Posts by binge_eater

Original Post by mtxenoel:

I have lost steadily over nearly 2 years 107 pounds. Out of those, 45 pounds were lost on a cyclical ketogenic diet, which is basically a low carbs high training intensity 6 days out of 7, with one day being a Carbs load up day to replenish the glycogen stores so you can do it all over again the next week. It worked very well and when I stopped doing that diet, I did not have the kind of problems usually associated with atkins-like diets, for example reduced brain functions, weakness or regaining the weight I've lost. Bodybuilders have been using this kind of diet for the last 30 years to get shredded without belief (or good taste).

 

Hey my friend. I think that there is a real bad propaganda in USA against low-carbohydrate and zero-carbohydrate diets. In fact, i have read that many of the celebrities we see in the movies are thin not because of plastic surgeries. Many celebrities get into zero-carbohydrate diets for months so that they can look real good, real muscular in the screen.  That is their secret to look great !! When you go into zero or real low carb diets, your body has a scientific-system of turning protein into carbohydrates and energies. So it is a big lie that zero and real-low carb diets make people feel weak and bad.  You can run, lift weights, jump, play basketball just fine on zero carb diets. in fact I think that you can even get stronger on zero-carb diets because you can do a zero-carb diet high on lean proteins, and moderate in fats.  And your body will find a way to get the blood-sugar it needs from carbohydrates and frrom fats.

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Original Post by jetlee1222:

I was 127 yesterday, got on the scale this AM and BAM-129.8. I certainly didn't stick to my diet yesterday, but I honestly didn't eat too badly (except I split a piece of Coldstone Creamery ice cream cake with my best friend...eek!) and I pretty much had a small portion of a few things and only had one plate. Also, I was running around cleaning the house and helping my boyfriend cook ALL day. I am crossing my fingers that this is just my body adjusting itself after an unusually high caloric day. But no leftovers for me!! I am sticking to the lean turkey and beef tenderloin, but thats about it. Anyone else experience a similar increase post-Thanksgiving?

Hope you all had a great turkey day!

Hey u know what i did last night after my parents went to bed? I threw away half a butter cake, a whole pecan pie, a whole pumpkin pie, 2 big cans of danish butter cookies (The european butter cookies that are packaged in cans), and some chocolates.  Today in the morning my parents asked me where is the cake, the pecan pie, the danish cookies and the pumpkin pie.  I told my parents that i ate all those desserts last night, because they would get real mad at me if i told them that i threw all that food away !!

I just had to throw away all that fattening food.  And i think i will keep throwing away fattening foods here.  coz i am in this war and revolution against fattening foods.  i don't wanna be tempted by those foods again haha

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Original Post by staps065:

Like many it seems, had two Thanksgiving dinners; one with family and the second with friends since some family had to work Thursday.

CC estimated I had over 5K of calories Wednesday (211 Grams of Fat!) and around 4300 calories Thursday with 167 Grams of fat.

I did try to pre-burn my meals; Wednesday did just under 900 calaories on the elliptical and just over 950 yesterday between elliptical, abs workout and some mall walking early this AM.

Back on the wagon as best I can today! Still lots of goodies I have to resist. But, "No Gin son, not a drop". "Oh, Dad!". :-)

 

 Wow, 10,000 calories in 2 days is about 3 extra pounds gained.  I ate about 6000 calories last night in my thanksgiving dinner.  And i felt so bad today that i already walked 65 minutes today in the morning to start burning those 6000 extra calories i had last night in the thanksgiving gluttony.  Today in the afternoon, i will go for another 25 or 30 minutes of walking, and then do 20 minutes on my stationary bike.  I know tomorrow i will wake up in pain around my legs and back and real, real tired and hurt (But that's the price u gotta pay when u binge-eat and want to lose the weight u gained, in the big binge)

To tell you the truth, i despise so much the thanksgiving holidays all the way to the christmas holidays, because i have a slow metabolism, and around this time of the year there are just too many strong temptations.  and i am human not a superman, which means that its real uncomfortable for me to stay away from all the cakes, pies, chocolates and goodies of this time of the year. Another problem for me is the weather, the cold weather which is even more evil for people who depend on walking outdoors and exercising.

