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2015 FFA Weight Loss thread (1 Viewer)

Yes, finding time is the hard part especially when the wife just had twins and we already have a 6 year old.

 
I just tried some drinks I got the other day at Sam's Club. It's called Bai5. It's pretty good and only has 10 calories. It is supposed to be full of antioxidants also.

I also tried out Panera Bread the other day for the first time. I didn't realize the place was so great for someone dieting. They have a bunch of nutritious stuff and everything they have shows how many calories is in it. I was thinking the place was just a place that had a bunch of bakery stuff with high carbs. Place is definitely on my list of spots to hit in the future.

 
I was eating a Special K bar today at work and the last bite fell on the ground. I picked it up and put it in my mouth just as a coworker saw me. Sure, it may be disgusting, but you only get a certain amount of points a day, and I'm not just going to throw mine away. :angry:

 
I was eating a Special K bar today at work and the last bite fell on the ground. I picked it up and put it in my mouth just as a coworker saw me. Sure, it may be disgusting, but you only get a certain amount of points a day, and I'm not just going to throw mine away. :angry:
5 second rule applies ... unless you were in the bathroom!

 
I was eating a Special K bar today at work and the last bite fell on the ground. I picked it up and put it in my mouth just as a coworker saw me. Sure, it may be disgusting, but you only get a certain amount of points a day, and I'm not just going to throw mine away. :angry:
5 second rule applies ... unless you were in the bathroom!
No. At my desk. I'm not a germaphobe or anything like that. And I'm not really at the other end of the spectrum either. But I'm down with a 5 second rule. 15 second rule if you're on Weight Watchers.

 
MCguidance said:
Starting weight: 251.2 on 1/5/15

Current weight: 242 on 1/15/15
236.9 on 1/27/15
Doing what?
Using the loseit app to keep my calories in check. Minimal exercise, which I need to incorporate soon. I am allowed ~1900 daily but usually come in around 1500.

Typical day:

Breakfast: Five egg whites

Snack: Banana

Lunch: Apple, turkey sandwich with cheese and siracha in whole wheat, banana

Snack: fruit

Dinner: portion controlled of whatever I want, usually chicken or fish based

Dessert: fruit or something else healthy

Just simple watching and restricting has helped me lose the first fifteen pretty easily. Will power is always my issue.

 
I'll try and keep myself motivated here.

Right now 180, would like to get to about 160.

I'm eating around 2000 calories/day.

Run 12-15 miles a week. Do 3 days with weights a week (~25 minutes each time). Hike ~10 miles/week.

Don't care if it's slow to lose. 1lb/week would make me happy. 1/2 would be fine too.

 
Starting weight: 251.2 on 1/5/15

Current weight: 242 on 1/15/15
236.9 on 1/27/15
Doing what?
Using the loseit app to keep my calories in check. Minimal exercise, which I need to incorporate soon. I am allowed ~1900 daily but usually come in around 1500.

Typical day:

Breakfast: Five egg whites

Snack: Banana

Lunch: Apple, turkey sandwich with cheese and siracha in whole wheat, banana

Snack: fruit

Dinner: portion controlled of whatever I want, usually chicken or fish based

Dessert: fruit or something else healthy

Just simple watching and restricting has helped me lose the first fifteen pretty easily. Will power is always my issue.
that's ####### awesome- nice work! :thumbup:

that's also a lot of fruit.

 
Starting weight: 251.2 on 1/5/15

Current weight: 242 on 1/15/15
236.9 on 1/27/15
Doing what?
Using the loseit app to keep my calories in check. Minimal exercise, which I need to incorporate soon. I am allowed ~1900 daily but usually come in around 1500.

Typical day:

Breakfast: Five egg whites

Snack: Banana

Lunch: Apple, turkey sandwich with cheese and siracha in whole wheat, banana

Snack: fruit

Dinner: portion controlled of whatever I want, usually chicken or fish based

Dessert: fruit or something else healthy

Just simple watching and restricting has helped me lose the first fifteen pretty easily. Will power is always my issue.
that's ####### awesome- nice work! :thumbup:

that's also a lot of fruit.
Thanks, bud.

It is a lot of fruit, and something I will eventually address if I ever become "shredded." Honestly, has anyone on this board gotten fat on fruit? Also, my poops are great.

 
Starting weight: 251.2 on 1/5/15

Current weight: 242 on 1/15/15
236.9 on 1/27/15
Doing what?
Using the loseit app to keep my calories in check. Minimal exercise, which I need to incorporate soon. I am allowed ~1900 daily but usually come in around 1500.

