Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP who recommended holding off on exercise and would like to respond to the person who told me to “stop coming in” to spread dangerous advice. I have never “come in” to do any such thing and am pretty sure this is my first time posting this advice. I said in my post that exercise is great for health. Of course it is. But I happen to believe it is not great for weight loss for the reasons I stated and from my own personal experience. I’m sorry if you don’t agree with or like my view, but that doesn’t make it dangerous or invalid.

Signed,
Someone who lost almost 70 pounds without exercise and who now exercises and is in great health and at goal weight

Plus 2, 40 years old male. First lost 25 lbs and then started hitting Gym. Gained about 5lbs back since going to the Gym. Then fractured my wrist. So, stopped going to the Gym. But, I still maintain about 20 to 25lbs weight loss for a year. Now, I am onto my last 10lb.

I strongly recommend never to exercise until you hit your goal. Going to Gym makes you crave Salt and Carbs like hell. Once nuts come in your mouth, your body asks for more immediately. So, you will binge eat.

Hmm, I usually swish some water around to get the funny taste out when that happens to me!

Congrats to OP!!

Anonymous wrote:Great job, OP! I was also going to recommend not eating back your exercise calories - for many of the reasons already named, and also because after years of doing WW and seeing that I only lose when I do not utilize the “weekly bonus points” or “exercise points,” I think some people like me have a slow metabolism so to lose pounds I need to go to the most extreme point.

You are on a terrific path and I just wanted to add one tip for maintaining weight loss that I struggle with. Once you are at your goal weight, your eating should not be that different as when you were trying to lose, which surprised and disappointed me the first time I realized it. So many times people think “i did it, now I can stop counting calories” or revert back to their old eating habits. So to stay at my goal weight, I basically need to count calories and watch what I ear every day.

This is true. You basically need to keep up your current diet forever if you want to maintain the new weight.

Great job, OP! I was also going to recommend not eating back your exercise calories - for many of the reasons already named, and also because after years of doing WW and seeing that I only lose when I do not utilize the “weekly bonus points” or “exercise points,” I think some people like me have a slow metabolism so to lose pounds I need to go to the most extreme point.

You are on a terrific path and I just wanted to add one tip for maintaining weight loss that I struggle with. Once you are at your goal weight, your eating should not be that different as when you were trying to lose, which surprised and disappointed me the first time I realized it. So many times people think “i did it, now I can stop counting calories” or revert back to their old eating habits. So to stay at my goal weight, I basically need to count calories and watch what I ear every day.

Anonymous wrote:If you're 5'7" and 155, you should be losing if you average 1450 calories a day. I think you are missing extra calories somewhere.

It might not be your fault--audits have found that reported calorie counts by food manufacturers and restaurants are often significantly understated. See https://www.berkeleywellness.com/healthy-eating/nutrition/article/can-you-trust-calorie-counts

Daily activity accounts. Most office workers don’t even get 5000 steps a day unless they make an effort to not sit all day.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the issues with the calorie burn numbers given for exercising is that usually they don't subtract out the calories you would've burned sitting around doing nothing.

So an app might tell you that you've burned 300 calories after walking for an hour, but not that you would've burned 140 calories sitting down for the entire hour. So you think you can eat 300 additional calories due to exercise when really you've only added 160 to your daily burn.

will this is VERY interesting!!

+1 - I learned this years ago when I went to a fitness/nutrition coach. Your body naturally burns calories throughout the day. On days when you work out, you get a shot of calorie burn during the workout, but your metabolic rate also increases throughout the day. You will still burn calories sitting on your a$$; just not as much as you would if you are active for even part of the day.

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP who recommended holding off on exercise and would like to respond to the person who told me to “stop coming in” to spread dangerous advice. I have never “come in” to do any such thing and am pretty sure this is my first time posting this advice. I said in my post that exercise is great for health. Of course it is. But I happen to believe it is not great for weight loss for the reasons I stated and from my own personal experience. I’m sorry if you don’t agree with or like my view, but that doesn’t make it dangerous or invalid.

Signed,
Someone who lost almost 70 pounds without exercise and who now exercises and is in great health and at goal weight

I guess it depends of if she was already working out before she began losing weight. If so, she should continue to do so. If she wasn't working out at all, I don't see harm in introducing some exercise, but perhaps start slow with walking a couple of miles.

You should not. You should stick with your calories regardless of exercise that day. It is very easy to overeat if you think you burned a lot of calories. You wrote you have not lost anything in 3 weeks, but you are finding a way to up your calories? I am confused.

Congratulations, OP! That is wonderful.

So I'm in the middle of my own weight loss journey and am having mild success. I wonder though, once I get to my goal weight, am I just going to have to starve forever? Chicken breasts and salad forever? No wine at night forever?

I would love to look better but what do I do to get back to a semi-normal life afterwards?

Have you tried Intermittent fasting? It's the only way I can consistently lose weight

And you did it over the holidays, too! That's extra impressive!

Great job!

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I am officially down 25 pounds total. It works - counting every calorie, and all the other great stuff everyone on here talks about. I love this forum.
Thanks everyone!

Congrats OP! I am inspired.

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I am officially down 25 pounds total. It works - counting every calorie, and all the other great stuff everyone on here talks about. I love this forum.
Thanks everyone!

Congrats!

I totally agree with counting calories and sticking to it even when progress seems to stall.

OP here, I am officially down 25 pounds total. It works - counting every calorie, and all the other great stuff everyone on here talks about. I love this forum.
Thanks everyone!