Have you considered a banana for breakfast? It's much better than skipping the meal entirely.
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Cutting Out 7000 Calories a Week?
- Thread starter John Deacon
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Have you considered a banana for breakfast? It's much better than skipping the meal entirely.
John....you gotta lose the weight and change the diet. You're a perfect candidate for diabetes. You do not want to be diagnosed with diabetes. It's an ugly ending.
While true that all BMI is, is a correlation between weight and height, nothing else. The OP clearly is packing a few extra lbs.
You need to get to the gym, do some CV and some lifting. Take up a sport too? Not just cut your intake.
Started off carrying quite a few extra lbs last year. Kept up my lifting as I had before, upped the amount of CV I was doing, and dropped my daily intake to ~1,000 calories. Plenty of clean eating. Dropped from ~270lbs to ~230lbs in 2 months (im 6ft4), with no loss in strength (granted, no gains in the lifts over that period, but it wasnt expected!).
Put your mind to it, and keep at it. You'll drop those extra pounds, it won't happen overnight, but chart the losses week by week and you'll see them
As stereotypical as it sounds, you do really need to look at the long run
Monitoring weight on a graph is a good way to quantify it, take pictures every week or month. If there is any sport you are interested in, I would again strongly suggest getting involved in it. Very easy to build a routine around a sport !
Monitoring weight on a graph is a good way to quantify it, take pictures every week or month. If there is any sport you are interested in, I would again strongly suggest getting involved in it. Very easy to build a routine around a sport !
I am going to look at the long run. I am going to be a healthier person. I guess its better that I am starting now instead of when I am older.
I've heard that diet sodas with aspartame "can make you crave carbs" - not sure if that's true or not, but what about sodas with splenda?
How does soda with splenda vs water relate to weight loss?
Aspartame and Splenda are both safe and perfectly fine in 'normal' doses - that is to say, a few cans of soda a day. It would be very difficult to drink enough soda or eat enough Splenda containing food products to get bladder cancer, osteoporosis or anything like that.
I wouldn't say that diet soda is better than water, but it's fine in moderation. Have a few cans a day - even a six pack. As long as you're not drinking, I don't know, gallons and gallons of diet soda every day, you'll be ok.
I wouldn't say that diet soda is better than water, but it's fine in moderation. Have a few cans a day - even a six pack. As long as you're not drinking, I don't know, gallons and gallons of diet soda every day, you'll be ok.
I'm a big fan of Livestrong.com. It's free and cheap. I use it to maintain weight since I tend to work out a lot.
To the OP, if you made an appointment with a nutritionist, I'd think she'd need to clear out the rest of her day to start explaining the things you're doing wrong and the possible consequences. I mean, eating 4 bowls of cereal, yet this isn't even for breakfast?!?!
The bad news is that there are ZERO quick solutions. First, start tracking your weight and daily intake. Input the meals and/or look at the labels. (If you eat 3 healthy choice meals to get full, are you really saving anything?)
Start the diet gradually or you won't be able to stick with it. Stick with a workout routine that keeps you in the fat burning zone. The calorie burn is much slower per hour, but you burn more fat by percentage and don't need to worry too much about chugging carbs/electrolytes. The rapid glycogen depletion of high intensity workouts also tends to stimulate hunger more than low intensity+duration. I'd probably even suggest working out to get the recommended calories to maintain zero net gain/loss for about a week, then start with a gradual weight loss goal.
If this is just another New Year's Resolution, the gyms will be packed.....until about March.
If you had read my other posts, I am not looking for a quick solution. I already know what I am doing wrong also, I just need to change it. This is not just a New Year's Resolution, I have been trying to start this since December.
