I used to hate the taste of water, but I have grown to drink it. Here are my suggesstions for this:
Wal-Mart has this water enhancer that is like orange Crush soda. One hard squirt per class and you don't even know it is water. I still use this two years later.
Vitamin Water Zero. No calories and nio sugar. The squeezed flavor tastes just like lemonade.
Any idea what the name of the orange one is? I like Crush soda from time to time...
It is the actual Crush soda logo... It is called Crush Water Enhancer.
293 for me. Was 299 when I signed up. I normally fluctuate around 3-4 pounds. Started eating smaller portions. Haven't went on my "full" diet yet. I will start that Monday. So see just wha
t eating smaller portions can do in the scheme of things??
I'm down exactly 5 lbs to 250. We have been using the my fitness pal app on our phones to track everything, and it really helps to see how fast everything adds up so you can keep your daily food intake and exercise in check. Looks like I am averaging about 1500 calories a day and burning 2000 between work and home activities.
i have been doing a 2000 calorie intake for this week and am realizing i must have been eating around 8000 - 10000 calories a day with all the food i would snack on during the work day and the piles of food at meal time.
i have been doing a 2000 calorie intake for this week and am realizing i must have been eating around 8000 - 10000 calories a day with all the food i would snack on during the work day and the piles of food at meal time.
QFT
I am trying to stick to 1500 and I am eating so little food it's crazy to think what I was eating before per day.
I do carpentry for a job and have been remodeling my house and working on my atvs in my spare time, so I must have been putting a decent dent in my calories overall.
Started today. Started 2 days ago but I'm now down from 229 to 225.
Been drinking 3 water bottles a day.
Eat twice a day.
Hit the gym for leg work out and using tread mill for 50 minutes a day.
One piece of advice I received from a nuitritionist and personal trainer I went to back when I lost much of my weight is that spreading what you eat out during the day is better than eating twice or three meals a day. They recommended six small meals and snacks spread at three hour intervals. What that does is it keeps something in your stomach so you're not tempted to overeat all at once. It also keeps your body from going into panic energy storage mode and lowering your metabolism.
I don't think anyone mentioned this yet, but I would recommend everyone keep a food log for a week of what they eat. Write down everything you put in your mouth and at what time, then go back and look up the nutritional information. The log will tell you exactly what you're ingesting and where you can improve. You'd be surprised how much we all underestimate our calorie intake.
When I lost a lot of weight a few years ago, I had great success with a low sugar/low carbohydrate diet. Before I started I wasn't eating junk food on regular occassions, I was cooking my own food, and I worked out regularly, but I was eating a lot of bread and pasta and serving myself large portions at meal time. Cutting out carbs and sugar was tough, a lot of processed and "low fat" food has sugar and carbs to enchance the taste. I switched the breads that were high in indigestible dietary fiber like flax bread, and kicked "low fat" food to the curb for food naturally low in sugar. I even went back to using cream in my coffee.
One other thing I recommend is for everyone here to make changes to their diet gradually. When I was dieting, I first changed my eating habits at dinner/night time, then a few weeks later tackled lunch, then breakfast. It kept the worst of the hunger pangs away and let my body adjust to the gradual phase in rather than the all-at-once shock of my prior attempts.
Started today. Started 2 days ago but I'm now down from 229 to 225.
Been drinking 3 water bottles a day.
Eat twice a day.
Hit the gym for leg work out and using tread mill for 50 minutes a day.
One piece of advice I received from a nuitritionist and personal trainer I went to back when I lost much of my weight is that spreading what you eat out during the day is better than eating twice or three meals a day. They recommended six small meals and snacks spread at three hour intervals. What that does is it keeps something in your stomach so you're not tempted to overeat all at once. It also keeps your body from going into panic energy storage mode and lowering your metabolism.
I just wanted to comment that how do people even do that? How does one find time to eat 6 small meals a day? thats so hard to keep up with. If you are eating 2 meals a day it would be easier to monitor calories and you can still easily control portions and actually be full. I always thought the small meals thing sounded like a full time job. If its like that then you will stress yourself out and be easy to mess up.
When I say small meal, I can be something like an apple or small snack. You don't want to put your entire food intake into 2 or 3 large meals.
