Sexy in Six Week 2 ***closed group***
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Friday QOTD : It is my experience that my most successful days are those where I have planned and logged all my foods in advance. Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives.
I tend to try and log ahead of time before I actually eat, then alter my portions and/or cut out a few ingredients depending on what I see. I'm mostly eating low carb right now, though, and I'm finding that my cravings are disappearing (again, NO desire to eat that ice cream at work yesterday!!) and I'm almost self-regulating my calorie intake.
Of course, we'll see what happens to my low carb kick this labor day weekend!! Same philosophy as the hurricane: do my best, keep logging, keep exercising.0 -
Friday QOTD:
I have pretty much the same thing every day for breakfast and lunch, and use my phone to look up snacks and dinner before I eat them. So while I don't plan, I do know what it is before I eat it, and have a pretty consistent amount I know I can eat for dinner.0 -
Thursday QOTD - Whats the one food that you've found the hardest to give up? and do u on occasion treat yourself to it?
One of the foods that I found the hardest to give up was my bubble tea! I have not had it ever since I started this diet and MFP. However, I did treat myself to it once when I finished my exams
Another hard thing I've given up was chips haha. I love to munch on snacks when I study but I know that it is super unhealthy. 0 -
Friday QOTD : It is my experience that my most successful days are those where I have planned and logged all my foods in advance. Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives.
I dont log in advance because I dont know what food I'll be craving that day haha. However, if I do know that I am going to a specific restaurant the next day, I will look up nutritional values on either their website or MFP's database to see what will fit within my calorie limits and what will not. I do find looking up stuff in advance helpful because then I get a sense of what types of items I can eat and what I cannot. For example, when my fiance's parents took us to the hard rock cafe, I didnt know what to eat since i've never been there before. I was looking at their menu and their salads looked delicious, however, when I looked up the nutritional values on MFP's database, I was so shocked that their salads had more calories than a hamburger!0 -
Friday QOTD : It is my experience that my most successful days are those where I have planned and logged all my foods in advance. Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives.
I am a creature of habit. I eat the same thing for breakfast almost every day. If I change it up it is usually with a choice of something else that I have already planned. I do the same thing for lunch. This keeps me organized during the work week.
For dinners I have been finding that lately it's easier for me to have a lean cuisine a couple of times a week for dinner. The rest of the week for dinner I plan salads or chicken breasts & veggies. so far, so good!0 -
Friday QOTD : It is my experience that my most successful days are those where I have planned and logged all my foods in advance. Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives
I have not been planning ahead and I have some days (like yesterday) where I have like 800 calories left over and thats not good. But most days Ive gotten into a pretty good routing. I have eggs every morning. I usually have something on the George foreman for lunch with a veggie and then make something for the family around 500 calories. Its only on days where I am busy busy all day and didnt plan ahead that I get caught not eating enough0 -
We weigh in today right?0
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Friday QOTD : It is my experience that my most successful days are those where I have planned and logged all my foods in advance. Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives
I usually eat the samething for breakfast and have about the same snacks so I already no what they are, as for lunch and dinner yes I pre log and plan them do i have a idea of what i need to do in order to make my goals0 -
Does anyone have the link where we weigh in this week??0
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I'm so upset... I think I did too much exercise yesterday and am holding onto water weight... stupid scale... at least I did my challenges...0
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Friday:
I've recently started playing w/ pre-logging and found it to be awesome. I log my main meals in advance, and then log my snacks on the fly. Must easier to just follow what I've already written down than decide on my portion sizes while in the kitchen and hungry.0 -
I'm sorry. I slacked on posting because I had a pharmacology exam yesterday morning and was focused
Wednesday QOTD: What was the hardest change you had to make in order to lose weight?
To watch my portions and get to the gym almost everyday
Thursday QOTD - Whats the one food that you've found the hardest to give up? and do u on occasion treat yourself to it?
Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate! (and Zaxby's birthday cake milkshake, but luckily they took it off the menu). I kind of have chocolate everyday. Just a little bit everyday. Either a hershey's mini, or a Fiber One brownie, or a tbsp of Nutella (YUM!