I think i won't celebrate christmas day with my family, i will stay alone and away from food

I just want this December month to pass real fast, i hate christmas so much because of the fattening holiday foods.

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yeah but look !! We got another evil day coming up which is christmas eve and christmas holiday dinners.  That means being really, really, really strong in order not to binge.  I think i will pray to God and concentrate a lot on having a strong will power in order not to binge on that day.  But i will increase the amount of exercise i do, and lower my calories for this month.  It is good that i have cooked diet foods in my refrigerator for 10 days. I even bought 3 bottles of egg-beaters today for my low-carb, low-fat, low calorie diet.

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Original Post by dereno:

Hey does anybody have some real good remedies for PMS bloating? I usually take midol menstrual complete, but my mom got me the wrong kind..just regular midol (it does help with cramps though). I already had 2 cups of green tea today and some coffee but that hasn't helped at all...just made it worse :(   now I'm holding in SO much water I just feel like a big puff ball! (I was 146 now I'm 150+)    not to mention the 2 days before my period (which I just got today) I PACKED on the sodium (and went over on my calories..but thats okay)... so shame on me :(  

 

so anybody got any good secrets to help me?

The best remedy for puffyness, bloating, facial-swelling, and a bloated look specially around your nose and face of water and liquid retention is to try a low-carb, diet,  a diet based on lean proteins, moderate in fats, and with about 20 to 30 grams of carbohydrates from green-vegetables such as brocoli and green cabbage.  And also fast-walking is great to lower bloating.  Because you see sitting in the computer the whole day, or watching TV leads many people to bloating.

But remember try to follow a diet without starchy carbohydrates such as potatoes, breads (all breads white and brown), all grains, all sugars.  Don't listen to people who say that you need grains and a lot of carbohydrates.  The high-carbohydrate diet has been debunked, it cannot work, it doesn't work.

Besides your body can get all the energie it needs from fats and proteins if it doesn't have enough carbohydrates.  So like i said, eat a breakfast of protein, like a couple of eggs, or 5 egg whites with 4ounces of turkey ham.  For lunch have some chicken, turkey or red-meat, with some green vegetables.  And for dinner have a whey protein shake, or a piece of chicken, tuna, turkey or fish with salad.

Take care

Original Post by healthisinplease:

Is it ok to skip a workout if you just eat a lot less than normal? PMS has caused me to not feel like leaving the house. If i go only 3 times a week, but eat considerably less on those days i skip, wont it just even itself out?

Hello, what kind of exercise do you do? Do you work out at a gym or outside like walking, jogging or riding a bicycle?  Because i own a home gym in my house, because to me it's a lot easier to work out at home than in a commercial gym.  Another thing is that if you walk, or jog around your house i agree with the way you feel. 

Some days we just hate to exercise outdoors where everybody can bother us, you know how much we hate that social interaction thing some days.

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Original Post by nardz4:

I have to admit that I am a compulsive eater or a food addict. I go through stages of bingeing until I am over full and I constantly think about food. Sometimes I can hold off the craving to eat and it disappears but it always comes back and bites me in the butt and I have a binge sometimes when I'm not even hungry, afterwards I feel guilty. Somehow I have managed to maintain my weight because I exercise a lot to make up for these times, usually happens once or twice a week. I have a "day off" each week hoping it would help, sometimes it does, other times it doesn't.

I really want to work through this and get rid of it for good. I can't really afford to see a psychiatrist which people say I should do (I do want to), but has anyone else had this problem? Have you worked through it? Any tips on things I could do? I have tried to distract myself with other things, I've tried exercising instead. I have affirmations stuck up around my place to try help but I keep doing it (mind you a little less than I used to, so I know I am going something right!)

Any ideas welcome :)

 

Hi, i think you need a high protein, low-carb diet, these are the best diets to keep you full all day.  They are based on proteins like whey protein powder, egg-whites, egg-beaters, tuna-fish, chicken, turkey, turkey-ham, etc. and very little carbs from green vegetables like green cabbage, brocoli, spinach.

