Healthy Way To Lose Weight
<div class="IPBDescription">Any ideas I havent heard</div> Well Im 10 lbs overweigh according to my football coach.
Diet and excerise ofcourse.
But I have no idea what to diet on without being hungry.
I run in the summer, but I guess the way I eat doesnt help me lose weight.
Im not gaining weight, but I cant seem to lose it.
What do I EAT! RAWR!
Diet and excerise ofcourse.
But I have no idea what to diet on without being hungry.
I run in the summer, but I guess the way I eat doesnt help me lose weight.
Im not gaining weight, but I cant seem to lose it.
What do I EAT! RAWR!
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Just eat healthy. Friuit and veg,. Dont snack between meals, only eat at meal times. No junk food, and keep away from MacDonalds.
I have the slowest metabolism.
I run 2 miles every morning, and cant lose a pound.
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Also try upping your mileage, even by .5 miles a day would help.
Start lifting weights if you aren't doing that already. Muscle burn more calories than fat, so if you build more muscle you will be burning more calories even when you aren't doing anything.
I'd try that. There's lots of nice low fat stuff out there, and you can still eat pizzas and that sort of thing. Just make sure its under 5g of fat PER 100g... and the calories you count per item. Easy enough. Make sure you're exercising tho otherwise you'll end up losing muscle... and remember that more exercise means you can eat more, so if you're on a fitness regime you can easily buy yourself another 500 cals.
I also play football and right now we weight lift 3 days a week. Lifting weights is a great way to shed some pounds, as is running. Try different exercises too. Weight lift and run/ride bikes/SWIM/hike/etc.
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Im working all day on my grandma's farm so I dont want to be too tired to do all the obligations I have to do around here.
Since we just moved here my weight device is packed.
After it stops raining, and the alfalfa dries (hay) we can cut it and put it in the barn.
(im a city boy this is new to me)
400 bails of hay.
90 lbs each.
I do about 250 of those.
This is only every so often.
I guess Ill do this calorie adding up thing.
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2miles is not tiriing at the least. Im very conditioned to run. Basketball and football.
Its just boring IMO.
Eat when you're hungry, don't when you're not. To speed up a slow metabolism, don't eat 'meals', or at least not large ones... six small meals throughout the day will force your metabolism to start and stop a lot more often, which burns a lot more energy than simply starting up and processing, then shutting down for a few hours.
Though you may hate diet sodas, 'Diet Rite' and Hansen's put out a line of sodas that use something called Splenda as a sweetener. Doesn't have the nasty aspartame aftertaste, and it's chemically altered so that you can't digest it. Literal zero calorie drink. And more than not, it tastes like it's sweetened with honey, rather than sugar. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Just stay away from the Hansen's black cherry, as it tastes medicine-y.
Doing this kind of thing is why I can fit into size 34 pants now (6' even), when I was in size 42 pants (when I was 4'10"). It's not about 'dieting'.. it's about listening to your body.
Although thats for very overweight people and has alot of health risks, like the fact the maker of the diet died when on it. Although they say that was due to other reasons.
Your freind is excerise since your body doesnt start rebelling against you, like it does if you stop eating.
Atkins is a fad-diet and nothing more. If you look at it carefully, it's a poorly disguised low-calorie diet, which robs your body of the things it most needs for proper operation. It sends your body into ketosis (which is a BAD thing when sustained for a long period, which Atkins does, and can lead to liver and kidney problems) and is in general unhealthy.
Yet yuppies rush it, as it's new and trendy. Here's to hoping they manifest the 'minor health complications' and get their SUVs off my road.
I've in fact got the opposite problem to you though. My metabolism is so fricking fast that I cant gain a single kilo no matter how much nor what I eat at any time of day. Anyone got tips for GAINING weight?
One piece of advice that I can give would be to avoid eating late meals. Try not to eat after 6 pm or so. Eat a big breakfast and lunch so you can burn it off throughout the day. That's how they do it in Spain.
Soemone mentioned weight lifting; hell for football you should be doing this already, at least the coaches I've played for before were pretty militant about it. It's a great way to burn calories and get better muscle tone. Try doing some long sprints, maybe 8 100-yarders or so at the end of a workout.
