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If you set yourself up as sedentary, lose 2 lbs per week, you should not leave big amounts of calories on the table each day.
It usually sets me up with just over 1600. But then I rowed and got an extra 400+ and then walked and got like an extra 150. I track the workouts/walks on my Garmin watch and it feeds directly into MFP so I don’t even have to do math.
I can appreciate that this works for many people. But at this stage - and maybe forever - it just doesn’t work for me. My brain continually redefines what hunger feels like. Every day. My brain tells me that I’m not full, that I’m hungry, that I need more even when rationally it doesn’t make sense.
Does the hungry feeling come from the stomach or your mouth? I get the urge to chew all the time even though my stomach feels fine. I try to chew gum or eat something crunchy when that happens.
I honestly don’t even know how to answer the question. My brain tells me that my stomach feels empty and needs food. So I crave eating food in that moment.
As a wegmans shopper I'm intrigued.
Let us know how it is. I'm getting ads for them non stop ever since clicking the link you posted
That's what is says on the label but for some reason I just don't trust that any type of potato chips are healthy (and low sodium). At least for the time being, I'm going to try to avoid. It also feels like cheating a little bit. Something that tastes that good shouldn't be healthy.
I had the chocolate to start. Unless my mind was totally messing with me, it seriously tasted pretty close to Hagen Dazs chocolate, which is high praise in my mind. And 240 calories for the whole pint.... crazy..... I was skeptical but came away impressed.
I know soy is all the rage, but lots of articles about how soy is a testosterone killer.
Ah the etymology of the term "soy boy".
I think I've asked this before but don't remember the answer (actually I think I might). On Jan 20, did you eat 592 calories in total (I think you said yes) or was it 592 after deducting exercise? I don't know a ton about the people who fast but those calorie totals from the prior 3 days look dangerously low to me. If it is net then it's not an issue but if that is all the calories you are getting I would be concerned. Anyway, as Fred would say I'm certainly not a doctor and I know you've done this before, but please be careful.
Not crazy but it will change and I'm willing to bet you're closer to this than you realize. Next time you're done eating ask yourself "could I eat another few bites if I had to?". If the answer is yes, you're already there. You stopped eating when you weren't full. Feeling satiated (not hungry) and full aren't the same thing. It's even easier to achieve when you eat slowly.
They do but once you accept they are just part of how the body works it's easier to cope with. I used to get super frustrated that "I didn't eat crap yesterday but still gained .4 pounds" but when you track it daily for long enough (I've been doing it since July) you'll see that it's really just a lot of small peaks and valleys. Keep the peaks low and the valleys lower and you'll get them. It's not a sprint it's a marathon.
The amount of soy you need to ingest to actually have a endocrine effect will make the calorie counters here blush. There's also no pathway that's been established in humans to do exactly what they are saying, Soy, is also not alone in this, most plant matter has this. Soy got spiked out because in a lot of cultures that is a key protein and is supplemented in a lot of US foods as filler.
collagen is fine, seems to be beneficial in a diet where we have evolved to not consume collagen. This is one of those things where you want to be super picky, and don't get cheap stuff from amazon. I would say just make bone broth weekly and use that to make a vegetable soup.
probably a combination of being dehydrated and taking a multivitamin.
My Monday-Tuesday drop os always misleading. I'm usually putting on at least 3lbs on the weekend watching football and eating crap. The dumps, however have been substantial. I credit the Big ### Salads and black beans.bostonfred said:
Congrats on the 1 in front of those numbers! Hope to join you in a few weeks!jb1020 said:
592 no deductions. If I don't have lean protein (need to plan better here) available and I'm not hungry, I don't see the point of eating crap just to take in calories. I subscribe to the Fred theory of hoarding calories for later just in case. I mean I could have had two glasses of wine and a pint of ice cream and come in close to goal but is the beneficial? The creatine addition may have killer my hunger. Also there's a reason why grass feed cows eat all day...you can eat leafy greens by the barrel full and not rack up many calories.Corporation said:
About the bolded: unequivocally yes, especially if your significant other is drinking with you and gets a little happy.
Great progress! I knew I would be eating like a pig on NYE (4000 calories) and it didn't take long to burn off. May also prevent your body from going into starvation mode. My BMI is also 27.8 so you must be 6'4 or so. If you are 6'4, you have to get down to 205 for the 25 BMI. For me to get to 25, I would have to lose 21 more pounds to 184. My ultimate goal is 190, I don't think 184 is something I'd even really like.
Damn, that seems so crazy to me. That’s such a LOW weight for me, I’ve always weighed more, maybe because I have broad shoulders, tend to be kind of bigger up top? Not a muscle nut, just how I’m built. I guess that’s why BMI isn’t a great indicator for everyone?? Or maybe i’ve just been fooling myself, and 205 or less is where I really should have been all along.
Yup. New Wyze scale. Thing is pretty awesome. It’s probably better that it doesn’t give me Dom’s.
I'd have to get below 190 pounds to crack 25 BMI. Last time I was at 190 lbs I was wearing size 28 pants and bench pressing 425 lbs. Body fat was probably 5-7%. I don't ever see being below overweight on the BMI scale unless I'm terminally ill.
Love that you're motivated by what all these guys are doing, and i definitely am too, but It's impressive that you've been losing or maintaining for the better part of a year now. It means you're doing something you can sustain for that long. Increasing your efforts is good too but give yourself some credit too.
Eat 1/2 of it. You stay (closer to) within goal, and you get a delicious sub TWICE. Win/win.
I don't really buy into much of the data beyond whatever EKC reading they get. It's trying to more or less curve fit a model with one fixed variable and two floating ones. It's got no idea what your bone mass is.
