Eat More Food Lose More Weight
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 9:00AM Does this seem improbable to you?
Does this appear to be wrong to you?
Does it appear that you are working out at least 3 days a week intensly but aren't losing any more weight?
Did I hit a nerve? I bet. It was my dilemma for years.
As you may or may not know, I am on a quest to heal myself of obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
I was 415 pounds at one point in my life and was able to reduce the first 150 pounds quite easily but then my body stopped losing weight and began to slowly creep up.
Then I began the adjustment of exercise to step it up and found myself overtrained with muscles and a system that couldn't heal itself fast enough for the next workout.
This brought me down to 315 pounds, a weight that I couldn't move from for well over a year. Nothing would budge it.
Then I found out about http://www.everydayhealth.com/food-fitness journal. I knew I needed to track what I ate because I believed I had been eating too much. I was wrong.
Within the food and fitness journal of everydayhealth.com there is a place to estimate the calories you should eat for the weight of your body and the amount of exercise you are getting.
When I finished my calculations I found I needed to eat nearly 3000 calories of food per day to lose 1 pound per week. Mind you that's good food and not three whoppers!
Let me be clear, "One pound per week is permanent weight loss."
"Bitch I lost 20lbs in one month on the ... diet"
That may be true but most of that was water, some muscle, and perhaps just 4 lbs of fat!
Anyone who claims they are losing fat faster than that is burning up muscle weight or experiencing their initial water loss that comes with ever start of a diet.
Last night I was looking around the gym seeing people who look the same flabby selves even though they put in the time week after week. It was hard to believe these people were starving themselves. Their bodies have been getting less food than required per day.
The wool of stupidity has been pulled over our eyes for so many years. People fall for all kinds of diet fads and contraptions of every kind. They let thin trainers put them through horribly embarrassing acts to build muscle of all things. The more muscle you have the more you weigh the more food you need to keep it active. +
DUMB!
This is DUMB and they need to get their heads out of their ass. It sucks that trainers are thinking of their own wallets and not the cure. People who are more than 50 lbs overweight need someone who is thinking of them over the next year or two. If it took you 2 years to pack on the weight, it will take you 2.5 years to fully take it off, including the fat you put on around your organs or the fat you cannot see.
Before you can fix your body you need to listen to it.
You need to see if you have been eating 3000 calories of fast food and twinkies or lean meats, vegetables and good fats from avocados and nuts.
Look before you act. Measure twice before you cut.
A thousand calories a day of high fructose corn syrup will make you fatter than 3000 calories of good clean food.
It's not the calories its the substance. It isn't about dieting when you are morbidly obese, it's about where your food was raised and how you can clean up your act. Just switching your food to non-gmo and non-processed sources will reduce your weight a lot in the first year without changing anything else.
"I don't believe that for a second. If I want to lose weight. I need to eat less."
Really? How's that working for you?
How long have you been eating less but still not where you want to be?
It isn't like you have to tell anyone you are trying anything new.
Just remember if it hurts you are not doing it right. It isn't no pain no gains. You aren't a powerlifter or body builder. You are just a normal person who desires to look as good as possible.
You can do it. Find me through comments and at EverydayHealth.com
Have fun and Namaste!
PS. I am still very much a Taoist cultivator (passed 365 Taoist workouts in a row on Sept 8th and still going strong), performing the Peak 8 regularly, practicing Tai Chi and Pa Kua and living life to the fullest at a current 251 lbs. 51 more to goal! Less than one year!!!
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