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Why is 5lbs/month not enough? It'd add up to 60 lbs in a year. I used to think like that too. If it can't be big, it doesn't count. I dropped that noise and just trucked on with my "sad" 1lb/ week, at most. Two years later I'm under 200 lbs for good and no reason to ever go back. In the time it took me to lose at such a…
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How long have you been trying to keep yourself at that goal? If you are miserable the goal is too aggressive, IMO. There is no rule that you must eat at a 1000 calorie/day deficit. Especially if you find it miserable. If I were you I would change my goal to 500cal/day deficit and get used to that first. If you want to try…
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What did you tell MFP you wanted to lose per week? Set a less aggressive/more tolerable goal and you'll get more calories. The winner is the one that doesn't quit! I'm four inches shorter than you and can eat 1400 to lose 1lb/ week. Same age.
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Something is wrong with your Fitbit setup or there is a glitch. Double check all your "stats" you entered. If they are correct contact Fitbit support. You are correct that it's not right!
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If you drop the good/bad all.or.nothing thinking you will save your sanity. That's absolutely the most empowering thing I've learned here. I can lose weight no matter what I eat. Boom. Food has lost its power!
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I'm not sure what your criteria is for "healthy food", but I can make plenty of food that's cheaper, per serving, than prepackaged/convenience food. Chicken and lentil soup. Chicken and veggie soup. Broccoli and potatoe cheese soup. Chicken chili on a baked potatoe. 8 servings at least per recipe and each serving is less…
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Sounds like it counted all that movement by the time you opened it. If it doesn't reset at midnight or does add that many steps for driving then I'd contact Fitbit because that isn't how it should work. I've had a One for over a year and it is very good about only counting steps. Not driving!
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Did you carry it around in the box for a while today?
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The way I thought of this option was this: I can either be surgically altered, eat less and excercise daily and reach my goal. Or I can stay unaltered, eat less, excercise daily and reach my goal. Once I realized that the second two stayed the same with either of the first options I decided to just go without any altering.…
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I'm 45 as of last November and my rate of loss over the past two years has slowly shrunk from a whopping 4.5 pounds per month to about 2 per month. I refuse to eat below 1500, have a desk job and cannot always exercise. My logging is not as tight as possible and I accept that means I lose slower than I might otherwise. I'm…
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This is a fascinating recipe. Thanks for sharing! What I like about a rice cooker is that you don't have to watch it or be there to turn it off. So set rice to cook, walk dogs and come home to the finished rice sitting on the warm setting. Makes the dinner rush after work much easier.
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Were you eating back your excercise calories for the two months? Eat more would be my first thing. You can lose eating 1700-1900 and you won't be miserable and quit. Imo not quitting is all that matters.
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Hot tea. Diet soda. Both can take time to drink and feel like a treat. They don't always work but they are better habits than some of my old ones.
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Do not listen to this. It's flat wrong for most/many women. Our cycles cause weight to fluctuate over the course of a month and it takes measurements over longer periods (ha) to measure our results. My weight only goes down once every 28 days. That's a lots of frustrating weekly weigh-ins if you don't find your own pattern.
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I think it's awesome that you've recognized where you are starting from and how you'd like to change. I'd start with simple stuff that appeals to you, that you can master. I'm a big fan of one pot meals. They tend to be easy to make and work for more than one meal. They also allow veggies to be "snuck" into dinner:)
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I think your first "problem" is that you think there is a wrong and right here. There is not. You eat less than you burn and your body sheds weight (hopefuy fat and not LBM) It's just math. All you can do "right" is the process. You eat to your goal, keeping as accurate a record of the CI as possible and you…
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Honestly, as you can see by the multiple answers you've gotten, there are lots of ways to get there. But first your "why" has to be strong enough for you to bother. None of us deployed any of the above until our "why" outweighed our "why bother". My way was to give myself a single daily 'treat' (chocolate protein bar) and…
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Gradually reducing the amount of real half and half worked for me. I still use it but now enjoy coffee with 2 tablespoons of HnH or 1 with 2 TBLS milk.
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+1 Surgery is your choice and three months is plenty of time to get traction but I wouldn't hang everything on a certain amount of loss. So long as you are moving toward a healthy weight, the rate is irrelevant. I've been at this for two years this month and I still have weight to lose, I've lost incredibly slowly but I've…
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Not eating enough does not cause a stall. Now water retention will. A new or more aggressive excercise routine can cause you to hold water that masks fat loss. Drinking water does not cause water retention. Success should be measured over 6-8 weeks worth of data. Not 2 or 3. Trust the process. Eat to your goal. Log…
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I cannot stress enough how important that 4th point of rabbit's is. The water/hormone/cycle noise makes a single week's weigh in number meaningless. I realize that stinks but that's where diligent logging and trusting the process are all you've got so you cling to them!
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Oh, and anyone who tells you to swing everyday is giving you bad advice. High volume swings should not be done on consecutive days. Pair it with something else if you want to work out more. Walking would be ideal, imo. You need to balance the load on your body and allow proper recovery.
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I have swung kettlebells as my main excercise. 20-25lb ones 500-700/workout three times a week. For my efforts I had a resting heart rate under 55 and would pass the health assessment at work categorized as athlete. All while weighing over 225 at 5'3". They can do amazing things! Workouts were short, too, 20 minutes.…
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@Janeir36 I meant what sinks is being trapped in the diet belief that the only path to thinness/health lies in eating good for you food, all the time. No "bad"/yummy foods for you, you are fat! For me this was a huge mental roadblock and it ticks me off now that I realize it was all a lie. It's hard to articulate and was…
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I view calorie counting as management of disease. It's no different from the other maintenance medications that folks take to keep themselves heathy: sinthroid or glaucoma drops. Whatever makes your normal normal. You just do it. This also helps rob the scale of its power. Which I need!
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That's great perspective and will serve you well!
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You've got to trust the process and hang on. Someone recently posted a great way to look at this: you control the process, logging your weighed and measured food, eating to your goal and you have to let your body handle the results. Your process and your body's results will not align perfectly day to day. But over the long…
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This actually kinda makes sense to me. To a fat person, who is shamed by society for existing and who is told that single foods/meals are the problem. That doesn't truly understand how CICO can work over a long span of time to allow them to both reach a healthy weight and still ever eat food that is deemed "bad", this is…
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Comparison is the thief of joy. One thing that I've learned here, that's has helped give me much needed perspective, is that one meal makes you neither fat nor thin and that this applies to others. The one meal that you see that person eat does not tell you that they are free of the rules that the rest of us live under.…
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Tea (a few different flavors) and gum (also several flavors). I don't keep any food. Like several others, I pack my pre-planned breakfast and lunch each day and I don't want any temptations around. The tea and gum solve any mental hunger.
