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| Foods | nutella ! | May 21 2013 12:21 (UTC) |
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Nutella is like eating a spreadable candy bar. 200 calories spread on toast is similar to eating a donut.
There's very little protein in it so it doesn't exactly fit into a high protein diet except as a dessert or after-workout snack. You're not suggesting eating huge gobs, just 2T, so it's not unreasonable IMO. |
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| Weight Loss | intermittent fasting or 1 meal a day? | May 21 2013 12:13 (UTC) |
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It's healthy if you can do it for a year or two and don't under eat.
I patterned my eating to the opposite approach, 3 meal, 3 snacks. I've done it for 6 years, and combined with calorie counting I maintain. Could you pattern one big meal a day? Probably, if you had the determination to do it long enough to make it a habit. |
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| Weight Loss | 50 pounds in 1 year is not realistic? | May 15 2013 03:05 (UTC) |
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I had the same goal of 25 BMR starting from 215 lbs. I had to lose 50 lbs and it took 6 months of 1000 cal deficits every day. At first I cut eating, but past 190 lbs I had to really ramp up the exercise. Otherwise I would have had to starve myself to stay at that deficit. There were times when I was really hungry though.
It can be done if you have the motivation. I was motivated by diabetes. Are you motivated enough to do it? |
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| Foods | Bread? Yes or NO? What kind? | May 12 2013 03:23 (UTC) |
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I used to buy a loaf of dense whole grain for my peanut butter toast. Then I got a bread machine. What I make is based on a Bob's Red Mill recipe on a flour sack, but I've jacked it around a lot. With the oatmeal, grits, yogurt, gluten powder and maple syrup it's now more like a Scottish struan bread. Way better than the store bread I used to eat.
Oddly enough Dave's Killer Bread is right across the street from the original Bob's Red Mill in Milwaukie OR. It's worth a visit to both if you're in the area. I was having breakfast there one day and there was Bob at the next table, just like on the package. Unlike Aunt Jemima and Betty Crocker he is a real person who's getting older. |
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| Foods | Bread? Yes or NO? What kind? | May 11 2013 12:22 (UTC) |
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Most any bread and pasta is healthy. It's food. It digests. It's a source of relatively inexpensive calories.
Your attitude can be unhealthy though. Bread is easy to overeat. Spaghetti begs to be eaten in huge portions, with bread. The way to fix the problem is to use your brain. Your mind has to win out over your appetite. Counting calories is a good way to do it. When I wasn't thinking about it starchy foods made me fat. When I was thinking about it I ate those same foods and lost weight. |
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| Weight Loss | What's the best ways on how to avoid over consumption of fat? | May 11 2013 01:55 (UTC) |
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Don't stop! It sounds like the first week where you might have eaten the minimum 1200 cal/day.
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| Weight Loss | WW points = approx how many calories | May 09 2013 22:19 (UTC) |
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I started losing weight using ADA's old carb exchange system. This was complicated. You were really counting to control your carbs, and calorie counting was incidental, since the objective was blood sugar control for diabetes.