Original Post by missrawr18:

my name is nadia and i'm fourteen years old, female,5 foot 4, medium (leaning toward large) frame, and 137 pounds. my goal weight is 130 pounds. I'm trying to figure out how my body works. people keep on telling me that the burn meter on calorie count doesn't work for people under 21, and i've gone on other websites and am still not sure how much i should eat everyday. I go to school everyday and go up and down stairs a couple times a day and often i end up walking outside after lunch for about 5-10 minutes. At home I am pretty sedentary except when I am making my dinner or going to the bathroom. My average daily calorie intake is 1400. Can someone help me figure how much I burn everyday. By the way does "activity" or being "active" count as the regular events in a day or extra stuff, and does walking count? Please help!! Also what do you think of my current eating habits based on the following;

This is what I ate today:

Breakfast- oatmeal and coffee= 161

Lunch- tomato sandwhich and apple= 169 

Dinner- stuffed peppers and pita bread with hummus= 725

Snacks Throughout The Day- 1 plum, 1 whole red pepper, 5 baby carrots,1 nectarine, 2 strawberries= 141

Dessert- banana,apple, and a peach=158

TOTAL= 1353

You are not gonna get a hard low-fat body with that diet, you need more protein, and less carbohydrates.  Increase your protein intake like chicken, egg-whites, egg-beaters, tuna, turkey, whey-protein. these are good sources of protein.  You eat too much fruit at night. fruits increase insulin levels and elevated insulin levels will increase fat storage.  Have a piece of chicken at night with green salad or something like that, and some ham or egg-whites for snacks

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Original Post by fluffymonkeyem:

Last Night I became very very bloated. It was probably because I had a ton of salt in my soup(it was salty to begin with!). So, I look and feel like I've gained five pounds. I my tummy feels distended, and I don't feel good. I took two pamprin, and I hope that will help.

 

does anyone have any tips? advice? how do I make it go away? I try not to add extra salt, but this time I did, and look what happened.

Hello, the excess of bloating, water-retention and puffy appearance after a meal, or after some foods that you might have eaten, is not really caused by high salt intake.  But you might be carbohydrate-sentitive.  I mean sensitive to eating large amounts of carbohydrates, specially starchy-carbohydrates.  So from my personal own experience about water-retention, puffy appearance and bloatingness.  The best solution for you is to follow a diet high in protein and real low in carbohydrates.

You can eat a breakfast high in protein like egg-beaters scrambled with turkey-ham andcheese.  For lunch you might have some green-vegetables like brocoli, cabbage, spinach and most vegetables that are green in color.  And for dinner you might have a protein shake, and a couple of fruits as snacks.

Hope this tip well help you

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Original Post by floggingsully:

Original Post by yvonneoc:

I just finished eating eight kiwis.....is that healthy? As soon as I put one down i just had to pick up another! How is that going to affect my diet and calories now?

 Nobody is going to be able to give you a good answer about whether or not eating a bunch of a single fruit is 'healthy'.  Do kiwis have lots of healthy vitamins and nutrients? yup, would you be healthy if you ate nothing but kiwis? nope.

You need to look at your entire diet, everything you ate today, yesterday, this week, this month, etc instead of worrying about single food items.

Nobody here can tell you how it's goint to affect your diet because we don't know what your diet consists of.  It's going to affect your calories by increasing your calorie total for today by however many calories are in 8 kiwis. 

Original Post by binge_eater:

The key to weight loss is controlling the amount of carbohydrates we eat in the whole day.

It doesn't matter how many times you keep repeating the same BS, it's just as wrong now as it was the last time, or the time before that.

The key to weightloss is consuming fewer calories than you burn.  Simple physics.

Nobody has ever gotten fat from eating fruit. 

 Low-carb dieting sounds like BS to you because you are ignorant about the physiological process and how our hormones work in order to lose weight efficiently.  But i don't care about you, you can get fat if you want.   But if you were well-read like me, maybe you would take my advice.  But go ahead keep induling yourself in rice, pancakes, bread and white potatoes.  You will look like Jessica Alba indeed !!

Read a couple of books on insulin and carbohydrates. Book-reading won't bite you :-)

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Original Post by amethystgirl:

This is getting quite repetitive.

 How controlling and dictatorial you sound.  Asking the same question many times is not a crime.

Original Post by hotrebeccainmesa:

Anybody remember those disgusting black and orange wrapped peanut butter candy thingies?

When my sister and I were younger we'd get so grossed out when we got those trick-or-treating...

