wunderkindking Member

Nothing, really re: weight loss. Exercise I do because I find it fun and I do have some drive to improve my performance at things I love. I started tracking to track my protein. That showed me places I could pretty painlessly make small changes to my dietary habits and save some calories. Then that was easy/habit, I found…

Agreed. We often take things we DO (or don't do) and turn them into some immutable trait or inherent identity. It doesn't work that way. The only difference between 'someone who jogs' and 'someone who doesn't' is that one of them gets up and jogs and the other one doesn't. (I became a jogger. I used to hate it. I think I…

I'll add another wrinkle. You CAN be overweight at the upper end of a 'normal' BMI. Like medically at increased risk from weight issues.

I went slowly. First, I started logging my food just out of curiosity because someone told me I probably needed more protein. When I realized that, nope I definitely was not, I focused on getting enough calories. Then, I decided to try logging ALL my food to see if I could stop GAINING weight/maintain - no deficit. I got…

Finding what works personally is the only way. For me, I put off/delay eating that snack/dessert until the weekend I'm going to eat a lot more of it than if I just eat the thing when I first wanted it. Turns into a bigger deal in my head for the delay.

We have a car payment, but no personal phone services - just what work provides - or mortgage (house is paid off), and some recreational/hobby stuff we engage in regularly that is expensive. Cut out horseback riding, dog sport, and my spouses gaming stuff and we could save a lot of money/have it back in the budget for…

My end of November weight - 125.6. That's 1.5 up from where I was BEFORE two thanksgiving dinners and an anniversary dinner, but I'll take it. I'm still in my goal range. I should probably move to a maintenance group/thread but I don't want to leave y'all.

I lost most of 65 pounds/roughly 5lbs a month most of the time with the app set to maintain. Anything between 1200 and up to maintenance was fair game. I reset my goals with every pound lost, so it shaved off 10 calories at a time and I barely noticed. It's a mindgame for me. Feeling like ANYTHING under was a win and I was…

I think taking pressure off your start is a good idea. Maybe leave the deadline flexible though. Do it when you can get your mind if the game. If that's not 1-1-2022 it's okay. Whether it's earlier or later than that.

I ate at maintenance for a good 3 months and a week every 10lbs lost after that the whole time I lost weight. It's super good to become aware of what you're doing, what you could change and to practice at maintaining. In many areas of my life I'm 'go big or go home' to a near toxic degree. In weight loss I was a 'slow,…

No. I DO control most of my own food intake, because we're a household of 4 adults - kids are living at home in their 20s, plus husband and I - all working with hobbies, and are schedules don't often allow us to sit down and eat together. If we can, we do and I don't care who cooked what. That's never more than one meal in…

So, addressing the larger issues here, in the context of specifically this: If you feel like you NEED a 'cheat' day/to go over, and that's the only thing that's getting you through a few days/week/month of being 'good', there's some stuff that's gone wrong. Could be going too hard at the deficit/being too restrictive.…

It's a balancing act, at least for me. I had to keep my head 'in the game' enough to keep doing what I needed to do, but otherwise it had to basically stay as a background part of my life. Focused, sustained, 'motivated' effort for a year or more would not work for me. Too easy to derail, too easy to get discouraged. So I…

Yeah, when I finally got on a scale (no phobia just didn't care or own one) I was definitely 20lbs heavier than when I was 9 months pregnant and just over the line into obese. Realizing I was not just overweight but obese made me do something. I now weigh roughly what I do when I was in college and my BMI is slightlylower…

For me, when I can/do close it, it seems to signal 'done eating for the day' and that can be handy, but mostly I don't really care either way. At this point I only track protein sources and 'treat' type foods anyway, so there are days where those things are lower calorie than others that I *can't* close it and that's fine…

My first morning weigh ins have been consistently right around 124 for the past week or two, with expected fluctuation during the day. I'm doing some experimenting with loosening up on tracking right now. I'm not advising anyone else do that. My psychology and numbers and lists don't mesh well (I get anxious and obsessive)…

