good questions to me; very useful; I do agree your points. I feel like I am walking on edge, I need to do something, so reading, asking etc. But diet is the issue with me; have been obese for some good years. Habits are hard to die.
I use Garmin forerunner 15 with a Heart Rate monitor. The HR monitor is wrapped to my chest and Garmin FR15 is like a watch, sits on my hand. Calories, HR, distance even GPS everything is measured automatically. calorie measurement is supposed to be accurate as it the sensor directly sits on the chest itself as opposed to those wrist-based.
Used myfitnesspal only to know the calories, but cannot follow the advices out of it. I am putting on weight if I follow recommendations from it - says 1200 calories minimum.
One thing I forgot to add: If I go on fasting, especially skipping the dinner - then I am losing some weight. This is a recent observation, still need to observe more and ascertain. So this also suggests that I have a problem with my eating pattern. I used it for a while to understand the calories in the foods that I normally eat. Now I am using a phone app for doing the dairy, it is very easy; my daughter taught me how to use the smartphone with that app.
yes, this is the category of folks I want to talk to and get some tips.
This is a good point. Let us say I walked for 1hour/ 500+ calories see below:
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before workout - only a glass of coffee, with milk and sugar. After the workout - of course lot of water. Then 30 min later, breakfast - whole wheat bread - 2 pieces with peanut butter + cheddar cheese. myfitnesspal puts this as 480 calories or so. I am glad to know that you are familiar with myfitnesspal - see the screen below, I logged onto my account and did for you; so that you can comment:
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so this is where I am, please comment - I am glad to get help ....
There are some fundamental issues you have to address here.
You say eating habits die hard. Of course they are! Particularly if we are comfort eating, or eating foodstuffs we may have some form of dependency of. By dependency I mean in an addiction sort of way. For example, someone once explained to me, when I was suffering from an unidentified food intolerance, that it can be useful to tackle or favourite foods head on, because sometimes that we feel they are favourites is about addressing a dependence on them, like addiction. And often we can become intolerant of those foods because we eat so much of them. For me, I had terrible symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, but tested negatively for it. It transpired I was no longer able to eat oranges or tomatoes - 2 foods I loved at the time. Having given them up for some time, I could eat them again without suffering the same symptoms. I had sort of become allergic to them.
Secondly, what makes you feel that these food issues, will be any easier to deal with when you are already diagnosed as suffering from a condition that may have been "encouraged" by eating them in the first place? That really is a
big question for you to address. Right now you can take a structured approach to it. After a diagnosis, you could be shepherded down the medication route very quickly, and surely we all want to avoid meds where we can?
Personally, at the moment, I think you just don't want to give up the carbs. It's not a snipe or any form of insult to you, it's very common and quite natural. Who would want to give up potatoes, rice or whatever, unless they had a great reason to do it?
And finally, if you are adding back calories to your eating regime from exercise, you may be just stalling your weight loss every time you do it. Who knows exactly how accurate your nutritional gizmo is, or indeed how accurate your calorie counting and portion control is. Again, no insult, just that you are introducing variables you needn't. As I say, I never, ever add calories for those expended when exercising.
When I was diagnosed, I wanted to sort out my blood sugars. I didn't set out to lose weight, but did admit a bit of trimming up would be nice. What actually happened was that by trimming up on carbs, any excess weight I was carrying just fell off.
I accept I am extremely fortunate to be very well and fit, and have a body that seems to work fairly well, once I had taken the strain of the higher glucose levels out of the equation. Clearly not everyone is that lucky.
But, what I am reading at the moment is you tinkering around the edges of your objective.
Please don't be offended by this post, I am replying frankly and honestly to what you have written and my interpretation of it.