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Since I've started tracking food that I eat, Its been eye-opening. Peanut butter was one of my unknown overages in the past. I would toast up an English muffin, and just COVER each side with as much peanut butter as I could get on there before it got all melty and ran off. Then I actually took the time to figure out what…
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Boom. They way of your new healthy lifestyle is narrow. A holiday is not about food. Take your new mind and your smart choices with you, and enjoy your vacation without focusing on the next time to bend your elbow.
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Age is no excuse. People get older, have more disposable income and no little kids to chase around (generalizing, here), get themselves onto a bad feedback loop...and mistake a correlation with age to be a causation BY age. EDIT: age could be a factor if an injury or condition correlated with age helps one gain a ton of…
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Family of 5 here, we go there once a month stock up. Keep away from the sweets bakery and you'll be fine, like anywhere else. The packages of sugary baked goods are huge, so unless you're having a party or freezing things, it either all gets eaten fast (yikes) or wasted (almost as bad). Then again, none of the packages…
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You need to use a more scientific approach here. This is a long-game, not putt putt. Just like no person is a statistic, no individual scale reading is an indicator of your weight loss. What you are looking for are TRENDS. Use the same scale, try not to move it, take your weight at the SAME time every day (early AM after…
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Your best exercise is doing less of a particular motion...bending your arm to your mouth! If your basic burn each day is, say 2000 calories just to stay alive, that's like walking 15-20 miles! For like 3 years I went to a gym near my house, I could walk there, I exercised while I was there, I walked home. I went every 2…
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Yeah, this. If its not in the house to eat, you can't snack on it at the wrong times. Its what I've done with alcohol. If I buy some beer or wine, I seem to inevitably drink it all. And not in an alcoholic kind of way -- I inevitably have a serving a day until its gone. I now keep some beer at my parents-in-law's house.…
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Yeah. Those flavored soy milks (chocolate. that stuff is amazing) are loaded with added sugar. I like it when I can find the no-added-sugar soymilk, which is even more bland than the "unflavored" ones.
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Well done! I'm into those hundreds now too. I've been 208 +/- for 20 years, and 218 before that. And I've just recently **committed** to getting to where I really should be and its great to see it in the metrics. Hooray for the "1" !
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I just bought one and use it first thing AM, but am also going to go get a body pod measurement for $50 at the local university to see what the REAL number is. Then I can use the instrument for trends (maybe). And if nothing else, a body pod measurement will help me set a good ultimate goal weight. I'm currently 200 lb.
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Remember, a pint of water is a pound. And a scale that is accurate to 1 pound in 200 is .5%. That's a lot to ask of an instrument you can buy for $20-50 at any store. So its quite feasible. My mother in law is always going on about being up 2 pounds from a salty meal. Its ridiculous. Weigh yourself every day, but record…
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Yeah, exactly. I get the all natural stuff...which is just "peanuts." sometimes it includes the ingredient "salt." Whenever I look at a label and see that "palm oil" has been added to my PB, I get all nonplussed. Who would do that?!
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This isn't really a "binge" thing but more of a bad habit. After dinner (we always eat early...5pm or so) around 7-8pm or even 830 I get "peckish" and like to snack on breakfast cereal. Cheerios, krispies. Soy milk. Its not sugary or even fatty, but its like my go-to after-dinner snack. And I could power through 3-400…
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Measuring, great point. It is SO easy to mis-estimate nutrition and portion size. What's helped me in my (modest) progress so far is metering my breakfast. I used to just DUMP cereal into a bowl to eat. Then refill it half again later. I'm not talking fruit loops...they were cheerios and rice krispies...but looking at the…
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try a standing desk or build a treadmill desk, so you're not sitting so much.
