Diet/Exercise/Health/Wellness Support Thread

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<p>Good for you, Teenage_cliche:</p>

<p>I hear ya on having to play mind games to get to the end of the interval. I’m having to gut it out with my two-minute jogging intervals and my 90 second Airdyne intervals.</p>

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<p>Finally got under 200 but only by 1/2 pound. Switching to tofu/greek yogurt/cottage cheese seems to not work as well as beef/chicken/fish/pistachio nuts. I’m going to add the latter back into the mix to see if things improve.</p>

<p>This is like a double-bottom in stocks. A stock drops sharply to a point, goes back up and then drops sharply again to the previous low and stays there for a while. If it goes back up, then it’s called a double bottom and indicates that things will go back up. If it falls, then look out below. There’s just a lot of support at the previous low.</p>

<p>I wonder if bodies have “weight memory” similar to batteries and the level to which they will charge.</p>

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<p>Cool Ranch was generally my prefered flavor of Doritos poison. I could flat plow through a bag of those bad boys. Best washed down with a 16 oz bottle of Pepsi, of course – for a veritable festival of carbohydrate consumption!</p>

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<p>Congratulations on getting below the big 2-0-0! That’s fantastic. A huge psychological milestone. On Biggest Loser, I think they call it ONE-DERFUL.</p>

<p>I’ve found that my weight loss is almost always estabilishing a new low, then bouncing around or above it for days or even a week or two, before finally consolidating the new number. The first time you hit it, it’s probably just the right combo of dehydration, then you hit it for good.</p>

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<p>Back to the basement. Spartacus 1.0 today and a new milestone. First time I’ve ever done the full three sets. I was a little light on the number of reps in the third set, but I did all ten exercises, without any extra pauses, the full three sets. I’m pretty much tingling all over and drenched in sweat. That’s a real fast paced workout.</p>

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<p>Hi all. I am tip-toeing back into this thread. I am trying to get more motivated and active. Have been writing down what I eat, and and watching fat intake (that seems to be what works for me). I have been waking ,but not yet done a lot of running. Need to get back to the gym. At least my gym bag is in the car! I’ve lost 3 lbs. Hope its more than just water. Would like to lose 13 more. Suggestions to kickstart this more?</p>

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<p>The LiveStrong site is a pretty good way to keep track of what you eat. You just enter the food and it finds the fat, carbs, fiber, proteins, sugar, calories in the food and keeps track for you. It’s harder to cheat if you can see everything.</p>

<p>Some here are on low-carb diets (around 33% or less carbs) and that seems to help in keeping hunger down when you’re eating fewer than replacement calories. That approach has been a great help in losing the last 15 pounds without feeling like I am starving all the time.</p>

<p>Here’s a hierarchy of weight loss according to Cosgrove.</p>

<p>[Hierarchy</a> Of Fat Loss](<a href=“AlwynCosgrove.com”>AlwynCosgrove.com)</p>

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<p>That’s great, jym!! Being awake is the first step to losing weight. ;)</p>

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<p>^Actually I thought I read somewhere that increased sleep helped with weight loss. I guess you can’t be chewing if you are snoozing :)</p>

<p>Thanks for the lnk, BCeagle. Gonna go ck it out. I have a little pocket sized book with fat gram tables, but this site woudl be really helpful!</p>

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<p>I always have LiveStrong up on a computer where I am. It’s great for recording what you ate and also for experimenting around - you can put foods in and see their calorie and nutrition content. Sometimes, it’s really disappointing to looking around for foods that you want. My latest examples was trying to find “high-fiber bread”. </p>

<p>Ran 4 miles yesterday. I’m making the move to get back up to five a few times a week and am pushing the pace a little. Losing weight means you have to work harder to keep burning calories given the same exercise.</p>

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<p>The livestrong link is a good one. Thanks. However, if I focus on calories, I have to be keeping them at around 1100, day. Ugh. Yes I know I can increase that with exercise, adn I plan to do that. One step at a time… no pun intended.</p>

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<p>If we are really talking about counting every last calorie, 1100 a day sounds awfully low. I think even small women probably have “resting metabolic rates” or “basal metabolic rates” (the calories you would burn just lying in bed all day) of around 1200 calories a day.</p>

<p>I just ran the BMR Calculator [BMR</a> Calculator](<a href=“http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/]BMR”>BMR Calculator) for a 5’2" inch 100 pound fifty year old female. Basal metabolic rate is 1146 calories a day. A total couch potato, getting no physical exercise would multiply by 1.2 to get total calories needs: 1375 calories a day.</p>

<p>Ideally, a sustained diet should fall somewhere between those two numbers. So the problem for a small woman is that weight loss will have to be slow because there’s just not that much spread for big caloric deficit.</p>

