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diannethegeek wrote: »But this wasnt always so. I gained the weight prior to work. So now im just now trying to make it work. At one point i was eating more but it wasnt always healthh crap sadly lol
You might find some ideas here: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10142490/a-list-of-calorie-dense-foods/p1
Pages 1-3 are sort of general thoughts, pages 4-5 are recipes, pages 5-7 are pictures of Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson posing in front of food, and pages 7+ are more recipes and links to meal plans where I can find them.
But when you're drastically under fueling your body (assuming good logging, etc) what's wrong with including some of the "less healthy" stuff? Your body needs certain nutrients in food and it will get them from broccoli or potato chips or almonds or ice cream. As long as nothing is crowding out the nutrient dense choices and you're getting adequate nutrition (enough fats, protein, vitamins, etc), then eat the foods you like to get your calories up.
@diannethegeek thank you - and i just mean like im a big french fry hoe and ill deff at that. Last month I lost 8lbs bc i was on a subway bet lmao i won.
But its not that I do this on purpose? My nerves just consume me and I lose the appetite. The slim fast shakes work well for the morning bur i want to switch to alkamind protein shakes and get more protein.
Since i drive a lot for work i cant find the time to eat until after 5pm anyway. If i eat lunch imma be miserable and NOT want to work. Story of muh liffffe
If you have trouble eating a lot... drink a lot of your calories. I can make smoothies that have 800-1000 calories each easy. Since you are drinking the SlimFast you might be able to make something you like that is calorie dense.
Anything easy to eat "on the run" will help as well. Protein bars, fruits, small portion snacks, etc. I'm similar in not wanting to eat much when work is physical, but if you can sneak in a couple hundred calories now and then in small portions it does help.
I'd also track your actual weight loss for a while, the main reason being to verify the accuracy of your step counter. Your calorie adjustments seem on the high side. I'm a 200 lb guy and only burn 35-40 calories a mile walking. In your case the packages might add some calorie burn, but unless you're going quite a distance with each package probably not much really.
But as quoted above, if you are under fueling, it will catch up with you.2 -
robertw486 wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »But this wasnt always so. I gained the weight prior to work. So now im just now trying to make it work. At one point i was eating more but it wasnt always healthh crap sadly lol
You might find some ideas here: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10142490/a-list-of-calorie-dense-foods/p1
Pages 1-3 are sort of general thoughts, pages 4-5 are recipes, pages 5-7 are pictures of Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson posing in front of food, and pages 7+ are more recipes and links to meal plans where I can find them.
But when you're drastically under fueling your body (assuming good logging, etc) what's wrong with including some of the "less healthy" stuff? Your body needs certain nutrients in food and it will get them from broccoli or potato chips or almonds or ice cream. As long as nothing is crowding out the nutrient dense choices and you're getting adequate nutrition (enough fats, protein, vitamins, etc), then eat the foods you like to get your calories up.
@diannethegeek thank you - and i just mean like im a big french fry hoe and ill deff at that. Last month I lost 8lbs bc i was on a subway bet lmao i won.
But its not that I do this on purpose? My nerves just consume me and I lose the appetite. The slim fast shakes work well for the morning bur i want to switch to alkamind protein shakes and get more protein.
Since i drive a lot for work i cant find the time to eat until after 5pm anyway. If i eat lunch imma be miserable and NOT want to work. Story of muh liffffe
If you have trouble eating a lot... drink a lot of your calories. I can make smoothies that have 800-1000 calories each easy. Since you are drinking the SlimFast you might be able to make something you like that is calorie dense.
Anything easy to eat "on the run" will help as well. Protein bars, fruits, small portion snacks, etc. I'm similar in not wanting to eat much when work is physical, but if you can sneak in a couple hundred calories now and then in small portions it does help.
I'd also track your actual weight loss for a while, the main reason being to verify the accuracy of your step counter. Your calorie adjustments seem on the high side. I'm a 200 lb guy and only burn 35-40 calories a mile walking. In your case the packages might add some calorie burn, but unless you're going quite a distance with each package probably not much really.
But as quoted above, if you are under fueling, it will catch up with you.
