richardgavel Member

Maybe it's me, being a engineer/numbers guy, but weighing every day makes a single measurement less important because it's one of 30 in a month. Weigh once a month and it's the culmination of a months worth of effort and if you don't like the number.... Now I also don't look at graphs of a week of measurements, only a…

Odd question. What muscles are you using during the push up? Some beginner push up people see it as a shoulder/tricep driven exercise, but you need to focus on activating your chest muscles.

Time? How long have you been at your current weight? It takes time for skin to adapt to the new you, on the order of a year or two.

I will probably go back as soon as it's available to. Right or wrong, I don't have as much concern for Covid as others might (and to be fair, if you have a higher concern, I'm not faulting you for it). The other caveat is that with the warmer weather, more of my exercise will be outdoors anyway. So my gym usage will be…

The issue is not whether you had one cheat meal (assuming this really counts as a cheat meal). The issue is whether you believe this will turn into 2 and 3 and more cheat meals in the coming days. You have to be willing to allow yourself to enjoy things or else it's not going to be sustainable.

In terms of math, food is more important. However, I found for myself that exercise is more important from a psychological aspect. If I'm working out, I'm more motivated to track calories and keep my diet in the right spot.

Plain old walking. At first, during Covid it was just one 2 mile walk per day to avoid cabin fever. Then it grew to 2 and 3 walks and getting longer. The Fitbit helps too.

Not counting half or full marathon days, about 24k while on vacation in Europe. And I thought that was a lot, but not compared to the number you are all talking about. wow!

What helps me since I weigh every day, is that I don't really look at the trend of a day or 2 or even a week. I'm most focused on the trend over a month. But I weight daily because a month long trend with only 4 data points is not going to be very useful.

Post run stretching helped me in that area.

Also keep in mind muscle is more dense than fat, so 1 lb of fat takes more space than 1 lb of muscle.

I have to admit, I didn't think I would appreciate having a scale with Bluetooth sync to an app (and that app then syncing to MFP), but I really do like it.

The thing to remember is that you're probably not going to lose fat all in one spot that's easily noticeable. It's more likely to be a little loss in a lot of areas.

And also remember that roughly a third of the day already, since it's going to base it on starting at midnight (figuring roughly 8 am)

Anything is better than nothing.

I'm doing a lot of frequent walking, some running. It's mostly about keeping the habits. I've got some resistance bands coming via Amazon.

I think daily weighing is best because it's easier to see a trend and weekly puts a lot of pressure on that one day and it might be an abberation. For me personally, if I see the daily trend and all of a sudden I see a spike, then I can be comfortable knowing it's a spike and being able to easily look back on the last 24…

Actually better. I'm eating out almost never now (used to all the time) and while I'm not working out at a high intensity, I am doing a lot of short walks to limit cabin fever (say 3 x 2 miles) each day. The beginning of all this threw me off my routine, which is always bad for me, but once I found a routine again, I've…

You also say you weigh 140 currently. How long have you been at this weight? I.e. are you still effective in losing, but just don't see it or are you struggling with continuing to lose?

It's always about habits and routines for me. When some results in a dramatic shift in those routines, they fall apart. Early on in this mess, I lost my eating habits and exercise. So reestablish some routines. Walking 2 miles every day is more important than walking 5 miles every few days. I started with that and the…

When I take protein powder, it's like a chocolate shake with how I prepare it, so it also fills a sweet tooth kind of thing for me, along with being the protein aspect.

Just Mercy. The term that comes to mind is intense.

The marvelous Mrs maisel on Amazon prime. I'm trying to spread it out instead of bringing and watch it all at once.

I wouldn't worry about weight gain. You gain muscle faster if you eat at a surplus, but 100% of the gain won't be muscle. You CAN gain muscle eating at maintenance and lose fat (maintaining weight), but the muscle gain comes significantly slower. It's a trade off.

You are part right. Swimming BUTTERFLY is Satan's exercise :p

Here's my concern (for me) about cheat meals. Am I having one cheat meal or am I slipping overall and this is simply a sign of it? If it's the first, it all depends on the level. Does it simply mean I'm not at as big of a deficit for today? Maybe it just takes me to maintenance (so today I'm simply breaking even). And even…

According to my Fitbit, my RHR stays pretty steady between 49-51. Stats: M 45, 6' 200. Been into triathlons for a number of years but current weight is far off where I've been at my best.

In the end, I believe in calories in, calories out. I jokingly call my diet the "just don't eat like an idiot diet". It really comes down to understanding WHY you eat more than you need. If you eat because of stress, going vegan/Paleo/IM is not going to matter one bit. If you feel hungry a lot, then food choices could…

For me, everything is about habit forming. Turn actions that need motivation early on into things that you eventually just do naturally. And I find that a lot easier if I start the morning right, which actually starts the night before. No computer after 9, in bed around 10, so I get up early enough. I do that, I just…

I generally consider every day a new day and don't carry over. Mainly because I've learned that letting myself go one day can lead into excuses for the next and the next. If I've been solid in maintaining my habits, I would go ahead and do it, but I've had to start over a few times.