Typical day:

Breakfast: Five egg whites

Snack: Banana

Lunch: Apple, turkey sandwich with cheese and siracha in whole wheat, banana

Snack: fruit

Dinner: portion controlled of whatever I want, usually chicken or fish based

Dessert: fruit or something else healthy

Just simple watching and restricting has helped me lose the first fifteen pretty easily. Will power is always my issue.
that's ####### awesome- nice work! :thumbup:

that's also a lot of fruit.
Thanks, bud.

It is a lot of fruit, and something I will eventually address if I ever become "shredded." Honestly, has anyone on this board gotten fat on fruit? Also, my poops are great.
My issue would be the timing of that last fruit of the day. Fruit after dinner not helping in terms of weight loss. Also where are the vegetables? The more vegetables you eat the less hungry you are, especially later in the day. If your goal is to lose a little weight for a while the diet is ok but if you want to get back to a normal weight I'd ditch the daily sandwich too. More veg less (no) bread. Good results so far

 
Ok my update:

Jan. 4th Starting weight: 188

Jan.29th Current weight: 174

Been shooting for 1500 cals everyday, walking 45 min to hour a day. lifting M/W/F.

My goal was 160, but I think I'm going to shoot for 155.

 
Starting weight: 251.2 on 1/5/15

Current weight: 242 on 1/15/15
236.9 on 1/27/15
Doing what?
Using the loseit app to keep my calories in check. Minimal exercise, which I need to incorporate soon. I am allowed ~1900 daily but usually come in around 1500.

Typical day:

Breakfast: Five egg whites

Snack: Banana

Lunch: Apple, turkey sandwich with cheese and siracha in whole wheat, banana

Snack: fruit

Dinner: portion controlled of whatever I want, usually chicken or fish based

Dessert: fruit or something else healthy

Just simple watching and restricting has helped me lose the first fifteen pretty easily. Will power is always my issue.
that's ####### awesome- nice work! :thumbup:

that's also a lot of fruit.
Thanks, bud.

It is a lot of fruit, and something I will eventually address if I ever become "shredded." Honestly, has anyone on this board gotten fat on fruit? Also, my poops are great.
My issue would be the timing of that last fruit of the day. Fruit after dinner not helping in terms of weight loss. Also where are the vegetables? The more vegetables you eat the less hungry you are, especially later in the day. If your goal is to lose a little weight for a while the diet is ok but if you want to get back to a normal weight I'd ditch the daily sandwich too. More veg less (no) bread. Good results so far
Completely agree. Honestly, though, I usually do not eat anything after dinner since dinner is a bit later (my better half gets home late from work). Dinner, however, includes a lot of vegetables (i.e. brussel sprouts, green beans, broc, and I love sweet potatoes). My goal needs to be skewed toward the short term, but I do want to have a healthier long term goal, as well.

With my wedding less than 6 months away, I need to lose at least another 20lbs, with an eye on 40.

 
Starting weight: 251.2 on 1/5/15

Current weight: 242 on 1/15/15
236.9 on 1/27/15
Doing what?
Using the loseit app to keep my calories in check. Minimal exercise, which I need to incorporate soon. I am allowed ~1900 daily but usually come in around 1500.Typical day:

Breakfast: Five egg whites

Snack: Banana

Lunch: Apple, turkey sandwich with cheese and siracha in whole wheat, banana

Snack: fruit

Dinner: portion controlled of whatever I want, usually chicken or fish based

Dessert: fruit or something else healthy

Just simple watching and restricting has helped me lose the first fifteen pretty easily. Will power is always my issue.
that's ####### awesome- nice work! :thumbup:

that's also a lot of fruit.
Thanks, bud.It is a lot of fruit, and something I will eventually address if I ever become "shredded." Honestly, has anyone on this board gotten fat on fruit? Also, my poops are great.
My issue would be the timing of that last fruit of the day. Fruit after dinner not helping in terms of weight loss. Also where are the vegetables? The more vegetables you eat the less hungry you are, especially later in the day. If your goal is to lose a little weight for a while the diet is ok but if you want to get back to a normal weight I'd ditch the daily sandwich too. More veg less (no) bread. Good results so far
I'm going to defend sandwiches. I know there's a lot of people who eliminate carbs/bread and have a lot of success losing weight, so I wouldn't claim it isn't effective. My feeling is most people won't keep up a bread less lifestyle over the long term. In most cases, a sandwich is probably a great compromise meal that lets you have a 400 calorie or so lunch, while still being tasty enough that it can be an ongoing lifestyle choice to help stay at a desired weight, rather than a temporary weight dump followed by a backslide into bad habits.

I'm firmly on team sandwich.