In other news, no diet soda today. I had a six inch turkey and lettuce on wheat bread, with a small cup of chicken noodle soup from Quiznos, and had an unsweet tea with it. For dinner I had a little bit of roast that was about 10 grams of fat and 200 or so calories. It came with its own gravy. I had boxed cheese mash potatoes. The ones that are just supposed to taste like cheese, no actually globs of cheese or anything. That was about 1 gram of fat and about 200 calories. I also had a salad with just mixed greens and lettuce, with just a little bit of fat free dressing. I had water with it. I ate an apple a little while later, then has a small snack I am having now, I am eating low fat yogurt, and a water. I also had a grape, just to see if the batch we got were good, and a 6 ounce or so cup of skim milk.
In other news, no diet soda today. I had a six inch turkey and lettuce on wheat bread, with a small cup of chicken noodle soup from Quiznos, and had an unsweet tea with it. For dinner I had a little bit of roast that was about 10 grams of fat and 200 or so calories. It came with its own gravy. I had boxed cheese mash potatoes. The ones that are just supposed to taste like cheese, no actually globs of cheese or anything. That was about 1 gram of fat and about 200 calories. I also had a salad with just mixed greens and lettuce, with just a little bit of fat free dressing. I had water with it. I ate an apple a little while later, then has a small snack I am having now, I am eating low fat yogurt, and a water. I also had a grape, just to see if the batch we got were good, and a 6 ounce or so cup of skim milk.
Reminds me of an old post-Cold War joke:
At the demise of the Soviet Union, various military heads from the former Soviet republics meet with their American counterpoints to compare their respective training protocols.
A communist general proudly proclaims "Red Army infantry man eats 10,000 calories per day!"
The American general replies "In the US Army we make sure our soldiers eat 20,000 calories per day."
"That's impossible!" the Soviet exclaims, "no man can eat two sacks of potatoes!"
At the demise of the Soviet Union, various military heads from the former Soviet republics meet with their American counterpoints to compare their respective training protocols.
A communist general proudly proclaims "Red Army infantry man eats 10,000 calories per day!"
The American general replies "In the US Army we make sure our soldiers eat 20,000 calories per day."
"That's impossible!" the Soviet exclaims, "no man can eat two sacks of potatoes!"
we drink to stay hydrated and water does this perfectly. I don't know much about splenda, but i know that other artificial sweeteners like aspartame have multiple health issues to deal with. Why bother? water...maybe squeeze some lime into it.
I don't have any data, but i would be shocked if someone lost the same or more weight with a splenda compared to a water diet.
Food and water must first be considered as an energy and health source. I promise you that you can make anything taste good with some patience, herbs/spices, and proper prep. I stopped drinking sodas several years ago; when i tried one again later, it was awful. It might be rough at first, but healthy food becomes so much more satisfying after you get used to it. and no, bacon is not healthy.
we drink to stay hydrated and water does this perfectly. I don't know much about splenda, but i know that other artificial sweeteners like aspartame have multiple health issues to deal with. Why bother? water...maybe squeeze some lime into it.
I don't have any data, but i would be shocked if someone lost the same or more weight with a splenda compared to a water diet.
Food and water must first be considered as an energy and health source. I promise you that you can make anything taste good with some patience, herbs/spices, and proper prep. I stopped drinking sodas several years ago; when i tried one again later, it was awful. It might be rough at first, but healthy food becomes so much more satisfying after you get used to it. and no, bacon is not healthy.
But why does pork fat have to be so tasty?
Gods a cruel bastard.
God didn't make it tasty, man did. I bet if I cured and seasonned your back fat just rite, you'[d be tasty.
God didn't make it tasty, man did. I bet if I cured and seasonned your back fat just rite, you'[d be tasty.
Would certainly have enough of it for the rest of talkbass to try too.
Thanks guys! I really appreciate all of your encouragement. Love the joke btw, haha.
I just need to figure out a good thing to eat for lunch.
And true. Everything that tastes amazing is horrible for you, haha.
I just need to figure out a good thing to eat for lunch.
And true. Everything that tastes amazing is horrible for you, haha.
