Replies
-
It's a fad diet gussied up to sound scientific and bariatric specific. It's not anything anyone has to do. I'm 8.5 years out from surgery and have never done it and I'm at a normal BMI and maintaining just fine. If my pants get tight, I cut back on the junk food.
-
I've been in maintenance for a couple of years now. Not happy with my body fat percentage though. Also, I was just diagnosed with osteopenia (runs in the family so knew it was coming) and need to go back to lifting weights. My doctor wants me to eat more calcium so that's why I'm back here tracking my food again.
-
I'm going to be seven years out next month! I was pretty successful mostly because I had a strict program and I followed it. I did a *lot* of exercise and that helped too. You can read all about it at my blog. Look for posts starting in Aug. 2008 and read forward. I should do a summary post one of these years so people can…
-
There are definitely some studies that show this. But statistics are not predictive to the individual. So that 20% may be 10% for some or not at all. My personal experience is that, before when I dieted, I always had to eat less than the calculators said to lose weight. This was after a lifetime of dieting. So for me it…
-
Congrats! Next month I will be 7 months out from surgery. It's the best decision I made for myself. I went from being a couch potato to doing Ironmans! My whole life changed really now that I'm not hungry all the time. I'm in some of those groups but they aren't as active as I'd like.
-
The stomach is the last place it comes off for me too.
-
The Bod Pod is not the Gold Standard. For one thing, it has shown about a 3% accuracy in tests, not the 1% you claim. It's about as accurate as hydrostatic testing, but in one study it was found to vary more per person which makes it harder to track trends. So while hydrostatic testing might be off for you by 2%, it is off…
-
I find it to be completely useless. For one thing, it's based on only one day. It says "if every day were like today" but every day is not like today for me. Every day is completely different. When I was losing 100 pounds, my days were more like each other and it was still pretty useless.
-
My daughter uses it for her skin. It helps. It hasn't effected her weight but it may be doing other things. I went on the full pill years ago and ended up with a blood clot so now I can't take hormonal birth control.
-
It's hard to eat that first couple of months. Make protein a priority and eat smaller meals more often. My program has us start out with protein shakes during the "all liquids" phase and then gradually replace them with solid food. 3-4 weeks of "thin liquids", 3-4 of mushiness and then you get to gradually go more solid. I…
-
I think thin includes being at a healthy weight. At least when people use that word the context suggests that "Thin" means "not overweight." I actually think of myself as thin even though my body fat percentage has gone over 20%. I think that's because the rest of the world has gotten much more overweight that anything not…
-
It's not just the calories burned during a workout that count. If you do strength training, you get an "after-burn" where you keep burning calories after the workout at a higher rate than if you hadn't strength trained. Also, strength training builds muscle and muscle takes more calories to maintain. So you will burn more…
-
But you can't remove fats from the diet without negative health effects. We need fat in our diet for a variety of reasons. We don't need sugar as you can get anything you get from sugar from another calories source. Sugar is a true 'empty calorie'. Fat is not.
-
Before fat became demonized, empty calories was a phrase limited to foods that were pretty much all sugar with little to no other macronutrients or micronutrients. So things like soda and most candy qualified. And alcohol definitely did. It seems like the author(s) of that page have expanded the definition to be "all the…
-
Studies have shown two things: -the fastest, most efficient way to cut body fat is by lifting weights, not doing cardio -after doing a cardio workout, a proper recovery snack should be about 100-200 calories with a carb to protein ratio of somewhere between 2:1 to 4:1 based on the intensity of the workout. (more intense…
-
IME, when I was maintaining a much higher weight, I used to always lose weight on vacation. The reasons being two-fold: -less snacking -more walking (and other activities that move the body) But these days I either maintain or maybe gain a bit of water weight (more eating out means more sodium in my diet). If I'm actively…
-
The other day I was watching that new show with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin and in it Jane Fonda looks at her arms and smacks the lower part to get her loose skin flapping and I just about died! It made me feel so much better to know that someone who was once in the fitness industry and never had a weight problem still has…
-
I was 17% once. And the epitome of good health. And I still had menses, which since I was 52 was a royal PITA, so I got an IUD and that was the end of that! :lol: I think I'm around 25% now, maybe as much as 30% and I really want to get back to at least 20%, maybe less.
-
Just because it's harder for her, doesn't mean it will be harder for you. We're all different. Personally I find maintenance to be pretty easy but I was working on my relationship with food for three years before I decided to have surgery and I'm pretty sure that helped. OTOH, a month of liquids and a month of pureed isn't…
-
Welcome! I have a sleeve too and am 6.5 years out. I love hearing people's success stories!
-
I look in the mirror. When I look the way I want, I stop trying to have a calorie deficit. :)
-
I'm not actually dieting either. I have MFP set up for maintenance. But I do attempt not to eat every single calorie allotted most days. I am not actually that concerned about weight. I want to have 15-20% body fat. If I weigh the same (due to muscles) but lose that fat, I'll be happy. And you have to feed muscles or they…
-
If you walked a 5k, I'd at least put that into MFP. It does have walking in the exercise db. I only put in actual exercise most of the time and don't worry about things like steps. The only time it gets weird is if I've done something like volunteer at a triathlon. I know I'm moving around and lifting things during my 4-6…
-
It really depends on how tall you are. If you are 5 foot like me, that might be around your BMR especially as you get older. I assume the 1200 is your base and you are eating your exercise calories though. My BMR is around 1250. If I had my base set to 1200 and ate all my exercise calories, that would have me losing about…
-
Capsules actually dissolve pretty well. It's the hard pills that sometimes don't at all. When I say capsules, I mean the thin gel things that get filled up with liquid or powder. It looks like a pill but you can squish it. Celebrate has capsule versions of their multivitamins and my labs improved when I switched to them.
-
Congrats!
-
@Resolve2B, I had a trainer that had us do things like "24 Hours of Swing" where we'd carry around a Kettlebell and every time we thought of it, we'd swing it 5-25 times. (Just short of getting sweaty.) By the end of the day, most of us had swung that thing 200-300 times which is the equivalent of a 1 hour workout. You…
-
What's UGW? I assume GW is goal weight but I can't figure out what the U stands for.
-
Is there some reason you want the multi-vitamin to be liquid? Capsules potentially have the most "stuff" in them because there are certain vitamins and minerals that just can't be put in a liquid or a chewable or a gummy. This is what I take every day: Celebrate Bariatric Multi (has no iron) or Centrum Silver (or the store…
-
57 here. I'm not really trying to lose as much as I am trying to change my body composition. I want to get back to a 15-20% body fat composition. I think when I do that I'll be about 10 pounds lighter than I am now, but I don't weigh myself that much so it's just a guess.
