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I have 3 months taking care of my self going to the gym 3 to 4 days a week for 1hour and when i don't go to the gym i work out here at my house I have stop eating gluten sweets and my small portions of food have been helping me! I used to weight 277 now 268.6 And i know in my mind that my plan to do this is for one year so I know that i dont need to stop because i know is a lifestyle that I need to start for my life im happy every day to listen to positive things is hard but is for my own good and my kids
Its NEVER as simple as calories in, calories out. You significantly decrease calories in and your body slows metabolism as it sees STARVATION coming. This is why calorie counter diets plateau and eventually fail. If your body isnt happy and feeling full, you arent going to lose weight short of being locked in a jail cell and somebody else in charge of how much food you get. Or actual inavailability of food. Humans traditionally had feast or famine, no local Piggly Wiggly to stuff their face. If you have any access to food and your body feels starved, its going to pound and pound on you to EAT SOMETHING!
Here is the paradox: the more active you are, the more calories you require.
Athletes can (and do) consume upwards of 6,000 calories/day and remain lean and mean. Homebodies who decide to lose weight will burn calories initially, and then either wind up making up those calories they just burned because that is what the body does by eating more afterwards, or, the intensity of the workouts decreases as the body fatigues from lack of energy (calories).
So yes, if your body feels 'starved', you will eat.
The key is to remain active (non-exercise) throughout the day.
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Jeez, the people here are judgemental.
I count my calories on average.
I eat this:
Noon: prepepared salad (250 calories)
Dinner: a meat with steam vedgies and a portion of rice (probably around 600 calories)
Late night: sandwhich of some sort (around 400-500 calories)
And sometimes I wake up too hungry and I'll eat a small 200 calories snack.
That's about what I eat.
I sit around all day working in IT. But I do walk an hour or two hourts a day and do weight training almost every daY.
That's my routine.
Here is the problem: you mention that the meat and veggie dinner is probably around 600 calories, you state a 'sandwich of some sort', and you mention waking up too hungry. Bottom line: you have no idea how many calories that you are actually eating.
Here is the thing: at your height, weight, and age your BMR is around 2,000 calories just to survive. That is to say, your body, if remaining completely sedentary, requires around 2,000 calories to do its thing to keep it at its current weight. At your height and age, to be 180 lbs. would require a BMR of around 1,700 calories per day.
If you were to consume only 1,300 calories per day on even a semi regular basis you be too lethargic to do much activity throughout the day even as you burn fat initially.
1 slice of bread, depending on type and brand, can have between 100 - 200 calories per slice.
Walking for 1 - 2 hours/day is a good thing, but the time itself is not the point, it's the intensity. I mean, you can spend an hour walking around the block, or, you could put in 3 - 4 miles in that same time.
you're diet is carb rich (sandwich bread and rice), and you need to totally eliminate the snacks if you're serious about losing weight.
This is not true for all people. A calorie is a calorie. Someone who eats 400 calories of ice cream as opposed to 400 calories in bananas isn't going to get any fatter. It also depends on the amount and intensity of exercise you do. I run 10 miles six days a week and eat tons of carbs (and drink beer). I'm skinny as a rake because of my physical exertions. Demonizing carbs for those who exercise heavily is folly.
That sounds hard. Maybe you ate too few calories for a while and now your basal metabolic rate is too low?
Another idea that comes to my mind is this: [url/[/url] (They explain why taking specific probiotics will balance your gut flora and then you'd be able to lose weight again easily. At least that's how I understood it.) I haven't tried it myself yet. (I'm really thinking about ordering it though. Their video is just so convincing.)
Of course their video is convincing. The website exists to sell their products. It's an advertisement. I hope you don't expect them to tell you that there's no evidence that their product does anything at all? Certainly you might suspect, just by trying to find an "about" link to learn about the company that sells this product, that maybe it's just a scam to remove your money from your bank account and deposit squarely into their pockets? And that you might or might not ever receive any product at all, and if you do, it's probably just sawdust in a gel cap with an instruction pamphlet telling you to eat only 500 calories per day for three months?
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Has anyone talked about body type?
The OP may just may be a mesomorph, and if he is he is not going to be small no matter what. For him, the gym adds solid muscle and that means weight. Ectomorph, endomorph, mesomorph...
This is not true for all people. A calorie is a calorie. Someone who eats 400 calories of ice cream as opposed to 400 calories in bananas isn't going to get any fatter. It also depends on the amount and intensity of exercise you do. I run 10 miles six days a week and eat tons of carbs (and drink beer). I'm skinny as a rake because of my physical exertions. Demonizing carbs for those who exercise heavily is folly.
I think there are healthy calories and unhealthy calories. If you overconsume the unhealthy calories, it will eventually catch up with you as it did me. If you remain thin with a trim waist, you're probably fine but I would also want to check your A1C, triglycerides, and HDL to make sure everything is running well.
I'm assuming you are young if you're running 10 miles a day. When I was young and playing hours of vigorous basketball, running, and weightlifting, I could eat what I wanted too...until I couldn't.
Now I'm in my 60's and have a very careful diet as well as daily exercise to keep in shape and I've gotten my bodyfat down around 10.7% and muscle mass an even 45% but it hasn't been easy.
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