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What it feels like to lose weight?

Milo Williamson

Milo Williamson

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Ever since a spell ago,we decided to join a gym challenge called "Survivor" , so been eating right as rain most of the time, but when I do get hungry I usually eat something like normal,but after eating a lot of times I get hungry, right? I an not taking any pills or anything like that, I have been hitting the gym more since joining this program, still.. am I losing weight?
 
Well the only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume. So if you eating low calories and burning those calories during the day, you should be losing weight.

But the only way to know is as @AugieTN asked and that is to weight yourself.
 
So I have gone from a size 38 (waist) down to a size 36.:D , the 36's have been feeling a bit loose:thumbsupdroid:. So yesterday I was at Walmart grabbing some shorts, tried on a pair of size 36 felt a little snub, but i could still fit into them, then when I took the shorts off I noticed that they were a size 32 and not a size 36:):blushDroid::thumbsupdroid::D
 
Irritating!!! I keep having to buy new clothes :mad::maddroid::thumbsdowndroid:
 

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When I was in my teens, I lost sixty pounds in a month and eighty pounds total. It was amazing how I felt not dragging around that extra weight. Everyone predicted that I would put that wight back on. They were wrong. Sixty years later and I still weigh the same.
 
I went from almost 290 down to 230, 230 down to 220, drop to 212 and then hit 210 and my weight paused no matter what I did i couldn't gain or loose weight. I weigh myself recently 201:D:thumbsupdroid:
 
I've never really lost weight myself. For most of my adult life I was around 79kg, but since moving to China in my late 40s I increased to around 88kg, which is holding steady.
 
I've gained a bit of weight which is all good. I weighed 144 when I married in 1973 and this summer I lost down to 142. I'm weighing 148 now.. that's a comfortable weight for me.
 
I can't relate to some of the weights that y'all are talking about.
At my highest, I was over 400 pounds.
My doctor said that for my height and body build I should be 225, but 250 would be my best weight.
Since my retirement I've lost well over 140.
I'm almost at that goal now.

It's been hard getting there.
At one time I had hungry all the time. I could go to a buffet and eat 2 or 3 plates with no problem. These days I eat like a tiger, only with I get hungry. I might need to eat only once daily and I get full quickly. The other day I felt hungry and opened a can of Chef Boyardee Spaghetti and meatballs and that had filled me for the evening.
My wife is basically the same, eating only once a day,
 
I have eaten one meal a day for nearly thirty years. I gave up breakfast when I left my parents home as a big teen. I gave up lunch in my thirties. It was always a hassle to eat at work and I never felt like working once I ate. I don't know that it's all that healthy to only eat one meal a day but it works really well for me. I always ate what I wanted and however much I wanted with that one meal a day. That diet seemed great and I stayed a great weight for my size and never had any health issues until I had a major heart attack. Weight is important but so is the food you consume.
 
olbriar said:
I have eaten one meal a day for nearly thirty years. I gave up breakfast when I left my parents home as a big teen. I gave up lunch in my thirties. It was always a hassle to eat at work and I never felt like working once I ate. I don't know that it's all that healthy to only eat one meal a day but it works really well for me. I always ate what I wanted and however much I wanted with that one meal a day. That diet seemed great and I stayed a great weight for my size and never had any health issues until I had a major heart attack. Weight is important but so is the food you consume.
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Sounds like my brother-in-law though, he barely eats breakfast or lunch these days.
Only coffee and eggs sometimes in the morning,
I do eat with him at the dinner table whenever I do get over there.
 
Personally I do eat breakfast about sometimes early about six a.m., or seven,depending on what I am about to do,and sometimes a snack about 12:30 like about today, had a bowl of peanut butter pretezels and dried cranberries, then I wait until two to eat my lunch.

Usually about six p.m., it's our dinner time.
 
Reading on the subject, it is recommended to eat small snack like meals often during the day vs a number of big meals. Who has the time for that? I'm pretty certain our early ancestors didn't sit around and eat little meals when they felt like it. Instead, they consumed what they could when they had something to eat. They survived on the diet or we wouldn't be here. I don't think they were over weight. I don't think they suffered from high blood sugars. In fact, I don't think they suffered from the majority of problems that plague modern man. They were on a strict exercise and protein diet that served them well.
 
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