Also, try to avoid soda, or at the most drink diet. Soda is just sugar and empty calories.
Don't get me started on the Atkins diet though. Unless you are obese (which obviously you're not), Atkins shouldn't be an option. It's too unhealthy.
If all that fails, try to get an appointment with a dietitian. For the most part though, being 10 lbs overweight isn't a bad thing if you exercise. When full practices roll around, doubles and possibly 3-a-days (I've had some devious coaches) will get rid of 10 lbs easily.
You sound like a roommate I had once. **** used to eat like 6 1/4 pounders in one sitting at like 3 a.m. and not gain a pound.
I play WR, I guess he wants me a bit smaller maybe faster.
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Ill take your words for it.
Just wondering if osmeone did something outrageous that worked.
Ive heard tape over the belly.
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Uncommon wisdom is probably Green Tea, which is all around good for you, and according to nutritionists apparently helps in weight loss.
Atkins is a fad-diet and nothing more. If you look at it carefully, it's a poorly disguised low-calorie diet, which robs your body of the things it most needs for proper operation. It sends your body into ketosis <b>(which is a BAD thing when sustained for a long period, which Atkins does, and can lead to liver and kidney problems)</b> and is in general unhealthy.
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Hey I'm confused. I know it sends the body into ketosis, but I thought that Atkins was a four week diet and that you are supposed to discontinue it immediately after those four weeks. A friend of mine is on it and although I personally don't trust the Atkins diet, what I know of it I know from him.
So is four weeks long enough to lead to minor health complications or is the diet actually longer that that time?
BTW Atkins is not unhealthy. You know why? Apart from the first 3-4 weeks, the only thing Atkins tells you to do is to eat what nature provides. Thats meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, water, and some dairy produce. No cereals, no grain, and no sugar. Its the diet we evolved on. Whats so unhealthy about it?
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Atkins isn't strictly a diet, its more a way of changing your lifestyle to something that your body can accomodate. The first few weeks, 'induction', are the ones that everybody focuses on. Basically during those few weeks you eat no more than 20g of carbs each day, and exercise for 20mins a day. That sends your body into ketosis, which is how the body utilises stored fat as fuel.
If you were to stay on this induction period indefinitely, then yes, you would suffer health problems in the long term, but the only people who suggest doing this are those who haven't actually read about the Atkins plan itself. Atkins does not suggest ever doing this.
Also, people seem to think you can only eat fatty foods. They're wrong. Its meat, fish, some vegetables (spinach, kale, cabbage, lettuce, sprouts), for the first few weeks, then you slowly ramp up the carb intake until you find the amount of carbs you can eat each day (for most people its about 100g per day) without gaining fat. This means that you can eat sugar, cereals, cakes, etc, but you must not exceed the 100g limit per day without reckoning with the extra fat you will store.
Its a statistical fact that low fat/low calorie diets have no long term benefits to the majority of overweight people. Low carb diets are statistically much more effective, and there are no medical studies which conclusively demonstrate any negative side-effects to the Atkins Plan.
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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->That sends your body into ketosis, which is how the body utilises stored fat as fuel.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You say that as if it's a good thing. I'd be kinda nervous being in such a state even if it's only temporary.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Ketones are a byproduct of fat metabolism (the breaking down of fat into energy). Normally, your body is efficient at removing these, but when certain enzymes are absent or damaged, the amount of ketones in the body can build up to dangerous levels.
Certain individuals are predisposed towards ketosis. For example, those with diabetes have low insulin levels and can not process glucose (sugar) for energy. Therefore, their bodies break down fat, leading to a rise in ketone levels.
Ketones can be excreted through the urine and those that are volatile (such as acetone[yumm]) can be expelled through the lungs. Diabetics can be mistaken for being drunk by the odor on their breath, and acetone being expelled through the lungs can give a false positive result on early model breathalyzers. However, don't expect to escape a ticket as driving while impaired (due to low blood sugar) is still a traffic offense whether you are drunk or not.
