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| Weight Loss | Hey am new to this :) | Oct 30 2009 20:56 (UTC) |
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I find sometimes just taking a break from the weekly caloric deficit thing to be a huge help motivation-wise. Sometimes it's just too oppressive to fight to come up under my daily burn calories, so I'll take a week (or two or three) and just try to do maintenance. Then I find I'm a little more ready to get back to working on the weight loss. I've heard this can also really help for when you hit a plateau. Good luck and welcome!
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| Foods | What triggers your binge? | Oct 26 2009 20:58 (UTC) |
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Usually either Saturday or Sunday each week, my partner and I will have a lovely breakfast of a homemade cheese and onion omelet along with diced fried potatoes. We don't use oil, just no-calorie spray butter and non-stick pans, so really a moderately healthy breakfast. It's probably my favorite meal of the week. Unfortunately, despite having eaten more than plenty, I just want to eat and eat and eat afterwards - like I just can't get full. Not sure what the problem actually is there, though I always assumed it was the potatoes. I probably only eat either food by itself (potatoes and eggs) and not as a component of some dish just that one time a week, so I guess it could be either. Needless to say, I work really hard to ignore the cravings, so that I DON'T binge. |
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| Calorie Count | Calorie deficit graph would be helpful | Oct 22 2009 21:49 (UTC) |
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I have thought this same thing many times! I love the analysis tool because it sums all the intake information beautifully! It would be even better though if we could see the same sort of information for burn as well. I'm typically a sedentary person, and while I do get some exercise in daily, it's not enough to move me up to the light activity level. Because of this I often adjust my intake based on the extra calories I burn during the day. There's really no easy way to compare intake and burn except on that day using the meters.
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| Health & Support | Fluctuation in weight problems! | Oct 22 2009 18:37 (UTC) |
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Don't give up ashlee! Remember that adding strength training to your workout schedule usually means you'll see a few extra pounds at first because you're building muscle. You'll find a lot of advice on the boards here about not letting the scale be your only measure of success, and this is definitely one of those times. In a little while if you keep on with all these positive changes you'll totally start to see results. Especially once all the new muscles you're building give your metabolism a bit of a jump start! Don't get discouraged! Just keep on with all your great changes! Good luck!
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| Vegetarian | Obsessed | Oct 14 2009 21:16 (UTC) |
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Hey pumpkinsquash! I'm not a vegan, but I've been a vegetarian for the last twenty years of my adult life, and I've likely had a few similar experiences. I too became a vegetarian for animal rights reasons. While in college, I joined an animal rights group and began finding out more than I ever wanted to about the abysmal way consumerist societies treat animals in general and livestock in particular. It was this information of course that convinced me to make the switch to vegetarianism. For probably the first two years I continued to keep up on the information gathering, but it became too overwhelming and depressing. I'd say that most of the information I have about animal rights with relation to livestock is out of date, but based on what I've seen in the media it seems things really haven't changed much, at least not for the better. It's been my general experience that when people find out I'm a vegetarian, they typically react negatively, getting defensive or ridiculing my beliefs (jokingly or not), and only occasionally asking sincere questions about why I stopped eating meat. I have always attributed the negative reactions to a feeling on the part of others that I am making some sort of value judgment of them by my being a vegetarian, which I am not. I became a vegetarian because of how I feel about something personally, and have not tried to sermonize nor to convert others who are not open to it. It's only been the last few years, since I switched to a field with a significant number of people from India in it (many of whom are vegetarians), that it has seemed to become somewhat less remarkable that I don't eat meat. Just my opinions and experience.
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| Health & Support | Depression + Overeating = more depression! | Oct 13 2009 21:21 (UTC) |
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Drugs don't have to be a last resort for your depression, unless that's how you feel. Depression is not always caused by something that can be worked through in a therapy or group session. Depression can also be caused by chemical imbalances in our bodies that can't be "talked out." Go see your doctor about your depression if it's concerning you. There actually are drugs that can make you feel better, often without all the scary side-effects you hear about. When your doctor prescribes depression meds, you will typically have a number of follow-up appointments to make sure the meds are working the right way for you and not causing more problems than they're solving. If you're not interested in drugs, your doctor can also usually give you recommendations for therapists to talk to. Typically, your doctor will recommend a therapist even if you do decide to use medication. There may also be other physical issues contributing to your depression that your doctor can run tests for. When you're depressed, everything can feed into your unhappiness, making it seem that much worse. From personal experience I encourage you to talk to someone about it as soon as you can. Good luck. |
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| Weight Loss | Weight doesn't match pants size? *awkward topic, sorry* | Oct 06 2009 21:01 (UTC) |
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Each of us tends to be a little different based on genetics. If the women in your family tend towards the busty, you may lose some weight off that area during overall weight loss, but maybe not as much as you'd like. Unfortunately, only a lucky few of us DON'T have some body area that makes finding clothes that fit well difficult. I'm a typical pear, so as I continue to lose weight my chest size will keep shrinking, but my shirt size will still have to fit my wider lower half!
