OsricTheKnight Member

If your budget allows, I can't help but recommend a wifi scale to make trendweight a breeze. Now my challenge isn't _entering_ the data, it's remembering to look at it! Sodium: my goal is 1500mg or less per day. It turns out to be awfully hard to hit. Aiming for 2000 should be reasonable. Osric

Hi Robert! Like so many I'm back with more energy for the new year :-) I am sorry I missed your posts back in October. How's it going now? Osric

Finally back on track - two weeks of not being able to keep up the full plan, even worse than I expected. At least my weight loss only slowed and didn't reverse: but this is a great reminder for me of why I need to be restrained even at parties. It really makes zero sense since I am a firm CICO believer, but my experience…

Not enjoying my results over the last two weeks ... but the scale doesn't lie and it's been a lot of up and down days averaging out to near maintenance. Ah well. Osric

What's your sodium goal? I need to watch my sodium too, but honestly I don't track it at all. My logging is very hit-and-miss at the moment, I should be more thorough. Osric

Your graph looks awesome! Looking forward to an update at the end of October. Osric

- good idea - shorter text - stay on topic - avoid duplicate advice - encourage the OP Osric

I'm confused. An 8:23 pace is slower than 7:45, not faster. Osric

You'd have to be very rigid to see losses at 1800/d given your stats. Absolutely no extras and no exceptions. 1800/ day might be a good maintenance level for you if your goal is 130s. It'll take a very long time to reach that goal, though. Christmas dinner alone will probably halt your progress for 7-12 days. Osric

Yes. The easiest way to lose weight without counting calories in my opinion is to plot your daily weigh ins on a trend graph, like libra or trend weight or happy scale, and then eat fairly consistently for a week or two. If you aren't losing, reduce your intake and repeat until your weight is going down at the speed you…

So my week of recovery has been harsher than I'd like - I often find that after a big feed I have trouble focusing as strongly as before and this week was no exception. So instead of my usual ~ 1.5ish lb/week loss, this week is shaping up to look like 0.4lbs lost. I guess next time I'll have to eat less :) Osric

I think if you want an accurate idea of your weightloss nothing beats a daily weigh in and a trending graph. This won't necessarily give you an accurate measure of your exact current weight, but it will definitely give you a good measure of how much you are losing or gaining over time. And the trajectory of your weight is…

You are making some big claims that are not substantiated. If you want to claim that your fundamentals are necessary for everyone, you should back that up with suitable research. If you want to claim that your way might work for some people, that's different and possibly true. As written several of your principles have an…

Probably water. Use a trending chart to be able to tell. See my example in my philosophy post. If it turns out not to be temporary, then you're eating too much. But it's far more likely to be water than fat. Osric

Day two still looks grim. I'm on track today hope to see a data point below the trend soon enough! Osric

I allow myself a meal out with my family or my wife each week. I think the best way is to "plan it in" by saving up calories during the week that you know you're going to blow on the cheat meal. If you don't account for it at all, it's amazing how much damage you can do in a single sitting or a single day. Osric

As always I recommend using a trending graph so that you can tell what's going on over the long term. Weigh-in to weigh-in the results are totally dominated by water weight which you don't really care about, and so if you're just going to look at the scale number you have to weigh really infrequently or risk seeing a…

I love my withings scale for convenient daily logging. Osric

Unfortunately libra is only an android app. Depending on how you're getting your weight data into it, you could also use trendweight which will give you the graphs I am using - and you can use both at once, too. Though if you use both it might be desirable to set libra so that it computes the same numbers as trendweight.…

Technically true but highly unlikely to be successful. You're working with too many estimates - an estimate of what you burn, an estimate of what you eat, an estimate of what you'd like to weigh. More than likely you'd think you're eating 1700 calories and you'd really be eating 1900-2100 ... which would keep you at…

Talk to your doctor or get a second opinion. Nobody here has any idea what you'll do to your back or your ability to walk if you fail to follow the medical advice you are getting. Osric

I like to weigh in daily to follow the trend. You get a graph that clearly shows where you are at, like this one: It's very clear, and very motivating, unlike the underlying scale data points, which are random and demotivating. Osric

I like to weigh every day and use a trend so that I can see the progress. My post discusses this in some detail, but for your purposes these pictures should be interesting: MFP graph: Trend graph of the same data: I think it's quite hard to believe those are the same data points. Osric

No problem, easy reading for my tired eyes - only just got back to MFP after a busy day ... 1.35AM here on the east coast. So first off looks like you're making great progress! Wow -1.9lb in 7 days is nice. If you maintain that consistently you'd expect to be losing almost 6lb every 3 weeks. Since you've just started using…

I'd love too but let's take it off the OP's thread - meet over here in my (not very active/mostly empty!) data tracker's group. This article says it'll tell you how to take a screenshot of what libra is telling you. Get a shot of the graph and of all the numbers at the bottom when you scroll down and post it in a new…

It's painful how much can be put on in a short time, isn't it? One of my most recent vacations, merely a week, I managed to put on 3lb (which is half of the 6 you're estimating). The graph looks like this: To be honest, on this vacation I ate with some restraint, too. Bottom line is you can take it back off, easily enough.…

I think as was already noted that exercise calories are often overestimated. I have in the past lost weight purely through exercising by doing 2h of exercise a day and not changing my intake much, but it was just far too much work to sustain for me. I don't think it's necessary to eat any of your exercise calories back,…

I love my scale! As far as I know there are two popular choices, the withings (that I have) and the fitbit aria (that I'm sure you can find other MFP'ers that have). The convenience just can't be beat. Osric

<blush> thanks This is true, in the sense that I will definitely have to either exercise a bunch or cut my intake even more as I approach my goal to keep up a deficit that I feel actually is making progress, so just after that I can afford to eat a bit more (to get back to what I'm eating now). In my personal case, I'm…

I am pretty sure BMR here meant BMI. Osric