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In terms of food, Chinese take away and really most restaurant food in general. If people knew how much oil, butter, and salt was used in supposedly healthy salads and chicken dishes... Also pretty much gave up on chips as having them around just led to binging on the whole bag, skipping supper, and getting into a bad…
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Will sometimes treat myself to a day/weekend of eating at maintenance level, but usually that's more for social obligation reasons. Non-food rewards are the way to go!!
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Forget planned cheat days maybe?? I know they never worked for me and just led to periods of poor eating choices. Pretty much went 99% cold turkey off pizza, burgers, shakes, chips, etc. too. There is just no room for a decent amount of that kind of food when doing a big cut unless you love that starving feeling 24/7. Plus…
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Added!! In Brandon!!
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Still binge from time to time and food for me remains an emotional crutch of sorts all the way back to childhood. Have little printed signs up on the inside of cupboards and fridge stating "Hungry? Bored? Tired? Stressed?" as my way of managing atm. Also terrified how maintenance is going to be due to still loving…
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For me the losing was easy, but maintenance was a nightmare as I didn't focus on my relationship with food or eating habits enough throughout the process. Gained 20 lbs back in 6 months and back on it again with a different outlook this time around!!
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Might be some genuine concern behind comments as losing weight is often tied to a perso being sick more often than putting in the effort and hard work required nowadays it seems. I had family and friends who were convinced I was seriously ill until I explained the process I was undertaking to them.
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Everything but spices, water, and the odd diet soda. I'm an all or nothing kind of person though so even slacking on recording a stick of gum just sets me up for getting lazy towards logging in general.
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Went off the rails myself for 3 weeks over the holidays and scale showed a 20lb increase (although it was an evening weight after dinner). Ate and drank my face off though with family and friends and had an excellent time celebrating overall so not gonna sweat it!! Plan is to get a couple weeks of maintenance back under my…
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Just gotte be honest with yourself and look to see what roles food fills in your life. The old "eat to live, not live to eat" adage should always ring true imo. Do I miss wolfing down pizza with friends? Going for drinks and apps? Or stuffing my face with family at the holidays? Absolutely!! Is is due to actually needing…
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288 lbs at 6'2.
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+1 for buying smaller plates. I retired my "college plates", which were large and deep enough to almost eat soup out of, and found it made a huge difference to portion sizing and meal satisfaction.
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On the weekends I just eat/drink at maintenance to give myself room for fun. Nets me an extra 750 cals before exersize and really keeps my motivation up for the other 5 days a week. Still losing weight, just at a rate of around 70% as what I was doing before. Tried the whole averaging over a week thing but didn't work for…
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I've had excellent success with my Polar FT4 and seems accurate with the chest strap. Polar makes other models up and down too, but the FT4 is their best-selling model and the only big difference I've found is it lacks data uplinking capability of higher end models(which requires additional accessories anyways to work).
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Pretty much just spices, unless they are listed on the container (which the often aren't). I found I am too all or nothing, and even something like just estimating a tbsp of ketchup would lead to me often saying screw it on the whole day of calorie counting. I do admit to the odd dill pickle as an after workout snack that…
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With my alternate day cardio I just eat back half of what I burned one day (according to HRM calculation - don't trust the values on this site), then the other half on my rest/weights day. Found it to be a better solution than stuffing myself one day and being hungier the next and net calories consumed/burned is the same.
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Height 6'2" Starting weight 288 lbs; pant size 42 (but really needing bigger unless wearing baggy fit stuff) Current weight 220; pant size 36 (a bit snug but good motivation I figure)
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Same here. Almost as sweet as revenge.
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Usually either Low-Fat Frozen Chocolate Yogurt or a small piece or two of good quality dark chocolate.
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Never hungry in the mornings anyways and would rather have a light lunch and large supper instead anyways. The odd time I eat breakfast I find I just get really hungry too right around 1030-11am.
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Scale for everything outside of liquids, raw/precooked weights if possible. Do some comparisions even with prepacked food/meals and you will be shocked at how innaccurate measuring and/or eyeballing things is. I cringe when I go to enter the weight for an apple and see hundreds of entry's that state sizes like "medium",…
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Have to share... As ugly as this is I've been there lol!! Got loaded on a crazy friday a while back with friends after dinner at the bar, barf/passout, wake up and start thinking about if I can fit a greasy breakfast into my plan for the day seeing as how I lost at least half my dinner from the night before. Ultimatly…
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Yup I did for a while, but very quickly I realized I was much happier and more satisfied eating some decent food vs pounding back a few beers, and so my drinking in the last 4 months (outside of short vacation) has been almost non-existant.
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Been on for just over 4 months now and it is so true that the mind is slower to notice changes in yourself, wish I would have taken detailed before pics but am finally noticing some difference now. I think the problem was never having a good look in the mirror when I was at my heaviest due to dissatisfaction in myself, so…
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Doing alternating cardio and weight days with total rest on Sundays, and eating back half of my cardio cals burned and is working good for me. Also using a Polar HRM and subtracting BMR from my exersize, as I am trying to stay as accurate as possible. Tried not eating back any at all when I first started, but just found my…
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Also love the earlier protein suggestion. Nothing smacks down hunger/cravings better than a can of tuna and a fork, and at around 120 cals it's way better than eating a doz or more cookies on a binge.
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If you feel at risk for binging leave the enviornment for a while to think things through. Go for a walk/drive/etc. Craving cookies while standing around the kitchen elbow deep in cookie dough would kill anyone's willpower, and sticking around the house trying to think things through may be a mistake!!
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Skip coffee and take walks instead, work exersize into your lunches and just have a quick bite to eat, walk to work. That's what I've been doing anyways and I feel 10x better even with 8 hour desk days. Also have one of those hand flexor spring things but it's more of a joke than anything.
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Carbs!! Now I haven't cut them out or anything, but restricting myself to higher protien foods instead of just scarfing down loads of rice, pasta, chips, etc has been the biggest struggle for me.
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Health #1. Working a desk job and being overweight/out of shape would take years off my life and the older I get the more I feel it creeping up.
