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@BigDfromNJ : It has been really hard to get back to running this year after an injury in the fall. I also had COVID, and I've been wondering how much that affected me. It's been a long slow recovery and I'm still slow! Of course, I'm also 64y, but hey!
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Hah, this question always pops up in one form or another. We are all obsessed with breakfast! I've been going for small breakfasts, sometimes delaying eating them until late morning. I prize anything that is minimally processed. Lately, I've been having a banana and 1 oz of roasted unsalted mixed tree nuts. It's about…
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You sound like a deep expert in yourself, meaning you know your habits, needs, and goals. I just want to reflect on that. It's not very common! You are also already (IMHO) at a reasonable weight for your height based on your BMI (very similar to mine, but I'm significantly shorter). If you do some regular weight-bearing…
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I bought the Garmin scale because I didn't want to reveal personal info to yet another company. It cost way more than many others, but Garmin and MFP already know my weight for many years, and I felt like that was enough (not that they aren't exploiting our data for their own gain all the time). But: Garmin does not offer…
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@ninerbuff is right on. Got that, did what they suggest, and it got better! As for alcohol and weight loss, I'll make a very strong statement: I have never lost weight without dropping alcohol almost completely. This year, I dropped it except for a couple of special occasions from Jan 1 to June 1. Since then, I've kept a…
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Hmm. And it inserted my image as a link. I see I hit the link option instead of the picture. That's new!
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Got it, thanks. I was confused because I’m not logging and I’m in maintenance. The graph just shows my exercise calories as net negative. I wish for more charting capability here, with the ability to look at exercise cals, eaten cals, and trendlines. I feel even more strongly about the weight chart. Why they don't show a…
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@AnnPT77 : That's very helpful! I used the nutrition tab to study my macros, but I didn't notice this feature! Hey, does it include exercise calories? It doesn't look like it does! (And this is all academic at the moment. I'm in maintenance, not tracking, and doing fine. I'm sure I'll need a correction at some point. I…
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The name is right! They're all over the place. And, it doesn't need to be a run. It can be a walk or an easy hike. It's hard to find someone with the same running pace as you, but easier to find walkers/hikers. I also find that people love going kayaking. We have rentals around here, but I also own two of them.
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This topic is such a winner that one of the most popular threads on MFP is "What Did You Have For Breakfast?" We love talking about it! What I've been doing lately is a very small breakfasts and earlier lunch. My breakfast might be banana, for example, but I'll bring my lunch plus a baggie with 1oz unsalted nuts (weighed)…
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@pandoragreen21 : I wish MFP would give "net deficit for past N days." It's set up for "one day at a time," but that's not how many of us live our lives.
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I've said it so many times: The ability to store significant energy in your body is a human superpower that accounts for why we are here today. A second superpower is our omnivorous abilities. We evolved to eat as much as possible whenever possible in preparation for leaner times. We are then able to go for days without…
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Tea with milk and honey and, a bit later, a 🍌.
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I've posted a lot about this. I've been calorie counting for a long time (since my 40s), and, until recently, I used to be able to follow the guidance of eating base + exercise calories. In my last cut (Jan - June, 2025), this broke down, and I found that, if I ate all the recommended calories (provided by my Garmin…
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I don't understand your post. Your deficit should be something like 500kcals, selected to cause about 1lb per week loss. If you want to play around with the formula that MFP uses (Mifflin-St Jeor Equation) to estimate your daily needs, you can look here: Ignore everything else on the page! I only suggest this calculator…
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@AnnPT77 : "I'm still skipping logging online for reasons I can't pin down" Me too! I'm only in maintenance for about 3 months, but I've already ditched logging completely. I do a little mental tally at the end of the day, and it seems to work OK so far. Except that we had a lovely get-away weekend with tons of food,…
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@SummerSkier : Thank you! Congratulations on getting over a fall and broken foot! Are you able to run again or are you focusing on other things? (I injured a nerve in the sole of my foot two years ago (practically to the day). It was a very weird injury: I trained for and ran a 10k, but I had no particular incident: I just…
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You have my sympathies about your plateau! It sucks! Search on my frustrated posts about plateauing this spring by clicking on my icon on the left then "Discussions." It drove me nuts! But, I persisted and lost about 10lbs more, which is what I needed. Whatever platform you use (Noom, MFP, etc.), the problem is always the…
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@elisa123gal : thanks for your post! It's nice to know someone is reading! Now that it's Aug 1, I can report that I've done well for the month of July, ending ~2lbs below my goal weight. I've bounced around from 172 to 176lbs, but this morning I was 173lbs, so I can claim victory! I can't believe it's only been two months…
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@springlering62 : I have the same problem in a number of categories. Bike gadgets, tools in general, hardware of all sorts, backpacks (I have 5). It's the human condition that we love our possessions! We are the hoarders of the natural world and there are no others that can match us!
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@annPT77 : Maybe you've thought this through. The cost of a CPAP on the open market is <$1k. If you want or need one, and your insurance company is delaying, why not just buy the thing yourself? I was sorely tempted to do that when I was considering getting one. The whole rigmarole of getting it through insurance was just…
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I can just encourage you not to make choices out of fear, but out of hope. You can try Ozempic and hope for the best. As we read above, many people have been amazingly helped by it and some have had side effects. If you don't find benefits, you can always stop. Best of luck, whatever you decide!
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Listen to what Macka B say: https://youtu.be/BF5SL21BUSk?si=guQUXbnMroYUhRoe
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Search on my prior posts and you will see my huge frustration in March of this year when I stalled, too. I offer you the greatest sympathy! It's really hard! Strategies for moving forward depend on your particulars. If you just stay at your current plan, it may just happen.
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Sweet carbs are always whispering to me. So satisfying! Our bodies evolved to seek them out whenever possible. Our bodies were designed to gain weight whenever possible in case food was scarce later. In fact, it's a human superpower to be able to gain 10lbs quickly— we might not be here today if our ancestors couldn't do…
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@Redux6 is on my wavelength. When I woke, I had tea, milk, and honey. At ~10, I ate a banana and 1oz mixed unsalted nuts. I decided about 2 years ago that I was eating too much for breakfast (usually about 500kcals), so I cut it back to just tea, milk, and honey. I was hoping this alone would drop my weight without…
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Congratulations to everyone who is engaged in this life-changing effort. And thanks to @itladyee for taking over the management efforts. I want to report both the good and the bad for me. Good: I’ve done very little drinking on work nights. I even dumped out a beer last night after lazily pouring it from the main fridge. I…
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Well, @ElleHdgs, it's going well! I've lost the weight and am now at a level I'm comfortable with. Adding back the ~500kcals/day that I was omitting has been an interesting process. I'm also exercising much more this time of year then in, for example, the fall. When I've done a larger workout the day before, I have a small…
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I've written this about 100 times about various habits, but every time I write it, I gain resolve about addressing my own bad habits! So here I go: Start a written personal journal. Over several days, write about your "bad habit" (among other things) and document as much about it as you can, particularly how it makes your…
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I hope it was more of a wake-up call than a dire situation. I've had a couple of those! In any case, I'm very close in age to you. I'm constantly re-learning that my older body needs to be treated with care. Moderate and high-quality food, moderate or no alcohol, regular exercise, sleep, and "high-quality food for the…
