New Year: weight loss tips

[jbirds1210]

Eat with your blood sugar in mind. A few minutes of reading about the glycemic index and keeping it in mind at the table is a sure way to improve your overall health. While I do not agree with most of what the fad diets have to say, The South Beach Diet is a good read and certainly has some value. Throw in some cardio activity and it is amazing what will happen.

Jason
An ex fat guy

[GrayHawk]

Before trying all the fad diets, spending countless bucks on sugar-free, fat-free groceries, try this-it worked for me. At each meal serve up your normal portion or what you would normally heap on your plate. Then, put half of it back. Between meals eat a piece of fruit, And start walking daily. You'd be surprised at the weight you will lose just doing this.

[atxgun]

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[mr.72]

Read this:

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[DoubleJ]

There's some good info in there. thanka

[Abraham]

If you want to lose weight: For breakfast eat a bowl of dry cereal with milk. Don't eat again til dinner. Eat whatever you want, just not gargantuan portions. Simple.

Oh, and do some exercise like walking or biking. Start with low mileage and add more as time passes.

Initially, hunger will kick in after noon and at first it'll be a little tough to tolerate. After a few weeks, it'll go away. You can do it.

You'll lose weight.

You don't need a special diet or gimmicks.

[Captain Matt]

Eat less. Move more.

[Morgan]

If you want to lose weight: For breakfast eat a bowl of dry cereal with milk. Don't eat again til dinner. Eat whatever you want, just not gargantuan portions. Simple.

Oh, and do some exercise like walking or biking. Start with low mileage and add more as time passes.

Initially, hunger will kick in after noon and at first it'll be a little tough to tolerate. After a few weeks, it'll go away. You can do it.

You'll lose weight.

You don't need a special diet or gimmicks.

You may well indeed lose weight doing this, but it has a high percentage chance of being by conversion.. Muscle loss, fat gain. Not a good plan. You never want to put your body into starvation mode, and that's what you're doing. You're better off eating a decent breakfast, a nice lunch, and barely anything for dinner.

What worked for me when I lost 50 pounds back in 07, was to pay precious attention to the glycemic index value of foods, and I stayed VERY VERY far away from foods that had a high GI value. I ate very small dinners, and almost never ate anything after 7 p.m.

BTW, I do full contact martial arts and get a lot of exercise, which I did before changing my diet.. and I still do these activities, so muscle loss wasn't a good option, nor was cratering my blood sugar and passing out.

[mr.72]

What worked for me when I lost 50 pounds back in 07, was to pay precious attention to the glycemic index value of foods, and I stayed VERY VERY far away from foods that had a high GI value. I ate very small dinners, and almost never ate anything after 7 p.m.

The glycemic index thing is just another way of cutting calories. Once you start counting calories, you will quickly notice which things are high in calories and which things are low in calories, and you will choose accordingly. I'm sure your plan can work but it's not predictable and reliable compared to using actual calorie counts and knowing your metabolic rate. You can't just plan exactly how to lose 2 lb per week. You will lose weight, maybe, but it will vary with different people.

The thing about small dinners is a very good idea. You eat a big dinner, then your body spends the whole night turning all of that into fat while you sleep. That's not a good plan. Small dinner is an excellent idea. You need the energy while you are awake.

[TDDude]

Six years ago I got finally got disgusted with my weight.

I purchased a used Adkins book and did what it said to do.

I lost around 100 lbs in 6 months and all I did was what it said and DIDN'T CHEAT AT ALL!!

I'd been counting calories for years with squat for results.

For me, it was the carbs and not the calories.

Besides, with Adkins, one can eat as much as they want from the foods on the list and I love meats, fish, and all that other stuff. I also loves cakes, pies, gravy and breads but I was finally more disgusted with my appearance than I loved cakes and such.

The only thing I did before I started that wasn't really in the book is to get on a good multivitamin before I started.

I went from 300 to 185. I'm back up to 200 now and have been there for a couple years now. I still like cakes, pies and such but I've learned to keep the portions low.

That's what worked for me and it was fast. Folks from my church thought I had cancer or something because once the body enters that 2nd stage (and I forgot what it's called) the pounds melt away at multiple pounds per week.

It can be an expensive diet because I went throught two sets of clothes before I had the tags off of the first set.

[Morgan]

I never suggested that my method was great for a planned 2 pounds per week. My plan is more about changing the way a person eats for life. A person can move to and stick to and live on a low GI diet forever. I wasn't concerned about "losing" weight. I was concerned with cutting body fat, maintaining or adding muscle. In fact, getting overly concerned with that scale number is a trap that hurts a lot of people. That scale number isn't the end-all of success. you can lose weight on a terrible diet, and do it in a really unhealthy way and the loss isn't sustainable.

[mr.72]

Six years ago I got finally got disgusted with my weight.

I purchased a used Adkins book and did what it said to do.

I lost around 100 lbs in 6 months and all I did was what it said and DIDN'T CHEAT AT ALL!!

I'd been counting calories for years with squat for results.

Functionally, the Atkins diet is just a calorie-reduction plan. However, it is not a healthy way to eat for the rest of your life. Neither is eating too much carbs a healthy way to eat.

Just counting calories won't do it. You have to know what your metabolic rate is in order for the calorie count to be meaningful.

Atkins diet is one of those that, if you stick to it, it is nearly impossible to eat too many calories.