@robertw486 Yeah I guess i can drink the calories - i can consume drinks like no other. Eating it is just the issue i suppose
Ehh its like 40 to 50 steps per house to and from and the packages vary. As for tracking my scale isnt correct it says im 10lbs heavier than i actually am Thats why i just started measuring myself
This is stressful0 -
robertw486 wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »But this wasnt always so. I gained the weight prior to work. So now im just now trying to make it work. At one point i was eating more but it wasnt always healthh crap sadly lol
You might find some ideas here: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10142490/a-list-of-calorie-dense-foods/p1
Pages 1-3 are sort of general thoughts, pages 4-5 are recipes, pages 5-7 are pictures of Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson posing in front of food, and pages 7+ are more recipes and links to meal plans where I can find them.
But when you're drastically under fueling your body (assuming good logging, etc) what's wrong with including some of the "less healthy" stuff? Your body needs certain nutrients in food and it will get them from broccoli or potato chips or almonds or ice cream. As long as nothing is crowding out the nutrient dense choices and you're getting adequate nutrition (enough fats, protein, vitamins, etc), then eat the foods you like to get your calories up.
@diannethegeek thank you - and i just mean like im a big french fry hoe and ill deff at that. Last month I lost 8lbs bc i was on a subway bet lmao i won.
But its not that I do this on purpose? My nerves just consume me and I lose the appetite. The slim fast shakes work well for the morning bur i want to switch to alkamind protein shakes and get more protein.
Since i drive a lot for work i cant find the time to eat until after 5pm anyway. If i eat lunch imma be miserable and NOT want to work. Story of muh liffffe
If you have trouble eating a lot... drink a lot of your calories. I can make smoothies that have 800-1000 calories each easy. Since you are drinking the SlimFast you might be able to make something you like that is calorie dense.
Anything easy to eat "on the run" will help as well. Protein bars, fruits, small portion snacks, etc. I'm similar in not wanting to eat much when work is physical, but if you can sneak in a couple hundred calories now and then in small portions it does help.
I'd also track your actual weight loss for a while, the main reason being to verify the accuracy of your step counter. Your calorie adjustments seem on the high side. I'm a 200 lb guy and only burn 35-40 calories a mile walking. In your case the packages might add some calorie burn, but unless you're going quite a distance with each package probably not much really.
But as quoted above, if you are under fueling, it will catch up with you.
@robertw486 Yeah I guess i can drink the calories - i can consume drinks like no other. Eating it is just the issue i suppose
Ehh its like 40 to 50 steps per house to and from and the packages vary. As for tracking my scale isnt correct it says im 10lbs heavier than i actually am Thats why i just started measuring myself
This is stressful
How do you know what weight you 'actually' are?1 -
robertw486 wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »But this wasnt always so. I gained the weight prior to work. So now im just now trying to make it work. At one point i was eating more but it wasnt always healthh crap sadly lol
You might find some ideas here: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10142490/a-list-of-calorie-dense-foods/p1
Pages 1-3 are sort of general thoughts, pages 4-5 are recipes, pages 5-7 are pictures of Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson posing in front of food, and pages 7+ are more recipes and links to meal plans where I can find them.
But when you're drastically under fueling your body (assuming good logging, etc) what's wrong with including some of the "less healthy" stuff? Your body needs certain nutrients in food and it will get them from broccoli or potato chips or almonds or ice cream. As long as nothing is crowding out the nutrient dense choices and you're getting adequate nutrition (enough fats, protein, vitamins, etc), then eat the foods you like to get your calories up.
@diannethegeek thank you - and i just mean like im a big french fry hoe and ill deff at that. Last month I lost 8lbs bc i was on a subway bet lmao i won.
But its not that I do this on purpose? My nerves just consume me and I lose the appetite. The slim fast shakes work well for the morning bur i want to switch to alkamind protein shakes and get more protein.
Since i drive a lot for work i cant find the time to eat until after 5pm anyway. If i eat lunch imma be miserable and NOT want to work. Story of muh liffffe
If you have trouble eating a lot... drink a lot of your calories. I can make smoothies that have 800-1000 calories each easy. Since you are drinking the SlimFast you might be able to make something you like that is calorie dense.
