New to everthing & Trying to loose weight

[Pink Space Biscuit]

I think you are starving yourself and eventually it's going to bite you in the ass.

For 5 hours between noon and 5pm you eat nothing! Sugar free jello is like saying, oh I had a diet coke for lunch. Just yogurt isn't too nutritionally sound either.

Cooking in flax breaks down it's good qualities, use pam for your eggs and toss the flax uncooked on your salad instead.

The only carbs I see are a whole wheat pita, and you replace that with salad sometimes?

Lettuce mix has like zero nutritional content.

 

[keiko]

Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about finding ultra-low fat stuff--a little fat makes you feel satisfied. Natural peanut butter is a good fat and even as little as one tablespoon goes a long way. Fish oils are a good fat, too. I eat canned tuna, packed in olive oil--the water packed stuff is just too gross for me. I probably eat more fat cals. than many other people here, but it's all good fat and it works for me.

I use Flax Seed Meal, and stir it into full-fat, active cultures plain yogurt or cottage cheese or sprinkle it on salads. Fiber and good fat all at once. That's my ALA source.

If you're counting carbs all day, you'll undo it with 4 cups of popcorn at night. When I'm cutting I don't eat carbs after 6. I use Finn Krisp or RyeVita if I'm longing for a crunchy snack.

I'll agree that you're not eating very much. Low carbing will give you an good weight loss at the beginning, but I found it to be a very difficult way to eat for the rest of my life. YMMV.

 

[Pink Space Biscuit]

That's low-carbing, low-fatting and low-proteining though! Please just give a good plan a shot, the results in the long run will be so much better. You need to feed your muscle growth.

 

[we5happy]

Oh my...I thought I was ready for that...

Oooops! My boyfriend told me to post my diet...He said you would all laugh at me and say that I was starving myself... though I am finding that I have trouble getting it all in during my workday.

He said I need more everything too...I heard somewhere on here that a low carb diet consists of less than 30 carbs...how the hell can anyone do that? My protein shake has 28 g carbs all together with the skim milk etc. yogurt has 9 gr. carbs...

I will start to eat more when I get close to where I want to be and I know a little more about how the body breaks it down etc. (Plus I still have the guilt thing goin' on) If I knew where it went I would feel better about eating it. Do you know any sites or web pages that explains about food consumption and breakdown of carbs/protein/fat, etc?

We

 

[Robert Jan]

yes low carb dieting is very hard. some go below 10 or below 5 even. Its almost impossible but for some people it works very well. most people feel like crap while on these diets tho

 

[keiko]

Low carb under 30!? I've done low carb under 10. And the rebound was dreadful.

You need to eat more now or else your body will get used to the tiny amount of fuel and will balk at losing more weight. The dreaded "starvation" syndrome--your body thinks you're starving and so hangs on to every spare ounce it's got. Better to lose a tich more slowly and keep it off for good.

Do a search here for different eating plans. I like Isocaloric--my total daily cals. are equally split among fats, carbs and protein.
I maintain on 14-15 cals per pound and cut on 10 to 12 cals per pound. I'm much older than other posters and I have a very underactive thyroid. I'm 5' 9". 150 and 17% BF.

Some people do better with a Zone type diet--40% carbs, 30% protein, 30% fat. Some people want even lower fat percentages and more protein, esp if they're growing more muscle mass.

If you want to get stronger so that you can burn more body fat, you need to eat to get muscles. Every calorie has to count-- you might not need to eat great quanities of food (or then again, you might) but you can up the calorie count pretty easily.

Here's a good site that may give you some more info: http://home.earthlink.net/~vinnyi/dieting/diets.htm

 

[we5happy]

High fat diet?

Isocaloric...a high fat diet? That sounds baaaad... and good!

Ill be checking out more thoughougly those diet listed in the link you sent...Thanks a plenty!

Just wondering still if anyone can tell me what ALA is...Spatts it's been awhile since Ive heard anything from you? Any thoughts on ALA? What is it...what is it used for...What does it do?

Need...more...info...!

We

 

[wannabeBB]

I would like to know what ALA is too! I think it's some sort of supplement people take before cardio to keep muscle?? anyone know?

 

[we5happy]

Re: High fat diet?

Isocaloric...a high fat diet? That sounds baaaad... and good!
We

OOOPS! I meant Anabolic. Wow all these new words are getting to me

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[we5happy]

Hey there Wannabe!

I would like to know what ALA is too! I think it's some sort of supplement people take before cardio to keep muscle?? anyone know?

I heard that it does something to mask the effects of carbs or something like that. That some people use it when they are in ketosis. I dont know though that is why Im asking. I figured someone would get back to me on it...

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