Thats a ton of planning and eating like that will make well me atleast feel hungry all the time. Having to think to eat like that would be so stressfull and having planned each day you could easily fall off that schedule. I think you should just watch what you eat period and portion control. I dont think what intervals you eat will be that important as long as your eating the right things in the right portions. Eat slower and just drink water.
My weekly weigh in is 233. 3lbs down from last Friday.
Watched what I ate and drank mainly water. I wasnt as physical as I would like this week as I bought 3 different collections and that kept me busy.
However, I did move a ton of boxes from house to van and back. Also moved a HEAVY World Of Nintendo Cabinet up and down a few flights. Not to mention a VB Kiosk and PSP Kiosk lol.
When I say small meal, I can be something like an apple or small snack. You don't want to put your entire food intake into 2 or 3 large meals.
Thats a ton of planning and eating like that will make well me atleast feel hungry all the time. Having to think to eat like that would be so stressfull and having planned each day you could easily fall off that schedule. I think you should just watch what you eat period and portion control. I dont think what intervals you eat will be that important as long as your eating the right things in the right portions. Eat slower and just drink water.
YMMV I guess, but I ate like that for years and it wasn't a burden at all.
My weekly weigh-in is in at 206lbs. I've been tightening up what I've been eating and now that the the holidays are over, been able to hit the gym again 3-4 times a week. The work is starting to pay off. I also put more attention to my strength training. I've fallen into the trap of doing quick reps and not really stressing the muscles as much as I should be. This week I took care to slow my reps down and hold them. That made a big difference and my arms and chest are feeling it today.
When I say small meal, I can be something like an apple or small snack. You don't want to put your entire food intake into 2 or 3 large meals.
Thats a ton of planning and eating like that will make well me atleast feel hungry all the time. Having to think to eat like that would be so stressfull and having planned each day you could easily fall off that schedule. I think you should just watch what you eat period and portion control. I dont think what intervals you eat will be that important as long as your eating the right things in the right portions. Eat slower and just drink water.
It really isn't. Just take small snacks with you and eat lightly when you start to get hungry to keep your hunger in check. It's how I lost 90 lbs last year. 3 meals and 4 small/light snacks spread out the entire day. Required zero planning, really.
im 180. this seems strange because i am eating better with no pops or chocolates and take 15 000 plus steps a day (this i learned from the fancy new phone that has a step counter built right in)
Weighed myself this morning, and i am the same as when i signed up, 201. I haven't been doing what i need to though, it's been too cold out but that's just an excuse. Exercise plan starts Monday!
I definitely agree with Dra600n about eating more times through out the day. In between my "regular" meals, I will eat a banana or apple and maybe a small handful of granola or pumpkin seeds if I feel hungry. We still eat some bad starches, but way more sparingly and a much smaller portion. And absolutely no more soda!!! Water with Mio instead
My weekly weigh-in is at 195.4. Yay, going down, I will try to start exercising again next week. Finally arrived home after three week vacation, also finally got my new computer hooked up to internet (what a hassle!), so that explains my silence for the past couple of days.
Still 269...like I said I plateau...freaking annoying. I'm watching my calories using that fitnesspal app and I'm under most of the days (only a little bit), one day I was over by 300. But I'm eating less and I notice a difference...in that I'm god damn hungry all the time. Yet still no change in weight. I'd expect at least a pound or two to drop...
Still 269...like I said I plateau...freaking annoying. I'm watching my calories using that fitnesspal app and I'm under most of the days (only a little bit), one day I was over by 300. But I'm eating less and I notice a difference...in that I'm god damn hungry all the time. Yet still no change in weight. I'd expect at least a pound or two to drop...
Next week I should see a change...right?
It depends.. Are you exercising? And sometimes it may take a coupe of weeks for you rmetabolism to adjust. You def haven't plateaued. Plateauing usually comes after you lose weight. And then it is only temporary. The key is always burning off more calories than you take in. Burning them requires some form of activity. Even if it is just walking through a mall. But if you burn more than you take in, it is a scientific fact that you will lose weight.
Im not sure exactly what you are eating or how many calories you are eating. They also say that one bad diet day screws you up for the next 3 days. Im not sure if thats true. If you are hungry, try snacking. Things like apples, bananas, oranges, carrots, celery can help fill in during the times before meals. Try drinking more water (even if its flavored) It can fll your stomach up And try to keep you rmind busy. I usually eat a lot because I am bored.
