Am I the only one that finds it difficult to eat more?
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Peanut butter! Actually most any kind of calorie dense items help. Even after two years at this I still find it difficult at times to hit my 2300 calories every day. Last time I stepped on a scale I was still right on 305. So I guess I finally found my TDEE or at least my current TDEE LOL. I've learned that things like ice cream and peanut butter are my friends. I still have to pay close attention to what I eat or I end up way under eating, so hanging out at the same weight even though I sometimes even go over (Wow, I never dreamt I'd ever get to say that!) has been a real eye opener for me. Good luck!1
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Try to make yourself smoothies made of fruits and veggies.0
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How do you add friends?0
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I'm still here, plugging away.
I have been averaging right around 2300 calories/day. I still have days when I struggle, but they are getting fewer all the time! Still staying right at 305 pounds.
Still doing my chainmaille, I've even set up a web site to sell it now. I will be doing my second craft show on Saturday. My first show I sold one bracelet so that covered the cost of setting up. I consider that a success! I have even expanded so that now I am working in stainless steel, brass, bronze, and aluminum. I learn new weaves almost daily. I even started working with larger rings, therefore building more muscle in my arms! My hands don't hurt nearly as much as they used to!
My very first piece in stainless steel using Swarvoski crystals
I guess that's it for now. I just wanted to let you all know that I'm still here, and still kicking.
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That's great news about the hand use improving the hand pain.
Now if you could just slowly get other parts of the body involved without the side effects that hit you so bad.
Glad you are having a good time with the hobby/business moving to business level. You have enough shows within easy reach to get to that are reasonable?
And you found that local business that'll let you sell in their store?0 -
It’s been well over a year since I’ve been on here. Ended up having weight loss surgery and getting 80lbs off (mentally hard), but now at the point of trying to get my calories up and it’s VERY HARD TO DO, with a small stomach. Mfp shows me to have 1440 a day to still lose weight (I have about 20 lbs to go) but I only managed 1200 today. I’m supposed to be eating roughly 1800. How do I even get there!?!? Any advice?0
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energy dense over nutritionally dense.
More fat over more fiber.
With 1800 cal - you can easily get nutrition in - so you'll have excess calories that can be filled with things that have fat in them, and protein, and carb, but perhaps not much nutrition.
Which doesn't matter then when you need the calories too.
Obviously more frequent meals to get the calories in. Cheese added to many things can help, as can butter.
I'd suggest with only 20 lbs to go, if your TDEE is really around 1800, than 1440 is way too low.
1/2 lb weekly should be your amount of loss attempt. 15% is 270 cal deficit, so 1/2 lb and leave 200 cal in the green.
But log exercise done on MFP, and eat to new goal. That's how it works.
You do more, you eat more.
You don less, you eat less (that's the kicker for many).
In a diet, a tad less in either case.0 -
Well, so much for trying to post from the app...
I thought I'd pop in and let everyone know I'm still here and plugging away. My summer has been crazy busy. I'm setting up at three farmer's markets! I'm exhausted and almost ready for the season to end, but not ready in the least for it to end at the same time. Does that make any sense?
I don't even remember the last time I stepped on the scales. BIG improvement huh. While this season is almost over I'm already looking to next years season. I will be setting up at two markets next season.
I still have times when I have to fight to get those last 5-600 calories in, but it gets easier every month. I have no idea how I managed to do everything I did while only eating 800 - 1200 calories a day. I'm actually starting to feel hungry again! (Although it can be annoying at times. LOL)
ScaryAnn
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A good full summer, and getting to do what you enjoy to boot - glad it's going well enough.
And yeah, think how the body would be falling apart if malnourished. well, don't think about it too much, but good job.1 -
Where is @scaryann. I miss your encouragement, and I need it right now. Hope you are doing well.0
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I am not sure where you are on the journey corinasue1143. I feel you. I’m just struggling with any sort of routine lately.
I miss this board! It’s not very active. I’m not a Facebook or Instagram person or any other major platform. MFP is basically all I “do”.0 -
Wow guys, life really caught me unaware!!! I'm so sorry to have been gone for so long. I'm still here and still plugging away. Rick and I have turned our chainmaille into a very slowly growing business, so my days have been spent weaving chains and building our business. I'm sad to say that I fell right back into my old ways of eating and by the time I took time out from my schedule to see how I was eating, I was right back to around 1200 calories a day. So I'm back to working on keeping a good eating schedule and trying to keep up. LOL
I got an AFO (Ankle-foot orthotic) in January, it's AMAZING! I can walk again!!! But, now it's pushing the pain farther up my leg into my knee and hip, but I'm not giving up. I'll get fully on my feet again. I'd be totally insane by now if it wasn't for my chainmaille though.
