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Foundation, foundation, foundation (Alternative title: In weight loss, I am the dog.)
I'm a professional dog trainer and a dog sports competitor -- stick with me, I have a point. One of the big principals in dog training is basically about laying a strong foundation, and only increasing the difficulty when you have success 80+ percent of the time. Another one is that you make getting it right as obvious and…
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I'm done with weight loss.
Okay, maybe not entirely done, but basically done. I've been wrestling with what my actual goal weight is. I still don't know what the number is but 'about here' is the answer. I feel good. I feel strong. I feel confident. I'm HAPPY with me. My high weight was about 200. My starting weight at MFP was 188.8 My weight now is…
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You don't have to do it well, or 'correctly' - you just need to DO IT.
Time and again I see long term posters hammering on using a food scale, picking the right entries, being as accurate as you possibly can. I don't disagree with them. These are good things to do and will help you have the most predictable results - and if you're hitting a stall (of more than 6 weeks) these are the places…
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Suffering is not a virtue
Behaviorally every living thing on the planet, from gold fish to humans have one thing in common: We seek out and do what is rewarding, and avoid what is punishing and unpleasant/what doesn't pay. This does NOT mean that everything we do is easy or fun. It means that there needs to be a payout that is sufficient to offset…
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What does maintenance look like to you?
I'm curious about this - If you're in maintenance, do you expect to stay strictly within a calorie 'budget' and maintain your weight consistently (barring scale weight fluctuations via water or whatever)? Do you expect your weight to drift up to a 'scream weight' and then gradually lower it (with or without tracking)?…
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What happens when you have A Bad Day/go over your calories-
Friday, I went to spend a few days at a cabin on a lake. During those few days I didn't really track anything except my morning coffee, so I'd keep my streak and have something in my diary. The rest of the time? I just ate. A lot. Hot dogs, s'mores, pizza, hamburgers, a whole bag of chips + container of dip, candy, an…
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Injury - Keep the deficit or maintain
I was going to just do a search, but I couldn't get it to work well for me and I trust the community here. Monday I tweaked my ankle pretty badly (one ligament got torn in half, the other one tore off the bone and took a chip of bone with it). Recently I've been doing a really small deficit (150-200 calories) below my…
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Slow is fast.
I've been meaning to write this for a while now. I have some extra time right now, thanks to an injury, so now seems like a good time to do the thing. This is a partial repost and elaboration of something I have said before, so if you've seen it -- I'm not plagiarizing myself. --- I'm a professional dog trainer and a dog…
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Do you have a functioning uterus?
I never start threads, but I see this come up a lot and wanted to be helpful. Women talking about stalling for 3-4 weeks and calling it a plateau. Your cycle impacts things, it really does. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot, but hormones absolutely impact scale weight. I only show loss ONCE in a month, for a few days in…