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| Weight Loss | I need honest opinions on post-weight loss skin issues :/ (photos) | Oct 02 2009 15:39 (UTC) |
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Maiden, I checked out your profile and I have to say - 175 pounds lost! That's amazing! I looked at ALL your pics and you look completely fantastic! I understand feeling self conscious about the loose skin, but from most things I've heard it really takes quite a while for your skin to catch up to your weight loss. I've also heard that keeping yourself well hydrated and your skin moisturized can help. Try to give it some time. Regardless, you should stop thinking about how bad you think your skin looks and focus on how great YOU look! Accept yourself for who you are. Self-confidence is incredibly attractive! Keep your chin up!
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| New Members | Newbie! | Sep 09 2009 19:48 (UTC) |
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Welcome to CC, Kim! Sounds like you're already a woman with a plan! Chrissy1998 is right though, you don't need a PT to get fit. Keeping active, walking the kids to school or the dogs around the neighborhood, window shopping at a local mall, taking salsa or ballroom classes with your partner, working in the yard, or taking advantage of workouts and classes at the gym will all help get you fit. Find activities that you really enjoy but feel free to change them up every once in awhile to keep them fresh and you motivated -- and maybe enjoy the benefits of "cross-training!" There's lots of great resources, groups and forums here on CC that can really help you on your way to your goals. Good luck!
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| Maintaining | Ok...I think I may have figured this out... | Sep 09 2009 19:10 (UTC) |
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Looks like you have it figured out. The best way to implement is always a bit of a learning process, with each of us hopefully finding a process that suits us. For example, many people choose to add some form of additional activity to their day that will burn calories not included in their burn meter. Doing some yard or house work, walking the dog, walking around the mall window shopping, or flat out exercising! Your "maintenance" calorie requirements will increase as you do more. If you've listed yourself as "sedentary," be sure to add any extra activities you do during the day in your CC activity log, the same way you log your calories. Checking your CC "My Home" tab updates your burn meter to include your added activity.
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| Maintaining | Ok...I think I may have figured this out... | Sep 09 2009 17:27 (UTC) |
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If CC has calculated your Daily Caloric Expenditure at 1310 using the Burn Tool, then that is the amount you would expect to eat daily to maintain your current weight. Instead of sticking to the 1310 daily, you could average it across the week, similar to what chrissy1988 was talking about. I don't know what your age is but will assume you're out of your teens, however you are very close to the minimum caloric intake (1200) for an adult woman already, so you should be careful not to go too much below your 1310 daily amount. Keep in mind also what pilgrimdude mentioned. Counting calories is a really good way to track your eating, but our bodies are much more complex than just simple addition/subtraction.
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| Fitness | Flats = problems? | Sep 08 2009 22:22 (UTC) |
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I can't offer an opinion on restaurant work specifically, but from personal experience I'd like to suggest looking specifically for good arch support, insole cushioning and a wide toe box. If you're on your feet in bad shoes for long enough, especially if you're overweight, you could end up with falling/fallen arches, plantar fasciitis (basically the tendons in your foot/heel become swollen or ripped), and bunions, among many other possible problems. Our feet are so important! Definitely do your best to treat yours right.
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| Foods | Revealing new book from former head of FDA | Sep 02 2009 21:03 (UTC) |
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Original Post by glindas: I've been a vegetarian now for going on nineteen years, and the thought of actually eating meat kind of makes me ill... Yet any time I'm near a Burger King with it's "flame-grilled burger" smell, I start to salivate!
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| Maintaining | Throwing away the old clothes? | Aug 31 2009 14:14 (UTC) |
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I'm similar to susiecue, except that I have an under-the-bed storage box. I try to go through all my clothes twice a year, once for spring/summer clothes in the fall and once for fall/winter clothes in the spring. Anything I didn't wear during the season goes in the box. As I find clothes that are still wearable, just not be me, I'm tucking them in the box. Every so often the contents of the box gets donated! I think this helps me to not grow out of my closets. |
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| Motivation | Dont be a P***Y | Aug 27 2009 21:51 (UTC) |
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A truly worthy goal! I love the idea of just up and singing "You are my sunshine"! Great post!
