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Off-Topic Discussion
You can chat here but no chitting.
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Estimate your total calories for an unlogged item
Play along if you want. I never log mustard but I use it almost each day. So I decided to weigh what I believe is a typical amount that I would use. There will obviously be some days I didn't have any, although they would be rare, and some days I would have more. I am heavy-handed with it so 5 servings at 3 calories per…
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Joy Brain
This is what I call something I have noticed in myself more since the skin removal. Things that are trivial to other people are not just NSVs for me but huge delight. Recently a person asked my about my noticeable increase in steps lately. I responded by saying when you lose a million pounds even when you are tired and the…
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Weight Loss Victories
Here is where we help motivate and encourage each other with our scale and non scale victories. Your NSVs (non scale victories) do not have to be anything major. My first one was that I could stand more comfortably. Something that many people take for granted was something that was pretty uncomfortable for me before I…
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Fat Brain
There is probably something better to call it. Fat brain happens after you start losing weight and start having NSVs but your brain has not completely caught up. This thread is to discuss it. I think shining a light on something helps. I will have plenty to share because I started out very large and I have battled my…
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How To Start Off Wrong (from member experiences)
How have YOU failed? These are as many of mine as I can think of at the moment: 1) Assumed that I must eat healthy food. 2) Do the same diet my wife is doing. 3) Meal replacement shakes 4) Pills - prescription and OTC 5) Eating very little food 6) Exercise the pounds away mentality 7) Picked a diet because a friend or…
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Calculating TDEE
I thought since I am going through the process - again - I would explain what I am doing for anyone who wishes to do it for themselves. So that I do not miss anything I will update this thread when I am doing something. The process started 9 days ago and the first phase ends tomorrow morning. The first phase is unloading…
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Finding an Initial Stopping Place aka The First Goal Weight
Some of this thread will just me just posting my thoughts. I welcome any discussion. Goal weight. There is an idea that baffles me. I do not know what that number is. Since weight is really a range not a specific number I am not sure what the goal range is either. But I do not have to know. At least not now. There is no…
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Guess the Calories
I will help with the cooking spray - 53 calories. The whole pan is a single serving and not even all I ate for lunch. If no one gets close by tomorrow I will give a hint.
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How does the summer heat influence your eating and overall process?
The summer always changes my eating in one way or another. It used to be the time of year where my cravings dried up but that seems to be a more permanent thing now. Here is what I am noticing this summer: I am less interested in cooking so my meals have gotten more simple. I find myself also using processed foods more and…
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Identity Shift
One of the bigger changes that happened early in my weight loss was that I stopped trying to become a healthy person and I became a healthy person. Granted I was still quite unhealthy at the time but this was a change in mental states not physical state. What is the difference? In my past weight loss attempts I focused…
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In Need of LL Group Leader(s)
With the other leaders being on a bit of a hiatus I need a volunteer or two. The main job is greeting new people and to help stoke the energy levels of group participation. The latter is typically done by keeping conversations going or starting new ones that draw people in. I am not fond of heavy handed moderation so if…
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Discussion on Cravings
While I encourage people to deal with their cravings as much as they can moderate it is also important, in my opinion, to occasionally ask the question "What happens if I don't satisfy a craving?" and remain "in charge." I think it is natural to seek pleasure and avoid pain or in this case unpleasantness. But we are not…
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The importance of small achievable improvements
It is important not to get tunnel vision towards weight loss. It might make you miss other areas in which you can do something to make your process of living easier. Every improvement compounds and leads somewhere better. One example I like to give is my sock drawer. For years I had many similar but slightly different…
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Need some advice about the final phase of weight loss re: not knowing goal weight
I would be curious how others that were not sure what their goal weights would be approached this situation. How did you deal with diet/deficit breaks? What was your final criteria? Was it appearance, a number, the final pound(s) effort to lose exceeded the desire, some combination, or something else? Depending on which…
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Feeling lightheaded
It would almost be worth celebrating except it sometimes ends in bouts of nausea. I think, and I hope my doctor agrees soon, that my BP medication needs adjusting or cutting. It has been going on for a couple of weeks but with all the recovery stuff I didn't associate it with my BP. I have gotten out of the habit of…
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The amazing results of watching my carbs...
