<3 support group for women eating 2000+ calories per day <3

Had to meet mom for lunch so blew cals on nasty Red Robin food. She likes to go there. I just ate half and when I came home to look it up it was about 750cal lunch, ugh!

I split a burger with my husband and then got a side salad last time I got there. Good right? Nope. 1000 calories for half a burger and a salad.

I can take my kids there because they have an allergy-friendly menu (DS is dairy/egg/peanut allergic, DD is peanut allergic). I used to lurve me some Banzai Burger, but after starting weight loss I could only get myself to eat half and take half home. At least 4-500 calories for half. O_O So the next time I had a grilled chicken salad with dressing on the side. That's doable. Always on the side.

RE: bananas, my husband cuts up ripe banana slices, throws them in a tupperware or ziploc, then freezes. He'll add them to his protein shakes, breaks them apart in their frozen state, and toss them in the Magic Bullet.

I usually do ok at Red robin - there's a chicken ciabatta sandwich that's something like 700 for the whole thing (no fries of course) -- you can drop the mayo from it to save a tiny bit and I usually peel off the extra bread to shave off a few calories. Not too bad.

most stuff is pretty horrendous because portion sizes are huge and they use a lot of mayo and high cal sauces, but if you drop some of that stuff ti comes out ok.

Fries add a TON but I'm actually not sure how much, I found that lately they are REALLY stingy with em (you get like 6) and i don't know if thats because they started measuring more carefully due to the calorie counting laws or what.

Regarding frozen bananas, I always wait until they're really really super ripe, like almost too ripe to eat, then I cut them into little pieces and throw them in zip loc bags in the freezer. When I want to use them in a smoothie or make banana 'ice cream" I break them apart and throw them in the blender like ice cubes.

I am definitely open to it, and finally feeling a little better. Yesterday was my first normal day in a week. So I think today I will start eating all of my exercise calories, or at least up to 2,000.I'm ready to see that last bit of weight fall off and to start seeing more muscle definition.
Feel free to add me if you want! I would love any extra support!

Morning!

Quick question:

Do you 'eat clean'? Why or why not?

Regarding frozen bananas, I always wait until they're really really super ripe, like almost too ripe to eat, then I cut them into little pieces and throw them in zip loc bags in the freezer. When I want to use them in a smoothie or make banana 'ice cream" I break them apart and throw them in the blender like ice cubes.

oh that is a good tip cant wait until bananas are cheaper so I can eat them too

I'm a big believer in clean eating. I love to cook and bake so I pretty much make everything at home from scratch. I was a vegetarian for a few years so my go-to foods are always fruits and vegetables. I only eat local organic meats and I try to only eat freshly caught local fish.

It can be difficult to eat clean when the rest of your family isn't interested, so that's a constant struggle for me. No one else in my family seems to understand my interest in healthy eating and fitness. So that's sad.

Anyone else have difficulties with their families supporting healthy eating/fitness?

Hello... just posting here because its the first time I've spotted a group that fits more with where I'm at, and would like to come back and read the whole thread... MFP thinks I should eat 2700 calories today (that's because I'm doing a couple of hours of cycling) I must average around 2000 depending on what I do.

I did a lot of triathlon training earlier this year and lost a bit of weight in the process. Current plans are to enter a marathon for early next year, do some more triathlons, stuff like that. I'm hoping to make time to do some more serious weights work over the winter. I don't "need" to be any lighter, but would quite like to loose a couple of kg and be a bit more toned. We'll see what happens...

hey guys give me some advice please
I currently eat around 1700 calories a day
am 19 female around 5 1 in height and weight 57kg
i really want to drop down to 50kg
i live on campus in a not so great area so my exercise is usually 40 minute walk to/from uni ( 20 each way)
and what ever I can do in my room

There's so much you can do in your room.

Check out these links. You can do pretty excellent bodyweight workouts in the privacy of your own room. I pretty much exclusively work out in my room at home. I don't belong to a gym or anything, just turned my bedroom into my own personal gym.
http://www.bodyrock.tv/
http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2010/12/20/the-20-minute-hotel-workout/
http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2011/03/10/angry-birds-workout-plan/

thanks for the link am loving them
not really a fan of bodyrock ( too hard for me yet) but the rest are great

I've been eating maintenance calories of between 1800 - 2600 since June. Lost a lot of cm's but not much on the scale!

