Dina P.

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I want to reach my goal weight... and stop yo-yo dieting

Quick Facts

Favorite Health Food: Salads

Favorite Sinful Food: cherry pie

My Preferred Method of Exercise: interval running and HIIT workouts

My Approach to Weight Loss: counting calories and exercise

My Weight Loss Program: Weight Watchers

My Diet Plan: I don't follow a plan

Fitness/Exercise Apps: Map My Fitness, MapMyRun

Fitness Devices: Apple Watch

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Tammy P.

10/09/2024 8:19AM in Adventure Time Transformer - Win an experience of your choice!
  • "Hi, my name is Tammy and I'm a food addict." :) I was reading Jose's tip about cleaning ones plate and am inspired to share and learn from a perfect fail from my vacation this past week. Let me preface by saying that I am TRYING to cut cheese out because it is calorie dense, fatty, and salty (and not in line with my vegetarian-for-the-animals feelings).

    At camp, we made pita pocket mini-pizzas over the campfire. I did a good portion-controlled-size veggie (mushrooms, peppers, sauce, and a little cheese). At the end, there was a lot of leftover cheese that I didn't want to just throw away. I poured it into a foil "boat" and made jokes about it "going to Valhalla," melted the left over cheese in the boat over the fire, and ate it all.

    Where is my strength in those moments??!! I had plenty of time to reconsider, but couldn't find the willpower - in fact, I didn't think about it AT ALL...until later when I was sad that I blew it again!!

    I suppose a positive is that I keep getting back in the saddle and overall, my weight loss is progressing (albeit slooooowwwwwly). I experienced food scarcity as a child (and weird twist, my dad horded the few times we had cheese, so it is definitely a trigger) and I'm sure that affects my habits now, but I want to overcome that.

    My question for you is HOW to stay more mindfully present ALL of the time? Or MORE of the time?

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Tammy P.

  • You guys are the best!

Lisa K.

I hear you. I once had a friend who loved Mocha Frappes from McDonalds. She would order one, eat one bite to satisfy craving and throw it away after that bite.

I am an all or nothing if I love it. I’ve learned I don’t have the willpower required for certain foods so I just can’t if I’m in weight loss mode. Now there are times, I’m in living life to fullest so I’ll eat the damn cheese. You decide what’s best for you in that moment. You got this my friend.

Sava

09/24/2024 4:25PM in Adventure Time Transformer - Win an experience of your choice!
Once again, I'm not feeling great about this month. We lost one of our cats 2 weeks ago to a very serious and sudden health problem, but even dealing with that grief, I did not veer far off course. I had 1 meal that was a little too big from panda express (weeks ago) and a few days where I was pretty close to what should be maintenance for me. Otherwise, I have stayed below my calorie goal. Still no luck.

I went up a few pounds for about a week after the last weigh-in and I've just now gotten back TO that weight. It feels very much like I'm not allowed to enjoy things, there's absolutely no wiggle room.

I did watch the Kurzgesagt video recent that digs into how exercise affects weight loss (very little, if at all) and have since adjusted my expectations, but all this knowledge really does it make it feel even harder, as there's no "eating back" exercise calories.

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Sava

Dina - I wish that I could "feel" the difference of eating healthier food as you do, but my natural diet is not really unhealthy, per se, I just eat too much. I am envious of your 1800 calories of food. By all the calculators / trackers I can find, 1750-1800 seems to be my TDEE so I've had to find ways to cut from there.

George - I AM doing the things you mentioned. I wear a Fitbit AND a WHOOP with each giving me a lot of info and reminders about body metrics, movement, AND rest. I exercise 3x/week minimum, usually running. Some strength. As I've mentioned in a previous post in this game, I am careful about tracking food. I eat a lot of Huel - mostly because I hate cooking -which is very easy to measure and has a good combo of plant-based ingredients.

The problem I mentioned by bringing up Kurzgesagt is that recent research seems to indicate exercising does not increase your calorie expenditure. My understanding: for a lot of evolutionary reasons, the body tries extremely hard to keep your calorie expenditure consistent and so it responds to more exercise by decreasing OTHER calorie usage. This is supported by research in Exercised by Daniel Lieberman, which I read recently. Exercise is super healthy for many reasons, but it evidently does not impact *weight loss* the way we hope. It doesn't just increase that "calories out" side of the equation. Actively building muscle CAN increase overall calorie usage, but cannot happen during a cut so not applicable to this commitment/game.

TL;DR: I am doing my absolute best to "stay positive" but at the same time I am literally doing every single thing I know to do and yet my weight has gone up even since I posted a few days ago. I can believe in myself all I want, but that doesn't create results and I'm running out of strategies to try.

Tammy P.

I'm so sorry about your fur-baby! :sob::heart:

Tammy P.

08/13/2024 1:46PM in Adventure Time Transformer - Win an experience of your choice!
  • Went to the gym last night (yay!) and discovered that all movement is high-intensity for me. LOL I was sweating buckets!

    I did a little warm-up on the treadmill with some good tunes, leg-press, calf-raises, abductor/adductor, leg-curl, and on my final machine, attempted leg extensions. NO BUENO!! One of my knees did NOT like that. I am able to extend in front of me (and flex the quad) without weight, but with the addition of weight it was too painful.

    Then I BINGED when I got home. My son made tofu fried rice and I was tired and hungry and angry about my knee and just had no willpower left.

    One step forward - gym. One step back - unplanned caloric overload.

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Dina P.

Great advice! So important to move on and focus on the positives. Way to go and thanks for the reminder!

Jose B

Just make sure that you try to get that under control because many times adding exercise can get people to subconsciously think they can take in a lot more when in truth that's not the case and can derail your weight loss program. But good job on getting in there.