What's on your Wednesday Menu, RNYers?

Hugs. You are having very interesting month. Or rather - the whole school year so far. Hope after 2018 would be finished- the 2019 would be more peaceful.

You can lose weight, or maintain if overall calories are not very high. I know from experience.

BTW - I am on a serious hard candy track last 1-2 months. I eat a lot of hard candies daily. But I suck on them a lot, instead of eating real food. I struggle to have more than one "meal" with real food - proteins a day. And I am slowly losing weight. I don't think I am getting enough calories, even with all that sugar. And I don't dump or get RH. RH has no chance.

Very interesting, no?

Hala, it is interesting...and to be honest, as much as I know that my weekly 4 hours of strenuous exercise is good for my heart and longevity, as well as mental health, it does not seem to help my weight loss - sometimes it hinders it because I feel voraciously hungry on exercise days. I am sure if you're taking in less calories than you're expending, despite not exercising, your scale will go down. I find this phrase annoying, but true: Diets are made in the kitchen, not the gym. [or something like that]

I always gain weight when I exercised. ALWAYS.

Last year I hired a personal trainer, because I lost a lot of muscles and got too low body fat%. I gained app 20 lbs over 4-5 months. It is not only getting hungry, but while we exercise like crazy, our body cope with stress by making more cortisone, the stress hormone. That, beside helping us heal and build the muscles, deal with post workout inflammation, can cause real hunger and BS changes. Cortisone can make us more resistant to insulin. And as most steroids, can make us really hungry.

It's weird, when I look at my weight history in MFP, well, my regain all happened this year (year 4) and it happened when I didn't weigh and record daily (as in, for two months I don't record a weight and the next time I record it, it's up 8 lbs) BUT I started back hardcore at the gym on July 1st and I am up exactly 10 lbs since then, despite really sweating at least 4 times a week for an hour a day. Jesus, I don't want to give up the exercise, but that really sucks. I would like the number on the scale a WHOLE LOT MORE if it was 10 lbs less. I am going to have to think on this...do I cut back to 2 or 3 classes a week and then do light exercise at home to supplement? My god, who would think that exercising would make them gain weight???

well... something to think about, no? Or longer, not as intense workouts maybe better for your weight loss?

i used t hike a lot. I could hike 8-16 miles in the mountains .... of course in one day... if we did 8, we would finish before lunch, then do more things later in the day. And I could carry a heavy backpack, when we did longer terms hiking - camping in the woods. Yet, my weight was relatively high. I used to be fit fat person.

I hope you are able to get enough protein in. I haven't tried hard candies but do suck on SF mints and Tictacs throughout the day.

SF candies can make me deathly ill, and my gas could probably kill all 3 cats and one BF.

I look at SF candies and start dry heaving...lol.

I can't do SF candies but mints and gum seem to be okay in moderation. Some mints are not "desirable" but I am good with the tin from Starbucks.

SF candy gives me diarrhea but the SF popsicles don't bother me. Go figure!

It's a learning process that's for sure. Our bodies like to keep us guessing too.