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Post by jrmeatplow on Mar 2, 2019 19:04:37 GMT
my body loves 3 weights, 182lbs, 194lbs, and 210lbs. It particularly loves 194lbs. I have to kill myself to get down to around 182lbs but can maintain it for awhile, but I feel like I'm starving all the time. At 194lbs I can basically eat what I want within moderation and stay right around that. If I really get out of hand, in a blink of an eye I'll be 210. We're in the same boat. I was 225 lbs., now I'm bouncing back and forth between 196 and 200 lbs. I'm 5'9". How tall are you? 5'6".
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Mar 2, 2019 19:18:32 GMT
Woah! You're a big guy!
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Post by Mr Average on Mar 2, 2019 22:21:01 GMT
I don't know, haven't weighed myself in a few weeks. I got tired of the emotional trauma of watching my weight go up-down-up-down. Alla time, up-down-up-down. It's crazy how I'm going up-down-up-down. It was a struggle to get under 200 lbs., and now it's a struggle to keep from going back over 200 lbs. Yes, I'm using the Hybrid. Maybe I've gotten down to where I belong. Bruce since January I have been eating just the normal 2500 calories a day and have gone down from 210 lbs to 196 lbs, I just got bored with eating more calories. The only problem I have found is felling hungry all the time, but maybe it will pass.
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Post by stormshadow on Mar 2, 2019 23:25:59 GMT
I don't know, haven't weighed myself in a few weeks. I got tired of the emotional trauma of watching my weight go up-down-up-down. Alla time, up-down-up-down. It's crazy how I'm going up-down-up-down. It was a struggle to get under 200 lbs., and now it's a struggle to keep from going back over 200 lbs. Yes, I'm using the Hybrid. Maybe I've gotten down to where I belong. Here's my 2 cents, FWIW: Your body needs time to adjust to your new, lower fat %/weight. It seeks homeostasis. Once it has become used to the idea that this, lower, weight is now its 'normal', you'll more easily maintain it. As long as you continually, consistently eat a little less calories than your body needs for maintenance, you'll lose more. Give it time to adjust - from what I've heard/read it takes about a month to establish a new metabolic set point and the specifics to get to the new set point may be quite different from person to person, but it will happen. Then you can again lower the plateau and allow your body to accept the new 'normal'. Avoid discouragement. You control the metabolic set point. Lots of diet strategies to do this, but I'd say you're on the right track. Just don't stress or struggle with it. Stress causes weight gain - I've read that it's the energy conservation effort of the body to hold nutrition in response to the stress of 'flight or fight'. Let it go and eat what you know will satiate you while underrating calories. Dropping the toxic glutens, barley, rye, oats and wheat is always a good idea for health in general, but especially when you desire to make changes in body comp. Of course, sugars and most all processed foods are out. Go for nutrient density in the foods you eat. OTOH, as you know, it's very difficult to overeat vegetable calories. Don't see many fat vegetarians. IMO, one reason people reach a new lower weight but can't seem to continue to lean out is that their body recognizes that it needs the nutrients its currently receiving and, from everything I'v been exposed to, it's a high quality liquid mineral supplement that will reassure the body that the nutrients are there. If the nutrition isn't sufficient to maintain your body health at a lower level of food consumption, then the body fat/weight will remain the same. Also, don't be too hard on yourself. Break it up once in a while with a few hours or a day of eating whatever turns you on. One or two, or maybe even 5 (not back-to-back), days out of a month won't hurt your new metabolic set point. Your body will respond to the spike by eliminating the excess since it is no longer 'normal' and it is, by nature, compelled to return to what it has become used to. That is not two cents. That is dietary gold. Thanks for post The body sets new setpoints as it loses fat. Breaking plateaus requires less calories more exercise and sometimes drastic macronutrient adjustments.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Mar 3, 2019 1:27:42 GMT
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Post by jrmeatplow on Mar 3, 2019 3:24:40 GMT
I'm really closer to 5'7" than I am to 5'6. A thick pair of socks would put me over the top. I've weighed as much as 219lbs at one point while still wearing 36 waist jeans. I can wear 32 waist right now, but they are a little snug.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Mar 3, 2019 3:27:40 GMT
I'm wearing 34.
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Post by mr potatohead on Mar 3, 2019 7:04:31 GMT
Um ...... why are you laughing at that? I must be really dense/dunce. Oh wait ...... "..... eating whatever turns you on." ..... OK, I think I get it now. (You probably need to stop reading Mr Average's posts, m8.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 13:02:13 GMT
Closing in on a 32" waist.
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