Help me lose 7

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Help me lose approximately 7 lbs.

I want to get from 150s to 140s.

And.. the thing is..I don’t need nutrition advice. I know what to eat.

I need help emotionally dropping little tiny exceptions. These are the *only things* holding me back. I eat a lot of veggies, protein, very low sugar (almost none). I eat small portions. I do times of calorie counting, but I also have a process for eating well even when I can’t count. I can do this 100% for 2-3 days. And then I’m like “mm one bag of chips” or have a very normal dinner (but it’s not perfect).

I have to work extremely hard to actually lose. My normal diet is not terrible.

So it’s hard for me to maintain a super heathy version of the diet. Because small exceptions don’t feel like they’re terrible.

Help!

Exercise more so you can have more cheat meals and snacks.

Terrible advice! You can't out train a bad diet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Help me lose approximately 7 lbs.

I want to get from 150s to 140s.

And.. the thing is..I don’t need nutrition advice. I know what to eat.

I need help emotionally dropping little tiny exceptions. These are the *only things* holding me back. I eat a lot of veggies, protein, very low sugar (almost none). I eat small portions. I do times of calorie counting, but I also have a process for eating well even when I can’t count. I can do this 100% for 2-3 days. And then I’m like “mm one bag of chips” or have a very normal dinner (but it’s not perfect).

I have to work extremely hard to actually lose. My normal diet is not terrible.

So it’s hard for me to maintain a super heathy version of the diet. Because small exceptions don’t feel like they’re terrible.

Help!

Exercise more so you can have more cheat meals and snacks.

Terrible advice! You can't out train a bad diet.

You seem confused. Re-read the previous post and learn more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is your why? Find that.

I eat extremely well when I’m training because if I don’t, I perform like shit and feel like shit. Then sometimes after I have a good or even a bad race, I eat terrible and drink and feel terrible for a few days. It takes three to four days back to normal to get all my energy systems back to normal - I can do the workouts, but I feel terrible.

So that’s my why. Go find one of those.

Thank you. Great advice.
I will figure this out. I know for my is an underlying desire to live longer than my mom did. But not longer, really, but better quality. In her last 20y, she couldn’t walk down to the beach with grandkids. Had to watch from a balcony.

It just can’t be that 7 pounds is the difference between playing with your grandkids and not. I totally get being vain about your weight/body, but if you’re 7 pounds from your goal, that’s vanity weight.

[Anonymous]

I am probably 30 lb from an ideal weight. If I lose 7, I love into the decile (using that word right?), into the 10 lbs segment below mine.

7 is a start that I hope will have momentum

[Anonymous]

If you have 30 pounds of actual weight to drop, small exceptions are not what is holding you back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have 30 pounds of actual weight to drop, small exceptions are not what is holding you back.

So…
157 hoping to get to the 140s, then 130s, then maybe even the 120s.

Why can’t I just start with 7lb? What are you suggesting is holding me back?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think your problem is the focus on being 100% perfect which you (and most people) cannot sustain. Set a calorie goal and work in treats into those calories. I am currently losing weight but still eat chocolate and bread every day, just not the entire bar or loaf of it.

It’s hard for me because sometimes the difference between my ways average and perfect (or near perfect) is pretty close.

My average eating is generally good. And I purposely don’t make the perfect eating too, too hard or too different from my maintenance diet.

I don’t run much anymore, but when I did, I ran at 5 paces. 1 is the slowest, 5 is the fastest.

When I start up training, I see paces 1, 2 and 3 as.. they don’t feel too different. But as I train more, they expand more, and I find the difference.

Just as pace 2 and 3 are hard to differentiate, it’s hard to find a place “in between” what I labeled as B and C above. B isn’t that bad. C is harder. If I flex on C, I’m just doing B.

Eating well and eating in line with losing weight is not necessarily the same. You don’t seem to want advice on your eating but that is what will matter the most for fat loss. You need to be in a calorie deficit to achieve that and thus you need to eat less than you are eating now. Calorie counting is the best way to ensure you are actually in a deficit.