 
Starting weight: 251.2 on 1/5/15

Current weight: 242 on 1/15/15
236.9 on 1/27/15
Doing what?
Using the loseit app to keep my calories in check. Minimal exercise, which I need to incorporate soon. I am allowed ~1900 daily but usually come in around 1500.Typical day:

Breakfast: Five egg whites

Snack: Banana

Lunch: Apple, turkey sandwich with cheese and siracha in whole wheat, banana

Snack: fruit

Dinner: portion controlled of whatever I want, usually chicken or fish based

Dessert: fruit or something else healthy

Just simple watching and restricting has helped me lose the first fifteen pretty easily. Will power is always my issue.
that's ####### awesome- nice work! :thumbup:

that's also a lot of fruit.
Thanks, bud.It is a lot of fruit, and something I will eventually address if I ever become "shredded." Honestly, has anyone on this board gotten fat on fruit? Also, my poops are great.
My issue would be the timing of that last fruit of the day. Fruit after dinner not helping in terms of weight loss. Also where are the vegetables? The more vegetables you eat the less hungry you are, especially later in the day. If your goal is to lose a little weight for a while the diet is ok but if you want to get back to a normal weight I'd ditch the daily sandwich too. More veg less (no) bread. Good results so far
I'm going to defend sandwiches. I know there's a lot of people who eliminate carbs/bread and have a lot of success losing weight, so I wouldn't claim it isn't effective.My feeling is most people won't keep up a bread less lifestyle over the long term. In most cases, a sandwich is probably a great compromise meal that lets you have a 400 calorie or so lunch, while still being tasty enough that it can be an ongoing lifestyle choice to help stay at a desired weight, rather than a temporary weight dump followed by a backslide into bad habits.

I'm firmly on team sandwich.
I say once in a blue moon is ok but know it's going to affect the gains you've made. A sandwich every day or every week is just going to make it impossible to keep the weight off. It seems like people are all about restricting calories instead of simply changing what you eat. I think the restricting calories route is the route that is impossible to maintain. It's also the most difficult way to go about it and not much fun. Eventually you're going to fail and all the weight you starved off yourself is going to come back with a vengeance. Now changing what you eat, especially dramatically raising your vegetable intake and ditching the simple carbohydrates, is going to make you feel much less hungry and therefor you won't end up overeating at some point or just giving up the diet altogether. I think some people eat SO bad that when they make changes to a less-bad diet (but still pretty bad) they see weight loss and think what they're doing is healthy. It may be healthier than what you were doing before but that does not mean it's healthy. Now if you go all the way and eat really well, the gains will be that much more, you'll feel great, you won't want to revert back to your old habits AND you haven't starved yourself to do it, you simply made different choices in what you eat, not necessarily how much you eat.

 
Starting weight: 251.2 on 1/5/15

Current weight: 242 on 1/15/15
236.9 on 1/27/15
Doing what?
Using the loseit app to keep my calories in check. Minimal exercise, which I need to incorporate soon. I am allowed ~1900 daily but usually come in around 1500.Typical day:

Breakfast: Five egg whites

Snack: Banana

Lunch: Apple, turkey sandwich with cheese and siracha in whole wheat, banana

Snack: fruit

Dinner: portion controlled of whatever I want, usually chicken or fish based

Dessert: fruit or something else healthy

Just simple watching and restricting has helped me lose the first fifteen pretty easily. Will power is always my issue.
that's ####### awesome- nice work! :thumbup:

that's also a lot of fruit.
Thanks, bud.It is a lot of fruit, and something I will eventually address if I ever become "shredded." Honestly, has anyone on this board gotten fat on fruit? Also, my poops are great.
My issue would be the timing of that last fruit of the day. Fruit after dinner not helping in terms of weight loss. Also where are the vegetables? The more vegetables you eat the less hungry you are, especially later in the day. If your goal is to lose a little weight for a while the diet is ok but if you want to get back to a normal weight I'd ditch the daily sandwich too. More veg less (no) bread. Good results so far
I'm going to defend sandwiches. I know there's a lot of people who eliminate carbs/bread and have a lot of success losing weight, so I wouldn't claim it isn't effective.My feeling is most people won't keep up a bread less lifestyle over the long term. In most cases, a sandwich is probably a great compromise meal that lets you have a 400 calorie or so lunch, while still being tasty enough that it can be an ongoing lifestyle choice to help stay at a desired weight, rather than a temporary weight dump followed by a backslide into bad habits.

