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I had another thought since you mentioned eating out of boredom. Does the texture of your food matter to you a lot? I find that variety in texture (like, creamy and crunchy together) is very important to how satisfying a meal is to me. If I end up eating very "boring" meals that don't have that kind of textural or visual…
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Re: eating out of boredom. I second the advice to not keep food in the house if you know it is "food with no brakes" for you. I also second the advice to physically put the food where you cannot see it (out of sight, out of mind), and to distract yourself by doing something else to engage your body (like walk, or swim, or…
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Because it's only too late if you give up. If you forget to log something, make a note in the comment section or estimate as best you can once you realize it. If you eat a dozen cookies and half a pizza by lunch, log it and figure out the most nutritiously impactful, filling, and least calorically dense thing you can eat…
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I'm like that, actually. Average lifespan of a new interest or hobby is 3 weeks. :) But here's why it could be disordered eating for the OP in my (totally worth what you paid for it) opinion: she feels shame or embarrassment around her eating behaviour, to the point where she tries to hide that behaviour from others.
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Just take it one day at a time. One meal at a time, if you must. You will never be perfect at this, none of us are. The secret to succeeding is just to get back up one more time than you fall down. ;) ETA: the language you're using tells me you don't trust that you'll succeed. You "hope" you "can"; but you feel "stuck".…
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This. I had a stomach bug about a month ago; lost 4.6 lb in under five hours! :P Just start watching your diet and exercise again and expect your weight to go back up to around where it was before the illness before it starts trending down again.
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Or 4) I'd just prefer to spend my calories on the sauce, a fattier cut of meat, or a big *** salad instead of the pasta or bread. ;) Especially since I've never been able to cook pasta properly to save my life, good bread is expensive 'round here, and I love salads and steak.
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No. It can help your overall health, energy levels, sleep quality, joint pain/inflammation. But CICO is fundamental. (Some people may naturally burn a lot less or a lot more than others, but that's just an adjustment to the value of calories out and doesn't negate the equation.) When switching from a regular diet to low…
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+1. "Guys, I really appreciate you taking care of me while I'm down here. I thought tonight I'd give you a break and I'd cook something!" Or just show up with the food and start taking over the kitchen (works for my mom's side of the family). For the rest of the visit, realize that some of that weight is probably water…
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Paragraphs. Paragraphs are definitely a good start. As for your question, which I think is "how do I quit craving junk food"? The only thing that worked for me was to stop eating junk food entirely for a few weeks to reset my taste buds. Fruit substitution is also good, but I would add a bit of fat and protein in with them…
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1. primarily, leftovers from lunch/supper the day before (meatballs with zughetti, hamburgers on portobello 'buns', beef parmigiana, etc). 2. sausage link or patty with vegetables/fruit and a fried egg 3. hard boiled eggs, fruit, yogurt 4. ground meat skillets/hashes with vegetables 5. omelets and frittatas with lots of…
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I typically eat three meals a day. What I eat = protein + veggies + a bit of fat at every meal. Usually I have dessert after supper, but sometimes I have a midmorning snack instead. It's successful for me; I grew up on the "three squares a day" schedule and never was much of a snacker. My meals are typically 4-5 hours…
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Welcome and congrats on your impending wedding! This thread will help you get started and give you all the basic info you need to know to succeed: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants It's a little long, but full of really good info, so I recommend bookmarking…
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And the way to sort it out is with a qualified professional. If you talk to your doctor, the doctor can't even tell your husband without your permission. If you're worried about how to explain it when you have appointments with the counsellor, I would look deep and hard at WHY you are worried about this. If your husband…
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Not all producers treat their animals this way! Find smaller scale, local farmers by visiting the closest farmer's market and ask them questions about what they feed the animals (and why), whether they give tours of the farm, and so on. These people care about the product they sell and, as a consequence, the animals they…
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To cover the rest of your original post...the only points that I follow as "fact" are #13 and #15. You don't even have to do #13 to lose weight and keep it off (I lost the majority of my weight without counting calories or measuring food). And I follow #15 because it helps me feel fuller, longer. You may find some helpful…
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LOL @ imagining a 5.8 inches tall person. You said you go to the gym 5 days/wk for a little under an hour. That puts you at the high end of 3-5 hr/moderate. A good place to start is the 2223-20% = 1779. This is actually what my intake usually ends up being around that activity level. Much less than that and I get grouchy,…
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I think you must have made a typo when inputting your data. I went there and put in your weight, height, and age you listed at the start of this thread, and it tells me your BMR is 1434 and TDEE to maintain on sedentary is 1721?! (For reference, I'm 5'8.5", 29 y/o, and 147 lb and my BMR comes out to 1474 and sedentary TDEE…
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As nutmegoreo mentioned, a caloric deficit will eventually lead to weight loss. The speed at which that weight is lost, and the side effects it will have on your health and general wellbeing, will depend on your current metabolism and overall stress levels. I'd be curious to know what that typical day's meal you mentioned…
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My understanding from your post is that you've only been doing this for a couple of weeks, which isn't a lot of time to see results. When I say weight loss is non-linear, here is what I mean: https://trendweight.com/u/9534137f58e14a/ That is a graph of my weight loss over the last 10 weeks. The red line is an average…
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BMR = basal metabolic rate = what your body burns if you were in a coma TDEE = total daily energy expenditure. It is equal to BMR + your exercise + your regular daily activity + incidental body processes. In order to lose weight, you need to eat below TDEE, not necessarily BMR. There is a lot of discussion on the boards as…
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yarwell, Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me, and the links you provided. I think I grasp this a lot better now. The Clinical Chemistry study you linked flew mostly above my head, but I did get from it that EWMA detects smaller trends sooner -- which is good from an engineering standpoint if you want to…
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Hey, thanks for that explanation; that was extraordinarily clear. My next question would be, Walker seems to imply that an ESMA with smoothing factor .5 to .9 that takes into account all historical data is better than a WMA. Is this because more data points makes it more accurate? Regarding #4, here is a sample of my data:…
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Those scales are notoriously inaccurate. To get a proper reading on your body fat you would need to go through a DEXA scan or similar. There are a number of other ways to calculate your body fat percentage, but if you come from a disordered eating background I'm not sure it's wise to replace an obsession over weight with…
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I noticed issues when I had more than 1/2 c coconut milk in a meal, particularly when combined with fattier cuts of meat. Especially if I had two or more servings per day. (For instance, I would make a cream of veggie soup and sub coconut milk for the cream, then have avocado and steak salad for my next meal.) I had these…
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I don't have a Windows phone, but I found this site, which seems to imply they do (or did, at one point) have a mobile app for Windows devices: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/mobile/windows
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When this happened to me, it turned out I was not eating enough total calories. Macros (and fat/protein/carb ratios) were not the cause in my case -- inadvertently eating at too low a calorie level was. If you're not counting calories, the easiest way to get more calories in is fatty cuts of meat, nut butters, avocados,…
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-1 to the change. Potatoes are a food with no breaks in our household; my husband (and I, to an only slightly lesser extent) could easily hoover pounds of them a day. Mashed, baked, roasted, fried makes no difference. The restriction on having to make my own fries/chips is laughably trivial; I have a mandoline. Potatoes…
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In a similar vein, this website may be of interest: http://www.bluebulbprojects.com/MeasureOfThings/php/default.php I've lost a Dalmatian, or about 2.5 gold bars. Unfortunately I don't have either handy for a photo right now!
