Replies
-
i like to put my plan for dinner in early in the day then go ahead and log what i’m packing for snack and lunch. that way i know ahead of time what makes sense, how some choices will impact other choices, etc. then the goal for the day is to eat everything logged!
-
Have you tried simply using a food scale to weigh your foods by grams and ounces? Are there specific goals you have that Mediterranean will help with?
-
totally normal. not a plateau at all.
-
Here’s what I tell myself: i don’t need motivation. that will always come and go. i need discipline instead! it’s up to me. it’s not my husbands job to help me do this, or my friends job, or my mothers. i am responsible for my own health. if that means i take over cooking so that it’s prepped in a way that i can weigh and…
-
If you loose too fast, you’ll be losing a greater percentage of muscle along with that fat loss. Lose slower and you’ll retain more muscle mass! Slow and steady.
-
Maybe. I assume that some of this is trolling. People who are bored looking to get a rise out of the regular posters.
-
Same!
-
let yourself eat chocolate after the kids go to bed but plan it. try buying bars of dark chocolate but only eating / logging one square per night.
-
How do you calculate those numbers? Do you eyeball your servings? Use a digital food scale? That’s so little food (1065) that to not be hungry I am wondering if you should use a digital food scale to test the accuracy there. It can seem like overkill to some, but I use it when I need to lose weight so I can enter my…
-
try an app called fiton. there are a lot of free videos that do not require subscription
-
I’m curious about how much your body has been through recently and how that intersects with your goal to get below 136!
-
A good first step might be to grab a digital food scale and first just get a general idea of how many calories you consume in a day. Do some fact finding and log it here in the app. Then if it looks like that number should come down, you can start making some adjustments. No need to rush the final result.
-
Is there a way to cook for yourself instead of eat family meals? If it would interrupt quality family time, you could cook your meal side by side with family members as they cook theirs, then you can eat together but separate dishes. Have you tried switching to La Croix? Once I got onto those, regular sodas actually didn’t…
-
So sorry. There is a lot out of your immediate control right now. When I feel that way, I remind myself that one thing I CAN control is my health. Now, there’s good and bad in this line of thinking as when some people suffer with disordered eating it is related to that deep control factor. I try to make sure I am being…
-
When you really want an off day, try to eat at maintenance that day. Then you are getting more food without going backwards.
-
you make yours separate!
-
The good news is you can lose weight without exercise, if you can get into a calorie deficit. You can add exercise later if some of your symptoms improve. The other advice here is also helpful though.
-
Are you putting what you eat on a digital food scale so you can log it in grams and ounces? That's been key to my success. It sounds like overkill - maybe even feels like overkill in the beginning - but you quickly get fast at it and it's no big deal at all. I throw most of what I eat on the scale — grapes, sliced cheese,…
-
Question — how do you retroactively log an entire months worth of foods? Were you weighing your food on a food scale and noting how many grams / ounces in a notebook outside of this app — so you had all that data ready to backwards log?
-
Follow up question: have you had bloodwork to confirm declining hormones, or do you anssume based on age? Have you tried weighing and measuring your normal eating habits for a few weeks to get an estimate of how many calories you’re eating on average per day?
-
While not 12 months a year, I spend a considerable amt of my maintenance still weighing and measuring my food. Maybe 70 percent of the year, with breaks around holidays especially.
-
I like the commenter who pointed out your language. “I am a failure” is unnecessary. “My current strategies for guessing my total calories has failed” is accurate.
-
Time to start putting everything on a digital food scale (peeled banana, dry pasta, cheese, grapes, yummy slice of sourdough from a publix loaf) and develop long term patience rather than come up with brand new ideas all the time!
-
I would use your food scale for as much as possible! I use it to measure pasta and oatmeal before I boil it. I use it for peanut butter. For grapes. For chips. For a slice of Publix sourdough bread. For sliced apples. Grams and ounces are much more accurate than choosing an entry that says “medium size apple” or…
-
I’d consult the pediatrician or an athletic coach at the school who specializes in young teens.
-
This is great info @thomas_sdj You are doing nothing wrong. It’s normal to have weeks where you don’t lose. Sometimes the scale actually goes up and it has nothing to do with fat. So many things inside our bodies make the scale shift up and down. You should change nothing. Good work!!
-
I’d say stay the course. Our bodies do all sorts of things that cause the scale to shift or not shift. How are you calculating your 1200? are you using a digital food scale? Can you make your diary public so we can check your logging? I’m calling BS on your friend who lost 30 in a month 😉 Maybe she got an amputation.…
-
None of us quite know when starting out. We give it a try for about two months then reassess how effective it was!
-
What do you mean by “quite a bit” over six weeks? How many pounds, and what is your current height and weight? @thomas_sdj
