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When my energy drops or I get to craving food, I'm starting to learn I'm not eating enough and I need to up my calories for a meal or even two. I track it. I always feel better and even if I gain a pound, that can be lost.
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Be glad your trainer sent you to the doctor! Hernias are nothing to mess around with. Especially with weights. Good luck and take it slow and steady when you get to recovery time.
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This is a marathon. You're running a half- marathon. Mindless repetition over and over in days of training 5,7 or 10 miles a day. You know how to make a commitment and stick with it. You know how to do something even when you don't feel like it. This is one more of those. If you only have 20# to lose, then just realize…
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I've been on MFP since 2013. Whenever I decide I've "got this" and stop logging I then regain 20 pounds. For this third time around once I get to maintenance, I'm going to keep logging. I learn a lot about fitness and exercise here and try to do a challenge here and there to keep it fun.
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25 pounds in less than a month!? I've lost ten pounds in 3 months and have had some struggles. One of them is that if I restrict too much I start eating junk food right and left. I'm working on figuring out how to maintain for the long run, not do a short little sprint of weight loss and end up in 8 months weighing more…
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Hi Dree. I'm 62. I can either be a good weight, healthy as possible, person, or I can eat whatever I want, get sore joints, have trouble walking, and start the "big decline". I choose to NOT be an overweight, middle age (or senior) woman. It's your choice. Keep up the fight. Oh, and it doesn't get any easier. You just need…
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It's tough if you don't want to eat left overs. I make a batch of homemade vegetable and turkey chili and freeze it. It makes a healthy and filling breakfast. I also will eat, for dinner, a homemade turkey taco with a half slice of pepper jack cheese, 2oz cost-co's turkey breast ( I eat a lot of that where you slice it…
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I'm going on a trip in May and needed to get myself in gear. I joined the "lose 1 pound a week" challenge. It was just what I needed to have a little more accountability. Ten weeks into it and I'm down 11 pounds (with ten to go). I also consider this a life long process and not a "I made it!" thing. I read the maintenance…
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I went off for "a week" and gained 20#. I come on daily, log daily, and read motivation and maintenance boards daily. You've come too far to slip now. Since you've been stalled for 3 months it sounds like you've found maintenance. Log what you're eating on slip days and you can calculate maintenance with a little math.…
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Get a tape measure and get measurements now. You'll be glad you did!
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OP. I've lost 25 # twice, and regained it. In the beginning of the regaining process it's like my mind, my internal controls, turn off. So, I stop logging since I know I'm way over and don't want to look at red day after day. But I "really" want the pie, or ice cream, or whole dinner out. I don't want to take half home for…
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You need to eat your own food and let him eat his. You'll both be happier, in the long run.
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My husband and I work together and also do a lot of stuff together outside of work. We're best friends. Except that I work out every morning and always have made it a priority. He doesn't do much exercising. We also don't eat the same meals. When we go out, I bring half my portion home for the next day. You really can do…
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Nikki you are really amazing. Thanks for posting. I know you were discouraged when you posted, but for the many people on here who can't do what we used to do physically for various reasons, you're an inspiration. Three years ago I could do "anything". Then I developed foot issues: arches, plantar fasciitis, and bunions,…
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I had a binge weekend- with no excuses. No stuff from my past or anything. I just really wanted to have popcorn and ice cream Fri and Sat nights. Lots of both. Really?? Well, it happens. Keep logging and keep posting. You'll get back on track if you "just do it". Many of us on here get stuck in unhealthy mental places.…
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I make homemade veggie chili and add 2 1/2 oz of turkey for breakfast. That's about 300 calories. I have a half a large banana snack (75 cal), and a homemade salad for lunch with turkey, also about 300 calories. I find the meat and veggies keep me feeling much more full than a carb breakfast and lunch. I'm at 1200 calories…
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Be sure to count your calories and weigh your food to be accurate. Double check what you entered into mfp as well. Finally, often the exercise calories are too high and many of us only eat back half of what mfp gives as calories burned. You will lose weight, if you eat less calories than you burn.
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I lost 20 pounds in two months one winter before I discovered mfp. It wasn't sustainable and I was hungry the whole time. I never get sick, and I was sick the whole two months with every cold and bug that came near me. I gained it right back as well. I would guess I was eating about 800 calories a day but wasn't counting.…
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Great job so far!! Just take it slow and steady. No rush. Just work on keeping your portions appropriate and you'll do great. I'm impressed that you started this journey at not quite 18. Good for you, for taking your health and life back into your own hands!!
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I totally empathize and at 5'2" learned that long ago. I have very little wiggle room or set myself back 2 weeks. If I binge, I try to keep it just 300 cal over either my loss goal or maintenance goal. I can manage that and it'll only set me off for a few days.
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Went up a pant size then needed to go up another size. Enough! I squeezed myself into the now too small by one size clothes and said they were not getting any larger. Time to get back on track and lose the 25 pounds I'd managed to regain in a mere 6 months. Ten down and clothes much more comfy. And I'm starting to feel…
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A pound a week is great. How tall are you and how much are you looking to lose? In 52 weeks you'll have lost around 50#. Not bad!
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It's a different place to be in maintenance, with, to some, not as much plus side. I hope I've learned how to finally master maintenance. I just can't think of this weight loss journey as "over". It's just slightly shifted direction. Keep your focus and get serious if you go up 3 pounds. Go to a deficit. I got complacent,…
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I've also derailed twice before by thinking I could eat whatever I wanted. First it was one day every month or so, then once every week or two, then a glass of wine with dinner, and before I knew it I was back up 25 pounds. I am working on stopping eating when I'm no longer hungry. I recently went away for a weekend with 3…
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Since you are down to your last ten pounds you're practically in maintenance. I give myself a 5 pound range since eating salty popcorn can have me up 2 pounds the next day in water weight and I'm only 5'2". When I get to the top end of maintenance I tell myself I'm "there". But in the past I derailed at that point. Now I'm…
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You've been on here to some degree since 2011 so I suspect you know the drill. While I have "just" 25 pounds to lose for the third time, I know how hard it can be to restart- again. I had a moment when I was on the verge of needing to go up a Jean size for the second time in 4 months, and knew that if I didn't get serious,…
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I'd pick a first step. Like, track your steps and add 1000 a day. Then smoke 10 less cigarettes a day. Things like that. As your self- esteem picks up and you start realizing that you really can exercise more and smoke less, you can expand. It may not work for you to try to do a ton at once. Baby steps. Crawl before you…
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Wow!! Nice job!!! You might need to cut 50 or even 100 calories off if you aren't losing. You can always add it back if needed. I did that last month and it got me going again. I've never understood the "eat more calories" advice I've read on here. I can't follow that "logic" and have found I always lose within a week or…
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My mantra- Am I hungry? Am I really hungry? Why do I want to eat if I'm not hungry?? Little craving voice, I'm going to ignore you, since I've determined I'm not hungry. It can be a real battle sometimes, where I have this internal conversation every 15 minutes or so, until the craving either passes, or I manage to finally…
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I read somewhere that the feeling of hunger is like an early warning system. It isn't an slarm that you're going to starve to death soon, but more that you better start getting ready to hunt or gather food and to plan on eating in the next few hours. I remind myself of that when I get over worried about being hungry later.…
