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Obsessed with recipes, cooking, meal planning, cooking utensils
I've been maintaining for a couple of years now, healthy BMI of ~23 down from ~35. Very pleased with this overall, although still can't really believe it after so many years before of trying and failing. However, one thing I noticed is that in that time I have become a LOT more interested in recipes, cooking, cookbooks,…
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Tasting food when cooking, for seasoning etc.
Hi I've been maintaining for about a year and a half, using MFP. I'm not looking to lose any more weight, but I calorie count pretty precisely to keep myself honest and avoid regain. (i.e. I usually weight out all the food, and then split it into 1 portion per gram, and then weigh my portions, so pretty precise). I'm…
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Calorie counting meals with sauce or marinade that is mostly not consumed
I really love mussels, or "moules marinière". But although the sauce has a bunch of wine and cream in it, the way you eat it you generally don't consume most of the sauce - its just a flavouring for the mussels. Does anyone have a good way of calorie counting meals like this, with a large unconsumed element? Other examples…
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Fitbit and MFP calories out differ, even though connected
My MFP account is connected to my fitbit, and receives calorie adjustments from it. My MFP exercise level is set to inactive, and the only exercise adjustment I get is from fitbit. However, MFP puts my total calories out significantly higher than fitbit, by about 200 calories. Have I misconfigured the connection somehow?…
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Maintenance at Christmas
I'm sure there have been a million of these threads, but I thought I would share my plan for Christmas and invite any advice from more experienced maintainers. This is my first Christmas in calorie counted maintenance, so it's a new experience for me. My plan is: Keep Christmas eating limited to the three days of Christmas…
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Do you try to gain weight back when you slip below your maintenance range?
I've had a few times where I have slipped below my maintenance range, and then just set a new, lower one. But I know I can't keep doing that forever. After a panic about a month back where my weight spiked up, I have settled into a slow loss again. But the idea of trying to put weight on - even just a few pounds - is quite…
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Scaling back exercise without gaining weight
Does anyone have any advice for scaling back exercise without gaining weight? For example, if you have to rest an injury, or you change jobs and have a longer commute and less time, or if you have bitten off more than you can chew and can't sustain it long term. I don't place a lot of store in the app calorie estimates -…
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Weight suddenly gone crazy
A week ago I put my calories up by 50 calories. I have been putting my calories up by 50 or 100 every week or two for a while, to try and stop my weight from trending downward, as I hit my target weight a while ago. Suddenly, after the last 50 calorie increase, my weight has gone crazy. I tried not to panic the first day…
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Interval / "HIIT" videos for bad knees
Can anyone recommend some interval / HIIT* videos that don't feature squats, lunges etc? I have some issues with my knees that get inflamed by these sorts of movements. I have two Joe Wicks videos that fit the bill, but I get bored of doing the same two videos so frequently. Google etc. Not much help. * HIIT in the…
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Silly calories question.
Silly question that has been bugging me. When you have a per 100g calorie figure for something like an avocado or a peach (i.e. something with a stone or core that you don't eat) is that calorie count for 100g of the flesh? Or are you supposed to put the whole avocado, stone and all, on the scale?
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Book about NWCR participants
A while ago I found a book about participants in the National Weight Control Registry and what they had in common. It was called something like "Thin Forever". Googling for this has turned up nothing though. Does anyone know the name if the book and the author, or have a link?
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Does dieting lead to greater weight gain in the long term
I'm not advocating this view, but its one you often hear in the media: that "diets don't work" and in the long term cause you to gain more weight than if you never went on the diet in the first place. Is this just "fat logic", or is there something to it?
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Having trouble levelling out weight loss
Did anyone else have trouble levelling out weight loss when starting maintenance? I'm consuming 2600 calories per day, and although I have the occasional hungry day, many days I have to force myself to eat more to reach this target. It seems kind of perverse for a person with my history of weight issues to be forcing…
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What's your strategy when the app is down?
When the app isn't working, and its dinner time, what's your strategy? (Say it's a new meal, so its not already in the database). Do you have a meal off and just try to exercise portion control? What do you do?
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Am I doing too much exercise
I have read that people who succeed at maintenance do a lot of exercise. However, the amount of time exercise is taking is getting me down a bit, especially given that meal prep is taking me a while too. Currently I'm doing: 20 - 30 mins brisk walk in morning (but with warm up and warm down it can end up as 50). 10 min…
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True HIIT
Whenever I mention HIIT people say "what you're doing probably isn't really HIIT. When I say its a Joe Wicks video, this confirms their opinion. Can anyone recommend a video or set of instructions for "real HIIT"?
