Posts by xavier7

I know that this diet isn't really healthy but its not healthy being fat either and I'm only going to stay on it for a few more weeks to lose more weight. I don't think its as bad or unbalanced though as people have made out as it contains protein, carbs, vitamins, calcium etc

By the way I know from experience that its not true that if you lose weight fast you are going to automatically put it back on. I have a friend who went on a crash diet and lost about 40 pounds really fast and has stayed really skinny for over a year since. Its probably just people who go back to eating what they ate to get fat in the first place when they lose weight who put it all back on.

I have tried for 3 ears to lose weight healthily but I can't do it. The process is just too slow, and I just give up and put back whatever I lost after I try for a bit.

Sorry to hear to you are finfding losing weight so hard.

How much weight do you want to lose?

Why not give my diet a try?

Even if breakfast does speed up your metabolism how much by?

If you eat 300 or 400 calories a day for breakfast is it going to speed up your metabolism enough so that you burn off 300 or 400 extra calories a day. I doubt it.

Original Post by chrissy1988:

oh and i'd like to add, i have had mine tested in the past...it said roughly the same thing...about 1213 calories burned at rest...i did a test where i sat stationary for 15 minutes and just breathed into a mass to record my oxygen uptake and carbon dioxide output at the physiology lab on campus, so that makes me feel more comfortable with the estimates.

 Jeez. It must be terrible having a BMR so low and much harder to stay thin than for a tall person.

Original Post by bigfatarmsbegone:

Original Post by coralbell:

"A couple of months ago I just wanted to be 125 pounds and I thought my life would be great once I got there." I think this is the problem. You thought being 125 would make your life great. But when you reached 125 you realized the only thing that had changed was the way your clothes fit. You expected losing weight to change your life, but all that changed was your shirt size.

  No actually the only thing I feel that needs fixing in my life is my weight. I changed it up on my first post to make more sense. Everything else in my life is great I am really just dissatisfied with my body.

 You don't look like you need to lose any weight from you photos

Original Post by amethystgirl:

xavier - what you are describing is Lamarckism, or the inheritance of acquired characteristics, which has been discredited, in favor of Darwinism.

Thin people's kids have just as much ability to gain weight as an obese person's kid - it's about how much they eat and move. There is no selective pressure that is going to favor the reproduction of people who are less able to gain weight.

 

 I think genes play some part in whether you get fat, although lifestyle is a big part too.

Some people do have a slower or faster metabolism.

Some people seem to just be programmed to carry on eating long after they have eaten enough if nice food is available whereas some just only eat as much as necessary.

Or do you think these traits don't have any genetic factor?

Original Post by abunaimah:

Our bodies are working fine. The problem is more to do with the food available. For those of us fortunate enough to live in the developed countries we have a constant supply of relatively cheap food. We even have seasonal foods available to us out of season (strawberries in winter etc). In the past much of what we would consume would be dictated by the seasons and the availability of food.

Due to our sedentary lives and over consumption of food, our bodies do the natural thing, store the excess for a time when there is not much food around, which for most of us doesn't come.

At least thats my pennies worth on the matter :)

Even if it wasn't a problem in the past, its still basically a genetic flaw from the point of view of humans today as we would stand a better chance of a longer live if we never became obese however much we ate.

I can't stand eating first thing in the morning.

It just makes me feel really bloated and uncomfortable, if I just go and eat before I've been up 2 or 3 hours and am fully awake.

I don't think eating breakfast can be good for you when you just feel much better without it, and waiting til midday to eat.

It doesn't really surprise me so many people being overweight and obese tbh

After all its easy to be overweight and much harder to stay thin, which takes effort and self discipline.

Theres been far more than enough food available for decades in America certainly in the 80s and 90s, so I find it surprising how obesity statistics are so low back then rather than surpising that they are higher now tbh.

It seems to be the case that in practice people who binge drink regularly don't sem to put on weight or as much weight as they should in theory when you add up the calories.

I read somewhere that its not that the alcohol raises your metabolism but that after a heavy nights drinking your body has to work really hard to repair the damage done, which uses up a load of calories, when your to the point of having a bad hangover.

Original Post by pgeorgian:

xavier, there's nothing adaptive about obesity.  evolution didn't do that to us; we did it to ourselves.

 I don't really agree because its evolution made us the way we are in that we put on weight too easily and crave unhealthy food too much.

Original Post by icesk8er02:

Keeping in mind that not all the time does skinny = healthy... I know a great many people who are skinny by nature yet are out of breath by the top of the stairs/tired all the time (never having energy to do anything)/or just generally not in good health

 I'd rather be skinny and unhealthy than fat and healthy though tbh

I will generally drink 20 - 30 units one day at the weekend.

The chocolate I will eat a whole bar that is like 1000 calories in one day, and probably do this about once every 4 days.

I have been trying to quit the chocolate and energy drinks for months but I just last 2 or 3 days then cravings and headache get bad so I go back to it. I guess I just have to put up with that for a bit to get over it but I'm not very self disciplined.

I believe it is possible to lose weight through exercise alone and eating a lot of junk but you have to do bloody loads of vigorous exercise to do it.

Professional athletes consume loads of food just to maintain their weight - maybe 4000 or 5000 calories a day, probably more than most obese people do.

I f you just eat normal meals and do a moderate amount of exercise I think u probably just stay the same.

I think its much easier and nicer to have to eat more than the average person because you have a fast metabolism, than have to eat less than you want all the time or you'll get fat. From a health perspective its also much harder to get all the nutrition you need on less calories. Its harder to get a balanced diet on 1500 calories than 3000 so a fast metabolism is healthier. I think I have a slower than average metabolism and really hate it . I have to do loads of exercise to maintain my weight, and put on weight very easily. When I injured a couple of months back I put on 10 pounds in 6 weeks just from not being able to do any exercise for that time, even though I was only eating about 2000 calories a day most of the time. People with fast metabolisms have a diamond gift from God imo, in not putting on weight easily. If they really want to put on weight can't they just stuff themselves with boxes of chocolates.