Stay in place and eating
maxiem7
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Anyone else having trouble wanting to eat more during this time? I am close to goal and am getting 1260 calories and I just can not help but go over that amount. I go out for walks but the desire to EAT can be overwhelming!
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Is your goal too low? How much is your weight loss set to? 2lbs per week? 1 pound?2
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What Kriss said. Also:
If boredom is part of the problem, this is a good time to revive an old hobby, or start a new one. Particularly good are things that require clean hands (needlework, sketching, playing a musical instrument, etc.) or create dirty ones (painting, carpentry, gardening, etc.).
You may lack supplies for many things, but if you're willing to deal with not being able to pick your very favorite, sketching in particular is something most people can do, and most of us have paper and a pencil or pen. There are many instructional videos on YouTube and elsewhere. One need not produce a beautiful end product for this to be rewarding: Trying to draw something is a very interesting way to see that thing - even a mundane, everyday thing - in a new way.
Collage is another one, messy and fun, and many of us have paper or old magazines/junk mail, and glue. Pretend it's elementary school again, and just play.
If anxiety/stress is part of the problem, consider beginning a meditation practice or using a guided imagery app or video, or something of that nature. Some people think that being "bad at meditation" (can't keep focused, etc.) is a reason not to do this. In actuality, trying to do it is a way to refine one's skills for concentration and focus. (It seems funny to me when people don't want to do stretching/yoga because they're not flexible enough, when getting more flexible is the main reason to do them: Those folks, with some patience, would get the most benefit. Meditation is kind of similar, on the focus/concentration front.) There's also a common myth that meditation is all about religion, or Eastern religions specifically. In fact, most religious traditions include meditation practices in their history (sometimes they call it a different name), and there are 100% secular versions as well.
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No believe me my goal is not to low. If I were young it would be. This is the weight my Dr and I want me to be. I have 19 lbs to go and I have set my weight loss for 1/2 lb a week3
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Are you eating back your exercise calories?
I know you said you go for walks, but are you only taking them when you over eat? Or is it daily walks and on the days you dont feel like eating the cupboards off the walls you dont eat them back?0 -
No believe me my goal is not to low. If I were young it would be. This is the weight my Dr and I want me to be. I have 19 lbs to go and I have set my weight loss for 1/2 lb a week
I think the question (at least my version of it) was not a question about your goal weight, but about your calorie goal - whether that may be too low. How fast have you been losing weight (it's a good plan to slow down, when closer to goal). How old are you? What's your current weight/height?
I'm fairly old (now 64, 59/60 when I lost weight) and only mid-height for a woman (5'5"). 1200 turned out to be too low for me, when losing. Even now (at 132-point-something pounds this morning), I'd lose fast at 1200 plus all exercise calories. And I'd be extremely, extremely hungry. I admit I'm mysteriously a good li'l ol' calorie burner despite being mostly sedentary (outside of exercise), but my point is that age is not necessarily as big a factor as people sometimes think.
For sure, there are people (petite, older, very inactive women, mostly though not exclusively) who need to eat at/near 1200 in order to lose weight. Even in those cases, a prolonged period of lowered calories has the potential to result in some subtle changes that can lead to more frequent or longer plateaus, or to peaks in hunger/appetite. In that sense, a deliberate mild, gradual increase in calories; an intentional over-goal couple of days (especially extra carbs, as long as not diabetic/IR); or a couple of weeks at what should be maintenance calories, can be helpful to get things on a better course, afterwards.
This is a good thread:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10604863/of-refeeds-and-diet-breaks/p12
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