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Post here if looking for friends!
I'm looking for some dietbet friends because we're all in the same boat so hopefully we can better support one another.
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Dietbet
Anyone with bets going on right now? I was looking at the dietbet website and liked the idea of making a bet on it to make it competitive. The 28 day one was lose 4% of your body weight, which would have amounted to 2.7 pounds a week for me which I consider unhealthy. I instead went with lose 10% of your body weight in 6…
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Tips for success?
Hi all, I'm on a diet for what I guess is the third major time in 1.5 years. I really want to make this work but I'm not sure what are the keys to success for me. I hear it is helpful to have encouraging friends, and I tried that on here and it was.....lacking. I pretended to care about the people I add and I felt they…
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Raw Veganism - Is it healthy?
I'll be honest up front, I'm not someone who's going to be going raw vegan. I used to be a vegan but have since gone back to a normal omnivore diet. I am just curious whether someone can be a RAW vegan and be healthy because every raw vegan I know is extremely skinny and looks a little unhealthy. I know being a vegan alone…
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Anyone else have sleep apnea?
I've been diagnosed with moderate sleep apnea for a month now, but instead of getting the 500-2000 dollar CPAP I'm first trying to lose 50 pounds to see if it will reduce it enough to not need one. Anyone else have sleep apnea and lessen/eliminate it through weight loss? My Respitory Disturbance index is a 17.1, you need…
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Binging on nts with access to food
5-6 days out of the week I sleep at my apartment, which has basically no food in it. This makes it easy for me because I just eat a reasonable amount before bed and then once I'm in bed if I feel like binging unneccessarily tough cookies I have no food to do so on. However 1-2 days a week I sleep at my girlfriends, and I'm…
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Sedentary activity level
Over the last 24 days I've lost 7 pounds. I was already on a diet for a week or so prior to that and saw big losses then in the first week as is expected. I should be losing 0.14 pounds a day with my 500 calorie deficit, but I'm losing 0.291 pounds a day. I eat all my exercise calories back. I have my activity level as…
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Wake up hungry, sometimes early
I intentionally save 700-1200 of my 2200-2800 calories for the last 4 hours of the day that I am awake because if I try to go to bed hungry I am most likely to binge. Even doing this I find I'm waking up starving, sometimes after 4-5 hours of sleep, and sometimes after a full nights sleep. The first thing I feel the need…
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Your Calorie Deficit VS your weight loss
I would like to know for everyone here, how does how much you expect to lose compare to how much you lose? So if you could please try to summarize "how much is your deficit on average" and "how much is your weight loss" on average. Also please post how long you've been dieting. Thanks :-) For me I've been aiming at 1 pound…
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Myfitnesspal calorie estimates for exercise
How do myfitnesspal estimates of calories burned change by weight? Do they at all? As a 260 pound person when I walk for 10 minutes it says I burn 75 calories if I go 3.5 miles per hour, but http://whatscookingamerica.net/Information/CalorieBurnChart.htm would have me believe that would only be true if I was 208 pounds,…
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Protein harder to digest, smarter to eat?
http://www.rxmuscle.com/blogs/the-kitchen-eating-strategies/8311-why-a-calorie-is-not-a-just-calorie-with-respect-to-weight-change.html To summarize the article, they are saying protein takes signficantly more calories to digest than carbs or fat. For every 100 calories of protein you eat, maybe as much as 30% are lost in…
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Is my TDEE higher than myfitnesspal says?
The last time I was on a diet I lost about 4.4 pounds a week at a weight of 270. My goal was 1.5 pounds and I exercised 500 calories a day on average. I only stayed on the diet 5 weeks though and have since gained it all back, except for 5 pounds. Now I've been dieting for 2.5 weeks and am losing similarly fast again. My…
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Difficulty taking advice from girlfriend on weight loss
My girlfriend and I have a tumultuous relationship when it comes to diets and food. She has anxiety issues and my going on a diet causes her a great deal of stress. Sometimes she expresses this in negative ways, like asking me not to exercise in the house because she doesn't want to know about it, or not letting me use her…
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If I didn't eat frequently, I'd be hungry all the time, why?