What Halloween candy do you think is yucky?

I love all candies, sweets and desserts. The problem is not their taste, because i think that most candies like kisses, fig-bars, snicker bars and chocolate malted-balls taste real good,  the big problem is that they are too addictive, like a drug and of course their calories

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Original Post by pavlovcat:

Original Post by binge_eater:

Original Post by fluffymonkeyem:

I don't eat potatoes very often, but we picked up a bag at the store recently. I don't know why, but I feel guilty having one. I had one last week. heated it up in the microwave, mashed it a little bit with skin and all on the plate, added a little bit of light salt and pepper and  half a table spoon of butter. I ate it with other veggies for dinner.

I don't know why i'm looking for reassurance, but potatoes are healthy right? Very carb loaded, but okay if I eat once a week?

 

 No !! they are not good !! stay away from potatoes !! Potatoes and most starchy-carbohydrates increase insulin-levels, and elevated insulin-levels increase fat-storage, water-retention and weight gain.  So if you wanna lose weight fast, high protein diet, along with green vegetables like brocoli, and green cabbage and maybe 1 apple a day is the way to go if you want to lose weight efficiently.

So again if you want to lose weight get your protein from these sources: Chicken, egg-beaters, whey-protein, fish, egg-whites, 1% milk, turkey, turkey ham

And your carbohydrates from these sources: green-cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts, green-salads and 1 or 2 apples a day.  But stay away from starchy-carbohydrates like white and brown breads, potatoes, pasta, rice, cakes, cookies, plaintains, and all foods made with flour

Hope this tip helps u in your quest for weight loss

 *stares*

*blinks*

*blinks again*

Huh.

Anywho, potatoes with the skin left on are very nutritious.  As long as you're within your calorie allotment for the day, you're fine.

 Listen to my advice please: I am an expert on fat-loss, i am a member of Protein Power bloggers, and bodybuilding forums. And the way to go lose fat, lose weight fast and look like a celebrity model, is low-carb or even no-carb at all.  In fact most of the celebrities like Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansen, Enrique Iglesias and Shakira is following a strict low-carb diet, and even zero carbs on some days.  They do eat carbohydrates of course, but the sources of carbohydates of thin celebrities are brocoli, green-cabbage, green-salads and a couple of fruits a day low in glycemic index (G.I) such as maybe 1 apple a day, a couple of oranges, or 1 peach.

I am not trolling lying or decieving anybody. From my own personal evidence on fat-loss, i look a lot better i lose a lot weight faster and my muscles look better and more in shape, on the days i eat really low in carbs, and higher in low-fat proteins lik chicken-breasts, egg-whites, egg-beaters, whey-protein powder, etc.

Hope you guys take my adivice, take care

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Original Post by jamers23:

Halloween won't be a threat to me, we always have a tupperware thing full of candy from the kiddies that I have no problem resisting. My weakness is gourmet chocolate. Nor will Thanksgiving or Xmas be a big deal I think since I have to deal with similar temptations regularly anyway (fiancee cooking or bringing home junk since he's not on a diet plan like me) and am kind of used to handling it. If I have something "non-ideal" it's usually in moderation like other ppl have mentioned.

 Hello, well, any big binge of around 3000 to 10,000 calories extras in a night of crazy eating like an all you can buffet, or the christmas holiday dinner with our families can have a total of between 3000 to 10,000 extra calories, and that's why i warn people to be strong, and resist the temptations to over-eat and forget about their weight loss program.

I'm not telling people to stay away from celebrations, what i am saying is that we should control the amount of food we put on our plates in the holidays coming up.  I mean we could still eat some cheesecake and pecanpies but a short piece.

So the real problem is not the kind of food we eat, but the amount of it.  So we should still control food portions even if we are in a party or cheating.

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Original Post by 5togo:

Growing up, my parents always watched tv at night and considered it what you do after dinner to spend time together.  My husband and I have fallen into the same pattern.  A little tv is fine, but I've been feeling like it's getting excessive and I'd like to do more active things.  Not to mention the fact that sitting on the couch all night watching tv also leads to indiscriminate snacking.  So, any suggestions? 

Reading books, book-reading is one of the best pastimes.  Another thing you could do is read alternative news bloggers and websites.  Hope this tip helps :-)

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