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| Motivation | I've hit my goal weight!! (before and after pics) | Aug 11 2009 21:43 (UTC) |
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Congratulations Kelly! You look great!
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| Weight Loss | Smaller portions not working? | Jul 30 2009 18:42 (UTC) |
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Original Post by white_sakura: I've actually found that the bloating from increased fiber has helped me to stop snacking. My eating schedule during the week is 300c for breakfast, 300c for morning snacks, 700-900c for lunch, then 100-200c for dinner. I'm typically starving all morning, so that's why the a.m. snacks, but lunch is usually chock full of veggies so I'm basically full for the rest of the day. Fiber is our friend, for lots of reasons! Don't skip it.
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| Weight Loss | Question for all you CC experts out there! | Jul 30 2009 17:55 (UTC) |
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Original Post by babyvdog: If you want to maintain your current weight, then you want to eat basically the same number of calories that you burn each day. If you want to lose weight then you want to eat fewer calories than you burn each day. The suggestion is to space the total caloric deficit you want (3500 calories = 1 lb) across a week. So, for a typical one pound per week loss you want to eat 500 fewer calories per day than you expect to burn (but never less than 1200 calories for an adult woman). The common opinion across members of CC seems to be that most of us who do not have active jobs typically choose the sedentary setting then log all exercise done in the activity log. Hope this helps!
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| New Members | I just drop by to say hi and I am new | Jul 27 2009 21:42 (UTC) |
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Good luck meeting your goal snowqueen!
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| The Lounge | No tattoo possibility | Jul 22 2009 13:59 (UTC) |
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I've always wanted a tattoo, so I'm trying to plan one for a big weight goal reward! Have you ever designed your own tat or had one designed for you? |
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| Motivation | Have you changed the way you think about food? | Jul 20 2009 16:51 (UTC) |
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delivermenow... "food as fuel" was an example of how we think about food and whether that thinking has changed. For many of us who are overweight, we don't think of food as fuel, but rather as comfort or as an emotional substitute (consciously or unconsciously). In your situation you likely don't have to overcome the exact same sort of thinking, however the way you think about food may still change or need to change. If you truly only eat 300 calories a day, you are undereating to a dangerous and unhealthy degree. That doesn't make you psychotic, however it is possible you could be anorexic, but there could also be some other problem. You might talk to your physician about your situation. Good luck! |
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| Foods | Morning Star or Boca | Jul 16 2009 14:13 (UTC) |
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I definitely think this is a matter of taste question! I like the Boca Flame Grilled burgers better, but my partner prefers the Morningstar Prime Grillers. We always buy the Morningstar breakfast stuff, very tasty, as are the chick nuggets and patties. Quorn is fantastic, especially the naked cutlets and the turkey style loaf (great in cold sandwiches). Worthington is also really good, their Leanies being the best "hot dog" I've ever eaten, before or after giving up meat. They used to also have a really great fish style filet (the breaded kind), but I haven't found that anywhere lately. I grew up in a meat eating family, as did my partner who does the cooking, so we've tended to continue much in the same style, simply substituting with meatless products. I don't mind the "simulated meat" thing, but I know several vegetarians who grew up that way who find it objectionable (or just "yucky"). I think the "best" in this case is completely subjective. You'll probably find something to like in any brand. |
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| Motivation | Have you changed the way you think about food? | Jul 09 2009 19:29 (UTC) |
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Original Post by adtkhome: There are lots of different opinions about binge eating here in the CC communities, so definitely take a few minutes to search the forums and advice areas for them. For me there are basically two things that seem to be working to help me avoid binges. First, I try not to let myself become too hungry, but rather eat small snacks or move up my meal time whenever I feel that gnawing in my belly. Second, I don't make anything strictly off limits food-wise. I think it's much easier to say "no" to things that aren't really good for me if I know that I could have it but I choose not to. Also, sometimes I just don't WANT to say "no", so I have a small or normal sized portion of whatever treat I can't resist. Usually just a single serving of something is more than enough to satisfy while staying within the calorie limits I've set for myself. We spend our whole lives training ourselves (or being trained) in all sorts of ways, including in how we eat. You feel like you have a disease, but it's really just training from your childhood. Change is really difficult, but we can do it! Being healthy for many of us means UN-learning all those bad habits we practiced for years and years, and replacing them with new and better habits. Good luck adtkhome! |
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| Motivation | proud of myself! | Jun 29 2009 18:24 (UTC) |
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Woo-hoo! Great job, carrie33! Every victory, no matter how small, should be celebrated! Just like a lot of other people here, I too have a terrible problem with portion control. I find it really easy to simply ignore my body telling me it's full and just eat and eat and eat! Yesterday, though, we got pizza for lunch and my belly was just growling for food. I took out that third slice and just looked at it on my plate for about three minutes, arguing with myself in my head, until I finally just PUT IT BACK! Disaster avoided! Hooray for me!
