Awesome Jill! Thanks a lot...I think I got it. Fire at will with the criticism. Ha ha. Well, I'm doing my best anyway. Luckily my bf is trying to lose weight with me which helps
YEAH... I have been losing 2 lbs each week going on strong . Last week I was down only 1 pound but I eat out 3 times. I love zig zagging I go low at work which is about 3 time a week, med at home and high on the friday and or sat night out. I think the shock factor really works. But my med days I still EAT HEALTHY.
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Thanks Tank, I am taking daily vitamins and this week I am averaging out to 1400 calories in fitday with 2400 going out so according to my calculations should equal a 2 lb. weight loss this week! Feeling awesome and I sure enjoy having my big weekend day to have a nice meal out (and of course a couple drinks )
I zig zagged on vacation and lost a pound! I would have never imagined vacationing and losing at the same time! I didn't keep a good record of what I ate, but I def. zig zagged (and walked a trillion miles... New York is big!)
A big help was bringing food along. Our first day, we had an EARLY flight, so I brought high-protien slim-fast shakes so that I'd get my early morning protein. We also brought lunchables, and I found a great low-cal lunchable! (BBQ Chicken Shakeups... love em!) We ate that during our 3 hour layover in Detroit, saving money and calories!
I got to have my New York hot dog, and some fun alcoholic beverages. The last day (our trip home) I was out of healthy food, and we were both tired and lazy and we splurged at the airport and once we got back home, and I STILL managed to be down a pound. I wish I hadn't had so much to eat last night, because I might have been down lower this morning, but that just means tomorrow morning will be even better
Hey I like this concept. Where do I find the zig-zag rules??
No real rules...just make sure your daily average calories each week (or 10 days or however long of a cycle you want to do) is within your personal range. I like to do strict low-cal Monday-Wednesday (around 1000 cals), medium on Thursday and Friday (maybe 1600) and high on Saturday and Sunday (sometimes up to 3000 each day). As long as I average out to 1800 or less per day at the end of the week, then I've reached my goal and am good to go
Week 1
* Mon - Med Day say 1600
* Tue - Med Day say 1600
Wed - 1,000
Thur - 1,000
Fri - 1,000
Saturday Free - I dont count anything but i dont eat tons of junk
Sun Med day - I dont really count cals this day but I think its low
Week 2
Mon - 1,000
Tue - 1,000
Wed - Med day
Thur - Med day
Friday- Free Day
Saturday - 1,000
Sunday 1,000
This is how I have been doing it for a few months and i lost some good weight. I make sure i eat a good amount of protein such as 2 egg whites each mornign with what ever I have. 2 egg whites is only like 15 cals each / the protein they provide is 98% digestable and is one of the best types of protein and its cheap to hard boil a bunch, what 98cents a dozen? Plus if your not in a hurry there great made that morning and eaten warm ..mmmmm. I work 12 hour days so i only work 7 days out of 14 day pay period so i have been keeping to this schedule above. I have been losign 2 pounds a week the last few weeks and maybe only 1 pound a week every few weeks. the first couple of weeks i was losing 5 pounds 4 pounds 5 pounds. Also some low days I actually dip under 1,000 not on purpopse but i think eating smaller and more healthy meals has made my tummy smaller. Also after dieting a while u know what foods to buy and whats a serving i am sure that along with the shock of zig zaging is helpling plus its easy to eat low on those days and treat yourself on a free day. Its like your not even on a diet.
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No real rules...just make sure your daily average calories each week (or 10 days or however long of a cycle you want to do) is within your personal range. I like to do strict low-cal Monday-Wednesday (around 1000 cals), medium on Thursday and Friday (maybe 1600) and high on Saturday and Sunday (sometimes up to 3000 each day). As long as I average out to 1800 or less per day at the end of the week, then I've reached my goal and am good to go
I find having my highest day after my official weigh in helps so that I don't have the scale shock as much. I work nights so my Friday isn't over yet- weigh in is on Sat. so we'll see what I'm "officially" down even though I weight myself at least once a day (I can't help it)
Sat: 2242
Sun: 1315
Mon: 1077
Tue: 1321
Wed: 1256
Thur: 1383
Fri: Shaping up to be under 1000
Working on not upping my calories on Saturday with alcohol! More exercise this week than last week. I have a gym pass starting in April and I'm going to try to go for a bit almost every day whether it's to do cardio, weights or swim. Go me...I'm kicking @$$ and taking names! Thanks for the encouragement girls- I'm definately learning from you.
KriWes - It's great that your going to try out the gym....I also use a free pass I got and It's so addicting that I still had 2 weeks left on my pass and I went ahead and join anyway...I love it...everyone is so nice and it really helps to keep you motivated..
Today will be a low day for me...I have to work till 10pm and I hope to go to the gym on the way home...
I've kind of fallen off the wagon since Spring Break, so that makes two weeks of relatively staggered non-counting. =/ My self-esteem was taking a PMS-induced dive this week and I've been enjoying too many mini York Peppermint Patties. Ack.
I've busted out the counting notebook again, though, and I'm ready to hop back on. I've missed everyone's posts--you guys always seem to keep me in check and on a positive track.