If you're not working out or doing any moderate exercising, you need to eat less carbohydrates and sugary foods. Drink a few glasses of water (unflavored) a day to help kick start that metabolism.
Also, fitness apps are fine, but I wouldn't go by their caloric intake calculators. You need to figure out what your intake is to maintain a weight, then start reducing that intake slowly, otherwise that first pizza you eat, you'll most likely start putting the weight back on. Remember, your body weight has about a 3-5 pound fluctuation each day. The removal of fat in your body takes a lot longer to remove than it is to create, so expecting day 3 results is ridiculous. Be patient or you won't keep it off.
If you're sitting around and doing nothing, your body will only burn 1300-1500 calories. Light walking will help burn more calories, but if you're against any effort of exercising or working out, you'll need to find higher protein foods and not eat more than 1300-1500 calories. Lots of tasty foods out there that will fill you up and satisfy your hunger, as well as allow you to munch on a lot of something (like fat free popcorn, which has a whole 45 calories per bag when popped).
You'll only as much weight as you put effort into it, be it with self control and keeping moderate portions and eating healthier, or by exercising and working out. Having the mentality of "I plateau'd" or "this is too much effort", well, enjoy being overweight.
im 180. this seems strange because i am eating better with no pops or chocolates and take 15 000 plus steps a day (this i learned from the fancy new phone that has a step counter built right in)
Careful with the phone counters. I used to think mine was super awesome and then I realized it was 2,000 steps off from what I was really taking (gave me 2,000 more than it should have). When I started using fitbit over a phone app, I had to work harder to hit 10-20k steps a day lol. I was pretty mad at first then fell into a routine.
I definitely agree with Dra600n about eating more times through out the day. In between my "regular" meals, I will eat a banana or apple and maybe a small handful of granola or pumpkin seeds if I feel hungry. We still eat some bad starches, but way more sparingly and a much smaller portion. And absolutely no more soda!!! Water with Mio instead
Good luck everyone and keep up the good work!
All good choice snacks! I indulge on some yogurt every so often instead of fruit, just for variety, as well as fat free cottage cheese
And it's good to have a cheat meal once or twice a week (mine was KFC on Friday night, and pizza on Saturday) for the longest time, and then towards the end of summer, I ended up dropping both and now only eat it maybe once a month, if that.
Comments
Originally posted by: GirlGamer55
Originally posted by: tecmopsycho
I used to hate the taste of water, but I have grown to drink it. Here are my suggesstions for this:
Wal-Mart has this water enhancer that is like orange Crush soda. One hard squirt per class and you don't even know it is water. I still use this two years later.
Vitamin Water Zero. No calories and nio sugar. The squeezed flavor tastes just like lemonade.
Any idea what the name of the orange one is? I like Crush soda from time to time...
It is the actual Crush soda logo... It is called Crush Water Enhancer.
I worked out 3 times this week (Friday to Friday): Sunday, Monday and Wednesday.
t eating smaller portions can do in the scheme of things??
Been drinking 3 water bottles a day.
Eat twice a day.
Hit the gym for leg work out and using tread mill for 50 minutes a day.
Originally posted by: JosephLeo
It's not a requirement to join a gym, I just put so many points in it to encourage it, and then more points to encourage going!
Joined the gym here in my community am planning on going mon wed and fri starting next week
Originally posted by: TWarwick07
i have been doing a 2000 calorie intake for this week and am realizing i must have been eating around 8000 - 10000 calories a day with all the food i would snack on during the work day and the piles of food at meal time.
QFT
I am trying to stick to 1500 and I am eating so little food it's crazy to think what I was eating before per day.
I do carpentry for a job and have been remodeling my house and working on my atvs in my spare time, so I must have been putting a decent dent in my calories overall.
Originally posted by: Thunderblaze16
Started today. Started 2 days ago but I'm now down from 229 to 225.
Been drinking 3 water bottles a day.
Eat twice a day.
Hit the gym for leg work out and using tread mill for 50 minutes a day.
