SOMEONE PLZ HELP WITH THIS!
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SOMEONE PLZ HELP WITH THIS!
| Fri, 11-05-2004 - 5:53pm |
Hey everyone,
I haven't been on the boards in a few weeks,Been so caught up in the election and politics! Well of course for me i was very satisfied and excited about George W. Bush's Win! Anyways I stop my diet......and gained about 3 pounds i cannot find a diet that works for me! I get about 10 pounds and then stop and won't lose anymore on the Atkins/low carb any suggestions? I CANNOT eat Salad lol! So please someone fill me in oh i started working at Wendy's yesterday and it's hard to be truthful i don't like it much so i need everyones support....
God bless,Allena.

I personally would never work at a place where I would knowingly have to serve junk food to people, but that's just me.
No diet seems to work for me, either. I just won't stay with it. What seems to work best for me is to eat no more than 6 oz meat, a starchy whole carb (potato, yam, brown rice, barley etc) and some veggies at just about every lunch and dinner, and protein and fruit at breakfast and one snack each day. I also try to stay low on glycemic scale for veggies and fruit. I was a gym rat for years, and that was what I ate to stay that way. I followed Arnold, and he said flour was poison and the closer to nature our food was, the better our bodies could digest. Once a month, I plan to eat whatever I can think of that I really want to eat for one day.
I also have to exercise. Even floor exercises are better than nothing, and there are a lot of inexpensive workout tapes out there.
It sounds awful spouting all this at you when I have just really let myself go for 4 years, but I promise you will feel better if you can incorporate some of these basic ideas into your program.
Melissa
293/282/200
Any other handy tips from your gym rat days?
Renee
According to what I have read, plateaus in weight loss are actually something you want, because it tells you that your body is adjusting to your healthier way of eating and getting more efficient on taking care of itself on the calories it is getting. Since you weigh less than you did and your heart and lungs are more efficient than they were, it takes less calories to maintain your body. That lends itself to explaining why people go on 600 calorie crash diets, drop their weight, and start eating 1200 calories a day and swell right back up.
I think it would be much more realistic for me to eat 1800-2000 calories a day for the next 40 years or so and it take a year to lose the weight than to drop the weight on 600 calories a day but eat 600 calories for the rest of my life. For some women, I guess 1400-1600 calories a day might be more realistic, but I have a lot of muscle and bone mass.