Does anyone else feel hungry MUCH of the time? I eat a little bit all day long because otherwise I'd get so hungry that my willpower would hit a wall and I would binge. I fill up on "healthy" or "low calorie" vegetables because I feel if I did otherwise I wouldn't be able to limit my intake. I eat about 55 grams of fibre a…
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How to make a diet last?
I found out a month ago that I have moderate sleep apnea, with all the medical consequences that brings, and it is the first time my weight has had a glaring negative impact on my health. I'm only 29 so that's not surprising that high blood pressure hasn't become a problem yet. The thought of buying a CPAP machine for 1500…
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Looking for motivation friends between 200-350
Well it has been 5 months since I ended my diet and I'm basically back to where I started!! BLAH! And the news I got today was I have moderate sleep apnea, which leads to lots of problems and I either should get a CPAP machine, which new costs like 1200-2000 dollars, or a used one which costs 300-500 dollars. I really…
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Is yo-yo-ing worse than staying overweight?
I dieted earlier this year and lost about 25 pounds in 6 weeks. It has been 5 months and I'm back up again and am only down 5 pounds from my start. Was the exercise and eating right good for my body even though I stopped or was going down 25, and up again 20 worse than had I not tried at all? I was exercising about 300-400…
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How hard is your diet/exercise routine?
Question to all. How much weight do you have to lose? How fast are you trying to lose it? How fast are you losing it? On a scale of 1-10 how hard are you finding it the last week? My answers are I want to lose another 29 pounds, at 1.5 pounds a week, but am actually still losing 3-3.5 pounds a week for some reason, and on…
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How much protein should I eat? (252 pounds)
I "think" I have a lean body mass of 170 pounds, and have learned that heavier people commonly have higher lean body masses, which makes sense because when I was 220 pounds I was fit but my lean body mass was 145. I want to retain my lean body mass obviously as I lose weight and I want mostly what I'm burning to my fat and…
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Too much sodium
I can't see a whole lot wrong with my diet, except I eat on average more sodium than I am supposed to, and considering I am trying to eat healthy that surprises me. I went looking through what I eat to find out where is all the sodium coming from and found it was my girlfriend's Chili that was the main reason I'm over. Per…
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When is weight loss too fast?
Hi there, I'm a 28 year old guy who started his diet around Jan 17/2013 at 275 pounds and am 5 foot 9. For 3 of those weeks I was aiming at 1900-2000 net calories a day, and the other week of it I was aiming at 1700 but that felt too restrictive. I have been exercising with low to moderate intensity cardio burning roughly…
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Time constraints on exercise
I've been feeling a little guilty lately. I know my health is important, but the fact that exercising limits the time I can spend with my girlfriend's kids bothers me. Here is a layout of my day: 7-8pm - visit with girlfriend's kids 8pm - kids get put to bed 8-10pm - visit with girlfriend 10pm to 10:45pm - drive to work…
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Reasonable weight loss goals
I was wondering what are some mini goals I can aim for over the next few months that i can be happy about when I achieve them. I originally weight 275 on Jan 17th and have since then lost 18 pounds and am 257. Last week I really exercised my butt off and got in a little more than 4 hours of exercise in, or 2800 calories…
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ok i don't know how to delete this thread, i wanted to see if i had a signature for my weight loss so far.
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Which is best, 1 pound a week, 2, more? long term
I was wondering what the relationship was between long term weight loss and average net calories consumed. I would think that people who were trying to lose 1 pound a week would have an easier time sticking to it for the long term and would lose more weight. Can people please post their personal observations about who…
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Looking for friends around 220-320 pounds
Hi all! I just joined this site, left another weight loss site with less options and no ability to record exercise. I'm 5 foot 9, and last weighed in at 268, and 28 years old. A week earlier than that weigh in I was 275 so I'm not sure where I am right now. I would LOVE to get back down to around 220, because I felt much…
