Given that your eating plan is quite similar to mine, got any favourite recipes/meals to share?
Congrats, you look like a different person.
-40 two years ago. Still at my target weight (low 180’s) 2 years later. Simply watch my junk food intake and overall meal calories, and work out, hard, on the stationary bike 2-4 times a week (work schedule permitting).
Cravings and hunger are two different animals. An effective diet allows one to recognize the differences between the two.
This published today in JAMA.Consequence or Cause of Overeating? If you want the NY Times take on the article, go here.
I’m not sure anyone is confusing the two.
Do you think the walking made a difference? I’ve heard that walking barely burns off 50 calories.
( I’m trying to lose weight for the first time in my life after 40 years of being skinny, and it ain’t easy.)
You don’t even have to stay hungry (or I didn’t). I managed to lose a lot of weight but ate enough to feel all right. I was just very strict about what I ate.
Depends how far you walk. It’s a lot better than doing nothing, and even just 50 calories could make the difference.
This. It’s hard to see a diet based on being hungry being successful in the long run. The two things are (a) make good choices in what you eat (more veggies and fruits; fewer goodies, snack foods, and processed foods), and (b) when you eat, don’t keep on eating after reaching the point of being comfortably full. (It helps to slow down as you’re approaching fullness so that your body has a chance to tell you you’re full before you’ve gone well past that point.)
My attitude is, you diet to lose weight. You exercise for fitness.
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But seriously: congrats!
A couple of years ago I was able to get myself taken off hypertension meds: not as dramatic as your med changes, but what a day that was! To this day I get happy when I go to the doc and my BP is average. The nurses always think I’m nuts, but whatever. grin