Why did I gain 2 pounds overnight?
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It's totally normal for weight to fluctuate by up to several pounds daily. When I was younger, I would typically retain 6 pounds of water with my monthlies. Lycra and yoga pants hadn't been invented yet, so it really sucked, lol! Try weighing yourself every morning and evening to see trends. A note on all the folks saying you need more calories: If you are eating WFPB with zero added processed oils and lots of veggies, it is possible to get adequate vitamins, minerals, and proteins around 1,000 calories, maybe 1,200. And you can seriously stay quite full on such a diet due to the high amount of fiber. The remaining calories you need come from fat stores. So if that's you, more power to you. But.... if you're doing some version of portion control with standard American fare, listen to the advice to eat more.2
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FoodBodyChanges wrote: »It's totally normal for weight to fluctuate by up to several pounds daily. When I was younger, I would typically retain 6 pounds of water with my monthlies. Lycra and yoga pants hadn't been invented yet, so it really sucked, lol! Try weighing yourself every morning and evening to see trends. A note on all the folks saying you need more calories: If you are eating WFPB with zero added processed oils and lots of veggies, it is possible to get adequate vitamins, minerals, and proteins around 1,000 calories, maybe 1,200. And you can seriously stay quite full on such a diet due to the high amount of fiber. The remaining calories you need come from fat stores. So if that's you, more power to you. But.... if you're doing some version of portion control with standard American fare, listen to the advice to eat more.
The remaining calories on a steep deficit won't just come from fat stores with a calorie deficit of that size, they'll also come from muscle (and that includes your heart).10 -
remyrunnels1 wrote: »Deep breath everyone.
It really doesn't matter whether the Op runs the way we understand runs, or any other way.
Her loss record indicates that she is in an extremely steep and unsustainable therefore unhealthy (due to its size) deficit.
Appreciable results worth protecting so far.
Time to get smart and set up for the future. both to protect these results and to achieve even better ones.
Current course of action un-modified and unmoderated leads to either rebound weight gain or death from starvation.
So modification and achieving good results for the future is probably a better way to move forward!
Thanks for not simply attacking me. (If I was someone on the verge of an eating disorder as someone mentioned those replies may just make it worse) I only posted out of curiosity of my original question. My calories really aren’t that far off the recommendation but I do just feel full. Some days I do one meal and other days I break it down and even include snacks!
Do you have any advice on higher calorie meals that aren’t as filling?
On a side note about my runs, yes you can run in place while doing dishes but I also go outside and run around the block each day.
I was not going to reply again because people on here just seem mean and Uninviting but decided to check one more time and your reply seemed to come from a nice place and just wanted to say thank you for that.
If you're seeing a level of agitation or emotion in some of the posts, I think that's because some of us are sincerely worried about you. Try to think of me as your anxious MFP auntie, because at 64 I'm surely old enough to be!
If there were a pattern of pound-a-day loss over a period of time, that's likely only to be safe under close direct medical supervision, and then only in someone who is severely obese (say, 400+ pounds, possibly more).
Maybe we just don't understand, but that's what the worry is. To know where we're coming from, this would be a good thread to read, just as background about why we'd worry:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10761904/under-1200-for-weight-loss/p1
It's not for sure that something bad would happen, but there's definitely increased risk. Speaking for myself, I would want you (and everyone) to stay healthy while achieving weight management goals!
It's entirely possible to feel good, and not hungry, but still not be eating enough.
When I first joined MFP, I was eating 1200 plus all my (carefully estimated) exercise calories, which is what MFP calculated for a somewhat fast but still not dangerous weight loss rate for me (I'm only 5'5", sedentary, and was already pretty old, then 59).
It turned out I'm one of the unusual people that burns more calories than many calculators estimate, and I lost weight too fast, though it wasn't anything near a pound a day. I wasn't hungry, and felt great . . . until suddenly, I didn't. I got weak and fatigued. Although I corrected immediately as soon as I realized there was a problem, it took several weeks to recover normal strength and energy. With your busy life and the 3 little ones depending on you, you don't want that!
