekends are 16:8 on account my husband like to eat supper late.
I exercise a minimum of 20 minutes a day. Although my target is 40min I have not been good about staying on track with that.
AS OF APRIL 25: I lost 4 pounds. I need these kinds of results for at least 6 months before I know whether this recalibration is working.4 -
I am new to MFP, found it 2 wk's ago, really encouraged by members' sharing. I was able then to make some major changes to my eating (which has been out of control for 2 years). No visible results yet, as some have talked about. I am trying not to get too excited about what I'm doing, just being methodical in logging in food, water, and exercise. Literally, one day at a time! I'm not feeling any pressure from within to lose, lose, lose, and control, control, control. I feel quite peaceful, really, and this is a wonderful surprise. All the weight I have ever lost in my life has been through will-power and striving, white-knuckling, being hungry, waiting for the "end", when I could really eat again. This feels different, and I am so grateful to be here with you all. Your struggles and successes will be the fuel that keeps me moving ahead! Thanks!9
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I hear you--trying to find that forever plan that supports good health and brings vitality.3
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I am new to this group and excited to have a place to come for support. Really struggling to take the weight off.6
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I am new too, I have 58 pounds to lose. I started working with a personal trainer and have started eating healthy. I feel peaceful too. I am not in a rush. I want this to be sustainable. Thanks for all the support.4
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I'm returning after years of personal neglect. My doctor has recommended clean eating - all organic veggies, grass fed beef, etc. - to help with my host of allergies. I also fell while working out, and I fell HARD. Sprained ankles, sciatica, and the injuries are taking 2 months (and counting) to heal. I can't help but think that the fall wouldn't have been so bad and the healing wouldn't take so long if I weren't so overweight (100+lbs to lose).4
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Might consider joining the 100+ no surgery group.1
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I’m not eating 100% clean, but I’m 95% better than before I started. I’m still using stevia.4
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I am restarting my weight loss transformation.3
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Hi!
I’m also trying to eat cleaner.
I didn’t care how I looked or felt. Now I hate how heavy I feel (SW240/CW228) and I’m ready to make lifelong changes.
Feel free to add me.4 -
Satisfiedwithbetter wrote: »I’m not eating 100% clean, but I’m 95% better than before I started. I’m still using stevia.
@Satisfiedwithbetter
Same, I eat almost 100% clean, but can't give up stevia in my morning coffee.
I would love to switch to pure monk fruit, but it is over the top expensive and not sold in any stores near me.
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What's up with stevia?
I tend to use maple sugar or birch sugar or honey--when I want a little sweetner, which is not daily.
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Stevia is a crutch!2
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I'm confused, why would stevia be considered NOT eating clean?2
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It’s typically highly processed!2
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Satisfiedwithbetter wrote: »It’s typically highly processed!
Gotcha0 -
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Hi! Just starting again today. Lots of weight to loose and post menopausal after having a complete hysterectomy 2 years ago due to cancer. The hormone change has sure made losing weight even more difficult and gaining weight a whole lot easier. Looking forward to starting renewed and making lots of friends along the way. I'm pretty much a clean eater leaning towards vegetarianism but every now and again... Oh boy.2
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hey im on here cause like, i dont really have anyone in my life who supports me and im kinda lost i been going back and forth with the clean eating or like counting macros or cals but that just seems very daunting and give up... ive lost weight before, but its slow but at least it comes off just from follow some simple clean eating rules... so i guess ill just go with what I know...4
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Hello.. I am restarting my journey once again after too much neglect. I am up 30 plus pounds in 2 years and inflammation has gotten worse as well as my the asthma. Just pulled a meniscus in left knee and have trigger finger in my right hand. On the last time around my fitnesspal and groups was invaluable and I lost the needed weight with the love and support of it's family. So I am back to start new and hoping to make friends to also encourage and be encouraged. You can add me to your friends list4
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hapyfaces2 wrote: »Hello.. I am restarting my journey once again after too much neglect. I am up 30 plus pounds in 2 years and inflammation has gotten worse as well as my the asthma. Just pulled a meniscus in left knee and have trigger finger in my right hand. On the last time around my fitnesspal and groups was invaluable and I lost the needed weight with the love and support of it's family. So I am back to start new and hoping to make friends to also encourage and be encouraged. You can add me to your friends list
Hi! I just recommitted to the anti-inflammatory diet after my 20+ weight gain over the past two years. So far I'm doing well and I'm down 6.8 lbs. I have an open diary and love to see what others are eating to get ideas and tips.3 -
Hi all, I am just restarting like many of you. Early 50s (how can that be??) and tho i have always been heavy from PCOS, I am truly alarmed as i am turning to blubber out of the blue. So many different approaches out there, i have tried most of them. I have found things unique to my own quirky body that seem to help in most of them. The common denominator is veggies. Always more veggies!