I'm firmly on team sandwich.
I say once in a blue moon is ok but know it's going to affect the gains you've made. A sandwich every day or every week is just going to make it impossible to keep the weight off. It seems like people are all about restricting calories instead of simply changing what you eat. I think the restricting calories route is the route that is impossible to maintain. It's also the most difficult way to go about it and not much fun. Eventually you're going to fail and all the weight you starved off yourself is going to come back with a vengeance. Now changing what you eat, especially dramatically raising your vegetable intake and ditching the simple carbohydrates, is going to make you feel much less hungry and therefor you won't end up overeating at some point or just giving up the diet altogether. I think some people eat SO bad that when they make changes to a less-bad diet (but still pretty bad) they see weight loss and think what they're doing is healthy. It may be healthier than what you were doing before but that does not mean it's healthy. Now if you go all the way and eat really well, the gains will be that much more, you'll feel great, you won't want to revert back to your old habits AND you haven't starved yourself to do it, you simply made different choices in what you eat, not necessarily how much you eat.
where does Chick Fil-A fit into all of this?

;)

 
Starting weight: 251.2 on 1/5/15

Current weight: 242 on 1/15/15
236.9 on 1/27/15
Doing what?
Using the loseit app to keep my calories in check. Minimal exercise, which I need to incorporate soon. I am allowed ~1900 daily but usually come in around 1500.Typical day:

Breakfast: Five egg whites

Snack: Banana

Lunch: Apple, turkey sandwich with cheese and siracha in whole wheat, banana

Snack: fruit

Dinner: portion controlled of whatever I want, usually chicken or fish based

Dessert: fruit or something else healthy

Just simple watching and restricting has helped me lose the first fifteen pretty easily. Will power is always my issue.
that's ####### awesome- nice work! :thumbup:

that's also a lot of fruit.
Thanks, bud.It is a lot of fruit, and something I will eventually address if I ever become "shredded." Honestly, has anyone on this board gotten fat on fruit? Also, my poops are great.
My issue would be the timing of that last fruit of the day. Fruit after dinner not helping in terms of weight loss. Also where are the vegetables? The more vegetables you eat the less hungry you are, especially later in the day. If your goal is to lose a little weight for a while the diet is ok but if you want to get back to a normal weight I'd ditch the daily sandwich too. More veg less (no) bread. Good results so far
I'm going to defend sandwiches. I know there's a lot of people who eliminate carbs/bread and have a lot of success losing weight, so I wouldn't claim it isn't effective.My feeling is most people won't keep up a bread less lifestyle over the long term. In most cases, a sandwich is probably a great compromise meal that lets you have a 400 calorie or so lunch, while still being tasty enough that it can be an ongoing lifestyle choice to help stay at a desired weight, rather than a temporary weight dump followed by a backslide into bad habits.

I'm firmly on team sandwich.
I say once in a blue moon is ok but know it's going to affect the gains you've made. A sandwich every day or every week is just going to make it impossible to keep the weight off. It seems like people are all about restricting calories instead of simply changing what you eat. I think the restricting calories route is the route that is impossible to maintain. It's also the most difficult way to go about it and not much fun. Eventually you're going to fail and all the weight you starved off yourself is going to come back with a vengeance. Now changing what you eat, especially dramatically raising your vegetable intake and ditching the simple carbohydrates, is going to make you feel much less hungry and therefor you won't end up overeating at some point or just giving up the diet altogether. I think some people eat SO bad that when they make changes to a less-bad diet (but still pretty bad) they see weight loss and think what they're doing is healthy. It may be healthier than what you were doing before but that does not mean it's healthy. Now if you go all the way and eat really well, the gains will be that much more, you'll feel great, you won't want to revert back to your old habits AND you haven't starved yourself to do it, you simply made different choices in what you eat, not necessarily how much you eat.
You are 100% wrong. Calories in = calories out is exactly how you maintain your weight. Restrictive diets like no carbs are exactly the kind of diets that are not sustainable. As long as you're getting enough fat, protein, carbs and vitamins within your allotted calories you're good to go.

It's often called IIFYM (if it fits your macros).

 
Starting weight: 251.2 on 1/5/15

Current weight: 242 on 1/15/15
236.9 on 1/27/15
Doing what?
Using the loseit app to keep my calories in check. Minimal exercise, which I need to incorporate soon. I am allowed ~1900 daily but usually come in around 1500.Typical day:

Breakfast: Five egg whites

Snack: Banana

Lunch: Apple, turkey sandwich with cheese and siracha in whole wheat, banana

Snack: fruit

Dinner: portion controlled of whatever I want, usually chicken or fish based

Dessert: fruit or something else healthy

Just simple watching and restricting has helped me lose the first fifteen pretty easily. Will power is always my issue.
that's ####### awesome- nice work! :thumbup:

that's also a lot of fruit.
Thanks, bud.It is a lot of fruit, and something I will eventually address if I ever become "shredded." Honestly, has anyone on this board gotten fat on fruit? Also, my poops are great.
My issue would be the timing of that last fruit of the day. Fruit after dinner not helping in terms of weight loss. Also where are the vegetables? The more vegetables you eat the less hungry you are, especially later in the day. If your goal is to lose a little weight for a while the diet is ok but if you want to get back to a normal weight I'd ditch the daily sandwich too. More veg less (no) bread. Good results so far
I'm going to defend sandwiches. I know there's a lot of people who eliminate carbs/bread and have a lot of success losing weight, so I wouldn't claim it isn't effective.My feeling is most people won't keep up a bread less lifestyle over the long term. In most cases, a sandwich is probably a great compromise meal that lets you have a 400 calorie or so lunch, while still being tasty enough that it can be an ongoing lifestyle choice to help stay at a desired weight, rather than a temporary weight dump followed by a backslide into bad habits.

