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Just thought I'd drop this here
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10740948/iifym-practioners-just-eat-junk6 -
This has probably been covered enough, but it makes me so sad that you aren't eating baked potatoes if you love them. If your doctor has you restricting carbs for something like diabetes, that's different, but if it's solely for weight loss, eat the potatoes!!!
FWIW, I eat potatoes (with BUTTER) pretty often, and I've been losing weight for 1.5 years. It really is all about a calorie deficit. Since I don't have any specific medical issues, my method is to eat what I like in portion sizes that fit my calorie goals, and slowly work toward healthier eating overall.14 -
bobsburgersfan wrote: »This has probably been covered enough, but it makes me so sad that you aren't eating baked potatoes if you love them. If your doctor has you restricting carbs for something like diabetes, that's different, but if it's solely for weight loss, eat the potatoes!!!
FWIW, I eat potatoes (with BUTTER) pretty often, and I've been losing weight for 1.5 years. It really is all about a calorie deficit. Since I don't have any specific medical issues, my method is to eat what I like in portion sizes that fit my calorie goals, and slowly work toward healthier eating overall.
Yes! Potatoes are a go-to for me when I'm limited on calories- very filling, especially with the skin. Makes me very sad when people think they have to avoid them.8 -
@mikebxb : |-/\/\/\/\/\/--> I think your calorie target is a bit too high for weight loss.
My estimate for you is 2200kcals to maintain your weight. I base this on an online calculator that uses the M st J formula, the same one MFP uses. But, I made a few assumptions and you should try it yourself.
This means you will need to keep to about 1700kcals to lose a pound a week. If you go to 2000, you might lose ~.5lbs a week, but you would have to do extremely accurate logging, which is really hard. The advice is borne out by your weight trend, which is flat. In other words, it appears that you have been eating at or just slightly below your maintenance level.
I suggest you re-check your MFP settings and set to sedentary and 1lb/week loss. Then add in for sustained cardio workouts. Always stay on the conservative side and bank up a few extra calories for the weekend. I am living proof that this approach works!9 -
Try2again. Thanks to all for the tips and encouragement. Please let me emphasize Sundays food choices are NOT the norm... For example today so far is a typical weekday since starting MFP ( notice the Protein Shake as in most brkfst's, The absence of bread / cheese / taters / fries/ chips / candy/ etc.) Now I probably will have a full dinner tonight but if beef I will mash out the grease cooked in a NuWave air convective oven without oil. I try to eat smaller portions of the sides that are carb heavy. Admittedly, I like evening cocktail and either popcorn, Simply Fit Crackers, pork rinds or cottage and pears for snacks. (in lieu of pre diet chips salsa, summer sausage and cheese, Ruffles etc ... ....
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It always seems to go on faster and come off slower than expected. I am a numbers guy so I track my weight loss predicted vs actual. The real number to keep an eye on is the 4 week average. Lots of things can make your weight fluctuate - your weight loss over a longer period of time is much more indictive of your real results. If I find I am not losing what I expect, I look really hard at my logging. One national study said that people trying to log accurately are off as much as 15%. That can be the difference in hitting your goal and staying in the same place. I do wish you all the best!
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I no longer do biscuits and gravy, fast food breakfast sandwiches, fried foods. One of you mentioned potatos I may go back to a baked spud occasionally but will have to offset the carbs elsewhere that day..With your help and using MFP I am absolutely sure that I am eating healthier overall.2
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Try2again. Thanks to all for the tips and encouragement. Please let me emphasize Sundays food choices are NOT the norm... For example today so far is a typical weekday since starting MFP ( notice the Protein Shake as in most brkfst's, The absence of bread / cheese / taters / fries/ chips / candy/ etc.) Now I probably will have a full dinner tonight but if beef I will mash out the grease cooked in a NuWave air convective oven without oil. I try to eat smaller portions of the sides that are carb heavy. Admittedly, I like evening cocktail and either popcorn, Simply Fit Crackers, pork rinds or cottage and pears for snacks. (in lieu of pre diet chips salsa, summer sausage and cheese, Ruffles etc ... ....
I didn't assume your choices were typical, just pointing out that as long as you were in your calorie goal, it wouldn't matter.
I do agree with @Jthanmyfitnesspal above that you might want to double check your calorie goal.3 -
One of you mentioned potatos I may go back to a baked spud occasionally but will have to offset the carbs elsewhere that day..With your help and using MFP I am absolutely sure that I am eating healthier overall.
All good stuff. There really isn't anything wrong with a good old potato coming in at a mere 110kcals (depending on weight). It is a nutritious choice. Tasty, too. The hard part is giving up the butter, sour cream, and bacon bits, and it's hard to eat plain. I can recommend pouring some chicken or beef stock over it. That's good eating!
A sweet potato is much easier to eat plain or with a very small amount of butter and is also a great food choice. (I mostly eat those.)4 -
I normally put butter & brown sugar on sweet potato when I "bake" them in the microwave, but elsewhere I saw roasting them at 400 degrees for an hour would really carmalize them. Tried it & so good...didnt need anything on it!6
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Jthanmyfitnesspal wrote: »One of you mentioned potatos I may go back to a baked spud occasionally but will have to offset the carbs elsewhere that day..With your help and using MFP I am absolutely sure that I am eating healthier overall.
All good stuff. There really isn't anything wrong with a good old potato coming in at a mere 110kcals (depending on weight). It is a nutritious choice. Tasty, too. The hard part is giving up the butter, sour cream, and bacon bits, and it's hard to eat plain. I can recommend pouring some chicken or beef stock over it. That's good eating!
