Losing Weight with Starscream

Originally Posted by Shaerza

Just to offer a flip side perspective to this.. Once I adjusted to the dieting, I was under on points almost every day, sometimes by as much as 5 points. And I also very rarely used my 35 weekly points.. those I pretty much allocated to the drinking nights a few times a month. I averaged about 2lbs a week lose while doing the diet, and have kept it off since I lost it. It may be important to add that I did this as a 25yr old guy that is now fairly fit and active at the gym.. so circumstances may very well be different.

I guess my point is, as long as you are not leaving yourself hungry or energy drained while your cutting more points, I don't think you should be concerned with using them all.

edit: guess i missed your reply Andy. That is a good approach I think

Cool. I get that. I guess it comes down to finding a balanced approach that works for you.

I haven't really been tracking my food intake lately, but trying to be "good" most of the time. My active job has been a big part of my success lately, but that's over as of yesterday.

I'm down one more pound this week. Next week I'll be weighing in on Thursday, and from home (my real home). After that it's going to be more sporadic as I have a busy summer coming up with lot's of time away from the house. Fortunately it's going to be a more active summer than last year with lot's of kayaking. Now I just have to keep on eye on what I eat and keep active in between my paddling excursions.

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Originally Posted by kayaker

Cool. I get that. I guess it comes down to finding a balanced approach that works for you.I haven't really been tracking my food intake lately, but trying to be "good" most of the time. My active job has been a big part of my success lately, but that's over as of yesterday.

I'm down one more pound this week. Next week I'll be weighing in on Thursday, and from home (my real home). After that it's going to be more sporadic as I have a busy summer coming up with lot's of time away from the house. Fortunately it's going to be a more active summer than last year with lot's of kayaking. Now I just have to keep on eye on what I eat and keep active in between my paddling excursions.

I agree with the underlined portion.


Congrats Ian, on another pound loss. If this were a contest, you would be in the lead as of late.

So far so good

I switched scales to one that I trust to be consistent based on past use and gives me body fat and other measurements (not sure how accurate those measurements are, but they do seem to be consistent).

On the new scale I'm down to 217 from 222. Going forward I'll keep using the new scale to know how much is weight loss verses scale difference.

My meals are much healthier than before, and I found time for a 2.5 mile walk at lunch yesterday, and another 2.5 miles on the elliptical machine at the gym last night.