Truly, we're writing these things out of concern.
Please moderate your weight loss rate, to lose more slowly. There are lots of foods that are more calorie dense (so not as filling) but still very nutritious. For example, some fully plant-based choices include nuts, nut butters, seeds, avocados, more of healthy oils (olive, macadamia, whatever) in salad dressings or in cooking, and that sort of thing. If you eat dairy, full-fat dairy choices are also helpful. It's also fine to have the occasional little treat (chocolate or what-have-you) that's a little more calorie-dense, but not so filling, to get enough calories.
Please stay strong, stay healthy, and go get those weight goals in a moderate way that limits health risks! :flowerforyou:22 -
FoodBodyChanges wrote: »A note on all the folks saying you need more calories: If you are eating WFPB with zero added processed oils and lots of veggies, it is possible to get adequate vitamins, minerals, and proteins around 1,000 calories, maybe 1,200. And you can seriously stay quite full on such a diet due to the high amount of fiber. The remaining calories you need come from fat stores. So if that's you, more power to you. But.... if you're doing some version of portion control with standard American fare, listen to the advice to eat more.
Fat burning doesn't happen as a magical poof of smoke at the end of the day to balance out your body's energy needs. It is like lighting a log on fire to burn, it's a process that takes time. Your body can only burn so much fat at one time, regardless if how virtuous your diet is. If your body needs 1500 calories more energy than you're eating and fat burning isn't happening fast enough, it will go looking for another source - muscle.
OP, in addition to being possibly harmful in the long run, very fast weight loss and under eating are a recipe for hitting the proverbial wall. You feel fine until you dont, then you slam into the wall of weakness, fatigue, health issues, hormone swings, and roller coaster appetite issues. And it can take months to recover. Plus, swinging from over eating to under eating is the classic beginning of the yo yo diet cycle. Please consider learning from other folks difficult experience rather than insisting on learning the hard way. Congratulations on being determined to change for the better, and best if luck.10 -
Hello again to the OP.
The overwhelmingly most likely reason you're currently not feeling hunger, is that during an intense period of starvation your body uses certain defenses to help you survive.
Among them is slowing down cellular repair, especially anything that's not say related to you bleeding out, but also blunting feelings of hunger so that you can function.
At the same time hormones shift so that whenever food becomes available again you will get hit by an intense desire to eat more and more.
There is no need to worry too much about what extra food to eat.
As soon as you eat any extra food on a consistent basis, weather that is Snickers bars, protein bars, vegan protein bars, or broccoli with either tofu or chicken, there's a really good chance that the problem will be controlling rebound hunger.
In any case there are a lot of calorically dense food items. Some of which have been covered above.
Personally I would just start with forgetting about dieting, you heard me right forgetting about dieting, but concentrating on foods that you see yourself eating over the next five years.
Let's face it at some point of time hopefully you will get to your goal weight somewhere within the normal weight range.
And then that way you will be allowed a reasonable amount of calories in order to maintain that future lower weight.
an amount of calories that is actually lower than what your current body requires in order to maintain its current weight
This means that with some small adjustments can you can pretend today to be maintaining your future maintenance weight.... and still continue to lose towards it.
I am not saying that you need to adopt this for the long term or that you will never need to adapt.
But it is an idea.
Because I don't think you have had a chance given your rate of loss to even start contemplating how your future eating may look like.
A lot of us gain weight lose weight and keep repeating it for multiple cycles.
People who successfully maintain their weight loss for over 2 years have a much better track record of continuing to do so. And people who get to 5 years even more so.
Which is why when I started playing with all this for myself in 2014.... I decided that I had to start thinking in five-year or longer terms, and making choices that I *could see* myself sticking to for 5 years or longer. I mean it doesn't mean that I would or that I haven't changed half of them; but at least I wasn't just trying things that for sure would not stick around!