After doing this for a few weeks I got my blood glucose under control, but had started losing weight. At this point I was used to counting exchanges, so I decided to modify it into calorie exchanges by averaging the carb exchange calories over all the food groups. I came up with a standard exchange of about 70 calories. I then adapted my exercise to the same method and count it by 70 calorie exchanges as well. I've been logging calories in a notebook for the last 6 years. The use of 70 calorie exchanges makes it very easy to count within the framework of weeks, because summing up the all the exchanges for a week and multiplying by 10 gives the average calories per day for that week. I control my maintenance by these weekly averages for both exercise and eating. It seems weird to me that this is nearly identical to the concept of Weight Watchers. I allow myself a base of 22 eating exchanges per day (1540 calories). I add my exercise exchanges to this, and typically arrive at 30-35 exchanges per day that I can eat without regaining weight. Since my counting is imprecise and usually undercounted I have to stay at 2-3 exchanges of deficit to maintain. This system of counting calories via exchanges still works after six years. |
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| Weight Loss | For the Diet Pill Haters and the Diet pill Considers !! | May 09 2013 15:03 (UTC) |
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| The nazi marching drug does what it's intended to. It suppresses appetite while generating an urge to move. The drug overrides the brain and runs your diet. | |||
| Foods | Is Subway unhealthy? or can I pull a Jared? | May 08 2013 23:20 (UTC) |
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| That's basically what I did - vinegar and mustard S&P oregano plus every vegetable they had including jalape?os and pepperoncini. It was like a 6" salad in a bun with a little bit of meat. They leaked all over the place but were very filling and low in calories. I should've eaten them with a fork. | |||
| Foods | White whole wheat? | May 08 2013 16:35 (UTC) |
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| Foods | White whole wheat? | May 08 2013 16:35 (UTC) |
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| I mix it 50/50 with whole wheat and make good bread. I'd probably get lower bread density mixing all purpose white instead of www, but I don't care that much. Just seeing the knight on the www sack gives a feeling of placebo healthiness. | |||
| Weight Loss | For the Diet Pill Haters and the Diet pill Considers !! | May 08 2013 16:26 (UTC) |
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For better or worse...I'm taking the diuretic for blood pressure and the weight loss is a side benefit, so all in all for better...except that if my blood pressure were lower I would be healthier and wouldn't have to take them at all.
I don't think amphetamines have any "for better". |
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| Weight Loss | Adjusting calories as BMR changes | May 07 2013 13:15 (UTC) |
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| With me it's sort of chicken-and-egg. I lost weight with reduced eating. My BMR went down, so I increased exercising to keep my deficit up. That made me hungry so I started eating more. Which called for more exercise...I gave up when I reached 25 BMI, and maintain on a balance between lots of exercise and lots of eating. If I get sedentary again I'll have to turn the eating down or I'll start regaining. | |||
| Weight Loss | Adjusting calories as BMR changes | May 07 2013 12:21 (UTC) |
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My BMR is 500-600 calories per day less than when I started because of weight loss.
At the start I had no difficulty eating under my BMR and not being hungry. Now at normal weight I have trouble eating 500 calories above my BMR without being hungry. It's as if I have an eating set point determined by my heavy weight. |
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| Weight Loss | Is it unhealthy when people eat very few carbs? | May 06 2013 22:01 (UTC) |
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The people that spout off the most about low carbs are the Atkins crowd. Carbs interfere with their darling ketosis weight loss technique. They're very evangelistic about this, and are blindered to the idea that something as simple as calorie counting works as well or better than the ketosis scheme.
Calorie count is macronutrient agnostic. It doesn't depend on wonking your body into synthesizing carbs from fat. It doesn't forbid you from doing that either. I would personally find it hard to give up carbs so that I could live in ketosis, with precious little upside. By counting calories my health markers are far better than they were 10 years ago, on a diet of 50-60% carbs. |
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| Weight Loss | Can walking help lose weight? | May 06 2013 20:13 (UTC) |
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Yes. I used walking to create 700 calorie daily deficits when I was losing weight. Once it became a habit I kept on doing it to maintain my weight.
If you're overweight it will probably work very well, but at normal weight you will probably need more intense exercise to keep losing. |
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| Weight Loss | For the Diet Pill Haters and the Diet pill Considers !! | May 06 2013 16:17 (UTC) |
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Diuretics and amphetamines work. No question about it. They stop working when you quit taking them.
Some people see them as a kick start. I see them as artificial props. |
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| Weight Loss | Is it unhealthy when people eat very few carbs? | May 05 2013 21:17 (UTC) |
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What I know about gluconeogenesis is that I eat enough carbs to not worry about it.
The Med Diet is still the gold standard for health and longevity. 50-60% carbs is a very good diet for humans. There are better and worse carbs, but you can have outstanding health eating 200g a day. |
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| Foods | Is Subway unhealthy? or can I pull a Jared? | May 05 2013 18:13 (UTC) |
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| There are a few good things about Subway for weight loss. The calorie density is low, the sandwiches are bulky and filling for the calories, you can pick and choose the toppings. The ingredients aren't perfect, but OK for the price. | |||
| Foods | Raw Homemade Yogurt | May 05 2013 18:07 (UTC) |
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| A quarter cup heavy cream to a quart of milk will give you an idea. It forms a buttery layer on top. | |||
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