Calling all calorie counters.
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Follow three very simple rules and the body will take care of it itself. 0. When you're hungry, eat! 1. When you're not hungry, don't eat! 2. Don't eat sugar! Actually I'll add one more rule. The body tells you what it needs (except for sugar, and only if you listen), so when you feel like oranges, eat oranges, feel like beef, eat beef. It's all about the sugar levels in your blood. If you go hungry for to long, the level of bloodsugar becomes too low and your body raises the production of enzymes to better use the food when you finally eat. Do notice that your body overcompensates to allow you to store away energy for later use. If your sugar level is to high, the fatcells of your body takes care of that. Sugar is absorbed by your body without the need of enzymes, and thereby bypasses the regulationsystem of the body. Eating a proper cooked lunch and having a fruit every coffeebreak made me lose 15 kg. The funny thing is that I'm eating a more nowadays, not less.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
The body tells you what it needs (except for sugar, and only if you listen), so when you feel like oranges, eat oranges, feel like beef, eat beef.
That's dangerous advice, because: 1. Many poisons, allergens, and other harmful substances induce addictive behaviour, which would be translated as "the body telling you what it needs". 2. Many "Ooh, I fancy {enter ingestible name here}" feelings are provoked by seeing/hearing/smelling something that invokes a memory, so have nothing whatsoever to do with what your body needs. 3. It doesn't actually work. The body doesn't really know precisely what substances it needs -- let alone what complex foodstuffs might contain them. 4. The body's response mechanism to hunger (and most other needs) is hormonal, and hormones are terrible communicators who don't think before they scream at you.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I didn't gain anything when I stopped smoking. None of the several times I stopped.
I lost weight after giving up smoking as I suddenly had enough breath to be able to enjoy playing sport again :-)
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Whether for weight loss (or gain), or for specific goals (e.g. weight for boxing), I am interested in anything you would be willing to share with me on how you go/went about it. What logging systems, estimations, whatever, I'm interested if you are willing to share. BTW folks, I'm not interested in counting my calories so much as counting those of people that want them counted. :)
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Whether for weight loss (or gain), or for specific goals (e.g. weight for boxing), I am interested in anything you would be willing to share with me on how you go/went about it. What logging systems, estimations, whatever, I'm interested if you are willing to share. BTW folks, I'm not interested in counting my calories so much as counting those of people that want them counted. :)
As for tracking, fitday.com, dailyplate.com, the many iphone apps etc are great at keeping track of your calories and progress. Until you start tracking what you are eating, you will not have any idea how many calories you are really consuming. As for methods for losing weight, at the core, it's extremely simple. To lose weight, eat fewer calories than your body uses. To gain weight, eat more than your body uses. A good way to go about this is to track your weight and what you eat for a couple weeks using one of the methods above. If you are gaining weight, reduce your calories by 100-200 calories and re-evaluate in a week. Unless you are significantly overweight, shoot for 1-2lbs of weight loss per week. One pound of fat contains roughly 3500 calories, so 1lb/week of weight loss means a 500 calorie deficit per day. As your body adjusts, your metabolism will slow and after a couple months you will have to lower your calories more to maintain your caloric deficit. Finally, you should eat more protein if you want to preserve your muscle mass while losing fat. If you are lifting weights a few times a week and maintaining a 500/cal/day caloric deficit, shoot for at least 1g of protein per pound of lean body mass - or less if you run or even less if you are inactive.
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Whether for weight loss (or gain), or for specific goals (e.g. weight for boxing), I am interested in anything you would be willing to share with me on how you go/went about it. What logging systems, estimations, whatever, I'm interested if you are willing to share. BTW folks, I'm not interested in counting my calories so much as counting those of people that want them counted. :)
Lost 60 pounds and have kept it off doing simple calorie counting, using an equally simple Excel spreadsheet. Changed my exercise and diet--I now jog 5 miles a day and eat pretty much no red meat, although I really enjoy a Big Mac once a month. Magic formula for me is to keep net calories down to about 1000/day, which equates to 1700 gross calories, with about 700 burned jogging.
David Veeneman www.veeneman.com
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Whether for weight loss (or gain), or for specific goals (e.g. weight for boxing), I am interested in anything you would be willing to share with me on how you go/went about it. What logging systems, estimations, whatever, I'm interested if you are willing to share. BTW folks, I'm not interested in counting my calories so much as counting those of people that want them counted. :)
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Whether for weight loss (or gain), or for specific goals (e.g. weight for boxing), I am interested in anything you would be willing to share with me on how you go/went about it. What logging systems, estimations, whatever, I'm interested if you are willing to share. BTW folks, I'm not interested in counting my calories so much as counting those of people that want them counted. :)
There are many factors that go into weight gain and weight loss. Diet, lifestyle, consistency, genetics, general health and wellbeing... the list goes on. I personally think that no matter what you are trying to acheive, food, consistency and lifestyle are the deciding factors in whether or not you will acheive your goals. Food obviously plays a big factor. Avoid processed foods i.e. pretty much everything available at the supermarket, except for meats, fruit / veg / legumes, and low fat dairy. I'm not sure what your local is like, but ours has all of these fresh items around the edges - I rarely go into the other lanes. Eat regularly too - every 3 hours while awake is ideal (7am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm), and skip the soft drink (coke / sprite etc.) - it is BAD. Exercise regularly. Not sure where this originated, but "sometimes is as good as never" is very true. If you only workout occasionally, you won't get the results you are after. This applies to food too - eating a healthy meal once every now and then is not good enough. These 2 factors really must be incorporated into your lifestyle. Don't diet. Don't go on a workout craze or buy some silly machine. Change your lifestyle. Make it a daily routine to get up earlier and exercise, eat well throughout the day, and get plenty of sleep. :)
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Whether for weight loss (or gain), or for specific goals (e.g. weight for boxing), I am interested in anything you would be willing to share with me on how you go/went about it. What logging systems, estimations, whatever, I'm interested if you are willing to share. BTW folks, I'm not interested in counting my calories so much as counting those of people that want them counted. :)
iPhone app "LoseIt" FREE Two $30 digital scales (one for the kitchen and one at the dining table) A good set of stainless steal measuring cups A good set of measuring glasses (bed bath and beyond as 1-3/4 glass cumbler cups with measures lines printed right on them. Easy to measure all juices or milk and drink directly. Plan all meals a day ahead of time. Never allowed to eat direclty from box or bag... I count every calory and have lost and continue to lose weight. Nothing works better than this... I thank Steve Jobs everyday for inventing the iPhone.