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Otis fad diet thread — yoga, fasting, and kevzilla walking on🚶♂️ (11 Viewers)
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AAABatteries
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Ah - if you mentioned that you are diabetic then I missed it. Yes, not advised for you without medical supervision.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
First time I heard this I was like "WTF??" then I realized it's genius - keep your clientele fat and happy and they will show up for the free pizza and 20 minutes on the elliptical.For those that belong to a Planet Fitness, today is the first Friday of the month.
PF gyms give out FREE PIZZA on the first Friday of each month.
MAC_32
Footballguy
Generally speaking it takes 6-8 weeks to make a change a habit. Good start though.
MAC_32
Footballguy
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Wow - nice work krista!krista4 said:
Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
Well done.krista4 said:
NutterButter
Footballguy
And alcohol too.Otis said:
DocHolliday
Footballguy
Otis, just do what she is doing since she is killing it.krista4 said:
Zow
Footballguy
Yep. Said I didn’t know.
Its not intentional. Been getting up with a kid or just slammed at work. Will try to weigh myself tomorrow.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Day 18:
Back at it.
- 15,503 steps (7 mile run)
- 120 push-ups
- 100 squats
- 150 abs (20 Spider-man plank crunches; 10 leg lifts; 50 crunches; 30 mountain climbers; 40 teasers)
- Stretching - CHECK
- 100 oz of water - NOPE
Back at it.
- 15,503 steps (7 mile run)
- 120 push-ups
- 100 squats
- 150 abs (20 Spider-man plank crunches; 10 leg lifts; 50 crunches; 30 mountain climbers; 40 teasers)
- Stretching - CHECK
- 100 oz of water - NOPE
krista4
Footballguy
Thanks as always for the kind words! It actually makes this easier.
As I was having a snack of red cabbage the other night (hey, I like cabbage), it occurred to me that I had been unknowingly doing something that @bostonfred had recommended, which is accounting for your weak spots. I know that it’s the hours between 6 pm and bedtime that just ruin me. With a chef husband, I’m either out with friends (bad as there’s usually too much drinking) or home killing time and bored, which just means shoving too much stuff down my gullet. So now I drastically reduce what I have at breakfast/lunch, knowing that 70% or more of my calories will come in those last few hours. And of course I don’t go crazy in those last hours, because when I’ve done so well all day I don’t want to ruin it.
As I mentioned, I also track like mad. In doing so, I’m absolutely horrified to know what I used to consume. Taking in so much less now, I still feel satiated and satisfied.
I’m on a long-planned family trip right now that I thought would kill my diet, as these always involve tons of eating and drinking. I might not have a stellar week but have so far been happy with eating and drinking about half of what I used to. This was planned as a hiking trip, and I plan to hike solo tomorrow when everyone has bailed due to weather. I need it!
As I was having a snack of red cabbage the other night (hey, I like cabbage), it occurred to me that I had been unknowingly doing something that @bostonfred had recommended, which is accounting for your weak spots. I know that it’s the hours between 6 pm and bedtime that just ruin me. With a chef husband, I’m either out with friends (bad as there’s usually too much drinking) or home killing time and bored, which just means shoving too much stuff down my gullet. So now I drastically reduce what I have at breakfast/lunch, knowing that 70% or more of my calories will come in those last few hours. And of course I don’t go crazy in those last hours, because when I’ve done so well all day I don’t want to ruin it.
As I mentioned, I also track like mad. In doing so, I’m absolutely horrified to know what I used to consume. Taking in so much less now, I still feel satiated and satisfied.
I’m on a long-planned family trip right now that I thought would kill my diet, as these always involve tons of eating and drinking. I might not have a stellar week but have so far been happy with eating and drinking about half of what I used to. This was planned as a hiking trip, and I plan to hike solo tomorrow when everyone has bailed due to weather. I need it!
Otis
Footballguy
bostonfred
Footballguy
Yeah this is exactly what i was talking about. A few more things that I've learned.
The paradigm of "i don't want to ruin all the good work i did today" is really helpful but if you're struggling with motivation, or if you've got a big event where you will want to eat something specific, think of it as "i need to earn that thing tonight".
Once in a while a cheat day helps, but wait as long as you can to do it. The first time you go from "I'm finally in the swing of things" to "it's ok to have a cheat day" your body physically responds to that extra food. You're used to operating at a deficit and now you're not empty. You're used to tracking everything but now you know you can get away with it. It's hard to flip the switch back on. It's almost like the first day of the diet again. It's mentally difficult to make this a permanent thing in your head, instead of a short term diet with a goal of x lbs.
But the good news, at least for me, was that once I'd survived that cheat day, my body reacted well to it- I felt energized and could run more the next day. I watched my weight go up a pound or two from eating, but i know i didn't have 7000 extra calories, so the next couple days i watched it peel right back off and it was like the first couple days of the diet. I was a little scared to have another cheat day after that, because it threw me for a loop, but once I'd figured out how to get back to loving everything on mfp, it was easier to turn it back on, and it began to feel more like a permanent lifestyle change.
And that's really the goal. The horror you feel about how much you used to eat is real. But that means you're learning. And after you're down to the weight you want, you can still track your calories, but you'll have learned so much from tracking them religiously that you won't have to log it in the app to know what you've been eating.
You'll also know what to do if you put a few back on when you're on vacation or over the holidays - take a couple weeks and knock off those five pounds before five becomes ten and ten becomes twenty and you're going to have to devote a few months to this.
