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Anyway - Remy that's all very interesting. I've been having issues forever and I also did an elimination diet recently but I didn't follow it quite as strictly as I could have and didn't really get any conclusive results except for that I think I might have an issue with dairy and that I def feel a million times better when I cut out all the major allergins but I need to repeat it. I just hope that some day soon I can eat without being worried I'm going to feel sick afterwards.

23lbs but not bad considering the aul fella was home and we ate out most nights the last fortnight.

look old now. ill take it.

Good going if you've been eating out a lot.

I'm incredulous at how many calories restaurants can pack into their food. It's not uncommon for me to weigh 2 - 3 lbs more the next morning after eating out: a fairly impossible 7000 - 10,500 calories.

i try not to map each meal to an immediate change that way (nb i am not a food scientist or etc) but ime a few days of rich food without a commensurate increase in physical activity is when i start to see/feel real effects.

if i overindulge (and i do) then i have convinced myself that if i can make up for it while the grub is still in my system then its gonna count less.

no doubt oversimplistic but its working for me.

I was at a dismal 241 (not my heaviest but not very far from that) on 08/16. I'm now exactly 20 lbs later. Amazing what no booze, smaller portions and a little more exercise'll do. Only real goal is to get sub-200 by year's end.

*lighter lol

Lost another 10 since my last update. So far the score is 270-ish in March of 2017 down to 227 yesterday.

I'm incredulous at how many calories restaurants can pack into their food. It's not uncommon for me to weigh 2 - 3 lbs more the next morning after eating out: a fairly impossible 7000 - 10,500 calories.

eh 2-3 lbs is a pretty standard weight fluctuation. even on my worst days I don't think I can put down 7000 calories worth of food and drinks

yeah it's not from the calories it's from the water retention. a bad restaurant meal (e.g., cheesecake factory) could be 2000 calories, not enough to gain a pound even if you burn off 0% of it

i ate a lot of cookies last week and gained 3 lbs. probably not all cookies. i will return to my normal weight on or about october 1? i'll check back lol

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In theory, it should be quite difficult to gain weight because it takes a hell of a lot of calories to put on even a few pounds. In practice, I put on weight really quickly if I eat out (unless it’s something completely untampered with, like sashimi).

13lb - 14lb down since mid-August, on the d-mac 'not eating crap all day' plan. Hopefully can put in place a healthier permanent non-snacking lifestyle and appreciate the food I eat more.

Great job. Snacking is a non-necessary evil.

im putting together a copyright obv

kiu

it is past oct 1 and as promised i returned to average. i'm going to eat pumpkin pie today.

Restaurant dishes 'contain more calories than fast-food meals' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46540132

Down 26 -27 lb now btw. I think I’ve reached the target weight I want to maintain.

yea I remember going to Cheesecake Factory once and being astounded how many calories were in some of those dishes. it seem physically possible.

I mean, doesn't *

I've put on like 9lbs in a week and a half what the hell? Winter is definitely coming

congrats LS

Oh hello again, my many-chinned brethren and sistren.

So... in terms of work and family, I had a very stressful autumn. I decided that I wouldn't attend too closely to dieting while I was dealing with other things. Consequently, I buried the scale under the bed and resolved not to look at it until January 1st. An hour ago, I stepped on it for the first time since August. And guess what? I've gained 21.2 lbs. I'm aghast/depressed/frustrated. I signed up for a sixth month Dietbet, which has me losing somewhere on the order of 19 lbs. Even if I'm successful, I'll still be heaver than I was a year prior. I should console myself with cheese.

What are your dieting rules this year? I've determined to be free of added sugars (like usual), processed starches, alcohol, and to cook from scratch more than half of what I consume.

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remy

its literally the worst day in the year to weigh yourself

obv not 21lbs worth but be fair to yourself too!

ive not been in weigh-myself/watch-myself mode all december and ive put probably 5/6 lbs back on. back to focus mode tomorrow

vague rules, really obvious:

nothing between mealtimes- huge struggle for me, behaviourally

prep for working week:
decent cereal breakfast
elevenses of fruit/grain/yoghurt
lunch sandwich

coffee and tea whenever i want, have dropped sugar from each

we p much always cook dinner from scratch, ive not changed much here except maybe keeping an eye on portions.

no eating after 8pm, which im now well used to

i said it was all really obvious stuff tbf

now that im back in focus mode, ill weigh myself before breakfast every morning. ive an excel tracker because im nerdy that way, it gives me weekly/monthly trends/milestones that keep me motivated for those shitty days when the number went up despite yr best efforts, ie if im up this week i can still have lost weight on a monthly avg, etc etc

graphs and tables the lot by god

I'm in the habit of weighing once weekly, but thinking about getting a daily scale / tracker. Do you find it's helpful?

for me, yep, i need lots of reinforcement because i slip without thinking in my habits

ywmv

Lost another 10 since my last update. So far the score is 270-ish in March of 2017 down to 227 yesterday.

