gmcgarv71 Member

Great job! I'm close, too. Down 19 since January and about 6-7 to go.

I have recently concluded -- again -- that I need to not drink at all if I want to lose this last 10 pounds. I have cut back on drinking big time, but even one glass of something a day, and even abstaining 3-4 days a week, prevents weight loss for me. Maybe everyone is different, but for me I believe it works like this: If…

1. Drink lots of water. LOTS!! Especially early in the day. 2. Give up alcohol (huge mental hurdle that I keep having to relearn). 3. Eat back half of exercise calories when I do strenuous exercise like spinning. 4. Eating a lot of protein helps more than eating a lot of fat. 5. Keep eyes on the prize and be patient. 6.…

Hi. I'm responding bc I started 3 weeks ago and I was very frustrated at first, too. I lost weight the first week, but the second I gained (cycle-related I think, but also other things), and now the third week, I feel like I have adjusted and learned some things and am losing again. When I was discouraged, I posted here…

Yup, would love to see what others eat as well. Please add me!

I just started 2.5 weeks ago and the first two weeks were very hard. In week 3, now, I'm feeling better. it's a big adjustment. I kept telling myself that if I really want lasting change, it's going to have to be a little uncomfortable. I almost gave up this week but I posted here and people had a lot of good advice. They…

Wow! Thanks for that story! That must have been really hard to gain that weight. I just bought a food scale! Thanks for sharing this.

Thanks, Nachise. I had some miscalculations this morning so this was incorrect. Seeing that is what set me into a bit of a panic, as in, "This is impossible!" So it was a goof; and with resetting my weekly goal (to more calories per day), I now have 700 or so left today and it's now 12:30pm. Phew! I do think I try to eat…

Thank you for all of this solid advice. I will change my weekly weight-loss goal to 1# a week. I can't bring myself to do .5 pounds because I feel like I need to results in order to stay motivated. And I will try eating 50% of my exercise calories back on days when I do vigorous exercise like spinning. I will get a food…

OK, I haven't been doing this. Sometimes I spin at 6-7am and then do weights, which according to mfp is something like 600 calories. So I really get to eat 600 more calories on those days?

Thank you everyone. OK now I feel like an idiot for saying "starvation mode." Thank you for smacking me upside the head. No, I don't have a food scale. And yes, I do know that hormones play a huge role with weight gain for me. Yes maybe I will lower my weekly goal. I'm a newbie to this and it is just sort of astounding…

I do! I just posted something about this. Though - I don't feel THAT much thinner. Just hungrier.