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I eat what I want, but instead I eat HALF or a LITTLE of what I think I need. I order child size portions at restauarants, get a small fry and coke, and just get as little portions as possible. The thing is, when you feel like your hungry, you think you have to eat alot to make yourself feel satisified, since it takes a while for your hunger to go down, you think you need to eat more when actually you don't.
Even when you aren't doing anything, adding some muscle will increase the rate at which you consume calories. So, if you eat the same amount every day, but use more energy without constant effort (like cardio), you'll have a much easier time cutting fat. When you reach a build you like, you cut down on the heavy exercise a bit (or start eating more). it's far easier to maintain a much-eating-and-a-little-exercise plan than to keep dieting for the rest of your life. Goes double for the diets that are either bad for you or involve depressing foodstuffs.
Of course, that might actually make you gain weight (muscle is dense compared to fat), which might not make your coach happy if you're shooting for a weight class, but you'll still be healthier for it.
Now I usually don't care about my weight, and to look at me you wouldn't think that I'd need to diet (I did it for a bet, which I won). Frankly the diet I was on was pretty easy, I never got the the stage where I was drastically cutting proportions of meals, just changing what I ate. A friend of mine is a fitness/exercise nut so I went to him for diet help. After he spent 10 minutes trying to explain how his diet philosophy works, I just told him to tell me what meals I could eat at what time.
Now I hate the Atkins diet, any diet that says a pound of bacon is okay to eat for a meal is a scam. I know you can lose weight on Atkins, but it can't be good for you. My friend suggested told me I needed to cut back carbs, but not to Atkins levels, and more importantly, less carbs in the evening. "This will be the last meal of the day for you, and unless you'll be exercising a couple hours after dinner, those calories wont get burned off".
I'll just go ahead and outline a couple meals I enjoyed sticking to while on this diet:
Breakfast:
Scrambled egg whites with diced ham mixed in (now theres an Atkins breakfast for you), its high in protein and low in fats (no fat/cholesterol in the eggwhites, here in Canada we're able to buy them from the grocery store in cartons).
A high fibre cereal, I found one called <a href='http://www.generalmills.com/Corporate/products/images/FiberOne.jpg' target='_blank'>Fiber One</a> that didn't taste like crud.
For fruits I stuck to bananas, they're low in sugars which my dietary helper was very against.
Lunch:
I was usually at work so most of my Lunchs were bought from fast food places. A favorite of mine is the Oven Roasted Chicken breast sub at Subway (I hope you're in North America) and skip the mayo (mayo is deadly).
Another fast food joint called Wendy's (is it Canada only?) does a new Ultimate Chicken Grill sandwich which I ordered without thier sauce which is partly mayo.
Can you see a trend here? Chicken is a good bet when you're on the road, stick to the grilled stuff, not fried obviously, and stay away from mayo and you should be fine.
Dinner:
During my diet I grabbed a large pack of skinless/boneless chicken breasts from the grocery store which are great, grill them up with some cut up green peppers, lettuce, or whatever other veggies you like and make a wrap with it. A full sized chicken breast with veggies will probably yield 2 wraps worth which isn't a problem. The trick here is to stay away from carb side dishes (rice, potato, pastas).
Also, theres nothing wrong with some steak (I ate a 27 ounce steak once during my diet), grill it alone (no barbeque sauces, too much sugar) but I suggest finding some good steak spice if you can, Montreal Steak spice is the best spice on earth, use it liberally and press it into the meat (I live in Calgary, the Texas of Canada, fantastic steaks).
On top of all this I drank a bunch of beer during this diet and I didn't really exercise at all (I was very busy with work at the time). I started the diet off by switching to vodka soda's (Vodka & Soda water, a very light drink, calorie wise, compared to beer), but halfway through the month, I think I was just back to beer. Of course this is only useful if you're of the age of majority. It also illustrates that I lost 15 lbs despite my drinking habits.
So grilled meats are good, no big deal if they're on a bun (not so much hamburgers though, pretty fatty). Watch your side dishes, don't get french fries. I switched to soups during the diet cause I'm not a big salad fan (too bad, salad is great if you're careful with the dressing).
I guess thats it, easiest diet ever for me. Good luck.