HappyKayakers wrote:
fj12ryder wrote:
I'm still a bit confused. :) If you've not changed anything, how are you losing weight if still eating the same, and no different exercise? If I'm too nosy, just say so. :)
I'm confused also. If I was losing 10 lbs a month by not exercising and not changing my eating habits, I'd want to see a doctor pretty quick.
Of course I've changed my eating habits. If you eat more food than you need, you get fat. If you eat less food than you need, you lose weight.
When you set up your profile on MFP, you enter your height and weight. Using that information, it calculates your daily caloric requirements. You then tell it how much weight you want to lose. In my case, I chose two pounds a week. The program then shorts me 1000 calories a day (7 X 1000 is 7,000 calories, or two pounds of body fat). My current budget is 1770 calories a day. So I'm still eating what I want, I just stop once I reach the 1770 calories.
I was probably eating 3500-4000 calories a day before I started on this. I'm 6' 2", and was/am quite a bit overweight, so my goal is to lose 90 lbs in a year. My buddy used MFP all of last year, and lost 106 lbs. I figured if he can do it, I can do it.
The two keys to doing this are mindset and weighing your food. If you're going to cheat and go over your calorie budget, obviously the program won't work. I keep a postal scale on the kitchen counter at all times. Everything gets weighed before I eat it.
As I said, I'm still eating the usual foods, both good and bad, just less. A few days ago I had the Applebees nacho platter - 1600 calories. That was pretty much all I ate that day. I usually eat that meal 2-3 times a month. YMMV.