Anything easy to eat "on the run" will help as well. Protein bars, fruits, small portion snacks, etc. I'm similar in not wanting to eat much when work is physical, but if you can sneak in a couple hundred calories now and then in small portions it does help.
I'd also track your actual weight loss for a while, the main reason being to verify the accuracy of your step counter. Your calorie adjustments seem on the high side. I'm a 200 lb guy and only burn 35-40 calories a mile walking. In your case the packages might add some calorie burn, but unless you're going quite a distance with each package probably not much really.
But as quoted above, if you are under fueling, it will catch up with you.
@robertw486 Yeah I guess i can drink the calories - i can consume drinks like no other. Eating it is just the issue i suppose
Ehh its like 40 to 50 steps per house to and from and the packages vary. As for tracking my scale isnt correct it says im 10lbs heavier than i actually am Thats why i just started measuring myself
This is stressful
Don't let it be stressful. As it stands (or walks in your case) you have the desire to lose some weight, not a very strong appetite, and an active job. For most people that's a recipe for success.
As for measuring vs weight, weight is the sure way to know if things are working to put and keep you in a calorie deficit. From the sounds of things your scale might not be consistent with another (better?) scale, but if it's consistent that doesn't really matter. Measurements tell another story and can be important to many, especially if already in a healthy weight range and more concerned with a certain appearance and/or body composition changes.
But in any case, don't let it be stressful, or make it any harder than it has to be.
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Do look at your calorie burns for sport again. Given your calorie goal you don't seem to be too heavy. To calculate how much calories you burn walking you use 0.3*weight in lbs*distance walked in miles.
So for the sake of it I just use 200lbs weight.
To burn 900kcal walking you'd need to walk 15 miles.
Torn burn 900kcal when walking and you are 170lbs you'd need to walk 17.6 miles.
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robertw486 wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »But this wasnt always so. I gained the weight prior to work. So now im just now trying to make it work. At one point i was eating more but it wasnt always healthh crap sadly lol
You might find some ideas here: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10142490/a-list-of-calorie-dense-foods/p1
Pages 1-3 are sort of general thoughts, pages 4-5 are recipes, pages 5-7 are pictures of Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson posing in front of food, and pages 7+ are more recipes and links to meal plans where I can find them.
But when you're drastically under fueling your body (assuming good logging, etc) what's wrong with including some of the "less healthy" stuff? Your body needs certain nutrients in food and it will get them from broccoli or potato chips or almonds or ice cream. As long as nothing is crowding out the nutrient dense choices and you're getting adequate nutrition (enough fats, protein, vitamins, etc), then eat the foods you like to get your calories up.
@diannethegeek thank you - and i just mean like im a big french fry hoe and ill deff at that. Last month I lost 8lbs bc i was on a subway bet lmao i won.
But its not that I do this on purpose? My nerves just consume me and I lose the appetite. The slim fast shakes work well for the morning bur i want to switch to alkamind protein shakes and get more protein.
Since i drive a lot for work i cant find the time to eat until after 5pm anyway. If i eat lunch imma be miserable and NOT want to work. Story of muh liffffe
If you have trouble eating a lot... drink a lot of your calories. I can make smoothies that have 800-1000 calories each easy. Since you are drinking the SlimFast you might be able to make something you like that is calorie dense.
Anything easy to eat "on the run" will help as well. Protein bars, fruits, small portion snacks, etc. I'm similar in not wanting to eat much when work is physical, but if you can sneak in a couple hundred calories now and then in small portions it does help.
I'd also track your actual weight loss for a while, the main reason being to verify the accuracy of your step counter. Your calorie adjustments seem on the high side. I'm a 200 lb guy and only burn 35-40 calories a mile walking. In your case the packages might add some calorie burn, but unless you're going quite a distance with each package probably not much really.
But as quoted above, if you are under fueling, it will catch up with you.
@robertw486 Yeah I guess i can drink the calories - i can consume drinks like no other. Eating it is just the issue i suppose
Ehh its like 40 to 50 steps per house to and from and the packages vary. As for tracking my scale isnt correct it says im 10lbs heavier than i actually am Thats why i just started measuring myself
This is stressful
How do you know what weight you 'actually' are?
