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Cravings: the urge comes from your brain, but your body isn't hurting or weak. You should NOT feed Hunger: the urge comes from your stomach, and it may ache or you may feel weak or jittery. You SHOULD feed. Don't go hungry.
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For me, sugar before bed is a no-go, as it keeps me awake. I am eating some of those atkins frozen dinners. They are about 300 calories, and they are satiating me well enough. And I'm someone that can pound away 1500 calories a meal. So maybe get a few of those for "in case of undesired hunger, break cardboard" situations.
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Its not necessarily your fault. Its free-market corporate America. Most ads are about things to make you obese, or to eventually deal with the results of your obesity. Fat people make companies rich. They buy the meds, they buy the bigger sizes, they give in to temptation at literally every corner from their stressful job.…
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Just commenting here... the pharmaceutical companies encourage obesity. They make money on it. Its their cash cow, so to speak. The semaglutide will ONLY work if you are not eating junk, and are elevating your physicality. Otherwise, it is just a fad without any true purpose besides making the pharmaceutical companies…
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Do you weigh your potatoes? Do you weight your bananas? 3 150g potatoes will yield 1800 mg. One 130g banana drops 500 mg. 150 g of broccoli gets 460mg. 1 avocado gets a whopping 700mg. Mash them all up, throw some cheese on it, and ya got yourself a tasty potassium-packed lunch! Hope this helps. *Eating this amount in one…
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Fellow "approaching 40" person here, though I still got a couple years to go! My 38th year is the "realization" year though. I remember when I was 27, and could do and eat whatever I wanted. As long as I was active enough, It didn't matter if I ate salad or a whole pizza. I'd lose weight. Now, the "active enough" side is…
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Will power. It takes so much dang will power in today's world. Being overweight and obese is a good thing in this economy. It's a multibillion dollar business in every aspect: pharmaceuticals, doctors, clothing, and even this fitness app. They all depend on you gaining weight. So, whatever your motivation, whatever diet…
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If you eat 1200 calories in a day, but burn 1200 calories on a 2 hour hike, you are essentially eating nothing, calorie-wise, and you will find that a miserable way to live. If 1200 calories is a deficit, then you can just stick to that and most likely lose weight without exercise. You eat the calories back, or most of…
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Runner....in spirit. Walker in practice until I am not so overweight and my body says "yes" to running. I ran about 7 miles straight, 80 lbs ago. So, time to build up to that again. From So Cal (Mo Val), moved to Phoenix a decade ago. Add me!
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for what its worth....Sodium is roughly 40% of the composition of salt....so if you want to find out how much "salt" you have taken in, just add the other 60%. e.g. if sodium intake is 3000 mg, "salt" may be 7500mg. if sodium intake is 2000 mg, "salt" may be 5000mg. that is, sodium x 2.5. If there is no scale or reference,…
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Yes, I am going to be on here everyday again. When I was at my lowest, I lived on two things: Bacon, and MFP. Then I stopped tracking and caring (usually centered around a girlfriend), and well...you know how that went. Got fat and lazy. I am a Fitbit user....going to be crushing the weights and training for a Spartan…
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AZ here...moving to Virginia this summer. Losing weight, working out everyday, avoiding the wrath of the Burger King are my goals. Add me if you are local! Go Cowboys!
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120 lbs is on the lower end of ideal, depending on how tall you are. There are many medical charts that show this. Anything less and you could be doing more harm than good. With where you are at... Caloric deficit alone will not get rid of the visceral fat (the midsection fat) around your midsection. A mix of strength…
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I would ask if there is absolutely any way to be off the medication. I do not know what condition it is for, but if it is stemming from metabolic dysfunction...is it necessary? Ask your doc, get a second opinion, see what you can do. There are a ton of meds out there, for just about everything. The least prescribed and/or…
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Thank you for the education and insight. My "rudimentary texts" were a bit vague with this, so I was going on little information. I think this helps me understand the fat zone/ cardio zone classification of heart rate a little more. Though, I wasn't totally wrong...the hunger hormone does kick in after about 2-3 hours if…
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You people disagreeing with certain information are disagreeing with rudimentary understanding of cellular biology that comes from a basic biology or nutrition book (which is where I am getting my information). What gives? If there is other information, please share. I would like to educate myself.
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I do not think I am completely wrong. The body prefers using carbohydrates for fuel, and will do so when given carbohydrate input. That is section 2 in cellular respiration. Right after a meal, the body will use carbohydrates for organ and brain function. A few hours after, glycogen stores are used primarily, and fat…
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When your glycogen (carb) stores are depleted, which happens usually while you sleep, the body will shift to using fat for fuel. Since you are asleep, you aren’t awake to feel hungry (midnight snack anyone?). Once the body starts using fat for fuel, The body reduces production of the hunger hormone, so you feel less hungry…
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You are giving educated, trained behaviors to the novice. It might as well be a test. If that behavior is your recommendation for the OP’s success, then state how you achieved this behavior, how it became successful for you, and what steps OP should take. Otherwise, your statement is pointless. Don’t be a d.
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I did exactly what you are doing. Unless you have acute or chronic issues with eating too much, do not try to manage too much. Nicotine has a death grip stronger than any substance on earth. Because of that, when I quit, I let myself eat. I did increase my activity level, so I wasn’t just sitting around thinking about…
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I apologize for not being clear. If the body has excess calories in the form of sugar, it will tend to convert it into fat and contribute to adding cholesterol to the blood stream. Same with excess fats, for that matter. Sugars can just be metabolized faster for storage or oxidation. If the body has its stores of…
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A biology class really helps the understanding of this topic. It goes into cellular respiration, and what really happens with the two different types of sugars we eat. Highly recommend it at your local community college or khan academy. With that said, I don’t keep table sugar in the house. For me, sugary things are like…
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The leanest chicken has protein content of about 26 g per 112 g of chicken. That’s 1/4 lb serving (1 lb = 454 g). If you had half a lb of chicken, it would give you about 52 g of protein. There are 4 calories in each gram of protein. 85x4= 340 calories, so yes, something is off there, especially when you add the fat…
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You ate less than your goal quantifiably, as you set a specific number of calories to eat each day. Calories are a product of the mass of macros that you eat. Something you had was higher in fat that you usually eat.
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Increase the resistance on the machine, and your heart rate will go up. The difference between fat burn and cardio burn is where the body gets its calories for oxidation. In cardio, it has to happen fast, so it uses sugars (glucose stores) because it takes less energy to oxidize quickly. In fat burn, the body has a little…
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Is there any chance your routine is...routine? The body can get efficient at doing what it does. If your heart rate is lower over time doing those same activities, then it is conditioned. Something else...the closer you get to your equilibrium, the harder it will be to lose the weight. It’s a numbers game, though. Try…
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Mesa reporting!
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I lose the sense that I failed when I wake up and see a bunch of zeroes on my tracker.
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I am also dropping a significant amount of weight. Hello Fellow weight-dropper!
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Research where in those meals those fats are coming from. Broccoli doesn't have any significant fat content. Everyone knows that. But, is there cheese or cream with that broccoli? Lettuce doesn't have fat in a salad, but what gives it that crunch? Does it have eggs? Things like that. The three things that are hardest to…
