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Post by Rustaholic on Sept 18, 2020 12:08:29 GMT
I just happened to weigh myself and saw I was at 297 pounds. I sure never want to weigh in at 300 pounds and I was too close. So I wanted to change how I was eating. I only eat whole foods and I just googled how many calories I needed to maintain 297 pounds and it was around 4200. I aimed to only eat half that many calories.
I have three scrambled eggs, some cooked spinach and a small bowl of asparagus for my morning meal.
About noon I have about 7/8 of a cup of blueberries and a large banana.
Around 2 PM I have the blueberries again and a rice cake.
Around 4:30 I have my last meal of the day and it is 16 ounces of almond milk with three small muffins, two cheese sticks and a Boost. I found the total calories for the day eating only that much is 1550. I had to find the calories in each of the ingredients to figure the calories in the muffins.
That means I was shorting myself about 2650 calories a day. 3500 calories is a pound of weight so in a week I was down 18550 or 5.3 pounds.
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Post by Woodpecker on Sept 18, 2020 13:29:16 GMT
That's great news, and great job you're doing...!!!!
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Post by solargeek on Sept 18, 2020 18:05:27 GMT
Good for you!
Your method sounds like it works for you. I could never do all that figuring.
I follow modified Atkins. In about 2 months (2/10/20-4/6/20) I lost 20 pounds and I’ve held it now for another 3 months eating much more normally. As soon as all the birthdays are over in this month and our travel is over which is mid October, I plan to do it again for one more month and lose the last 8 pounds.
I like to have a glass of wine with my husband or occasional scotch and water. You can’t seem to do that on any other diet I found. Plus this one has worked for me in the past. About every eight or nine years I have to do it. I called the “steak and scotch” diet.
Stick to what works for you.
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Post by Cabin Fever on Sept 18, 2020 19:11:24 GMT
What works for me is a whole food, plant-based lifestyle. I was close to 300 pounds, now I am 210. Size 44 pants, now size 34. (I am 6'2") What I eat is pretty close to what you're eating, but I don't eat eggs, dairy (cheese, butter, milk, etc), or meat.
Besides the weight loss, my doctor has taken me off of all prescribed medications because I no longer need the pills (blood pressure, cholesterol, and Type 2 diabetes).
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Post by mzgarden on Sept 18, 2020 21:25:53 GMT
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Post by indypartridge on Sept 18, 2020 22:33:20 GMT
What works for me is a whole food, plant-based lifestyle. My wife & I started eating this way in early spring. I’m down over 30 lbs. What I like about eating this way is there isn’t any counting of calories, and I can eat as much as I like. Just no meat/eggs/dairy. I do miss cheese, though! |
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Post by Cabin Fever on Sept 18, 2020 22:50:40 GMT
What works for me is a whole food, plant-based lifestyle. My wife & I started eating this way in early spring. I’m down over 30 lbs. What I like about eating this way is there isn’t any counting of calories, and I can eat as much as I like. Just no meat/eggs/dairy. I do miss cheese, though! Good job! Let's face it, most cheese varieties are full of fat and salt. I don't need either. What you said is true. People living a whole food, plant-based lifestyle can pretty much eat as much as they want....with the possible exceptions of nuts and avocados. |
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Post by lindy on Sept 19, 2020 18:43:19 GMT
I suppose I follow a plan closer to solargeek, with my doctors approval. I'm down 45lbs over the last year, BP is waaay down and I may be off those meds soon. My blood sugars were getting a bit high, and now they're where they should be. Basically I eat a lot of vegetables and fruit, with some proteins which include beans, meats and dairy. I eat grain based carbs like high fiber breads and pastas in small amounts. Do I slip up? Absolutely! But over the course of a week I believe everything balances out. |
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Post by lindym on Sept 20, 2020 4:04:52 GMT
WTG @rustaholic! Sounds like it's working for you! Keep an eye on the scales and cut back if you start to climb.
I have been following a very healthy Atkins plan, as a vegetarian, for 2.5 years. Lost from a size 22 to a size 6, and I'm the most fit I have been in years. No medications, BP is 116/62, blood work comes back looking good. My biggest complaint is that it takes a lot of food to keep my diet balanced, lol.
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Post by oldone on Sept 20, 2020 14:52:20 GMT
Thank you all for sharing. I've been big all my life. I smoked a pack &1/2 - 2 packs a day for 15 1/2 years. 30 years ago my husband & I quit. He gained 10# I gained a little over 100#.. 9 years ago i started walking & lost 69#. Then my knees got bad. Had them replaced 4 years ago. Never started walking again. Have to do SOMETHING!!!
