Back at it, woman. Talking to myself here.

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  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,584 Member

    @cmriverside : Hunger is such a complex state of mind. I think we evolved to feel it more when we're idle. When I'm engaged in something, it goes away. I can totally sideline hunger for a time by exercising. Also, my hunger is a brat: when I give in to it, it comes back for more. If I eat cookies one night after dinner, it will remind me the next night.

    I have had good luck with intermittent fasting. For more than a year, I've been skipping breakfast and eating my first meal around 11-12. I also enforce "no snacks after 8" almost every night. (The fancy term for this is "16/8 intermittent fasting," but it really amounts to "skip breakfast and no snacks after dinner.") I still have my tea with milk and honey in the morning, but that's it. It does not replace logging because it's easy for me to overeat at the two other meals plus snacks, but there's something about proving to myself every day that I can stave off my first meal. It's empowering!

    You can also do a "clear broth day." (My wife does these.) You do a day where you drink clear chicken broth for all three meals. It's also important to stay hydrated (I recommend taking a low-calorie electrolyte drink.) She has a cup of black coffee as well in the morning. She actually did this for 4 days in a row quite recently.

    Best of luck!

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,596 Member
    edited April 24

    Yeah, I don't really need advice, but thanks for taking the time. Maybe your post will help someone else, Jthan.

    I've been around the block for nearly 20 years. I've tried all kinds of things. To each their own!

  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,584 Member

    @cmriverside : I was just rambling. I know from your many posts that you are very knowledgeable. Well, none of us would be here if we didn't struggle at times with our weight! The struggle is unending for me, anyway. Best of luck!

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,596 Member

    Thanks, Jthan.

    One Day At A Time, yeah?

    I have been doing my PT, and walking the stairs (250 total stairs) and walking a minimum of one mile daily. I'm not ready to step on the scale again, I'm just focusing on Wins.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,596 Member

    Maybe I should have been a little more realistic on that "I'll lose this 8 pounds by June."

    Yeah. Sure. It took me nine months to lose that last 15 pounds back in the day.

    I hate to think this is going to take six-ish months, but I'm not able to eat less without quite a bit of discomfort and I can't push my activity much higher without a lot of pain.

    I stepped on the scale.

    I haven't gained any more in the month I've been logging again, so yay. Focusing on the win.

  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,467 Member

    @cmriverside that's a HUGE win. 👏👏👏 Definitely an excellent accomplishment. I think the hardest thing I ever had to figure out was that every time I tried one of those crazy crash diets I always ended up gaining. And the weight I gained was fat. You are doing great. One day at a time. sustainability and all that. 🤪🙃😳

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,596 Member

    Thanks, SummerSkier.

    It's so hard when I'm already within a healthy weight range, even without losing that 8 pounds, and my doctor says as an older woman that the "more" ideal BMI is 25-27.

    Ugh. I'm not happy at this weight, regardless.

  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,467 Member

    oh puleeeezzzeee! DO not get me started on that whole - elderly folks need to have more weight because when they get sick they need more "pad" stuff… 🤬🤬🤬 Now granted we don't need to be walking skelators, but we can be fit and petite and lower BMI and should not let the excuse of age have anything to do with it. 💪💪

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,596 Member

    Teehee. Tell us how you really feel, @SummerSkier

    I kind of understand though because some long-term meds such as cancer meds can cause lack of appetite and fast weight loss…and that's not good if there's not much weight to lose.

    I had to go on a long medication regimen about twenty five years ago and it caused me to not be able to eat, it was so bad that I acquired hemolytic anemia and had to go to weekly hospital visits to treat that, but I still couldn't stand the smell or thought of food and I was a walking skeletor!

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,596 Member

    Well, not exactly walking. I had zero energy, could barely walk to my car and back.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,596 Member
    edited April 28

    Weekly daily average over/under Weight Loss Calorie number

    Week 1 = +973 over

    Week 2 = +632 over

    Week 3 = +515 over

    Week 4 = +439 over

    Moving in the right direction. Still at Maintenance calories…maybe in the next couple weeks I'll get to Weight Loss Calories.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,596 Member

    I hesitate to post that I was less than 200 calories over yesterday. Fair play though, I was 900 over the day before. The yo-yo is getting me.

    HUNGRY.

    Eat too much.

    Cut back.

    You know the rest. The struggle is real with so little weight to lose. Do not likey.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,196 Member

    I empathize, @cmriverside .

    Obviously, I have no useful input that you don't already know, but I'm reading your thread routinely, sitting over here silently cheering for you. It's kinda like those situations where a person watches someone doing some difficult physical feat on video, and subconsciously tightens up the muscles the person in the video is using, and then relaxing when they succeed.

    Which you will. I know that, you know that.

    Hang in there.

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