I'm firmly on team sandwich.
I say once in a blue moon is ok but know it's going to affect the gains you've made. A sandwich every day or every week is just going to make it impossible to keep the weight off. It seems like people are all about restricting calories instead of simply changing what you eat. I think the restricting calories route is the route that is impossible to maintain. It's also the most difficult way to go about it and not much fun. Eventually you're going to fail and all the weight you starved off yourself is going to come back with a vengeance. Now changing what you eat, especially dramatically raising your vegetable intake and ditching the simple carbohydrates, is going to make you feel much less hungry and therefor you won't end up overeating at some point or just giving up the diet altogether. I think some people eat SO bad that when they make changes to a less-bad diet (but still pretty bad) they see weight loss and think what they're doing is healthy. It may be healthier than what you were doing before but that does not mean it's healthy. Now if you go all the way and eat really well, the gains will be that much more, you'll feel great, you won't want to revert back to your old habits AND you haven't starved yourself to do it, you simply made different choices in what you eat, not necessarily how much you eat.
You are 100% wrong. Calories in = calories out is exactly how you maintain your weight. Restrictive diets like no carbs are exactly the kind of diets that are not sustainable. As long as you're getting enough fat, protein, carbs and vitamins within your allotted calories you're good to go.

It's often called IIFYM (if it fits your macros).
I eat plenty of carbs, just making sure they are complex carbs. if you're literally counting calories how can you eat crappy things once in a while and expect to lose weight? You'd have to starve yourself the rest of the time and that is what is not sustainable.

 
I eat plenty of carbs, just making sure they are complex carbs. if you're literally counting calories how can you eat crappy things once in a while and expect to lose weight? You'd have to starve yourself the rest of the time and that is what is not sustainable.


Obviously the key is eating healthy the vast majority of the time. That's the only way to stay within your specified calories. Say, however you love sandwiches. If you can have 2,000 calories per day, and your beloved sandwich is 700 of those calories, you just have to make the other 1300 calories work. If lunch is taken care of, you can certainly fit breakfast and dinner into 1,300 calories without dying of hunger. You just have to be smart about it.

 
Starting weight: 251.2 on 1/5/15

Current weight: 242 on 1/15/15
236.9 on 1/27/15
Doing what?
Using the loseit app to keep my calories in check. Minimal exercise, which I need to incorporate soon. I am allowed ~1900 daily but usually come in around 1500.Typical day:

Breakfast: Five egg whites

Snack: Banana

Lunch: Apple, turkey sandwich with cheese and siracha in whole wheat, banana

Snack: fruit

Dinner: portion controlled of whatever I want, usually chicken or fish based

Dessert: fruit or something else healthy

Just simple watching and restricting has helped me lose the first fifteen pretty easily. Will power is always my issue.
that's ####### awesome- nice work! :thumbup:

that's also a lot of fruit.
Thanks, bud.It is a lot of fruit, and something I will eventually address if I ever become "shredded." Honestly, has anyone on this board gotten fat on fruit? Also, my poops are great.
My issue would be the timing of that last fruit of the day. Fruit after dinner not helping in terms of weight loss. Also where are the vegetables? The more vegetables you eat the less hungry you are, especially later in the day. If your goal is to lose a little weight for a while the diet is ok but if you want to get back to a normal weight I'd ditch the daily sandwich too. More veg less (no) bread. Good results so far
I'm going to defend sandwiches. I know there's a lot of people who eliminate carbs/bread and have a lot of success losing weight, so I wouldn't claim it isn't effective.My feeling is most people won't keep up a bread less lifestyle over the long term. In most cases, a sandwich is probably a great compromise meal that lets you have a 400 calorie or so lunch, while still being tasty enough that it can be an ongoing lifestyle choice to help stay at a desired weight, rather than a temporary weight dump followed by a backslide into bad habits.

