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First, give yourself some grace. You're human, and you're hurting. You'll come out of the slump. It's temporary; catastrophizing about it doesn't improve the situation. What would you tell a dear friend going through this? I bet it wouldn't be "you're throwing everything you've worked for out the window". I'm not sure what…
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My first advice - GLP-1 drugs or not - is always to make an easier-to-follow plan rather than a "lose weight fast" plan. Meaningful weight loss takes time. GLP-1 drugs can be a great tool in the toolkit for many. Changing one's routine daily eating and activity habits permanently is how meaningful weight loss happens, and…
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Good show: There will be these maybe-small but meaningful improvements all along the way. They add up to big progress over time! I hope these improvements you post here are helping you achieve some of the "motivation" you mention in your OP. Improved quality of daily life is IMO the "why" of making patient efforts in a…
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Someone here once said "there's no wagon, so we can't fall off". I like that way of looking at it. One day IS just a day: A drop in the ocean, where the ocean is our whole life. There's no starting or stopping (until . . . life stops). The question is going to be "What do I do in the time that I have?" Failing in an effort…
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It's only available in the phone/tablet version of MFP as far as I know, and it's marked in my version as "Beta" test status so it may not be available to everyone. I'd guess it's premium-MFP-only, too, but that's a guess.
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Hidden Brain. https://www.hiddenbrain.org/ The "You 2.0" sub-series is probably the most on-point for what we
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Your profile says male. OP's says female. If she's not in menopause, 2-3 weeks isn't an appropriate averaging time period. Minimum would be one whole menstrual cycle. The "X calories times bodyweight" formulas are not a better starting hypothesis than a good research-based calorie estimator. They don't take into account…
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Coached row yesterday morning, bow of a double. Bunch of drills: Counted recovery, wide grip, eyes closed, 60% to 0% press, 0% to 60%, 60% throughout (with the clarification that it's really more like 60-65% because you want to be accelerating). Wrapped up with several rounds of (1' 100% press, 1' paddle). 8.7k, about 1/3…
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I hear where OP is coming from: Maybe there could be a function where the user indicated what nutrients they were looking for, and got a list of candidates that were approximate matches to that. But yeah, a prompt to balance a meal/day based on a universal "balanced" definition? Probably start a debate-war (to put it…
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I'm in Michigan, which has been an epicenter of the cyclospora outbreak. By mid-Summer, we had had about 3x the confirmed cases that occurred in the rest of the US. Throughout, I've avoided salads and raw veggies in restaurants, but eaten cooked veggies there and more variety at home (mostly avoiding raw greens, but I…
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Feedback on what basis? Weight management, health, nutrition, something else? Also, I'm not sure how to process the "OK once or twice a week" aspect. Most anything could be OK once or twice a week - averages over time are the big deal, IMO. About all I can do is comment on this as if it were a reasonably typical day.…
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I didn't have severe and constant pain, but did have routine discomfort most of the time, and pain that disrupted activity sometimes, from arthritis, torn meniscus, upper left chest scar tissue pulling on stuff, periodic shoulder nerve impingement, and some other more minor things. Simply losing weight made a huge…
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You can do it in the phone/tablet app version of MFP. From the "More" menu, click on "Workout Routines" then the "My Routines" tab. At the bottom of the screen, there should be a "Build Routine" button. That will bring up a page where you can name the routine and search/add exercises from the database. I'm sorry to say I…
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Ooorrrr . . . keep your account, and let us know how you're doing now and then? Your call, but I for one would miss seeing your posts. You've been great about helping others make progress, too.
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268 on August 25, 278.7 on July 5 . . . to 264 on September 1? Four pound drop in the past week, 14.7 pounds in about 8 weeks? Your chart also suggested you'd stalled at 268 since roughly August 10, so that'd be 4 pounds between August 10 and today, which is roughly 3 weeks? You've averaged around 1.8 pounds per week since…
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Easy/moderate row in stroke seat of the quad, about 1/3 zone 3, a tiny bit of 4, remainder below. When I added up last week's volume, it was more than usual. Garmin said 593 intensity minutes for the week, when a more typical week is around 300 plus or minus 50 (ish). (Intensity minutes are based on what Garmin thinks is…
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. Maybe that's unpopular, I dunno, but if you're talking about weight management, I 100% agree with you. If health, fitness, performance, body composition, and other things are in the goal set, then maybe nope.
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There are things about changing eating/exercise routine that could cause some of those things. Detective work about your routine might shed some light. How is your nutrition? Have you cut calories really aggressively trying for fast weight loss? Are you either (1) eating closer to bed time than formerly, or (2) NOT eating…
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Coached row this morning, about 8k, me in bow of a quad. It was very difficult. Not because of the coaching, but because of the boat. Because we had two quads out, one of the two - the one I was steering - is designed to be steered by a coxswain. The cox steers by manipulating two lines that connect through a mechanism to…
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Hello and welcome! I'm 70, but have been here since 59. It's been a process: I gradually got more physically active after cancer treatment in my mid-40s, but stayed overweight/obese with some bad health markers (cholesterol, blood pressure, etc.). At 59-60, I finally committed for real to weight loss, joined MFP, and…
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Hello! Can you say more about what the roadblocks or problems are for you? About what's hard versus what's working? People here are usually helpful, but asking some specific things makes it easier for others to suggest things to try. My generic basic advice is always to choose an easier-to-follow plan (that still leads…
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Hello and welcome back! I've been here for 11+ years, loss (around 50 pounds) then maintenance since. I like crafting, too, and have been doing some watercolor experimenting too, though I can't say I'm very disciplined about it. 😆 It's in the context of a mixed-media visual journaling hobby. I also have bad knees,…
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Hello and welcome! One of my main triggers for finally committing to weight loss was to avoid taking a statin for high cholesterol. It's more complicated for people who have familial hypercholesterolemia (genetic tendency to high cholesterol), but that's a small percent of the population. For me, without that genetic…
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Nice work! Putting in the right work does create progress. Sometimes it takes a bit of patience, but the rewards will come from persevering with the right actions. Best wishes!
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Hello and welcome! In this part of the MFP Community you're just talking to other MFP users like yourself, mostly. We don't have any more insight into questions like that than you have yourself, until there are official announcements. The MFP staff rarely reads this section . . . definitely they don't read every post.…
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Rowed stroke seat in the quad for just over 12k. We went a good ways upstream of the upstream bridge, partly because the weather was excellent, partly because the ski team was practicing downstream of our boathouse, and partly (I think) because our bow rower wanted to show off the nice scenery and wildlife upstream to a…
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Abandoned? Or rerouted on a wily, necessary alternate path? In the vernacular here: There is no wagon, so we can't fall off it. Large steps, small steps, occasional moments to catch our breath: All part of moving in a positive direction in the real world. The needful rest or reset is like pulling back the bow . . . not a…
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Since the newsfeed was removed, there isn't much point to them. You can exchange direct messages with MFP friends, and you can look at their diary if they shared it with friends. That's about it. It's unfortunately also become a refuge of scammers, MLM marketers, skeezy trainers, and people seeking hook-ups, since they can…
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Honestly, I used it at first and didn't get much out of it. So many people join MFP all fired up, then disappear: I found that discouraging. It was full of auto-update messages about workouts done or diaries completed (often without shared diaries), which was boring. There were multiple people using it for daily (or near…
