atypicalsmith Member

So you started out at 300 pounds and after four months of consuming only 1,650 calories you didn't lose anything? Then after lowering that to 1,500 calories you only lost eight pounds om the next four months? You are eating way more than that or you would have lost at least 20 - 30 pounds by now. Stay within your calorie…

No way, hah! I'll just check it more often.

Really? I did zoom back and forth in each of them several times, but still can't imagine 2k! I'll give it another chance tomorrow . . .

I am simply using it to count my steps, not my stride (which is needed to count distance walked). I don't care about the distance, but the steps.

They are still charging money and doing nothing to keep people at maintenance. It's to their advantage to have subscribers "fall off the wagon" and pay them more money to lose the weight again. Places like QWLC has a one-time profit and never see anyone again. And yes, anyone on MFP can do the same thing. Except it's not…

I did walk through it several times for the free grazing, which was my lunch. Plus I did park in the shade at the extremely far end of the parking lot, and then came halfway back to the store to put my cart up in its spot, so yes, that could have been a mile. Doesn't account for the other two miles, sigh.

If you are having kidney issues, and your doctor says not to eat certain foods, I would not eat those foods.

7,000 steps for me is equivalent to nearly three miles. I don't think it really was 7000 or even 5000 or even 3000 steps. Maybe 2000. However, this is working out great for me with the people I have a step challenge going.

Thanks, Kim, I will call them. As much as I would like to believe that I did an extra 5,000 or so steps than actual, it seems hard to believe. I wear it on my pants at my waist, so it's not like it's attached to my wristwatch and I wave my hands around all day :)

I disagree, as my metabolism went out the door when I quit smoking. Even though upon quitting smoking, I stopped drinking wine every night and started eating at home instead of eating at greasy spoons and such, my weight exploded until I started to exercise. Then it finally started coming down. So yes, exercise!!

I don't know what QWLC is other than what I just learned here, but most weight loss places that charge lots of $$$ have a program that, even if you DID lose the weight they promised, would not stay off but get gained right back. Including WW. They charge money, people lose weight, they gain it back, go back to WW, pay…

That's a great idea! This is a great idea as well! Yep, if the food is on your plate, you they won't notice if you dump it while getting seconds on the food you want to eat. But this is the winner . . . . ROFL!

Overestimate your calories consumed, and underestimate your calories burned, keep track of everything, and it will happen.

I'm 5'2" and am steadily losing half a pound a week, give or take. 35 more pounds to go.

I find it hard that an eighteen year old girl could be bored. I certainly wasn't at that age! Do you have no boyfriendss to take you out to dinner, or girlfriends to go hang out with, or even better, making money babysitting? Can you not ride a bicycle around town and relish in the sights? There is so much you could do!

Thanks! Actually for some reason, I feel better knowing now!

^^This! Underestimate your calories eaten and burned, and you will find yourself back on track.

Even weighing everything doesn't guarantee success. You can weigh your steak pre or post cooking. Regardless, so it weighs say 4 ounces either way. How does fitbit or MFP or any app know how much fat or protein is in that particular cut of steak?

100 days is over three months. If you stick to it, and that's a big IF!!! - you can do this. You can't shift the inches, but you can certainly lose them. But IF you stick to a reasonably low calorie diet, exercise, and log everything to be accountable, it is definitely doable.

Which is a great reason for always rounding up your calories, and rounding down your exercise. How many posts do you see on here that say, "Help! I am doing everything right! Why am I not losing weight?"?

Yeah, but it didn't say how much per serving. 210 calories per 46 grams does NOT mean 210 calories per serving.

It has a little thing that looks like a bad hairstyle which says 2035. Then it gives me the time. Then a couple of symbols with three dotsbetween them which look like a circle with a dot inside and a point at the bottom which says 7.78. And at long last, a little footstep symbol which says 17,558! I know that's very much…

Truly, I don't know what else it pretends to be measuring. As long as it measures my steps, I'm happy.

I like wearing clothes that are a bit too large for me (except for pants, as they tend to fall down) as it keeps people from noticing the weight I've lost. All of my fat, fatter, and fatter than fatter clothes were bought at yard sales or Goodwill, as I refused to admit the weight I gained was permanent. Now I have a very…

I have a fitbit zip strictly as a pedometer. It keeps telling me stuff like what my heartbeat is, and how many calories I've burned, and that's just fine. I use it only to log my steps every day. Just bought it last week and already have two badges, hah! So silly! Just wanna know how many steps I've walked to inspire me.

I always overestimate calories eaten, and underestimate calories burned. Because I truly believe that there is no way to know EXACTLY how much calories eaten or burned through exercise is. Fitbit? Not if you put in the wrong information, as in saying you are sedentary when you actually work at Walmart stocking shelves.…

So don't eat it.

I know what the initials stand for, and have read about it, but it boils down to dunno nuthin' 'bout BMR or TYDEE or anything except calories. I never eat back more than half of my calories, and only then when I work out a LOT. I do tend to alternate between deviating from and concentrating too hard on losing weight, but…

If nobody eats the junk food or fat-laden food she is cooking, she will tire of it soon enough. She will probablyu complain loudly that she isn't appreciated. Give her a cookbook with healthy foods. You can turn this around in a positive manner.

Do you mean people who throw you down and tie you up and shove 32 ozs. of peanut butter down your throat, or people who say, "Would you like a cookie?" How about people who bring donuts to work as opposed to people who take your car keys away so that you can't drive to the gym and then tie you up so that you can't even…