Anyone ready to ring in the new year...and lose weight/get fit?

[annaraven]

wildorchid:

It's nutritionally unsound to eat less than about 1200 calories a day unless you're under the care of a nutritionist. You *NEED* a certain amount of good food to keep yourself healthy.

Please use something like fitday or sparkspeople to plan out your eating so you can get a reasonable level - not 700 calories and not 2700 calories. 1400-1700 is probably a good level for most women who are trying to lose. Make it good healthy food, and you'll be okay. And please factor in a treat occasionally - something that you can have a limited quantity of so you don't feel deprived and need to binge to make it up. Okay?

You're doing so good - we're all here for you!

 

[pamperedpoultry]

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this works really well for me

 

[vfem]

wildorchid, Sparkpeople suggests I eat 1200-1400 per day. I stay closer to the 1200 end most times... and did find myself close to 800 on some occasions. Those low calorie days were miserable!

So my suggestions is... try 1300-1500 calories for a week, if you have lost 1-2 lbs then you are good at that level. If it seems to stop or slow after a week or 2, remove 100-200 calories from that. If 1300-1500 you are losing at... keep with that for 8 weeks. Then 8 weeks starts a new cycle anyways, and you remove 100-200 a day just to keep losing. If you don't cut back on calories after 8 weeks, you'll be at a 'maintaining' diet and not weight lose anymore. But realize what your intake is at when you have gotten to an acceptable weight and remember to stay there or increase by 100 or so a day to keep maintaining.

But again, have a cheat day... a day when you have an extra 100 calories... make it the day you enjoy the sundae or something! Only taking in 700 calories is just torture! You shouldn't have to do that, that won't make you healthy and beautiful... and that's all what we want to be! Healthy, comfortable, in love with who we are! No one wants to be SKINNY?! I mean really? I like having some curve in my rear! LOL

 

[silkiechick236]

I found that Web MD also has a diet and fitness thing.

I lost 3 lbs. from last monday

 

[babymakes6]

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"WEIGH to go!"

Sorry-I couldn't resist!

 

[mom'sfolly]

I had a cheat weekend, and gained a pound. But the doctor's office called and talked to me about my "slightly elevated" triglycerides. The fact that my cholesterol had dropped from 233 to 184 didn't even seem to register with the nurse I talked to. And my triglycerides were a whopping 5 points elevated. If she had looked at my history she would have know that double the normal range isn't uncommon for me............so yeah me. My doctor doesn't even want to see me until April, and just said to exercise more.

This is me when I got the news.

So today I'm back on track, back on sparkpeople, and back here.

Orchid, don't worry. We all have awful weeks. Find one of the sites that let you track nutrition, and maybe even has menu planning. It helps alot. After a while you get a pretty good idea what a 300, 400 or 500 calorie meal looks like. This helps with staying in a healthy calorie range.

 

[vfem]

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HOORAY!!!!!!!

 

[silkiechick236]

mom'sfolly :

I had a cheat weekend, and gained a pound. But the doctor's office called and talked to me about my "slightly elevated" triglycerides. The fact that my cholesterol had dropped from 233 to 184 didn't even seem to register with the nurse I talked to. And my triglycerides were a whopping 5 points elevated. If she had looked at my history she would have know that double the normal range isn't uncommon for me............so yeah me. My doctor doesn't even want to see me until April, and just said to exercise more.

This is me when I got the news.

So today I'm back on track, back on sparkpeople, and back here.

Orchid, don't worry. We all have awful weeks. Find one of the sites that let you track nutrition, and maybe even has menu planning. It helps alot. After a while you get a pretty good idea what a 300, 400 or 500 calorie meal looks like. This helps with staying in a healthy calorie range.

 

[pringle]

Breakfast:10 grain hot cereal(the rest of it)some milk and coffee
Lunch:1 apple,1 banana and some yogurt
Dinner:2 chicken drumsticks,lots of veggies and grapes

Exercise:weight lifting

 

[wildorchid053]

ok .. i am not a breakfast eater normally so i have coffee then lunch around 11:30 today i ate lean cuisine.. easier to track calories that way. i had an apple and a cube of cheese which brought me up to 510 calories.. for dinner i had 4oz of roast and 2 cups of asparagus with parmesan and that brought me up to 1300. hubby had a baked potato with butter and sour cream with his dinner.. so off to a good start..