@robertw486 i suppose i dont. A doctor weighed me0 -
Do look at your calorie burns for sport again. Given your calorie goal you don't seem to be too heavy. To calculate how much calories you burn walking you use 0.3*weight in lbs*distance walked in miles.
So for the sake of it I just use 200lbs weight.
To burn 900kcal walking you'd need to walk 15 miles.
Torn burn 900kcal when walking and you are 170lbs you'd need to walk 17.6 miles.
@yirara do multiply it times my weight?0 -
According to my "dr" i should be 100lbs because i am 4"11 but when i was 160lbs my bones were popping out my mom said my face sunk in too. I cant for the life of me get under 160 and i want 150 but i can handle160 and just tone up and I am 181 currently i guess depending on bloat and other circumstances0
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It sounds like you and your mother are so used to how people look when they’re overweight, that the normal/healthy weight range looks weird to you. You’re meant to be able to see someone’s bone structure.
But I can certainly see why getting inside your healthy weight range would be a struggle; at 4’11 you must have a very low calorie requirement! So good luck with at least getting down to 160
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It sounds like you and your mother are so used to how people look when they’re overweight, that the normal/healthy weight range looks weird to you. You’re meant to be able to see someone’s bone structure.
But I can certainly see why getting inside your healthy weight range would be a struggle; at 4’11 you must have a very low calorie requirement! So good luck with at least getting down to 160
@ceiswyn You are probably right but I dont like too many bones showing. Like my collar bone is when ive hit my limit lol. Mfp says if i want to lose 2lbs a week i need 1300 ish cals but i keep burning it off and it keeps going back up so theres no winning0 -
It sounds like you and your mother are so used to how people look when they’re overweight, that the normal/healthy weight range looks weird to you. You’re meant to be able to see someone’s bone structure.
But I can certainly see why getting inside your healthy weight range would be a struggle; at 4’11 you must have a very low calorie requirement! So good luck with at least getting down to 160
@ceiswyn You are probably right but I dont like too many bones showing. Like my collar bone is when ive hit my limit lol. Mfp says if i want to lose 2lbs a week i need 1300 ish cals but i keep burning it off and it keeps going back up so theres no winning
What do you mean by this? Do you mean that you're doing a lot of exercise, and if so how are you calculating your calorie burns?
If you're genuinely eating according to the amount MFP gives you, you should be losing weight, but there are a lot of mistakes people commonly make that can interfere with that; overestimating their exercise, trusting the sizes of packaged goods (a lot of them contain more than they say they do), using bad DB entries, using volume measurements instead of weight, forgetting about cooking oils, that sort of thing.1 -
Do look at your calorie burns for sport again. Given your calorie goal you don't seem to be too heavy. To calculate how much calories you burn walking you use 0.3*weight in lbs*distance walked in miles.
So for the sake of it I just use 200lbs weight.
To burn 900kcal walking you'd need to walk 15 miles.
Torn burn 900kcal when walking and you are 170lbs you'd need to walk 17.6 miles.
@yirara do multiply it times my weight?
Yes, 0.3 times "weight in pounds" times "distance in miles"
Thus for example 0.3 times 170 (pounds) times 5 (miles)2 -
Do look at your calorie burns for sport again. Given your calorie goal you don't seem to be too heavy. To calculate how much calories you burn walking you use 0.3*weight in lbs*distance walked in miles.
So for the sake of it I just use 200lbs weight.
To burn 900kcal walking you'd need to walk 15 miles.
Torn burn 900kcal when walking and you are 170lbs you'd need to walk 17.6 miles.
@yirara do multiply it times my weight?
Yes, 0.3 times "weight in pounds" times "distance in miles"
Thus for example 0.3 times 170 (pounds) times 5 (miles)
@yirara I did notice I have a distance thing on my treadmill I dont even look at the cals cuz its a foreign treadmill so its like Kg or some crap.0 -
Do look at your calorie burns for sport again. Given your calorie goal you don't seem to be too heavy. To calculate how much calories you burn walking you use 0.3*weight in lbs*distance walked in miles.
So for the sake of it I just use 200lbs weight.
To burn 900kcal walking you'd need to walk 15 miles.
Torn burn 900kcal when walking and you are 170lbs you'd need to walk 17.6 miles.
@yirara do multiply it times my weight?