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So I don't consider it a "treat", more like a staple
Friday QOTD : It is my experience that my most successful days are those where I have planned and logged all my foods in advance. Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives.
I usually plan my day ahead of time. That way when I get hungry I don't start talking myself out of the healthy food I just automatically say tonight I'm having "_______". On days where I don't plan I find sometimes I snack and can get very close to going over if not going over. It is also just harder to me because I don't really have time at the end of the day to decide what to eat so earlier I just figure it out and follow my schedule. (Dinner is usually squeezed in between the gym and studying)0 -
Friday: I try to pre log when I can, so I know where I stand and make sure i'm not going over or under calories for the day and I have the time to plan accordingly.0
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Friday QOTD : It is my experience that my most successful days are those where I have planned and logged all my foods in advance. Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives.
No, I don't usually plan ahead. For my normal day to day, I tend to eat the same foods so I know they fit my calorie goals. The exception comes in when I go to a special occasion like a cookout or a party. For example, my husband took off for Sept 11 which is the first Falcons game of the season. We're going to either bbq burgers or order pizza. In order to indulge in the food AND beer, I'll play football outside with the guys to burn a few extra cals. Things like that are the only time I actually make a plan of attack.0 -
I don't plan ahead either. I find that if someone brings in groceries that I would NOT have brought in the house I tend to look at the label and see the portion. I like to have a stocked cabinet and fridge full good things to eat that way at the spur of the moment when I'm hungry and pull something out it will be a good calorie count. Not some random pack of oreos mixed in with granola bars0
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The link to weigh in...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFEyMnNkVFFtUmFGNkdtYWhtZ29FS2c6MQ0 -
Friday QOTD: I don't preplan/log nearly as often as I need to. The days that I do are always my best days. Like others have said, I can always make changes mid-stream if I need to. I like preplanning my day's foods because then on the actual day I don't have to THINK at all about what I'm going to be eating, as that decision has already been made. :laugh:0
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I'm so upset... I think I did too much exercise yesterday and am holding onto water weight... stupid scale... at least I did my challenges...
Me too!!!!!0 -
Friday: Thank you again everyone - never occurred to me to preplan!!! What a good idea! I have my breakfasts sussed and therefore now quick to log, and have an idea about snacks. Like the idea of checking menus online for calories - what a brilliant database MFP has. That never occurred to me either.
Great ideas - thank you!0 -
Friday QOTD:
I've never actually logged in advance because I like to challenge myself to make healthy choices without prelogging. I might try it sometimes when I know i'll have a busy day, but I like to eat whatever healthy food my body is craving that day.0 -
It is my experience that my most successful days are those where I have planned and logged all my foods in advance. Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives.
Never tried it before, but it sounds like something I might try...0 -
I know I'm late on these but my computer sucks right now and has been slow for the past couple days...
Wednesday QOTD: What was the hardest change you had to make in order to lose weight?
The hardest thing for me was to have to check my food all the time. Check my portions, check the calories, check how many calories a day I have left, check how many calories I need to burn if I ate something I regretted. It was sooo much easier to just pick up something with out knowing what the portion was or how many calories was in it and just eat it. BUT of course that was the UNHEALTHY way of eating and I know it will NOT help me lose weight so it doesn't really bother me all that much anymore.
Thursday QOTD - Whats the one food that you've found the hardest to give up? and do u on occasion treat yourself to it?
The one food...umm... well there has been more than just ONE food that is hard for me to give up, but I guess I'll go with ICE CREAM and PEANUT BUTTER!!!!! However, I didn't ever give up on peanut butter... I love it too much so I eat it almost everyday until it's gone. I do make sure I don't eat too much only like 1 tablespoon a day (sometimes 2). As for ice cream, I found an alternative which is fudge pops!!! They are cheap, low calorie, low sugar, and satisfying!
Friday QOTD : Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives.
