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My advice: Patience. If you've been losing well until last week, then the scale stalled for a week, high odds there's some weird water weight thing masking continuing fat loss on the scale. It's 100% normal to have stalls. Honestly - from the observation point of being here on MFP 10 years through my own weight loss then…
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This is wonderful news, Heidi - I've remembered reading quite a few of your posts here, and believing your attitude and determination were going to take you far in this process. I'm glad the Mounjaro has also proven a helpful tool for you in accomplishing that. Kudos!
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Hello, Diana - I also live in the Midwest . . . well, the Great Lakes version of the Midwest. 😉 I'm also 60+, specifically 69. I joined here at age 59, lost around 50 pounds, and have been hanging around here maintaining a healthy weight since, after around 30 pre-loss years of overweight/obesity. If logging your food…
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Hello, and welcome! First, while I encourage everyone to exercise because it's good for a body, most of us get more results out of managing the eating side of the equation. Sure, exercise can be a helper, mainly because it lets us eat a few more calories while losing weight at the same sensibly moderate rate. More calories…
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Another row, stroke seat of a double this time - one of the club doubles, a boat I hadn't rowed before, a nice Hudson. It was about 6.7k, cooler this morning so I pushed fairly hard on the long leg of the standard boathouse-West bridge-East bridge-boathouse circuit. There was a continuous chunk a bit over 6' of zone 4,…
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Do you have a question about this? It looks pretty good to me, reasonably close to your macro goals. It isn't necessary to be exactly exact every day: Pretty close on average over a small number of days is fine. If you're not sure those are the right macro goals for you, we'd need to know things like your height, weight,…
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If weight loss (or gain) is your main goal, the direct determinant of that is the calories. Nutrition - including protein is important for health. But when it comes to body weight, nutrition's effect is indirect. Sub-par nutrition can cause fatigue: If we're fatigued, we drag through the day, burning fewer calories than…
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Sometimes people are trying to get more protein than they actually need, and I'm saying that as someone who believes in a higher-protein way of eating as healthful. (I'm also vegetarian, for 51 years now, BTW.) A rough generic rule of thumb is to get a minimum of about 0.6-0.8 grams of good-quality protein per day per…
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I agree with some of this - that under-eating will tend to cause more than minimal adaptive thermogenesis and even obvious fatigue, so all-day calorie burn may become lower than expected. But it is not the case that a stall means the body has found a new balance point and will stick there unless we "throw our body off its…
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This is not the kind of thing where there's some hack that will trigger a quick change to make you keep your breath for longer. We have to build cardiovascular capability gradually. Trying to run at a fast target pace for as long as you can - which it sounds like you're trying to do? - is not usually the best route or…
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Maybe consider this one: But that one won't suit everyone. No one thing works for every single person. The trick is figuring out what will work for YOU.
