Posts by vendetta001

If you drink 1.5 litres of water a day and eat a few fruits then you easily have enough water intake. if you ate a lot of foods that are high in sodium then you might add 0.5 - 1 litres of water, but don't worry, if that's the case you will get thirsty anyway :)

How do I control my sodium levels mhh. I don't care, my BODY controls them, what is not needes gets out of it, I drink enough so it isn't a problem for me. And I can at least guarantee everyone here, it is totally unimportant to watch the sodium level for weight loss since I lost quite much without caring about it at all. Sodium is really overrated, be sure to drink enough water/eat enough water rich foods, and your body will take care about your sodium levels! 

Original Post by queend3ad:

I'm feeling really horrible for everything that I eat. And then at night putting everything into my calorie log makes me feel even worse. I HATE my fat, and feel extremely ugly and stressed when the scale says anything over 120. :[ I really don't want to feel this way but I don't know how to avoid it.

 hey easy! You are talking about being fat while you look quite nice already. You shouldn't stress yourself that much! If your cal intake really stays above 1500 a day, then you're doing it the right way. You shouldn't be worrying about your weight all the time. Instead look into the mirror and see the changes. weight fluctuates over time, I also had times when I weighted up to three pounds more than I had the other day, that's why you shouldn't get on teh scale everyday.

 About your self esteem problems: I don't really know why you have them, you look really good and you should be proud of it! You're going through a hard time judging from your age, but you will get over it! If you want to improve your self confidence then just look at yourself in the mirror and accept yourself. You really can, cause you are a beautiful girl, no need to be shy or underconfident about it. also remind yourself as often as possible, that most people are like you, too much obsessed about what others think about them, they simply don't have the time to think about you at all, because they are worried enough about their own!  And even if they think about you, most of them will be jealous that you can walk arround with your head up high and wondering how you can be that confident about yourself while they can't. Just think about the feeling you will have, it's easy, keep your head up and show them that you're more than worth, walking arround your town, proud of yourself :)

Well my weightlog says it all:

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When I joined CC I was 94kg(207) heavy now it's down to 78.5kg(172lbs) as of today. I started losing weight before joining CC. Back then I was 100kg - 220lbs heavy. The point where I realized that this can't go any further. I got to 94kg within two months by just stopping to eat potato chips, chocolate and other junk, while eating normally like I used to. I also stopped drinking soft drinks at that time, which sure helped a lot too, the only thing I drink since then is Water, lot's of it

After some time I found this site, and got great insights to what food was all about, energy nothing else, what I knew all along came clearer to me. I sorted out the foods that where calorie dense and was going for the food that where high in fibre, I started to eat more fruits and less fat. I stopped using butter and white bread, instead I went for whole grain and low fat cream cheese on my bread. Cutting visible fat off helped also a lot. I also got a new idea of food overall: I always thought meat makes you fat and cheese is good, ha! Completely wrong, lean meat is pretty low in cals and makes you feel full for a much longer time than diary products ever could.

To be honest, I only counted cals the first two months being here, then, after knowing almost every food I eat regularly by cals(yeah it's cool you see that slice of bread and your brain puts a "70 cals" tag on it!) i stopped counting completely. It's a bit sad though, because I'm all for the stats and would love to look back on what I ate the last months. But I don't really have the time to look after everything I've eaten, I guess it's enough to see my weight graph going down and down again, when I reached the magic 80kg goal(and that two weeks prior to what CC calculated back when I was still 94kg heavy) I was really happy about myself and seeing how I did it. My new and final goal is 72kg(158lbs) now, I will try to maintain tht wheight, after reaching it, for the rest of my life. only 6.5kg to go, that looks so small to the 15.5kg I already lost. If CC is right I will reach my final goal in may, oh yeah!

by the way: It's great to wear M-Size shirts instead of XL

That are nice statistics there. But for everyone that can't go with 5 or even 6 meals per day: don't worry too much about it. I lost 45 pounds by eating 3 meals a day, just because time doesn't allow me to eat differently(breakfast, lunch, dinner, sometimes a few fruits as snack later arround 9 o' clock). Like the first post shows: eating even one burger can throw you completely out of your balance, that's why I've eaten my last burger about a year ago. If you go eating out however, try to eat really small meals in between, let's say a 200 cals breakfast and a 300 cals dinner if you really have a 1500 cal dinner at your favorite chinese or whatever. 