I'm firmly on team sandwich.
I say once in a blue moon is ok but know it's going to affect the gains you've made. A sandwich every day or every week is just going to make it impossible to keep the weight off. It seems like people are all about restricting calories instead of simply changing what you eat. I think the restricting calories route is the route that is impossible to maintain. It's also the most difficult way to go about it and not much fun. Eventually you're going to fail and all the weight you starved off yourself is going to come back with a vengeance. Now changing what you eat, especially dramatically raising your vegetable intake and ditching the simple carbohydrates, is going to make you feel much less hungry and therefor you won't end up overeating at some point or just giving up the diet altogether. I think some people eat SO bad that when they make changes to a less-bad diet (but still pretty bad) they see weight loss and think what they're doing is healthy. It may be healthier than what you were doing before but that does not mean it's healthy. Now if you go all the way and eat really well, the gains will be that much more, you'll feel great, you won't want to revert back to your old habits AND you haven't starved yourself to do it, you simply made different choices in what you eat, not necessarily how much you eat.
You are 100% wrong. Calories in = calories out is exactly how you maintain your weight. Restrictive diets like no carbs are exactly the kind of diets that are not sustainable. As long as you're getting enough fat, protein, carbs and vitamins within your allotted calories you're good to go.

It's often called IIFYM (if it fits your macros).
That's not iifym. Usually iifym has you max out carb min out protien and top up with fat. The quality of the components is not really all that important.

 
I eat plenty of carbs, just making sure they are complex carbs. if you're literally counting calories how can you eat crappy things once in a while and expect to lose weight? You'd have to starve yourself the rest of the time and that is what is not sustainable.


Obviously the key is eating healthy the vast majority of the time. That's the only way to stay within your specified calories. Say, however you love sandwiches. If you can have 2,000 calories per day, and your beloved sandwich is 700 of those calories, you just have to make the other 1300 calories work. If lunch is taken care of, you can certainly fit breakfast and dinner into 1,300 calories without dying of hunger. You just have to be smart about it.
I've never counted a calorie in my life but I know what to eat and what not to eat if you want to lose weight or keep it off. You are not going to lose weight eating sandwiches unless the rest of what you eat is next to nothing. That sounds like torture. When you eat the bread, the simple carbs your fat cells immediately start expanding. Then you have to starve yourself to bring them back down. You're basically turning yourself into an accordion. People want to lose weight but they want to keep eating the same stuff. I'll just eat less of it they say. Good luck with that.

 
That's not iifym. Usually iifym has you max out carb min out protien and top up with fat. The quality of the components is not really all that important.
In iifym, your macros are your macros whether you're cutting bulking or maintaining. Could be 50-30-20 or 60-20-20 or whatever.

 
I eat plenty of carbs, just making sure they are complex carbs. if you're literally counting calories how can you eat crappy things once in a while and expect to lose weight? You'd have to starve yourself the rest of the time and that is what is not sustainable.


Obviously the key is eating healthy the vast majority of the time. That's the only way to stay within your specified calories. Say, however you love sandwiches. If you can have 2,000 calories per day, and your beloved sandwich is 700 of those calories, you just have to make the other 1300 calories work. If lunch is taken care of, you can certainly fit breakfast and dinner into 1,300 calories without dying of hunger. You just have to be smart about it.
I've never counted a calorie in my life but I know what to eat and what not to eat if you want to lose weight or keep it off. You are not going to lose weight eating sandwiches unless the rest of what you eat is next to nothing. That sounds like torture. When you eat the bread, the simple carbs your fat cells immediately start expanding. Then you have to starve yourself to bring them back down. You're basically turning yourself into an accordion. People want to lose weight but they want to keep eating the same stuff. I'll just eat less of it they say. Good luck with that.
You can say it until the cows come home but that doesn't make it true. There are plenty of societies in this world who have high carb diets but still maintain low obesity and healthy lifestyles.

 
Wtf are you talking about willie.

Weight watchers is a million, maybe billion dollar company thats main focus is eating whatever you want.

Im fat because I chose to eat garbage. However, as long as I eat less of that garbage, ill lose weight. Complex, non complex, doesnt matter. Its basic science

The subway dude ate three sandwhiches a day

 
Wtf are you talking about willie.

Weight watchers is a million, maybe billion dollar company thats main focus is eating whatever you want.

Im fat because I chose to eat garbage. However, as long as I eat less of that garbage, ill lose weight. Complex, non complex, doesnt matter. Its basic science

The subway dude ate three sandwhiches a day
The subway dude weighed 800 pounds. He could have lost weight by eating one less tub of lard per day. There is no way that guy can maintain his weight by sucking down subway every day. When the pounds start creeping back on him I assure you there is no way he thinks "better start eating more subway and get this weight off". The subway people take him as far away from that place as possible to get him back to a somewhat normal weight before the next commercial.