One piece of advice I received from a nuitritionist and personal trainer I went to back when I lost much of my weight is that spreading what you eat out during the day is better than eating twice or three meals a day. They recommended six small meals and snacks spread at three hour intervals. What that does is it keeps something in your stomach so you're not tempted to overeat all at once. It also keeps your body from going into panic energy storage mode and lowering your metabolism.
I don't think anyone mentioned this yet, but I would recommend everyone keep a food log for a week of what they eat. Write down everything you put in your mouth and at what time, then go back and look up the nutritional information. The log will tell you exactly what you're ingesting and where you can improve. You'd be surprised how much we all underestimate our calorie intake.
When I lost a lot of weight a few years ago, I had great success with a low sugar/low carbohydrate diet. Before I started I wasn't eating junk food on regular occassions, I was cooking my own food, and I worked out regularly, but I was eating a lot of bread and pasta and serving myself large portions at meal time. Cutting out carbs and sugar was tough, a lot of processed and "low fat" food has sugar and carbs to enchance the taste. I switched the breads that were high in indigestible dietary fiber like flax bread, and kicked "low fat" food to the curb for food naturally low in sugar. I even went back to using cream in my coffee.
One other thing I recommend is for everyone here to make changes to their diet gradually. When I was dieting, I first changed my eating habits at dinner/night time, then a few weeks later tackled lunch, then breakfast. It kept the worst of the hunger pangs away and let my body adjust to the gradual phase in rather than the all-at-once shock of my prior attempts.
Originally posted by: teh lurv
Originally posted by: Thunderblaze16
Started today. Started 2 days ago but I'm now down from 229 to 225.
Been drinking 3 water bottles a day.
Eat twice a day.
Hit the gym for leg work out and using tread mill for 50 minutes a day.
One piece of advice I received from a nuitritionist and personal trainer I went to back when I lost much of my weight is that spreading what you eat out during the day is better than eating twice or three meals a day. They recommended six small meals and snacks spread at three hour intervals. What that does is it keeps something in your stomach so you're not tempted to overeat all at once. It also keeps your body from going into panic energy storage mode and lowering your metabolism.
I just wanted to comment that how do people even do that? How does one find time to eat 6 small meals a day? thats so hard to keep up with. If you are eating 2 meals a day it would be easier to monitor calories and you can still easily control portions and actually be full. I always thought the small meals thing sounded like a full time job. If its like that then you will stress yourself out and be easy to mess up.
Originally posted by: teh lurv
When I say small meal, I can be something like an apple or small snack. You don't want to put your entire food intake into 2 or 3 large meals.
Thats a ton of planning and eating like that will make well me atleast feel hungry all the time. Having to think to eat like that would be so stressfull and having planned each day you could easily fall off that schedule. I think you should just watch what you eat period and portion control. I dont think what intervals you eat will be that important as long as your eating the right things in the right portions. Eat slower and just drink water.
Watched what I ate and drank mainly water. I wasnt as physical as I would like this week as I bought 3 different collections and that kept me busy.
However, I did move a ton of boxes from house to van and back. Also moved a HEAVY World Of Nintendo Cabinet up and down a few flights. Not to mention a VB Kiosk and PSP Kiosk lol.
All in all, im pleased.
Originally posted by: quest4nes
Originally posted by: teh lurv
When I say small meal, I can be something like an apple or small snack. You don't want to put your entire food intake into 2 or 3 large meals.
Thats a ton of planning and eating like that will make well me atleast feel hungry all the time. Having to think to eat like that would be so stressfull and having planned each day you could easily fall off that schedule. I think you should just watch what you eat period and portion control. I dont think what intervals you eat will be that important as long as your eating the right things in the right portions. Eat slower and just drink water.
YMMV I guess, but I ate like that for years and it wasn't a burden at all.
My weekly weigh-in is in at 206lbs. I've been tightening up what I've been eating and now that the the holidays are over, been able to hit the gym again 3-4 times a week. The work is starting to pay off. I also put more attention to my strength training. I've fallen into the trap of doing quick reps and not really stressing the muscles as much as I should be. This week I took care to slow my reps down and hold them. That made a big difference and my arms and chest are feeling it today.
Originally posted by: teh lurv
When I say small meal, I can be something like an apple or small snack. You don't want to put your entire food intake into 2 or 3 large meals.
