JMcGee2018 Member

This is my favorite quote ever. Thank you for this.

If you open your diary, we might be able to see where those small wins the above posters were talking about possibly are and suggest some changes that might make eating less seem less daunting.

For me this was the biggest benefit to IF, learning that hunger isn't bad and can be managed. It's a nice little flex of willpower, and eventually I learned to just embrace the hunger rather than being driven crazy by it, and now when I don't eat breakfast (which used to be a must for me) I hardly feel any hunger until…

I haven't been very good lately (friend visiting this weekend, V-day yesterday), but I typically don't have a problem sticking to 1200 during the week. I often skip breakfast in favor of IF or have a protein shake in the morning, have 3 hard boiled eggs with mustard for lunch, and then have the rest of my calories for…

You are either a troll or you have some real emotional issues that you should work out with a psychiatrist. If you are actually destroying scales, freaking out over half a cupcake (per your other thread), etc., you have more problems than those of us on MFP can adequately address.

Unless he's one of the very, extremely, almost impossibly rare people with an actual metabolic condition that makes even a man of his size have a BMR <1000, I agree. Impossible. Find someone who can demonstrate how to accurately measure and weigh foods. YouTube has videos that someone here can probably link to.

I wouldn't force yourself to eat more than 2100 each day, but there's no reason to reset your calorie allotment manually at this point as long as you continue to lose, although you will want to update your weight in the app if you haven't already and see if it gives you a new calorie amount based on a lower weight.

If you set it as lightly active because of your weekly cardio AND are logging your exercise, then you are set up wrong as you are double counting those exercise calories. Set it to sedentary and log your cardio so that you know how much you can eat back, and only eat a portion of that.

How do you measure you intake? Do you weigh all of your food on a kitchen scale?

I'm trying to look at the maintenance time as a way to train me to maintain so that I don't become the cliche wife that "lets herself go" after the wedding.

That would work, but I'd add that if you're unable to function mentally on your current calorie goal, you goal might be too low.

This. Also, if you were taking the "sugar pills" last week, you probably had your period and might have been dropping weight because of that. This week, you're back to normal.

You can tell if it is your Achilles rather than your calf based on what hurts, the muscles behind your shin (calf) or the tendon connecting your heel to your calf (Achilles tendon). I find that weak calves lead to shin splints, where Achilles problems make running and walking painful from the start and take a lot longer to…

Yes, if we are in a calorific deficit. I thought that was implied. And even if your body did go through metabolic adaptation in a way that substantially lowered your metabolism, it is still possible to go into a deficit and lose weight, it's just harder to do so and might require an actual BMR test and being under a…

As long as it is a sustainable routine that doesn't hurt you physically or harm your work and social life, there probably aren't many routines that would qualify as "too much" cardio. Some days I go on 30 minute runs; some days I go on two hour walks (working my way up to longer runs). 20 minutes is definitely not a…

By your own explanation, your body will still lose weight while it's starving, but at some point it will turn to getting energy from muscle instead of fat because fat is necessary for organs like the brain. We all want to lose fat, not muscle, but even if our body thinks it's starving and turms to muscle, we will Still.…

Drop the dietician, they're bilking you if you are paying for help in losing weight and they've been allowing you to eat at maintenance for the last year. Tighten up your calorie counting (or start if they didn't have you doing that already) and reduce your intake to whatever MFP suggests for you. Invest that money you…

For your son, I'd try to redirect his interest into body building and give him more protein options. If his high school offers a weight lifting class for P.E., that's a great way to instill some healthy behaviors that might benefit him more than the "two weeks of badminton, two weeks of basketball, etc." curriculums that a…

Also how long does this happen after your last meal? Do you skip lunch?

Not including working out? Only 3000-4000. I try to get to 10k when I work out.

Where I walk has tons of hills and I sometimes do intervals of walking. I use Map My Walk and consider any extra calories burned from inclines that might not be calculated by the app as a bonus. I only eat back 50% of my exercise calories anyways.

I'm feeling those winter blues even though I was born and bred in Wisconsin. This is my first year actually exercising outside in this weatger, so I'm here for support. Add me as a friend if you'd like.

Too far out for me to be trying on dresses, but to answer the second part, while my fiancé is supportive of my journey, he's a skinny little thing with a very active job so regularly eats twice what I do. He cooks a lot but lets me weigh the components either before or after so I can get an accurate calorie count, which is…

Have the nachos. It'll push your goal weight back a couple of days, but this is a marathon, not a sprint.

I've shocked my body out of a plateau by upping my calories significantly for a couple days before cutting again, but it's all about eating at a deficit in the long run.

You can graph out your weight and make a trend line with a program like Xcel if you can't fit another app on your phone. Or just compare your weights month to month to get a bigger picture, instead of focusing on the daily fluctuations.

I'm a bride to be, although I have a year to lose. That said, we're having a poolside wedding in California so I need to look good in my dress AND a swimsuit 0.o I'm here for support if you need it.

My suggestion if you're really afraid to leave that comfort zone is a 3 week introductory process. Week 1: Limit yourself to only 2 regular Mountain Dews a day. If you need a third, make it a diet. Also, spend this week eating whatever you want, but track it all in My Fitness Pal. All of it. Even if it adds up to you…

From my experience, they sometimes forget to eat (what!?!) and then have this strange ability to actual STOP eating when they are full. Like they will be eating something delicious, and then all of the sudden say "I'm full" and put the fork down. It's madness!

Breakfast meat like bacon or sausage, toast with peanut butter or jelly, fruit, cereal, a green smoothie.