Anyway. Meandering here.
Just look at what you're eating and tell me if you see yourself doing this in these quantities and cooked this way in 2025.
And if the answer is not pick one of those items and change it to something you think might be sustainable... and keep going!8 -
As a lot of people have mentioned your weight fluctuation is irrelevant other than to indicate to you that your body is starting to react a little bit to the intense weight loss stress you've been subjecting it to.
With such a low caloric allowance I really hope that almost half your calories have been protein.
If your protein has been low, the question immediately becomes how low, because a combination of intense deficit and not enough protein intake means that your body could start robbing protein from useful parts of your anatomy that you would rather keep intact!5 -
FoodBodyChanges wrote: »It's totally normal for weight to fluctuate by up to several pounds daily. When I was younger, I would typically retain 6 pounds of water with my monthlies. Lycra and yoga pants hadn't been invented yet, so it really sucked, lol! Try weighing yourself every morning and evening to see trends. A note on all the folks saying you need more calories: If you are eating WFPB with zero added processed oils and lots of veggies, it is possible to get adequate vitamins, minerals, and proteins around 1,000 calories, maybe 1,200. And you can seriously stay quite full on such a diet due to the high amount of fiber. The remaining calories you need come from fat stores. So if that's you, more power to you. But.... if you're doing some version of portion control with standard American fare, listen to the advice to eat more.
I missed that, until Kimny quoted it. Um, what?
I've been vegetarian for 45+ years (ovo-lacto, not fully plant based, so mine is a little easier route, nutritionally; but close enough for me to understand what it would mean to get entirely plant-based nutrition).
First, you completely didn't mention adequate fats, without which many of your micronutrients will fail to be properly absorbed. Stored body fat is not going to fully compensate for too-low fat intake.
Second, IME, vegetarian protein comes with more built-in carbs, especially when eating whole foods, as compared to meat/fish protein. If someone wants to hit the best achievable nutrition on the lowest possible calories, eating whole foods not supplements, the optimum is going to be in an omnivorous diet. (Obviously, I'm not saying people need to be omnivorous to get adequate nutrition: I'm not an omnivore. I'm disputing your contention that WFPB achieves good nutrition on lower calories.)
Yes, fiber is filling (for many), and it can seem especially so for people coming from a fiber-poor previous way of eating. But that can be a misleading trap, if one feels sated before adequate nutrition intake. You need nutrient intake, essential fatty acids, essential amino acids, micronutrients, and calories. My protein and fat goals alone amount to 850 calories, and that's without a single one of the carbs that's inevitably going to ride along with them, espedially for a plant-based eater (and with all the micros, besides).
So, 1000 calories for good nutrition? No.
It's unclear what the exact limit on fat metabolism is, per pound of stored body fat per day, but it's not limitless, as Kimny said. At some point, energy or health will suffer.10 -
Anyway a good amount of protein to aim for is around 0.8 to 1 gram per pound of body weight you're targeting within the normal weight range (call it BMI 25 if nothing else comes to mind)
Healthy fats for a woman would be around point 35 grams per pound of body weight as above
Fibre would be around 27g I believe for ladies and more usually doesn't hurt people!
Would definitely start using a weight trend application though I believe that some version of MFP now uses one too(?) Usual ones are happy scale for iPhone, libra for Android, and I personally use trendweight.com which I initially had connected to a free Fitbit account for data entry before owning a device.
The first post in every section has got the stickied threads.
In addition to chatter there is a lot of knowledge in some of these threads.
You've done great there's no question and this is something very important for you.
You've got to build on that and protect it.
If it doesn't feel like something you can do for the long-term, then it probably is not going to help you get there and stay there long-term.
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remyrunnels1 wrote: »Deep breath everyone.
It really doesn't matter whether the Op runs the way we understand runs, or any other way.