Counting your story, I have heard of exactly one person who did not gain back all of the weight they lost on the Atkins diet.

[Abraham]

Morgan,

My approach works quite well without any loss of muscle tissue.

There's no starvation. Not for me anyway. The breakfast I eat and recommend is plenty hearty and keeps me chugging along until around 2:00 P.M. and then the hunger kicks in, but it's not a debilitating hunger. Eventually, even this hunger goes away, most especially if one stays occupied.

I eat a hearty dinner, but no, I don't eat like it's my last meal. This meal is more than adequate, enough so that when breakfast time comes along I'm still not terribly hungry.

I did forget one thing in the regimen. Hhmmm, make it two. I slurp down about a pint of mega strong coffee before I eat breakfast. And, I smoke one premium, hand rolled, cigar, (sometimes two) a day. They're good for ya.

[TexasComputerDude]

Six years ago I got finally got disgusted with my weight.

I purchased a used Adkins book and did what it said to do.

I lost around 100 lbs in 6 months and all I did was what it said and DIDN'T CHEAT AT ALL!!

I'd been counting calories for years with squat for results.

Functionally, the Atkins diet is just a calorie-reduction plan. However, it is not a healthy way to eat for the rest of your life. Neither is eating too much carbs a healthy way to eat.

Just counting calories won't do it. You have to know what your metabolic rate is in order for the calorie count to be meaningful.

Atkins diet is one of those that, if you stick to it, it is nearly impossible to eat too many calories.

Counting your story, I have heard of exactly one person who did not gain back all of the weight they lost on the Atkins diet.

I just want to add be very careful with the atkins diet. I did it for about a year and lost 50lbs but I went back to my old ways (wish I hadn't) and gained it all back. Now my body doesn't like carbs at all. I gain a lot of weight from very few carbs now so I have to really watch them.

[mr.72]

It is a popular myth that carbs make you fat.

The fact is that the source of calories doesn't matter. You will store fat if you intake more calories than you expend. The type of food you eat does influence your metabolic rate and your energy level substantially, and eating carbohydrates is necessary for you to keep your metabolic rate at a normal level, and necessary for you to feel like you have much energy.

However, there are some mechanics to this. If you eat all fats and proteins (cut out carbohydrates), then you must break down either fat or protein in order to supply your body with the energy fuel it requires: glucose. The process your body uses to convert different sources of energy into glucose varies according to exactly what you eat.

The energy you need to run your body right now is coming from your blood sugar, which results from glucose that was a result of whatever conversion process was necessary to break down what you ate into glucose. If you don't eat anything, and you have sufficient oxygen available, you will eventually break down stored fat into glucose. If you do don't eat anything and your exertion level is too high to burn fat (not enough oxygen available), then you will break down proteins (mostly your own muscle tissue) into glucose. If you do eat, and you eat carbohydrates, then they will be converted into glucose. If you have an excess of blood sugar then your pancreas releases insulin and lowers your blood sugar by converting the excess to fat.

So, if you are storing fat as a result of eating carbohydrates, then that means that you ate too much carbohydrates for your current energy needs. In other words, you are not exercising enough or moving enough (your metabolic rate is too low) to utilize the amount of carbohydrates that you have added to your blood, so you will store it as fat.

The key here is that complex carbohydrates take longer to break down than do simple sugars. So if you eat four teaspoons of sucrose (sugar), you will add 100 calories worth of glucose to your blood sugar very, very quickly. If you do not use that 100 calories fast enough through energy output, then it will get converted to fat. However, if you eat 100 calories worth of rolled oats, then that 100 calories does not show up in your blood glucose immediately. It takes some time to break all of it down and it sort of "time releases" into your blood, so you can spread the use of that 100 calories over a longer time period than if you ate a simple sugar instead.

If you eat 100 calories of protein then you will not get nearly the energy or metabolic boost that you do eating sucrose OR rolled oats. Your body will prefer to efficiently rebuild with that protein, rather than breaking it down for energy. And if you eat 100 calories of fat, then your body will prefer to efficiently store that fat rather than breaking it down for energy.

If you have a varied diet and you are well-hydrated and have the right amount of vitamins and minerals on a regular basis (even from a supplement), then your body will do a pretty excellent job of making you crave the right ratio of carbohydrates, fats and proteins to keep you healthy. But if you only eat protein in foods with an excessive amount of fat (like, say, cheeseburgers), then your body's craving for protein will result in an unintended overage of fat. If you eat lean meats to supply your protein, then you will not necessarily crave high-fat protein sources.

The whole interaction of your body, your emotions, and your mind, plus the way you have trained your body, has the greatest effect on your weight and eating habits. The purpose of my program is to allow you to use some other method to control your eating besides your emotions and your cravings.

I have no more interest in defending my method on this forum. If you want information I will be glad to share it. If you guys want to use this thread to discuss the merits of some other method of weight loss, be my guest. I'll not interrupt. But I stand firm by my statement that the vast majority of weight loss advice you get, regardless of the source, is dead wrong. That includes the Atkins diet, and the "skip lunch" diet, and the oversimplified "eat less, move more". Most fad diets succeed in selling you something (books, supplements, meal replacement products) and little else. You can go to my web site and read that information there, and if you want to use my method and need advice or other info, then feel free to PM me.