I hit the point during loss where anyone suggesting I try keto meant I had to turn and walk away from them -- because my knee jerk reaction was to furiously scream. No offense for those it works for, and I will admit I've never done it-- but I've never done it because I WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN IT AND I DON"T WANT TO…

And of relevance to post 2, I agree that TDEE for *intentional, structured exercise* is probably a worse idea than not. I think it benefits a lot of people to see what their calorie burn from activity is and recognize you can lose and maintain without it and know what's up. My EXERCISE is erratic and I get that. I just…

Oh , no. I think I wasn't clear. First of all I don't hate MFP's calculator/method on some kind of principal thing I'm just saying that for me I really don't like it. Of more relevance to the immediate topic, those numbers are not the difference between MFP and the TDEE calculator (I used sailrabbit), but by how much MFP…

I haaaate MFP's calculator. The reason though is that I have a day job sitting at a desk at home, don't intentionally exercise in a traditional sense, nor one that is easy to measure, but am active in ways that are daily, consistent, and happens mostly in small bursts multiple times a day (I train dogs). If I tried to…

The big problem with ignoring the exercise is that at some point you are going to want to stop losing weight. If you don't know what your actual burn from exercise is, that's going to be a problem. You'd do well to figure it out now, and account for it - even if it's just doing the math backward to figure out how much it's…

If you're having trouble with weight loss not guessing is the first, most important, trouble shooting to do. I don't disagree. But I lost from 190 to 125 and I didn't weigh my food more than twice out of curiosity to see how good I was at guessing. Excellent, as it turns out. The real key there is "DO WHAT WORKS AND IF IT…

I voted turkey but honestly healthy for WHO. For me - high protein is good - unless I'm going to run, in which case give me the carbs. Fats make me feel satiated. For someone else low calorie and high fiber could be a better choice. I need a certain amount of sodium, and someone else may need to avoid the ham because of…

I'm 5'5" and 125 lbs. My dress size is largely determined by what fits my CHEST and that varies by material and cut. TBF it's usually a 10, unless something is stretchy, in which case I can get away with a 6 or 8. I'm not huge, but I'm big enough to need to watch it . Jeans size 6ish is fine. I don't see me going down…

[quote="k8richer;c-46433921 @wunderkindking you can be over-the-top proud of your accomplishment 👏!! At 125 or whatever number, you look fantastic and have come a long way! And the best part is you've done it slowly (so it will stick!) and maintained a great healthy attitude. [/quote] I am pretty proud. I'm also glad that…

I realized I needed to finally, really, close this thread out. So, 4 months after I posted this I did in fact drift from upper 130s, down to where I am now - 125. I feel good about this. The last 10-12 pounds took a danged long time to go, but it was also basically no attention, effortless, and with most of my focus on…

I didn't mind (mostly) having to buy new clothes a few times on the way to being a weight I want to maintain. It was expensive but sometimes it was fun. I RESENT THE CRAP out of having to buy new outer wear. It's expensive. I'm picky. I HAD THINGS I LOVED and can't replace because vintage. And I'm just straight kind of mad…

I have one of two things most days: 2 egg cheese omelette, 3 pieces of turkey sausage, and a piece of toast or protein oatmeal + greek yogurt + banana. both hover around 400 calories and pack in protein -- and are also pretty mindless/easy for me.

Definitely see a doctor. When I had this it was due to low blood pressure and accidentally going low sodium since my husband needs that diet and I just ate the same food, but there are a lot of options and most of them need a doctor.

For perspective my total weight loss was 64lbs. It took 15 months. Absolutely do not eat 1200 calories and not eat your exercise calories back. 1200 NET (as in 1200+ whatever exercise calories) is about as low as you can safely go. I, personally, can't manage that for more than a day or two and don't try.