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Husband wants to go on a diet!
I am 100 percent responsible for the meal planning, shopping and preparing of meals in my house. It's not as burdensome as it sounds. I really only have to prepare dinners four times a week and my husband "cooks with his credit card" the other nights. We eat breakfast and lunch separately. He won't eat very many vegetables…
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Alcohol as a recipe ingredient
Do any of the calories in alcohol cook off in the cooking process? I made bourbon chicken (including a quarter cup of bourbon!!) in my slow cooker and the calorie count for a 100 gram serving is disappointing. I guess I'm hoping (wishing) for an adjustment that can be applied to alcohol as a recipe ingredient.
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How did you eat as a child?
Just curious about what you were typically fed as a child and we're you over weight back then. For me this was in the US in the 1960's, a family of four: stay at home mom, my dad worked days so was home in the evening and I had a younger sister. Breakfast was cold cereal with banana and milk in the summer, or oatmeal with…
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What will you do differently this time?
I read here all the time about people that have lost weight and later gained it back, sometimes numerous times. Well now I'm one of them. I've only done this once so I figure I'm not a yo-yo dieter. Just a yo. If I couldn't keep my weight off, then my method must have had some flaws. I've had to think back on what made me…
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Calorie burn discrepancy, MFP/HRM
I have seen it posted here that MFP and excercise equipment overestimate calorie burns and that it's more accurate to use an HRM. This morning I had the opposite result. My HRM gave a reading that was far greater than MFP. Numbers: Female, Age 59, 178 lbs, 30 minutes on the eliptical. MFP gave me 363, the eliptical machine…
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Am I eating clean or not?
I've been lurking on another thread on the topic of clean eating. I understand that the definition of "clean" as used on these forums isn't precise and does include some small degree of processing. The argument rages about whether not eating clean can hinder weight loss and compromise health. I don't want to derail that…
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New reason to lose weight
I have lost my sense of smell. I can only tell if something is salt, or sweet, or sour or bitter, but I can't tell any flavor. For example, all ice cream tastes the same...cold, creamy, sweet...that's it. Not that that's bad. I can still binge on it if I'm not careful. I can't sniff food to see if it's spoiled, I can't…
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I've been setting myself up for failure
Here's how my mind works: I want to lose 45 pounds by next July. That would be around 30 weeks from when I started (re-started) so that should be around 1.5 pounds per week. So I charted it out on a spread sheet. The red line is the goal and I can see where I am with respect to it every day if I want. The sad reality is…
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Yet another motivation to lose weight
This week, at the end of a river rafting trip, our transportation out of the canyon was by helicopter. An intimidating old guy was in charge of the loading and had each of us say, loudly over the helicopter noise, our name and weight. He warned us, "if you lie, you die." If there's a next time, I promise myself there will…
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What to feed a gall stone sufferer?
My husband is contending with gall stones. I'm trying to figure out what to make for dinners that won't make him sick (and that also meet my weight loss requirements.) I googled the topic and the list of foods to avoid is disheartening. He defiantly thinks he's going to eat like normal, but clearly that was not a good idea…
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Why do people gain all their weight back so often?
I commonly hear that the vast majority of people who lose weight end up gaining it all back again. Why is that? No matter how gently you lose, there is some amount of sacrifice involved, often over a very long period of time. Why throw all that away? It seems logical that I can't go back to the eating habits that got me…
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How did you figure out your goal weight?
When I first started with MFP, I figured my goal weight should be 130 lbs. No particular reason except that it was what I weighed the last time I felt confident about my appearance...30 years ago! Since then I've had to reconsider. I remember years ago reading about a study of the health of older people of various BMIs…
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For the women over 50
Let me first give y'all a hug and ask you to be kind to yourselves. If you are here, it's likely you want to lose weight and so do I. I learned a few things that have made this process al lot less daunting: First, I thought my goal weight should be what I weighed that last time I was pleased with my looks. That was 30…
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Heart rate vs perceived exertion
I've noticed that when I bicycle at my usual pace, my heart rate monitor gives me an average of around 150 bpm and I would rate my exertion at about 7 out of 10. When I swim, my heart rate is higher than that, but it feels like much less exertion, maybe 5 out of 10. When I run, once my heart rate reaches 150, I have to…
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Something I figured out
I know most people that post questions here are trying to figure out how to lose weight the right way or the faster way, and I get it that in many cases dialing in your food intake and excercise in a very precise way and sticking to that religiously is the solution to their problems. But I suspect there are many others…
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Why do you excercise, really?
I've been bicyling for years. I used to ride with cycling clubs but got frustrated with the whole group dynamic. (There's so much rant material there that I could write a novel.) More recently I have found another female of about my speed to ride with and we have very pleasant although not especially vigorous rides. We…
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Is there an alternative to weight lifting?
I'm going to bellyache for a minute about weight lifting. I need to do some sort of strength training especially at my age for bone health. I'm hoping someone can think of an alternative that will accomplish the same thing. About the only excercise I really like is bicycling. I do that and spinning classes, but I don't do…
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Can elderly people safely eat less than 1200 calories?
I'm concerned about a elderly (80 years) relative that is eating around 800 to 900 calories a day. I got her to set up a MFP profile and log her food intake so I can look at her diary. She seems to be eating a healthy diet and she has energy for her activities and even bicycling. Is it possible that at that age, she simply…
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What foods do you add to eat back calories?
I've dialed in how to eat approx 1200 calories, but when I try to eat my excercise calories I either don't feel like eating more, or I end up on a binge. Also, on the weekends, I do a long bike ride, which my heart rate monitor says burns 2000 or more calories. Do I really need to eat an extra 2000 calories and what could…
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Eat all your calories from endurance sports?
On my bicycling days (weekends), I usually ride for three or more hours. My heart rate monitor gives me a calorie burn of 2000 or more. If my net calorie intake is supposed to be 1200, I would have to eat 3200 calories on those days. Should I really try to eat that many calories? Seems like the volume of food I would have…
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Post pig-out strategy?
After a candy binge in the middle of the night (the reasons for which are too complicated to go into here) I am about 1800 calories over the plan for this week. Should I divide that number by the remaining days in the week and try for a deficit of that amount each day, or just ignore the crime and move on?