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<p>Of course, the other approach is the one my wife is following. She is aiming for 1200 calories a day (which is ridiculously low for her), on the assumption that she will actually be eating more calories than she estimates and writes down. There’s sound logic in that approach, too!</p>

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<p>I can vouch for jym as being a fast walker- and she has some hills in her neighborhood!</p>

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<p>A sweeping review of shifts in the labor force since 1960 suggests that a sizable portion of the national weight gain can be explained by declining physical activity during the workday. Jobs requiring moderate physical activity, which accounted for 50 percent of the labor market in 1960, have plummeted to just 20 percent.</p>

<p>The remaining 80 percent of jobs, the researchers report, are sedentary or require only light activity. The shift translates to an average decline of about 120 to 140 calories a day in physical activity, closely matching the nation’s steady weight gain over the past five decades, according to the report, published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One.</p>

<p>[New</a> Clue in Obesity Epidemic Points to Workplace - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/less-active-at-work-americans-have-packed-on-pounds/]New”>New Clue in Obesity Epidemic Points to Workplace - The New York Times)</p>

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<p>Do not forget portions of food we eat in the USA. Europian portions are catching up, but they have been smaller. My co-workers in Europe are much smaller than the ones in USA. People who move plenty in NYC (as an example) are still mostly very heavy. It is very easy formula. As for any physical entity, if input of energy is larger than energy usage than energy stored within physical body goes up and opposite also thrue. Human body stores energy in a form of fat. After certain age, unless you have some abnormality and/or taking drugs, it is extremely hard to increase muscle mass. Male will have a greater success than female, but he will not be as successful muscle builder at 61 as he was at 21. BTW, I am sedendary professional with sedentary after work hobby and cleanning lady. I really truly do not do anything at home, no gardenning, nothing. I do only what I enjoy. My weight has been relatevely stable with some spikes during all inclusive vacations. My weight has been within normal range for my height, and I am much older than most of you here. Again, it is what you take in vs. usage of energy. Once you find out your balance and your personal food preferences, you do not need to worry too much about weight. I eat junk food if I like it, I do not consume it on a regular basis (well, maybe just ice cream). I do not even consider chocolate to be a junk food, I love it, so I have it every day for breakfast. Just figure out for yourself, do not listen too much to others, who have thier own food prefences and their own body compositions.</p>

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<p>I changed the setting on the livestrong site (thanks for that BCeagle) to a slower weight loss rate and it upped me to about 1370 cal/day. I am a bit older, a bit taller, and a bit heavier than your example, ID, but the calories are about the same as you calculated. The calculator says my BMI is just on the upper cusp of normal (but it sure doesn’t feel normal!). When I did Jenny Craig, I was on a 1200 cal/day program, then upped to 1500 cal/day at midway point. </p>

<p>And yes, our neighborhood is hilly, MOWC!!</p>

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<p>The BMI tables are a joke. I’m currently between 15% and 18% body fat, but the BMI tables put me solidly in the “overweight” category. For me to get down to the just barely below overweight column (the same one as Barack Obama, who doesn’t look even close to the edge of overweight to my eye, I have to get down to the 10% to 12% bodyfat. That’s just a ridiculous standard.</p>

<p>If I got down to 0% body fat, I would still have 14 pounds to lose before BMI said that I was “underweight”. A guy my age would probably die at somewhere above 5% body fat.</p>

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<p>Yeah. As close as you are to your target weight, trying to shoot for big numbers is probably not realistic, or even desirable. I’m guessing that a half pound a week would be in the cards. I’m losing 3/4 of a pound a week these days, but it’s easier to have a bigger calorie deficit when your basal metabolic rate is somewhere around 1700 calories a day. I don’t think I could sustain any more rapid weight loss at this point. I’m consistently in the 1800 to 2000 calorie a day range and exercising hard.</p>

<p>That’s the curse of not being really overweight.</p>

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<p>OK, this is getting ridiculous. I tried on a pair of 33 inch waist Docker’s dress khakis (which run a little big in the waist) and they fit perfectly. Unfortunately, that is an odd size, so I may not have great luck bargain hunting.</p>

<p>Sheesh. I wore 32 inch pants in college.</p>

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<p>“OK, this is getting ridiculous. I tried on a pair of 33 inch waist Docker’s dress khakis (which run a little big in the waist) and they fit perfectly. Unfortunately, that is an odd size, so I may not have great luck bargain hunting.”</p>

<p>In this case, online discounters (like Yoox) will be your friends, and you will be competing with my hubby for those bargains. :)</p>

<p>These pants go on sale twice a year, and they are amazingly easy-care:</p>

<p><a href=“http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/nordstrom-smartcare-flat-front-supima-cotton-pants/2897606?origin=keywordsearch&resultback=5780[/url]”>http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/nordstrom-smartcare-flat-front-supima-cotton-pants/2897606?origin=keywordsearch&resultback=5780&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;