Yes, 0.3 times "weight in pounds" times "distance in miles"
Thus for example 0.3 times 170 (pounds) times 5 (miles)
@yirara I did notice I have a distance thing on my treadmill I dont even look at the cals cuz its a foreign treadmill so its like Kg or some crap.
Could that "crap" be km, kilometres?
It's a very common unit of measurement.3 -
Redordeadhead wrote: »Do look at your calorie burns for sport again. Given your calorie goal you don't seem to be too heavy. To calculate how much calories you burn walking you use 0.3*weight in lbs*distance walked in miles.
So for the sake of it I just use 200lbs weight.
To burn 900kcal walking you'd need to walk 15 miles.
Torn burn 900kcal when walking and you are 170lbs you'd need to walk 17.6 miles.
@yirara do multiply it times my weight?
Yes, 0.3 times "weight in pounds" times "distance in miles"
Thus for example 0.3 times 170 (pounds) times 5 (miles)
@yirara I did notice I have a distance thing on my treadmill I dont even look at the cals cuz its a foreign treadmill so its like Kg or some crap.
Could that "crap" be km, kilometres?
It's a very common unit of measurement.
@yirara i think so - says 67 kg after a half hour. Usually tread at the gym will actuallg say CALS0 -
Redordeadhead wrote: »Do look at your calorie burns for sport again. Given your calorie goal you don't seem to be too heavy. To calculate how much calories you burn walking you use 0.3*weight in lbs*distance walked in miles.
So for the sake of it I just use 200lbs weight.
To burn 900kcal walking you'd need to walk 15 miles.
Torn burn 900kcal when walking and you are 170lbs you'd need to walk 17.6 miles.
@yirara do multiply it times my weight?
Yes, 0.3 times "weight in pounds" times "distance in miles"
Thus for example 0.3 times 170 (pounds) times 5 (miles)
@yirara I did notice I have a distance thing on my treadmill I dont even look at the cals cuz its a foreign treadmill so its like Kg or some crap.
Could that "crap" be km, kilometres?
It's a very common unit of measurement.
@yirara i think so - says 67 kg after a half hour. Usually tread at the gym will actuallg say CALS
I bet it isn't saying 'kg' 1 -
Sorry OP but your post is rather confusing. Correct me if I am wrong
You are 4'11" and 180lbs (that puts you in the obese category) your doctor says you should be 100lbs. The charts show between 100-130 to be in the healthy weight range. You don't want to go lower than 160lbs because you think you will be too bony. So you only want to lose 20lbs and you have set your goal for 2lbs a week.
You say you are burning around 1,200 extra calories per day from exercise and you are in and out of your van delivering parcels so fairly active at work.
You are eating under the 1,200 cals per day given you by MFP and don't feel you can eat that plus some of your exercise calories.
Firstly you must have been eating more than you are now to gain the weight in the first place so you have eaten more in the past and with a more active job you should be able to eat at least the same as you did when you gained the weight.
To get your calories higher the first thing I would do is dump the slim fast, it is expensive and very low calorie. If you like shakes then make your own higher calorie ones. Eat a bit of pizza and a few French fries now and again they are high calorie and you say you like French fries so why not eat them?
Also I think that perhaps you are overestimating your energy burn anyway, 1,200 is pretty high (you would have to be walking 10 miles or more to hit that kind of burn) So I don't think you need to worry about eating ALL those calories back but you should eat at some of them.
So why not try eating 1200 plus say 300 - 500 from the exercise calories given and see how that goes and if you eat calorie dense foods, peanut butter, chocolate, potato, bread, pizza, ice cream etc then you should be able to hit that.
Then see what your weight does over the next 4-6 weeks.
Just for comparison.
I am a sedentary 62 yr female, 5'6 and 183 lbs I eat around 1400 - 1600 plus some or all of any exercise cals given me and lose an average .5 -1 lbs a week. I am aiming for 160lbs (like you) but that is just an interim goal. The healthy weight range for me would be around 135 -145lbs. But I will see how I feel about that when I get closer.
Good luck with working out what is right and healthy for you and remember you need to fuel your body with enough nutritious food each day to keep you going, be kind to your body and it will be kind to you.
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