Unutterably Silly Who is on a diet. Come on I know you all are!

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by obs20

Someone told me it wasn't kosher to have chicken parmigiana because it wasn't respectful to pair an animal in its mother's milk. I asked what chicken fed at its mother's breast?

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[Iridal]

So my diet isn't working anymore I've been following my food plan, but I've been stuck on a 2kg loss for the past weeks. 2 kg in 6 weeks, not really a good result. It's really demotivating. And what's even worse: I feel the extra pounds are holding me back while running. So that's not really progressing either.

Yesterday I made my decision: I'm going to see another dietitian. Hopefully she'll be able to give me some pointers and I can shed this extra weight. Maybe I'll even try to lose a bit more weight than what I originally intented.

How's everyone else doing ?

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by Iridal

So my diet isn't working anymore I've been following my food plan, but I've been stuck on a 2kg loss for the past weeks. 2 kg in 6 weeks, not really a good result. It's really demotivating. And what's even worse: I feel the extra pounds are holding me back while running. So that's not really progressing either.

Yesterday I made my decision: I'm going to see another dietitian. Hopefully she'll be able to give me some pointers and I can shed this extra weight. Maybe I'll even try to lose a bit more weight than what I originally intented.

How's everyone else doing ?

Officially I' m not on a diet, but unofficially I'm struggling along. Need to loose 8 kilo's...lost 4 in two weeks and am stuck with the remaining 4.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Iridal

How's everyone else doing ?

I'm still a little above where I was just before Christmas. I have another 7lbs/3kg to go or so.

One of the problems with losing weight is that as you lose weight, your daily calorie requirement also goes down. It takes energy to maintain the excess fat on your body, so as you lose the fat, you also require less food.

So a diet that will cause you to lose weight slowly when you're 10kg overweight, might well just be at maintenance level after losing half that.

But I have also gone back to eating occasional snacks, which I should cut out again.

[maianhvk]

Originally Posted by Iridal

How's everyone else doing ?

I lost 2kg in a week after the vacation.

[beppe]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I'm still a little above where I was just before Christmas. I have another 7lbs/3kg to go or so.

One of the problems with losing weight is that as you lose weight, your daily calorie requirement also goes down. It takes energy to maintain the excess fat on your body, so as you lose the fat, you also require less food.

So a diet that will cause you to lose weight slowly when you're 10kg overweight, might well just be at maintenance level after losing half that.

But I have also go back to eating occasional snacks, which I should cut out again.

Just to give some quantity. A ball park figure could be 30 cal/kg just to maintain the things as they are.
80 kg needs about 2400 cal. 70 kg only 2100. So a 10 kg difference corresponds to about 300 cal. Mid latitude temperatures. If he/she lives in Siberia in winter he/she might need more

if the weight is 80 to go down to 70, than a 2000 cal/day will build up a deficit of about 150 cal/day. equivalent to about 150 gr of fat. Obviously if there is enough exercise not to loose muscles but fat. This is the basic thermodynamics, than there are all the nice complications of real life.

2000 cal/day is not uncomfortable but requires discipline and some care. Like using scales. 1600 is quite nice yet. 1000 is bearable but dangerous, whichever way one looks at it.

[beppe]

I still want to loose some fat in the front. I am swimming for the moment and eating lean. I do not weight myself. I look myself in the mirror.

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by beppe

I still want to loose some fat in the front. I am swimming for the moment and eating lean. I do not weight myself. I look myself in the mirror.

I don't even own a set of scales. 4 weeks into P90X and i've already tightned the belts up a notch or two though

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by beppe

I still want to loose some fat in the front. I am swimming for the moment and eating lean. I do not weight myself. I look myself in the mirror.

Looks sideways for the good view, I think. It works with me.

[beppe]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Looks sideways for the good view, I think. It works with me.

Fat in front shows more sideways. It is the principle of tomography.

[Iridal]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

One of the problems with losing weight is that as you lose weight, your daily calorie requirement also goes down. It takes energy to maintain the excess fat on your body, so as you lose the fat, you also require less food.

So a diet that will cause you to lose weight slowly when you're 10kg overweight, might well just be at maintenance level after losing half that.

That could be my problem. My food plan was made when I was about 12 kg overweight. Although I never lost weight fast, not even in the beginning.

Originally Posted by desertblues

Looks sideways for the good view, I think. It works with me.

Yep, works for me too

[beppe]

Boo boo boo. boobubbu bu.

[Iridal]

Originally Posted by beppe

Boo boo boo. boobubbu bu.

Has your daughter taken over your computer ?

[beppe]

Originally Posted by Iridal

Has your daughter taken over your computer ?

she got those colored strings of foam that you shoot from a can and become solid at contact with the air. She calls them in a very ribald way, innocently of course, or not. It is all the week that she has been negotiating the acquisition.

She dresses as butterfly. Wings and antennas have been already purchased. Dress will be improvised. She also got a box of colors for the face. Carnival. Big event here.

Eh.

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by beppe

she got those colored strings of foam that you shoot from a can and become solid at contact with the air. She calls them in a very ribald way, innocently of course, or not. It is all the week that she has been negotiating the acquisition.

She dresses as butterfly. Wings and antennas have been already purchased. Dress will be improvised. She also got a box of colors for the face. Carnival. Big event here.

Eh.

Yes, next weekend we'll be having carnival as well. It originated from 'under the big rivers' in our country, the south, but now a lot of towns in the west also have a kind of carnival. But not the real one, of course.
I didn't grow up with carnival, as it was for the catholics only and I was raised a strict calvinist. But when I was 17, I left home to study in the south and we always went to the carnival with a group of girls. ...out together.....home together.