Her loss record indicates that she is in an extremely steep and unsustainable therefore unhealthy (due to its size) deficit.
Appreciable results worth protecting so far.
Time to get smart and set up for the future. both to protect these results and to achieve even better ones.
Current course of action un-modified and unmoderated leads to either rebound weight gain or death from starvation.
So modification and achieving good results for the future is probably a better way to move forward!
Thanks for not simply attacking me. (If I was someone on the verge of an eating disorder as someone mentioned those replies may just make it worse) I only posted out of curiosity of my original question. My calories really aren’t that far off the recommendation but I do just feel full. Some days I do one meal and other days I break it down and even include snacks!
Do you have any advice on higher calorie meals that aren’t as filling?
On a side note about my runs, yes you can run in place while doing dishes but I also go outside and run around the block each day.
I was not going to reply again because people on here just seem mean and Uninviting but decided to check one more time and your reply seemed to come from a nice place and just wanted to say thank you for that.
If you're seeing a level of agitation or emotion in some of the posts, I think that's because some of us are sincerely worried about you. Try to think of me as your anxious MFP auntie, because at 64 I'm surely old enough to be!
If there were a pattern of pound-a-day loss over a period of time, that's likely only to be safe under close direct medical supervision, and then only in someone who is severely obese (say, 400+ pounds, possibly more).
Maybe we just don't understand, but that's what the worry is. To know where we're coming from, this would be a good thread to read, just as background about why we'd worry:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10761904/under-1200-for-weight-loss/p1
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Yes, my posts definitely came from a place of concern.
Thanks for posting https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10761904/under-1200-for-weight-loss/p1 - I was thinking of that thread as well.Emmapatterson1729 wrote: »I see new faces here daily, see new posts about eating low calories daily. If you've read my story, just ignore post. If very short and sedentary ignore my post.
I had congestive heart failure at 25 years old.
I was 5'8" around 135 lbs,
US size 9.
Ate around the 1000 calorie mark (usually coming in around 1100). Some days as low as 800 (just wasn't hungry), once every couple of weeks would binge a little and hit around 1200 calories.
I walked 3-9 miles and did an ab workout daily. After a binge, I would feel guilty and do aerobics. I also played tennis.
I wasn't Karen Carpenter thin.
I gained just over 100 lbs of water weight when my heart failed. Eating too low of calories to replenish the energy spent, caused an unbalance in electrolytes, one chamber of heart swelled, slowed, and I retained 100 lbs of water in a two months time.
Because gain was so fast, I ended up with deformities for life. I had a breast reduction, because they swelled from a perky D cup, to hanging in my lap H cup. Insurance wouldn't cover a tummy tuck or thigh lift, so stuck for life with deformed stomach and thighs (originally stomach hung so low, it would get calloused from hitting the ground when I sat).
It caused other problems as well, had to have gallbladder removed immediately, hormones went crazy, and ended up mal-absorbent.
Just before my heart failed, I felt healthy and strong. I was just trying to lose weight I had gained from a pregnancy that ended in a miscarriage. Almost at goal weight and size when heart failed.
Shocked when I was diagnosed as eating anorexic calorie levels. I couldn't believe I was obese from eating what I thought was healthy eating.
I struggled with depression going from thin and fit to obese, going from active and athletic to immobile, couldn't breathe just walking from bed to toilet. I had never considered myself anorexic, because I was curvy and not rail thin.
Eating too low of calories isn't worth the risks of these consequences. Eating too low of calories, literally destroyed my health and severely worsened my quality of life!6 -
remyrunnels1 wrote: »Deep breath everyone.
It really doesn't matter whether the Op runs the way we understand runs, or any other way.
Her loss record indicates that she is in an extremely steep and unsustainable therefore unhealthy (due to its size) deficit.
Appreciable results worth protecting so far.
Time to get smart and set up for the future. both to protect these results and to achieve even better ones.
Current course of action un-modified and unmoderated leads to either rebound weight gain or death from starvation.
