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| Weight Loss | Eating Fruit for breakfast | Aug 21 2009 21:48 (UTC) |
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I can skip breakfast and not really feel it when I'm in a rush, but I really think it makes a difference in the way I eat for the rest of the day. Also, I'm really bad about time in the morning so I do some of the following things. 1) hardboil a batch of eggs on Sunday night and grab one on my way out the door...lets you start your day with some protein. 2) yogurt or cottage cheese...also convenient, also with protein 3) Bananas have a little more calories than other fruits and come in convenient natual packaging ;) 4) I pre-measure dry cereal into a baggie the night before (often eat on the way to work or while checking emails) 5) I keep my desk stocked with granola bars and premeasured trail mix. |
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| Motivation | Help-I just started today | Aug 18 2009 16:06 (UTC) |
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Don't get discouraged. It's not an all or nothing situation. So you fell from grace a little this morning, go get some exercise, drink a lot of water, and eat healthy for the rest of the day. I find it helps to keep a stock of snacks at my desk...I have a tupperware bin I keep full of granola bars, 100 calorie popcorn bags, pre-measured trail mix, dried fruit, etc. So if I'm in a hurry and I didn't get a healthy breakfast, or lunch, or I'm really craving a snack, there are always healthy options. Also, while I'm not really a low-carb diet advocate, be aware of how much protein you've been eating. A protein rich snack may be much smaller and higher in calories but it will keep you going longer and satisfy your hunger better. And eat when you're hungry. Just eat something healthy. Suffering with hunger pains is usually what causes me to binge. Good luck! |
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| Weight Loss | What's a good calorie margin/spread when starting to exercise again? | Apr 29 2009 20:01 (UTC) |
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You want to eat about 500 fewer calories than you burned (ACTUALLY BURNED, not sedentary level lifestyle). If you enter your exercise in the activities log it will show you roughly what you are actually burning. Eating too little will cause you metabolism to shut down and you will CEASE to lose weight (sorry about the "shouting", but it seems that a lot of people are ignorant about this and it's dangerous...feeds eating disorders). If you want to lose weight, you MUST eat enough. Incidently, unless you are on the heavy side, 10 lbs in a month is a pretty aggressive amount of weight to try to lose. Shoot for 1-2lbs a week. It sounds awfully slow and tedious, I know, but studies show that slow (SAFE) weight loss is far more likely to be permenant weight loss, whereas people who try to drop large amounts really quickly tend to put it back on and then some. |
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| Fitness | Working out in the morning vs. the evening? | Apr 15 2009 20:26 (UTC) |
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Actually (thought I'm not a dr or a dietician), I would think the opposite. If you read about weight loss, the scientists always tells you that when the body thinks it is starving (read: hungry), it goes into "famine mode". Evolution has taught our bodies to hoard fat in times of famine, which is the reason they tell you not to eat under your calorie target when trying to lose weight, you don't want to convince your metabolism it's starving. What you want to do is rev that metabolism up. Usually they advise many small meals or snacks through the day and increased muscle mass (weight training) to do this, but I haven't seen anything about time of day for your calorie deficit. |
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| Health & Support | Confused... | Apr 15 2009 17:08 (UTC) |
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I'm glad you're aware that you need to gain weight. But you need to be talking to a doctor at this point. A dietician who can help you ease your body back to a healthy size, and maybe a therapist to help you with some of the psychological causes of anorexia. Are your parents aware/helping you with this? |
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| Weight Loss | Loosing very slowly | Apr 14 2009 22:22 (UTC) |
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1) About a lb a week is actually a pretty healthy rate of loss. Especially for someone relatively petite, and not very heavy. I've read a lot of articles claiming slow weight loss is more likely to be PERMENANT weight loss, which is what we all want anyway, right? 2) Strength train along with the cardio. It increases your basal metabolic rate (hope I spelled that correctly) which is basically a fancy way of saying your body's automatical calorie burn.
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| Weight Loss | Who has had success zig zagging or increasing calories? | Apr 14 2009 20:17 (UTC) |
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Oh, hey, you're pretty darn close to me, then. (29, 5'5", 143lbs as of this morning). I've been down to 127 before, but I had no muscle at the time and now I've been weight lifting with a trainer twice a week since August, so I'm actually much more fit and only a little bigger now than I was at 127 (just recently squeezed back into my old clothes). I took up running last Summer and am now running 20-23 miles a week. My goal is about 135lbs. Your activity level is probably closer to moderate, if you're running. I think the way they describe the activity levels on CC is a little confusing, but you note the high activity level is if you do any "jogging", and this is more comparable to other calorie calculators I've seen in the past. |
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| Weight Loss | Under Daily Quota | Apr 14 2009 20:00 (UTC) |
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I have to have a little giggle, because this sounds just like me. I've had trouble in the past eating my full quota of calories, but find my weight loss is a lot more consistent when I do. It's really tempting to make up that gap at the end of the day with a nice stout beer (mmmmmm, beer). However, you should try to increase the "nutrient density" of your food while at the same time eating more calories. Alcohol is basically a sugar and beer has little nutritional value for your body. Try foods like avocado and natural peanut butter...they have healthy fats and will provide better quality food. Also, even if you don't feel hungry right now, consistently eating such little food will cause your body to go into starvation mode where it will conserve fat (the opposite of what you want). |
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| Weight Loss | Who has had success zig zagging or increasing calories? | Apr 13 2009 22:02 (UTC) |
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Hey, I recently went through this. It pretty much depends on your size/activity level/sex, but for your reference: I'm 29, 5'5, 144lbs, female, and moderately active. I was eating about 1200-1300 calories and not losing an ounce, really frustrated. After chatting with one of the trainers at my gym, who was shocked that I was eating so little and advised me to up my intake to 1700 at least, I jointed CC and have lost 4lbs in about 4 weeks. That's a reasonable, healthy rate of weight loss for someone my size. So I recommend that you experiment with upping your calorie intake for a couple weeks and see what kind of results you get. |
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