However, I think it's logical that you have to eat something before doing a big workout, best would be something high in protein like a protein shake, cause it helps you building muscle, while giving you energy to do your workout without fainting :)

Original Post by jschirmer:

Ok well, I am 23 and I have been trying to lose weight for two weeks.  I am at 242. I have only lost 3lbs.  I think that is rather low for all the things that I am doing.  I am working out lightly about 6 days a week(20min) a day.  I have been eating about 1600 calories a day.  Tell me if this is normal, or if my body is going into conservation mode?  Or do I have to step up the activity?  Any advice or suggestions will be appreciated.  :)

 Come back in three months and laugh about your complaints, when you've lost&n bsp;about 20 lbs already ;)

Just keep it going, you'll soon realize that you won't get thin overnight as well as you won't get fat over night. If you are looking for that wonderstuff that get's rid of 20 lbs within a month, skip it, I haven't found anything that will really work(well I haven't tried anything of that stuff either because it doesn't work, yay). All those diet pills will only help you(if they work) to regulate your calorie intake, but it seems like you can take care of it already and hold it at about 500 cals below your intake.

You have to understand: 3500 cals mean 1 lbs of fat(not 100% of it is fat but most of it) lost. So if you have a 500 deficit over the course of a week every day then you will have lost 1lbs, you lost 3lbs in 2 weeks, that sounds just about right for you, if you consume about 700 cals(like you said) less a day, than you body needs to maintain the weight! -I did the same months ago, and I have lost about 2lbs a week which now added up to a total loss of almost 50 lbs!

Do the maths and you will see that you are on track, if you want to lose faster, then try to cut another 100 cals a day but you shouldn't go much lower if you want a recommendation from me... 

Original Post by curalium_lacrimo:

It's to hard to keep eating 1200 calories with such yummy food around so my goal this xmas is to maintain 160lbs at 1500 calories a day and IGNORING calories, but still making good choices on christmas day.

Anyone going to join me?

 I would join you but eating 1500 cals a day would be 600 cals less than I should to lose weight on a regular basis ;)

I still don't understand how you can live by eating as little as 1200 cals a day, that just seems insane to me. I know, I know, as a girl and prolly not that tall so you need less cals to maintain your weight / lose weight. But still reading of people that consume 1200 cals a day just sounds crazy to me... (knowing that one of my meals can easily be worth that amount of cals)

As for christmas: Just stay away from cookies and everything will be fine, eat a few pieces of chocolate instead, but don't eat cookies, they are the worst thing on this planet, a few can easily get you to a plus of 1.000 cals...

Original Post by whitneyte:

I meant CC says healthy is 20-25, not 24. I guess it just provides an estimate, because my dad eats incredibly healthy, and at age 50 he runs 5 miles a day. But at 5'7 (I know he's a short little Italian ;) and 147 lbs, he technically has a higher BMI than me! Weird.

 It might have something to do with your age? I guess CC's BMI tool is just more accurate than any other, that's the reason for the different ranges for everyone here. Because my BMI Tool says this, being 23 years old:

BMI Calculator
Based upon your current Body Mass Index (BMI) of 24.5, you are currently classed as slightly overweight.


A healthy BMI for your gender and age is between 20 and 24 and a reasonable weight loss rate is 0.5 to 1 kg a week.

Original Post by alicandra:

Cheers, guys - i think I was just getting worked up over nothing. I'm going to have some egg (protein!) and then just not worry about it - like you said, shandykat, one low cal day wont kill me!

 

Ally

Well, you won't die(or get instantly fat) by eating, let's say 2000 one day, eather. That's what most people arround here don't understand. It doesn't even matter
what you eat, what you eat just changes the way you feel not the way you weight, it only matters how much cals you take in.

To stop eating? Oh my, nothing easier! Think about what you do when overeating, even I had a few times of weaknesses but I always stopped before I did something that you would call overeating. How did I stop? I just thought about WHAT I was doing at the moment, and my mind realized that it was stupid and useless. It worked. And a little hint by the way: If you don't want to have those overeating attacks, then stop eating like you are(not enough that is for sure) you can lose pretty much weight by just altering your calories by as much as 500 less a day and you'll lose at a consistent rate over time. I started losing weight like that about 9 months ago, since then I dropped from 218 to 179 lbs...

If you still get eating attacks, try to cut out a little bit of your carb input, most of the time you get overeating attacks because you ate too much processed carbs(like Alcohol and sugar, also fruit sugar can be a pain, remember sugar is always natural, no matter if it's added or in the food itself already) Fruits are fine because of their vitamins and minerals but their high carb and most of the time already high processed carbs your body won't need much power to use give you eating attacks because of too high insulin levels in your blood, at least that's afaik and as far as I experienced it on myself.

 ps: I can't recommend drinking lot's of water while eating. Simple reason: You'll weaken the acids in your stomach, it really needs to get the nutrition out of the food. That might sound great in the first place, because you feel full sooner, in the long term you will get hungry again because you most likely didn't eat what your body needs and if you keep up doing this then you might end up with an illness... However drinking small sips might not be harmful at all, I just think I have to warn of drinking excessive amounts of water(1-2 bottles) while eating...