Ok silly question ?? How do I figure out how many calories I should try to average weekly? not everbody needs the same amount right? So I don't know where I need to be to lose?? Maybe I'm slowminded Anyways, I had to say ya'll just made me smile!! I have such a difficult time on Friday nights and all day Saturday.. Then come Sunday morning I feel so guilty for allowing myself to slip..I do good most weekdays, except during t.o.m :O) This zig-zag concept sounds like it may save me from myself :O) I'm so tired of feeling guilty and torturing myself for being human.. So does the zig-zag way of eating really prevent the dreaded weight loss plateu?? I'm soooo curious now!! This was just what I needed to read right now... Thank you for enlightening me :O)
dgpebbles...how's the gym going for you? Are you doing both cardio and weights?
alkali...good for you for getting back into the swing of things- it's more important that we pick ourselves back up again that that we fell down in the first place. Besides...chocolate and mint are pretty hard to resist. I've been focusing on delayed gratification and saying I can have what I want if I can just make it to the weekend
cherrylatte...you can figure out how many calories you need daily easiest by starting up a fitday account or another program that is similar. Under activities it shows you how many calories you are burning based on your metabolic rate and as well as lifestyle and activities.
This page http://www.calorie-count.com/calorie...ies-burned.php could also help you figure it out. You would then calculate what you want your calories to work out to based on how much you are trying to lose a week. If you are aiming to lose a lb a week then you will need a 3500 calorie deficit over the week. With cycling we break that up so that you may have higher days (for you it sounds like weekends would work best which is what I do as well) then your week days would be lower. Based on your weight and guessing on your height and age you would probably need about 2500 calories to maintain this weight. If you want to lose 1 lb a week you would want to average out to 2000 calories a day. If you want to lose 2 lbs you would want to average 1500 calories a day. It's up to you how you want to break this up. Anyway, I'm rambling but hopefully this helps a bit. Jill is really the expert on all of this so I'm sure she'll have some great input as well. Good luck!
Anyway, as for me today was supposed to be a high day but I sort of ran out of time to eat anything too good and I will probably end up under 1200 calories today despite the chocolate cheesecake I had for breakfast. I also worked out good and hard today so I am rockin it! Tomorrow will probably end up being my higher day. Today was also weigh in and I am down a full 10 lbs which leaves only 6 to take off 10% of my starting weight. Whoo Hoo!
Hello all.I've kind of been doing an up & down calorie count for a couple mos & using Fit Day. Gonna start doing the same on more of an even schedule. The thread is interesting reading. Good luck to all of us.
I went to the site & my cal need is 2200....so can you tell me how many less it'd take to lose a pd?Do you figure by the wk? I'm kind of slow today....maybe every day I'd be happy with 1-1 1/2 pd a wk. Fitday is fine, but don't use anything except recording cals . Thanks for your help, I find your posts interesting.
Well,Duh is me. I need 2000 cals per day,14,000 per wk & take away a pds worth....3500...leaves 10,500 a wk...divided by 7...that's 1500 cals for me..assuming I want to lose a pd a wk.Now...to go up & down...eat some days at like 1200 & others at 1500....or am I out in left field? Thanks again
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dgpebbles...how's the gym going for you? Are you doing both cardio and weights?
alkali...good for you for getting back into the swing of things- it's more important that we pick ourselves back up again that that we fell down in the first place. Besides...chocolate and mint are pretty hard to resist. I've been focusing on delayed gratification and saying I can have what I want if I can just make it to the weekend
cherrylatte...you can figure out how many calories you need daily easiest by starting up a fitday account or another program that is similar. Under activities it shows you how many calories you are burning based on your metabolic rate and as well as lifestyle and activities.
This page http://www.calorie-count.com/calorie...ies-burned.php could also help you figure it out. You would then calculate what you want your calories to work out to based on how much you are trying to lose a week. If you are aiming to lose a lb a week then you will need a 3500 calorie deficit over the week. With cycling we break that up so that you may have higher days (for you it sounds like weekends would work best which is what I do as well) then your week days would be lower. Based on your weight and guessing on your height and age you would probably need about 2500 calories to maintain this weight. If you want to lose 1 lb a week you would want to average out to 2000 calories a day. If you want to lose 2 lbs you would want to average 1500 calories a day. It's up to you how you want to break this up. Anyway, I'm rambling but hopefully this helps a bit. Jill is really the expert on all of this so I'm sure she'll have some great input as well. Good luck!
Anyway, as for me today was supposed to be a high day but I sort of ran out of time to eat anything too good and I will probably end up under 1200 calories today despite the chocolate cheesecake I had for breakfast. I also worked out good and hard today so I am rockin it! Tomorrow will probably end up being my higher day. Today was also weigh in and I am down a full 10 lbs which leaves only 6 to take off 10% of my starting weight. Whoo Hoo!
Well I made it to the gym last night at 10:30 and I was there till 1:45am..wow can you believe it..I did 60 mins on elliptical and around 1 1/2 hr on weights...calories were 1354 which was higher than I thought it would be.
patce - yes you just have some days low and some days high to where your average for the week is 1500...you could have like a 1000 cal day and a 2000 cal day just whatever so it averages 1500
Kriwes - yes I do both...I try to do cardio for an hour either elliptical or stair stepper and sometimes treadmill and then I use weights for about 1 1/2 hours....I do legs one day and then arms, chest etc the other day but I try to do abs everyday..
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My mini zig-zag.
I also worked out good and hard today so I am rockin it! Tomorrow will probably end up being my higher day. Today was also weigh in and I am down a full 10 lbs which leaves only 6 to take off 10% of my starting weight. Whoo Hoo!
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