superclaire999
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They do trick u into thinking that u have had some soup lol and then a 10 cal jelly for afters haha
Sounds like a plan!They do trick u into thinking that u have had some soup lol and then a 10 cal jelly for afters haha
Thanks. Two up days for me now - Saturday and Sunday. Do love the up weekends! Not sure I could do a down day on a Sunday, unless my OH was away.You've done really well!! Hope are feeling better soon!! Upday today and tomorrow for me dd Sunday
Yep it is a swine this dieting. I don't want to calorie count every day either, but I have noticed a lot of people on the board do have to count their up days. I was talking (moaning!) about it to the OH earlier and saying how all I wanted was half a pound to a pound loss a week, regularly, which I don't feel is too much to ask for!Hmmm, as you say a STS isn't an out of the ordinary result but obviously you were hoping for something a bit better understandably. Food is still sounding lovely and its great that you have managed to change how to see food so much and the choices you are making but completely understand wanting faster losses.
I'm at a bit of an impasse with the plan at the moment as well. I didn't officially weigh in this morning as we left early to go walking but the scales are suggesting that this week's result will be a gain. Which I am less than impressed with. I really like this way of eating and the psychological changes it has brought, like you, but do want it to result in weight loss and I am probably facing two weeks of STSs and a gain after my initial double loss. Its probably not the plan. I don't seem to be able to lose whatever I do but it has left me with not really knowing where to turn. I considered calorie counting up days but I think for me that would make this plan lose all the appeal. I HATE strict calorie counting and I think it would make this plan lose most of its appeal if I had to do that. Will be interested to see if doing that for you makes much different though. I might have to reconsider my position on 7 day a week calorie counting if it does.
Yep it is a swine this dieting. I don't want to calorie count every day either, but I have noticed a lot of people on the board do have to count their up days. I was talking (moaning!) about it to the OH earlier and saying how all I wanted was half a pound to a pound loss a week, regularly, which I don't feel is too much to ask for!
I have put my cals into mfp today, and after dinner they will be 2105, which is a bit up on the recommended levels, but then I eat more on my weekends than on my two up days in the week. Whatever, I am not losing very fast. OH reminded me that I haven't been exercising either because of the cough. So I'm going to plod on for now. I think I will put my food into mfp at the end of each day this week, to see what they come to - not calorie counting in advance as such, but maybe the fact that I'm going to record it later might make me rein it in a bit! I'm also going to hunt out a couple of CDs - one is the Paul Mckenna one and another similar one by somebody else, to try and work on it that way too. Got to be worth a try.
Yes I have noticed those double entries on there - I try to check against the packaging (if there is any!) I'm going to jot down what I eat as I eat it, but not record it with calories until the evening, for this week at least. After years of calorie counting I can usually guess pretty accurately. I do have a Spark People account so will have another look at that too. At this rate though I'll be drawing my pension before I get to target!MFP is often not correct and sometimes underestimates calories by a considerable amount. Also you can find the same food with different calories on there which is confusing. I've found when I stall on JUDDD it's cos I underestimated my eating on UD. I've also found - pain that it is - that unless I put food into a calorie counter ( I use Spark People now) as I eat it I forget. After a while you will find you can judge more or less what you are eating without strictly counting. It's worth measuring yourself cos I've found when the losses have been slow I've still lost inches. xx
I was thinking about that a few minutes ago as another option. I really want to make this work for me as in every other way it is just right, so I will persevere 'til I work it out!Sorry the scales are not cooperating moonwatcher, it really is a bugger when that happens, to be quite honest I've found I have to watch the calories during the week, I don't dream of counting the weekends though, thats the best compromise I can come up with.
I am sure with such a positive attitude to it you will work it all out so it works. I guess calorie counting isn't something you have to do forever as after a while you will automatically be able to know fairly accurate values for most things, and that would probably be enough for up day counting.
I have to say I do think its a little depressing that most people seem to have to count calories on up days to get consistent losses That is very much missed out in the "big sell" of this diet.
Or you could try the potato hack!
I absolutely agree with you 100%, I read a short statement from someone doing the 5:2 diet recently, she said the losses stop, so you move to alternate day fasting, the losses stop, you up the exercise, the losses stop, you start counting calories.....