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After 9 months, I'm beginning to find balance. The biggest thing is learning to listen to your body. Eating when you're hungry, stopping eating when you're no longer hungry. Building in some routines that serve you well, like ALWAYS eating breakfast, etc. I'm still logging, but I'm quite sure I could stop now and maintain…
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If you want to be this precise, you have to go all the way. The monitor just calculates gross Calories burned over time. MFP is already "giving you" your BMR. To make the math work you must reduce the monitor's Calories for every hour by 1/24th of your BMR. If you don't do that and exercise a lot (as you do) you could be…
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Sprouted means malt. That means that some of the starches are going to be broken down into sugars by the plant's enzymes (primarily alpha- and beta-amylase if you're interested). I'd suspect that would mean a higher glycemic index compared to other whole-grain breads. BUT, it would also necessarily mean it was made with…
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I eat when I'm hungry, whatever time that is. Since I started on the weight loss journey I've always budgeted a late-night snack because I found I'd overeat late if I didn't leave some Calories for midnight. Now 9 months in I've gotten to be less rigorous about that and moved to the 'eat when I'm hungry' - even if that…
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It IS fun. Much more engaging than an hour on a treadmill or some such. Hardest workout I've ever loved, and all that.
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True, with one small, pedantic clarification: A calorie (small 'c') is the amount of energy required to raise 1g of water 1C. A kilocalorie or Calorie (big 'C') is the amount of energy required to raise one kilogram (or liter) of water 1 C. Food is measured in kilocalories/Calories.
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I've been using the 600 since I started in October. While I agree it was probably quite low in the beginning, it's pretty good now that my condition has improved. In fact, judging by the long-term effect on my overall weight loss, it might be a little bit high now. I'm set for 1lb/wk, but I've basically stopped losing…
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Whoa! Unless there's some water weight in there, that's way too fast. But 6lb/week is about a 3000 Cal/day deficit, so your exercise estimate ARE too high - at least somewhat. So yeah, eat more and exercise less.
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LOL. Did you ever think that people on a weight-loss board would be telling you to work out less and eat more? :)
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Yep. I give myself 600 Cal for an hour's Muay Thai. That includes about 100 sit ups, 50 pushups, 50 lunges or squats with body weight and a heck of a lot of time breathing hard sparring. Or for a rule-of-thumb, one REALLY sweaty T-shirt. :) By contrast, MFP will try to give me 420 Cal for an hour's general gardening, which…
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I can totally relate to being too busy to think of eating. BUT, it sounds like you're spending most of your day in fasting mode or you wouldn't be able to stand it. Eating just 2-300 Calories for breakfast will, literally break your overnight (sleeping) fast and "wake up" the body to burn Calories properly. Then you WILL…
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IME, the less "traditional exercise" and the more "good, old-fashioned work" an activity, the worse the MFP estimates are going to be - especially as they stretch out into an entire day. It's pretty good at knowing what to give you for an hour jog or elliptical, but is just making WAGs for gardening, mowing, etc. I always…
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What in the world are you doing to gain 6000 Calories? 7500/day is in marathon-runner territory.
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If you're using the MFP guidelines to gauge the amount of Calories gained through exercise be aware that they are a rough approximation. I generally only apply about half to 2/3 the Calories that MFP recommends for a given exercise - depending on how hard the exercise felt to me. Really, though, let your body guide you. If…
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For you katana folks, realize that those are pretty delicate. You want something you can BASH with. :D
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Personally, I wouldn't consider cheese and yogurt "dairy" if your reason to move away from it is that you can't digest it. The bacteria have already done all the hard work in those foods.
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Nice! :happy: I'd go with the Cold Steel War Hammer, although I don't have one (yet). Edit: Grrrr Links don't work... http://www.coldsteel.com/warhammer.html I do have an SOG Tomahawk and CS Kukri machete that would work in a pinch.
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My class is at 6:30-7:30 and I NORMALLY don't even go to bed until at least 1:00. (What I'm calling insomnia is me tossing and turning until 4:00 or 5:00.)
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Let's be honest: fast food can be an incredibly cheap way to get calories - that's one of the problems! You can get 600 Cal from McD for $2 + tax. (McDouble and small fry) I have a few recent immigrants working for me and they've both said that they lived on McD when they first came to this country with very little money.…
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Too late to edit... I meant to add that you should PM me because I have guest passes. :smile:
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Fogo is good but pretty expensive. All the chains are here, of course, and googleable. I'll list a few local favorites. There is a group of restaurants that are really great - Stone Creek Dining Co. They are roughly the same price as an Outback meal, but more interesting. Stone Creek (Plainfield, Noblesville, Greenwood,…
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For West-siders, the Indy Martial Arts Club on Washington/40 just east of Raceway is awesome. They teach Muay Thai and boxing. Somewhat pricey at $174/month, but that's for as many as 20 classes. Lots and lots of people do it for exercise only and never spar or fight at all. Lots of young people and some middle-aged folks…
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What do you know? I didn't even know there was such a group until today. Anyway, I'm originally from the south side of Indy, lived away for several years while in the Navy but came back. Now I live on the west side of Indy. I'm 40 lbs down from my starting point and just reached my first goal after 4 months. Twenty-five…
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You are right and you are wrong. Alcohol IS quite dehydrating per a given volume, but we don't drink very much of it. A 12oz beer has about a 1/2 oz of actual alcohol in it. That half ounce drives off less than 11.5 oz of fluid. Similar story with wine. So beer and wine, even spirits mixed into highballs are still…
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Right, there are two issues here. Some drinks need to be logged as food AND water. Nutritive drinks with protein, carbs, etc need to be logged at the top of the page and the bottom. Nothing sacrilegious about putting a drink in both places.
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Not too bad at boxing tonight. Good stretch before and a brace during. Ice immediately after. I'd say I'm at about 90%.
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If none of the above timing tweaks resolve your issue, it's possible you may have nutritional deficiencies - vitamins, minerals, protein/aminos, even sodium if you're aggressively restricting it. If you have these deficiencies you will crave food even though you're getting enough calories. (The cliched pregnant-woman…
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Just bought it for the Wii as one of my wife's Christmas presents. (She asked!) I plan to give it a try.
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Cheating is defined as breaking a rule. The significant question is "whose rule are you breaking?" IMO, where weight loss is concerned, nobody's rules matter but yours. I think you should follow the doc's advice. If your hemoglobin level gets below about 10, you're in danger and might need a transfusion to recover. Levels…
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Lots, and lots, and LOTS of things are poisonous in large quantities but harmless (or beneficial) in smaller quantities. Things like Vitamin A and B, Iron, sodium, oxygen, water, etc. By your logic, we shouldn't take Vitamin A because it is dangerous to take too much.