So modification and achieving good results for the future is probably a better way to move forward!
Thanks for not simply attacking me.
Nobody attacked you.
My calories really aren’t that far off the recommendation
Uh, ya they are....expecially if you're grossing only 800-1000 calories. If that's true, than you're probably netting close to zero, which I would consider pretty far off the recommendation.
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remyrunnels1 wrote: »Deep breath everyone.
It really doesn't matter whether the Op runs the way we understand runs, or any other way.
Her loss record indicates that she is in an extremely steep and unsustainable therefore unhealthy (due to its size) deficit.
Appreciable results worth protecting so far.
Time to get smart and set up for the future. both to protect these results and to achieve even better ones.
Current course of action un-modified and unmoderated leads to either rebound weight gain or death from starvation.
So modification and achieving good results for the future is probably a better way to move forward!
Thanks for not simply attacking me. (If I was someone on the verge of an eating disorder as someone mentioned those replies may just make it worse) I only posted out of curiosity of my original question. My calories really aren’t that far off the recommendation but I do just feel full. Some days I do one meal and other days I break it down and even include snacks!
Do you have any advice on higher calorie meals that aren’t as filling?
On a side note about my runs, yes you can run in place while doing dishes but I also go outside and run around the block each day.
I was not going to reply again because people on here just seem mean and Uninviting but decided to check one more time and your reply seemed to come from a nice place and just wanted to say thank you for that.
People are responding the way they are because they're concerned about you and your long-term wellbeing.3 -
FoodBodyChanges wrote: »It's totally normal for weight to fluctuate by up to several pounds daily. When I was younger, I would typically retain 6 pounds of water with my monthlies. Lycra and yoga pants hadn't been invented yet, so it really sucked, lol! Try weighing yourself every morning and evening to see trends. A note on all the folks saying you need more calories: If you are eating WFPB with zero added processed oils and lots of veggies, it is possible to get adequate vitamins, minerals, and proteins around 1,000 calories, maybe 1,200. And you can seriously stay quite full on such a diet due to the high amount of fiber. The remaining calories you need come from fat stores. So if that's you, more power to you. But.... if you're doing some version of portion control with standard American fare, listen to the advice to eat more.
I missed that, until Kimny quoted it. Um, what?
I've been vegetarian for 45+ years (ovo-lacto, not fully plant based, so mine is a little easier route, nutritionally; but close enough for me to understand what it would mean to get entirely plant-based nutrition).
First, you completely didn't mention adequate fats, without which many of your micronutrients will fail to be properly absorbed. Stored body fat is not going to fully compensate for too-low fat intake.
Second, IME, vegetarian protein comes with more built-in carbs, especially when eating whole foods, as compared to meat/fish protein. If someone wants to hit the best achievable nutrition on the lowest possible calories, eating whole foods not supplements, the optimum is going to be in an omnivorous diet. (Obviously, I'm not saying people need to be omnivorous to get adequate nutrition: I'm not an omnivore. I'm disputing your contention that WFPB achieves good nutrition on lower calories.)
Yes, fiber is filling (for many), and it can seem especially so for people coming from a fiber-poor previous way of eating. But that can be a misleading trap, if one feels sated before adequate nutrition intake. You need nutrient intake, essential fatty acids, essential amino acids, micronutrients, and calories. My protein and fat goals alone amount to 850 calories, and that's without a single one of the carbs that's inevitably going to ride along with them, espedially for a plant-based eater (and with all the micros, besides).
So, 1000 calories for good nutrition? No.
It's unclear what the exact limit on fat metabolism is, per pound of stored body fat per day, but it's not limitless, as Kimny said. At some point, energy or health will suffer.