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| Motivation | Have you changed the way you think about food? | Jun 25 2009 15:08 (UTC) |
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Original Post by pilgrimdude: Happily, I'm not finding myself hungry all the time, but I have noticed that I really am enjoying healthy foods a lot more now. On the weekends I used to reach for a bag of chips or something for a snack, but now I'm all of a sudden really enjoying fruit! It used to be really hard to get all my fruit servings without just using juice! I've noticed that a lot of other people in the forums seem to be having similar experiences as well. Once you stop craving all the high-fat, high-sodium, junky food that you were used to, eating healthy TASTES GREAT!
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| Young Calorie Counters | Rant about my life | Jun 22 2009 15:42 (UTC) |
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If you've already told your mom that you find her comments hurtful and she's continued to make them, to you and to others, there's not much else you can do but try your best to ignore them. What other people say and do is outside of our control. Don't let her mean words and bad attitude shape who you are or your perception of yourself. Like helionix said, you're a beautiful girl! You don't need validation from outside - the real good feelings come from YOU being happy with yourself. Good luck! |
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| Foods | food vices that challenge "nothing TASTES as good as THIN/HEALTHY feels" | Jun 22 2009 15:32 (UTC) |
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Wacky cake with an inch and a half thick buttercream frosting! Rich and creamy fettucine alfredo! Fresh baked white bread (and the house smells delicious) with a gob of melting butter! McDonald's french fries - supersize! MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
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| Motivation | Comments family member make about my weight..anybody else have the same problem | Jun 19 2009 14:54 (UTC) |
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Kakenetit2, I can definitely relate. The first holiday after I became a vegetarian my grandmother told me I was going through a phase. It's nineteen years later and apparently this is a really long phase! Many times people who love us don't realize they're being hurtful. That's often not their intent. Sometimes, especially I find with men - fathers, grandfathers, they don't really know how to relate to their female relations, so they "tease" or "joke" not realizing that we might be sensitive. If you know their hearts are in the right place, even if their mouths aren't, just ignore it and move on. You know who you are better than they do. |
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| Motivation | Do you have the perfect body? Yes. | Jun 12 2009 19:26 (UTC) |
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I definitely agree that we should try to look at ourselves/our bodies in a positive way, no matter our size. When all I could think when I looked in a mirror was how fat and awful I was, it made me weepy and depressed, not motivated to become more healthy. If you hate yourself, you have no reason to be healthy. Dieting in that state of mind becomes more about punishment than about sustainable, healthy and empowering lifestyle changes. You set yourself up for failure, simply reinforcing how bad/fat/lazy/ugly/whatever you feel you are. Every time you hear that mean voice in your head saying bad things, get the mental duct tape out! Find something good about you. There's lots and lots of good things about each one of us. Find them and focus on them! Feel good about yourself, love yourself, and treat yourself nice! |
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| Weight Loss | Why do i fell like 'I JUST CANT DO IT!!!' | Jun 11 2009 16:10 (UTC) |
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In the past, I often felt the same way you feel right now. I've believed for a long time now that diet is a four letter word, that it's all about being healthy and making it a lifestyle. I believed it in my head, but until recently not in my heart. I put way too much emphasis on what the scale said so that even if I could tell I was healthier and more fit, if the scale didn't show it then I was NEVER going to be able to do it! It's not true though. We both totally CAN! One of the thoughts that's inspired me the most so far was something I read in one of the success stories (sun123), and I keep the thought on my desktop so I can look at it whenever I need to. She said that her "ah-hah" moment came when she realized that the time would pass anyway. She could use that time to make healthy changes or she could be stuck in the same place. Whenever I think about how hard it is or how long it's going to take, I think of that. The time's going to pass anyway, so why not make it better! Good Luck nutbox! We believe in you! |
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So you can keep track of what you eat - which enables you to analyze your foods and receive the following:
- Health Score of your overall diet
- Warning when you approach your daily calorie limit
- Overview of the good and bad nutrients