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The caveat on sugar, which really should go on every type of food is EVERYTHING in moderation. Sugar in isolation is not the culprit when it comes to weight gain, it's quantity, frequency, self-discipline etc so I broadly agree with the OP. **from this point, all opinions are my own. I don't claim to speak for everyone.**…
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Great progress and well done on taking the long view. It's always easier said than done for me! Good luck and fingers crossed you get to have more than 1215 calories and no shock and awe is required!!
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I count walking to work and back... but it is a round trip of 4.5 miles! I have a fitbit though so it automatically gives me a little extra to eat once I sync it when I get home from work. That will usually mop up any wandering around I do at lunch time. I don't drop below 3mph as a general rule and if I get home and…
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Hello I'm in the same place! I'm a short girl, just a nudge over 5 feet and looking to drop about 30lbs. One thing I'll say, and this is through trial and error, when you're short and you're looking to lose a moderate amount of weight it's a struggle. I'm realising that I have to be super accurate about logging. I'm…
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Mine was doing this last night. So I manually added some exercise on mfp- it's petty but I hate seeing that I'm a few hundred calories in the red! Anyway since then it has synced and double counted my exercise so I now look like I netted about 1000 calories yesterday. I don't know what to tell you other than you're not…
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No matter what you say, there will be somebody around to disagree with it. "All you have to do is create a moderate calorific deficit, eat less/ do more" "No no no no I have a medical condition so this does not work for me" "Cutting out desserts helped me." "No no no no, have desserts, I have desserts so you're doing it…
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A few days before I usually want to eat all the carbs in the universe. So I do a little more activity than usual- light exercise like walking doesn't make me reach for the fridge the way that more intense cardio or weights does. And for a day or two I just switch up my macros so I'm eating more carbs and if I'm still…
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In to say thanks for bringing it up- I am having the same issue and the responses here have been super helpful. I was thinking the same- just keep going and it will add up- it has to! So I figure in the next week or two I must be ready for my "whoosh" moment! In the past weight has come off rather slow and steady so this…
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No, technically you don't need vegetables to survive. If surviving is all you intend to do. As far as I'm aware, there's nothing to prove that if you don't eat a single vegetable your whole life, you'll drop dead at age 35. Not a smart move though. Listen to the advice given here, you might need to change perspective up or…
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When I first moved to NYC I had some financial problems. AND I lost weight. I wouldn't recommend the method though. Basically blow all but $30 on cute clothes and realise you have about $2/day for food. Then fail to budget accordingly and spend that $2 each day on absolute rubbish. Instead of doing one sensible shop. Can't…
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I thought I would. But when it actually happened, I couldn't do a thing. Perhaps because the person in question is my little sister. Umm.. the reason why? Maybe I'm too close to it. But it's heartbreaking to see somebody close to you want to change so badly and be unhappy in the skin they're in. You wish you could do…
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Yup to this! Not going to choke down more stuff I don't want when I know for a fact that tomorrow I'm going to be in close proximity to a lovely patisserie. I can inhale a chocolate eclair at 11am most days... and this way I get to occasionally do just that!
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I wish you the best of luck and I'm going to assume that your intentions are sincere so let me clue you into a secret: Low fat/ lean does not always equal healthy. If you have trigger foods, sure avoid those but there's no reason to be quite so strict. If you are under your cals you can probably switch to less lean cuts.…
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I was tempted to say "ahh I used to be naturally thin!" and then I had a really solid think about it. When was I thin? Before I moved out of my parents house. What did my diet look like? No desserts, no cookies or cakes lying around. Dinners would be basic and usually vegetarian, made from scratch by my mother. No…
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I find the occasional ex-lax sandwich usually gets the message across. Harsh... but not dangerous. And effective!
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Cold turkey. The only person who can help you is you and if this is a trigger food you need to let your intellect take the wheel, your cravings etc will be a pain at first but will lessen over time. At the end of it all, it comes down to what you want more, your weight loss or your potato chips.
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Sugar is a huge weakness. Any share size dessert I can easily take care of. I used to go around the table finishing everyone's leftovers. Family size box of chocolate eclairs? I could have that as a appetiser. An amuse bouche. I can eat an entire birthday cake in a sitting and yet struggle to finish three slices of pizza.…
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eating steak and watching How It's Made.
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I think it's time for you to step out of the child role in your family (being cooked for, being shopped for) and into the adult role. Which means you have to be firm with your parents, clue them into your goals and do your best to get their support. Spend time in the kitchen with your dad and watch how he cooks, quantities…
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I can see your point OP, but I think that saying that MFP causes the binge is unfair. If I am tracking my calories and I bank a lot or I overeat by just one calorie or whatever the reason, and I binge... well that me. That's my fault, I binged. The tracking tool didn't make me do anything, it doesn't have that sort of…
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No.
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I've been taking my bento sort of on and off for the last year and it has helped so much! I'm more motivated to bring my own lunch because of the cute presentation. My portions are smaller- definitely smaller than the cafeteria at work and smaller than I would have made them otherwise. And I get to control what goes into…
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My wonderful boyfriend got me a "pre-egg" because he is well aware of my shady past when it comes to easter eggs. What can I say, it's one of the many reasons I love the man! What to do with pre-egg and regular egg? Eat them Just very very slowly. And when I feel like I could eat all the chocolate within a ten mile radius…
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I have this issue and found some stuff helps: I don't keep food in my living room. Sounds stupid but I was guilty of having a little bowl of candies or treats out on the coffee table. That's basically a disaster waiting to happen. All food lives in the kitchen. I do not keep delicious snack treats in the house in big…
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I think you may have to tighten up your plan- there are too many fuzzy variables that are not being accurately tracked and I think the margin of error that this opens up is significant enough to stall your weight loss. I understand that you are eating at the hotel and you are not in a position to track every last thing but…
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I store weight in just one section of my body- basically everything below my navel and above my knees seemed to balloon. And yet everywhere else I was the same size! It was kind of funny if it wasn't so horrible to deal with. It's literally like having tyre around you. Luckily first place on = last place off and it's still…
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Left field approach BUT- if you have some space at home have you thought about getting some weights? I used to go to the gym a lot more and then bought a property and all my cash was suddenly sucked into my mortgage, buying furniture, bills etc. Plus I lived on the other side of the city. Now admittedly it wasn't a cheap…
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Just wanted to thank you for this! In fact I had set up my profile here a while ago and back then I was pretty sedentary- I hadn't even thought about that! Since then I moved home so I can walk to work now. I only bought the fitbit last week so I'd set different weights/ goals/ activity levels on the two. I guess these…
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Great post OP! And amazing because I was just going to log on to mfp to ask almost the same question. I'm 5'4",130lbs and got my fitbit one two weeks ago. I walk two and a bit miles to work and back. Plus on my lunch I'm generally running errands so another 2 miles there. Average at about 15k steps My question is/ was…
