Diets & Weight Maintenance Support Group
Chat about how well your latest diet is -- or is not -- working. This group is a great place to find support and accountability as well as share success stories and valuable lessons with the community. From where to start to weekly weigh-ins, get help from others to reach your dieting and weight maintenance goals.
There are hundreds of diet plans in existence - maybe thousands, I don't know for sure. Some are pretty simple and some are fairly complicated.
I think the risk with complicated diets is that average people may give up because there are just too many details to keep track of. If you are on a complicated diet plan and it's going well for you, congratulations, you're probably a better person than I am. Maybe you keep a notebook and weigh yourself daily and belong to a real-world (as opposed to online) weight loss support group. Maybe you know your BMI (Body Mass Index) and and all of your measurements. I don't know how you manage to keep track of all the rules and facts. You're no doubt above average.
I am on a simple diet that is working well enough for me. All I do is count calories by reading the calorie count on packaged food and on menus. I keep track of everything I eat each day, and at some point in each day, I add it all up. In my case (every dieter has different individual needs), I am working hard to keep my daily caloric intake below 1500 calories, and I am successful most days. I will keep this up until I reach a healthy weight. I think the name for this kind of diet is a 'calorie restricted diet.' I also weigh myself just once a week, inline with keeping it simple.
No matter what diet you are on, it's important to drink plenty of water to stay hydrated and be sure you are getting enough protein and vitamins to give your body the material it needs for building you. Also be sure that your diet includes or precludes what you need for any health conditions you have, such as diabetes, etc.
Is your diet too complicated for you? Are you on a different but still simple diet? Is your diet working for you?
I think the risk with complicated diets is that average people may give up because there are just too many details to keep track of. If you are on a complicated diet plan and it's going well for you, congratulations, you're probably a better person than I am. Maybe you keep a notebook and weigh yourself daily and belong to a real-world (as opposed to online) weight loss support group. Maybe you know your BMI (Body Mass Index) and and all of your measurements. I don't know how you manage to keep track of all the rules and facts. You're no doubt above average.
I am on a simple diet that is working well enough for me. All I do is count calories by reading the calorie count on packaged food and on menus. I keep track of everything I eat each day, and at some point in each day, I add it all up. In my case (every dieter has different individual needs), I am working hard to keep my daily caloric intake below 1500 calories, and I am successful most days. I will keep this up until I reach a healthy weight. I think the name for this kind of diet is a 'calorie restricted diet.' I also weigh myself just once a week, inline with keeping it simple.
No matter what diet you are on, it's important to drink plenty of water to stay hydrated and be sure you are getting enough protein and vitamins to give your body the material it needs for building you. Also be sure that your diet includes or precludes what you need for any health conditions you have, such as diabetes, etc.
Is your diet too complicated for you? Are you on a different but still simple diet? Is your diet working for you?
Smaller plates, eat less, drink more water, exercise a lot, ...
So far it has helped me drop 35 pounds over a year.
15 more to get to 200 which my doctor says is a good target weight for me.
But I may shoot for 190 and then try to keep it between 190 and 200.
Remember, even if you have stayed at the same weight (plateaued) or gained weight this week, don't worry; it is likely just a temporary situation, and with patience and persistence, you can get that weight to come off.
Beaumont, I think you are right that some diets can be really complicated and confusing. I tried to do it on my own, counting carbs, fats, sugar, etc..but it was a huge drag for me, and I felt like I couldn't eat anything I really wanted. When I got discouraged, I started to stray, and gained a few pounds back of the 43 I had lost. Last week I started Weight Watchers, and am very happy and content with it. It's so easy to use, you eat real food, and in the first week, I lost 2 pounds.
I hope your calorie counting serves you well! Good luck to you!!
It has worked really well for me. My goal was to lose 34 pounds and I've lost about 29 since the week before Christmas (average of about 2 pounds per week). I hope to hit my goal in the next couple of weeks.
I don't think I could have done it without a formal plan with rules to follow. I am a rule follower, but obviously in the past I was not very good at setting the "rules" for myself.
What I consider complicated about it:
- I am supposed to take a bunch of vitamins and supplements each day
- I am supposed to eat a set number of servings of Protein, Starch, Vegetables and Fruits and track this in a journal
- I am only supposed to eat food off a designated list of foods
- I am supposed to visit their office to check in with a counselor 3 times a week.
What I consider simple about it
- The list of allowable foods takes away the guessing game of what I can eat and how much
- The vitamins and supplements keep me from having to worry about whether or not I covering all the nutrients I need
- Although it's annoying to make it to their office 3 times a week, it keeps me accountable
- They provide (I have to pay for them) high protein snacks that are actually quite good, so I don't have to give up my hot cocoa or my protein bars that I like to eat each day.
At this point I'm still finding it easy to follow the plan, but I am very anxious to move past it to enjoy the lifestyle changes I've made and to challenge myself to keep the weight off without the help of a set plan.
will enjoy life time of yoyo, on n off, n back on ride.
Granted right now my weight is yoyoing because I OD on grease salt sugar white flour n meat. I can't digest meat. However I found out that grease pizza w grease topping w sugar white flour crust is great laxitive.
yep most pizza dough has sugar in it. it can add up fast. loaf bread has sugar in it. peanutbutter... has sugar in it.
everybody needs to know thier body.
On dys that I walk I require up to max of 400 more cal's that day, to maintain. on dys when all I do is lift a coffee cup while sitting on my ass. will ya I require at least 300 or more calls less, than my normal cal intake ratio.
Anywho I have lifestyle for a life time. Yes I can have cake/pie ice cream, n eat it too, n maintain my weight as will as lose by eatting healthy. Oh ya I can also gain eatting healthy if I start OD'ing,lol
This is what body has to have, n do:
Protein
fiber
water
move
sleep
muti vit.
No grease white flour
Limit starch sugar salt carbs
Cal's In Cal's Out.
ya for begin ers. read lables. I just know w/o haveing to stop in thinking about it nor writeing.
I can eye ball what ever n know cals
I still/ will read lables for salt sugar n types % of fats in new n to me new products.
For 3 wks I will half to take in less cals n walk more.
Again I had a bad bad slip.
I pigged out on meat, bread, grease, salt, sugar within short period of time w/o coming up for air,lol
Aw coffee, I just had 20oz of ice water. dyly I drink a gal of ice water.
I normally only have 2 cups of coffee but today a rainy/cold day so it's deluted coffee for me.
raw fruit: cal's sugar syp carb
easies way possible.
It's working so far, I've dropped 10 pounds in the past 2 months, which isn't as fast as some diets do it but I know this will increase once I start exercising. And I'm pretty happy with that anyway :)
I also don't get mad for having treats. It's almost easter, I had a chocolate egg today. It's not going to break my diet so why not :)