Eating for Health, Not Weight

Re:Eating for Health, Not Weight by Diamons on Sunday September 23, 2012 @11:41PM (#4563094)

Sometimes it just doesn't work, no matter what. Sometimes you're just meant to be big. I am a former wrestling local city champion, currently a kickboxer, and also practicing jujitsu. I move fast and sprint like I'm 140 pounds, I can roundhouse kick someone that's 5'9 in the head, and I'm almost at a split. I can do 50 pushups, 12 pullups, once ran 8 miles, and have done high intensity cardio 5 days a week for 2 hours everyday. Yet I'm 250 pounds and a huge gut.

My diet? Eggs, veggies, rice, fruits. No sugar at all, and yet I have not been able to lose weight for the past 2 - 3 years. I have slowly watched the scale climb up no matter how many calories I cut or how many carbs I don't eat. Sometimes you just can't fight your body and you're meant to be who you are.

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Re:Eating for Health, Not Weight by andyakb on Sunday September 23, 2012 @11:56PM (#4563133)

Without logging your caloric intake (no estimates, logging everything you eat as it actually is), it is very easy to convince yourself you arent eatng too many calories. Hoewever, for practical matters, if you do not have a significant health issue, if you eat less calories than your body burns you will lose weight. In the vast majority of cases, it really is that simple.

Find an app or website that is easy for you to use and try logging all your food (include snacks and things that you may consider to be "little"). Figure out based on your weight and activity level (be conservative) what you need to eat to lose 1-2 pounds a week and hit the goals If you do this honestly for an extended period of time, you will lose weight.

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Re:Eating for Health, Not Weight by littledude on Monday September 24, 2012 @01:32AM (#4563352)

yes buy a gram scale and keep it on your kitchen counter then use http://www.myfitnesspal.com/ or http://www.fatsecret.com/ to measure all food

best investment i;ve made trying to put on muscle

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Re:Eating for Health, Not Weight by enraged_camel on Monday September 24, 2012 @12:53AM (#4563270)

>>Sometimes it just doesn't work, no matter what. Sometimes you're just meant to be big.

The only people who are "meant to be big" are those with hormonal imbalances. And even then, modern medicine can address most of their problems.

>>Sometimes you just can't fight your body and you're meant to be who you are.

It's true that you can't fight your body if you eat more calories than you consume. I noticed that the only part of your diet you listed was the type of food you eat. What about amount? Do you weigh your food, or have some other type of calorie estimation method? If not, you'll eat like a pig (especially at your activity level) and never realize it.

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Re:Eating for Health, Not Weight by dasil003 on Monday September 24, 2012 @05:45AM (#4563899)

> The only people who are "meant to be big" are those with hormonal imbalances. And even then, modern medicine can address most of their problems.

Apparently you don't watch rugby.

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Re:Eating for Health, Not Weight by enraged_camel on Monday September 24, 2012 @12:13PM (#4565340)

What does that even mean? Rugby players are big because they want to be big, not because they can't help it.

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Re:Eating for Health, Not Weight by dasil003 on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @04:57AM (#4569342)

How can you possibly believe there is no genetic component in professional athletics?

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Re:Eating for Health, Not Weight by elliott99 on Monday September 24, 2012 @09:47AM (#4564617)

You need to get your thyroid checked. Diet and exercise are 100% effective at fat loss PRECONDITIONED UPON your hormones being not out of whack.

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Re:Eating for Health, Not Weight by thenomad on Monday September 24, 2012 @05:37AM (#4563878)

On the up side, it would seem from recent evidence that you're probably not at too much risk health-wise. High cardiovascular fitness seems (from a lot of studies, at least - IANAD) to correlate better with positive health outcomes than low BMI.

And on a side note - speaking as a fellow martial artist with flexibility problems, I'm envious of your flexibility!

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Re:Eating for Health, Not Weight by oftenwrong on Sunday September 23, 2012 @11:58PM (#4563140)

Do you track what you eat? I would be interested to see what your average week of food is like.

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Re:Eating for Health, Not Weight by etherspin on Monday September 24, 2012 @06:31AM (#4563974)

have you had a period where you blew out and perhaps multiplied the actual number of fat cells in your body ? I wonder if liposuction could be productive to lower the fat cell count back to something more manageable if so ? and like the other poster,maybe drop the fruit a bit lower just to see if it helps but of course go straight back on if no benefit as fruit is excellent

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Re:Eating for Health, Not Weight by taligent on Monday September 24, 2012 @12:38AM (#4563234)

You do know that rice/fruits get converted into sugar, right ?

If you switched to just vegies and meat I guarantee you would lose weight.

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Re:Eating for Health, Not Weight by malsme on Monday September 24, 2012 @04:31AM (#4563742)

In addition to this, it's worth noting that not all calories are created equally. If you process your food to make juices, smoothies etc (or buy it already processed), then you'll get a greater, more immediate hit of energy than if your body broke it down itself.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/08/27/th...

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Re:Eating for Health, Not Weight by charliepark on Monday September 24, 2012 @07:57AM (#4564151)

But you also end up getting all of the fructose and none of the fiber, which your body needs for processing the fruit without the sugar hit. Lustig: "When god made the poison, he packaged it with the antidote."

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