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Fucked this up good and proper. Total cliche of making "rare exceptions" during the holidays and having it snowball and gained about 20 of that back. Pretty disappointed in myself, because not only was my weight/size better during the six or seven months that I was keeping things up, but I felt so much better too. Started cutting out sugar again yesterday.

same! im still down a decent bit on what i started but christmas and long tail of winter killed me eating wise.

start again tomorrow

Been doing the 4:3 fasting diet consistently since June last year, and not monitoring what I eat on a non-fast day, which is bad.

On a fast day I eat 600kcals of 'something'. I'm fortunate in that I don't wake up hungry and just wait until 6pm and guzzle my allowance then I'm done for the day.

However, I've still managed to lose about 28.5 kilos so far, it's sometimes slow going (I'm in my 40s and don't exercise much right now although I've been out on my bike more and more) but it is moving in the right direction, personally I find weighing myself every week or every few days to be a huge mistake especially wrt my will and wellbeing your body can yo-yo a lot during the course of a few days, so I try to do it once every few weeks instead and just take cues from the size of my chops in the mirror's reflection, and the way clothes are getting looser and my belt size etc:

I've lost 29 lbs since the beginning of the year. Started using the Noom app. I'm basically living off 1400 calories a day and then hit the gym daily so I can drink wine at night. There are no restrictions on my diet, so it feels easy. If I can loose another 11 pounds, I'll be "happy".

Jesus that is the least sustainable sounding diet I’ve ever heard.

no restrictions eh

power to ya but look

Ha. Exactly the amount of support I expect from this board.

It's about portion control. No rules like no sugar, carbs, gluten, whatever. Going on four months and I'm fine.

yeah, i used myfitnesspal ( I haven't heard of noom) a couple of years ago and it does really work. It just gets hard after awhile to log everything in because you think you can do it in your head and you really can't. I do remember eating a lot of low cal ice cream during that time though as my end of day splurge.

xp. the wine is included in your daily 1400?

It's probably not good though that i often mulled that a bottle of wine could just be 1/2 my calories for the day.

ha xp

nope - just food. I exercise for about 45 minutes a day to account for the extra wine calories and it's seems to work. ha xp

It’s not bot being supportive but statistically 90% percent of people put back on most weight lost within 5 years and the more restrictive a diet the more danger there is of doing so. 1400 is not enough calories for an adult especially if you’re exercising a lot!

gl to you darin and i wish id yr discipline rly

thanks to you both!

yeah, I'll have to be careful about reintroducing calories gradually so my metabolism doesn't fuck up. For me personally, cutting out entire food groups for me is impossible. I'd rather die than stop eating bread.

same but also everything else i like to eat

That’s all I meant - the chance of eating that restrictively and therefore maintaining weight loss in the long run is really unlikely and the yo-yo ing can permanently fuck up your metabolism. I didn’t mean to be rude earlier I’ve just been thinking/reading about this stuff a lot lately and worry about things that sound so extreme. I hear you on the bread though - that would be a far less delicious life.

Yeah, there's a lot of crappy diets out there. What I like about the Noom app is that it really helps you apply mindfulness towards your eating habits. It's my choice to push myself w/the 1400 calorie thing, which I know is extreme. If I can gradually increase to 2000 calories a day and keep eating mindfully, I think it can be a permanent change.

I've never really needed to lose weight for health-related reasons, but this year I decided to attempt Lent for the first time in my life, Eastern Orthodox style (well, the Romanian way; I have no idea whether it's the same in other Christian Orthodox parts of the world). I wouldn't call myself religious per se, so I'm primarily doing it for cultural reasons and because it reminds me that living without meat, fish, eggs, cheese, milk, sweets and alcohol isn't madness. Besides, you're allowed a bit of wine on weekends and vegan desserts aren't frowned upon. The overall aim is to cut back on surfeit, which I think is a useful annual lesson. As it stands, I'll probably do it again next year, although I do very much look forward to gorging myself on lamb, eggs and cabbage rolls this Sunday (in Romania we use the Julian calendar for Easter and the Gregorian one for Christmas – go figure…). More to the point (of this thread), I've lost something like 6kg since the 11th of March, so it's quite effective. I'm especially glad to be rid of my sugar addiction.

1400 doesn't seem that crazy. Especially if you are already somewhat small anyway, that is pretty much the standard of what you need to lose an incremental amount every week. Plus you can actually eat a lot of food on 1400 calories.

Erica, you're right. I seem to be slipping. My relationship w food is much healthier than it was in my 20s but it's still a struggle.

Is the Noom app free?

No, it's something like $100 for 4 months, but you can try it free for 14 days to see what you think.

I was at this kind of thing years ago on paper, with the help of a nutritional information database on the web, just following some basic math I read that body weight in pounds...

x8-10: lose
11-13: maintain
14-16: gain

Add on the calories lost from exercise.

I dunno where I got this stuff.. does it ring a bell with anyone?

Anyways I found it useful for a little loss at the time and i remember still roughly how many calories are in basic foods. Keeps me from ever cutting out entire food groups and all that

I’ll just leave this here
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/

As a life long fatty I disagree with nearly every word of that BS.

Thank you Justine.