Welcome to our tribe.
Like most of us, I've been on diets: There's the Slim Fast -- who can feel nourished drinking those drinks twice a day?? Doesn't even begin to satisfy my soul for food. There's the Carbohydrate Addict's Diet -- mostly proteins for two meals and then eat anything you want for an hour for your third meal of the day. I'm definitely a carbo-addict here, but my one meal of the day that I could eat for an hour only served to keep me addicted to the carbs (and I lost weight on it! but gained it all back and more when I could no longer stomach the egg omlet for breakfast every morning -- too heavy on my stomach.) There's the juice fasting diet: I felt wonderful, but as soon as I started eating food again, I was back into those refined carbs.
How about you? What diets have you tried and it just didn't work in the long haul?
Like most of us, I've been on diets: There's the Slim Fast -- who can feel nourished drinking those drinks twice a day?? Doesn't even begin to satisfy my soul for food. There's the Carbohydrate Addict's Diet -- mostly proteins for two meals and then eat anything you want for an hour for your third meal of the day. I'm definitely a carbo-addict here, but my one meal of the day that I could eat for an hour only served to keep me addicted to the carbs (and I lost weight on it! but gained it all back and more when I could no longer stomach the egg omlet for breakfast every morning -- too heavy on my stomach.) There's the juice fasting diet: I felt wonderful, but as soon as I started eating food again, I was back into those refined carbs.
How about you? What diets have you tried and it just didn't work in the long haul?
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I tried the eat less than you use diet, which cannot fail in this universe.
Thermodynamics, it just is.
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Im currently on my first week of my modified body for life diet, im a little guy trying to bulk up (which is extremely hard for me), so im hoping this eating six times a day thing will work out for me. I bought the eating for life book, and im quite happy with the meals ive made so far the salmon and spinach and mushrooms .... the chicken over fettuccini <SP> and spinach leaves.. mmm.... However the 200 dollars I dropped on one weeks worth of food, is not going to work out for me, I need help. Id like to eat right, but im getting frusturated because it seems I cannot afford it. !!
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I'm not sure where you're shopping, but my girlfriend and me are both eating for bulk at around a $100 per week and most of our meat and produce are "organic", which can add cost.
If you're eating fresh salmon 6 times a day, I can see how that might add up.
Chicken breasts and ground prions--er-- beef. are the most expensive things in our diet. We also suppliment with whey protien concentrate <protienfactory.com>.
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I live with a body builder who has recently started preparing for competition. I design his menus for him as well as cook for him.
I designed an excel spreadsheet that helps track what he is eating, what he is burning and the ratios he should be taking in of protein, carbs and fat.
I would be glad to pass the spreadsheet along to anyone interested. I also have one for weight loss. I use it for all the menus I make for people and I recommend that they use it as well. It is very well done, with links and all calculations embedded into it. -
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Sue, I'm very interested in the spreadsheet (bulking). Im a little guy trying to gain. Any spreadsheets would be much appreciated along with everything else you've contributed. Thanks alot..
Mike
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Atkins! Okay, it WORKED, yes, I lost 30 pounds, but guess what happened when I went off it? 40 pound gain. Sucks royally to be heavier now then when I started. Also, my poor brain made some really bad decisions without any carbs to feed it. Yes, I was a bit hardcore.
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Unsu...
OMG, I lost count...
Jenny Craig (three times)
Diet Center
WeightWatchers
UCSF fasting program
Slim Fast (twice)
some program where i had to eat chicken or fish every day
grapefruit diet
Diets don't work...you have to make a lifestyle change that you can live with for the rest of your life. Nowadays I have managed to change what I eat, but not how much I eat...and I need to work on the exersize aspect. But no more diets for me...ever, period. -
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I did WeightWatchers, I lost about 25 pounds. Diets can jump start everything. But the real work is maintanence. I am trying to avoid to many sweets (does chocolate count?). I have just got a bicylce to go to and from work, which at a conservate estimate, I hope to burn 300 plus calories a day.
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Yes, chocolate counts, and I had the ginormous behind to prove it....BUT...DARK chocolate actually is beneficial, and I've found that if you get high quality dark chocolate (not the Hershey's stuff)..you can nibble a small square and be in chocolate heaven for significantly less fat, sugar and calories. My choice: either Dagoba Xocoatl (mmm, it has chili powder!) or Dagoba Eclipse (87% cacao, baby!). Caveat: overeating this stuff can give you serious jitters, it's THAT strong.
Diets only work as long as you are on them. If you make lots of small changes over time, then 'maintenance' becomes part of your lifestyle and doesn't feel as much like work. It has taken me about ...3-1/2 years to lose 60 lbs., and I'm still working to get the next 40 off, but I can guarantee that it's NEVAH EVAH gonna come back!
Riding your bicycle to and from work is a TERRIFIC way to get more exercise in.
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Unsu...
Diets never work. Only lifestyle changes work. And that lifestyle change requires ongoing exercise and limitation of consumption. If only the general public would wake up to this. But I realize that in America (my country), people seem to have been raised on believing there's a quick fix to everything, and even as a computer programmer, I know this isn't true.
Make regular exercise a common chore that *has* to get done. Stop eating at buffets and fast food joints. Stop eating as much sugar and overly refined grain products. Pay attention to your portion sizes at all times. Go on temporary calorie reduction after holiday periods. Etc, etc.
If you want to be truly healthy, you have to change your life, not flip a switch. (sounds soapboxy, eh?) :) -
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You are correct there is no quick fix. Life style change is the correct answer. The only problem is the people around don't want to change and evential you can fall back into the old ways. I myself have made many changes over the last ten years and have lost 180lbs. Though in the last 2 or 3 years it is starting to creep up again. partly age partly falling back into the old ways. Though many changes have stuck. Good luck to you all...
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>>>There's the Carbohydrate Addict's Diet -- mostly proteins for two meals and then eat anything you want for an hour for your third meal of the day. I'm definitely a carbo-addict here<<<
EVERYBODY IS A CARBOHYDRATE ADDICT!!!!
IT IS THE PREFFERED FUEL BY THE HUMAN BODY-THE BODY USES CARBOHYDRATE WITH WATER AND OXYGEN TO PRODUCE THE PROPER ENERGY FOR THE BODY.
we are "carbohydrate metabolizing" organisms...
so don't feel bad...you are normal.