A sweet potato is much easier to eat plain or with a very small amount of butter and is also a great food choice. (I mostly eat those.)
It's a rare (sad) day when I can't afford 60 calories for a couple of TB of sour cream.5 -
Good Day! 214lbs today and came in under my goals yesterday. (except sodium).4
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I no longer do biscuits and gravy, fast food breakfast sandwiches, fried foods. One of you mentioned potatos I may go back to a baked spud occasionally but will have to offset the carbs elsewhere that day..With your help and using MFP I am absolutely sure that I am eating healthier overall.
Nutrition matters for health, but it doesn't matter for weight loss, except insofar as it affects satiation (so compliance with calorie goal) or energy level (so activity, i.e., calories out).
You don't have to offset the carbs, and you certainly don't have to do it all in the same day. Nutrition is about a good overall balance over time, which can include minor/moderate variations from day to day (and the occasional major one).
Your doctor saying you can't lose without cutting carbs is wrong, as in not supported by sound research. Your wife's experience with low fat may have affected her success via satiation, but that's about all. There's sound research showing high carb vs. high fat makes no significant difference to weight loss, at equal protein level.
Not everyone finds protein shakes filling, tasty or satisfying, and some people don't drink any, ever. (I don't, and I lost weight fine, and seem to maintain good health).
Really, you're making this harder than it needs to be. Eat foods you like, choosing a fair number of nutrient-dense ones if you'd like to get good nutrition. Get enough protein (your current goal is higher than necessary for good nutrition; 0.6-0.8g per pound of healthy goal weight is reasonable for most people here without special circumstances); but if you like eating that much protein, that should be fine, too.
It's a good thing to eat healthier, but protein shakes and kale aren't the only way to eat healthfully. Eat some tasty lean meats and fish, eat some veggies (including starchy ones like potatoes). Eat mostly nutrient-dense foods you actually enjoy.
Monitor your calorie level as you do that, log accurately (try2again had some good observations about that), monitor for 4-6 weeks, then adjust calorie level if needed to keep loss happening at a sensibly moderate rate. Don't add any more inconvenience or complexity than you need. Treat weight loss as a way to figure out a happy way to eat at reasonable calories permanently, in order to stay at a healthy weigh forever.
Best wishes!9 -
212.4 today. yeehaw Belly B Gone is back on track YESTERDAY =
I adjusted the CARB up and lowered the Protein *as suggested*
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Just read this on HEALTHLINE.. It Lines up with what my Dr. suggested
"The dietary guidelines recommend that carbs provide 45 to 65 percent of your daily calorie intake. So if you eat a 2000-calorie diet, you should aim for about 225 to 325 grams of carbs per day. But if you need to lose weight, you will get much faster results eating around 50 to 150 grams of carbs."2 -
Just read this on HEALTHLINE.. It Lines up with what my Dr. suggested
"The dietary guidelines recommend that carbs provide 45 to 65 percent of your daily calorie intake. So if you eat a 2000-calorie diet, you should aim for about 225 to 325 grams of carbs per day. But if you need to lose weight, you will get much faster results eating around 50 to 150 grams of carbs."
What matters for weight loss is calories. Only.
You can eat whatever you want. If you eat fewer calories than your maintenance (even if you only carbs) you will lose weight. Period.
If you drastically reduce carb intake, you will lose more water initially. That isn’t fat loss.
You may also lose the will to live because carbs are delicious.
If you have a medical reason to reduce carbs, then that’s matters. If you find that eating a lot (or a little) of carbs affects your hunger levels, then that matters.
My dinner on Saturday was cake, ice cream, 2 donuts and a giant cookie. I also sucked down nearly 1000 calories in pure carbs just before/during/after my run on Saturday.
I’m at my lowest weight in 16 months.
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Duck_Puddle. "You may also lose the will to live because carbs are delicious." LOL Good one!4
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Just read this on HEALTHLINE.. It Lines up with what my Dr. suggested
"The dietary guidelines recommend that carbs provide 45 to 65 percent of your daily calorie intake. So if you eat a 2000-calorie diet, you should aim for about 225 to 325 grams of carbs per day. But if you need to lose weight, you will get much faster results eating around 50 to 150 grams of carbs."
As was mentioned, the "faster" results are usually the result of a big initial drop in water weight. Each gram of carbs holds about 3 g of water, so when you cut carbs, you flush out a lot of weight in water as well. Here's the thing- if one day you wish to incorporate more carbs into your diet again, the water weight will return (though maybe not as noticeably as the drop). Which is fine, because it was never fat anyway.
I think many of us do feel like carbs are an easy area to make cuts in our diet, particularly if we've tended to sort of mindlessly eat things like bread or sweets. But I'd never worry about hitting a particular goal, and it's never interfered with weight loss.6 -
Just my 2cents here but a "diet" just gives you temporary short term results. If you want to live a fitter healthier life you have to think long term and focus more on your habits and lifestyle vs what the scale says. I think that a lot of people over think the macros and workout routines. If it comes from a box or bag its not healthy. Any workout or activity should be seen as a good thing. It can start with something as simple as going for a 15 minute walk after every meal. When you are in a rush grab some fruit instead of fast food. Small lifestyle changes will give you better long term results. Meal prepping has made a HUGE difference in my eating habits. Cooking breakfast, lunch and snacks ahead of time make it easier to stick with good choices. Setting fitness goals are just as important as weight goals as well. Go for a walk, hike, run, bike ride whatever you choose and focus on improving on that. Changing up your workouts will keep it from getting boring and make it more fun. Best of luck and keep up the hard work!
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