No, but I have thought of it a lot and I think I'm going to start doing it. Now that I'm in college I need more time to focus on school and I don't like to get on the computer that much because I get distracted easily and end up wasting away my time on it. Which isn't good because if I'm going to WASTE time then I should be exercising or doing school work instead. I usually know ahead of time what I'm going to eat but I don't log it until AFTER I eat it. And usually if I log it in and see I went over my calories, sugar, etc. I feel super bad because I already ate it and now I have to burn the calories off to make it up. So I think it would be a way better idea to log it BEFORE I eat, that way if I go over on my calories or w/e then I know that I just have to eat less of it or change it for something healthier!!! :bigsmile:0 -
Thursday:
I haven't given up any food. I still eat what I want, but pay attention to how much I am eating. If I want a treat, I either work out more, or eat lower calorie foods during the day. Whenever I have tried completely giving up something, I always find myself cheating. I am hoping doing it this way keeps me on track.
Friday:
I do a weekly menu plan but I haven't been organized enough to actually plan and log my meals in advance. I am lucky to have the time to log food as I eat it! My son starts school in a couple of days though so things should slow down a bit and I'll have a little bit more time to concentrate on organization and planning0 -
Friday QOTD : It is my experience that my most successful days are those where I have planned and logged all my foods in advance. Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives.
I don't plan ahead because I stay so busy I never really know where I'm going to be and what I'm going to eat. I do think that it is a good idea to plan ahead and have prepackaged food.0 -
Friday QOTD : It is my experience that my most successful days are those where I have planned and logged all my foods in advance. Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives.
I have had to start planning and logging since school started back. If not, I would be rushing to get lunch when I leave in the morning - no good! So, I plan breakfast, am snack, and lunch the night before. I usually log it ahead of time too. I don't plan dinner, but I usually think about it in case I need to take something out of the freezer. It all works pretty well. I do get tired of having to spending the time logging and planning, but I know it wouldn't work if I didn't.0 -
Friday QOTD : It is my experience that my most successful days are those where I have planned and logged all my foods in advance. Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives.
I sometimes do and I sometimes don't. I am a night shift RN and if I am working two nights in a row esp then I will plan what I am having for those two days ahead of time so I don't have to wake up early on my work days. On the other days I am not very good about planning.0 -
Friday QOTD : It is my experience that my most successful days are those where I have planned and logged all my foods in advance. Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives
I don't usually "plan" ahead, but I do have my go to foods on hand and shop accordingly. We all eat the same foods, except my kids eat more pasta than I do, I substitute my veggies for the pasta, but that is the only real accommodations that I make. I had tried to plan and prepare my meals in advance and found that I spent the whole weekend in the kitchen away from my family. I also felt pressured to get everything made and I don't like to feel that way on my weekends, I spend enough time feeling pressured to complete tasks.0 -
Hey girls, we are still missing a lot of weigh-ins. Please submit ASAP if you haven't already done so. Here is the link https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFEyMnNkVFFtUmFGNkdtYWhtZ29FS2c6MQ0
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Friday QOTD : It is my experience that my most successful days are those where I have planned and logged all my foods in advance. Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives
I don't log/plan...I find when I do this, LIFE happens and it doesn't always go as planned. I will have an idea of what I could have, but I don't log it until after it actually happens.0 -
Friday QOTD : It is my experience that my most successful days are those where I have planned and logged all my foods in advance. Do you plan and log your daily menu in advance? Do you find it helps? Please share your experiences and any suggestions you might have to help us fit planning ahead into our already busy lives
I sometimes "test the waters" by logging food in advance so I can better plan lunch and dinner. I like to see how many calories something has in order to gauge what I can or cannot have that day.
BTW I am slow on the tech side of this and didn't realize the questions weren't in my Purple Group forum until just now.
I knew I needed to make a change when I didn't fit into my favorite size 14 jeans anymore. Which btw I wore last night! Take that fat! I've always been big or the bigger end of my peers. I remember weighing 100 pounds in 5th grade; whereas, my little sister didn't weigh 100lbs until HS. I am 5 inches taller, but still I've always admired how tiny she was the attention she go for being that cute, smaller one.
I saw a picture of myself at my friends wedding and I have never looked so heavy and uncomfortable in a bridesmaids dress. But for me my "awakening" was when I started having joint issues. I've played soccer since I was 7 and never had joint issues until I turned 31 and got to my heaviest weight 222. So I am playing soccer again once a week (with a knee brace) and making better choices and bought a scale this year. Can you believe I never owned a scale until this year? Crazy.0
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