Post your Best/Latest Accomplishment - In RL

[Yygdrasil]

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That guy scored 2 of the goals... FML

[Melody]

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Lost 10 pounds this week. Tofu/Egg diet is working.

[cidbahamut]

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That sounds incredibly unhealthy.

[Melody]

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That sounds incredibly unhealthy.

Right because eating a substitute meat product due to not liking real meat is unhealthy and eating just two hard boiled eggs with a half slice of wheat toast is such a horrible life choice. -eye roll-

Then fine Cid, what do you cram in your maw that passes off as food?

[Squiggs]

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Pretty sure he was saying that 10 pounds in a week was unhealthy, not the actual food. But good for you as long as you are eating enough.

[Armando]

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What Squiggs said. Every book I've read on weight loss says the most you should aim to lose is 2 pounds a week. Anything more than that, and you're almost certain to be losing muscle along with the fat, and muscle is what controls how many calories you burn while idle. By the time you're done, even moderate amounts of food will probably go over your daily needs and cause weight gain again. Also, cutting your calories severely eventually causes the body to hang on to fat more stubbornly since it believes you're at risk of starvation. There's also the problem of losing weight faster than your skin can shrink...

I would re-think your weight loss plan.

[Melody]

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I'm slightly overweight, so this isn't me being unhealthy, it's me going back to how my weight normally was. I never gave you my average weight so you have no clue of how many pounds from X I am losing. (ex: 120 - 10 = 110) Which isn't a bad loss for some people. My weight is above 100 but not over 200. I jog daily and my main source of food is mostly soy products. I talked to my doctor and he says that actual red meat is messing up my stomach, which is why I can't eat much of it. I can eat it, but it will be accompanied by severe nausea.

[Vyuru]

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Just be careful Melody. 10lbs does sound like an unhealthy amount of weight loss in a week to me. Could be it's not, but it's high enough that I'd do a mental check to make sure.

[cidbahamut]

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I got some shoes that might actually fit.

Pretty goddamn excited about that.

Funny thing, the $500+ pair of dress shoes one store attendant was pushing the sale of were fucking awful. Tore up the back of my heel pretty quick and would have given me blisters if I'd worn them for about five minutes. Dude was super convinced I just needed to get used to them.

Walked one store down to the Rockport store and immediately found a pair of shoes that looked decent and was comfy, plus a pair that looked dressy but was light years ahead of the $500 pair. Price tag was under $100. Those were a little wide though, so I'm gonna see if I can get a narrow cut at an outlet store later.

[Caspian]

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I had good luck with Ecco's, Cid. Not TOO pricey and they're ridiculously comfortable.

[Armando]

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I never gave you my average weight so you have no clue of how many pounds from X I am losing.

It doesn't really matter what your starting weight is. That doesn't change the fact that losing 10 pounds in 1 week means one or more of the following:
* You're losing water weight, you'll gain it back when you hydrate.
* You're losing muscle
* You're malnourished.

Again, no healthy diet will let you lose 10 pounds of fat that fast. There's about 3,500 calories in a pound of fat. You'd need to eat 35,000 calories below your weekly needs to lose 10 pounds. Since that would require cutting 5000 calories per day, it's pretty much impossible. A loss of 500 a day - which is a lot off of a woman's daily calorie needs - would only add up to 3,500 (1 pound) per week.

[DakAttack]

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It doesn't really matter what your starting weight is. That doesn't change the fact that losing 10 pounds in 1 week means one or more of the following:
* You're losing water weight, you'll gain it back when you hydrate.
* You're losing muscle
* You're malnourished.

Again, no healthy diet will let you lose 10 pounds of fat that fast. There's about 3,500 calories in a pound of fat. You'd need to eat 35,000 calories below your weekly needs to lose 10 pounds. Since that would require cutting 5000 calories per day, it's pretty much impossible. A loss of 500 a day - which is a lot off of a woman's daily calorie needs - would only add up to 3,500 (1 pound) per week.

People shouldn't treat losing muscle like it's the end of the world. Especially if they didn't have much muscle to begin with. If you're overweight and want to get that weight off fast, 20lbs a month isn't an unreasonable pace. If you're some sort of body builder or other self-interested individual then you'd want to consider a slower approach, but it's not like they don't fake it when it matters, anyways.

[Armando]

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People shouldn't treat losing muscle like it's the end of the world. Especially if they didn't have much muscle to begin with. If you're overweight and want to get that weight off fast, 20lbs a month isn't an unreasonable pace.

Why make it easier to undo all your hard work? You won't care if it took 6 months instead of 3 a year or two from now.

[Mezlo]

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I had good luck with Ecco's, Cid. Not TOO pricey and they're ridiculously comfortable.

Ecco's are the way to go.

[cidbahamut]

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I had good luck with Ecco's, Cid. Not TOO pricey and they're ridiculously comfortable.

I'll add that to the list of brands I check on my next outing, since the Rockports ended up crushing the ball of my foot all day long today.