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I find that I can go for two weeks before I begin to fail.1
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I wish I had started counting calories years ago. And weight training. I most of my life feeling dumpy and slightly chubby. Finally started counting calories and lifting weights (thanks to my lovely PT) maybe 3 years ago (I'm 54 now) and managed to lose the annoying 10 pounds or so and finally feel a bit happier in my skin. I still am a little dysmorphic I guess, and a lot of the time still think of myself as dumpy and stumpy (the ugly dwarfs!).5
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not giving up cognac for breakfast after night shift3
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janvcooper wrote: »not giving up cognac for breakfast after night shift
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derbygraham wrote: »janvcooper wrote: »not giving up cognac for breakfast after night shift
Good on cornflakes?2 -
slimgirljo15 wrote: »derbygraham wrote: »janvcooper wrote: »not giving up cognac for breakfast after night shift
Good on cornflakes?
Ohh. I have never tried Beer with Cornflakes. ...Cornflakes with Vodka? The best.0 -
derbygraham wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »derbygraham wrote: »janvcooper wrote: »not giving up cognac for breakfast after night shift
Good on cornflakes?
Ohh. I have never tried Beer with Cornflakes. ...Cornflakes with Vodka? The best.
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Biggest mistake I ever made was thinking I had to starve myself to lose weight.5
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Estimating by eyeballing. Also mistaking a piece of protein as one serving. For example my salmon fillets I assumed was one serving actually need to have 1/3 removed or I'm overeating my serving (not that I care if I have the calories but it's way more than I originally thought). With toppings it adds up. A chicken breast from Costco is two servings at least. Trusting calories from a recipe was a mistake too, they're rarely correct when entering in recipe builder. On that note trusting calories in packaged products as well.2
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Not logging, not pre logging or looking up a food or serving before eating, not weighing foods, not prelogging my day. Not knowing what correct portions were. Exercising too much. Things I learned along the way. I didn’t preplan meals for my week or even food prep in the beginning, but I learned for me it’s important bc then I’ll tend to eat without borders. Learning correctly to portion and what a serving is and weighing my food and counting my calories changed my weight loss dramatically. I didn’t want to be one of those people but then I learned I had to be if I wanted success. Pre logging and then meal prep came later and helped get my eating under control and attain my calorie goals daily or within range. I stopped doing my diet and forgot all my tricks and things and gained weight of course. But I’m back to make it work bc I have to. Also learned to take off bread to omit fries or other things to cut calories when out or to have half a portion to cut Calories2
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The only real mistake was once I reached my goal, and was able to maintain for awhile I stopped logging and weighing myself. This led to some yo-yo behaviour and wasted time as I had to get re-focused. I am always able to reel it back in, but for a few months at a time, I am pretty mad at myself for ruining a good portion of my hard work.2
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Eating too many dates and not tracking. Also eating back all my exercise calories from fitbit.0
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Not eating exercise calories / using TDEE - deficit.
I lost 120 pounds by selecting not active and adding exercise and eating those calories back. I used to literally log cleaning as exercise and I’d eat them back. I lost weight at the expected rate.
At my smallest I’d eat back 75% and again lost at the expected rate.
My day is very sedentary and as it turns out if I never moved from the couch I would be fine. Having the motivation of earning calories back really got me active for the first time ever and it felt amazing.
This was like a decade ago but there was a big shift in fitness places from earning back food to using tdee. I know they are basically the same but it was really my undoing. Without earning calories I had less motivation to exercise. I got stressed out over activity level. Was I picking the right one? Was I exercising enough to be lightly active?
I have been struggling with losing weight ever since I moved to tdee Vs neat + exercise. The second I decide that idgaf and move back to logging exercise calories I start losing again and am so much happier.
Maybe the opposite is true for you. But for me the worst thing I ever did was stop logging exercise calories .6 -
axis_gather_0t wrote: »Not eating exercise calories / using TDEE - deficit.
I lost 120 pounds by selecting not active and adding exercise and eating those calories back. I used to literally log cleaning as exercise and I’d eat them back. I lost weight at the expected rate.
At my smallest I’d eat back 75% and again lost at the expected rate.
My day is very sedentary and as it turns out if I never moved from the couch I would be fine. Having the motivation of earning calories back really got me active for the first time ever and it felt amazing.
This was like a decade ago but there was a big shift in fitness places from earning back food to using tdee. I know they are basically the same but it was really my undoing. Without earning calories I had less motivation to exercise. I got stressed out over activity level. Was I picking the right one? Was I exercising enough to be lightly active?
I have been struggling with losing weight ever since I moved to tdee Vs neat + exercise. The second I decide that idgaf and move back to logging exercise calories I start losing again and am so much happier.
Maybe the opposite is true for you. But for me the worst thing I ever did was stop logging exercise calories .
I totally relate. I exercise for health and I like to exercise, but logging my exercise to earn calories that day is a big incentive for me to do it.1 -
My mistake, was believing packaged food nutritionally, they write on - ie shop sells a burger and says it’s so many calories, for its weight of 150grams, so you add the calories, to your diary, but i actually weigh, everything now, as many a time, that burger, that is supposed to weigh 150 grams, is nearer to 300 grams, which then, adds more calories to my diary ! Weigh everything yourself.1
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Eating something that I shouldn’t or eating too much and thinking this won’t hurt me. Then, not getting on the scales due to being afraid of what the number is going to be.3
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Eating too much, go for longer than one day before getting back on track.2
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Wasting time worrying about being mad at myself, or suffering guilt over a few days off track.
I have the knowledge and ability and will to get right back on track, so even now, still need to learn to give those feelings up.2 -
Early in my lifting days, sacrificing form for weight resistance. Which led to a couple of injuries. I preach now, it's not about the weight but about the movement and execution.
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