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Summary from the Harvard Medical School book that reviewed all the diets out there. Their summary: 1) Eat real food 2) Slightly less than you think you need 3) Mostly plants
That's it... In those three simple statements, you have weight loss, clean eating and most 'real' diets summarized. Some folks will have medical conditions that affect their intake, but most folks don't. Some folks have psychological conditions that affect their intake, but most folks don't.
The four pillars of healthy lifestyle (open to debate, of course)
1) Eat healthy (see above)
2) Exercise regularly
3) Sleep plenty
4) Hydrate sufficiently
Forgetting the mechanics of calorie counting, macro counting, BF% checks, daily weigh ins, etc. All of these are very good, and supportive, and will work for some people. All four of those pillars will work for all people in all health conditions. Regarding 'restarting' your health plan - you don't really get to do that, and that thinking comes loaded with a lot of guilt (but if it works for you, go for it...)
Try this metaphor: You're the pilot of a plane in Atlanta and are headed for Seattle. Amazingly enough, within 10 minutes of getting airborne, you are off-course! Its true! A lot of factors contribute to it - wind, precipitation, air temp, pilot error, autopilot calibration, etc. Net result - you are no longer headed to Seattle, so you (as the pilot) have a choice. Turn around, land, and try again (restarting your health plan - along with all the guilt associated with 'failing my last diet'). Or instead, making a mid-course correction - recognize that these factors, some in your control and some not, have made an impact on your destination and you need to make a minor change to get back on course. You make the minor change, and what happens - 10 minutes later you are off course again! The fact is, piloting a plane, navigating a ship, catching a fish, running a marathon, etc. - "Life in General" is lived as a continuous series of mid-course corrections. You didn't "fail at losing weight", you simply got pushed off-course and need to make a mid-course correction.
In the military, we talk about 'owning our mistakes' so we can make fewer of them in the future. Where you are today is a direct result of every step you have taken thus far in life, so you are poised for what's next - own it. Just decide on your destination, and take off, and recognize you'll be making LOTS of course corrections - that's called 'life'.
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hapyfaces2 wrote: »Hello.. I am restarting my journey once again after too much neglect. I am up 30 plus pounds in 2 years and inflammation has gotten worse as well as my the asthma. Just pulled a meniscus in left knee and have trigger finger in my right hand. On the last time around my fitnesspal and groups was invaluable and I lost the needed weight with the love and support of it's family. So I am back to start new and hoping to make friends to also encourage and be encouraged. You can add me to your friends list
Hi! I just recommitted to the anti-inflammatory diet after my 20+ weight gain over the past two years. So far I'm doing well and I'm down 6.8 lbs. I have an open diary and love to see what others are eating to get ideas and tips.
Congrats on the weight loss up to this point! Nice job! I tried a 1 year subscription to Clean Eating Magazine to get ideas on how to cook light and clean, and that gave me a ton of ideas and simple substitutions. Or I would Google a recipe I wanted to cook, only adding the words "Clean" or "Healthy", and that would come up with good versions of things I liked.1 -
@mamcmurray - I agree with your analogy, with the understanding success at weight loss is more like 99% mental and 1% physical. With clean eating, exercise, sleep, and hydration.... all falling in the 1%. Learning to control our mind is almost everything. Our thoughts, our feelings, our actions, our results all really come from our mind. Learn to control your thoughts and you can accomplish just about anything.2
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@Satisfiedwithbetter - Agreed; who was it that said "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right!"?
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@hapyfaces2 - How goes your progress?
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Not sure, but you become what you believe! LOL...0
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It has been a while since I seriously worked on losing weight, or reshaping my body. Have reached a point where I really know that I need to get control. I am approximately 100 pounds over where I need to be and that will be my goal: to get to that point. An alternate goal will be that I reach a waist size of 32 inches prior to reaching the weight goal, I should be where I want to be (that will mean I have lost enough fat and gained enough muscle to get me as lean as I want to be). My wife has been very successful over the past 5.5 years and has been a dedicated clean eater, but I have never gotten on board with it. I have continued to work out regularly, but have not controlled my diet. I know that clean eating is where I need to be.1