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Hello, and welcome! In my opinion, the truly big goal is finding new, permanent habits that first take a person to a healthy weight, then - perhaps most importantly - keep them at a healthy weight long term, ideally permanently. Also my opinion: If I personally am shooting for long term positive life balance, "no birthday…
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"Determined to move" would be a strong statement, in my case. I have an active hobby that I find very fun, that I'd do regularly even if it weren't good for me, but it is. Hedonistic aging-hippie flake that I am, I guess I'm determined to have fun? I know I feel better if I work out, even - sigh - less-fun workouts. If we…
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Depending on what you've already read or not, you might find some useful related content in this thread here if you haven't already run across it: I don't calorie cycle in any formal way, but I do vary my calories by anywhere from 200-400 or so calories day to day, because I use the MFP method of estimating exercise…
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@MizzMizzou71 - That sounds like a good plan. I'm still working out outside, but I don't live in the hottest part of the country. Don't get me wrong, it's hotter than I like lately, and humid - but this is mid-Michigan, not Arizona or something. It's been in the upper 80s and 90s F quite a lot here recently. One of the…
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It's just a question about accounting methods. Two different approaches are OK: Estimate base calorie needs excluding intentional exercise, then carefully estimate exercise calories, add those, and eat those, too. Someone doing that will eat quite different calories on exercise days vs. non-exercise days. Estimate total…
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The bigger answer, though, is that you don't need to be exact every day. Pretty close on average over a small number of days to a week is just fine. It's also fine to work at getting to "pretty close on average" over a period of time, as long as your current eating style isn't crazy unhealthful, and you don't have any…
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It's the calories that matter directly for weight gain/loss/maintenance. Nutrition is important for health, but doesn't have a direct impact on body weight. (Sub-ideal nutrition can affect body weight indirectly by triggering fatigue or appetite, but the direct effect on bodyweight is still via calories - lower calorie…
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This is the Debate section, so I'm going to say it: I can comletely understand not specifically understanding that excess fructose consumption can contribute to developing NAFLD. Tempting though it is to seek out one clear cause, NAFLD seems to be multi-factorial. There are quite a few other factors that are also believed…
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More row, naturally: 3 seat in the quad, as usual just under 7k. Air quality here still in the orange zone first thing this morning - risky for those with health conditions, not fab for anyone - but has dropped to yellow this afternoon with some winds. (It's from the far away Canadian wildfires.) It was cooler (60s F/17ish…
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I hate Marie Kondo (the concept/celebrity, not the actual human) with a horrible fiery passion. Mealy-mouthed, self-satisfied, moralistic little git. Don't flippin' tell me I need to be happy doing what makes you happy, Marie Kondo, then decorate that idea with wreaths of chirpy virtue-signaling. One thing to do with…
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I think this is publically accessible, not members only: FWIW: That's a generally well-regarded evidence-based nutrition site, curated by educated humans, not AI. I just stir my creatine into about 20g of plain Greek yogurt, which I can eat without leaving any on the sides of anything. It's not delish, just neutral-tasting…
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Oddly, no. Odd because I search quite a lot of jewelry-related stuff. Also: My best guess would be that that's a bracelet, even if they say it's a ring. For some reason that utterly defies my understanding, bracelets on elastic are wildly popular with a somewhat large segment . . . maybe because they're easy to put on,…
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Hello, and welcome! I think you're hitting the exact right note here: IMO, IME, it's about finding new, permanent habits that can not only get us to a goal weight, but also keep us there long term nearly on autopilot when other parts of life get challenging . . . which they will. That's an entirely different mindset from…
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It's been a while (2017!) since my OP on this thread, but I wanted to cross-link a recent post with a related kind of theme. I think we can't say these things enough, when there are too-frequent posts here where people think they "ruined everything" because of a scary scale jump that's likely mostly or entirely water…
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So true - great post! There are way too many posts here where people think they've "ruined everything" because of a scale jump after some unusual eating, unusual exercise, travel, or some combination of those and other things. Sometimes they even give up because of that experience, which is very, very unfortunate. Also,…
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How fast did you lose those 11 pounds? Were you losing at a reasonable pace that suddenly stopped for two weeks, without notable changes in any of how many calories you eat, or how active you are overall (not just exercise)? If so, water weight weirdness is a more likely explanation. Water retention can mask fat loss on…
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Can you be specific about what it is that's making it difficult to hit your calorie goal: Appetite? Cravings? Difficulty hitting some important nutritional goals at that calorie level? Some variant on fear of missing out that comes with living with a partner who has a higher calorie goal? Cooking to meet the needs of two…
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I sort of agree with parts of what others said. Spot reduction - exercising away fat in a particular self-chosen part of the body - isn't possible. But wherever a person has fat, losing enough fat overall will eventually trigger fat loss in a particular area. Depending on genetics, though, that might or might not result in…
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This is probably inappropriate to post on this thread, but the mistake I make over and over with weightlifting is not doing enough of it because I don't enjoy it. This is dumb. Do as I recommend, not as I do, because you (generic-reader you) are smarter than I am.