As someone who frequently logs plant-based days of eating with logs of vegetables and little to no added oil (not a health thing, I just limit it because I more appreciate calories from other sources), I don't believe that 1,000 calories will regularly meet one's nutritional needs with this style of eating. I'd like to see a sample menu that would give an average woman enough fat and protein on 1,000 calories while also meeting micronutrient goals because I'm regularly eating about 2,000 calories and I'm only about 90% to my goals each day (as shown on another tracking site that provides micronutrient tracking).6 -
I just want to thank everyone. I admit to maybe feeling a little attacked because I was so laser focused on getting to a healthy weight that I was blindly focusing on the numbers without really giving thorough thought to the how. Even though I’ve made huge improvements I truly don’t want to go from one extreme to the next and my overall well-being for myself as well as being around as long as possible for my children’s sake is why I’m doing this. I will focus more on getting the right amount of calories through healthy protein, fats and everything else. My diet jumped from daily binging on fried Texas sized portions and plenty of desserts to fruits and veggies with the occasional typical family style meal (pizza Friday’s or something similar) and felt full because I wasn’t emotionally eating. You guys have helped me see that I still have a long road ahead of me but I can help shorten it (and prevent other issues) in a healthy way by being open to learning as I go. My ego seems to be the thing I need to work on now 😂 anyway sorry for another long reply. I love y’all, hope everyone has an amazing day!32
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remyrunnels1 wrote: »I just want to thank everyone. I admit to maybe feeling a little attacked because I was so laser focused on getting to a healthy weight that I was blindly focusing on the numbers without really giving thorough thought to the how. Even though I’ve made huge improvements I truly don’t want to go from one extreme to the next and my overall well-being for myself as well as being around as long as possible for my children’s sake is why I’m doing this. I will focus more on getting the right amount of calories through healthy protein, fats and everything else. My diet jumped from daily binging on fried Texas sized portions and plenty of desserts to fruits and veggies with the occasional typical family style meal (pizza Friday’s or something similar) and felt full because I wasn’t emotionally eating. You guys have helped me see that I still have a long road ahead of me but I can help shorten it (and prevent other issues) in a healthy way by being open to learning as I go. My ego seems to be the thing I need to work on now 😂 anyway sorry for another long reply. I love y’all, hope everyone has an amazing day!
I think you're looking at things the right way now. No one was attacking you. You were getting a lot of concern over the severe calorie restriction of what you were doing. 6 miles of running and resistance training and 800 calories of food is effectively a Net Zero Calorie diet, like prisoners of war being starved to death. You were getting pushback on that, with your health in mind. No human body can operate on zero net calories or anywhere close to it.
Now that you're in the right mindset, may I ask you to make a trip to the Goals tab above. Enter your info and tell it how much weight you want to lose per week. It'll give you a number. Just eat that, no more no less, and you will be on the right path. The MFP Goals tool is very accurate for a lot of people, in the sense that if you want to lose 2 lbs per week, the number it gives you will cause you to lose very close to 2 lbs per week. So just eat that amount of calories.
Try that for a few weeks - see how you like it. If you don't like it, you can do something else, however I think it'd be a good "centering" step for you right now to get your diet on an even, moderate keel.
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remyrunnels1 wrote: »I just want to thank everyone. I admit to maybe feeling a little attacked because I was so laser focused on getting to a healthy weight that I was blindly focusing on the numbers without really giving thorough thought to the how. Even though I’ve made huge improvements I truly don’t want to go from one extreme to the next and my overall well-being for myself as well as being around as long as possible for my children’s sake is why I’m doing this. I will focus more on getting the right amount of calories through healthy protein, fats and everything else. My diet jumped from daily binging on fried Texas sized portions and plenty of desserts to fruits and veggies with the occasional typical family style meal (pizza Friday’s or something similar) and felt full because I wasn’t emotionally eating. You guys have helped me see that I still have a long road ahead of me but I can help shorten it (and prevent other issues) in a healthy way by being open to learning as I go. My ego seems to be the thing I need to work on now 😂 anyway sorry for another long reply. I love y’all, hope everyone has an amazing day!