Weight Watchers is what it is. Stay on that program for life if you want but who does? Seems miserable. It's not rocket science. eat the stuff from the outside aisles and avoid the middle aisle stuff. It's addictive and easier than you think. You're not going to be healthy eating a loaf of bread and pounds of processed lunch meats every week. You eat 1000 calories worth of crackers, i'll eat 1000 calories worth of vegetables. see what happens

 
That's not iifym. Usually iifym has you max out carb min out protien and top up with fat. The quality of the components is not really all that important.
In iifym, your macros are your macros whether you're cutting bulking or maintaining. Could be 50-30-20 or 60-20-20 or whatever.
I've never heard it used that way.

Normally you hear of people saying

Less than some amount of grams of carbs

More than some amount of grams of protein

add up the calories there

Whatever you end up +/- on calories goes to fit with fat calories.

Less carbs cutting, more carbs bulking.

Doing it on a % basis would be a huge, huge pain in the ### unless you ate the same thing constantly. But nobody goes into it thinking it will be easy to do. Some apps make it easier now to plan around it, but you end up at the end of the day eating coconut oil out of a jar. Fun.

 
Willie Neslon said:
AcerFC said:
Wtf are you talking about willie.

Weight watchers is a million, maybe billion dollar company thats main focus is eating whatever you want.

Im fat because I chose to eat garbage. However, as long as I eat less of that garbage, ill lose weight. Complex, non complex, doesnt matter. Its basic science

The subway dude ate three sandwhiches a day
The subway dude weighed 800 pounds. He could have lost weight by eating one less tub of lard per day. There is no way that guy can maintain his weight by sucking down subway every day. When the pounds start creeping back on him I assure you there is no way he thinks "better start eating more subway and get this weight off". The subway people take him as far away from that place as possible to get him back to a somewhat normal weight before the next commercial. Weight Watchers is what it is. Stay on that program for life if you want but who does? Seems miserable. It's not rocket science. eat the stuff from the outside aisles and avoid the middle aisle stuff. It's addictive and easier than you think. You're not going to be healthy eating a loaf of bread and pounds of processed lunch meats every week. You eat 1000 calories worth of crackers, i'll eat 1000 calories worth of vegetables. see what happens
You're wrong. Low carb can work. No sandwiches can work. Low fat can work. The zone 40/30/30 can work. Weight watchers can work. A sandwich every day for lunch can work. Because it all boils down to calories in and calories out. So the best of the options above is the one you can adapt as a lifestyle and maintain and still be happy.

 
Willie Neslon said:
AcerFC said:
Wtf are you talking about willie.

Weight watchers is a million, maybe billion dollar company thats main focus is eating whatever you want.

Im fat because I chose to eat garbage. However, as long as I eat less of that garbage, ill lose weight. Complex, non complex, doesnt matter. Its basic science

The subway dude ate three sandwhiches a day
The subway dude weighed 800 pounds. He could have lost weight by eating one less tub of lard per day. There is no way that guy can maintain his weight by sucking down subway every day. When the pounds start creeping back on him I assure you there is no way he thinks "better start eating more subway and get this weight off". The subway people take him as far away from that place as possible to get him back to a somewhat normal weight before the next commercial. Weight Watchers is what it is. Stay on that program for life if you want but who does? Seems miserable. It's not rocket science. eat the stuff from the outside aisles and avoid the middle aisle stuff. It's addictive and easier than you think. You're not going to be healthy eating a loaf of bread and pounds of processed lunch meats every week. You eat 1000 calories worth of crackers, i'll eat 1000 calories worth of vegetables. see what happens
You're wrong. Low carb can work. No sandwiches can work. Low fat can work. The zone 40/30/30 can work. Weight watchers can work. A sandwich every day for lunch can work. Because it all boils down to calories in and calories out. So the best of the options above is the one you can adapt as a lifestyle and maintain and still be happy.
Yes, it boils down to this

"All diets work"

There might be one that's "better" than another, but establishing this data is difficult because you depend greatly on user self-reporting of intake.

Low carb usually seems to work better because in general it's easier for people to binge on low carb. Carbs taste good, fruit tastes better than vegetables, bread tastes better than salad, and so on. Ice cream tastes better than carrots. So people usually get big when they eat too much eat too many carbs. It's important to not lose sight of that fact. Especially in this country where we eat so so much sugar, not just simple carbs, sugar.

So in this country when people say "low carb" they are still saying "low calorie" but it's just another name for it.

 
Willie Neslon said:
AcerFC said:
Wtf are you talking about willie.

Weight watchers is a million, maybe billion dollar company thats main focus is eating whatever you want.