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Post by christie on Sept 21, 2020 2:55:01 GMT
I avoid diets. Most are not lifestyle changes but instead are short term changes. If you make a permanent change to your eating habits, good for you. I look at it this way - short of a life threatening food allergy/genetic, I'm not going to give up eating a food I enjoy. Am I going to eat those foods ever day - probably not. If the day comes and the doc tells me you eat another steak and you'll die, I'll say it's been nice to know you. Do I think as we get older we have to pick our battles re: food - certainly I do.
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Post by Rustaholic on Sept 22, 2020 16:27:35 GMT
I should have added that each week I was down more weight so I adjusted what I was eating so I would stay at half what I needed to maintain my current weight. Right now I am doing the 1550 calories plus adding about 750 more to really maintain my current weight. In about 10 days I will see how I am doing.
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Post by Woodpecker on Sept 23, 2020 15:28:13 GMT
I was never a heavy person, rather the opposite...I was very skinny when little, I hid my food so my mother thought I ate it!
With my first born I gained 20 lbs. and lost it within a month. I gained the exact same 20 lbs. with my second child and lost that too. I am at a good weight now for years...not skinny, not fat, just right. If I see that I gained a pound for over a week, I will cut down my calories until I lose it.
My mother always had a weight problem. She was very heavy at one point. She did the Weight Watcher diet and lost 100 lbs. within a year and maintained that weight. She was always dieting, but on Holidays she would always eat whatever she wanted. She and my father walked for an hour a day at the school field close by.
I told told ya'll this a while back. My father started getting tired of walking so my mother would walk in front of him and drop a quarter here and there. He would be so excited to see what he'd find on their next walk. It worked, they kept walking into their 90's.
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Post by Rustaholic on Oct 10, 2020 11:45:09 GMT
Step-1. Google how many calories it would take to maintain a weigh about half way to your goal. From that page click on the link that takes you to a page where you can pick your age and weight.
Step-2 Figure out what the calories are in what you like to eat.
I chose to eat three scrambled eggs, a small bowl of spinach and a small bowl of asparagus for my breakfast. That is usually around 6 AM for me.
Around noon I have about 7/8 of a cup of blueberries and a banana.
Around 2PM I have more of the blueberries and two rice cakes.
Around 4:30 to 5PM I have three small muffins my sweet wife makes for me, about 14 ounces of chocolate almond milk, two cheese sticks and a Boost.
All of that comes to just 1550 calories. That is how I lost 74 pounds in three months.
I had to check the calories in a whole batch of the muffins my sweet wife makes. She makes 24 at a time so that means I divided the total calories in the whole batch by 8 to see how many calories three of them give to me each day.
I was also eating Celery because it takes more calories to digest celery than celery has in it.
Every time I was down farther I would either cut back on my calorie intake or eat more celery since it removes calories.
This must have worked or why am I a month past my goal and still maintaining my 223 pounds. What I did to stop losing weight is to bring my calories up to the level to maintain 220 pounds by adding a cup of cashews every day. That is 750 calories so I am up to 2300 but I am still eating celery so however it works out a month out I was still right where I wanted to be.
Twice in the past I had done two different diets and both resulted in 52 pounds lost in 13 weeks also both finally resulted in me gaining all 52 pounds back because I went right back to eating all the stuff that got me too heavy in the first place.
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Post by Cabin Fever on Oct 10, 2020 14:57:00 GMT
To go on a diet to loose weight and then go back to the way you were eating before the diet and repeat, and repeat, is called yo-yo dieting. It usually doesn;t work. The trick is to change your consumption habits for a lifetime.That is why we we chose a whole food, plant-based lifestyle.
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Post by jenn on Jun 8, 2021 15:54:02 GMT
All I need to do- just rarely actually accomplish it- is to eat only 1-2 sweet servings daily. 25-50 pounds over ideal weight, aim is to lose 10# and definitely not keep climbing. Maybe I should rethink cheese though, and work on exercise cool enough to do in summer in south Alabama. (If I walk a mile and cycle 15 minutes in the day my daily weight doesn't rise- dunno if from burning calories or not being in the kitchen for those 45 or so minutes.) OK, will have apple and cheese now before garden work- which if not high calorie burn at least gets me out of the kitchen and gives me more apples and tomatoes.
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