Now I've decided to aim for around 1800 gross calories a day. I still want to lose another 4 - 6 kg to get to about 58 kg.

I'm so happy!! Today I broke through my 3 month plateau. Been hovering between 64 and 65. Today I Lost 0.6 kg. Now i'm in the 63's. 63.4 kg. Wow I couldn't believe it!!

Looks like 1800 gross calories is the correct amount for me to lose weight. woohoo. haha and when i went clothes shopping this arvo i got into some size 8 pants and tops. Was so excited.

Eating clean? No, not really. I would love to but I am go-go-go and have to eat what I can carry, so that usually means packaged. At home when I cook it is freshly killed meats from the local place, and fruits and veggies grown locally too, but for work I carry Pure Protein Bars, packs of cocoa almonds, AdvantEdge shakes, and little pre-packed tuna and cracker lunches.

lucyhoneychurch
RE: 5 pound buffer, I'm 5' 2.5" and am in the 120-124 pound range. After finally getting here from 157, my heaviest, I'm trying to figure out what range is the most sustainable. I hit 119 once and think that's not going to work for me. I think I can keep below 125, but next month I really want to start the NROLFW and see if that changes my body. If it does, then I'll do it and stay at whatever the scale ends up at, as long as it's below 125-127 and my body feels good/looks healthy. I'm starting week 3 of 6 Week 6 Pack and want to see if that makes a difference (so far, so good).

Hooray for busting down plateaus!!

xcjumper

Rachel-I agree "you girls are tiny" lol! The smallest I've been is 138 and I was too thin for my build and it was extremely hard to maintain. My body didn't like it at all. So I'm shooting for 150. 145 would be better but I think may be too hard to keep there with running. Whoever answered about the running...yes, it is really hard to lose weight while in marathon training. I'm hoping that this go round will be different. No free passes to eat whatever I want just because I ran 10 miles...sheesh!

Well done on busting your plateau wooohoo. I did too today! I can relate to your post I feel exactly the same way!!

Now first off, I'm struggling to keep up with all the replys in this topic and would love to respond to a lot more of you on here but haven't got the time atm, haha well I do have time but I'd end up spending hours lol doing it! ... sorry for the people who I miss out on quoting. I picked out a few quotes that I find I can really relate to in regards to the weight range you want to end up at.

I will need to figure out what weight is the most sustainable for me as well! I'm 39 years old and 13 years ago when i lost the weight I got down to 58 kg (127 lbs). I'm 5 foot 2. I found though that I had extreme difficulty maintaining this weight and settled at at around 61 kg just about 1 month later. I would love to get to 58 and have a flatter tummy however and here is my main priority... The weight I settle at is not going to come at a cost to my sports. Perhaps I could get to and stay at the mid 50's - high 50's and I'd probably have great looking abs but the thing i find is if it means that in order to maintain this weight I have to eat less and it were impact on my sporting performance than I wont go there. When I did get to 58 back in 1998 I didnt have as much energy and I suffered in life and in sport and thats why I think my body decided to settle at 61 kg.

I have a mesomorph build, i have muscle mass, strong bones/heavier structure so I know I'm at my healthiest at the upper end of my healthy weight range. I can understand though that some girls here weigh a lot less than me at the same height because their body frames are different than mine and thats fine. Also I agree that scale weight is not the most important thing. Your measurements and body fat % are just as important.

Anyway I would still love to get my body fat % down and try to aim for 58 again but if I cant maintain it then I dont mind because the most important thing apart from having the energy for #1 my sport, is # 2 to be healthy happy and to realistically maintain my weight the rest of my life rather than yo yoing up and down which I dont want anymore.

psych101


Kim55555: you're doing the right thing, listening to your body! You gotta fuel it if you expect great things from it!! I'm in NZ

Yes, your right. My body was telling me back in June to start eating more to fuel my training and I listened. My body also probably needed to have a rest from losing weight and readjust/recompose to its new weight after having dieted for 13 months. Now 4 months later the body is ready to tackle the last weight loss stage![/quote]

I don't eat clean in the least bit. I eat a lot of processed meat, bread, cheese, even fast food. I do try to eat fruits and veggies as much as possible but that's pretty much it.