...enter my mouth. For most of the 2 years I have been losing weight I have either been eating moderate or lowish carb. This is because it was easier for me to manage my reactive hypoglycemia. However, lately I have added a substantial amount of activity and to better support the amount of calorie burn I am eating higher…
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My second year anniversary thread
Late as usual since my 2nd year ended in February but at least I am consistently late. I posted it in the main MFP and shamelessly promoted our group in it. https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10791606/2-years-over-200-pounds-lost-lessons-learned-and-life-changed
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2 Years - Over 200 pounds lost - Lessons Learned and Life Changed
From a teenager through the present I have never been at a weight that I thought was appropriate. It started off with vanity pounds but as my activity kept decreasing through various events in life, I did not alter my eating and my weight kept increasing. My earliest terrible diet was doctor prescribed and it was a single…
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Tips for people working from home for first time.
Ideally you would have a work space that is used only for working. That is harder to accomplish in a home so do the best you can. Be careful about working from a table. They are not normally at the correct height to type on a computer comfortably for extended periods. Keep regular hours, take breaks and lunch at specific…
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What if you needed to lose weight for forever?
What if there is no goal weight and to be healthy you needed to be in a deficit most days for the rest of your life? The bathroom scale will never reward you with progress and thus never motivate you. Any misery you put yourself through is how you will live your life. You can't count on being happy later so you might as…
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Comments/Questions From Others
I am not a fan of people commenting or asking me questions but it is still worth discussing. The most popular question I get is not what I would have expected. It is not "How much weight have you lost?" It is "Do you feel better?" or some variant of that question. Luckily that is a question I am willing to answer. I do get…
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This is a very sad week for me
I am sure others have lost someone dear to them around this time of year. Last year I lost my brother in law. He and I were cut from a similar cloth and I loved him dearly. But it is good that I am so sad. It means he has lived a life worth being sad over and he did. He has made an indelible mark on my life. He was far…
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Permission to Come Aforum?
Sunday started my 4 month maintenance/recomp period. This is part of my overall plan to be over-prepared for full-time maintenance... assuming that is possible. For several months now I have been working on habits, NEAT improvement, and trying to consider my strategy. It helped me to stop thinking of this as preparing for…
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The topic I didn't want to discuss - loose skin
So I really didn't want to discuss this on MFP at all. I am an extremely private person by nature and this is a very public forum. However this group is for this very kind of discussion because I won't be the only one to go through this. So my upcoming surgery... yep. Because of how I carried so much of my weight in my…
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Some Thoughts about Lent
I am very reluctant to discuss anything religious online. I am also not going to try to advise anyone on what they should or should not do if they observe Lent in a traditional or non-traditional manner. I am going to throw out my thoughts and if anything sticks that is fine, if not, that is fine too. I do observe it…
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How would you add 300ish calories to this meal?
I have already eaten: Egg white fritata with zucchini, onion, cheese, and protein powder. A large bowl of cauliflower, broccoli, and carrots. A pound of cod (raw weight) mixed with 2 servings of lentils dressed with avocado, olive oil, and mustard. Macros are obviously in good shape so what do you think should be next? The…
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Losing weight does not mean you have a good plan
It doesn't mean your friend, relative, co-worker, or someone they know has a good plan either. Losing weight can easily mean you have a perfectly horrible plan and calling it a lifestyle doesn't mean it stopped being a diet. The scale will sometimes distract you from the truth. It has certainly distracted me in the past.…
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Apple Watch/Health Daily Calories - Recalcing TDEE
For the last 2 months I have had unusable scale results. I am post-op and my weight has been cycling up and down 5 to 7 pounds every few days. Fun. I have also been restricted from exercise until very recently. I have been allowed to walk which I have done daily. One of the main objectives of the surgery was to free me to…
