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Why am I gaining weight???NO OT if you please.
August 12, 2010 at
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Back in late May/early June I decided to go on a diet. Not only to lose weight but to learn to eat a little healthier since my diet was consistent on a lot of fried foods and soda and junk. I tried NutriSystem and found their food was pretty gross and I couldn't eat it so I am currently doing a Lean Cuisine type of diet.
My menu consists of a Lean Cuisine breakfast, lunch and dinner. They're generally around 230-300 calories each meal. I have a small snack in between each one. Breakfast is fruit snack, and lunch is a Nabisco 100 calorie pack of some type and then my dinner snack is a Skinny Cow ice cream (150 calories, low fat). This puts me at a bit below 1500 calorie intake daily. I drink water all day and the only downside is that I don't have much time to excersize so I only do about 15 minutes a day.
In the beginning things were great and I lost 30 pounds. I am nowhere near my goal and I've slowly started to put back a pound a week or so over the past 3 weeks. I don't understand why my weight is creeping back up and why I'm not continuing to lose weight. I have a lot lot more to go and shouldn't have reached a plateau this quickly and surely shouldn't be gaining it back....
It's really stressing me out, since I started this diet I've been obsessing about my weight and feel like I'm failing somewhere but can't figure out where...Any thoughts would be appreciated so I don't fall off my diet and give up...
My menu consists of a Lean Cuisine breakfast, lunch and dinner. They're generally around 230-300 calories each meal. I have a small snack in between each one. Breakfast is fruit snack, and lunch is a Nabisco 100 calorie pack of some type and then my dinner snack is a Skinny Cow ice cream (150 calories, low fat). This puts me at a bit below 1500 calorie intake daily. I drink water all day and the only downside is that I don't have much time to excersize so I only do about 15 minutes a day.
In the beginning things were great and I lost 30 pounds. I am nowhere near my goal and I've slowly started to put back a pound a week or so over the past 3 weeks. I don't understand why my weight is creeping back up and why I'm not continuing to lose weight. I have a lot lot more to go and shouldn't have reached a plateau this quickly and surely shouldn't be gaining it back....
It's really stressing me out, since I started this diet I've been obsessing about my weight and feel like I'm failing somewhere but can't figure out where...Any thoughts would be appreciated so I don't fall off my diet and give up...
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It's not any processed foods, it's real foods..it's not calorie counting but it really comes down to bottom line portion control, no sweets, no in between snacking and a permanent change in lifestyle that you can continue even after you lose the weight. It's not going to be a rapid diet like most, it's going to take time and patience. (half a pound to 1 pound a week)
I also have upped my water intake starting over the weekend and found time to up my excersize more, not all in one shot but it's about a total of 45 min to 1 hour daily also starting this weekend. I will let you all know how it turns out but regardless I'm positive about the change in eating habits this will bring about and at the very least a healthier inside if not outside too.
Hugs to you all!
YAY for you!!! I'm very proud of you. This sounds like a healthy way to go.
I agree.
If there is some study that shows that chemical preservatives/filters has any meaningful impact on human metabolism such that it will actually slow down weight loss then point us to it. This talk about these kinds of things having any significant impact on weight loss is exactly the type of pseudo-science that is spouted about the internet and repeated over and over but has no basis in fact . . .
You mean like...this?
Or did you mean like...this (See #4)
Or #3 here [msn.com]?
Or something like this?
Or, maybe you like to get your informationfrom reputable sources like the NIH?
You can consume 800 calories in like 10min, you can run at a fast pace (5-6 min/miles) for 10 min and loose like 200 calories. It's all about intake/output..
working out built muscles that speed up your metabolism, sort of like an invisible extra burner through out the day, so that helps. As for dieting, just eat regularly in small portion instead of following crappy diets, when u go hungry and have no food the body shuts down and it reduces ur calories consumption.
Or did you mean like...this (See #4)
Or #3 here [msn.com]?
Or something like this?
Or, maybe you like to get your informationfrom reputable sources like the NIH?
Again, I am not saying that some of these effects on "metabolism" don't have some small basis in fact or that any of these issues effect one's basic health. The point is that these types of articles do a dis-service to dieters by distracting them with 90,000 things that they need to do to lose weight e.t.c stop eating prepared food, start drinking gallons of water a day, stop eating fat, stop eating carbs, stop eating protein, start eating 10 times a day, stop eating at night, stop eating salt, walk 20 miles a day, start taking (you fill in the blank) supplement e.t.c. However if you did a poll of dieters, how many of them could tell you how many calories their body needs each day or how many calories do they need to eat per day to lose a specific amount of weight? I doubt that more than 20% of them could answer this #1 basic question. That is why most dieters fail . . .
If 1 of those lbs. each month comes from not eating processed crap, that seems like a pretty good place to start. If you can get 10% on the conservative end and 25% on the generous end of your monthly weight-loss goal by cutting processed food from your diet, it seems reasonable that you would.
Cutting processed food in favor of whole foods also cuts trans-fats, sugar, and high-fructose corn syrups from your diet - all enemies to someone attempting to eat a healthful diet.
Anyway, that's exactly what you said:
It also makes me wonder why you'd ignore articles citing nutrition experts at the NIH, the American Journal of Epidemiology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Yale University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University, cited in the articles I linked below, in favor of processed foods. Do you just prefer the taste? Why are you so "pro-processed"?
What's your damage, Heather? What are your credentials and sources, and most importantly, whose bill of goods are you out there hawking to struggling people?
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Have you seen the world's strongest guys? They don't look like that. They are kind of bulky with big necks.
Have you seen the world's strongest guys? They don't look like that. They are kind of bulky with big necks.
FYI, bodybuilding is for looks lol
Strongmen are built for strength, looks don't mean shit to them. Although 5x World's Strongest Man, Mariusz Pudzianowski looks like he could probably compete as a bodybuilder as well.
Anyway you could always get super depressed and basically stop eating and lose weight that way...I did that one year...hooray for depression induced annorexia!
(I'm joking btw)