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Hopeful study on metabolic adaption
I have a bad habit of looking at scientific articles on obesity, which usually leaves me feeling very depressed. But I happened upon this recent study that was quite hopeful in some respects, so I thought I would share. https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajcn/nqaa086/5835207 I'm not scientifically or…
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Exercise calories in maintenance
I'm looking for advice on how to deal with exercise calories in maintenance. I haven't been eating back my exercise calories while losing, but I'm now ready to maintain. However, I'm worried about the inexactness of exercise calorie estimates. Most of my exercise calories come from walking, measured by MapMyWalk, with some…
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Have I ruined my knees forever?
I recently lost around 5 stone, and am closing in on a weight I want to maintain. This has involved a lot of exercise, mostly walking, Joe Wicks HIIT and Yoga. Between 1 and 2 hours most days. Recently, my knees started hurting during squats. I have had what I think is runners knee in the past (pain going up stairs) in the…
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Is it really as simple as keep counting and weighing?
I'm experiencing a strange feeling. I feel like what I'm doing to lose weight (counting everything, weighing daily, a fair amount of exercise) is something that I can happily keep on doing forever if I have to. The inconvenience is very small, compared to the pay off. Currently I don't really feel hungry, for example…
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UK food labelling confusion - "as consumed"
On a UK food label of something like rice, quinoa, etc., what does it mean when the calories are listed per "per 100g (as consumed). Does that mean you have to weigh it once it has been cooked (i.e. once it has absorbed water etc.) in order to get an accurate calorie count?
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How many minutes to record for HIIT.
Currently I'm recording Joe Wicks HIIT as calisthenics, and if I do a 15 minute work out I record 15 minutes of calisthenics. However, depending on the workout, perhaps 30 seconds of each minute would be rest. Would you record the whole 15 minutes, or put 7:30?
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Logging little mini-exercises
In addition to my "big" workouts, I have a system where I select little 1 minute exercises randomly from a list, and space them throughout the day to avoid long sedentary steps. These include press-ups, crunches, bicep curls, mountain climbers, and a whole lot of other exercises. I do about 12 of these in a day, each for…
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MFP says low on potassium. How seriously to take this?
MFP almost always puts me at way under RDA for potassium. How reliable is this? Is this something I should pay attention to? I don't think UK nutrition labels regularly list potassium.
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Weight loss rate doesn't make sense
I'm a bit confused by the rate at which I'm losing weight. My food deficit isn't that high. At greatest it was 600 calories according to MFP when I was on 2000 calories. I have been slowly increasing, so now its 2300 and a deficit of 250 at my current weight. However, my rate of weight loss is still pretty high, and does…
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BMI below 30 for the first time in years
Today I weighed myself and for the first time in I don't know how many years, my BMI was not in the obese range (it was 29.9). I know this is only one battle won in a life-long war against obesity. I don't really think I can afford to see myself as a person who is not obese, only a person whose obesity is "in remission".…
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How do you deal with the fear?
I haven't yet reached my maintenance goal, but I'm having serious anxiety issues related to fear of putting the weight back on. Partly this is because I fear the health consequences of doing so (weight loss is not primarily about looks for me at this stage in my life, although I'll take looking better as a bonus :smile: ).…
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The Paradox of Exercise
Has anyone read the article The Exercise Paradox? It details a study of the Hadza people, who have a very active hunter-gatherer lifestyle (18000+ steps), but were found to use an average of 2400 calories. The researchers hypothesised that this means that, long term, exercise doesn't so much increase energy expenditure as…
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Experiences with hunger while maintaining
Hi I have read that weight loss can cause increased hunger. People who have maintained for a good amount of time: did you find this to be true, and did you find hunger decreasing again after longer periods of maintenance?
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Is Joe Wicks style HIIT cardio or resistance? What is yoga? etc.
Hi I was going to start tracking exercise on MFP. However, there are several things I do which I'm not sure how to categorise. For example, yoga. I do some fairly relaxing yoga, but also some "flow yoga" which is a bit more muscular. It's not cardio, is it resistance, or does it not fit a category? Similarly, is a "Joe…