It also sounds like you're working out a lot to "earn" those extra calories. That's awesome, especially the hiking. On an exercise day you can have x calories and on a rest day you can only have y. That's great motivation to exercise, but also make sure you pay attention to your body and take rest days. The goal isn't to justify having x calories every day. It's to improve your health. Rest days make a huge difference on your hips and it bands and calves if you're running and walking a lot, and they're keeping you from putting too much on your knees. When you're in the long term swing of things you can alternate between exercise/ lots of calories, rest day/ low calories, and mix in a cheat day with lots of calories but not much exercise.
And speaking of cheat days- if you're tracking on mfp and you've set it to "lose 1 lb per week", that means 3500 calories per week, or a 500 calorie deficit per day. "Lose 1.5 lbs" is a 750 calorie deficit, lose 2lbs per week" is a 1000 calorie daily deficit, etc.. So on a cheat day, if you have "the amount of calories it would take to maintain my weight instead of lose 1 lb per week" you're talking about 500 extra calories - then you still have a 3000 calorie deficit the rest of the week. So maybe you go to lose 1.5 per week, and make up that difference in 2 days. Or live with losing .8 lbs that week. It's ok - once you're in the swing of things - because you're playing the long game now.
Really excited to hear you thinking the same things i was. It sounds like you're killing it. Keep up the good work.
Otis
Footballguy
Good stuff @bostonfred, what’s your current status/progress? Sounds like you’re already where you want to be.
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Otis
Footballguy
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Day 2 fasting. I’ll eat a normal meal tonight at dinner with a drink or two.
Leg day this morning was tough, but got through it with a decent workout. Still really sore in the upper body from yesterday, that’s usually not the case for me, so I assume it’s from lack of calories/my body struggling to repair itself as quick as usual. Also just a little more tired/lower energy this week for some reason. Still going to push through to dinner tonight. I have a speaking engagement tomorrow morning, or else I would be tempted to push though to Weds. night. But as long as I keep doing this weekly, 44+ hours is plenty.
Day 2 fasting. I’ll eat a normal meal tonight at dinner with a drink or two.
Leg day this morning was tough, but got through it with a decent workout. Still really sore in the upper body from yesterday, that’s usually not the case for me, so I assume it’s from lack of calories/my body struggling to repair itself as quick as usual. Also just a little more tired/lower energy this week for some reason. Still going to push through to dinner tonight. I have a speaking engagement tomorrow morning, or else I would be tempted to push though to Weds. night. But as long as I keep doing this weekly, 44+ hours is plenty.
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AAABatteries
Footballguy
NutterButter
Footballguy
Been doing this for years now and highly recommend it if this scenario applies to you. You have to decide for yourself if skipping breakfast and having a lighter lunch (I typically go with 3 smaller meals throughout the day) is inconsequential to how to you feel so that you have an excess of calories to consume when you have a tendency to eat the most. Some days when I come home from work, if I rode the bike that day, I'll actually be at a calorie deficit (was that way yesterday) so I have a lot of calories to play with. If I go a little crazy, I'll roughly break even, but if I keep it under control by making smarter choices, I'll come out ahead.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
157.5. - think I’m a little dehydrated so reading lower
LET’S GO #####ES!!!
LET’S GO #####ES!!!
Otis
Footballguy
AAABatteries
Footballguy
NutterButter
Footballguy
Gawain
Footballguy
More about my shrinking moobers not eating up as much fabric.
My diminishing circumference has made it much more likely that someone sits next to me on an LIRR two-seater, which is an unintended negative outcome on my commute.
NutterButter
Footballguy
Otis
Footballguy
Nothing worse than the healthy males who sit in the LIRR middle seat. Jesus, stand for 20 minutes, it ain’t gonna kill ya.
Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
ChiefD
Footballguy
Why not try and incorporate three days of cardio a week in place of the weights? You have the time to run/walk 3 miles. It will also help activate your metabolism.
Something like:
MWF: treadmill
TTH: weights
I know you have posted earlier about not wanting to do cardio, but you need to do something to move. Just my opinion.
Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
No question. She is a study in resolve. Pretty soon we are going to have to start calling her Krista 3.5 they way she is reducing.
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Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
Maybe he is trying to tell us something.
Can it be long before he is at a Cheesecake Factory, Friday afternoon, around two, wearing shorts, a button down dress shirt, sandals, rocking a man bun and sharing one piece of cheesecake with a tragically thin hipster in skinny jeans, an ironic t-shirt, and sporting a wispy beard.
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Otis
Footballguy
I do walk a couple of miles as part of my commute every day, from home to the train station, between train transfers, etc. Plenty of stairs along the way too. So I'm just just driving up to work and rolling behind a desk and then driving home. It's not heavy cardio, but it's fast-paced walking.
I also enjoy weights more than cardio.
Lastly, and maybe most importantly, I firmly believe weight training is more important than cardio for health, especially as we age. These are the last years during which I have any real hope of building muscle. May as well take advantage of them.
NutterButter
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MAC_32
Footballguy
What you described is not cardio. I'm not saying the answer to what ails you is cardio, although it could be a component of it. But don't confuse your daily commute with cardio. Cause it isn't. That's just movement.
Otis
Footballguy
NutterButter
Footballguy
gianmarco
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NutterButter
Footballguy
Certainly not the walking I see most people doing. People need to get themselves a heart rate monitor and get up in that 130-140 range.
MAC_32
Footballguy
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