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Lionos

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...Ok I've been losing weight since last new year. By summer i've lost 40lb (St. 260lb) so now I'm 220 and stuck... I mean I excersise 3-5 times a week (55 min cardio treadmill+dumbells) and fasting 2 days a week. Pretty much not doing any diet plan, just eat anything. So this is what i've noticed: when I fast, once i did two days in a row, my weight went from 221 to 214.5... After that i've piged out (but didn't consume more than 2500 cal) out and it jumped to 119.5... Sometimes i eat only once a day (usually in the evening) and next morning my weight jumps up to 4lbs. So this is my question, why eve thou I work out and my caloric intake is no more than 1500-1800 cal a day i still stuck at this weight and why is it jumping like this? May be i'm doing something wrong (I have a feeling) so any suggestions are very welcome. Thank You.
 
Steve, a valued member of this community posted this elsewhre and it's incredibly fitting for this post as well - I'm going to lift it in it's entirity and post it here:

We are too weight-minded as a society.... it's like me paddling against an incoming tidal wave.

But you say 'curiosity kills the cat.'

Curiosity of what?

Water fluctuations? Bowel accumulation?

What interests you about that stuff? Daily weigh-ins certainly don't let you know what's happening on the fat loss front.

To add, you say it 'holds you accountable.' Aren't there other, healthier ways to be accountable.... such as long term thinking, visualization, seeing the big picture, focusing on short-term goals, completing daily checklists? Anything really?

The reason I'm so against it is quite simple. I see time and time again on the various forums people complaining about being up a lb or 2 on a given day and sometimes it seems to be devastating. Even those that don't treat like a catastrophic event still make quite a big deal about nothing.

To me, that's as crazy as drinking 2 gallons of water and stepping on the scale and saying, "Oh no!!!! I'm getting fat."

Putting such an emphasis on a pointless number simply isn't mentally healthy IMO. Longer term trends of this measurement certainly hold value. Daily fluctuations though, not so much.

/rant
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Basically - don't focus so much on the scale...
 
this is all true and I don't do the daily weigh ins, but the problem is that it took me less time to lose 40lb than 20lb that im trying to do now as my nini goal... this is gets me... Thanx anyways...
 
themore weight you have to lose -the easier it generally is -once you get down to a lower number - then it becomes more challenging.. it's perfectly normal...

a loss of 1 percent a week is a reasonable expectation, but doesn't always happen.. Just be consistent and you'll get the results you want..
 
That's to be expected, I think

Morning,

Lionos said:
this is all true and I don't do the daily weigh ins, but the problem is that it took me less time to lose 40lb than 20lb that im trying to do now as my nini goal... this is gets me... Thanx anyways...
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I think that weight loss is the most rapid at the beginning of your journey....but as time goes by, it levels out (and I mean reeeeeaaaallly levels out).

My first month saw me losing 12 pounds I believe....now in my 11th month, I'm lucky to lose 4 pounds a month. Heck, I'm ecstatic when I lose 4 pounds in a month!

But the slow weight loss nowadays doesn't bother me whatsoever. I know I'm on the right path, I know I'll eventually achieve my goals...right now I'll just enjoy the journey and what I learn about myself from it.

Rome wasn't built in a day....neither, alas, was weight-loss. :)

Best wishes,

Barbara
 
Steve said:
Why do you fast?

How do you track your calories?
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I fast to cut calorie intake. with my bmr i should be consuming 2100 daily to maintain my current weight but i guess if i cut intake my body will take the rest from stored fat won't it?

Don't really have any specific tracking system... I just assume... well check calorie content on
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calorieking.com
too. This raises another question, how does one count/track their calories? I understand that u just keep in mind what u ate, but what about those home cook foods and are there any calorie counting hardware out there??
 
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For home cooked meals, counting calories is easiest if you eat simple foods. A grilled chicken breast, steamed vegetables, a baked potato...it's pretty easy to figure those.

If I fix something more complex, like a casserole, I add the calories of all the ingredients together and then divide by portion size. Say a casserole cas 4500 calories in total ingredients, if I want to limit myself to 500 calories, I can't have much more than 1/10th of the casserole.
 
Lionos said:
I fast to cut calorie intake. with my bmr i should be consuming 2100 daily to maintain my current weight but i guess if i cut intake my body will take the rest from stored fat won't it?

Don't really have any specific tracking system... I just assume... well check calorie content on
Code: 
calorieking.com
too. This raises another question, how does one count/track their calories? I understand that u just keep in mind what u ate, but what about those home cook foods and are there any calorie counting hardware out there??
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Fitday.com and Sparkpeople.com are the two most popular calorie counting sites used here. It's free.

I'm not a big fan of fasting--it's not necessary to lose weight. I think it tends to make people pig out once they start eating again. Also, I hate depriving myself of food. lol It just makes dieting harder--for me at least. :)
 
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