beth0277 Member

Yes, I still plan to count calories. I've just heard, from my doctor, that IF throwing your body into ketosis can help the last few pounds.

Thanks for the advice, everyone. To be clear, when I say "happy weight" I mean for my body, not necessarily how I feel when I look in the mirror. Of course, I still see that 213 pound girl staring back at me, but even on my most level headed day, I don't feel great with my body. I know I haven't been working hard enough…

Yep. I do.

Right - it comes from a place of caring and not control. I want to grow old with him. I only WISH I had someone willing to make my meals and break down the calories for me!

It's really not that serious. I was asking for someone, perhaps smarter than me, to be able to break it down in a way that I am obviously not able to get it across to him. We're happily married, have been for 10 years, together much longer than that. I'm not too concerned with heading down the wrong path.

The town that he works in doesn't offer much other than fast food or sit down home-style type places. Fast food is probably the lesser of the two evils, calorie wise. They do sometimes go to chain sit downs but there are only 2 in town so not too often.

One thing that I can say confidently is that his drink choices are never anything other than water or diet soda, so he isn't getting any additional liquid calories. He doesn't even drink coffee.

The loss rate seems slow to me which is why I looked at his diary today with the intention of maybe asking him to see a doc to check his thyroid, etc. According to his fitbit, which I know can be inaccurate, he is burning close to 3800-4000 calories many days and only eating 2,000. I've even encouraged him to maybe up his…

I agree that it's CICO, only speaking from my personal experience that I was stalled for a while, still eating at goal. I switched up to focus a bit more on fruits/veggies/nuts and I busted through my plateau. Maybe it's the way my body responds, perhaps it's some insulin resistance into play, but that's how I worked…

I appreciate your post but have to disagree on some points. He is a fairly large guy, even when he is in shape. We aren't talking about a small framed 5 foot 8 inch man. He is over 6 foot and large framed to begin with. No doubt about it, he is overweight, seriously so, but there has been no trauma or emotional issues that…

I agree that being hard on him could cause tension which is why that isn't the path I will go. I truly want to help him. We've been married for 10 years and I love him very much and want to spend a long life with him. He's morbidly obese. When I've talked to him about it in the past and he says he wants to do it his way or…

I'm waiting on his response about the lunches - just texted him this morning. He has significant weight to lose. He is 302 as of this morning and wants to get to around 220.

Yes. He has been very discouraged about not losing and with his personality, if he continues to be stalled, he will throw in the towel. I am trying to be supportive. I offered to start making his lunches with mine every morning.

Of course, but he is also discouraged about not losing weight and I'm trying to help him. I would gladly take his help if he were to offer it.

Sounds like we have similar stats. My highest weight was 213 but 100 days ago I was 204. This morning I was 183.4. Side note, the 180's suck. I have been here for so long, it seems. I was 188-187-188-187 and back and forth for like 2 weeks, and now I seem to be doing the same with 183-184. Boo.

I think part of it is that I never really sized up so I was probably stretching the clothes pretty thin (no pun intended) at my higher weight but no, nothing is really falling off of me or looking sloppy at this point. I've been "shopping" in my closet from some old clothes to see if I can fit in some stuff and maybe…

No, I should have pointed out that I had lost 10 of the pounds before I started tracking accurately so in the last 100 days, I've lost 20.8 pounds. Sorry for missing that point!

I actually do eat, within reason, the way I want to a lot. I have an ice cream cone almost every night. Of course, I can't make Chick-Fil-A for lunch and Mexican for dinner work every day, it just simply wouldn't work out. I guess on days when the scale hasn't moved much in a few days and I'm not seeing any physical…

I tried to up it this week but will definitely keep trying! Calorie intake is measured using a digital scale. Outtake is using my Fitbit that monitors my heart rate. I understand there are flaws possible with any method, but I feel pretty good about my methods.

I was curious about this. I should be starting my cycle next week or so. I am pretty meticulous about my food weighing. I use a digital scale for absolutely everything that isn't liquid or extremely straight forward (like 1 slice of bread is 120 cals, etc.)

I'm not really stressed about it - just trying to learn. We see so much about CICO on MFP and I'm just trying to understand the science behind it. If my weekly deficit is 7,000 calories, of course different variables would cause different losses and I don't expect it to be exactly 2 pounds for the 7,000 calories, but when…

You're right, I used the wrong terminology. The 1970 isn't my resting burn, more my daily burn with no real extra activity, so like a lazy day but still walking around to the bathroom, cooking dinner, little things like that. Most days I am closer to 2200-2500 but that is with walking the dog, and the 2500 is adding…

I clarified in another post that it's not technically a plateau but seems to not be accurate with my daily/weekly deficit.

I'm 32.

I'm losing but it seems slower than the basic CICO math seems it should. I would say I've lost maybe .5 pounds over the last week. So not a true plateau but I was losing more and for the last two weeks, it has slowed way down.

You guys are awesome. :blush:

That makes sense. I'm not overly concerned about it but sometimes it is discouraging to have a few days where I have a net deficit of 1,000 calories and the scale doesn't move at all and then I have a few where I have a deficit of only maybe 300-400 and it drops quickly. I'm sure it's just retention but it's annoying - lol.

Amazing!

1.What was the turning point for you? So, I've tried to lose weight for a while and had tons of "reasons". For myself, for my 6 year old son, for my husband, for my health, nothing ever "stuck". After not really caring for a while, I found out that my mentally ill mom called me "fat**s" behind my back. Something about the…

Feel free to add me as a friend and message me. I am going through hell with this very situation right now.