Thats a ton of planning and eating like that will make well me atleast feel hungry all the time. Having to think to eat like that would be so stressfull and having planned each day you could easily fall off that schedule. I think you should just watch what you eat period and portion control. I dont think what intervals you eat will be that important as long as your eating the right things in the right portions. Eat slower and just drink water.
It really isn't. Just take small snacks with you and eat lightly when you start to get hungry to keep your hunger in check. It's how I lost 90 lbs last year. 3 meals and 4 small/light snacks spread out the entire day. Required zero planning, really.
I skipped the gym today and Mrs. Claus made a whole bunch of cheese and potato pierogies.
They were amazing.
I definitely agree with Dra600n about eating more times through out the day. In between my "regular" meals, I will eat a banana or apple and maybe a small handful of granola or pumpkin seeds if I feel hungry. We still eat some bad starches, but way more sparingly and a much smaller portion. And absolutely no more soda!!! Water with Mio instead
Good luck everyone and keep up the good work!
Good luck with our weight loss goals everyone!
Next week I should see a change...right?
Originally posted by: GirlGamer55
Still 269...like I said I plateau...freaking annoying. I'm watching my calories using that fitnesspal app and I'm under most of the days (only a little bit), one day I was over by 300. But I'm eating less and I notice a difference...in that I'm god damn hungry all the time. Yet still no change in weight. I'd expect at least a pound or two to drop...
Next week I should see a change...right?
It depends.. Are you exercising? And sometimes it may take a coupe of weeks for you rmetabolism to adjust. You def haven't plateaued. Plateauing usually comes after you lose weight. And then it is only temporary. The key is always burning off more calories than you take in. Burning them requires some form of activity. Even if it is just walking through a mall. But if you burn more than you take in, it is a scientific fact that you will lose weight.
Im not sure exactly what you are eating or how many calories you are eating. They also say that one bad diet day screws you up for the next 3 days. Im not sure if thats true. If you are hungry, try snacking. Things like apples, bananas, oranges, carrots, celery can help fill in during the times before meals. Try drinking more water (even if its flavored) It can fll your stomach up And try to keep you rmind busy. I usually eat a lot because I am bored.
Also, fitness apps are fine, but I wouldn't go by their caloric intake calculators. You need to figure out what your intake is to maintain a weight, then start reducing that intake slowly, otherwise that first pizza you eat, you'll most likely start putting the weight back on. Remember, your body weight has about a 3-5 pound fluctuation each day. The removal of fat in your body takes a lot longer to remove than it is to create, so expecting day 3 results is ridiculous. Be patient or you won't keep it off.
If you're sitting around and doing nothing, your body will only burn 1300-1500 calories. Light walking will help burn more calories, but if you're against any effort of exercising or working out, you'll need to find higher protein foods and not eat more than 1300-1500 calories. Lots of tasty foods out there that will fill you up and satisfy your hunger, as well as allow you to munch on a lot of something (like fat free popcorn, which has a whole 45 calories per bag when popped).
You'll only as much weight as you put effort into it, be it with self control and keeping moderate portions and eating healthier, or by exercising and working out. Having the mentality of "I plateau'd" or "this is too much effort", well, enjoy being overweight.
Originally posted by: bigbernie
im 180. this seems strange because i am eating better with no pops or chocolates and take 15 000 plus steps a day (this i learned from the fancy new phone that has a step counter built right in)
Careful with the phone counters. I used to think mine was super awesome and then I realized it was 2,000 steps off from what I was really taking (gave me 2,000 more than it should have). When I started using fitbit over a phone app, I had to work harder to hit 10-20k steps a day lol. I was pretty mad at first then fell into a routine.
Originally posted by: A. Thrower
Weigh in at 145.
I definitely agree with Dra600n about eating more times through out the day. In between my "regular" meals, I will eat a banana or apple and maybe a small handful of granola or pumpkin seeds if I feel hungry. We still eat some bad starches, but way more sparingly and a much smaller portion. And absolutely no more soda!!! Water with Mio instead
Good luck everyone and keep up the good work!
All good choice snacks! I indulge on some yogurt every so often instead of fruit, just for variety, as well as fat free cottage cheese
And it's good to have a cheat meal once or twice a week (mine was KFC on Friday night, and pizza on Saturday) for the longest time, and then towards the end of summer, I ended up dropping both and now only eat it maybe once a month, if that.