I would also think carefully about your children. I know you said you want to be around as long as possible, but do you want them to think that week long fasts and running in place while you do chores is just how adults, how women live? They're learning "how to adult" by watching everything you do. I have an aunt whose entire life has been focused on calories and exercise and maintaining iron-clad control over every bite and step she takes. She was a SAHM military mom, but didn't homeschool. Two of her four children have been hospitalized (one for nearly a year) for eating disorders. One even got an orange tint to his hands because he basically only ate veggie trays from the supermarket (no dressing, squeeze of lemon only!) because they're low fat and low calorie.
I know how desperate one can feel when they want to lose weight and the kind of "high" you can get when you finally start seeing success, but wouldn't you rather model how to manage weight AND eat in a way that balances both weight and nutrition?10 -
remyrunnels1 wrote: »I just want to thank everyone. I admit to maybe feeling a little attacked because I was so laser focused on getting to a healthy weight that I was blindly focusing on the numbers without really giving thorough thought to the how. Even though I’ve made huge improvements I truly don’t want to go from one extreme to the next and my overall well-being for myself as well as being around as long as possible for my children’s sake is why I’m doing this. I will focus more on getting the right amount of calories through healthy protein, fats and everything else. My diet jumped from daily binging on fried Texas sized portions and plenty of desserts to fruits and veggies with the occasional typical family style meal (pizza Friday’s or something similar) and felt full because I wasn’t emotionally eating. You guys have helped me see that I still have a long road ahead of me but I can help shorten it (and prevent other issues) in a healthy way by being open to learning as I go. My ego seems to be the thing I need to work on now 😂 anyway sorry for another long reply. I love y’all, hope everyone has an amazing day!
Yay, yay, yay! MFP auntie happy dance happenin' over here!
Go get it! :flowerforyou:11 -
You got this, OP! 😍
Just remember
52 weeks * 1 lb = 52 lbs
52 weeks * 1.5 lb = 78 lbs6 -
remyrunnels1 wrote: »I just want to thank everyone. I admit to maybe feeling a little attacked because I was so laser focused on getting to a healthy weight that I was blindly focusing on the numbers without really giving thorough thought to the how. Even though I’ve made huge improvements I truly don’t want to go from one extreme to the next and my overall well-being for myself as well as being around as long as possible for my children’s sake is why I’m doing this. I will focus more on getting the right amount of calories through healthy protein, fats and everything else. My diet jumped from daily binging on fried Texas sized portions and plenty of desserts to fruits and veggies with the occasional typical family style meal (pizza Friday’s or something similar) and felt full because I wasn’t emotionally eating. You guys have helped me see that I still have a long road ahead of me but I can help shorten it (and prevent other issues) in a healthy way by being open to learning as I go. My ego seems to be the thing I need to work on now 😂 anyway sorry for another long reply. I love y’all, hope everyone has an amazing day!
You're good people, remyrunnels1, and everyone here wants the best for you. Hope to see more successes for you going forward!4 -
remyrunnels1 wrote: »I just want to thank everyone. I admit to maybe feeling a little attacked because I was so laser focused on getting to a healthy weight that I was blindly focusing on the numbers without really giving thorough thought to the how. Even though I’ve made huge improvements I truly don’t want to go from one extreme to the next and my overall well-being for myself as well as being around as long as possible for my children’s sake is why I’m doing this. I will focus more on getting the right amount of calories through healthy protein, fats and everything else. My diet jumped from daily binging on fried Texas sized portions and plenty of desserts to fruits and veggies with the occasional typical family style meal (pizza Friday’s or something similar) and felt full because I wasn’t emotionally eating. You guys have helped me see that I still have a long road ahead of me but I can help shorten it (and prevent other issues) in a healthy way by being open to learning as I go. My ego seems to be the thing I need to work on now 😂 anyway sorry for another long reply. I love y’all, hope everyone has an amazing day!
I'm so glad you came back and posted this!
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