Im fat because I chose to eat garbage. However, as long as I eat less of that garbage, ill lose weight. Complex, non complex, doesnt matter. Its basic science

The subway dude ate three sandwhiches a day
The subway dude weighed 800 pounds. He could have lost weight by eating one less tub of lard per day. There is no way that guy can maintain his weight by sucking down subway every day. When the pounds start creeping back on him I assure you there is no way he thinks "better start eating more subway and get this weight off". The subway people take him as far away from that place as possible to get him back to a somewhat normal weight before the next commercial. Weight Watchers is what it is. Stay on that program for life if you want but who does? Seems miserable. It's not rocket science. eat the stuff from the outside aisles and avoid the middle aisle stuff. It's addictive and easier than you think. You're not going to be healthy eating a loaf of bread and pounds of processed lunch meats every week. You eat 1000 calories worth of crackers, i'll eat 1000 calories worth of vegetables. see what happens
You're wrong. Low carb can work. No sandwiches can work. Low fat can work. The zone 40/30/30 can work. Weight watchers can work. A sandwich every day for lunch can work. Because it all boils down to calories in and calories out. So the best of the options above is the one you can adapt as a lifestyle and maintain and still be happy.
Yes, it boils down to this

"All diets work"

There might be one that's "better" than another, but establishing this data is difficult because you depend greatly on user self-reporting of intake.

Low carb usually seems to work better because in general it's easier for people to binge on low carb. Carbs taste good, fruit tastes better than vegetables, bread tastes better than salad, and so on. Ice cream tastes better than carrots. So people usually get big when they eat too much eat too many carbs. It's important to not lose sight of that fact. Especially in this country where we eat so so much sugar, not just simple carbs, sugar.

So in this country when people say "low carb" they are still saying "low calorie" but it's just another name for it.
This is true. When you take out high carb foods, you're typically left with food choices that are low in calories anyway.

 
I started at 240 (although, it was after the holidays, so I don't think that was a true weight for me.) Started January 5th. As of this morning, I'm sitting at 229. I was down to 226 middle of last week, but we got invited to a party on Saturday and I ate and drank like I just got off of Survivor. I'm guessing Super Bowl will slow my weight gain down again. Still, my goal is to get back to 215, which would be where I was 2 years ago. I'm hoping by end of February I'm at my goal or lower.

 
I started at 240 (although, it was after the holidays, so I don't think that was a true weight for me.) Started January 5th. As of this morning, I'm sitting at 229. I was down to 226 middle of last week, but we got invited to a party on Saturday and I ate and drank like I just got off of Survivor. I'm guessing Super Bowl will slow my weight gain down again. Still, my goal is to get back to 215, which would be where I was 2 years ago. I'm hoping by end of February I'm at my goal or lower.
I should add, no matter what, I'm staying on the diet until at least the end of March.

 
Started 1/26/15: 6' 220 pounds.

Starting to run again. Three days a week, 2-3 miles for two weeks. Then every other day for 3-4 miles. (Used to run 21 miles per week a few years ago before my hernia). I cut out sugar. I was 207 pounds in November and for some reason I started attacking sugar. No idea why but my normal eating habits went to ####. I will also try to keep my calorie intake to 2000-2400 per day.

Weigh-in 1/30/15: 218.5

 
I started at 240 (although, it was after the holidays, so I don't think that was a true weight for me.) Started January 5th. As of this morning, I'm sitting at 229. I was down to 226 middle of last week, but we got invited to a party on Saturday and I ate and drank like I just got off of Survivor. I'm guessing Super Bowl will slow my weight gain down again. Still, my goal is to get back to 215, which would be where I was 2 years ago. I'm hoping by end of February I'm at my goal or lower.
I should add, no matter what, I'm staying on the diet until at least the end of March.
Was hovering around 227 Saturday morning. Fiance got me a cookie cake for my bday and I ate the entire thing by noon on Sunday. :mellow: I also pigged out at the SB party. Monday morning I was 231.4. Good news is, my weight this morning was back down to 229, so I don't think I did too much damage. I have one more big day for my birthday dinner, then smooth sailing.

 
17 pounds in January!

Gave up booze and walking 5 miles a day with some light jogging intermixed.

When I get stalled out I'll add in some weight lifting to help break through, but for now the walking is working.

 
17 pounds in January!

Gave up booze and walking 5 miles a day with some light jogging intermixed.

When I get stalled out I'll add in some weight lifting to help break through, but for now the walking is working.
Nice work.

As an aside, anyone else hate the way ! looks now? I swear ! hasn't always looked like !!

 
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It's amazing how much better I feel after a month of eating well.

Aside from the weight loss, my back doesn't hurt when I wake up in the morning. I can also tie my shoes a bit easier.

 
It's amazing how much better I feel after a month of eating well.

Aside from the weight loss, my back doesn't hurt when I wake up in the morning. I can also tie my shoes a bit easier.
For me it's sleeping better.

Especially without the booze. I can't tell you how many times I'd wake up at night when drinking often.

Now I sleep through the night no problems.

Snoring has stopped too.

 

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