I'm glad I'm on my phone and not on my desktop. I spent years as a process analysis consultant and a statement like that could prompt me to write pages. But I won't do it on my phone.
Y'all got lucky.
Would love to see what you have to say ...
I'm glad I'm on my phone and not on my desktop. I spent years as a process analysis consultant and a statement like that could prompt me to write pages. But I won't do it on my phone.
Y'all got lucky.
After reading this nothing but water!The dude in the bottom photo is a bad mutherfukka. You better not mess with him.
Do you still drink soft drinks or only water now? Switching to plain water is a huge help.
Coffee does not hurt anything either.After reading this nothing but water!
Without going too off-topic and telling war stories, what prompted me to say I wanted to reply was your statement that "Measurement is the first step in management."Would love to see what you have to say ...
You definitely got me with that one! Kudos!managing that fabrication process, begins with measurement
You definitely got me with that one! Kudos!
Understood. Now I'm gonna go cry in my glass of waterCheat meal...okay
Cheat day...not okay
Do what you want though...
CICO matters...you can't get around math...its stubborn that way
Ha haUnderstood. Now I'm gonna go cry in my glass of water
Cool. Thanks for sharing the info. That would put me at about 1800-1900 calories a day. I don't count calories, but might start paying more attention to them. Cutting out the brew has helped. Guess I'm gonna have to find something with less calories when I wanna let my hair down.Ha ha
I'm just saying that you can easily eat enough on your cheat day to negate the calorie deficit you worked hard for the other 6 days.
Your progress can be greatly hindered.
Generally speaking if you want to lose weight and are working out 3-4 times a week, you can eat 8-9 calories per day, per pound of body weight and be okay.
Thanks for sharing, Ben.Re: Cheat days vs. cheat meals.
During a period in the past when I successfully lost quite a bit of weight, I was encouraged to take a weekly cheat day. With the full knowledge that I could take in enough food to completely sabotage myself, I proceeded to stuff myself on those cheat days.
The funny thing is, after doing that for a few weeks, I began to cut back all by myself. I found that if I ate properly all week and then completely screwed up one day I felt terrible the day after. To this day, I view pizza as pretty much a greasy, stomach-churning mess reserved for special occasions. I eat it maybe twice a year, if that. It was those overstuffed cheat days that turned me off to the stuff. After a while, my cheat days didn't look like cheat days; they looked like average days from when I was my fattest.
I was also told two things by a doctor that argued in favor of cheat days. First, the body simply can't process all of the grease and calories a determined human being can stuff in over the course of a day. A (possibly substantial) portion of them will be eliminated without being processed. Second, a stuff-yourself cheat day might fool the body into keeping metabolism higher compared to the way metabolism lowers for people who do a perfect job of maintaining an excessive calorie deficit. (The impact of calorie deficits on metabolism is a huge subject, btw.)
Obviously to anyone who has seen me, I shouldn't be dispensing diet advice. I'm morbidly obese. I have, however, lost ~350 pounds and think I know a little about how to do it. So this post is worth what you paid for it.
Bottom line - Cheat days are probably a bad idea but they can work, depending on how you approach them. After all, weight loss is always far more complicated that "calories in, calories out".
Bottom line - Cheat days are probably a bad idea but they can work, depending on how you approach them. After all, weight loss is always far more complicated that "calories in, calories out".
Very interesting. I will dive a little deeper.Another take on the CICO theory, from one hour ago.
In today's vernacular ... can you learn to actually hack your biological chemistry, to lose weight?
Take it all in, experiment and decide what works best for you.