Posts by stillfishin

I have been eating air popped popcorn every night ever since I started my change of eating habits 2 years ago. I lost 75 pounds in 2 years. It is my ultimate treat of the day. A large bowl of it (about 8 cups) with popcorn seasoning is about 300 calories. You CAN get the seasonings to stick with no problem by buying olive oil cooking spray and lightly spray the finished popcorn and then sprinkle with your seasoning. I buy my seasoning in bulk at the spicebarn.com My favorite is their white chedder because you get the cheese popcorn without yellow fingers!! I pop the white popcorn in an air popping machine I bought for about $20

OK - I accidently found the problem...... This is good!!

   I went to change my program on the treadmill to do something different to try to fool my body after reading everyone's post again..

 When I first got my treadmill I had programed in what I weighed to start the program.

Well................. it does not self adjust as you loose, duh!! I feel dumb.

It stayed right where I first set it and as my level of exercise increased, the treadmill was thinking I weighed the same so it was telling me I was burning a huge amount of calories.

I re-adjusted and put my cuurent weight in and with the same amount of exercise I am not burning 1000 calories, only 600

So, thanks to everyone who helped me which made me go to doing something different and finding what was wrong

Well, I am going to have to try something different. I have stopped loosing so I am obviously doing something wrong, or as everyone is saying I need to do something different. Darn, I was really liking my routine too!! It seems as if when you get comfortable, so does your body? Maybe I will cut back a few hundred calories a day and see what happens. I Appreciate the input, thanks.

I am walking at an 10% incline at 2.5 - 3.0 miles per hour - could my treadmill be wrong?

 It comes to about 20 minutes a mile/100 minutes total time per day. I usually do it all at once and vary the speed, but it still averages 100 minutes and tells me 1000 burned

 - I also found this: http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/calories_ burned.asp and it says I am burning 900 for my workout. I just want to be sure I am not doing anything wrong for my health.

I also do strength training on my bowflex 20 minutes 3x per week

 I am afraid if I increase calories I will gain since what I am doing now is just leaving me no change.

Thanks for the help, I feel I really need it.

I lost 75 pounds in one year and I did it eating mostly at night. I work all day and eat very, very little in the daytime. When I am off work and able to relax, I eat, and eat and eat. I quit smoking at the same time as starting my diet so idle time was hard for me not to eat. It is not when you eat but what you eat. I eat all night long from about 7pm to 2am, BUT I eat all veggies, air popped popcorn, food that is healthy and no fat and low calories. It matters how many calories you consume in a 24 hour period and how many you burn in the same period, not when you eat those calories. I just be sure I do not go over my calorie allowance for the day. Budget them!