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| | From: mizidol | Sent: 10/26/2005 5:08 PM |
Okay... I have put on a few unwanted stress pounds, so last Saturday I started replacing 2 meals a day with Slimfast shakes, snacking on fruit and nuts in between if I get hungry, and then eating a decent dinner... it's working pretty well. I haven't starting exercising again yet, but am joining a gym soon... so for now I just need to jumpstart an "at-home" fitness plan. Is this a healthy way to start? I just worry that once I start eating any kind of solid food again in the day, the pounds will come right back. |
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What you are doing is basically the "Slim Fast Diet" and while it works in the short-term you will see pounds come back when you take the shakes out of your daily meal plan. I eat 6 meals a day. You should not go more than 2-3 hours without eating something. There is no reason for you to be hungry. Have a schedule and stick to it. Prepare your meals at home for the following day so you aren't rushed and tempted to go out and eat something bad. A good meal plan for what you are trying to do and something that you can stick to for the rest of your life and not just as a "diet plan" follows: I am basing these times on my day - adjust to your times of course. 7am - Egg white omelette w/salsa (see recipe), 2 pieces turkey bacon and I can't live without my coffee. 10am - 1 cup cereal (hooked on the Special K Vanilla/Almond currently) skim milk and a banana. 1pm - Salad - Spring mix lettuce, chicken breast, avacado, sunflower seeds, lite dressing. Apple or some other fruit. Sometimes I will have a sandwich w/mustard, lettuce only instead of my salad with a pickle on the side. 3pm - Protein shake 5pm - Yogurt and cottage cheese Workout 8pm - Fish (or chicken or turkey), salad, one veggie. OR chili, soup or whatever I decided to make that night. |
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I know this sounds wierd, but I don't think I eat enough. My chiropractor is also a nutrionist, and really gives me a lot of help. But, my typical food intake for a day: Must eat breakfast, either a bagel, english muffin, cereal, or on occasion an egg sandwich. lunch: today it was a chicken salad sandwich from Arbys I go to the gym from 4 til 5:30 then I'm not very hungry at night, but sometimes I make my self eat something, for example a bowl of cereal, or if my husband is awake ( he works 3rd shift ) and he's hungry, I might make a bit more for me. He usually likes soup w/ grilled cheese, or meat of somesort. All of our meat is what we harvest, deer, turkey, etc... And I know I don't eat enough, and I don't eat enough of the right foods. Her suggestion is basically the same as yours. And she tells me all the time, I just have a hard time with it. She is so disciplined. And she only eats all natural foods, nothing with preservatives. |
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Not eating enough slows your metabolism. Since you work out not eating enough changes your results drastically. 90% of what your body looks like is is what you put in your mouth. |
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I need more discipline!!! |
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Yep, my metabolism is way too slow. I don't eat right, never have. At least I'm much more 'regular' about my first 2 meals of the day. I have a bowl of instant oatmeal for breakfast every day. At work, I also have a little thing of orange juice (real oj, not from concentrate, lol). At lunch I always have a sandwich on oat-nut bread (mmmmm, oats....hahaha, I'm such a horsie) - usually cheese, but every once in a while turkey or tuna or egg or peanut butter. And yes, mayonnaise. Can't do without that (well, except with PB). Dinner is a crap shoot, lol. I might have noodles and a veggie, or some vegetarian beans, or a little 'personal' sized pizza, or scrambled eggs and toast, or a salad, or a frozen dinner (rarely though as I prefer home-made food), or frozen fish and chips, or a pan of hash browns....it just depends on what sounds good, since nothing usually sounds good. Then the best part of dinner, ice cream. I also usually have something else sweet in the evening, like a couple of cookies or a slice of loaf cake or part of a candy bar (or if I splurged at the bakery, maybe a chocolate-filled croissant or a pastry). I often wonder if I'd still do this without the benefits of pot, lol. If I don't eat much for "dinner", I'll nibble on almonds or pretzels or popcorn while watching TV if I get hungry. If I would just get back to exercising again. *sigh* I could stand to lose a few. I guess. (I don't think about it much, but I probably should) |
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I eat ice cream almost nightly. It makes me have to run an extra 30 minutes but it is worth it. Last night I ate two bowls. It's that time of the month. LOL |
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It's not the most healthy thing in the world just like Coke isn't but a cup or two a day won't hurt you! If you go to Starbucks just do the non-fat if you get one of those frou frou coffees. :) |
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Try switiching to tea, MUCH better for you. |
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| | From: Conrad | Sent: 2/3/2006 6:43 PM |
you know that lil thing in the back of your throat? what's that called? lol |
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