SusanMFindlay Member

I haven't posted in forums for ages, but this thread caught my eye. I eat cookies, cake, ice cream or potato chips daily. Not all of them every day. But at least one of them almost every day. I have maintained my weight loss for over a year. Because portion control is a thing. To be blunt, I'd go nuts if all I ate was lean…

Me too. I will no longer take my family out to a restaurant for a mediocre high calorie meal just because it's "convenient". If we're eating out, it has to be delicious to be worth it. And I still get dessert; I just share it with my husband and kids. I've also discovered a few tasty foods that I never would have bothered…

That's nice in theory, but some people don't get the normal "you're full" signals due to hormonal issues. In those cases, you can teach them to reach for healthy choices more often but assuming you're including more calorie dense healthy choices (e.g. nuts and nut butters) they may still have difficulty maintaining a…

I drink skim milk. It doesn't taste like chalk water; it tastes like milk. Whole milk tastes like drinking cream. Yuck! Because it's all a matter of what you're used to. Whatever you usually drink, you'll like best and the rest will all taste wrong. I don't drink skim milk because it has lower calories (though that's a…

Mansplaining is very much a thing. It's specifically when a man condescendingly explains to a woman why her experience is invalid. No condescension? Not mansplaining. Male OB talking about his specialty? Not mansplaining.

I cannot even begin to express how furious this statement makes me and how INCREDIBLY cruel you are being. The feelings of inadequacy felt by most women who can't breastfeed are immense and society does everything it can to make them feel worse with its pat offerings and pushing of "breast is best" (which, for the record,…

Same here. Pregnant within a few months both times.

I am so jealous of women like your wife. I knew within weeks of being pregnant both times. If you get bad "morning" sickness and pregnancy-style acid reflux, you can't not know. I can see getting to the 4-6 month point without knowing if you didn't have to deal with those side effects though.

* I think that 1200 calories is an absurdly low target for the vast majority of people. * I think that the distinction between "purposeful" and "nonpurposeful" exercise is meaningless. * I think that, if you don't have a medical condition preventing it, you shouldn't allow yourself to be "sedentary". As per point #2, I…

If this is true, you're underestimating your calorie intake and/or overestimating your calorie burn and/or brand new to weight loss (and still in a "honeymoon phase"). Anyone who regularly consumed less than half their maintenance calories* would be hungry and cranky as anything - and there's no way they'd have enough…

I think so too. I just think that a more productive response to "medication xyz made me gain weight" is "here's how it did it and here's how to counteract that" rather than "no it didn't!". I would certainly never respond to a post saying "I can't lose weight because of medication xyz" with "you're right; you can't"; I'd…

And some women lose their supply any time they run a deficit while breastfeeding. Regardless of how healthy their food choices are. Math is easy for me. Therefore, anyone who isn't an expert at calculus just isn't trying hard enough and is doing it wrong. Sound ridiculous to you? Well, you're basically saying the same…

So, your definition of "causes weight gain" does not include "lowers your metabolism, causing you to gain weight consuming the same calories you used to maintain your weight on"? You figure that a person should just magically know that their metabolism has changed (and in which direction and by how much) and change their…

To translate for those who aren't familiar with stones as a unit for weight, he's 179 pounds and wants to be 175 pounds.

This is wrong. Most girls may stop getting taller around 16, but it is very common for hips to get broader and breasts to enlarge beyond that age. Both of those are still "growing" in the sense that they would both cause you to gain weight, and neither should be a cause for concern.

If medication makes you retain water, it absolutely affects weight. Now, that'll be a one-time weight gain not a slow continuous gain (which is what you'd see if the medication increased your appetite instead and you responded by eating more), but it's certainly a weight gain that a person would observe on their scale.

You are only 4 pounds from your goal weight. Give it another few weeks. It could be as simple as water retention from any number of sources. When you get that close to goal, weight comes off slowly so the changes can easily be masked by water retention.

What did you weigh on June 7th (or thereabouts)? The initial fast loss from dropping water weight usually happens in the first week. If you've been losing faster than 2 pounds/week since then, you are not eating enough. This is demonstrated by the fact that you appear to be losing weight too fast *and* you feel…

It may not have been the best way of phrasing it but, given the follow-up sentence about how there are surprisingly many calories in many foods, I took it as trying to point out that there is sugar (and therefore calories) in fruit so you need to log the fruit accurately. Many people - especially those with a Weight…

If you get to 150 pounds and your bodyfat percentage is still high, that would mean that you'd need to build more muscle. For a man with a bodyfat percentage higher than 15%, it would not be unhealthy to lose *fat*. If losing fat would take that man to a BMI that is underweight then that man does not have enough lean body…

I cannot stand milk on cereal. I love cereal, but only eat it dry. I didn't really think of that as a "weird thing" though (although my husband thinks it's weird).

Log it as an equal weight of carrots. You'll be slightly overestimating (assuming that you're not eating the croutons), but it'll be pretty close.

I would manually log the horseback riding. (It's an option for activity type; I just checked.) You can do this right in the FitBit app. Make sure you have accurate start and finish times. Then it'll overwrite the "steps" and resulting calorie burn it counted/calculated with a more appropriate estimate of your activity…

How much do you weigh? You need to be looking at macros in terms of absolute numbers not percentages. And fat and protein are to be treated as minimum goals. Your fat intake should be at least 0.4 g per pound of body weight. So, unless you weigh 100 pounds or less, you have not eaten enough fat. Your protein intake should…

I typically aim for half my calories before dinner and half my calories for dinner + evening snack. But that's just me. I find that if I eat much less than that before dinner, I'm too hungry in the evening and snack too much - but if I eat too much more than that before dinner, I don't have enough calories left for the…

I find that Googling the restaurant's name followed by "nutrition" will bring up the nutritional information for their food if it's available. In North America, chains with over 20 locations have to provide that information. For restaurants that aren't part of chains, your best bet is to find a comparable item at a chain…

1lb/week is generally recommended for people who have less than 40 or 50 pounds left to lose. There are a few reasons for that. One is that there is a limit to how much fat your body can burn in a given period of time (which is why leaner people need smaller deficits). Another is that you want to limit how much muscle you…

You're welcome! The fact that the weight is dropping quickly is actually a pretty good sign that you're logging accurately and that you ought to be eating a little more. When I started logging my calories, I set a goal to lose 1 pound/week. When I instead lost 2 pounds/week, I took that as a sign to increase my calorie…

You're not hearing what they're telling you. They're *not* saying "I'm logging maintenance calories, breastfeeding to create a deficit but not losing weight". They're saying "If I don't eat maintenance+500 calories, my milk supply drops". You don't believe it because it didn't work that way for you - but that's because you…

Which is more important to you? The number on the scale or being slim enough to fit into smaller clothes? If you want to continue to get smaller, keep doing what you're doing. If you stop getting smaller, eat a bit less but otherwise keep doing what you're doing. Clearly, it's working. If you need numbers to feel like…