My new AFO:
My dreamcatcher design:
Well, got to run. Lots of things to get done before the market on Saturday!0 -
Sleep study done last night.
I'll find out how many times I quit breathing in my sleep at my follow up appointment, but I do know it was enough times that they hooked me up to the CPAP around 1:30 AM.
Finally starting to get some answers after all these years!
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That's actually probably good they hooked you up during the study - that way before and after results and the differences between them, and was after CPAP good enough.0
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Exactly what she said this morning. Now I don't have to do the overnight next week.0
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I love your new orthotic! It’s so bright and cheery. You can’t help but be happy when you put that on in the morning!
It even brightened up your new earrings. Which are beautiful!
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I’m very much sharing in the struggle to eat more. I’ve lost 25 lbs and have built muscle. I’m glad to see others sharing in the same struggles.2
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This week went fast... We had a wonderful Lavender festival this year! We may have had torrential downpours (at one point we were sitting in three inches of water) but there were so many people!!! We had an amazing amount of sales. Enough that we were able to buy a new canopy with walls! Yesterday we picked up three 16 lb spools of 20g aluminum wire for $100. I should never run out of 20g aluminum rings. LOL Now if we can only find deals like that on the rest of the sizes.
Jun 30 - Jul 6
Average Daily calories: 1644
Now I guess I better get started on my day.
And here's a picture of Letchworth State Park (We stopped on our way home from picking up the wire)2 -
I feel like I'm going to explode, but I'm doing a lot better on calorie intake so far this week. I picked up my cpap machine today and got it all set up to use tonight. I'm actually ready for a nap now, but I'm forcing myself to stay awake
I'll let you know how the first night goes and if my cat will even come near me with the mask on. LOL
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The poor cat was scared ****less. She did get brave enough to go so far as to lay on my knees. LOL She normally sleeps on my hip. 2.9 episodes per hour last night. No where near as bad as I was afraid of as my cousin was at 30/hr when she first got hers.1
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Bugga Boo is finally used to the CPAP mask. I've been averaging about 4 apnea's per hour this week. I've slid back slightly on the calorie intake, but not too bad.1
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I can't express how crazy life has been since I started selling my chainmaille jewelry. I often forget to log what I eat and I can't even remember the last time I stepped on the scale. I still forget to eat some days, but I still feel like I have improved the way I eat from how I'd been eating before starting to eat more. I honestly don't feel like I've lost any weight, but I'm okay with that, as learning to eat has been an adventure in itself.
Here's my new favorite bracelet:
And the same weave in a larger ring gauge:
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I just finished my sleep apnea follow up appointment. I've gone from 88 episodes per hour to two per hour! Huge improvement. 0
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That sounds like a huge improvement. Do you have a website for your bracelets yet?0
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Yes I do. You can find me on Facebook as Designs by ScaryAnn and at DesignsbyScaryAnn dot ecrater dot com0
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Thanks... what is the item name. Can’t seem to find that exact bracelet.0
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If you are looking at the last two I posted, they aren't on the site, they were wedding gifts. But I can make you one in almost any color combination you want. The pink and black one is made with a smaller gauge wire so it takes more materials and longer to weave and runs about $65 and the blue and black one is around $45, it uses larger rings and doesn't take as long to weave. They are called Triple Strand Byzantine. I do have a mauve and black one finished, it's one of the $45 ones, I will get a picture of it tomorrow or Saturday and post it. If it wasn't one of those two, if you can tell me what post it was in I can let you know if I still have it, or I can make another one.0
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Here's the mauve bracelet.
I'm listing it right now.
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My newest necklace. Stainless Steel 20 AWG 3/32" rings.
The colder air is starting to settle in here in Western New York and my body sure doesn't like it! I'm aching in places I didn't even know could ache.
That doesn't keep me from creating though! The market season is almost over, only three more Sundays to go. I only have one or two craft shows a month for November and December, but hopefully this will allow me to recover from the summer craziness. I'm so glad we scaled back to two markets this year. You wouldn't think that doing markets would be so exhausting. I'm ready for some time off.
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