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With my recent weightloss, i'm a size 8. I tried on some clothes from a store and I had to go up to a 12 - I have never been a 12, even before my weightloss. Some stores make clothes in very small sizes (especially stores with clothing imported from Asian countries) & some clothes are made to fit very small. And it does go…
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If you can't remove the cause of the stress, then you need to replace the stress eating with something else. If you're using food to cope with a situation, removing the food won't work unless you replace it with something else. Some people like exercise, others like talking to someone. For me, I need to stop, realize i'm…
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Current weight I find it easier just to put stats into MFP, pick a loss rate and go from there.
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1. Detoxes are just planned diarrhea. 2. Just because people have used or done something for a long time, doesn't make it magical or significantly beneficial.
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I hate to say this but this relationship sounds abusive. He should not be getting angry at you for asking to help. He should not be making you feel so bad you stop asking for help. If you want counseling, he should want counseling - or at least go for your sakes. He should not be so content to sit back and let you work…
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You can't go any "faster" than CICO. If weightloss is slow, your calories in must be close to your calories out - that's why you've only lost 2.3kgs. Literally, the only thing that can help you lose weight apart from CICO is liposuction. As said above me, food scale + accurate logging and it will come off.
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I'm in Australia too and it's hard - some packages only have calorie information and some only have kilojules. I like to think of calorie counting like a budget. Calories are like dollars and kilojules are like cents. 1 calorie is roughly 4 kilojules. I have an app on my phone that converts calories to kilojules and vice…
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Up to a point, yes. If you're constantly eating to the point of being too full/uncomfortably full, you can get used to what being an "acceptable full" is. It's just hard and slow. Wean yourself off massive meals and if you have a meal and are still hungry, wait 20 mins before getting more as there is often a delay between…
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Depends on what your definition of "curvy" is. Some people define curvy as a plus-sized body. Others define it as a small waist with big hips/boobs. Some mix the both. You don't have to be defined as "curvy" to be healthy OR happy. I'll never be curvy, it's just my body structure - little boobs and my waist isn't much…
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I eat 1450 a day & i'm set to sedentary. It's definitely slower, but for me, I would've gone crazy on 1200. And going crazy usually ends up with booze, pizza, icecream, chocolate etc - putting me back to where I started. Remember who won the race between the tortise and the hare? Go get yourself a food scale so you know…
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Calories do count on weekends, but you can eat less during the week to make up for bigger weekends. When I first started calorie counting I was strict all week long and ate a consistent number of calories. Now, I eat less on weekdays and "bank" the calories for the weekend, where I will eat more due to work/life.
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That's strange - it should be much, much more than an extra 90cals. Maybe try putting your goal & details in again and see if the bug fixes itself. I have mine set to sedentary and when I dropped my loss rate I got about 200 calories, but that was from 1lb to .5lb.
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1200 calories is the bare minimum. How aggressive is your weightloss goal? If you only have 15lbs to lose and you're set to 2lbs/week, then no wonder you're hungry!
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Care to open your diary?
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Abs show when your body fat % is low enough to reveal the muscle underneath. To make the abs easier to see, you can work them out to build muscle, meaning they show more even with more fat. However, there is a point where no matter how much muscle you build the fat will hide whats underneath and if you don't have the…
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To "tone" your best bet would be lose weight & gain muscle. You can't control where the weight is lost but by adding in lower body exercises (especially squats) you'll most likely get the look you like.
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If you have a friend that already lifts, see if they are happy to let you tag along. If you can afford it, a personal trainer can help you get comfortable in the weights section and set you up with your form and and a routine. I would have never stepped foot into the weights if I didn't have my boyfriend helping me. He let…
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Meal prep. 90% of the time if I can't make it in advance and freeze it, I don't eat it. Apart from the occasional steak, meal at a restaurant or salad, my life is in those freezer drawers. One big day of cooking (or a couple of hours over a few days if i'm doing crockpot meals) and I have food for a couple months. Each…
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For me, it was about building up saying "no". I can't eliminate my major cravings/pitfalls. Between snacks in the office and working at a restaurant, I can't get away. I had to learn how to say no and keep that decision. Even if I said no, then 15 minutes later I ended up having it, the next time was 20 minutes, the time…
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I don't like to think of them as "good" and "bad" as in moderation, nothing is "bad" and in excess, anything can be "bad", even the "good stuff". However, it's generally considered "healthy" to avoid fats from things like fast food and have fats from more "natural" sources such as avocado, eggs, cottage cheese. You don't…
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I wish I had found about counting calories as a weightloss "method" earlier. I had always thought of losing weight being a nasty yo-yo cycle. Restrict severely and live on salad (RIP Pizza) and then a couple weeks/months later gain it all back - rinse & repeat. I had stubbornly refused to acknowledge the weight that has…
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Practise learning what a portion of commonly served "base" foods look like - how much potatoes, pasta, rice, etc looks like. Then, apart from what has already been suggested, use your body weight as a guide. Weigh as often as you can handle and track the changes to find your average weight (not your weight that day because…
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Like I said, CICO is the rule, calorie counting is just one way to get there. Didn't say there wasn't other ways to do it.
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The low-carb diet only works by being under your maintenance calories. Pretty much everyone here has done "it" successfully, it's what this site is all about. As long as you are under your maintenance calories, you'll lose weight - it's that simple.
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700-1200 is a big range of calories. How do you know that's what you're eating? Do you use a food scale to know that's actually what you're eating?
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Wow, -1000 calories is a huge deficit. I take breaks fairly regularly for holidays. It helps keep me sane. The main thing to gain is having a mental break. Even then, you could do fine changing your deficit to only -500.
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Usually, most people eat back approximately 50% of their exercise calories - this is due to calorie burn estimates being very inaccurate. The calorie burn seems very very overestimated. Unless you're doing some crazy workouts, I highly doubt you've burnt 1,200 calories through exercise. I'd stick to the 1850 and see how…
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Do you use a food scale? It's still easy to go over without eating fatty meat, carbs, sugar etc. Can you open your diary? You may very well be logging perfectly, accurate calorie consumption and something is wrong medically, but lets rule out inaccurate CICO first.
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Pizza. You can only really get a "whole" pizza, and if I have a whole pizza around, the whole damn thing is getting eaten (which is nearly my entire calorie allowance for the day).
